Mystery/Thriller Reading Friends discussion

Top M/T’s

1 - Tie: (3 votes each)
The Silent Wife - Karin Slaughter
Troubled Blood - Robert Galbraith

2 - Tie: (2 votes each)
The Law of Innocence - Michael Connelly
Long Bright River - Liz Moore*
Gone by Midnight - Candace Fox
Hid From Our Eyes, Julia Spencer-Fleming

*someone listed Long Bright River as Top Book any Genre, so that would give it 3 votes

Top Authors

1 - Michael Connelly (4 votes)

2 - Tie: (3 votes each)
John Sandford
Louise Penny
Robert Galbraith

3 - Tie: (2 votes each)
Julia Spencer-Fleming

Top Series

1 - Tie: (4 votes each)
Lucas Davenport -- John Sandford
Harry Bosch - Michael Connelly

2 - (3 votes each)
Virgil Flowers -- John Sandford
Three Pines/Chief Inspector Armand Gamache -- Louise Penny
Cormoran Strike -- Robert Galbraith

3 - Joe Pickett -- CJ Box (2 votes)

Top Books, Any Genre

1 - Peace Talks by Jim Butcher (2 votes)


Top NTM (New to Me) Authors

Just a handful of entries, no multiples.

Bottom of the Barrel

Just a handful of entries, no multiples. Which I guess is a good thing!

Summary

Thanks to the ten of us who posted our top reads: Barry, Bonnie, Dan, Gladys, Sandi, Melodie, Sherry, Shomeret, Ann, and moi. Down from 14 last year; wonder why that was? Welcome to new poster this year, Gladys!

Lots of great books got one mention, but as Dan suggested one year I won’t list them all here. I encourage folks to go back to the original thread if you’re looking for other recommendations.

Once again, keep up the good (reads) work and I look forward to seeing what we all read in 2021!

Thanks for compiling the results Carol! There are some other terrific recommendations in the individual lists found here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

thanks for doing this, carol. i'm behind on the candice fox books- still have to read redemption point. all those lovely ARCs i get from work get in the way of reading the books on my book shelves, not that I'm complaining..lol

Yes, Carol, thanks for your work on this! I’ve just realized that I never did post my favorites this year. My faves would have included Louise Penny for series or author, and I would have voted for Long Bright River and Gone by Midnight.

Another group read that was on my top 2020 list was The Glass Hotel.

I will attempt to do better at responding next year. :-)

Thank you Carol! I usually participate, but totally forgot about it.

Great job as always.

Thanks for compiling the list Carol!

It is always fun to see everyone's choices.

Thank you for your efforts. You can see on a monthly basis that our interests are broad. Makes it hard to come together on a 'best of' list.

Barry: good point! And timing factors in too. Some of us get new releases read slower or sooner, sometimes putting them in two different years of compiled results.
Barry wrote: "Thank you for your efforts. You can see on a monthly basis that our interests are broad. Makes it hard to come together on a 'best of' list."

Ann wrote: "Barry: good point! And timing factors in too. Some of us get new releases read slower or sooner, sometimes putting them in two different years of compiled results.
Barry wrote: "Thank you for your..."

You are right, Ann. I noticed that a couple of my top reads were on the previous year's list.

Barry wrote: "Thank you for your efforts. You can see on a monthly basis that our interests are broad. Makes it hard to come together on a 'best of' list."

Our interests *are* broad, and some folks' books never make the compilation list because their interests are so wide. But we seems to always land on the same top series and M/T authors.

I usually don’t include favorite authors or series in my lists unless I’ve read at least one book by the author that year.

Dan: I try to stick to listing series that I read during the year too.
Luckily plenty of new books by favorite authors in most years.

Dan in AZ wrote: "I usually don’t include favorite authors or series in my lists unless I’ve read at least one book by the author that year."

Thanks, Carol!

Dan in AZ wrote: "I usually don’t include favorite authors or series in my lists unless I’ve read at least one book by the author that year."

it almost seems that our favorite authors don't change from year to year. Carol, can you check that?

Sherry wrote: "Dan in AZ wrote: "I usually don’t include favorite authors or series in my lists unless I’ve read at least one book by the author that year."

it almost seems that our favorite authors don't change..."

I think they do change slightly but not much. One of our top authors (Sandford) puts out a book every year, so that doesn't help, LOL. When I get a minute I'll go back and compare years, and you can too Sherry since they're all here in the Best of thread! ;-)

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Top M/T’s

1 - Tie: (3 votes each)
The Silent Wife - Karin Slaughter
Troubled Blood - Robert Galbraith

2 - Tie: (2 votes each)
The Law of Innocence - Michael Connelly
Long Bright River - Liz Moore..."

Thanks for posting this! I've been checking, but in a confused way looking for 2021.

Great job on these lists

Trevor: they are a lot of fun to do!
Trevor wrote: "Great job on these lists"