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Reading Recommendations from Just Desserts members – July 2018
- Sunday, 29 July 2018 13:31
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At the July 26th, 2018 meeting of the Just Desserts mystery fiction discussion group, following the discussion of the assigned topic of the month (Shannon Baker’s Dark Signal), we held our monthly round robin in which all 21 attendees were able to share a few recommendations of what other books they’ve been reading recently, both mystery and non-mystery.
Here are the mystery titles recommended by Just Desserts members in July 2018:
- Twisted Prey by John Sandford – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The President is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson – Patterson was past author selection for Just Desserts
- Lone Star Lawman by ???
- Hotshot P.I. by ???
- To Trust a Stranger by Karen Robards
- The 17th Suspect by James Patterson and Maxine Paetrot – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Devil Wins (a Jesse Stone novel) by Reed Farrell Coleman
- Hope Never Dies (an Obama/Biden mystery novel) by Andrew Shaffer (two readers)
- The Dry by Jane Harper – upcoming author selection for Just Desserts
- White River Burning by John Verdon
- The Woman in the Woods by John Connolly
- The Fallen by David Baldacci – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Find You in the Dark by Nathan Ripley (not yet in library collection)
- The Bullet by Mary Louise Kelly
- Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo – past author selection for Just Desserts
- The Witch Elm (a standalone novel) by Tana French – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Smash Cut by Sandra Brown
- Two For Texas by James Lee Burke – past author selection for Just Desserts
- Queen Anne’s Lace by Susan Wittig Albert – past author selection for Just Desserts
- What Happened That Night by Sandra Block
- Bibliomysteries: Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores edited by Otto Penzler
Here are the non-mystery titles recommended by Just Desserts members in July 2018:
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman [a 2018 One Book – One Lincoln finalist] (several readers)
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng [a 2018 One Book – One Lincoln finalist] (several readers)
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann [a 2018 One Book – One Lincoln finalist] (several readers)
- Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (sequel to Beartown)
- Lincoln on the Bardo (on CD) by George Saunders
- Celine (on CD) by Peter Heller
- The Autobiography of James T. Kirk by David A. Goodman
- The Tip of the Iceberg by Mark Adams
- Playing With Fire by Lawrence O’Donnell
- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
- Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
- Once in a Blue Moon Lodge by Lorna Landvik
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- Curtain Up: Agatha Christie – A Life in Theater by Julius Green (not yet in libraries’ collection)
What mysteries have you been reading lately that you’d recommend?