Reading List for 2005

[cornerofmadness]

Some of my other friends did this and I thought it was a great idea. Here's everything I read in 2005 (about 70 books). If it's bolded I loved it. If it's in color then I hated it. If it's just italics, it was good enough.

BOOKS 2005

 

Mystery Genre

Martha Grimes - The Winds of Change

Diane Mott Davidson - Killer Pancake; The Main Corpse; Prime Cut

Victoria Houston - Dead Angler; Dead Creek ; Dead Water; Dead Frenzy

John Sandford - Winter Prey; Night Prey

J.D. Robb - Conspiracy Death (x-reference SF)

Linda Fairstein - Entombed; The Kills; Final Jeopardy

Tamar Myers - Assault & Pepper

Robert Crais - The Forgotten Man

Greg Iles - Blood Memory

Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason - The Rule of Four (x-reference mainstream)

Susan Wittig Albert - Dead Man's Bones; Chile Death; Lavender Lies; Mistletoe Man; A Dilly of a Death

Iain Pears – Giotto’s Hand

Peter Tremayne - Act of Mercy

Stephanie Barron - Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor

Jonathan Kellerman - Twisted

Joan Hess - The Goodbye Body; Busy Bodies

Charlaine Harris - Living Dead in Dallas (x-reference vampires); Real Murder

Karin Slaughter - Faithless

Jacqueline Winspear - Birds of a Feather

 

HORROR

Dean Koontz - Life Expectancy

Peter Straub - In the Night Room

Owl Goingback – Crota

ROMANCE

Susan Krinkard - Secret of the Wolf

Sherrilyn Kenyon - Seize the Night

 

YOUNG ADULT

Nancy Werlin - The Killer's Cousin (x-reference mystery, horror)

Alice Hoffman - Green Angel (x-reference fantasy)

Tim Wynne-Jones - The Boy in the Burning House

Elaine Marie Alphin - Counterfeit Son

Kate Morgenroth - Jude

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes - Demon in My View

Eve Bunting - The Presence: A Ghost Story

Lemony Snicket - A Bad Beginning; The Reptile Room; The Wide Window ; The Miserable Mill; The Austere Academy; The Ersatz Elevator ; The Vile Village; The Hostile Hospital; The Carnivorous Carnivale; The Slippery Slope; The Grim Grotto

Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

 

Graphic

Fullmetal Alchemist vol 1-3 - Hiromu Arakawa

NON-FICTION

Joseph-Emile Muller - Bosch

Dr Helen Morrison - My Life Among the Serial Killers (serious crap)

Leslie Sansone - Walk Away the Pounds

POETRY

Jewel - A Night Without Armor

Ai - Dread

Louise Erdrich - Original Fire

FANTASY

Elizabeth Hand - Waking the Moon

Melisa Michaels - Sister to the Rain

James Reese - The Book of Shadows

Tanith Lee – Biting the Sun

Comments

[makd.livejournal.com]

One of the books I'm currently reading is Pears' The Dream of Scipio. I'm liking it. How's Giotto's Hand?

LOVE Martha Grimes like pancakes. I especially love her stories about Emma -- Hotel Paradise and Cold Flat Junction. I'm waiting for Belle Ruin to come out in softback. And her Richard Jury books!! I love the entire crew, and frequently laugh out-loud at the dialogue.....

Dean Koontz....[shudders] writes the god-awful scariest stuff around. I thought I was gonna be sick reading Intensity.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Oddly you'd think I'd love Pears books, mystery AND history, two of my favorite things but everything I've read by him bores me and I'm not sure why, Giotta's Hand was no exception.

I especially love Richard Jury books by Grimes. I tried to read Belle Ruin (I'm a library junkie) but I couldn't get into it. But I hadn't read the first two so I'm going to go look for them first.

Koontz usually entertains me. I started reading the sequel to Odd Thomas but I had to turn it back in when I went to PA. I'll go get it again

[demonicamills.livejournal.com]

Have you read the Avolan series by Marion Zimmer Bradley? I bet you would like them

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I read those many yearas ago.

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

Lol, I just bought myself FMA Vol. 1 before Christmas. (Certainly was odd, though, reading something in the opposite direction.) And a friend of mine recommended 'Demon in my View' to me, but I have yet to find a copy. (She's sending me a late Christmas present, though, and that might be it.)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I've been reading in the opposite direction for about 20 odd years now so I'm used to it.

I thought Demon was very very over rated. Yes, she's just a teenager but I think if she wasn't this would never have seen the light of day. I think for her age she's talented but not the wonder the critics say