Wonderlake's Five-and-dime

Yey, another challenge thread :)

I'm giving myself a head start by including the list

Femmes Fatales- The cream of crime novels by women, from The Independent on Sunday 27/09/2007

1. The Not Knowing, Cathi Unsworth
2. A Dark-adapted Eye, Barbara Vine END 17/1/2011
3. Postmortem, Patricia Cornwell 24/11/2010 - 3/12/2010
4. Killing the Shadows, Val McDermid
5. Blindsighted, Karin Slaughter 29/10/2010 - 5/11/2010
6. Well-Schooled in Murder, Elizabeth George 3/12/2010 -

Hooray, another list:
Anne Holt's top 10 female detectives
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/08/anne-holt-top-10-female-detectives

and top of the list is the female "side kick"? in my current read, Well-schooled in Murder
~ Barbara Havers

... perhaps I could try for 5 out of these:

1. Barbara Havers 3/12/2010 -
2. Modesty Blaise
3. Bertha Cool
4. Miss Marple
5. Lisbeth Salander *rats I've just finished the 3rd book in this series
6. Annika Bengtzon
7. Nancy Drew :)
8. Mrs Adela Brady
9. Anne-kin Halvorsen
10. Merrily Watkins
... and I guess 11. Anne Holt herself *ah, I have had her book Death in Oslo on my wishlist for some time now
- I swiped 1222 in the 12 Days of Kindle promotion GRIN

Listy, listy

Beginning a new year of reading
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/dec/31/new-year-reading

1. Prick up your ears, John Lahr
2. The Memory Chalet, Tony Judt
3. Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis
4. Money, Martin Amis
5. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
6. Wise Children, Angela Carter 2010
7. To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
8. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
9. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Literature's best opening paragraphs... ever; Shortlist magazine, 23rd Dec 2010

1. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole 2014
2. The Bible
3. American Tabloid, James Ellroy
4. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
5. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
6. The Outsider, Albert Camus
7. Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
8. Moby-dick, Herman Melville
9. White Fang, Jack London
10. Pick-up, Charles Willeford
11. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

Waterstones 11

1 The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach
2 Shelter, Frances Greenslade
3 Care of Wooden Floors, Will Wiles
4 The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey
5 Absolution, Patrick Flanery
6 The Land of Decoration, Grace McCleen
7 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce
8 The Lifeboat, Charlotte Rogan
9 Signs of Life, Anna Raverat
10 The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker
11 The Panopticon, Jenni Fagan May 2012

Waterstones 11 @ 2011

• City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
• The Free World by David Bezmozgis
• The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages by Sophie Hardach
• 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
• Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka
• Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
• The Coincidence Engine by Sam Leith
• The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
• The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud
• The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed
• When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman

Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2012

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch Jun 2012
Darkside by Belinda Bauer
Now You See Me by SJ Bolton
Where the Bodies Are Buried by Chris Brookmyre
The Burning Soul by John Connolly
The Calling by Neil Cross
The Hanging Shed by Gordon Ferris
Bryant and May and the Memory of Blood by Christopher Fowler
Blue Monday by Nicci French
The Fear Index by Robert Harris
The Retribution by Val McDermid May 2012
The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina 2013
Black Flowers by Steve Mosby
Collusion by Stuart Neville
The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin
Mice by Gordon Reece June 2012
Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith
Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson Feb 2012

Crime SHORTLIST:

Now you see me, SJ Bolton
Where the bodies are buried, Chris Brookmyre
The burning Soul, John Connolly
The end of the wasp season, Denise Mina
Black flowers, Steve Mosby
Before I go to sleep, SJ Watson

oh noes! out of the ones I've read (so far) only one has been shortlisted

Crime books to kill for: chosen by Harlen Coben Shortlist magazine 19/7/2012

Marathon Man, William Goldman
Ceremony, Robert B Parker
The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth
Where are the children?, Mary Higgins Clark
Gone, Baby, Gone, Dennis Lehane