smallhobbit | Fannish Fifty: Crime Novels: Book Bingo card

winterpear remarked, there is a theme to a lot of my book reading, because I am a great fan of crime novels, and particularly those of what has been termed the Golden Age of crime (the inter-war years) because I like the plot and the solving of the crime, rather than a lot of introspection and violence for the sake of violence. So I do also read modern crime novels in the same vein, reserving my copy at the local library as soon as I see the book marked as 'on order'.

At the same time I also like to read more widely, rather than simply indulge my personal fannish love, which is why

kingstoken 's wonderful book bingo card is such a great idea. Several of the squares will be filled with crime novels, but others definitely require something else.

Two squares can be replaced by substitute categories, see below, plus two can be used as additional free places, so if there are some categories which really don't work then it's still possible to complete the card.

As last year, I have a set of reading lists which I shall be aiming to read one book from each month:
A: Books from my library TBR
B: Books recommended by Shedunnit members (also library)
C: Books on my physical TBR pile
D: Books of different series (this year Sam Wyndham (Mukherjee), Bradecote & Catchpoll (Hawkswood), Gervase Fen (Crispin), Needlecraft Mysteries (Ferris)
E: Shedunnit book of the month
F: All others, which includes six library reservations, plus three pre-orders

I've just signed up to read 75 books again this year on Goodreads. Looking at my pile of books, I'd say about two-thirds will fall into the crime mystery category - sounds good to me.

Categories:
Crime or Mystery - Death of an Author - E C R Lorac
Banned book - SUBSTITUTE - Colour in the Title - Land of Green Ginger - Winifred Holtby
Book made into a film or tv series - The Laughing Policeman - Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
Historical (fiction or non-fiction) - Shrines of Gaiety - Kate Atkinson
Number in title - The Thirteen Problems - Agatha Christie [audiobook]
Female author - Money in the Morgue - Ngaio Marsh & Stella Duffy
Book from your TBR - Death has Deep Roots - Michael Gilbert
Three word title - Changes at Fairacre - Miss Read
Craft, Hobby or Cook book - Cross Stitch Alphabets - Helene Le Berre
Written by an author from your state or country - Blood Runs Thicker - Sarah Hawkswood
Person's name in title - Agent Sonya - Ben MacIntyre
Book with a woman protagonist - Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
FREE SPACE - Murder in a Heatwave - ed. Cecily Gayford
Animal on the cover - Diary of a Somebody - Brian Bilston
Sci-fi or Fantasy - All Systems Red - Martha Wells
Author you've never read before - The Bangalore Detectives Club - Harini Nagendra
LGBTQ+ - Becoming Ted - Matt Cain
More than 300 pages - Madly, Deeply - the diaries of Alan Rickman
Disability or Mental health - SUBSTITUTE - Non-western Setting - A Necessary Evil - Abir Mukherjee
Recommended - The Marriage Portrait - Maggie O'Farrell
Romance plot or sub-plot - Heavy Weather - P G Wodehouse [audiobook]
Action or Thriller - Judas Horse - Lynda La Plante
Read a book from the year you were born - Wildfire at Midnight - Mary Stewart
e-book or Audiobook - The Drift - C J Tudor [audiobook]
Mythology - Circe - Madeline Miller