Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Who doesn't love to check out a good award-winning book? The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City. They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year.

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Suggestions:
Edgar Award Winners
Edgar Award Nominees
Grand Master Award Authors
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Optional questions:
- What are you reading for this category?
- Is it a winner, nominee, or Grand Master author?

The Last Child, 2010 Edgar Award Winner

Invisible City, an Edgar nominee, or possibly The Monkey's Raincoat, also an Edgar nominee, just because I like the title.

A Madness So Discreet, which won the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult in 2016. It's one of those books that's been on my TBR list forever and I really do want to read it, but just keep forgetting to pick it up. This category is the perfect incentive to give it a chance.

I'll be choosing between the following:

Girl in the Blue Coat (Best YA 2017)
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer (Best Fact Crime 2017)
A Madness So Discreet (Best YA 2016)
Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully (Best Fact Crime 2016)
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood (Best Fact Crime 2015)
In the Shadow of Gotham(Best Debut Novel 2010)

Girl in the Blue Coat
The Sympathizer

Mary Higgins Clark (Grand Master Award author) - I have All Around the Town on my shelves.

Something by Agatha Christie...will choose one closer to the week for this one.

The Wicked Girls. It was a winner.

I will be reading Mr. Mercedes - both the winner and the great author! :)

I'm probably going to continue reading Louise Penny's series about Inspector Gamache unless something interesting pops up.

What are you reading for this category?

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

Is it a winner, nominee, or Grand Master author?

It won the Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical work in 2008.

One of my favourite authors ever.

Stephen King –

About 98% of the Edgar list is popular fiction and/or a detective series, neither of which I like very much at all. So I had to look up many titles hunting for one of those atypical books that ended up on the Edgar list.

I was quite delighted with the one I found, Woman with a Blue Pencil, which was nominated for Best Paperback Original 2016. I picked it up from the library yesterday. I hope the book is a wonderful as the synopsis!

The new nominees for 2018 were released (see the nominee link in the 1st comment).
The Hate U Give is on it, for those who are struggling with the prompt and have the book listed for an easier-to-fill category.

I was struggling with this category until I found Ordinary Grace an Edgar award winner, currently 99p on Amazon Kindle. Looks like it will fit the bill nicely.

I was pleasantly surprised with the variety of choices for this one. I'm not a big mystery reader, so I am very excited to see that there are nonfiction options as well.

I am going to read In Cold Blood which won the award in 1966. I borrowed it from the library and have until Feb 9 to read it.

What are you reading for this category?
The Old Wine Shades - Martha Grimes


Is it a winner, nominee, or Grand Master author?
A Grand Master author

I believe I will be reading Mrs. Sherlock Holmes.

What are you reading for this category? Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

Is it a winner, nominee, or Grand Master author? It was the winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel.

Ngaio Marsh is a Grand Master author. She lived in the same town as me and I had - gasp - never read anything by her. We had this one Surfeit of Lampreys on the shelf, it was partly set nearby, and it sounded fun.

I read Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews in preparation for the movie coming out. This book won the Edgar Award in 2014. It is truly well written and a story that drags you right in. I can't wait to read the second and third books in the trilogy. I hope the movie does it justice!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

I'm reading The Last Child by John Hart. It won Best Novel in 2010 (as well as the Barry Award and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger), and his previous book won in 2008, making him the only author to win with consecutive novels, so I've got high expectations for this one. (Can you tell I've been on Wikipedia?!)

What are you reading for this category?
by Stephen King. This was the first Stephen King book I ever read and it was fun to re-read it as an adult.

- Is it a winner, nominee, or Grand Master author?
Grand Master author

What are you reading for this category?
I read The Ex

Is it a winner, nominee, or Grand Master author?
It was a nominee for best novel in 2017

I read Crooked House by Agatha Christie. She's a Grand Master, for sure!

I’m reading The Last Policeman, which won the award for best paperback original in 2013.

in going to read a book by Sue Grafton, she is a grand author.

Grand master author

I read Code Name Verity and it was fabulous!

I am reading 'I' is for Innocent by Sue Grafton

- What are you reading for this category? Listening to audiobook of The Day I Died
- Is it a winner, nominee, or Grand Master author?
Nominee for Mary Higgins Clark award 2018

The novella, The Grownup by Gillian Flynn was nominated last year.

I've chosen The Constant Gardener by John le Carré for this one. He's a Grand Master author.

- What are you reading for this category?

The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

- Is it a winner, nominee, or Grand Master author?

Agatha Christie is a Grand Master author (I think she is the first actually)

I went with The Screaming Staircase. It was an Edgar Award Nominee for Best Juvenile in 2014. I loved it. Yes it's a young adult book, but honestly I think that's just because the main characters are children, and the world explains very well why the kids are used in such important positions (ridding the world of ghosts).

It's a great plot, premise, and characters, and I highly recommend it!

"The Fiend," Margaret Millar, Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (1951), and she won the Grand Master Author Award in 1983.

- What are you reading for this category?
Penance by Kanae Minato

- Is it a winner, nominee, or Grand Master author?
It was an Edgar Award Nominee for Best Paperback Orginal in 2018.

I read The Ex, by Alafair Burke. A fantastic read for fans of a good thriller.

What are you reading for this category? Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

Is it a winner, nominee, or Grand Master author? It was the winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel.

What are you reading for this category?
Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station by Dorothy Gilman
- Is it a winner, nominee, or Grand Master author?
Grand Master

Whoops, forgot to enter my book for this, read it a while ago.

What are you reading for this category?

Girl in the Blue Coat

- Is it a winner, nominee, or Grand Master author?

Won an Edgar Award for Best Young Adult 2017

I've abandoned The Constant Gardener and have switched to an Agatha Christie book instead - another Grand Master author. I'm up to The Mystery of the Blue Train in the Hercule Poirot series, so this is my pick. Hopefully this one is a better fit!

Such an easy week - I read 4.50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie - always satisfying.

Agatha Christie is one of my favorite authors and I am (somewhat slowly) working my way through all of her books. I had happened some months ago to pick up By the Pricking of My Thumbs so I slotted it into this challenge. Sadly, this is a Tommy and Tuppence mystery and I don't like this series very much. It's not the classic 'fair-play' mystery style and I can't stand the titular detectives.

What are you reading for this category? The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford

- Is it a winner, nominee, or Grand Master author? it was an Edward Award Nominee

What are you reading for this category?
A Cold Day For Murder by Dana Stabenow

Is it a winner, nominee, or Grand Master author?
This won an Edgar for Best Paperback Original 1993.

What are you reading for this category?
Mrs. Pollifax on Safari (Mrs Pollifax #5) by Dorothy Gilman.

Is it a winner, nominee, or Grand Master author?
Dorothy Gilman became Grand Master in 2010.

Just finished The Widow’s House by Carol Goodman and loved it! Creepy without being scary, great characters, and takes place nearby in a Hudson River community.