Sixty-eight authors, editors, agents and critics responded to this year's poll, producing a diversity of favorite books that was quite impressive. The majority of the 200+ selections were unique, with only a handful showing up on more than one person's list.
Here are those books that did appear multiple times:
7 picks:
- James Lee Burke - The Tin Roof Blowdown
5 picks:
- Laura Lippman - What the Dead Know
4 picks:
- Lee Child - Bad Luck and Trouble
- Charlie Huston - The Shotgun Rule
3 picks:
- Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen's Union (plus 1 pick for The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay)
- John Connolly - The Unquiet (plus 1 pick for Bad Men)
- Gillian Flynn - Sharp Objects
- Cormac McCarthy - The Road
2 picks:
- Linwood Barclay - No Time For Goodbye
- Elise Blackwell - Grub
- Toni McGee Causey - Bobbie Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day
- Colin Cotterill - Anarchy and Old Dogs
- Robert Crais - The Watchman (plus 1 pick for L.A. Requiem)
- Judith Freeman - The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
- Al Guthrie - Hard Man
- Robert Harris - The Ghost
- Craig McDonald - Head Games
- Marcus Sakey - The Blade Itself
- Jeremy Scahill - Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
- Peter Spiegelman - Red Cat
There was also more than 1 pick for:
- Ken Bruen: 1 pick for Priest and 1 for Blitz
- Joseph Finder: 1 pick for Power Play and 1 for Killer Instinct
- Joe Hill: 1 pick for 20th Century Ghosts and 1 for Heart-Shaped Box
- Donald E. Westlake: 1 pick for The Mercenaries and 1 for What's So Funny?
- Daniel Woodrell: 1 pick for Winter's Bone and 1 for Tomato Red
Thanks to everyone for playing! We'll probably do it again next year.
Aha! I havent read some of these yet.
Posted by: KarenGreene | February 03, 2010 at 03:07 AM
Hi,
I have read "The time for Good bye" and "Sharp objects" and I can say that both books are really amazing. Thanks for the list I will definitely buy them.
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