These are the books I read in April, 2016 – 21 books, 4 contemporary fiction, 3 classic fiction, 6 mystery/crimes, 3 sci-fi or speculative fictions and 5 nonfiction. 4 women authors and 2 translations –
FICTION –
Contemporary:
** Zero K
by Don DeLillo
Scribner – May 3/ 2016 / 288 pages
Rating – 9.8 / literary fiction
And a huge thank you to Simon & Schuster for the ARC via NetGalley
** Did You Ever Have a Family – x2
by Bill Clegg
2015 / 304 pages
rating – 9.5 / contemp fiction
** A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
2014 / 688 pages
Read by a great “cast” (read and listened)
Rating: 9.5 / literary crime/historical
** Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
by Salman Rushdie
2015 / 304 pages
read by Robert G. Slade 11h 26m
rating: 9.3 / literary fantasy
(read and listened x2)
Classic:
** The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
1948 / 288 pages
read by Michael Kitchen 10h 6m
rating: 8 / classic – an extra point for being a classic
** Colonel Chabert
Honoré de Balzac
1832 / 80 pages
rating – 9
**For the Major
by Constance Fenimore Woolson
1982-83 / 84 pages (novella)
rating 8.5 / classic US
MYSTERY/CRIME
** Disclaimer
by Reneé Knight
2015 / 352 pages (Harper)
read by Michael Pennington and Laura Paton – 8h 25m
rating: B- / psychological suspense
**An Innocent Client
by Scott Pratt
2008/ 360 pages
read by Tim Campbell 7h 54m
rating –
(#1 in Joe Dillard series)
** The Strangler Vine
by M.J. Carter
2014 / 384 pages
read by Alex Wyndham 10h 43m
rating: A+/ 8.5 (historical literary crime -)
(Book 1 in the Blake and Avery series)
**The Girl From Home
by Adam Mitzner –
2016 / 336 pages
read by Jonathan Walker 10h 32m
rating: – A++ / crime
** Saving Sophie
by Ronald H. Balson
2015/ 448 pages
read by Fred Berman 13h 42m
rating – A+ / international crime (with history)
(#2 in the Catherine and Liam series)
** The Advocate’s Daughter
by Anthony Franze
2016/ 317 pages
read by Robert Patkoff – 9h 2m
rating: A
SCI-FI/SPECULATIVE
** Darknet
by Matthew Mather
2015 / 371 pages
read by Tom Taylorson
rating: B- / speculative fiction
** Cyberstorm
by Matthew Mather
2013/ 362 pages
read by Tom Taylorson 11h 18m
rating – A+ / dystopian sci-fi – tech
** The Book of Strange New Things
by Michael Faber
2014 / 528 pages
read by Josh Cohen 19h 27m
rating – 8/ A++ (literary sci-fi)
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NONFICTION
** Black Flags: The Rise of Isis
by Joby Warrick
2015 / 368 pages
read by Sunil Malhotra 13h 33m
rating – 9 / general nonfiction
** Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
by Stephen Greenblatt
2011 / 448 pages
rating: 8 / biography-history-literary analysis
** A Little History of Philosophy
by Nigel Warburton
2011 / 288 pages
read by Kris Dyer 7h 35m
rating: 9
** Confucius Mecius Laozi Xhuangzi Xunzi: Selected Passages from the Chinese Philosophers
by Michael Pruett and Christine Gross-Loh
2015 / very short – 45 pages?
rating – 9 (?)