State of the Blog: Part Two, the Authors

Four times a year, I do a review of the books I've read so far.  In January, that review covers all the books I read the last calendar year.

This is the second of my quarterly blog assessment posts.  This one takes a look at my author lists over in the right-hand column. The first part addressed my lists. Part Three will deal with the challenges I joined this year.

NOTE: If you are systematically reading the books of any of these authors, please leave a comment here or on the post for the author's list (click on the title below or in the right-hand column) and leave a link to any related post. I will add the links on the author's list post.

I recently split my author list into two parts: General favorites and Mystery favorites.  See here for discussion.

In 2011, I read 40 books by my favorite authors.  For the list of all 116 books I read in 2011, go here.

GENERAL FAVORITES

Kingsley Amis

• The Crime of the Century
• The Anti-Death League(reviewed here; a Burgess favorite; read for the Birth Year Reading Challenge.

Maeve Binchy

• Evening Class (1996)

William Boyd

• Brazzaville Beach (reviewed here; read for my 2011 Battle of the Prizes, British Version, challenge);
• Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960 (reviewed here) 

Nick Hornby

• Shakespeare Wrote for Money

Elinor Lipman

• Then She Found Me

David Lodge 

• Therapy (reviewed here)

Ian McEwan

• Solar

Philip Roth

• The Human Stain (reviewed here)

C. P. Snow

• George Passant (originally titled Strangers and Brothers) (reviewed here)

Anne Tyler

• Breathing Lessons (reviewed here; read for my 2011 Battle of the Prizes, American Version challenge)

John Updike

• Beck: A Book (reviewed here)

P. G. Wodehouse

• The Indiscretions of Archie; 
• The Girl on the Boat

MYSTERY FAVORITES

Kate Atkinson

• When Will There Be Good News?
• Started Early, Took My Dog (reviewed here)

Lee Child

• Gone Tomorrow
• 61 Hours 
• Worth Dying For (reviewed here)

Dick Francis

• 10 Lb. Penalty
• Bolt
• Banker (reviewed here)
• Knockdown
• Break In
• Decider

P. D. James

• A Mind to Murder
• Unnatural Causes
• An Unsuitable Job for a Woman 
  

Donna Leon

• Death in a Strange Country

John Lescroart

• A Plague of Secrets (reviewed here);
• Treasure Hunt

Helen MacInnes

• The Hidden Target

Ian Rankin

• Strip Jack
• Knots and Crosses
• Hide and Seek
• Tooth and Nail 
  

Dorothy L. Sayers

• Clouds of Witness (reviewed here)
• Unnatural Death 

Julia Spencer-Fleming

• One Was a Soldier (2009) (reviewed here)