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Denise Mina's Reading List

The Scottish crime writer, whose new book is “Conviction,” is drawn to “flawed characters asking big questions and taking action. … That said, I will read, literally, anything.”

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By the Book: Denise Mina (2019)

NYT By the Book column (2019-06-20).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold · Buy on Amazon
"I'm going to read it right now. The fire is on, phone is off, I have biscuits and three hours of nothing else to do."
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The Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov · Buy on Amazon
"I honestly despise people who don't love that book."
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Thérèse Raquin
Émile Zola · Buy on Amazon
"The books that got me hooked on crime fiction."
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Falling Angel
William Hjortsberg · Buy on Amazon
"The books that got me hooked on crime fiction."
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The Blunderer
Patricia Highsmith · Buy on Amazon
"The books that got me hooked on crime fiction."
Cover of Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir · Buy on Amazon
"I once read "Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter," by Simone de Beauvoir, three times in a row, because I was abroad and couldn't find any other books in English."
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Poverty Safari
Darren McGarvey · Buy on Amazon
"Books I would recommend to someone who wants to know more about Scotland."
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Black and Blue
Ian Rankin · Buy on Amazon
"Books I would recommend to someone who wants to know more about Scotland."
Cover of The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
Janice Galloway · Buy on Amazon
"Books I would recommend to someone who wants to know more about Scotland."
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Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe · Buy on Amazon
"Keefe manages to be an unflinching historian while wrapping it up in a compelling thriller-style narrative arc. I loved it because he talks about the 'moral injury' to those on both sides."
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Unknown · Buy on Amazon
"It began my lifelong love affair with reading as an escape, which is the very purest kind of reading."
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The Psychopath Test
Jon Ronson · Buy on Amazon
"Whatever your politics, that boy's not right."

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