It's that time of year again, when some of us put away the academic tomes and start thinking ... beach reading. If you're lucky enough to be heading to a beach this summer, or just want something light to take your mind off of your scholarly pursuits for a little while, you might try one of these recent award winners:
The cruelest month by Louise Penny won the 2008 Agatha Award for Best Mystery Novel. Winners of this award are modern works that best exemplify the "cozy", a traditional style of the genre often used by Agatha Christie. Cozies tend to take place in a confined space with characters who know eachother and never contain graphic violence or sex.
The Mystery Writers of America awarded three Edgar Awards this April. Blue heaven by C.J. Box won Best Novel for 2009. Paper towns by John Green won in the Best Young Adult Novel category and China Lake by Meg Gardiner won for Best Paperback Original. All three titles are available through ConnectNY or WorldCat and we should be getting Blue heaven in soon.
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is given to a work of literary science fiction published originally in Britain. This year's award goes to The song of time by Ian R. MacLeod. As with the Edgar Award winners, this title is available through Inter-Library Loan.
The Irish Literary Academy awarded Sebastian Barry the 2009 award for Listeners' Choice and Novel of the Year, for his novel, Secret Scripture, available at Case-Geyer.
The 2009 New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism went to Jane Meyer for her recent book, The dark side : the inside story of how the war on terror turned into a war on American ideals. We've got this book on the shelves, so if you prefer a little gritty reality in your off-time, you might pick that one up at Case-Geyer.
Not inspired by any of these titles? Here's the Editor's Choice list from a recent New York Times Book Review.
Happy reading.
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