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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
However, my opinion is that the genres of the monthly winners don't reflect the variety of the nominations. I would group the last 9 months into 2 buckets. 5 in the mystery/crime/thriller category and 4 in the SF/fantasy category.
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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
But equally you could say there were two historical mysteries (The Daughter of Time and Alias Grace), two Classics (Edwin Drood and The Scarlet Pimpernel), one thriller (A Delicate Truth), three sort of SF (The Left Hand of Darkness, The House on the Strand, Never Let Me Go) and one non-fiction (The Great Halifax Explosion). Personally I don't think of the du Maurier as SF, nor the Ishiguro, but others may do. Oh, and one Fantasy with the upcoming The Graveyard Book.
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I'd never classify
The Scarlet Pimpernel as a mystery, nor would I classify
The House on the Strand as SF.
I'd say the only mystery has been
The Daughter of Time, and even that is not a typical mystery. I reluctantly have to include
A Delicate Truth as a thriller.
The only real SF has been
The Left Hand of Darkness, and I suppose
The Graveyard Book gets classified as fantasy, though I haven't read it yet.
To my mind, most of the choices have been classics (
The Scarlet Pimpernel,
Edwin Drood) or general literature (
Never Let Me Go,
The House on the Strand,
Alias Grace).
Looking at the list overall, it seems that we've read a fair amount of old-ish books and ignored newer ones. Isn't there a chart or graph somewhere with a breakdown on publication dates, author gender, country, etc.? I can't find it.