I was fully intending to stop at one challenge for 2012. (I already have plenty of job-related reading deadlines, thank you very much.) BUT this one hosted by Ben at Dead End Follies looks so fun, and it encompasses a lot of genres I've been wanting to dabble in. So, eight books, 12 months . . .
Hardboiled classic: Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
Noir classic: Double Indemnity, James M. Cain
Prison book: King Rat, James Clavell
Book written by a writer who did time: If He Hollers, Let Him Go, Chester Himes
Book with psychopath protagonist: The Killer Inside Me, Jim Thompson
Gothic novel: Uncle Silas, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Classic where the plot revolves around a crime: The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins (reviewed in four parts: uno, dos, tres, cuatro)
The “why the hell am I doing this to myself?" book: We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
