Top Ten Tuesday

 

Top Ten Tuesday is a fun weekly meme hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

This week's theme: Genre Freebie.

I love THRILLERS! Especially when there are unexpected twists, a bit of edge and darkness, and some good psychological suspense. So I went through my past blog posts and chose 10 of My Favorite Thrillers:

1. The Edge of Normal by Carla Norton

2. The Whisperer by Donato Carrisi

3. Where Monsters Dwell by Jorgen Brekke

4. Girl 4 by Will Carver

5. A Dark Lure by Loreth Anne White

6. Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison

7. Five by Ursula Archer

8. Into the Black Nowhere by Meg Gardiner

9. Sister by Rosamund Lupton

10. The Man Burned by Winter by Pete Zacharias

Bonus:  Only Daughter by Anna Snoekstra

If you've never read a thriller and want to give one a try, I recommend any

and all of these! I also list more thrillers I've loved on my Memorable Reads page.

Happy Reading!

Two books I recently read and loved...

Here are two more of my favorite reads this past month that I'm not going to review, but am going to recommend. (With thanks again to Rachel @ Waves of Fiction for the idea.) 

Prodigal Son is Gregg Hurwitz's latest Orphan X novel. It's the 6th book in this series, which makes it tricky to review without accidentally spoiling things that happen in previous books. Just know that Evan Smoak is one of my all-time favorite characters, and I absolutely LOVE this series. All six books. They're awesome. My review of his first three books can be found here and here.

The Breaker is the latest book in Nick Petrie's Peter Ash Series. It is also book #6. I love this series, and this character, too. Every time I finish one, I can't wait for the next one to come out. If you want to read my review of the first book in this series, check it out here. 

So there you go, two more books I loved and highly recommend.

Happy Reading!

Haiku Reviews...

 

Safe by S.K. Barnett

Missing for twelve years, 

Jenny's come home. Safe at last!

Or is it all lies?

Psychological thriller .... 319 pages .... 3.5/5 stars.

Murder at Queen's Landing by Andrea Penrose

Murder. Missing friends. Math.

It's another mystery for

Wrexford and Charlotte.

Historical fiction/mystery .... 360 pages .... 4/5 stars.

(I love this series!)

In the Dark by Loreth Anne White

Eight guests haunted by

past lies are now hunted in a

twisted game of death.

Psychological thriller .... 399 pages .... 4.5/5 stars.

Happy Reading!

Bookish Gold...

Looking for some bookish gold? 

Try one (or more!) of these eight "gilded" reads:

1. The Gilded Lily by Helen Argers

(Think Edith Wharton but with a happier ending!)

2. A Gilded Grave by Shelley Freydont

(This is a very fun mystery set among the moneyed elite of Newport, Rhode Island.)

3. The Gilded Cage by Lucinda Gray

(Set in 1871, this YA gothic revolves around two American siblings 

and the grand estate they unexpectedly inherit in England.)

4.  The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe

(Anita Hemmings must pass as white in order to attend Vassar College

in this well-researched historical fiction novel.)

5.  The Gilded Shroud by Elizabeth Bailey

(This is the first book in Bailey's 'Lady Fan' mystery series.)

6.  In a Gilded Cage by Rhys Bowen

(Spunky Molly Murphy is back to solve another mystery.)

7.  Gilded by Christina Farley

(This YA fantasy is set in modern-day South Korea and has 

an engaging heroine named Jae Hwa Lee.)

8.  The Gilded Age by Mark Twain

(No one makes fun of America and Americans like Twain!)

Happy Reading!

A Few of My Favorite Reads from 2015...

The Girls by Lori Lansens (An amazing novel about conjoined twins Ruby and Rose;
I didn't review this book on my blog but now I kind of wish I had
because Ruby and Rose are such memorable characters.)

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (A bookish gem!)

The Other Side of Midnight by Simone St. James (Ghostly suspense.)

The Ledge by Jim Davidson (A true story of survival and tragedy on Mt. Rainier.)

City of Jasmine by Deanna Raybourn (Adventure and romance.)

The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain (Set in Paris!)

The Edge of Normal by Carla Norton (Bookish suspense at its best.)

The Kiss of a Stranger by Sarah M. Eden (I should have blogged about this delightfully funny Regency romance, too, but I didn't; instead, I'm recommending it here.)

Happy Reading!