CRIME FICTION ALPHABET JOURNEY - 2013

A web photo - not my actual books. Mine are more dis-organised!

More for my own amusement than for any other reason, I have pulled all my entries together below.

26 weeks, 26 letters, 150 authors, 150 books, at the time of posting I had read 67 of them and 83 were unread, though in the mean-time I have read a further 2 of them.....go me!

2 letters were under-represented on the basis that I was trying to highlight 6 selections weekly from my shelves past and present. At one point I used to keep all my books, but that has sort of become impractical, so now I read and get rid if I can. The I's with 4 and the X's with 2 failed me. Somehow there just doesn't seem to be enough hard-boiled or noir Chinese crime fiction authors translated into English.

There were 16 female author entries and 134 male, enough said!

Approximately 90-odd entries were for US authors, 26 or so English, 7 Irish, and a smattering of South African, Australian, French, Scottish, Welsh and a couple of Chinese. Single entries for Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Holland, Germany and perhaps Belize and New Zealand depending on the author's preferred nationality.  

The heavy bias to male written crime originating from the US, probably accurately reflects my reading preferences. You like what you like!




A's ENJOYED, A's UNREAD

B's ENJOYED, B's UNREAD

C's ENJOYED, C's UNREAD

D's ENJOYED, D ENDURED, D's UNREAD

E's ENJOYED, E ENDURED, E's UNREAD

F's ENJOYED, F's UNREAD

G's ENJOYED, G's UNREAD

H's ENJOYED, H's UNREAD

I's UNREAD, I's ENJOYED

J's UNREAD, J's ENJOYED

K's ENJOYED, K's UNREAD

L's ENJOYED, L's UNREAD

M's ENJOYED, M's UNREAD

N's ENJOYED, N's UNREAD

O's ENJOYED, O's UNREAD

P's ENJOYED, P's UNREAD

Q's ENJOYED, Q's UNREAD

R's ENJOYED, R's UNREAD

S's ENJOYED, S's UNREAD

T's ENJOYED, T's UNREAD

U ENJOYED, U's UNREAD

V's ENJOYED, V's UNREAD

W's ENJOYED, W's UNREAD

X's UNREAD

Y's UNREAD

Z's ENJOYED, Z's UNREAD