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Groups999 Challenge, British & Irish Crime Fiction, Crime, Thriller & Mystery, Cthulhu Mythos, Early Reviewers, Jeff Long, Libertarian Science Fiction

Favorite authorsBoris Akunin, Margery Allingham, Paul Auster, Ramsey Campbell, H. P. Lovecraft, Brian Lumley, Charles McCarry, Arthur Phillips, Charles Stross (Shared favorites)

About meHi! I'm really Nancy, and I am one of those people who would rather read than eat. I devour books and have no problem working my reading schedule around my busy life, even if it means staying up into the wee hours to read.

My other interests revolve around my family life, freecycling, and trying to put my social conscience to work whenever I can. I think mean people suck.

The picture is "Hello Cthulhu," a mix of Cthulhu meets Hello Kitty. This is how my warped brain works. Another example: on my first cruise ever, I left a copy of The Poseidon Adventure on a deck chair for someone to find.

I am in no way shape or form a professional reviewer, I'm just a reader. I know what I like and what I don't; I rate books within their genre. Frankly, I'm not really concerned whether or not people agree with how I rate a book and I'm not worried that books that I like may not be well liked by others. The higher the rating, the greater my enjoyment of the book.

feel free to contact me about anything!!!

About my libraryI truly don't have any clue as to how many books I actually own. I have them literally in every room of my house and constantly continue to add more.

My favorites are any books even remotely connected with the "Cthulhu Mythos," either by the one and only HP Lovecraft or by his imitators or influences. Next comes any type of pulp fiction. The pulpier the better. Then comes the vast collection of British mysteries (not yet completely added here) that I've been gathering since I was 12; followed by Scandinavian mystery novels, then really good contemporary fiction. Good science fiction and fantasy, biography and history round out the list. I dislike self-help books, westerns and especially anything even remotely romance-ish or chick-litish. I suppose that makes me an eclectic with qualifications!

**favorite book so far of 2009** (actually, it's a tie)
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and
The Glass Room, by Simon Mawrer

I tend to pick a topic each month to better focus my reading.

books read in 2009:

January - First Books in Mystery Series (*)
1. From Doon With Death, by Ruth Rendell*
2. Birth Marks, by Sarah Dunant*
3. Turnstone, by Graham Hurley*
4. Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
5. The Weight of Water, by Anita Shreve
6. Death of A Gossip, by MC Beaton*
7. Not a Creature Was Stirring, by Jane Haddam*
8. Bloodless Shadow, by Victoria Blake*
9. Mortal Mischief, by Frank Tallis*
10. Raven: The Untold Story of the Reverend Jim Jones and his People, by Tim Reiterman
11. Knots and Crosses, by Ian Rankin*
12. Drood, by Dan Simmons
13. The Camel Club, by David Baldacci*
14. The Collectors, by David Baldacci
15. The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Village, by Thomas Robisheaux

- February 2009 - Honoring African-American Authors (*)
16. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Charles Dickens
17. Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History, by Wallace Terry *
18. The Conjure Woman, by Charles W. Chesnutt*
19. The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History, by Phil Baker
20. The Darling, by Russell Banks
21. Soul on Ice, by Eldridge Cleaver*
22. If He Hollers Let Him Go, by Chester Himes*
23. The Redbreast, by Jo Nesbo
24. Bertram of Butter Cross, by Jeffrey Barlough
25. The Street, by Ann Petry *
26. A Bleeding of Innocents, by Jo Bannister
27. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, by John M. Barry
28. The Seance, by John Harwood
29. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, by Harriet A. Washington *
30. Song Yet Sung, by James McBride *
31. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
32. A Beautiful Blue Death, by Charles Finch

-March 2009 - Random Nonfiction (*)
33. The Vanishing, by Tim Krabbe
34. Nemesis, by Jo Nesbo
35. Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam, by Pope Brock*
36. The Dogs of Riga, by Henning Mankell
37. My Lobotomy, by Howard Dully and Charles Fleming*
38. Panama Fever, by Matthew Parker*
39. The Mexican Mafia, by Tony Rafael*
40. The Dark Lantern, by Gerri Brightwell
41. Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews, by Sir David Frost with Bob Zelnick*
42. Hag's Nook, by John Dickson Carr

-April 2009- Locked Room Mysteries and Other Impossible Crimes (*)

43. The Mad Hatter Mystery, by John Dickson Carr
44. The Eight of Swords, by John Dickson Carr
45. The Mystery of the Yellow Room, by Gaston Leroux*
46. The Chinese Orange Mystery, by Ellery Queen*
47. The Moonflower, by Beverley Nichols*
48. The Layton Court Mystery, by Anthony Berkeley*
49. The Blind Barber, by John Dickson Carr
50. Death-Watch, by John Dickson Carr
51. The Three Coffins, by John Dickson Carr*
52. The Footprints on the Ceiling, by Clawton Rawson*
53. Diagnosis: Impossible: The Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne, by Edward D. Hoch*
54. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders, by Soji Shimada*
55. The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries, (ed.) Mike Ashley
56. The Big Bow Mystery, by Israel Zangwill
57. The Crimes of Paris, by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler (thanks, Librarything ER!)

- May 2009 -
Books With Names in the Title*
58. Dante's Numbers, by David Hewson*
59. Emma Brown, by Clare Boylan*
60. The Hunt for Sonya Dufrette, by R.T. Raichev*
61. James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B Sheldon, by Julie Phillips*
62. The Angel's Game, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
63. Annie's Ghosts, by Steve Luxenberg*
64. The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters
65. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao*
66. Maisie Dobbs, by Jacqueline Winspear*
67. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
68. The Walking People, by Mary Beth Keane
69. Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee, by Chloe Hooper
70. Cemetery Dance, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

June - I'm Enery the Eighth I am, Enery the Eighth I am I am * ... (I miss the Tudors on Showtime, so I'll read about them)
71. The Book of God and Physics: A Novel of the Voynich Mystery, by Enrique Joven
72. The Doomsday Key, by James Rollins
73. The Pilgrimage of Grace, by Geoffrey Moorhouse*
74. The Wives of Henry VIII, by Antonia Fraser *
75. The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care, by John Dittmer
76. High: Confessions of an International Drug Smuggler, by Brian O'Dea
76. Dissolution: A Novel of Tudor England, by CJ Sansom*
77. Fragment, by Warren Fahy
78. Charisma, by Jo Bannister
79. Henry VIII, Man and Monarch, Susan Doran (ed.)
80. A Taste for Burning, by Jo Bannister
81. Enoch's Portal, by A.W. Hill

July: Chillin' by the pool with old friends: revisiting favorite authors and characters (aka: the calm before the August/September Booker longlist storm)*

82. The Last Days of Madame Rey, by A.W. Hill*
83. Murder on the Links, by Agatha Christie*
84. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underground and the American Dream, by Patrick Radden Keefe
85. Nightmare's Disciple, by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.*
86. Red to Black, by Alex Dryden
87. Mind's Eye, by Hakan Nesser*
88. Voices, by Arnaldur Indridason*
89. The White Lioness, by Henning Mankell
90. The Man Who Smiled, Henning Mankell
91. Sidetracked, by Henning Mankell
92. Hosts, by F. Paul Wilson
93. The Haunted Air, by F. Paul Wilson
94. The Man Who Went Up in Smoke, by Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall
95. Between the Assassinations, by Aravind Adiga
96. Seventy-Seven Clocks, by Christopher Fowler
97. The Ten-Second Staircase, by Christopher Fowler
98. White Corridor, by Christopher Fowler

August & September 2009 -- The Booker Prize Longlist*
99. Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin*
100. Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel* (my choice this year, but I never win)
101. Me Cheeta, by James Lever*
102. The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson
103. Dark Specter, by Michael Dibdin
104. The Water's Lovely, by Ruth Rendell
105. Detective Inspector Huss, by Helene Tursten
106. Summertime, by J.M. Coetzee*
107. Heliopolis, by James Scudamore*
108. The Children's Book, by A.S. Byatt*
109. The Quickening Maze, by Adam Foulds*
110. The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown
111. The Glass Room, by Simon Mawer*
112. Love and Summer, by William Trevor*

October - Relieving my Overtaxed and Tired Brain -- absolutely no topic!
113. Wicked (a reread, book group)
114. Inherent Vice, by Thomas Pynchon (audio)
115. Stardust, by Joseph Kanon (thanks, Amazon Vine!)
116. The Fifth Woman, by Henning Mankell
117. Sun and Shadow, by Ake Edwardson
118. Dirty Little Angels, by Chris Tusa (thank you!)
119. The Draining Lake, by Arnaldur Indridason
120. The White Mary, by Kira Salak (thanks, Librarything!)
121. Flashforward, by Robert J. Sawyer
122. Monstrocity, by Jeffrey Thomas
123. Not Untrue and Not Unkind, by Ed O'Loughlin
124. Son of a Witch (audiobook)

November - Madness and Mayhem in the UK, alpha by detective, A-M

125. The Wychford Murders, by Paula Gosling (Luke Abbott)*
126. Gallows View, by Peter Robinson (Alan Banks)*
127. Mr. Shivers, by Robert Jackson Bennett (thanks, Amazon Vine!)
128. The Shimmer, by David Morrell
129. Black Dog, by Stephen Booth (Ben Cooper)*
130. Dover One, by Joyce Porter (Wilfred Dover)*
131. Evans Above, by Rhys Bowen (Evan Evans)*
132. A Death for Adonis, by E.X. Giroux (Robby Forsythe)*
133. A Shilling for Candles, by Josephine Tey (Alan Grant)*
134. The Mysterious Commission, by Michael Innes (Charles Honeybath)*
135. Oxford Exit, by Veronica Stallwood (Kate Ivory)*
136. Ritual Murder, by S.T. Haymon (Ben Jurnet)*
137. The Chalon Heads, by Barry Maitland (Kolla and Brock)*
138. The Judas Pair, by Jonathan Gash (Lovejoy)*
139. The Plague Court Murders, by Carter Dickson (Sir Henry Merrivale)*

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