Roger's Book List Last update  11 May 2012

While reading mysteries I found it annoying to discover that I was not reading the book series in order, I would find the author referring back to prior experiences. This caused me to go out on the internet, and the local library catalog, to establish a sequence for my reading. 

In order to help others, and myself, I have listed some of the better books that I have read on this web page.  If I am missing books, or have them out of order - please send me an e-mail at w7lz@arrl.net - please put " book list" in the subject line, as I receive a lot of SPAM and I may accidentally delete your note.

I think the best authors are: Barry Eisler, Lee Child, John Dunning, Henning Mankell, Donna Leon, Stieg Larsson, and Daniel Silva.

"r" means I have read the book. "res" means reserved at my local library

If you don't find your series here, try the Kent District Library, Kent County, MI, search feature at http://ww2.kdl.org/libcat/WhatsNextNEW.asp

 

I currently have four sections: mysteries, historical fiction, non-fiction and travel

Mysteries:

Stieg Larsson (1954 - 2004)Mikael Blomkvist/Lisbeth Salander  series

The setting is  Sweden. The titles below are the English publication titles.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 2005

The Girl who played with fire - 2006

The Girl who kicked the hornet's nest - 2010

 

Barry Eisler John Rain series

The setting is  Japan, NYC, Brazil and Southeast Asia.

Rain Fall - 2002

Hard Rain - 2003

Rain Storm - 2004

Killing Rain - 2005

The Last Assassin - 2006 -  dave

Requiem for an Assassin - 2007 -  dave

The Detachment - 2011 - r - dave

 

Barry EislerBen Treven series

The setting is  Washington D.C.  Costa Rica  and Southeast Asia.

Fault Line - r - dave

Inside Out - 2010 - r (Ben may search for John Rain in the next book)  dave

 

Barry Eisler short stories

The Lost Coast - a Larison short story (e-book only)

Paris is a Bitch - a Rain / Delilah short story (e-book only)

 

Lee Child – Jack Reacher series

The Affair - 2011 - r ( a prequel, Jack Reacher leaves the US Army) 

Killing Floor –  1997 r

Die Trying – 1998 r

Tripwire – 1999 r

Running Blind – 2000  r

Echo Burning – 2001 r

Without Fail – 2002 r

Persuader – 2003 r

The Enemy – 2004 (set in 1990) r

One Shot – 2005 r

The Hard Way – 2006 r

Bad Luck and Trouble –  2007 r

Nothing to Lose –  2008 - r

Gone Tomorrow - 2009 - r

61 hours - 2010 - r

Worth Dying - 2010 - r

 

Second Son - xxxx - Kindle edition only (short story - Jack Reacher as a teenager)

 

John Dunning  – Cliff Janeway series

Booked to Die - 1992 - r

The bookman's wake - 1995 - r

The bookman's promise - 2004 - r

The sign of the book - 2005 - r

The bookwoman's last fling - 2006 - r

(last checked for a new book in Apr 2012)

Other detective novels

 

 

James PattersonAlex Cross series

Along Came a Spider -1992-r

Kiss The Girls -1995-r

Jack and Jill -1996- r

Cat and Mouse 1999 - r

Pop goes the weasel - 1999 - r

Roses are red - 2000 - r

Violets are blue - 2001 - r

Four blind mice - 2002 - r

Big bad wolf - 2003 - r

London bridges - 2004 - r

Mary, Mary - 2005 - r

Cross - 2006 r

Double Cross - 2007 r

Cross Country  2009 - r

I, Alex Cross - 2009 - r 

Kill Alex Cross - 2011 - r - dave

 

James Patterson, Womans Club series

1st to Die - 2001 - res 

2nd Chance - 2002

3rd Degree - 2004

4th of July - 2005

The 5th Horseman - 2006

The 6th Target - 2007

The 7th Heaven - 2008

The 9th Judgment - 2010 

 

James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge Detective Michael Bennett series

Step on a Crack - 2007 r

 

Michael Connelly, Harry Bosch series

The Black Echo – 1992 - r

The Black Ice – 1993 - r

The Concrete Blonde – 1994 r

The Last Coyote – 1995 r

Trunk Music – 1997 - r

Angeles Flight - 1999 - r

Blood Work - 1998 - r (ex-FBI agent Terrell McCaleb, fits in here)

A Darkness More Than Night – 2001 r

City Of Bones - 2002 r

Lost Light - 2003 - r

The Narrows 2004 - r

The Closers – 2005 - r

Echo Park - 2006 - r

The Overlook - 2007 - r

The Brass Verdict - 2008 - r (Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch)

Nine Dragons - 2009 - r

The Reversal - 2010 - r

The Drop - 2011 - r

 

Michael Connelly, Jack McEvoy series  

The Poet - 1996 -

The Scarecrow - 2009 - r


Jonathan Kellerman - Alex Delaware series 

The setting is Los Angeles.

When the bough breaks 1985 - r

Blood Test -  1986 - r

Over the Edge - 1989 - r

Silent Partner - 1989 - r

Time Bomb - 1990 r 

Private Eyes - 1992 

Devil's Waltz - 1993

Bad Love - 1994

Self-defense - 1995

The Web - 1996 

The Clinic - 1996 

Survival of the Fittest - 1997 

Monster - 1999

Dr. Death - 2000

Flesh and Blood - 2001

The Murder Book - 2002 - r

A Cold Heart - 2003

Therapy - 2004

Rage - 2005

Gone - 2006 

Obsession - 2007

Compulsion - 2008 

 

Jonathan Kellerman - Petra Connor series 

The setting is Los Angeles.

Billy Straight

Twisted -r 

 

Dan BrownRobert Langdon series

Angeles & Demons - r

The Da Vinci Code - r

The Lost Symbol - r

 

Virginia Lanier (1930-2003) Jo Beth Sidden series

The setting is a bloodhound training school in Georgia.

Death in Bloodhound Red - 1995

The House On Bloodhound Lane1996  

A Brace Of Bloodhounds1997

Blind Bloodhound Justice1998

Ten Little Bloodhounds1999

A Bloodhound to Die For - 2003

 

Patricia Cornwell Scarpetta  series

All That Remains  - 1992

Cruel And Unusual - 1993

The Body Farm  - 1994 

Body Of Evidence - 1994 

Postmortem - 1994 

From Potters Field - 1995

Cause Of Death - 1996 r

Unnatural Exposure  - 1997 

Point Of Origin - 1998

Black Notice - 1999

The Last Precinct - 2000

Blow Fly - 2003 r

Trace - 2004

Predator - 2005 r

Book of the Dead - 2007 -r

Scarpetta - 2008

The Scarpetta Factor - 2009

 

Henning Mankell - Kirk Wallander  series

The setting is mostly Southeast Sweden.

The Pyramid - 1999 r - 4 short stories to start Kurt Wallander's early career - Dave

Faceless killers - 1997 ? r

The Fifth Woman - 1997 ? r

White Lioness - 1998 r

Man Who Smiled  r

Sidetracked - 1999 r

One Step Behind - 2002 ? r

Firewall - 2002 ? r

The Grave - ? nr - not at amazon.com - a 90 page freebee

Dogs of Riga - 2003 r

Before the Frost - 2005 r 

The Troubled Man - 2011 - the end of the Kurt Wallander series (I think) - r -Dave

 

Henning Mankell - stand alone fiction 

The Man from Beijing - r - Dave

Italian Shoes - r - Dave

Depths - 2004 - r - a depressing read 

Chronicler of the winds

The Eye of the Leopard - Dave - ask to bring to AZ - he did not bring 

Kennedy's Brain

The Return of the Dancing Master

 

Arnaldur Indridason  - Inspector Erlendur

The setting is Reykjavik Iceland.

 

Donna Leon - Commissario Guido Brunetti  series

The setting is Venice Italy.

Death At La Fenice - 1992

Death In A Strange Country - 1993

Dressed For Death - 1994 (aka The Anonymous Venetian)

Death And Judgment - 1995 (aka A Venetian Reckoning)

Acqua Alta - 1996

Quietly in Their Sleep - 1997 (aka The Death of Faith) 

A Noble Radiance - 1997

Fatal Remedies - April 1999

Friends In High Places - April 2000

A Sea Of Troubles -  2001 r  

Wilful Behaviour - 2002

Uniform Justice - 2003

Doctored Evidence - 2004

Blood From A Stone - 2005 

Through a Glass, Darkly - 2006 r

Suffer the Little Children - 2007 r 

The Girl of His Dreams - 2008 r

About Face - 2009 - r

A Question of Belief - 2010 r

Drawing Conclusions - 2011 - r

Beastly Things - 2012 - res

 

Jeffery Deaver  -  Lincoln Rhyme series

 

 

Scott Turow -  (good reads)

Presumed Innocent

The Burden of Proof

Ordinary Heros (may be a slow read - see amazon.com reviews)

 

 

Tony Hillerman - Sergent Jim Chee & Lt. Joe Leaphorn

The setting is the four corners area of the Southwest. 

The Blessing Way - 1970 - send to dave

Dance of Hall of the Dead - 1973 - send to dave

Listening Woman - 1978 

The People of Darkness - 1980

The Dark Wind - 1982

The Ghostway - 1984

Skin Walkers - 1986 

A Thief Of Time - 1988

Talking God - 1989

Coyote Waits - 1990 

Sacred Clowns - 1993 

The Fallen Man - 1997

The First Eagel - 1998

Hunting Badger - 1999

The Wailing Wind - 2002

The Sinister Pig - 2003

Skeleton Man - 2004

The Shape Shifter - 2006 

 

Robert K. Tanenbaum  Butch Karp & Marlene Ciampi series 

The setting is  mostly NYC.

No Lesser Plea - 1988 r 

Depraved Indifference - 1989 - r 

Immoral Certainty - 1991 r 

Reversible Error - 1992 r 

Material Witness - 1993 -

Justice Denied - 1994

Corruption Of Blood - 1995

Falsely Accused - 1996

Irresistible Impulse - 1997

Reckless Endangerment - 1998

Act Of Revenge - 1999

True Justice - 2000

Enemy Within - 2001

Absolute Rage - 2002

Resolved - 2003

Hoax - 2004

Fury - 2005

Counterplay - 2006 r

Malice - 2007 - r

Escape - 2008 - r

Capture - 2009 -r

Betrayed - 2010 - r

Outrage - 2011 - (poor review - I won't read it)

 

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Agent Pendergast series

NP means that Agent Pendergast is not in the book,  but other characters that follow on are included.

Relic - 1995 

Mount Dragon - 1996 - NP

Reliquary - 1997

Riptide - 1998 - NP

Thunderhead - 1999 - NP

The Ice Limit -  2001 - NP

The Cabinet Of Curiosities - 2002

Still Life With Crows - 2003

Brimstone - 2004

Dance Of The Dead - June 2005

The Book Of The Dead - 2006

Wheel of Darkness - 2007

Cemetery Dance - summer 2009 - r

Fever Dreams - 2010 - r 

Cold Vengeance - 2011 - r 

 

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Gideon Crew series

 

Gideon's Sword - 2011 - r   

Gideon's Corpse - 2012 - r - dave has read

 

J.A. Jance J.P. Beaumont series

The setting is Seattle.

Until Proven Guilty - 1985 -  r

Injustice for All - r

Trial By Fury - r

Taking the Fifth - r

Improbable Cause - r

A More Perfect Union - r

Dismissed With Prejudice - r

Minor In Possession - r

Payment In Kind - r

Without Due Process - r

Failure To Appear -r

Lying In Wait - r

Name Withheld - r

Breach Of Duty r

Birds Of Prey - r

Partner In Crime - also in the Joanna Brady series

Long Time Gone - 2005 - r

Justice Denied - 2007 - r

Fire and Ice - 2009 - r - also in the Joanna Brady series

Betrayal of Trust - 2011 - r - Dave

 

J.A. Jance Joanna Brady series

The setting is Bisbee, Arizona.

Desert Heat 1 - 1993 - r

Tombstone Courage 1994 - r

Shoot, don't Shoot 1995 - r

Dead to Rights - 1996 - r

Skeleton Canyon - 1997 - r

Rattlesnake Crossing - 1998 - r

Outlaw Mountain - 1999 - r

Devils Claw - 2000 - r

Paradise Lost - 2001 - r

Partner in Crime - 2001 - r - also in the J.P. Beaumont series

Exit Wounds - 2003 r

Dead Wrong - 2006 r

Damage Control - 2008 r

Fire and Ice - 2009 - r -also in the J.P. Beaumont series

 

J.A. Jance Alison Reynolds series

Edge of Evil - r

Web of Evil - r

Hand of Evil - r

Cruel Intent - r

Trial by Fire - reviews were poor

 

J.A. Jance Brandon Walker series

The setting is the Tucson and Tohono O'Odham areas.

Hour of the Hunter - 1991 - r 

Kiss of the Bees - 1999 - r

Day of the Dead - 2004 - r

Queen of the Night - 2010 - r

 

 Arnaldur Indridason Detective Eriendur series

Voices: (a Reykjavik thriller) - 2003 - dave will pass on to me

 

 

G.M. Ford  Frank Corso series

Frank Corso is a journalist in Seattle.

Fury - 2001 - r

Black River - 2002 - r

A Blind Eye - r

Red Tide - r

No Man's Land - r

Blown Away - r

 

G.M. Ford  Leo Watterman series

My local library does not have any of these books. The reviews on Amazon.com were not too positive. 

 

 

Fred Grove, Jesse Wilder series

Civil War era.

Bitter Trumpet -res

Trail of Rogues 

Man on a Red Horse 

Into the Far Mountains 

A Soldier Returns 

 

Vince Flynn, Mitch Rapp series  

Mitch Rapp is a CIA Special Activities Staff ("black ops") counterterrorism agent. In the novels in the series, Mitch is concerned with thwarting Middle Eastern terrorist attacks on the United States.

 

Anne Perry - William Monk series

The setting is London. 

Book 1 Face of a stranger

Book 2 Dangerous mourning

Book 3 Defend and betray

Book 4 A sudden, fearful death

Book 5 The sins of the wolf

Book 6 Cain his brother

Book 7 Weighed in the balance

Book 8 Silent cry

Book 9 Breach of promise

Book 10 Twisted root

Book 11 Slaves of obsession

Book 12 Funeral in blue

Book 13 Death of a stranger

Book 14 Shifting tide

Book 15 Dark Assassin

 

Anne Perry - Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series

The setting is London. 

Book 1 Cater Street hangman - R

Book 2 Callander Square - R

Book 3 Paragon Walk - R

Book 4 Resurrection Row

Book 5 Rutland Place

Book 6 Bluegate Fields

Book 7 Death in the Devil's Acre

Book 8 Cardington Crescent

Book 9 Silence in Hanover Close

Book 10 Bethlehem Road

Book 11 Highgate Rise

Book 12 Belgrave Square

Book 13 Farrier's Lane (r)

Book 14 Hyde Park headsman

Book 15 Traitor's gate

Book 16 Pentecost Alley

Book 17 Ashworth Hall

Book 18 Brunswick Garden

Book 19 Bedford Square

Book 20 Half Moon Street

Book 21 Whitechapel conspiracy

Book 22 Southhampton row

Book 23 Seven dials

Book 24 Long Spoon Lane

Book 25 Christmas guest

 

Robert B. Parker -  Spenser series

The Godwulf manuscript - not at our Pima Co. Library

      Book 1  The Godwulf manuscript - r
             Book 2  God save the child - r
             Book 3  Mortal stakes
             Book 4  Promised land - r
             Book 5  The Judas goat - r
             Book 6  Looking for Rachel Wallace
             Book 7  Early autumn
             Book 8  A savage place
             Book 9  Surrogate: a Spenser short story
             Book 10  Ceremony
             Book 11  The widening gyre
             Book 12  Valediction
             Book 13  A Catskill eagle
             Book 14  Taming a sea-horse
             Book 15  Pale kings and princes
             Book 16  Crimson joy
             Book 17  Playmates
             Book 18  Stardust
             Book 19  Pastime
             Book 20  Double deuce
             Book 21  Paper doll
             Book 22  Walking shadow
             Book 23  Thin air
             Book 24  Chance
             Book 25  Small vices
             Book 26  Sudden mischief
             Book 27  Hush money
             Book 28  Hugger mugger
             Book 29  Potshot
             Book 30  Widow's walk
             Book 31  Back story
             Book 32  Bad business
             Book 33  Cold service
             Book 34  School days
             Book 35  Hundred-dollar baby
             Book 36  Now and then
             Book 37  Rough weather

             Book 38  Chasing the Bear - Young Spenser 2009

             Book 39 The Professional - 2009

             Book 40 Painted Ladies - 2010

             Book 41 Sixkill - r - published posthumously

Robert B. Parker -  Jesse Stone series

 

James Lee Burke - Dave Robicheaux series

The setting is  the New Orleans area. These books start to sound alike after reading the first  few.  I stopped putting them on the list.

Black Cherry Blues - 1989 r

A Morning For Flamingos 1990 r

A Stained White Radiance 1993 r

In The Electric Mist With Confederate Dead 1993 nr

Sunset Limited - 1998  r

Jolie Blon's Bounce - 2002 r

Last Car To Elysian Fields - 2003 r

Crusader's Cross - 2005 nr

 

Clive Cussler & Paul Kemprecos Kurt Austin series*

 * placed at the bottom of the list because I have not read any of these books

Serpent  - 1999 nr

Blue Gold  - 2000 nr

Fire Ice  - 2002 nr

White Death  - 2003 nr

Lost City  - 2004 nr

 

John Sandford - The Lucas Davenport series

Rules of Prey - 1989 - r

Shadow  Prey - 1990 - r

Eyes of Prey - 1991 - r

Silent Prey - 1992 - r

Winter Prey - 1993 - r 

Night Prey - 1994 - r

Mind Prey - 1995 - r

Sudden Prey - 1996 - r

Secret Prey - 1998 -r

Certain Prey - 1999 - r

Easy Prey - 2000 - r

Chosen Prey - 2001 - r

Mortal Prey - 2002 - r

Naked Prey - 2003 - r

Hidden Prey - 2004 - r

Broken Prey - 2005 - r

Invisible Prey - 2007 - r

Phantom Prey - 2008 -r

Wicked Prey - 2009 - r

Storm Prey - 2010 - r 

Buried Prey - 2011 - r

 

John Sandford - The Virgil Flowers series

Dark of the Moon - r

Heat Lightning - 2008 - r

Rough Country - 2009 - res

Bad Blood

Shock Wave 

 

John Sandford - The kidd series

The Empress File

The Fool's Run

The Devil's Code

The Hanged Man's Song

 

Daniel Silva - The Gabriel Allon series

The Unlikely Spy - 1994 - not Gabriel Allon series, but try it sometime

The kill artist  - 2000 

The English Assassin 2002 

The Confessor - 2003 

A Death in Vienna - 

Prince of Fire - 2005     

The Messenger - 2006 

The Secret Servant - 2007 

Moscow Rules - 2008 

The Defector - 2009 

The Rembrant Affair - r - Dave 

Portrait of a Spy - r - Dave

 

 

older books to check out - The Mark of the Assassin - 1998 - The Marching Season - 1999 

 

 

 

Ross McDonald  Lew Archer series

 

 

 

 * placed at the bottom of the list because I have not read very many of these books

John Sandford -  the Kidd series*

 

THE FOOL'S RUN - 1889
THE EMPRESS FILE 1991
THE DEVIL'S CODE 2000
THE HANGED MAN'S SONG 2003

Lawrence Block - The Evan Tanner series

A The thief who couldn't sleep - r

The canceled Czech - not in library catalog

Tanner's twelve swingers -res

Two for Tanner

Tanner's tiger

Here comes a hero

Me Tanner, you Jane

Tanner on ice

 

Georges Simenon - The Inspector Maigret series

These books are not at my local library. 

 
             Book 1  The strange case of Peter the Lett
             Book 2  Lock 14
             Book 3  Maigret stonewalled
             Book 4  The crime of Inspector Maigret
             Book 5  Maigret's war of nerves
             Book 6  Maigret and the yellow dog
             Book 7  Maigret at the crossroads
             Book 8  Maigret in Holland
             Book 9  The sailor's rendezvous
             Book 10  Maigret at the Gai-Moulin
             Book 11  The guinguette by the Seine
             Book 12  Maigret mystified
             Book 13  Maigret goes home
             Book 14  The Flemish shop
             Book 15  Maigret and the death of a harbor master
             Book 16  The madman of Bergerac
             Book 17  Maigret on the Riviera
             Book 18  The lock at Charenton
             Book 19  Maigret returns
             Book 20  Maigret and the Hotel Majestic
             Book 21  Maigret in exile
             Book 22  Maigret and the spinster
             Book 23  Maigret and the fortuneteller
             Book 24  Maigret and the toy village
             Book 25  Maigret's rival
             Book 26  Maigret in retirement
             Book 27  Maigret in New York's underworld
             Book 28  Maigret on holiday
             Book 29  Maigret's dead man
             Book 30  Maigret's first case
             Book 31  My friend Maigret
             Book 32  Maigret at the coroner's
             Book 33  Maigret and the old lady
             Book 34  The friend of Madame Maigret
             Book 35  Maigret's memoirs
             Book 36  Maigret in Montmartre
             Book 37  Maigret rents a room
             Book 38  Maigret and the burglar's wife
             Book 39  Maigret and the gangsters
             Book 40  Maigret's revolver
             Book 41  Maigret and the man on the bench
             Book 42  Maigret afraid
             Book 43  Maigret's mistake
             Book 44  Maigret goes to school
             Book 45  Maigret and the young girl
             Book 46  Maigret and the Calame report
             Book 47  Maigret and the headless corpse
             Book 48  Maigret sets a trap
             Book 49  Maigret's failure
             Book 50  None of Maigret's business
             Book 51  Maigret and the millionaires
             Book 52  Maigret has scruples
             Book 53  Maigret and the reluctant witnesses
             Book 54  Maigret has doubts
             Book 55  Maigret in court
             Book 56  Maigret in society
             Book 57  Maigret and the lazy burglar
             Book 58  Maigret and the black sheep
             Book 59  Maigret and the Saturday caller
             Book 60  Maigret and the bum
             Book 61  Maigret loses his temper
             Book 62  Maigret and the apparition
             Book 63  Maigret on the defensive
             Book 64  Maigret bides his time
             Book 65  Maigret and the Nahour case
             Book 66  Maigret's pickpocket
             Book 67  Maigret in Vichy
             Book 68  Maigret hesitates
             Book 69  Maigret's boyhood friend
             Book 70  Maigret and the killer
             Book 71  Maigret and the wine merchant
             Book 72  Maigret and the madwoman
             Book 73  Maigret and the loner
             Book 74  Maigret and the informer
             Book 75  Maigret and Monsieur Charles

 

Michael McGarrity*

   Book 1  Tularosa - 1996 - res
             Book 2  Mexican hat
             Book 3  Serpent gate
             Book 4  Hermit's Peak
             Book 5  The Judas judge
             Book 6  Under the color of law
             Book 7  The big gamble
             Book 8  Everyone dies
             Book 9  Slow kill
             Book 10  Nothing but trouble
             Book 11  Death song

Book 12 Dead or Alive

 

Clive Cussler Dirk Pitt series*

 * placed at the bottom of the list because I have not read any of these books

Pacific Vortex   - 1986 - nr

Arctic Drift 

 

Karin Fossum  Inspectors  Konrad Sejer and Jakob Skarre series*

The setting is  Norway.

Magdalen Nabb  Inspector Salvatore Guarnaccia series*

Death of an Englishman (#1) - r - dave
©1981
Florence
Death of a Dutchman (#2) - res - dave
©1982
Florence
Death in Springtime (#3) - dave
©1983
Florence
Death in Autumn (#4)
©1984
Florence
The Marshal and the Murderer (#5)
©1987
Florence
The Marshal and the Madwoman (#6)
©1988
Florence
The Marshal's Own Case (#7)
©1990
Florence
The Marshal Makes His Report (#8)
©1991
Florence
The Marshal at the Villa Torrini (#9)
©1993
Florence
The Monster of Florence (#10)
©1996
Florence
Property of Blood (#11)
©1999
Florence
Some Bitter Taste (#12)
©2002
Florence
The Innocent (#13)
©2005
Florence
Vita Nuova (#14, the Last) Spring 2008 Publication Date

 

Good Mysteries that are not series

David Baldacci 

Absolute Power - 1996 check to see if I have read this one 

Total Control - 1997 - r

The Winner - 1997

The Simple Truth - 1998 - 

Saving Faith - 1999

Last Man Standing - 2001 - r

Wish You Well - 2001

Split Second - 2003

Hour Game - 2004

The Collectors - 2006

Simple Genius - May 2007 - r

Stone Cold - 2007 - r

Divine Justice - 2008

The Whole Truth - 2008

 

 

David Baldacci - The Camel Club series

The Camel Club - 

The Collectors - 

Stone Cold - 

 

Michael Jecks - Medieval West Country England series (24)

The Last Templar - r

The Merchants Partner

A moorland Hanging

The Credition Killings

The Abbot's Gibbet

The Leper's Return

Squire Throwleigh's Heir

Belladonnna at Belstone

 

Historical Fiction  

Edward Rutherfurd

Sarum - 1987

London - 1997

The Forest - 2000

The Princess of Ireland - 2004

The Rebels of Ireland - 2006

Russka - 1991 

 

Ken Follett - England

The pillars of the earth - 1989 - r

World without end - 2007  

Fall of Giants - 2010

 

 

Khaled Hosseini - Afghanistan

The Kite Runner  - 2003

A Thousand Splendid Suns - 2007

 

Alan Furst - WW2 spy series

Night Soldiers - 1988 

Spies of the Balkins - 2010 

 

Patrick O'Brian -  Captain Jack Aubrey series

  1. Master and Commander (1970) - Dave
  2. Post Captain (1972) - Dave
  3. HMS Surprise (1973) - Dave
  4. The Mauritius Command (1977)
  5. Desolation Island (1978)
  6. The Fortune of War (1979)
  7. The Surgeon's Mate (1980)
  8. The Ionian Mission (1981)
  9. Treason's Harbour (1983)
  10. The Far Side of the World (1984)
  11. The Reverse of the Medal (1986)
  12. The Letter of Marque (1988)
  13. The Thirteen Gun Salute (1989)
  14. The Nutmeg of Consolation (1991)
  15. Clarissa Oakes (1992) - (The Truelove in the USA)
  16. The Wine-Dark Sea (1993)
  17. The Commodore (1995)
  18. The Yellow Admiral (1996)
  19. The Hundred Days (1998)
  20. Blue at the Mizzen (1999)
  21. The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (2004) - (21 in the USA) - not in pima co. lib

 

Adam Johnson 

The setting is  North Korea.

The Orphan Master's Son - 2012

 

Scott Turow - WW2 story

Ordinary Heroes - r 

 

Wendell Berry

Andy Catlett - 

Jayber Crow

The memory of old Jack

Nathan Coulter

A place on Earth

Remembering

That distant land

A world lost

Hannah Coulter - r

Non-Fiction 

Slavomir Rawicz 

The Long Walk - a true story of a trek to freedom

Robert Hughes

Fatal Shore - The Epic of Australia's founding

Travel:

Jeffrey Tayler

Siberian dawn: a journey across the new Russia - r

River of no reprieve: descending Siberia's waterway of exile, death, and destiny - r

Angry Wind: through Muslim black Africa by truck, bus, boat, and camel - r

 

Paul Theroux

The Great Railway Bazaar - 1975 - read sometime 

Riding the Iron Rooster: by train through China - 1988 - R

Dark Star Safari - 2002 - read sometime

 

 

 

 

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Books to look for at the library

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Aviation Classics) (Hardcover)
by Ted W. Lawson (Author), Peter B. Mersky (Author) "I HELPED BOMB TOKYO on the Doolittle raid of April 18, 1942..."

City of Thieves by David Benioff, recommended by Susan

Disclosure  by Michael Crichton - suggested by Dave

The amazing story of Sergeant Jacob DeShazer
by C. Hoyt Watson [not at tppl, u of a, nor pima college]

Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

The Color of Water by James McBride

Horatio Hornblower series – during Napoleonic Wars

 

Allan Folsom – The Day after Tomorrow

Gunter Grass – The Tin Drum - This novel is the first book of Grass' Danziger Trilogie (Danzig Trilogy)

Mary Kingsle – Travels in West Africa

Andrew Eames – The 8:55 to Bagdad

Helen Whybrow – Dead Reckoning

Wendy Orr – Peeling the Onion

Xx – The Tim Drum

 

David Baldacci – The Camel Club – 2005 – check to see if this is a series

David Baldacci -  The Collectors

David Baldacci - Stone Cold

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Grace –Read it Again author suggestions:

Greg Lies

Jeff Abbot

Dale Brown

Vince Flynn – ask Dave

Clive Cussler

Lawrence block = has several series