By: Stieg Larsson

Decent corporate crime/murder mystery.

By: Tana French

The character arcs were fairly well developed.  The story overall has mix of tragedy, procedure and psychology but very little compelling mystery.   The most interesting part of the story,  a case where 2 children went missing in the woods ~20 years before the story starts, went unresolved; it left me feeling as though the book ended abruptly with a lazy conclusion (meant to be intriguing).

By: Caleb Carr

by: John Steinbeck

By: Joseph Conrad

by: George Bernard Shaw, 1903

“There are limits to what a mule or an ass will stand; but Man will suffer himself to be degraded until his vileness becomes so loathsome to his oppressors that they themselves are forced to reform it. ” (Don Juan)

“…I had become a new person; and those who knew the old person laughed at me. The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me. ” (Tanner)

by: H.G. Wells

by: Jhumpa Lahiri

by: Yann Martel

by: George Orwell