Reading List: November 2011

The Holy Bible, New International Version

• Luke
• John
• Acts
• Romans

The Holy Bible, New King James Version

• Luke
• John
• Acts
• Romans

The Koran, translated by N.J. Dawood (1968).
The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoesvsky.
The Emperor of All Maladies, by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Germinal, par Emile Zola.
Bad Blood, by John Sandford.
The Brass Verdict, by Michael Connelly.
Moonlight Mile, by Dennis LeHane.
Beyond Black, by Hilary Mantel.
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke, by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo.
The Assassins' Gate, by George Packer.
The Koran, translated by N.J. Dawood (1966).
Some Days You Get the Bear, by Lawrence Block.
The Man on the Balcony, by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo.

Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were a husband and wife team. She was a poet and he was a journalist, before they wrote ten mystery novels in the 1970s. These novels inspired the Maoist (and otherwise left radical) Scandinavian mystery writers. Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbo, and a number of others have followed the path of using the mystery as a mechanism for exploring the faults of society. Not too far, in some ways, from the path of Dashiell Hammett.