Sunday, April 28, 2024

Ten top books about books

Elly Griffiths is the author of the Ruth Galloway and Brighton mystery series, as well as the standalone novels The Stranger Diaries, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and The Postscript Murders. She is the recipient of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award.

[The Page 69 Test: The Crossing PlacesMy Book, The Movie: The House at Sea’s EndThe Page 69 Test: A Room Full of BonesThe Page 69 Test: A Dying Fall]

Griffith's newest Ruth Galloway mystery is The Last Word.

At CrimeReads she tagged her ten favorite books about books, including:
Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang

This story of a writer who steals her dead friend’s unpublished manuscript was deservedly a smash hit. It is by turns hilarious and tragic and says important things about cultural appropriation and the corrosive nature of success. I used to be an editor and I defy any ex-publisher not to cringe at the editorial scenes.
Read about the other entries on the list.

Yellowface is among Toby Lloyd's seven books that show storytelling has consequences, Sophie Wan's seven top titles with women behaving badly, Leah Konen's six top friends-to-frenemies thrillers, and Garnett Cohen's seven novels about characters driven by their cravings.

--Marshal Zeringue