Richard's Books: A list for our beloved curmudgeon

Please post the books you send RD so that others don't duplicate before I update the thread. Thanks.

Books Richard would love to have

RD would love to reread the Sister Fidelma mysteries. There are 25 in total. I have listed the first 10. I'll add more as they are sent out.

Book 4 The Subtle Serpent by Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis)

Book 5 The Spider's Web by Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis)

Book 6 Valley of the Shadow by Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis)

Book 7 The Monk who Vanished by Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis)

Book 8 Act of Mercy by Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis)

Book 9 Hemlock at Vespers by Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis)

Book 10 Our Lady of Darkness by Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis)

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RD would love to read Miss Silver mysteries by Patricia Wentworth. There are 32 in total. I have listed the first 10 and will update as they are sent out.

Book 1 Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth

Book 2 The Case is Closed by Patrica Wentworth

Book 3 Lonesome Road by Patricia Wentworth

Book 4 Danger Point by Patricia Wentworth

Book 5 The Chinese Shawl by Patricia Wentworth

Book 6 Miss Silver Deals with Death by Patricia Wentworth

Book 7 The Clock Strikes Twelve by Patricia Wentworth

Book 8 The Key by Patricia Wentworth

Book 9 She Came Back by Patricia Wentworth

Book 10 Pilgrim's Rest by Patricia Wentworth

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RD would love to get Inspector Montalbano books. Books 1-11 have now been spoken for.

Book 12 The Track of Sand by Andrea Camilleri

Book 13 The Potter's Field by Andrea Camilleri

Book 14 The Age of Doubt by Andrea Camilleri

Book 15 The Dance of the Seagull by Andrea Camilleri

Book 16 Treasure Hunt by Andrea Camilleri

Please feel free to send books 11 on of the Montalbano series. Post below what you have sent him.

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RD said he would love to get surprise Canadian Literature. Please go for it and post what you've sent so we don't send him duplicates!

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I'll strike books out as they are spoken for and update the list below every few days.

Books Richard has now received These are listed in alphabetical order

Absolution by Murder by Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis)

All Shall be Well Deborah Crombie

Altar of Eden by James Rollins

The Amber Room: A Novel by Berry, Steve

August Heat by Andrea Camilleri

Autobiography of a Face Lucy Grealy

Bald New World by Peter Tieryas Liu

The Better Part of Valor by Tanya Huff

Big Red Tequila by Rick Riordan

Bloodline (Sigma Force) by Rollins, James

The Bone People by Keri Hulme

A Brother's Price by Wen Spencer

The Catherine Wheel by Patricia Wentworth

The Christmas Carol Murders by Christopher Lord

Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry

The Doomsday Key: A Sigma Force Novel by Rollins, James

The Edwin Drood Murders by Christopher Lord

The Emperor's Tomb (with bonus short story The Balkan Escape): A Novel (Cotton Malone) by Berry, Steve

Enigma by Robert Harris Not quite what I was planning: six-word memoir

Excursion to Tindari by Andrea Camilleri

The Eye of God (Sigma Force) Rollins, James

Flower Net by Lisa See

The Food of a Younger Land by Mark Kurlansky

The Good German by Joseph Kanon

Grey Mask by Patricia Wentworth

Hangman's Root by Susan Wittig Albert

The Haunted By Niki Valentine

The Hunger Angel - Herta Müller

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot

The Jefferson Key (with bonus short story The Devil's Gold): A Novel (Cotton Malone)
Berry, Steve

The Judas Strain by James Rollins

The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham

The Lady of Sorrows Anne Zouroudi

Last Train to Paradise by Les Standiford

Latter End by Patrica Wentworth

Leave the Grave Green Deborah Crombie

Low Port by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin

Map of Bones by James Rollins

Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer by Katie Alender

Mesmerized by Gayle Lynds

The Midnight Mayor by Kate Griffin

The Myrtles Plantation Frances Kermeen

The Neon Court by Kate Griffin

Not quite what I was planning: six-word memoirs by Larry Smith

The Paper Moon by Andrea Camilleri

The Patience of the Spider by Andrea Camilleri

The Puttermesser Papers Cynthia Ozick

Red Thunder by John Varley

Rosemary Remembered by Susan Wittig Albert

Rounding the Mark by Andrea Camilleri

Rueful Death by Susan Wittig Albert

Shake the Devil Off Ethan Brown

A Share in Death Deborah Crombie

Ship Breaker- Paolo Bacigalupi

Shroud for the Archbishop by Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis)

The Smell of the Night by Andrea Camilleri

The Snack Thief by Andrea Camilleri

So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson

Suffer Little Children by Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis)

The Terra-Cotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri

The Third Secret: A Novel by Berry, Steve

The Time Traveler's Almanac by Ann VanderMeer

The Traveller Returns by Patricia Wentworth

Trouble With Lichen by John Wyndham

Thyme of Death (China Bayles, #1) by Susan Wittig Albert

The Undrowned Child - Michelle Lovric

Us Conductors by Sean Michaels

Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri

Wings of the Sphinx by Andrea Camilleri

Wireless: The Essential Charles Stross By Charles Stross

Witches' Bane by Susan Wittig Albert

Updated through post #36

Thanks, Roberta!

I sent him Bald New World, The Time Traveler's Almanac, Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer, and Wings of the Sphinx.

These are the ones i sent from Amazon... The others? no clue.

The Doomsday Key: A Sigma Force Novel
Rollins, James

Bloodline (Sigma Force)
Rollins, James

The Third Secret: A Novel
Berry, Steve

The Amber Room: A Novel
Berry, Steve

The Jefferson Key (with bonus short story The Devil's Gold): A Novel (Cotton Malone)
Berry, Steve

The Eye of God (Sigma Force)
Rollins, James

The Emperor's Tomb (with bonus short story The Balkan Escape): A Novel (Cotton Malone)
Berry, Steve

I sent:
The Haunted By Niki Valentine
Wireless: The Essential Charles Stross By Charles Stross

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I sent:
A Madness of Angels, The Midnight Mayor and The Neon Court by Kate Griffin
Red Thunder by John Varley
Low Port by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
The Better Part of Valor by Tanya Huff

I sent/received back/will be re-sending Big Red Tequila by Rick Riordan.

I will be sending:
The Kraken Wakes and Trouble With Lichen by John Wyndham
some time this week!

I sent

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
The Undrowned Child - Michelle Lovric
Ship Breaker - Paolo Bacigalupi
The Hunger Angel - Herta Müller

Post >3 jnwelch: >4 mckait: >5 ChelleBearss: >6 mckait: >7 ronincats: >8 BekkaJo: >9 LauraBrook: & >10 drachenbraut23: your books have been added to the books sent list in post >2 luvamystery65:

Thank you!

I've started the wish list in post >1 luvamystery65:

I'll send him #2-5 of the Andrea Camilleri series. Thanks for the update, Ro!

I will get him books 6-8 of the Andrea Camilleri series. Thanks so much Ro! :)

>12 katiekrug: & >13 jolerie: Thanks ladies. I know RD is looking forward to these books. He is almost to the bottom of the box with his current stash.

We sent the first five books in the China Bayles series, and I have the next seven in the series ready to go out this week. So Thyme of Death through An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries.

I'll send the first three Sister Fidelma.

Book 1 Absolution by Murder by Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis)

Book 2 Shroud for the Archbishop by Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis)

Book 3 Suffer Little Children by Peter Tremayne (Peter Berresford Ellis)

He said he was okay with used right?

Morphy, I read on another thread that RD wants us to send used if we can - I think it is to keep our expenses down.

>15 Crazymamie: I'll add those to the list Mamie. Thanks.

>16 Morphidae: Got it & >17 Morphidae: Absolutely he wants used mass market paperbacks. Nothing fancy as he is going through them quickly.

>18 alcottacre: That too Stasia.

Okay, they are on their way.

I sent him three mysteries by Frances and Richard Lockridge, from my box of duplicates. I did not make note of the titles, but they were all in the Inspector Heimrich series (their Norths feature C.A.T.S., which I knew would not please RD). As these are not currently in print, I doubt that anyone else would be choosing them.

>21 laytonwoman3rd: Thanks. I'm not going to note them in the sent list since they are out of print. I wish I was there when he receives them. I'd love to see the look on his face. ;-)

I didn't see these listed as sent, so this week I'll send books 9-10 in the Montalbano series, Paper Moon and August Heat.

Several weeks ago I sent Last Train to Paradise.

>23 Copperskye: I've added what you will be sending to Richard and what you have already sent. Thanks!

I'm going to send Us Conductors by Sean Michaels, which sounds interesting (thanks to Valerie for the review) and I believe fits the Canadian requirement.

I can send some of the Miss Silver books:

The Catherine Wheel
Latter End
The Traveller Returns
Grey Mask

There probably will be more once I identify where the rest of them are located. (They are in a back row on my shelves.)

I also have three of the early Deborah Crombie mysteries; does anyone know whether he wants or has read these?

All Shall be Well
Leave the Grave Green
A Share in Death

I also have set aside one of the Anne Zouroudi mysteries, The Lady of Sorrows, and Flower Net by Lisa See, Mesmerized by Gayle Lynds and Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry.

All are used paperbacks.

I don't have a snail mail address for him, however; only for his storage unit. If someone would like to PM that to me, I can put them in the mail.

^ I will send you the address that Kath sent me for RD (I posted him something today that I hope gets there), it's the address she had cut and pasted from her records.

ETA: *done*

Thanks, Megan. I checked his LT library, and not seeing that he has read the Crombie mysteries, will add those as well. I think that will make up three packages to go out.

I found 4 books for Richard in Joplin, with some help from Terri. All of the books are on his LT wish list except for one, which I just thought sounded like a Richard book. He will be getting Shake the Devil Off, Autobiography of a Face, The Myrtles Plantation, and The Puttermesser Papers from me - as soon as I get back home, that is.

I have three books from Rdear's WL that I am sending him. They are A Brother's Price by Wen Spencer, The Food of a Younger Land by Mark Kurlansky, and So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson.

I've updated through post >28 Chatterbox: and I'll update >29 alcottacre: & >30 Cobscook: this evening. I have not called Richard but hope to call him soon and see what he has received and let him know what we have sent him.

ETA: now updated through post #30

Thank you so much for keeping up with this. It is easy to have a little task like this to slip off the to do list, and yet we all know how much Richard will love receiving books he's not yet read. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I could not find any of those series books, from the top, at my favorite local used bookstore but I did find these and I am sending them out today:

The Bone People
The Good German
Enigma

I had one more but it wouldn't fit, so I will save it for the next round.

I'll be sending out Not quite what I was planning: six-word memoirs today.

I am evil! I am sending him two books from the Dickens Junction Mystery series. Yes, that's right--Dickens!! Mwah ha ha! On the good side, the first is The Christmas Carol Murders, so it is timely. It also has a great gay couple, one of whom cooks divinely. And it is set in Oregon, where I am from. ; )

So, that one and The Edwin Drood Murders.

Will be sending out my package this week...finally! Fingers crossed it gets to Rdear in time. :)

Updated through post #36. I tried Richard today but both times the line was busy. I'll keep trying.

ETA: I just got off the phone with Richard. I'm going to send him the list from post #2 so he can cross reference and see if anything is missing.

>35 Berly: *gasp* Dickens? Yikes ;) That should get RD running about in no time!

I'm a little late to this party but if there is something missing, something Richard wants that he does not yet have, I will be happy to pack 'em up and send his way. I'll check back here tomorrow to see how it appears to be going.
Thanks to Roberta and Kath and others who are keeping tabs.

If I'm reading this correctly, I can go purchase books 11-13 of the Andrea Camilleri (Inspector Montalbano) series and send them to RD, right?

If I get an affirmative, I'll go on line and order these:

Book 11 The Wings of the Sphinx by Andrea Camilleri

Book 12 The Track of Sand by Andrea Camilleri

Book 13 The Potter's Field by Andrea Camilleri

Will someone please PM me the address? Thanks!

addy sent.

>40 EBT1002: Not sure what Kath means in >41 mckait:, Ellen, but I thought I sent him Wings of a Sphinx a while ago. *checks* Yup, I did.

>40 EBT1002: Looks like yes, Joe sent Montalbano #11 but you should be able to send the other two (#12 & 13). I'll post them for you so no one else sends them to him. I'll PM you his address. I think Kath may have but better safe than sorry.

>41 mckait: You are correct Kath.

>42 jnwelch: Sorry Joe, I didn't cross it out, but I did post it sent. Forgive me. :-)

>42 jnwelch: No worries, Roberta. I can't believe how well you're keeping up. I just remembered I had sent it.

Okay, how about this: I'll confirm later but let's assume that I'm going to send him Montalbanos #12, #13, and oh what the hell, #14, #15, and #16 -- assuming Amazon has them in stock. SO - no one else send him any Montalbano mysteries until and unless I come back here and say I was unable to get one of them. :-)

Okay, I'm confirming. I sent the remaining five Montalbano novels to Richard. The Track of Sand, which is #12, is expected to get there the day after the others. If someone will tell him that the next one in the series is on its way but he'll have to wait a day...
It's Christmas, we're all having to wait to open that package, right? :-)

Shall I continue this thread in 2015?

If yes, should I call it Wish List instead of book list? RD does need some small personal items from time to time.

I've got this thread starred, so I can still follow it here. Would it get lost amid the frenzy of the start of the year in the 2015 group? That would be my only concern, but I'll follow it wherever it is.

If you do re-create it, Wish List would be apt.

I would follow it to the new list. Like Katie I think Wish List is apt.

>48 katiekrug: & >49 benitastrnad: Thank you. I think I will start the wish list next month when some of the new has worn off the threads. I'll post a link here.

Yes, adding wishes for items other than books would be nice. I hope his circumstances are sorted out soon so he can return to this little village of friends.

>50 luvamystery65: Thanks, Roberta. He read so much, no doubt he could use some more.

Did you carry it over Roberta?

I just sent him a few pocket tees and a pair of gym shorts.

I decided to wait until February Kath that way it doesn't get lost in the shuffle. I had sent him some foot powder and shower wash last month.

I'll post the link here when I start the thread.

I do hope he has placement by then but I'll still start the thread because goodness knows what expenses he will have.

I really hope he has placement, too. He just continues to sort of fall through cracks.. I hope someplace suitable turns up soon. He seems content enough, but I'm sure he is anxious bout it too...