Blogging Anniversary - 10 years

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A while ago I checked when I did my first blog post, in order to celebrate with an anniversary post. Well, that day came and went without any reaction from me. Better late than never, so here a reminder of my very first blog post from 24 October 2012.  The book was New Finnish Grammar  by Diego Marani. Marani is an Italian novelist, translator and newspaper columnist. While working as a translator for the European Union he invented a language ‘Europanto’ which is a mixture of languages and based on the common practice of word-borrowing usage of many EU languages. It was a suitable book to start with, being a book about letters, languages and memories. With a beautiful prose, the novel went directly to my heart.  "One night at Trieste in September 1943 a seriously wounded soldier is found on the quay. The doctor, of a newly arrived German hospital ship, Pietri Friari gives the unconscious soldier medical assistance. His new patient has no documents or anything that can ide...
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Top 100 Crime Novels

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I love all kind of lists, especially those that have to do with books. I happened to stumble upon a list of the top 100 Crime Novels. There are actually two lists; one from the British based Crime Writer's Association and one from the U.S.

Here are the 10 first entries (CWA to the left and US to the right):

1Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time (1951)1Arthur Conan Doyle: The Complete Sherlock Holmes (1887-1927)
2Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939)2Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
3John le Carré: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963)3Edgar Allan Poe: Tales of Mystery & Imagination (1852)
4Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night (1935)4Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time (1951)
5Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)5Scott Turow: Presumed Innocent (1987)
6Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca (1938)6John le Carré: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963)
7Raymond Chandler: Farewell My Lovely (1940)7Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1868)
8Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1868)8Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939)
9Len Deighton: The IPCRESS File (1962)9Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca (1938)
10Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1930)10Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None (1939)

We can see that some writers and novels have ended up on the top 10 on both lists, for example:

Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time (1 and 4)
Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (2 and 8)
John Le Carré: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (3 and 6)
Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca (6 and 9)
Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (8 and 7)
Dashiel Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (10 and 2)



There might be an indication here that these are the books to read if you like Crime fiction. I will try to get hold of Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time which sounds interesting. A modern police officer is looking into the alleged crime of Richard III!

You can have a look at the top 100 lists here. I took the liberty to add a cross for the ones that I have read. Not that many I must admit. Here might lie another challenge! Sometimes I don't know if I read the book or saw the movie?

Would you have any favourites on the list?

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