Another reading list for the summer. This time, let’s take a look at Stephen King’s recommendations.
The Millenium Trilogy (Stiegg Larsson)
The Millenium Trilogy is Swedish author Stiegg Larsson‘s first murder mystery novel. Composed of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest, it’s the story of journalist Mikael Blomkvist, investigating the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, who belongs to one of Sweden’s wealthiest families, the Vanger family. Together with Lisbeth Salamander, a 24-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker, they uncover the truth about the Vanger family and the corruption of Swedish industrialism.
The Passage (Justin Cronin)
The first part of a trilogy, The Passage is about FBI agent Brad Wolgast, who breaks protocol and the rules of his job, to save Amy Harper Bellafonte, a six-year-old refugee from the FBI’s doomed scientific project that has triggered the apocalypse. Together with Brad, Amy must go back to where it started to finish it once and for all.
The Unnamed (Joshua Ferris)
In The Unnamed, Tim Farnsworth walks everywhere, all the time. He walks out of bed, out of the house, in the cold, under the heat, out of meetings, away from his job. He walks without stopping, until he gets tired and falls asleep, wherever he may be. His wife tries to make sure he’s always safe, including midnight trips to pick him up. But how long can they last?
Strip (Thomas Perry)
Manco Kapak, strip club owner and LA gangster, has been repeatedly robbed by a masked gunman. He sends out his security to find out the culprit. Meanwhile, Lt. Nick Slosses, the detective in charge of his case, has his own worries, including how to send his oldest sons, from different wives, to college without the other mother knowing.
Storm Prey (John Sandford)
Three big men break into a pharmacy and tie up the two workers before they clean the place out, but things don’t go according to plan when one of the workers dies. They hustle out to their truck and, for a brief second, comes to face-to-face with a blonde woman: Weather Karkinnen, a surgeon, who just happens to be the wife of investigator, Lucas Davenport. Worried she might have seen them, their only choice is to eliminate the witness.
Ordinary Thunderstorms (William Boyd)
Adam Kindred is in London for a job interview and he’s feeling quite good. He stops by for a meal at a little Italian bistro and strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner. In a quick second, he loses everything, his home, family, friends, reputation, passport, everything. He’s now being hunted by a hired killer and has no choice but to go underground to find himself, together with an army of the disappeared, like him.
Have you read any of these books? What did you think? Did you like it?
