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Master of suspense and the details of criminal activity with great quirky characters. Began with The Butcher's Boy and Metzger's Dog, really hit a great stride with a series of novels featuring a Seneca Indian woman who helps people in trouble "disappear." (Jane Whitefield is the name of...

I am very pleased with this new Bruce Sterling offering. He has reached a new level of character development while weaving his politics more keenly into the story. He correctly identifies 9/11/2001 as a turning point in the US in terms of economics as well as security and shines a light on the...

Somehow seeing "Sci-Fi" makes me cringe a bit. Some of us old-timers like to make a distinction, purely out of snobbery and a feeling of superioity no doubt, that SF doesn't need a nickname ... SF = Clarke, Heinlein, Card, Niven, Asimov Sci-Fi= L. Ron Hubbard, Alan Dean Foster, Jack Chalker...

Doesn't seem like we have a favorites list in this forum, so give us your best representative horror novels: 1. Dracula (Stoker) 2. 'salem's lot (King) 3. The Shining (King) 4. Interview with the Vampire (Rice) 5. The Great and Secret Show (Barker) Hmmm. Three of them are vampire...

Here's a great team of horror/thriller writers, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, who keep getting better with each story. Beginning with The Relic and sequel Reliquary, they combine a Crichton-type expertise with a Dean Koontz style of characterizations, with various characters finding...

I just did a search in this forum for Chandler and Hammett and got a blank! :eek: :eek: :eek: :mad: These are the masters! Terrific writers! Chandler wrote a wonderful pastiche of Jane Austen with a short story in "The Simple Art of Murder" that shows just how strong a stylist he...

Another "type" of nonfiction category for gathering recommended books. As I mentioned on the "Do You Read ..." thread, I seem to have this curiousity about tragic events. Mentioned Sebastion Junger's The Perfect Storm as an example. Another book that I found haunting was To Sleep with the Angels...

I thought it might be better to put up a thread dedicated to a type of nonfiction and start with titles culled from the "What do you read?" thread ... If I missed any, please feel feel to add, to comment, or recommend other titles. Outdoor Adventure Into Thin Air by Rob Krakauer and The...

Not that quantity is a measure of quality, but Parker has a lot of Spenser novels out there and they are of such consistent quality that you have to admire them for that if nothing else. The humor is handled well and the mysteries are quite good. Spenser has a solid supporting cast and crackling...

Just noticed there's another new Mallory novel out, Winter House.Anyone else a big fan? O'Connell has literary flair with a wonderful cast of characters led by Kathleen Mallory, a truly original and intriguing character, a mystery who continues to unfold as she solves mysteries. Combines social...

Props to David Brin, particularly to his running series about the Uplift. I love the idea of dolphins and chimps brought to sentience and the aliens he devised for the Brightness Reef trilogy. Brin has such talent to run complex plots and characters through excellent scientific extrapolations...

I was quite fortunate in actually having a small hand in publishing John Barnes's first novel, The Man Who Brought Down the Sky. He was hailed at that time as another Heinlein, which is great praise but also limiting and hard to live up to. He has done very well and has a number of terrific...

With more than thirty novels, Dave Duncan is a well-established writer of fantasy novels. Master of extended stories: "A Man of His Word" (includes The Magic Casement) and "A Handful of Men," he has also created a series of stand-alone novels that share the world of "The King's Blades" (The...