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"What should I read next, LB?"
"I've just finished the Keller series. Any suggestions as to what to read next?"
A fellow tweeted this to me earlier today. The timing was interesting, in that I had just finished proofreading a fifth Keller book prior to submitting copies to my agent and editor. If all goes well, HIT ME should be forthcoming from Mulholland Books sometime in 2012.
But I'd hate for my tweep to go that long without something to read—or, even worse, to be reduced to reading books by other writers.
And the question he's raised is interesting, and addressing it might be useful all around. I've written a daunting number of books over an equally daunting number of years. Many of them are in print, many are readily obtained from out-of-print booksellers—and now, mirabile dictu, a veritable slew of them are newly eVailable as eBooks. A glance at the About LB's Fiction page will show you more titles than you can shake a stick at, tempted though you well may be.
Owing to either a versatile imagination or a low boredom threshold, the books in my body of work vary considerably. While I might contrive to love them all impartially, some of you will like some of them more than others.
So how to choose? Especially among all the new old titles that have become available again. Well, let me offer some suggestions:
MATTHEW SCUDDER
If you're a fan of the Scudder series, you've got seventeen books to work your way through, from The Sins of the Fathers (1975) to A Drop of the Hard Stuff (2011). (And don't forget the eighteenth, the collected Matthew Scudder stories, just published as The Night and the Music.
An early novel, After the First Death, can be seen as a precursor to the Scudder series, in that it examines alcoholism. (The lead character, Alex Penn, killed a Times Square streetwalker in a drunken blackout—unless he was framed for it.)
Scudder's New York is the subject of Small Town, a big multiple-viewpoint novel set in the city during the aftermath of 9/11. While many of my books are set in New York, it's a very different city in the Scudder books than in, say, the Bernie Rhodenbarr novels. The city in Small Town is one Scudder would recognize...
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A fellow tweeted this to me earlier today. The timing was interesting, in that I had just finished proofreading a fifth Keller book prior to submitting copies to my agent and editor. If all goes well, HIT ME should be forthcoming from Mulholland Books sometime in 2012.
But I'd hate for my tweep to go that long without something to read—or, even worse, to be reduced to reading books by other writers.
And the question he's raised is interesting, and addressing it might be useful all around. I've written a daunting number of books over an equally daunting number of years. Many of them are in print, many are readily obtained from out-of-print booksellers—and now, mirabile dictu, a veritable slew of them are newly eVailable as eBooks. A glance at the About LB's Fiction page will show you more titles than you can shake a stick at, tempted though you well may be.
Owing to either a versatile imagination or a low boredom threshold, the books in my body of work vary considerably. While I might contrive to love them all impartially, some of you will like some of them more than others.
So how to choose? Especially among all the new old titles that have become available again. Well, let me offer some suggestions:
MATTHEW SCUDDER
If you're a fan of the Scudder series, you've got seventeen books to work your way through, from The Sins of the Fathers (1975) to A Drop of the Hard Stuff (2011). (And don't forget the eighteenth, the collected Matthew Scudder stories, just published as The Night and the Music.
An early novel, After the First Death, can be seen as a precursor to the Scudder series, in that it examines alcoholism. (The lead character, Alex Penn, killed a Times Square streetwalker in a drunken blackout—unless he was framed for it.)
Scudder's New York is the subject of Small Town, a big multiple-viewpoint novel set in the city during the aftermath of 9/11. While many of my books are set in New York, it's a very different city in the Scudder books than in, say, the Bernie Rhodenbarr novels. The city in Small Town is one Scudder would recognize...
Click here to read the rest...
http://tinyurl.com/7ww85pj
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