Saturday, May 3, 2014

LISTS; CRIME FICTION FROM PROFESSOR DIENST

The perfect ending. A comprehensive list of crime fiction books from dear Professor Dienst.

ps : some suggestions were from what we did in class throughout the semester.

FEAST FER YOURSELVES, FELLOWS!

My class reading list (all books are in a part of a series, so might be worth checking out all)
  1. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
  2. The Real Cool Killers - Chester Himes
  3. Ripley's Game - Patricia Highsmith (read all 7 in the series!)
  4. The Laughing Policeman - Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
  5. Fatale - Jean Patrick Manchette
  6. short readings from Andrea Camilleri, Cornell Woolrich, and Massimo Carlotto
  7. Southern Seas - Manuel Vasquez Montalban (ergh)
  8. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
  9. Nairobi Heat - Mukoma Wa Ngugi
  10. Brother Kemal - Jakob Arjouni
The standard list
  1. Edgar Allan Poe complete works
  2. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series (4 novels, 56-ish short stories)
  3. G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown 
  4. Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre's Fantomas
  5. Agatha Christie complete collection
  6. Georges Simenon's Maigret collection (75 books)
  7. Georges Simenon's other books (also called hard books)
  8. Raymond Chandler's collection
  9. James M. Cain
  10. Jim Thompson
  11. Cornell Woolrich
  12. Richard Stark
  13. Tony Hillerman
  14. Michael Connelly
  15. Sue Grafton
  16. Sarah Paretsky
  17. Megan Abbott
  18. Stieg Larsson's Girl With Dragon Tattoo series
  19. Natsuo Kirino
  20. Qiu Xiaolong
  21. David Peace
  22. Martin Solares=Junot Diaz=Garcia Marquez
Literary Mentions
  1. Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn
  2. Leonardo Sciascia's "Equal Danger"
  3. Jean Claude Izzo's Total Chaos
  4. Michael Dibdin
  5. Colin Cotterill
  6. Luiz Alfredo Garcia Roza
  7. Andrey Kurkov
  8. Ian Rankin
  9. Honore Balzac
Historical crimes (me zoning into this list first)
  1. Robert Van Gulik
  2. "Aristotle's Crime"
  3. Philip Cairn
  4. Josephine Tey
  5. Umberto Eco
  6. Jason Goodwin
  7. Oakley Hall
  8. Jacqueline Winspear
  9. Alan Furst
  10. Philip Kerr
  11. Bruce Alexander
  12. Boris Akunin (I got Professor Dienst's copy!)
  13. Walter Mosley
  14. James Elroy
  15. Didie Daeninckx
Movies! (yes yes yes)
  1. Maltese Falcon
  2. The Big Sleep
  3. Out of the Past - Tourneur
  4. High and Low - Kurosawa
  5. The Long Goodbye - Altman
  6. Chinatown - Polanski
  7. Thief - Mann
  8. City of God - Meirelles
  9. Gommorrah - Garrone
  10. Children of Men - Cuaron
  11. The Constant Gardener - Meirelles
  12. Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) 
  13. Strangers on the Train
  14. Momento
  15. Twin Peaks series
  16. maybe a movie from Chester Himes' books
  17. BBC's rendition of Case Histories
  18. OBVIOUSLY HOLMES. but Professor liked the Jeremy Brett version, I stick to Benedict Cumberbatch. We agreed that RDJ's Holmes ain't that good, though.
Check out the Bulwer-Lytton website for some fun too!

HAVE FUN READING/COUCH POTATO-ING, FELLOWS!

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