"Cup of Gold," John Steinbeck
"1st to Die," James Patterson
Neither of these books makes it onto the official YAME reading list, but for what it's worth...
"Cup of Gold," Steinbeck's first published novel, is a highly fictionalized biography of the 17th Century pirate, Henry Morgan. Although the Barnes & Nobel web site tries valiantly to sell it, an objective note is provided by the reviewer, Anonymous:
I picked up this book because it was short and I only had 3 days to write a book report on it...
"1st to Die" is the first (imagine that) of Patterson's "Women's Murder Club" series. It's womany indeed. Way too womany for me, but hey, if you like that sort of stuff, knock yourself out. Reading Patterson is like eating potato chips - you can't just read one chapter. Fortunately (or un-, as the case may be) this relatively short book has 126 of them. And an epilogue.
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