What Are You reading in September?

What books are you planning to read in September?

Share with the group your reading plans in September and your reading experiences during the month.
Do let us know your rating and a quick one or two line comment about each book as you finish it. This will stimulate discussion.

Carol's September Reads

Stay turned the books are on the way:)

Group reads,
✔ Skeleton Coast by Clive Cussler & Jack DuBrul- 9/11/16 - 4★'s
✔ The Woman In Blue by Elly Griffiths - 9/20/16 - 4.5★'s
✔ Ice Hunt by James Rollins - 9/30/16 - 4.5★'s

Blind Date With A Book,/u>
✔ Intercept by Dick Wolf - 9/16/16 - 5★'s
✔ Tough Customer by Sandra Brown - 9/11/16 - 3.5★'s

A Book is Born - New releases for September
✔ Insidious by Catherine Coulter - 9/1/16 - 3★'s
✔ Apprentice in Death - 9/14/16 - 5★'s

Sub - Genrea - Creepy Kids
✔ The Other Child by Joanne Fluke - 9/1/16 - 5★'s
✔ The Watcher in the Wall by Owen Laukkanen - 9/9/16 - 5★'s

Others that Just Won't Leave
✔The Keeper by John Lesroart - 9/3/16 - 4.5★'s
✔Liar, Liar by M.J. Arlidge - 9/7/16 - 5★'s
✔No One Gets Out Alive by Adam Nevill - 9/15/16 - 5★'s
✔The Couple Next Door by Shari Lepena - 9/4/16 - 4.5★'s
✔ The Guards by Ken Bruen - 9/20/16 - 3★'s
✔ The Ophelia Cut by John Lescroart - 9/21/16 - 3★'s
✔ Killer Takes All by Erica Spindler - 9/22/16 - 4★'s
✔Started Early Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson - 9/23/16 - 2★'s
✔The Stolen Ones by Owen Lakkenan - 9/29/16 - 4★'s
✔Nightwatching by John Zunski - 9/27/16 - 4.5★'s

September Reading List - Still in progress

Mysteries

Among the Wicked - Linda Casrillo
Damaged - Lisa Scottoline
Entry Island - Peter May
Fractured - Karin Slaughter
Girl Waits with Gun - Amy Stewart
Ice Hunt - James Rollins
Library of the Dead - Glenn Cooper
Love You Dead - Peter James
Rules of Prey - John Sandford
Sixth Idea - P. J. Tracy
Skeleton Coast - Craig Cussler and Jack du Brul
Truly, Madly, Guilty - Liane Moriarty
Woman in Blue - Elly Griffiths

Other Than Mysteries

Dead by Sunset - Ann Rule
Girl From the Train - Irma Joubert
Moloka'i - Alan Brennert

>3 Olivermagnus: Among the Wicked and Entry Island are really good....and I've heard noting but good things about Library of the Dead. Hope you like them.

I have just started To The Hilt by Dick Francis. I have read many of his books and like his almost conversational writing style and traditional style of Mystery.

>4 Carol420: - I've had those on my list for two months but I'm determined to get to them this month. My neighbor is in England and is supposed to bring me a souvenir copy of Love You Dead.

>5 Lynxear: - I haven't read any Dick Francis in years but I used to enjoy them. I'll look and see if I can find one again.

Digressing to historical fiction........ I recently picked up several of the Eagle series by Simon Scarrow. I see you have some in your library. Do you recommend them?

>6 Olivermagnus: Could you ask if they could just bring me Peter James? I would be so grateful:)

>7 Olivermagnus: I like Dick Francis... the one I am currently reading is very good. He has a great talent for creating engaging heroes and sprinkles clues throughout his books and doesn't conceal vital information as Baldacci does in his Maxwell series. Decider and Dead Heat are the best I have read so far though this one rates up there too. I would call his mysteries light reading.

I have mixed feelings for Simon Scarrow as an author of historical fiction. I did not like his first book Under the Eagle... it was unbelievable ( a slave servant with no fighting skills surviving in the front lines of a battle), the battle scenes were not well defined and his liberal use of modern English slang for a setting in ancient roman occupation of England, put me off.

But I read another book and I liked the camaraderie of the main characters Quintus Licinius Cato - freed slave and Lucius Cornelius Macro - centurion. The two develop a nice friendship and compliment each other's abilities.

My main gripe against Scarrow is his use of modern English slang in his works... it spoils the story for me.

>3 Olivermagnus: What a great list!

>7 Olivermagnus: >9 Lynxear: I do want to read the Eagle series, as I loved his Napolean and Wellington Series which starts with Young Bloods.

Provisional list as always!

Group Reads
✔️Skeleton Coast by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 11/9/16
The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths
Ice Hunt by James Rollins

Other Reads
The Quiet Game by Greg Iles
✔️The Dead Place by Stephen Booth ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 11/9/16
Separation of Power by Vince Flynn
✔️Death of a Prankster by M C Beaton ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 13/9/16
Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
Code by Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs
✔️The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4/9/16
When The Music's Over by Peter Robinson
👉Hannibal Enemy of Rome by Ben Kane
✔️It's The Little Things by Erica James ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
✔️A Storm of Swords: Part 2 Blood and Gold by George R R Martin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 2/9/16
Cairo Arrangement by Bruce Colbert

September 2016
✔★ ☊ ☞

Finished Reads
✔The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman - ★★★★★ - 9/2/16
✔All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - Historical Fiction - ★★★★★ - 9/4/16
✔The One Man by Andrew Gross - ★★★★★ - 9/8/16
✔A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny - ★★★★★ - 9/11/16
✔Skeleton Coast by Clive Cussler & Jck DuBrul - ★★★★ - 9/11/16
✔☊The Last Mile by David Baldacci - ★★★★★ - 9/15/16
✔Playing With Fire by Tess Gerritsen - ★★★★★ - 9/16/16
✔Me Before You (Me Before You, #1) by Jojo Moyes - Fiction - ★★★★★ - 9/19/16
✔The Woman In Blue by Elly Griffiths - ★★★★★ - 9/20/16
✔Dark Entries by Ian Rankin - Graphic Mystery - ★★★ - 9/21/16
✔Tenth of December by George Saunders - Short Stories - ★ - 9/22/16
✔Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd a Flavia de Luce novel by Alan Bradley ★★★★★ - 9/24/16
✔☊House of Secrets by Brad Meltzer and Tod Goldberg - ★★★.5 - 9/24/16
✔The Kept Woman by Karin Slaughter - ★★★★★ - 9/28/16
✔Ice Hunt by James Rollins - ★★★★.5 - 9/29/16

>13 EadieB: Will be interested to see what you think of Me Before You, know my library has it available as an audio book.

Need to read it soon as it is left over from August. My friend read it and she liked it very much.

>15 EadieB: - I liked Me Before You much better than I expected but I wasn't a fan of the sequel.

>16 Olivermagnus:
Thanks, Lynda! I'll keep that in mind.

Just finished To The Hilt by Dick Francis.... probably the best Francis mystery I have read so far

>18 Lynxear: I also enjoyed To The Hilt, my other favourite Dick Francis books are For Kicks and Come to Grief. I have no interest in horse racing but love many of his mystery books.

This is the schedule for the group read of Skeleton Coast by Clive Cussler and Jack Dud Brul, which is book 4 in the Oregon Files Series.

Tuesday 6th September : 1 - 4
Wednesday 7th September : 5 - 11
Thursday 8th September : 12 - 17
Friday 9th September : 18 - 21
Saturday 10th September : 22 - 27
Sunday 11th September : 28 - 32

Would love as many people as possible to join in our discussion. It is a series where reading out of order is not really an issue.

I have not been reading too much in this genre as I am whittling away at a couple of SF/F challenge reads that I set myself for 2016.

I did read Robert Goddard's The Ways of the World this summer (4 stars) and have now picked up the sequel, The Corners of the Globe. Just getting started but am enjoying it at least as much as the opening volume.

I hope to participate more toward the end of the year and into 2017. In the meantime, I do lurk regularly and am enjoying everyone's reviews and comments.

>21 ScoLgo: When we read this trilogy as a group read we generally felt the books in the trilogy got better as it went along. These were some of my favourite reads if the year. We're pleased to have you with us no matter how much or how little mystery and suspense books you are reading at any time. If nothing else the group gives us all ideas of new books to read or new authors.

Just started reading Death of a Prankster by M C Beaton, book 7 in the Hamish Macbeth Series.

>23 Andrew-theQM: I love Hamish!

>24 jguidry: I agree, great books and a great character.

Schedule for Group Read of The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths, #8 in the Ruth Galloway Series.

Friday 16th September : Prologue and Chapters 1 to 8
Saturday 17th September : Chapters 9 to 14
Sunday 18th September : Chapters 15 to 21
Monday 19th September : Chapters 22 to 25
Tuesday 20th September : Chapters 26 to 30

Just started The Cassandra Sanction by Scott Mariani, #12 in the Ben Hope Series.

Just listened to My First Murder by Leena Lehtolainen. It was the first murder I read by her, the first in her series around Maria Kallio, who is rather ambivalent about her role as a cop, even more so as the case she investigates involves people she new well not too long ago. I liked that in her world there is not just the one case, but other things going on at the same time. I gave this one a solid 4.

>28 sushicat: Sounds interesting.

I have just started The Quiet Game by Greg Iles, #1 in the Penn Cage Series. My blind date for September.

I'm starting the 2nd in the series, Turning Angel in October. Gave The Quiet Game 4 stars.

>31 EadieB: An interesting start so far. Haven't even thought about October yet!

I've got some good one lined up for October.

>33 EadieB: You always have good ones lined up!

Don't know which to read first. I might not list them and just go with what I feel like. I have them in a box under my desk.

Where else! We have some good group reads coming up in October:
Simple Genius by David Baldacci : #3 in the King and Maxwell Series
The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry : #2 in the Cotton Malone Series
The Crucifix Killer by Chris Carter : #1 in the Robert Hunter Series

I've been wanting to get to the Chris Carter Series for a number of years. Let's hope it doesn't disappoint after all that time!

I'll wait until we read the first Chris Carter before I order any more.

I think I have my books picked out for next year too. My daughter came and asked what that pile of books was that I had piled on top of my desk and on another piece of furniture. I told her they were the books I was going to read next year. She looked at me like I was crazy and said Oh my!

Oh my X 2! :)

I think 95% of the books I have for October you have already read.

In that case I look forward to seeing your choices and what you think of them.

Here's the authors: Peter James, Glenn Cooper, Danial Silva, Scott Mariani, Louise Voss & Mark Edwards, Ian Rankin, Marian Keyes

You are most definitely in for a great month, not one of those I wouldn't be happy to re-read the books.

I agree! Looking forward to October!

Schedule for Group Read of Ice Hunt by James Rollins, which is a standalone.

Saturday 24th September : Prologue and 1 - 3
Sunday 25th Spetember : 4 - 6
Monday 26th September : 7 - 9
Tuesday 27th September : 10 - 12
Wednesday 28th September : 13 - 15
Thursday 29th September : 16 - 18 and Epilogue