I read mysteries all the time.

Sue Grafton
Marcia Muller
Kathy Reichs
JD Robb (who is Nora Roberts)
Patricia Cornwall (although I don't really like her most recent books)
John Sandford
Jonathan Kellerman
Faye Kellerman
Robert B. Parker (the Spencer novels, the Jesse Stone novels, the Sunny Randall novels)
Kathy Hogan Trochek

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I have dozens of them, just can't think of the names right now.

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Oh, now and then I like me some mystery / thriller / crime / potboiler. My faves are Dennis Lehane, Nicci French, Walter Mosley... but my hardboiled heart belongs to Raymond Chandler, no contest at all ;).

I LOVE Sue Grafton. Too bad her books take forever to come out.

Some of my favorite authors CLive Cussler, Tom Clancy, Jonathan Kellerman. I am currently reading Sahara by Clive Cussler. What next i do not know whatever jumps off the shelf at me.

Ooh .. I forgot about Denis Lehane. Love his stuff.

I used to like Clive Cussler, but his books lately hve become very formulaic, IMO.

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Thanks Another...I will try and catch it tonight!

I've started reading a series by JOanne Fluke, the Hannah Swenson series. They are cute murder mysteries, but with receipes, the main character owns a cookie shop. And I love Nora Roberts.
I tried to read the Historian, whoever said they were reading that, and it seemed really good, but it was scaring me!! I am such a dork, and I was living alone (my DH was in Egypt playing Army) and I was having to sleep with the bathroom light on!! I think I'll get it back from my mom now that he's home!!

Maggie

Ooh, be prepared to cry! It's worth the read though, I really enjoyed it.

If anyone's a science nerd like me, check out A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. I'm about 100 pages in and it's fascinating and also pretty funny. :)

In terms of mysteries, I'm gonna have to go with Agatha Christie. The Mysterious Mr. Quin is my all-time favorite book.

I sooooooooo wanted to read those!!!! I always thinking about picking one up at the bookstore but I never do, lol. What is the first one called?

right now i am reading bob harpers book Are you ready!

I have heard of a lot of the books and authors mentioned in this thread, but never read them. Now I want to!! Definitely I always hear of Sue Grafton and Patricia Cornwell. If so many of you like them, I will try them.

Right now I am just starting Ken Follet's "Pillars of the Earth". He's an author I've always liked, but I never read this one. It was an Oprah pick I think a year ago.

I don't know which is the first one, but the latest (I think) is Carrot Cake Murder, and somewhere else in the series there's a Chocolate Chip Murder

justkeepswimming, the Bryson book is great (also read Made in America and The Mother Tongue)

I just finished this book and LOVED it...I was sad when it was over. I get really attached to characters, especially when the book is long. I am waiting for someone to pass me on the next one. It's supposed to be about 1000 pages.

I am now reading Around the House and In the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement by Dominique Browning. It's a small little book and I will be done it tonight. It only took me 2 days to read it.

I finally read The Wizard of OZ. As many times as I have seen that movie and yet I never read the book. Which in a lot of way is quite different.

I am also trying to finish, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy. This is taking me a while. I can read a couple of chapters but then I have to stop. It is not a hard book by any means. It is just really silly. With made up things and made up words at times. It is like trying to learn math from the beginning, if that makes sense.

I am also about the start reading Little Women because I have seen the movie but not read the book.

I am trying to get myself to read some of the "classics" that everyone gasps over when I tell them I haven't read them yet. Oh well, I will get there eventually! :D