I've seen it in your eyes And I've read it in books

OK, round three, and this could and should be a biggie. Crime. I read a lot of crime fiction. Tons in fact. Although not all of it would probably be construed as literary. So, maybe I won't do as well as I think.

Anyway, here goes.

Read
John Buchan - The Thirty Nine Steps
Patricia Cornwell - Postmortem
Brett Easton Ellis - American Psycho
Ian Fleming - Casino Royale
Ian Fleming - Goldfinger
Ian Fleming - You Only Live Twice
Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
Stephen King - Misery
Johnathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn
Walter Mosely - Devil In A Blue Dress
Sara Paretksy - Toxic Shock
Sara Paretksy - Blacklist
John Steinbeck - Of Mice And Men
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Jim Thompson - The Getaway
Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Affair At Styles
Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie - The Secret Adversary
Agatha Christie - The Murder At The Vicarage
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Study In Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
Michael Dibdin - Ratking
Michael Dibdin - Vendetta
Michael Dibdin - Dirty Tricks
James Ellroy - LA Confidential
James Ellroy - The Big Nowhere

Still On Shelves
Wilkie Collins - The Woman In White
Wilkie Collins - Moonstone
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
Frederick Forsyth - The Day of the Jackal
Dashiell Hammet - The Glass Key
Partricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train
Graham Greene - The Ministry of Fear
Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird

Books I Started And Got Most Of The Way Through But Just Could Not Get To The End
Peter Hoeg - Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

So quite a lot read in crime then. However, there are still some oddities. I am a huge Christie fan, but cannot fathom why they chose The Secret Adversary. And why on earth was The Black Dahlia not on there (I agree with the other two Ellroys, but it seems an odd omission). And to only choose one Jim Thompson is just criminal. There are so many to choose from and the man is a genius. Still, I am glad to see that Sara Paretsky made the list. She is probably the only contemporary writer today in the genre whose new books I genuinely look forward to reading.

27 crime novels in total, taking me up to 41.