Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Welcome to our All-ATY Read-A-Thon! If you need a reminder of the rules (or if you have a question), check out our Introduction and FAQs thread.

We will have five genres of books, and shelf tags that go along with each genre (plus a few freebies, for those of us finishing up monthly challenges). Our goal, as a group, is to cross off as many of these shelf tags as possible by the end of the day next Sunday (April 26th).

For this thread, we have MYSTERIES AND THRILLERS.

THE TAGS

1. thriller - Kellie: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
2. mystery - Kellie: No Good Tea Goes Unpunished by Bree Baker
3. suspense - Kathy: Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
4. psychological-thriller - Laurel: The One I Left Behind by Jennifer McMahon
5. mental-health - Suzanne: Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum by Michael McCreary
6. horror - ZeeJane: The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
7. unreliable-narrator - Trish: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
8. crime - Jo: The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben
9. detective - Roxana: So Pretty a Problem by Francis Duncan
10. drama - Ashley: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
11. legal-thriller - Veronica: A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
12. dark - Laurel: Dark Mountain by Jeff Carson
13. to-buy - Jody: The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk
14. book-of-the-month - Hannah: The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
15. 2017 - Sherri: Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon

As you complete your books, post them here with the title and author, which tag you are choosing to complete (please only choose one), and a brief note about your book (so we can all get recommendations!).

No, you do not have to read a book in each genre for it to count! It only has to have the tag on the book. (For example, you can read any book tagged 2017 to complete that tag... it doesn't have to be a mystery or thriller.)

If you need help finding books, Goodreads has an easy way to see the most popular books on each shelf. Just head to www.goodreads.com/shelf and search for the shelf you're looking for.

I'm reading The Guest List right now and, considering how slow I've been reading it, I'll probably still have 100 pages to go tomorrow.

It fits quite a few categories on here...

- thriller
- mystery
- suspense
- psychological thriller
- crime
- to-buy
- book-of-the-month

I'll probably use it for book-of-the-month if no one else gets to it first... although I have PLENTY of BOTM books to read lol

Still Life by Louise Penny 4/19/2020

Tag: 9. detective (145 people)

28. A book by an Australian, Canadian or New Zealand author
This was an easy mystery to listen to today.

Yay, congrats for the first book crossed off on this Read-A-Thon, Jillian!

I accidentally finished The Guest List last night... oops. So I'll be starting fresh for this Read-A-Thon!

Emily, I guess my book does not count either. I read the data wrong and thought it started on Sunday.

Oh darn! No worries. We will both be starting fresh haha.

At least, we both finished a book which is a lot harder for me than it use to be.

I thought you must be in New Zealand where it was already Monday!

Agreed, Jillian.. agreed.

Robin, I thought the same thing haha. Or that she woke up early and finished the last 100 pages of the book.

Oh well! More books for the group to read!

I finished No Good Tea Goes Unpunished Bree Baker 4/20/20 (330 pages)

This is a "cozy" mystery. It is a fun series and an easy read. Needed something a bit easy after some heavier books. This is the second of the series and as good as the first.

Just finished So Pretty a Problem on 4/20/20. Shelved as mystery, crime, or detective -- not sure which tag No Good Tea Goes Unpunished is going to be used for, so any of those three!

This is the third or fifth, depending on how they're counted, in the Mordecai Tremaine series. It's a classic mid-20th century whodunnit series, reminiscent of Agatha Christie though not at her caliber of plotting, featuring benevolent, sentimental retired tobacconist turned amateur detective Mordecai Tremaine. In this particular story, though the mystery is a little convoluted (they all are, to be honest), I enjoyed the non-linear revelation of the personalities and relationship dynamics that influenced the murder and its investigation.

Kellie, I put your book under "mystery" since there weren't many tags for it. Roxana, I went with detective for yours!

The Boy from the Woods By: Harlen Coben, (Finished)
Mysteries and Thillers Tag#1> Crime

I've just finished the archetypal "Unreliable Narrator" book - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie. :-)

So if you want to add it there, feel free!

Or failing that, it could probably fit suspense.

Gotcha down, Trish!

I just finished The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk, which fits the "to-buy" tag (#13).

Got it, Jody!

I just finished Gone Girl. It could fit thriller, suspense, psychological thriller, or drama.

I finished Before I Go to Sleep. It fits:
thriller, suspense, psychological-thriller, drama, dark, 2017, crime, horror

I finished Dark Mountain. It fits dark.

Finished The Sun Down Motel
This could work for thriller, suspense or horror but I would put this under the horror category if still available.

St. James is fast becoming one of my favorite authors! She writes amazing atmospheric mystery ghost stories that you just can't put down! Great character development, just a touch of romance and such haunting ghosts with stories and histories that get me every time!

Recorded up to here!

ZeeJane, she is one of my favorite authors as well! I read Sun Down back in January when it first came out and was just blown away. I don't generally like ghost stories, but hers is realistic enough that I don't mind.

I just finished Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum which is tagged as mental health.

I just finished Death At La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti #1) by Donna Leon. It's a mystery,fiction,Italy,Crime. I'm not sure where it fits above. Please put where it fits. Thank You. I haven't figured how to see the tags yet.

Updated!

Sherri, if you look at the genres on the main page, under that list, there is a link that says "See more shelves". If you click on that, you can see all of the tags for that book!

I just finished A Civil Action, which can be plaed for #11, legal-thriller.

It is a nonfiction book about a complex litigation involving large corporations leading toxic chemicals in a town's water supply and sickening the residents.

I just finished The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides---Thriller

This is a good book. I read it because everyone was recommending it with good reason.

I just finished The One I Left Behind - tagged as psychological-thriller.

Pretty good thriller, but I guessed the killer pretty quickly.

I finished The Heart's Invisible Furies which is tagged book-of-the-month.

I loved this book, and I can’t believe I hadn’t got round to reading it before now.

And that's it for Mysteries and Thrillers! Great work team!

Emily wrote: "And that's it for Mysteries and Thrillers! Great work team!"

Nice!!

Hannah wrote: "I finished The Heart's Invisible Furies which is tagged book-of-the-month.

I loved this book, and I can’t believe I hadn’t got round to reading it before now."

I'm glad to hear you loved this! It's been on my TBR for awhile, and this is the year I'm planning to actually read it.

Same, Traci! I got it from Book of the Month, actually, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. My next prompt for ATY is genre or subgenre starting with a letter in your name, so I made read this one for Literary Fiction.