Though smaller than DorothyL (around 550 members, compared to some 3,000 on DorothyL) this group of seriously addicted readers shares monthly reviews of what they're reading, discusses three common books each month voted on by the membership (including books in series), and shares household tips on how to adapt an oven for book storage when the rest of the house is full. Though members confess to binge reading and overextending both their library and credit cards in pursuit of books, they're surrounded by enablers and must seek elsewhere for a cure.

Like the DorothyL compilation, this one includes books published in any year, and reflects a relaxed approach to basic math. It also provides a choice selection of over 350 books enjoyed by readers who know the genre well, love sharing new discoveries, and have read widely enough to know "bestseller" and "best" are not synonymous.

Barbara Fister
February 2004

10 - Billingham, Mark / Sleepyhead

9 - Seranella, Barbara / Unpaid Dues

8 - Connelly, Michael / Lost Light
8 - Lansdale, Joe / A Fine Dark Line
8 - Robinson, Peter / The Summer That Never Was (Close To Home)

6 - Lehane, Dennis / Shutter Island
6 - Tracy, P.J. / Monkeewrench

5 - Billingham, Mark / Lazybones
5 - Rankin, Ian / A Question of Blood
5 - Spencer-Fleming, Julia / In the Bleak Midwinter

4 - Baker, John / Death Minus Zero
4 - Baker, John / The Meanest Flood
4 - Billingham, Mark / Scaredycat
4 - Brookmyre, Christopher / Quite Ugly One Morning
4 - Brown, Dan / The Da Vinci Code
4 - James, P .D. / The Murder Room
4 - Malone, Michael / Uncivil Season
4 - Muller, Eddie / The Distance
4 - Robinson, Peter / Aftermath
4 - Slaughter, Karin / Blindsighted
4 - Walters, Minette / Acid Row

3 - Baker, John / Poet In the Gutter
3 - Cohen, Gabriel/ Red Hook
3 - Fairstein, Linda / The Bone Vault
3 - Fforde, Jasper / The Well of Lost Plots
3 - Hamilton, Steve / Blood Is the Sky
3 - Lehane, Dennis / Mystic River
3 - McDermid, Val / The Distant Echo
3 - Mina, Denise / Garnethill
3 - Mina, Denise / Exile
3 - Mina, Denise / Resolution
3 - Pawel, Rebecca / Death of a Nationalist
3 - Rucka, Greg / A Fist Full of Rain
3 - Seranella, Barbara / No Human Involved
3 - Seranella, Barbara / Unfinished Business
3 - Slaughter, Karin / A Faint Cold Fear
3 - Smith, Alexander McCall / The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
3 - Welsh, Louise / The Cutting Room

2 - Booth, Stephen / Black Dog
2 - Booth, Stephen / Blood On the Tongue
2 - Brookmyre, Christopher / One Fine Day In the Middle of the Night
2 - Brown, Dan / Angels & Demons
2 - Bruen, Ken / The Guards
2 - Bruen, Ken / The Killing of the Tinkers
2 - Burke, James Lee / The Last Car To Elysian Fields
2 - Burke, Jan / Nine
2 - Clausen, Lowen / Second Watch
2 - Coben, Harlan / No Second Chance
2 - Corbett, David / The Devil’s Redhead
2 - Crais, Robert / L.A. Requiem
2 - Evans, Mary Anna / Artifacts
2 - Fairstein, Linda / Cold Hit
2 - Ferrigno, Robert / Flinch
2 - Fister, Barbara / On Edge
2 - Ford, G.M. / Fury
2 - Fusilli, Jim / Closing Time
2 - Gellis, Roberta / A Mortal Bane
2 - Griffith, Nicola / Stay
2 - Haddam, Jane / Somebody Else's Music
2 - Haddon, Mark / The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2 - Harvey, John / In A True Light
2 - Heley, Veronica / Murder at the Altar
2 - Hill, Reginald / Blood Sympathy
2 - James, Dean / Posted to Death
2 - Kernick, Simon / The Murder Exchange
2 - King, Laurie R. / Keeping Watch
2 - Lanier, Virginia / A Bloodhound to Die For
2 - Lehane, Dennis / Darkness, Take My Hand
2 - Lippman, Laura / Every Secret Thing
2 - Mankell, Henning / Faceless Killers
2 - McBain, Ed / Fat Ollie’s Book
2 - Pawson, Stuart / The Mushroom Man
2 - Pawson, Stuart / Chill Factor
2 - Pawson, Stuart / Laughing Boy
2 - Rozan, S.J. / Concourse
2 - Seranella, Barbara / Unwanted Company
2 - Seranella, Barbara / No Man Standing
2 - Smith, Alexander McCall / The Full Cupboard of Life
2 - Smith, Sarah / Chasing Shakespeares
2 - Taylor, Andrew / The Four Last Things
2 - Tey, Josephine / Daughter of Time
2 - Walters, Minette / The Ice House
2 - Willis, Connie / To Say Nothing of the Dog

1 - Akunin, Boris / The Winter Queen
1 - Albert, Susan Wittig / Love Lies Bleeding
1 - Alvtegen, Karin / Missing
1 - Andres, Robert / Murder of Honor
1 - Andrews, Donna / Murder With Peacocks
1 - Andrews, Donna / Click Here for Murder
1 - Andrews, Donna / Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon
1 - Baker, John / Shooting in the Dark
1 - Baker, John / Walking With Ghosts
1 - Baker, John / The Chinese Girl
1 - Banks, T.F. / The Emperor's Assassin
1 - Barnes, Linda / The Big Dig
1 - Barron, Stephanie / Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor
1 - Bartholomew, Nancy / The Miracle Strip
1 - Beaton, M C / Agatha Raisin & The Potted Gardener
1 - Berenson, Laurien / Best In Show
1 - Block, Lawrence / Burglars can't be Choosers
1 - Block, Lawrence / Eight Million Ways to Die
1 - Block, Lawrence / Out On The Cutting Edge
1 - Booth, Stephen / Dancing With the Virgins
1 - Booth, Stephen / Blind to the Bones
1 - Bowen, Peter / The Stick Game
1 - Bowen, Peter / Cruzatte and Maria
1 - Bowen, Peter / Badlands
1 - Bowen, Rhys / Murphy’s Law
1 - Box, C.J. / Winterkill
1 - Boyd, William / The Blue Afternoon
1 - Bradby, Tom / The White Russian
1 - Brewer, Steve / Fool’s Paradise
1 - Bruen, Ken / The White Trilogy
1 - Buchanan, Edna / Garden of Evil
1 - Burke, Alafair / Judgement Calls
1 - Burke, Jan / Bones
1 - Butcher, Jim / Death Masks
1 - Camilleri, Andrea (translated by Stephen Sartarelli) / The Terra-Cotta Dog
1 - Campbell, Reginald / The Haunting of Kathleen Saunders
1 - Carlotto, Massimo / The Colombian Mule
1 - Chandler, Raymond / The Big Sleep
1 - Chandler, Raymond / Farewell My Lovely
1 - Charles, Kate / Cruel Habitations
1 - Child, Lee / Persuader
1 - Christie, Agatha / Halowe'en Party
1 - Christie, Agatha / Five Little Pigs aka Murder in Retrospect and The Hollow
1 - Christie, Agatha / The Seven Dials Mystery
1 - Clausen, Lowen / First Avenue
1 - Coben, Harlan / Fade Away
1 - Coben, Harlan / Tell No One
1 - Cockey, Tim / The Hearse You Came in on
1 - Cockey, Tim / Murder In the Hearse Degree
1 - Cody, Liza / Musclebound
1 - Cohen, Jeffrey / For Whom the Minivan Rolls
1 - Connelly, Michael / Chasing the Dime
1 - Connelly, Michael / A Darkness More Than Night
1 - Connolly, John / Bad Men
1 - Corbett, David / Done For A Dime
1 - Cornwell, Bernard / The Gallows Thief
1 - Crichton, Michael / Prey
1 - Crombie, Deborah / And Justice There Is None
1 - Crumley, James / The Last Good Kiss
1 - Dartois, Yves / L’horoscope du mort
1 - Davis, Lindsey / The Accusers
1 - Davis, Val / Return of the Spanish Lady
1 - Davison, Philip / The Crooked Man
1 - Davison, Philip / MacKenzie's Friend
1 - Deaver, Jeffery / The Stone Monkey
1 - Deaver, Jeffery / The Vanished Man
1 - De Mille, Nelson / The General’s Daughter
1 - Doctorow, E.L. / The Waterworks
1 - Doolittle, Sean / Dirt
1 - Doyle, Roddy / The Van
1 - Dreyer, Eileen / With a Vengeance
1 - Dunn, Carola / Styx and Stones
1 - Elllis, David / Life Sentence
1 - Ellis, Kate / An Unhallowed Grave
1 - Ellis, Kate / The Armada Boy
1 - Erickson, K.J. / The Last Witness
1 - Evanovich, Janet / To The Nines
1 - Evanovich, Janet & Charlotte Hughes / Full Tilt
1 - Evans, Liz / Barking!
1 - Eversz, Robert M. / Killing Paparazzi
1 - Fallon, Ann C. / Hour of our Death
1 - Fallon, Ann C. / Blood Is Thicker
1 - Ferrigno, Robert / Scavenger Hunt
1 - Fforde, Jasper / The Eyre Affair
1 - Fforde, Jasper / Lost In a Good Book
1 - Finder, Joseph / High Crimes
1 - Fine, David / The Executioner's Art
1 - Finney, Jack / Time and Again
1 - Fitzhugh, Bill / Pest Control
1 - Fitzhugh, Bill / Heart Seizure
1 - Francis, Dick / The Edge
1 - Francis, Dick / For Kicks
1 - Frazer, Margaret / The Boy’s Tale
1 - Garcia, Eric / Casual Rex
1 - Gardner, Lisa / The Third Victim
1 - Gardner, Lisa / Survivors’ Club
1 - George, Elizabeth / A Great Deliverance
1 - George, Elizabeth / Playing for the Ashes
1 - Gerritsen, Tess / The Apprentice
1 - Gordon, Alan / Thirteenth Night
1 - Gordon, Alan / Jester Leaps In
1 - Grafton, Sue / G Is For Gumshoe
1 - Graham, Caroline / Death of a Hollow Man
1 - Gregory, Susanna / A Plague on Both Your Houses
1 - Griffin, WEB / Semper Fi
1 - Grimes, Martha / The Man with a Load of Mischief
1 - Hamilton, Denise / Sugar Skull
1 - Hamilton, Steve / North of Nowhere
1 - Hamilton, Steve / The Hunting Wind
1 - Handler, David / Cold Blue Blood
1 - Hansen, Joseph / Fadeout
1 - Harris, Charlaine / Club Dead
1 - Harris, Lee / The Yom Kippur Murder
1 - Harris, Lee / Murder in Hell’s Kitchen
1 - Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia (read by TerryWale) / Dead End
1 - Harstad, Donald / Code 61
1 - Hart, Erin / Haunted Ground
1 - Hart, Caroline / Letter from Home
1 - Harvey, John (read by Ron Keith) / Still Waters
1 - Harvey, John / Flesh & Blood
1 - Hayder, Mo / The Treatment
1 - Helms, Richard / Wet Debt
1 - Hemingway, Ernest / To Have and Have Not
1 - Hendricks, Vicki / Miami Purity
1 - Heywood, Joseph / Blue Wolf In Green Fire
1 - Hill, Reginald / A Pinch of Snuff
1 - Hill, Reginald / Bones and Silence
1 - Hill, Reginald / Dialogues of the Dead
1 - Hill, Reginald / Death’s Jest-Book
1 - Hillenbrand, Laura / Seabiscuit
1 - Hilton, James / Lost Horizon
1 - Hoeye, Michael (read byScott Campbell) / Time Stops for No Mouse
1 - Horton, Babs / A Jarful of Angels
1 - Horton, Lesley / Snares of Guilt
1 - Household, Geoffrey / Rogue Male
1 - Iles, Greg / The Quiet Game
1 - Iles, Greg / Sleep no More
1 - Isaacs, Susan / Compromising Positions
1 - Isaacs, Susan / Long Time, No See
1 - Jacobs, Jonnie / Cold Justice
1 - James, Dean / Faked to Death
1 - James, P.D. / A Skull Beneath the Skin
1 - James, P.D. / Death In Holy Orders
1 - John, Michael / Murder On the Waterfront
1 - Kanon, Joseph / The Good German
1 - Kava, Alex / A Perfect Evil
1 - Kellerman, Jonathan / A Cold Heart
1 - Kellerman, Jonathan / The Conspiracy Club
1 - Killian, Diana (D.L. Brown) / High Rhymes and Misdemeanors
1 - King, Laurie R. / A Grave Talent
1 - King, Laurie R. / The Beekeepers Apprentice
1 - King, Laurie R. / Justice Hall
1 - Krich, Rochelle / Blues In The Night
1 - Langton, Jane / The Escher Twist
1 - Lansdale, Joe / The Bottoms
1 - Lawrence, Hilda / Blood Upon the Snow
1 - Lawrence, Margaret / Hearts and Bones
1 - Lebrun, Michel / Pleins feux sur Sylvie
1 - Lee, Christopher / The Bath Detective
1 - Lehane, Dennis / A Drink Before the War
1 - Leon, Donna / Death At La Fenice
1 - Leon, Donna / The Anonymous Venetian (Dressed For Death)
1 - Linscott, Gillian / Blood On the Wood
1 - Lippman, Laura / In a Strange City
1 - Lovesey, Peter / Bloodhounds
1 - Lovesey, Peter / Diamond Dust
1 - Lovesey, Peter / The House Sitter
1 - Lovesey, Peter (read by Christopher Kay) / A Case of Spirits
1 - Macdonald, Marianne / Death's Autograph
1 - MacDonald, Philip / Mystery of the Dead Police
1 - MacLeod, Charlotte / The Family Vault
1 - MacShane, Mark / The Headless Snowman
1 - Malmont, Valerie / Death Pays the Rose Rent
1 - Malone, Michael / First Lady
1 - Maloney, Shane / Nice Try
1 - Maloney, Shane / Something Fishy
1 - Mankell, Henning / Faceless Killers
1 - Mankell, Henning / The Fifth Woman
1 - Marcoux, Alex / Back To Salem
1 - Marklund, Liza / The Bomber
1 - Massey, Sujata / The Salaryman’s Wife
1 - Matera, Lia / The Smart Money
1 - McBain, Ed / Doll
1 - McCarthy, Keith / A Feast of Carrion
1 - McDermid, Val / Booked for murder
1 - McDermid, Val / Union Jack
1 - McDermid, Val / A Place of Execution
1 - McGown, Jill / Births, Deaths & Marriages
1 - McIlvanney, William / Strange Loyalties
1 - Moore, Harker / A Cruel Season For Dying
1 - Mosley, Walter / A Little Yellow Dog
1 - Mosley, Walter / Bad Boy Brawly Brown
1 - Muller, Eddie / Shadow Boxer
1 - Muller, Marcia / Wolf in the Shadow
1 - Nabb, Magdalen / Death of a Dutchman
1 - Newman, Sharan / The Devil's Door
1 - Newman, Sharan / Heresy
1 - Newman, Sharah / The Difficult Saint
1 - O’Connell, Carol / The Man Who Cast Two Shadows
1 - O’Connell, Carol / Dead Famous
1 - O’Donnell, Lillian / Pushover
1 - Pahlinuik, Chuck / Lullaby
1 - Paige, Robin / Death At Bishop’s Keep
1 - Palmer, Michael / Silent Treatment
1 - Paretsky, Sara / Blacklist
1 - Parker, T. Jefferson / Cold Pursuit
1 - Patterson, James / Along came a spider
1 - Patterson, James / Four Blind Mice
1 - Patterson, James / Big Bad Woolf
1 - Paul, Barbara / Fare Play
1 - Pawson, Stuart / The Picasso Scam
1 - Pawson, Stuart / The Judas Sheep
1 - Pawson, Stuart / Deadly Friends
1 - Pawson, Stuart / Limestone Cowboy
1 - Pearson, Ridley / Undercurrents
1 - Pelecanos, George P. / Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go
1 - Pelecanos, George P. / Right As Rain
1 - Pelecanos, George P. / Hell To Pay
1 - Pelecanos, George P. / Soul Circus
1 - Pelecanos, George P. / Hard Revolution
1 - Penman, Sharon / Dragon's Lair
1 - Penman, Sharon Kay / The Queen's Man
1 - Perry, Anne / Rutland Place
1 - Peters, Elizabeth / Children of the Storm
1 - Picoult, Jodi / Second Glance
1 - Pratchett, Terry / Night Watch
1 - Price, Richard / Samaritan
1 - Pronzini, Bill / Spook
1 - Pronzini, Bill / The Vanished
1 - Pryce, Malcolm / Last Tango in Aberystwyth
1 - Pullman, Philip / The Golden Compass (apa Northern Lights)
1 - Rankin, Ian / Knots and Crosses
1 - Rankin, Ian / Mortal Causes
1 - Ransome, Stephen / The Night, the Woman
1 - Reaves, Sam / Dooley’s Back
1 - Reed, Mary & Eric Mayer / Two For Joy
1 - Reichs, Kathy / Déjà Dead
1 - Reichs, Kathy / Bare Bones
1 - Rendell, Ruth / A Judgement in Stone
1 - Rennick, Robert / The Fallen
1 - Rice, Anne / Blackwood Farm
1 - Roach, Mary / Stiff
1 - Robb, J .D. / Glory in Death
1 - Roe, Caroline / An Antidote for Avarice
1 - Rosenberg, Joel / Home Front
1 - Rosenfelt, David / Open and Shut
1 - Rosenfelt, David / First Degree
1 - Rowe, Jennifer / Lamb To the Slaughter
1 - Rowling, J.K. / Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
1 - Rozan, S.J. / No Colder Place
1 - Rozan, S.J. / Winter and Night
1 - Sandford, John / Naked Prey
1 - Saul, John / The Manhattan Hunt Club
1 - Saulnier, Beth / Ecstasy
1 - Scott, Manda / No Good Deed
1 - See, Lisa / Dragon Bones
1 - Siegel, Sheldon / Final Verdict
1 - Slaughter, Karin / Kisscut
1 - Smith, Alexander McCall (read by Lisette Lecat) / Tears of the Giraffe
1 - Smith, Alexander McCall (read by Lisette Lecat) / The Kalahari Typing School for Men
1 - Smith, Alexander McCall / Morality For Beautiful Girls
1 - Smith, April / North of Montana
1 - Stabenow, Dana / A Grave Denied
1 - Stabenow, Dana / The Singing of the Dead
1 - Steinhauer, Olen / The Bridge Of Sighs
1 - Stevens, Rosemary / Death On a Silver Tray
1 - Swofford, Anthony / Jarhead
1 - Taylor, Alison / The House of Women
1 - Taylor, Andrew / Our Father’s Lies
1 - Taylor, Andrew / The American Boy
1 - Todd, Charles / Search the Dark
1 - Trocheck, Kathy Hogan / Irish Eyes
1 - Van Giesen, Judith / Land of Burning Heat
1 - Véry, Pierre / Les métamorphoses
1 - Waiwaiole, Lono / Wiley's Lament
1 - Walker, Mary Willis / All the Dead Lie Down
1 - Walter, Jess / Over Tumbled Graves
1 - Walter, Jess / Land of the Blind
1 - Walters, Minette / The Dark Room
1 - Walters, Minette / Fox Evil
1 - Waters, Sarah / Fingersmith
1 - Williams, Darren / Angel Rock
1 - Williams, Len / Justice Deferred
1 - Wilson, Laura / A Little Death
1 - Wilson, Laura / Dying Voices
1 - Wilson, Laura / My best Friend
1 - Wilson, Laura / Hello Bunny Alice
1 - Wingfield, R.D. / Hard Frost
1 - Wingfield, R.D. / Winter Frost
1 - Woods, Paula / Inner City Blues
1 - Woods, Stuart / Chiefs

Series

2 - Pawson, Stuart / Charlie Priest
1 - Booth, Stephen / Ben Cooper / Dianne Fry
1 - Evanovich, Janet / Stephanie Plum
1 - Johnston, Paul / Quintillian Dalrymple
1 - Smith, Alexander McCall / The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency