Mary Stanton's Blog - Posts Tagged "favorite-books"
Asking what my favorite books are is a lot like answering the question, "How much is an airline ticket?" Plus, it's PERSONAL. My favorite books might bore the pants off some else. I do have a ten Favorite Books of the Month, though; Right now, these are the books I shove at my guests when they come to stay at the farm.
1. STRONG POISON, GAUDY NIGHT and BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON by Dorothy L. Sayers. They are a trilogy of sorts.
2. DISSOLUTION, DARK FIRE, SOVEREIGN, REVELATION by CJ Sansom. This is a panorama of Henry VIII's Tudor England and put the current HBO production to SHAME!
3. DEATH IS NO SPORTSMAN, DEATH WALKS THE WOODS, AN ENGLISH MURDER, TRAGEDY AT LAW, UNTIMELY DEATH and WITH A BARE BODKIN, all by Cyril Hare, who is really somebody else whose name I can't recall. They are brilliant mysteries.
4. Anything by Reginald Hill, except for a few of his pot boilers written as Patrick Ruell. DEATH COMES FOR THE FATMAN, the second from last Daziel and Pascoe novel is particularly wonderful.
5. THE GOLDEN COMPASS, THE AMBER SPYGLASS, and THE SUBTLE KNIFE, by Phillip Pullman
6. BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE, GONE TOMORROW, PERSUADER, THE ENEMY, ONE SHOT, THE HARD WAY...yep, it's Jack Reacher, whom all women adore and all men want for a big brother. Lee Child's work is a guilty pleasure.
7. ANARCHY AND OLD DOS, THE CORONER'S LUNCH, THIRTY-THREE TEETH, DISCO FOR THE DEPARTED, by Colin Cotterill
8. Robert Caro's insanely brilliant, multi-volume biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson. THE MASTER OF THE SENATE is all you need to know about American politics.
9. THE DRUNKARD'S WALK: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow (I had to go retrieve the book from my shelves to spell his name right. Mark Twain said something like: "There are lies, damn lies and statistics." Boy, was he right.
10. Alexander McCall Smith's LADIES #1 DETECTIVE AGENCY--and his Isabel Dalhousie series, set in Edinborough.
1. STRONG POISON, GAUDY NIGHT and BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON by Dorothy L. Sayers. They are a trilogy of sorts.
2. DISSOLUTION, DARK FIRE, SOVEREIGN, REVELATION by CJ Sansom. This is a panorama of Henry VIII's Tudor England and put the current HBO production to SHAME!
3. DEATH IS NO SPORTSMAN, DEATH WALKS THE WOODS, AN ENGLISH MURDER, TRAGEDY AT LAW, UNTIMELY DEATH and WITH A BARE BODKIN, all by Cyril Hare, who is really somebody else whose name I can't recall. They are brilliant mysteries.
4. Anything by Reginald Hill, except for a few of his pot boilers written as Patrick Ruell. DEATH COMES FOR THE FATMAN, the second from last Daziel and Pascoe novel is particularly wonderful.
5. THE GOLDEN COMPASS, THE AMBER SPYGLASS, and THE SUBTLE KNIFE, by Phillip Pullman
6. BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE, GONE TOMORROW, PERSUADER, THE ENEMY, ONE SHOT, THE HARD WAY...yep, it's Jack Reacher, whom all women adore and all men want for a big brother. Lee Child's work is a guilty pleasure.
7. ANARCHY AND OLD DOS, THE CORONER'S LUNCH, THIRTY-THREE TEETH, DISCO FOR THE DEPARTED, by Colin Cotterill
8. Robert Caro's insanely brilliant, multi-volume biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson. THE MASTER OF THE SENATE is all you need to know about American politics.
9. THE DRUNKARD'S WALK: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow (I had to go retrieve the book from my shelves to spell his name right. Mark Twain said something like: "There are lies, damn lies and statistics." Boy, was he right.
10. Alexander McCall Smith's LADIES #1 DETECTIVE AGENCY--and his Isabel Dalhousie series, set in Edinborough.
