2011

December

De Carvalho, Mario, A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening
Souza, Marcio, Death Squeeze (A Condolencia)
Doctorow, E.L., Loon Lake

November

Haruki, Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Wu Ch'eng-en, Monkey, Folk Novel of China
King, Stephen, 11/22/63
Unsworth, Barry, Losing Nelson
Leavy, Jane, The Last Boy, Mickey Mantle
Sayers, Dorothy L., Six Red Herrings
Hitchman, Janet, Such a Strange Lady (bio of Sayers)

October

Nooteboom, Cees, Lost Paradise
Robinson, Marilynne, Housekeeping
Josipovici, Gabriel, In a Hotel Garden
Buckley, W.F., Last Call for Blackford Oakes
Cercas, Javier, Soldiers of Salamis

September

DeLillo, Don, Point Omega, a re-read
Cercas, Javier, The Anatomy of a Moment

June, July and August

Connelly, Michael, City of Bones
Carrere, Emmanuel, The Adversary
Carrere, Emmanuel, My Life as a Russian Novel
Sciascia, Leonardo, The Wine-Dark Sea
Connelly, Michael, The Closers
Marias, Javiar, A Heart So White
Nesbo, Jo, The Devil's Star
Nesbo, Jo, Redbreast
Sciascia, Leonardo, The Day of the Owl
Sciascia, Leonardo, To Each His Own

Through May 22

Collins, Wilkie, The Moonstone.  Read this so long ago, I hardly remembered it at all, even as I re-read.  Not sure I agree with TS Eliot that it's the best crime novel in English, as well as the first, but it is definitely the best police procedural, certainly in the beginning, maybe to end. 

Through May 5:
Auster, Paul, The Book of Illusions, I've read this before.  Odd to remember it as you read.
Dickens, Charles, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Through April 25:
Wilson, Robert, The Vanished Hands.  If you like thrillers, Wilson is good but Perez-Reverte is better.   
Portis, Charles, Gringos.  Yes, yes, not reading much.  Will get back in the saddle soon, feel it coming on.  Gringos kept me laughing.  A good start, and I'm almost done with a Robert Wilson book.

Through March 7:

Larsson, Steig, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.  Not a disappointment by any means.
Portis, Charles, The Dog of the South.  One of my favorites.
Portis, Charles, Masters of Atlantis. Found this a bit tedious, but may have been my mood.
Perez-Reverte, Arturo, The Club Dumas.  Now that Larsson is no longer in the running, I think P-R is a worthy successor to LeCarre in the category of best crime fiction writer.  The Queen of the South is still my favorite, but then it would be.
Perez-Reverte, Arturo, The Fencing Master
Masako Togawa, Slow Fuse.  Worth reading but not as good as The Lady Killer, her novel from the 50's or 60's.