Cara Bruar#10authors5booksEach (10 authors you’ve read at least 5 books by)
Terry Pratchett
Connie Willis
Dorothy Dunnett
Gavin Lyall
Rachel Neuemeier
Lois McMaster Bujold
John le Carre
Isaac Asimov
Sulari Gentill
Josh Lanyon
kcBit of crossover between us :)
Terry Pratchett
Garry Disher
Sulari Gentill
John le Carre
Caimh McDonnell (because recently)
Georges Simenon
Paul Cleave
Maj Sjowall (with Per Wahloo)
Christopher Brookmyre
Stuart MacBride
(needless to say - 100authors5booksEach might not be too much of a stretch...)
@kcfromaustcrime @bookstodon I could easily do 50 but I don't like all of them as much now as I did originally, the top 10 have passed the test of time
Interesting - do you have a feeling for why they have dropped out of favour?
I know I've been finding my reread of the Maigret series patchy going - some of them are brilliant / some of them decidedly dodgy when read with current sensibilities, but overall the good is still outweighing the bad ... just :)
@kcfromaustcrime @bookstodon I was thinking of the 60s and 70s. Ludlum, McLean, Bagley, the world they describe doesn't exist any more and the action that carried the stories is disconnected from reality. Less a problem for character based stories like le Carre, where the anachronistic world is not critical to the plot.
Oh that's interesting. Hadn't considered that angle!