Reader in the Wilderness: Petrona: Truly a Blog of Substance

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Petrona: Truly a Blog of Substance

If you love, like, or find yourself occasionally drifting into the world of reading crime fiction, you will find Petrona an incredible resource. I should have added it to my "Blogs of Substance" list long ago. (To locate my list, scroll down below my "Books Read in 2011" list. (I wish now I had inverted the two lists so the blogs would appear first.)

I especially appreciated Petrona's lengthy discussion and bibliography of Swedish crime fiction, posted very recently. So comprehensive!

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MaxineAugust 22, 2011 at 3:48 AM
Thank you so much for this post and your very kind words, Judith! I recently discovered your blog via your comment on mine, and have subscribed. I look forward to reading your future posts. best wishes, Maxine (aka Petrona).
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Books Read in 2017

The Ghost by Danielle Steel (audio) *****
Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear (2004)
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George (1988)
A Misalliance by Anita Brookner (1986)
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (2016)
Devices and Desires by P.D. James (1989)
Caught in the Revolution--Petrograd 1917 by Helen Rappaport (2017)
The Forbidden Garden by Ellen Herrick (2017)
All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski (trans. from German by Anthea Bell) 2015
The Widow's House by Carol Goodman (2017)
Born to Run: A Memoir by Bruce Springsteen (2016) audio
Chemistry by Wieke Wang (2017)
The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Gene into a Hopeful Future by Joselin Linder (2017)
Uncovered by Leah Lax (audio)
Missing, Presumed by Sheila Steiner UK (2016)
Belgravia by Julian Fellowes (2016)
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym (1977) CClub
In the Wake by Per Petterson (NO) U.S. Pub. 2006
The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping by Aharon Appelfeld (IL) U.S. Pub. 2017
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (2016)
The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport (2014)
Days without End by Sebastian Barry (U.S. pub. 2017)
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore (2010)
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and a Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance (2016)
The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler (2016)
Under the Influence by Joyce Maynard (2016)
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (2016)

Books Read in 2016

Victoria by Daisy Goodwin (2016)
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult (2016)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (1817-1818) Classics Club
Winter Storms by Elin Hilderbrand (2016)
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher (2000)
Body in the Snowdrift by Katherine Hall Page
The Middle of Somewhere by Sonja Yoerg (2015)
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett (2016) Read 100 pages and had to retire
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier (1938) CC
The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell (2016)
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (1913) CC
The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst (2011)
Kitchen Chinese by Ann Mah (2010)
Cold by John Smolens (2001) Upper Michigan Peninsula Fiction
When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman (1995) super-chunkster
A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli (FRA) U.S. Pub. 2016
Paperweight by Meg Haston (2015) YA *****
The Rocks by Peter Nichols (2015)
They May Not Mean To, But They Do by Cathleen Schine (2016)
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1975) Classics Club
One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2011)
The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff (2007)
The Black Tower by P.D. James (1975)
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (2016)
Winter Stroll by Elin Hilderbrand (2015)
Fiercombe Manor by Kate Riordan (2014)
Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart (1976)
The Lewis Man by Peter May, Vol. 2 of The Lewis Trilogy
L is for Lawless by Sue Grafton (1995)
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (2016)
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross (1996, 2007)
Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand (2014)
The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb (2014)
Original Sin by P.D. James (1995) *****
The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney (2016)
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware (2015)
Winds of Skilak by Bonnie Rose Ward (2013)
All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage (2016)
Girl at War by Sara Novic (2015)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (1963) Classics Club
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton (2015)
A Free Life by Ha Jin (2008)
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (1998)
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins (1879)
The Past by Tessa Hadley (2016)
Girl through Glass by Sari Nelson (2016)
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (2015)
Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks (U.S. pub. 2016)
The Storm by Margriet de Moor (translated fr. Dutch) 2010
Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant by Dyan Cannon (2011)
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill (2015)
K is for Killer by Sue Grafton (1994)
Madonnas in Leningrad by Debra Dean (2006)
J is for Judgment by Sue Grafton (1993)

Books Read in 2015

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (2010)
The Mistletoe Inn by Nicholas Paul Evans (2015)
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (2013)
Reykjavik Nights by Arnaldur Indridason (U.S. pub. 2015)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1849) Classics Club
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp (1992)
Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen (2007)
I is for Innocent by Sue Grafton (1992)
Mess: One Man's Struggle to Clean up His House and His Act by Barry Yourgrav (2015)
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (Classics Club)
Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe (2011)
I Shall Not Want by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2008)
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume (2015)
Second Life by S.J. Watson (2015)
In Wilderness by Diane Thomas (2015)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte (1828)
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson (2014)
The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (2003)
The Vacationers by Emma Straub (2014)
The House on the Cliff by Charlotte Williams (2013)
All That is Solid Melts into Air by Darragh McKeon (2014)
Forgotten Girls by Sara Blaedel (2014) Danish
The Amber Keeper by Freda Lightfoot (2014)
Black House by Peter May *****(1st book of the Lewis Trilogy)
Plague Land by S.D. Sykes (2015)
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (1975)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyle (2006) YA
A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper (2009) YA, supposedly
Love Life by Rob Lowe (2014) audio
The Siege Winter by Arianna Franklin and Norman (2015)
H is for Homicide by Sue Grafton (1991)
A Faraway Island by Annika Thor (SWE) Children's
A Troublesome Inheritance: Race, Genes, and Human History by Nicholas Wade (2014) audio
Billy Joel: The Definitive Biography by Fred Shruers (2014) audio
Groundswell by Katie Lee (2011)
You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz (2014)
G is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton
F is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton (1989)
E is for Evidence by Sue Grafton (1988)
D is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton (1987)
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (2015)
The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell

Books Read in 2014

The Children Act by Ian McEwan (2014)
The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin (2014)
Sleigh Bells in the Snow by Sarah Morgan (2013)
Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas by Stephanie Barron (2014)
A New York Christmas by Anne Perry (2014)
In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen (2014)
Young Light by Ralf Rothmann GLM (UK pub 2010)
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (2014)
Fly Away Home by Christine Nöstlinger (U.S. pub. 1975) Austrian for GLM IV
An Event in Autumn by Henning Mankell (U.S. pub. 2014)
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë (1847)
The Secret Place by Tana French (2014)
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959)
A Burnable Book by Bruce Holsinger *****(2014)
Cover of Snow by Jenny Milchman (2013)
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2012)
Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty by Diane Keaton (2013)
The Arsonist by Sue Miller (2014)
All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2006) Nero Wolfe and Gumshoe Awards 2007
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington (2014)
C is for Corpse by Sue Grafton (1986)
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian (2014)
Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore (2014)
Alena by Rachel Pastan (2014)
Summer House with Swimming Pool by Herman Koch (NE) 2014
Fear by Gabriel Chevallier (FR-WWI)
Casebook by Mona Simpson (2014)
The Train to Warsaw by Gwen Edelman (2014)
Forever by Judy Blume (1975) YA
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo YA (2003)
Looking for Alaska by John Green YA (2005)
The Fate of Mercy Alban by Wendy Webb (2013)
Only Brave Tomorrows by Winifred Bruce Luhrmann (1989) YA
The Lie by Helen Dunmore (U.S. pub 2014)
The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (2006) debut
The Wind is Not a River by Brian Payton (2014)
To Darkness and to Death by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick (2005)
Motherland by Maria Hummel (2014)
Red Wolf by Liza Marklund
B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton (1985)
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (1807-09)
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan (2012)
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan (2013)
The Bat by Jo Nesbo (1997 original pub. date)
Always Watching by Chevy Stevens (2013)

Books Read in 2013 (From January to November)

The Last Final Day by Carrie Brown (2013)
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker (2013)
A Final Reckoning by Susan Moody (2013)
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (1990)
The Traitor by Gudrun Pausewang (U.S. pub 2011)
Demian by Hermann Hesse (1919)
Mesmerized by Alissa Walser (UK pub. 2012)
Broken Harbor by Tana French (2012)
Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (2011)
The Good House by Anne Leary (2013
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers (2012)
The Life of Objects by Susanna Moore (2012)
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano (2011)
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton (2010) audio
Indiscretion by Charles Dubow (2013)
The Dinner by Herman Koch (U.S. pub. 2013)
Paris: A Love Story by Kati Marton (2012) audio
The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg (U.S. pub 2009)
The Andalucian Friend by Alexander Söderberg (U.S. pub. 2013)
A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee (2013)
Life after Life by Kate Atkinson (U.S. pub. 2013) had to bid adieu
Carole King: A Natural Woman by Carole King ((2012) audio
The Garner Files by James Garner (2011) audio
The Healer by Antti Toumainen (2013)
Monster by Walter Dean Myers (1999)
Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter (U.S. pub 1970)
Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith (2012) audio
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1961)
Winter in Wartime by Jan Terlouw (U.S. pub. 1976)
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud (2013)
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner ***** (1984)
Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2005)
The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore***** (2012)
The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison (2013)
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz (2013)
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty (2013)
A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton (1982)
A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams (2013)
Brenner and God by Wolf Haas (U.S. pub Melville House 2012)
The Winter Palace by Eve Stachniak (2011)
The Butterfly Sister by Amy Gail Hansen (2013)
Anatomy of a Night by Anna Kim (U.S. pub 2013)
The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year by Michael Stein (2009)
Starry Night by Debbie Macomber (2013)

Books Read in 2012

Sisters by Rosamund Lupton (2011)
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (1993)
Pereira Declares by Antonio Tabucchi
The Story of a Life by Aahron Appelfeld
Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse (1979--US)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2012)
Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton (2012)
Expats by Chris Pavone (2012)
Wild by Cheryl Strayed (2012)
Desert Wives by Betty Webb (2002)
In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolff (1994)
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen (1948)
Sunset Park by Paul Auster (2010)
War Diary by Ingeborg Bachmann (2011)
The Leopard by Jo Nesbo (2011 US)
Saturday by Ian McEwan (2006)
A Fountain Filled with Blood by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2003)
Crutches by Peter Hartling (1987) German LC
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesy (2012)
An Available Man by Hilma Wolitzer (2012)
The Obamas by Jodi Kantor (2012)

Books Read in 2011

Deadmistress by Carole Schmurack
Call Me Princess by Sara Blaedel (2011)
I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson (2010)
War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth Century by Ben Shephard (2001)
Unseen: A Mystery by Mari Jungsvedt (2006--US)
Reading My Father by Alexandra Styron (2011)
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo (2011--US)
Alice in Bed by Cathleen Schine (1983)
Comedy in a Minor Key by Hans Keilson (2011) (1949)
The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller (2011)
Drinking the Rain: A Memoir by Alix Kates Shulman (1995)
The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler (2011)
The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell) (1988)
Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck (2010)
Flambards by K.M. Peyton (1967)
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (2011)
Settlement by Christoph Hein (2008)
In My Brother's Shadow by Uwe Timm (2003)
Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson (2011)
Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass (2006)
Talking Detective Fiction by P.D. James (2006)
Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek (2006)
My Soul to Take: A Novel of Iceland by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (2009)
What is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman (2010)
The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese (1998)
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2003)
Lost by Hans-Ulrich Treichel (1999)
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (2010)
The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink (2011)
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure (2011)
The Writing Circle by Corinne Demas (2010)
Cold Day for a Murder by Dana Stabenow (1991)
22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson (2011)
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James (1977)
The Perfect Reader by Maggie Pouncey (2011)
Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Saenz YA (2009)
Reading Jackie by William Kuhn (2010) audio
Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James
Russian Winter by Diane Kalotay (2010)
Life by Keith Richards (2010) audio
High on Arrival by MacKenzie Phillips (2009) audio
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (2009)
The Great Hurricane of 1938 by Cherie Burns (2005) audio
Great House by Nicole Krauss (2009)
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman (2010) dismissed
Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink (2008)

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