Description and Suggestions

[Anne]

This folder is for the last book written by an author who is now dead. Deceased. Not living.

Don't look at me - this was the top vote getter during the selection of this year's categories! It's sure to be very interesting.

Share your suggestions or any resources you've used to help select your book for this category in this thread.

[Anne]

Looking for some dead authors? These folks have quite a nice list going. Your'e on your own figuring out which book is their last, however...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dea...

[Amanda]

I have decided to read Ann Rule since she died this August and I have read several of her books. "Lying in Wait and other True Cases was her last book published book in 2015.

[Natália]

I'm going with Agatha Christie for this one!

[Martha]

I Googled "Author who died in 2015" and got a list of authors. I'm thinking I'll go with Ivan Doig's last book, Last Bus to Wisdom.

[Stephanie]

I might go with Tom Clancy's last novel Command Authority

[Amy Beth]

I think I'm going to go with The Love of the Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

[Teresa]

Jane Austen's last book, Persuasion

[Frogli]

I have Persuasion sitting on my bookshelf making me feel guilty for not reading it so maybe I'll try that if I can't think of anything else :)

[Sam F]

I was so sad to hear about Henning Mankell as I loved his Wallander series. I may try to find his last books, but if not, I was thinking of reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

[Valerie]

Natália wrote: "I'm going with Agatha Christie for this one!"

I too am going to be using Sleeping Murder...the book published after her death.

[Melissa]

Sam F wrote: "I was so sad to hear about Henning Mankell as I loved his Wallander series. I may try to find his last books, but if not, I was thinking of reading [book:The Guernsey Literary and Po..."

LOVED The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society!!!

[Melissa]

Jackie Collins Santangelos. If you love Hollywood and drama

[Margo]

Sam F wrote: "I was so sad to hear about Henning Mankell as I loved his Wallander series. I may try to find his last books, but if not, I was thinking of reading [book:The Guernsey Literary and Po..."

I found Guernsey uneven and a little silly in places. Not my favorite, but just an opinion. On the other hand has a kernel of interesting information about a corner of England that the Nazi did occupy and determination to fool them.

[Ann-Marie]

I´ll read Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald who died in december 2001.

[Carolin]

I think I'm going to read South African author's André Brink's last book, Philida. He died about a year ago, and the book has been sitting on my shelf ever since it was longlisted for the booker...

[Melissa]

Amanda wrote: "I have decided to read Ann Rule since she died this August and I have read several of her books. "Lying in Wait and other True Cases was her last book published book in 2015."

Great suggestion! Thanks! I might read this as well.

[Margo]

S is for Space, Ray Bradbury.
I have always loved Bradbury, so this will be a good one for me.

[Margo]

Anne wrote: "Looking for some dead authors? These folks have quite a nice list going. Your'e on your own figuring out which book is their last, however...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dea..."

I liked that resource. I found that they do list in order for some authors.

[Peabody]

Natália wrote: "I'm going with Agatha Christie for this one!"

That's who I thought of I tried to figure out her last novel but I couldn't. I am guessing I didn't look hard enough.
Do you know what it is?

[Amy Beth]

Christina wrote: "Natália wrote: "I'm going with Agatha Christie for this one!"

That's who I thought of I tried to figure out her last novel but I couldn't. I am guessing I didn't look hard enough.
Do you know wha..."

Her last book seems to be her autobiography (though published 2 years after her death). Her last novel seems to be Sleeping Murder, though it was written in the 1940s.

Here's where I got all of that information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_...

[Peabody]

Ian wrote: "I have just picked up 'Death Comes to Pemberley' by PD James. This was her last novel before her death in 2014."

Thank you!!

[Teresa]

I I was contemplating Saul Bellow's Ravelstein, or The Brothers Karamazov but seeing other choices here, I think I have Persuasion in my Kindle......

[Teresa]

@Sam F, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is delightful. Amongst the best reads of 2015 for me. Thoroughly enjoyable. And it has inspired me to take an Easter break in the island, as I've never been!

[Kristin]

Currently reading Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie.

[Teresa]

I'm going with Octavia Butler, Fledgling

[Mary Sue]

I read Reveries of the Solitary Walker for this task.

[Xandy]

I love Michael Crichton but never read his two posthumously published books! I will probably read Micro and Pirate Latitudes for this.

[Thomas]

I've planned on reading The Quarry by Iain Banks.

[Ned]

I went with Flannery O'Connor's posthumously published book of short stories: Everything That Rises Must Converge. Rather depressing but extremely beautiful (it also happens to have a really lovely cover!)