Cozy Mysteries discussion

BASIC LEVEL (40)

[ x ] A book recommended by a librarian...The Painted Veil, w. somerst Maugham...01.04.2017
[ ] A book that's been on your TBR list for way too long
[ ] A book of letters
[ x ] An audiobook...A Wee Murder in My Shop, fran stewart...01.06.2017
[ ] A book by a person of color

[X] A book with one of the four seasons in the title...Winter Garden, Kristin Hannah...05.24.2017
[ ] A book that is a story within a story
[ ] A book with multiple authors *
[ ] An espionage thriller
[X ] A book with a cat on the cover (Gee, this is a tough one for cozy mystery readers!)...The Chocolate Cat Caper, JoAnna Curl...06.16.2017

[ X ] A book by an author who uses a pseudonym...Apprentice in Death, J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts)...03.03.2017
[ ] A bestseller from a genre you don't normally read
[ X ] A book by or about a person who has a disability...Me Before You, Jojo Moyes...04.18.2017
[ ] A book involving travel
[ ] A book with a subtitle

[ X ] A book that's published in 2017...Eleventh Grave in Moonlight, darynda jones...03.01.2017
[X ] A book involving a mythical creature...Wickedly Wonderful, deborah blake...01.20.2017
[ ] A book you've read before that never fails to make you smile
[ X ] A book about food...A Decadent Way to Die, g.a. mckevett...03.05.2017
[X] A book with career advice...Haunt Couture and Ghosts Galore, rose pressey...02.12.2017
[ ] A book from a nonhuman perspective
[ X ] A steampunk novel...Incarceron, Catherine Fisher...06.15.2017
[ X ] A book with a red spine , alan bradley...01.24.2017
[ ] A book set in the wilderness
[ ] A book you loved as a child

[X ] A book by an author from a country you've never visited...A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman...01.30.2017 (Sweden)
[ ] A book with a title that's a character's name
[ ] A novel set during wartime
[ ] A book with an unreliable narrator
[X ] A book with pictures The Last Camel Died at Noon, elizabeth peters...01.18.2017

[ ] A book where the main character is a different ethnicity than you
[ X ] A book about an interesting woman...One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, Jim Fergus...04.20.2017
[ ] A book set in two different time periods
[ ] A book with a month or day of the week in the title
[ ] A book set in a hotel

[ ] A book written by someone you admire
[ ] A book that's becoming a movie in 2017
[ ] A book set around a holiday other than Christmas
[ ] The first book in a series you haven't read before
[ X ] A book you bought on a trip...The Skeleton Haunts a House, leigh perry...01.15.2017

ADVANCED (12)

[ ] A book recommended by an author you love
[ X ] A bestseller from 2016...Turbo Twenty-Three, janet evanovich...01.10.2017
[ ] A book with a family member term in the title
[ ] A book that takes place over a character's life span
[X ] A book about an immigrant or refugee...For the Love of Mike, rhys bowen...02.01.2017

[ ] A book from a genre/subgenre you've never heard of
[ ] A book with an eccentric character
[ ] A book that's more than 800 pages
[ ] A book you got from a used book sale
[ ] A book that's been mentioned in another book

[ ] A book about a difficult topic (open to your interpretation of "difficult")
[ X ] A book based on mythology...Gameboard of the Gods, richelle mead...03.15.2017



* This can be a collaboration between two or more authors à la James Patterson/any author, Mary Higgins Clark/Carol Higgins Clark or MHC/Alifair Burke, Iris Johansen and son, etc. -- or an anthology (collection of stories by multiple authors in one book).