Best Mysteries of 2011

I love these list of 'best' books.  There are so many books I have not read and then a lot I haven't even heard of.  My To Read List gets longer every day!!

Anyhow, here's a list from GalleyCat and a bit from the list:


Best Novel
The Ranger by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Gone by Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press)
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books)
1222 by Anne Holt (Simon & Schuster – Scribner)
Field Gray by Philip Kerr Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons – Marion Wood Books)

Gift the National Book Awards 2011 this year

The National Book Awards for 2011:

Fiction --  Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
Nonfiction -- Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Poetry -- Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split
Young People's Literature --  Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

goodreads Best of 2010

I started gathering books to take to the beach and decided to get out of my reading rut.  Mysteries and thrillers are my favorite. I just love reading John Sandford, Joseph Finder, Karin Slaughter, James Patterson, Steve Martini, Lisa Gardner, Janet Evanovich, Lee Child, Lisa Lutz  and on and on.   Few if any non-fiction books are on my reading list except for Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt books -- I really like reading about the Roosevelts.  Then I recalled that I enjoyed reading about Frank Lloyd Wright  in Loving Frank by Nancy Horan.   So I thought I would chose a few non-fiction books for my summer reading and reviewed the goodreads list of the Best of 2010 for ideas.

This is a list of favorite books chosen by the readers on goodreads.   "More than 157,000 votes were cast for 460 nominees and thousands of write-in candidates."

I will admit that I did add a couple mysteries to my summer list after looking at the goodreads suggestions!