Monday 11 January 2016

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART SIXTY-THREE

Another week, another tub.......
Mixing it up colour-wise!

David Whitehouse, Ross MacDonald, Joseph Conrad, Mark Mills, Alex Berenson, 

Jo Nesbo, Michael Malone, Donald Westlake, Joseph O'Connor, Daniel Woodrell,

Standalone Westlake novel.

Geoffrey Household, Martin Amis, Jess Mowry, Daniel Woodrell, Cass Pennant,

Oakland - crime fiction!
 The thirteen-year-old Corbitt Wainwright's adolescence is abruptly cut short when his father is imprisoned for attacking a white man.  Tragically, dreams of success through good grades and hard work are wiped aside as white society shows him, out of both kindness and malice, that poor black kids in Mississippi don't have much of a hand in creating their own destinies.  Refusing to accept this allotted role, and after a deadly confrontation with his father's accuser, Corbitt sets out for California, the land of opportunity and racial equality. Upon his arrival in West Oakland, a whole other world awaits.  This is a world populated by gangs and crack dealers, violent cops and street kids, and one where the future seems even bleaker than it does back at home.  Against the odds, he helps some of the local homeboys overcome one of their many predators and discovers the power of his African heritage.  Finally, he learns to trust his own strength.

Filled with a remarkably diverse cast of characters and written with gut-wrenching immediacy, cutting-edge street slang, and a haunting lyricism, Six Out Seven is a brutally honest novel about what it means to be a black teenager in America today.

Daniel Woodrell - a favourite author!

30s novel.

John Sandford, Edward Bunker, Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, Eugene Izzi,

Charles Bukowski, James R. Benn, Patrick Conrad, Walter Mosley, Sean Hughes,

WWII mystery - I think!

Patrick Conrad - Belgium!

Bukowski - poetry, stories and essays - I hope!

Benjamin Black, Dave Pelzer, T. Jefferson Parker, Massimo Carlotto, Chuck Hogan/Guilermo Del Toro,

Charlie Hood series book!

Italian crime!
Mark Berent, Ed McBain, James Grady, Richard Price, Bernard Cornwell,

Six Days of the Condor author - James Grady!

John Hart, Mark Haskell Smith, Joe R. Lansdale, Maureen Carter, Safraz Manzoor,

Maureen carter - series starter!

Hap and Leonard book.

Mark Haskell Smith - a few laughs guaranteed!

Memoir of a Pakistani journalist growing up in Luton - the town where I grew up!

Philip Kerr, Gerald Seymour, John Sandford, Richard Godwin, Greg Rucka,

Lucas Davenport - series book!

Richard Godwin!

Atticus Kodiac series book.

Nathanael West - 4-fer!

Spy master standalone!

Post-logging look - decanted and back to blue!

HIGHLIGHTS..... Edward Bunker (re-read), Joe R. Lansdale, Massimo Carlotto, Daniel Woodrell, Carl Hiaasen,

LOWLIGHTS....... the Michael Malone series isn't crying out to me now, but I might enjoy it, not sure how Bernard Cornwell got into the tubs either!

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:



AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES
AMIS MARTIN SUCCESS 1978
BARRY DAVE BIG TROUBLE 1999
BENN JAMES R. BILLY BOYLE 2006 BB1
BERENSON ALEX THE SHADOW PATROL 2012 JW6
BERENT MARK ROLLING THUNDER 1989
BLACK BENJAMIN THE SILVER SWAN 2007 Q2
BUKOWSKI CHARLES BETTING ON THE MUSE 1996
BUNKER EDWARD MR BLUE 1999
CARLOTTO MASSIMO BANDIT LOVE 2010 A3
CARTER MAUREEN WORKING GIRLS 2001 BM1
CONRAD PATRICK LIMOUSINE 1999
CONRAD JOSEPH THE NIGGER OF THE NARCISSUS 1897
CORNWELL BERNARD SHARPE'S REGIMENT 1986 S17
DEL TORO/HOGAN GUILLERMO/CHUCK THE STRAIN 2009 ST1
GODWIN RICHARD ONE LOST SUMMER 2013
GRADY JAMES MAD DOGS 2006
HART JOHN DOWN RIVER 2007
HIAASEN CARL STRIP TEASE 1993
HOUSEHOLD GEOFFREY ROGUE MALE 1939 RM1
HUGHES SEAN THE DETAINESS 1997
IZZI EUGENE TRIBAL SECRETS 1992
KERR PHILIP THE SHOT 1999
LANSDALE JOE R. BAD CHILI 1997 HC+LP4
LE CARRE JOHN THE NIGHT MANAGER 1993
MACDONALD ROSS THE MOVING TARGET 1949 LA1
MALONE MICHAEL FIRST LADY 2001 S+M3
MANZOOR SAFRAZ GREETINGS FROM BURY PARK 2007 N
McBAIN ED KILLER'S WEDGE 1958 87P7
MILLS MARK THE INFORMATION OFFICER 2009
MOSLEY WALTER ALWAYS OUTNUMBERED, ALWAYS OUTGUNNED 1997 SF1
MOWRY JESS SIX OUT SEVEN 1993
NESBO JO PHANTOM 2012 HH9
O'CONNOR JOSEPH DESPERADOES 1994
PARKER T. JEFFERSON IRON RIVER 2009 CH3
PELZER DAVE THE LOST BOY 1997 LB2
PENNANT CASS TOP BOYS 2005
PRICE RICHARD THE BREAKS 1983
RUCKA GREG SHOOTING AT MIDNIGHT 1998 AK4
SANDFORD JOHN BURIED PREY 2011 LD21
SANDFORD JOHN STORM PREY 2010 LD20
SEYMOUR GERALD AT CLOSE QUARTERS 1987
SMITH MARK HASKELL SALTY 2007
WEST NATHANAEL THE DAY OF THE LOCUST 1939
WEST NATHANAEL MISS LONELYHEARTS 1933
WEST NATHANAEL A COOL MILLION 1934
WEST NATHANAEL THE DREAM LIFE OF BALSO SNELL 1931
WESTLAKE DONALD THE SPY IN THE OINTMENT 1966
WHITEHOUSE DAVID BED 2011
WOODRELL DANIEL WINTER'S BONE 2006
WOODRELL DANIEL TOMATO RED 1998

10 comments:

  1. You have some great books there, Col. Hiaasen, McBain, Kerr, all of them are terrific. I really hope you'll like the Dave Barry; I thought it was a fun read.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Margot cheers, there's lots to look forward to here.I thought you might pick up on the Dave Barry! He must be due a turn in your spotlight!

      Delete
  2. Woodrell’s country noir novels are very good.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Elgin - agreed, though I haven't picked one of his up for a year or two.

      Delete
  3. Col, is Dave Barry the same guy who wrote a humour column in Miami Herald? I used to read it regularly in the nineties though I haven't read his long works.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Yes, he was/is a newspaper columnist, though I couldn't tell you at which paper. I always used to read Carl Hiaasen's weekly columns back in the day.

      Delete
  4. I love that Nathanael West cover. I have Tomato Red, don't know when I will read it. I read the James R Benn book. It was OK but I have more of the series to try before I give up on it. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood at the time. Mark Mills, The Information Officer. I really liked that one.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I've actually read one of the West's in the book for the Past Offences meme, but I had to buy it on Kindle because I hadn't located my copy. I read the first 20-odd pages of the Benn book when I first got it, I quite liked it but put it aside. I don't have nay more in the series, and no plans to get them either. Mills looks good, but maybe a bit intense - I want some quicker reads at the minute.

      Delete
  5. Not much to excite me there, though I too really enjoyed Dave Barry's columns: he's very funny.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Dave Barry seems to be the headliner for a few people. I might look up his column, assuming he still writes one.

      Delete