I used to read alot but never anywhere near as big as variety as you. Stephen King is so great for fiction stuff. His style is very descriptive, and reading it feels like you are physically in the space. It's such a shame he's seen as a "horror" writer. He is just a good storyteller. To make someone actually feel any semblance of actual fear/unease while reading is quite a feat, and he does it well. The anamorph books are good too lol 😉
Stephen King is a lot of fun. I also really liked both Scott Smith books. I have only read two Adam Nevill books but they were both good. I haven't read any of the others but am interested in checking them out, especially Ed McBain and Patricia Highsmith. My list would include Stephen King, Agatha Christie, Ken Follett, Robert Graves, Larry McMurtry, and Donald Westlake.
Yessss, Stephen King! I remember my teachers being so frustrated with me in middle school because I wouldn't read anything other than Stephen King or VC Andrews. Well, I still love them both as much now that I'm an adult, though thankfully, I've expanded my catalogue, haha. I'm very excited to get into Nat Cassidy and another author I've been enjoying is Susan Hill. Also, editing this to say that I need to read "Tell Me I'm Worthless." My backlog is huge!
Thanks Olly! I’ve heard of many of these but haven’t read many of their books, except for lots of S King. I’m very interested in SA Cosby, Scott Smith & Ed McBain (or is it McBane? I’m a horrible speller!!). My fav “horror” book will always be The Road by Cormac McCarthy. And I loved Lone Women by Victor LaValle. Thanks again!!
Patricia Highsmith and Scott Smith are two authors i really need to read. Its cool that you incuded as new as Alison Rumfitt. I liked Tell Me i am Worthless and i am anout 1/3 into Brainwurms. I may half to track down the Doctor Who novel.
It's nice to find another channel that talks about crime fiction - woefully underrepresented on TH-cam I think. There are several authors here I'd never heard of and need to research. Thanks for the video!
@@CriminOllyBlog I've enjoyed every single recommendation from you so far, so I have complete faith I will. Thanks again. Your videos are very much appreciated.
Great idea for a video topic Olly and got me thinking about my current list. I'd go with: Stephen King Irvine Welsh Agatha Christie PG Wodehouse Ragnar Jonassan Andrew Michael Hurley David Peace Harlan Coben Tom Hindle Adam Nevill. This list would have been different even just 5 years ago
Great video Olly! I have a large collection of Ed McBain books, really need to start reading more of his books.I have just not been in the mood for crime. I have also recently discovered Adam Nevill: The Ritual and really enjoyed the read. I will definitely be reading All The Fiends of Hell soon. I have heard some amazing reviews about Mary, definitely a novel I want to read next year. Tell Me I'm Worthless is on my tbr. Would love a top 10 horror authors video.
I came home from FCon with 47 new books this week. But oh well, looks like I need to extend my wish list and TBR again! I agree about Scott Smith - he's phenomenal!
You know that line from Jerry Maguire - ''you had me at hello'' ? Well ''you lost me at Stephen King'' 🤭 But I did watch the whole video. I do like Chambers but haven't tried many of the others apart from Stephen Snooze...ahem...King. I did purchase a Simple Plan but haven't read it yet.
I love the concept of this video! I'm looking forward to reading a book by Han Kang now that she has won the Nobel prize. I think I might start with The Vegetarian ... after I finish Clarissa which is a very slow paced epistalory book on the 1001 books to read before you die. I understand why this is on the list but I can't wait to be done with it lol. Oh and Stephen King is a master. Love his stuff and S A Cosby as well.
I enjoy Chambers' stuff but i'm not _quite_ as enamoured as many seem to be. King I was fanatical about back in the day and now we've kind of settled into a dip-in-and-out pattern (he's still pretty reliable though IMO). Highsmith is great. Some of the others sound interesting. Crime wise, Andrew Vacchs' Burke books are about as dark as i'm happy going (Burke is a _kind_ of PI who pretty much exclusively sticks to child abuse cases so as you'd imagine, it's basically all sunshine and rainbows. Ahem). Walter Moseley, Elmore Leonard both also great. And before Peter F Hamilton started producing breeze blocks, he wrote some decent sci-fi detective novels, starting with "Mindstar Rising". Chandler is still probably the GOAT for me though (yeah, yeah, stop the presses, "Raymond Chandler wrote pretty good crime fiction. Film at 11" :).
Wow, I am only familiar with three of the authors you’ve mentioned in the above video. I look forward to checking out the other authors you’ve mentioned, Olly.
Patricia Highsmith is my favourite writer, and I highly recommend that you read her non-fiction book 'Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction'. It gives very good insight into her writing with lots of examples from her fiction.
I've probably landed on the wrong channel since none of these authors are on my top 10 list. Highsmith is one I'd like to get around to. In terms of contemporary fiction, I read very little, so there's that. I consider Franz Kafka to be an author of horror fiction, or shall we say his subject matter is nightmarish and could qualify, at least in my book. Graham Greene wrote wonderful works of suspense and mystery that could be on my list.
Enjoyed hearing about your Top 10 authors currently. I've read many of them. Since you like horror too, have you read anything from A. Lopez, Jr. ? He is fantastic!
I would also include Stephen King, Nat Cassidy, and SA Cosby on my favorites list. I particularly am hoping to try Ed McBain and Patricia Highsmith soon. With the 47th Precinct book, do you feel they are best read in order?
Wonderful video, Olly. I, too, love Becky Chambers. I’ve just started reading S.A. Cosby. I think he’s terrific too. I read a wonderful profile of him a couple years ago in The NY Times, I think. I’ll try to find it again if you haven’t read it. Really interesting guy…
I’m curious about whether or not you have read any Jackson Brodie mysteries by Kate Atkinson? The plot devices you were describing sound a bit like her. I’m not sure how I feel about the content of her work, at times I feel it is slightly distasteful (I tend toward the cozy not the gritty) but I love how the loose ends all come together in the end and I love the character of Jackson. Curious as to your thoughts?
@@CriminOllyBlog the first one is Case Histories, and the most recent one just came out called The Sign of the Rook. The first one is fairly “old” and there’s been a bit of a gap between a few of them. I’d recommend reading them in order though.
Nice video, Olly! I have a question - what's your opinion on Ross Macdonald? He was a popular crime writer and I didn't hear him mentioned on this channel. Have a good one!
I highly recommend Derek Raymond's "Not Till the Red Fog Rises". It's a standalone thriller which is set in the Factory universe but has different characters. It's horrifying and hilarious, sometimes simultaneously. See also his "Nightmare in the Street", originally published only in French but came out in an English version some years ago.
@@CriminOllyBlog "The Crust on Its Uppers" is his first novel and it's a great read. It's vaguely autobiographical but his actual autobiography is "The Hidden Files".
- The classics, the names that never change: Lovecraft, Poe, Henry James, Stevenson, Dostoyevksi, Bécquer, Oscar Wilde, Jules Verne and many more. - Contemporary literature of the 20th century. Pretty solid too: Asimov, Bradbury, Philip K Dick, Alfred Bester, Frank Herbert, Michael Crichton, Herman Hesse, Graham Greene, Dashiell Hammet, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, Agatha Christie, Patricia Highsmith, Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Dean Koontz, Richard Laymon, Stine, Dan Simmons and others. - Emerging Authors: Adam Neville, Kristopher Triana, Todd Keisling, Gillian Flynn...I want to find more but i didnt like Stephen Graham Jones, Edward Lee, Grady Hendrix or Paul Tremblay so help me with some names please.
Interesting list because a lot of those writers verge on lit fic which you always say you don't like! Would this list differ from your "always buy" list?
I think I'd classify them all as genre fiction writers that had mastered their craft to the extent that they gained wider acclaim. It would differ I think - all these writers would be on that list, but there's a wider list of authors whose books I would always buy if I saw them second hand
Ed McBain: a favorite, great writer. Stephen King: I just can't take on some of those massive tomes, but he's great and super readable. Highsmith: very creepy, I've read only two or three.
Man, I hate you. Most of the authors you list here have no translation into Portuguese. Even Ed McBain has only a few titles here. It is very annoying to hear your opinions, that I endorse usually, and not to be able to check. And I strongly suggest to you to read Blake Crouch. A mix of science fiction with crimes. Recursion and wayward Pines trilogy are fantastic. Thanks for the video. 😊😊
I live in Michigan and leaving Stephen King out of a top 10 list if you live in the US would be like me leaving Motown out of my top 10 in music. I still haven't read The Green Mile. 🫢 So ordered it yesterday. Having just finished Starve Acre another Hurley is my next read.
Alright, let’s see what books I’m buying at the bookstore today. 😂
😂😂
Dammit, Olly. Stop adding books to my TBR!
Shant
Yes SA Cosby! Would love to have more Scott Smith to read too.
He needs to get on it!
Great video. I'm happy to see that Adam Nevill made the list. Nat Cassidy has been on my TBR for a while. Thanks for the reminder.
I think you’ll really enjoy Cassidy, Michael
I used to read alot but never anywhere near as big as variety as you. Stephen King is so great for fiction stuff. His style is very descriptive, and reading it feels like you are physically in the space. It's such a shame he's seen as a "horror" writer. He is just a good storyteller. To make someone actually feel any semblance of actual fear/unease while reading is quite a feat, and he does it well. The anamorph books are good too lol 😉
Agreed - I think he's a very natural storyteller
❤❤❤❤❤ love Stephen king currently reading the shining picked up elevation can’t wait to read it
He’s so good!
@@CriminOllyBlog I don’t know about that. Lately he’s been behaving quite bad.
Stephen King is a lot of fun. I also really liked both Scott Smith books. I have only read two Adam Nevill books but they were both good. I haven't read any of the others but am interested in checking them out, especially Ed McBain and Patricia Highsmith. My list would include Stephen King, Agatha Christie, Ken Follett, Robert Graves, Larry McMurtry, and Donald Westlake.
Hard to argue with any of your picks!
Apart from the first tow not heard of the rest so thanks for the reviews. Best wishes and happy reading.
The TBR list grows and grows and grows... :)
I have that problem too!
Yessss, Stephen King! I remember my teachers being so frustrated with me in middle school because I wouldn't read anything other than Stephen King or VC Andrews. Well, I still love them both as much now that I'm an adult, though thankfully, I've expanded my catalogue, haha. I'm very excited to get into Nat Cassidy and another author I've been enjoying is Susan Hill. Also, editing this to say that I need to read "Tell Me I'm Worthless." My backlog is huge!
Stephen King and VC Andrews feel like great teenage reading to me!
Thanks Olly! I’ve heard of many of these but haven’t read many of their books, except for lots of S King. I’m very interested in SA Cosby, Scott Smith & Ed McBain (or is it McBane? I’m a horrible speller!!). My fav “horror” book will always be The Road by Cormac McCarthy. And I loved Lone Women by Victor LaValle. Thanks again!!
It is McBain.
Lone Women and The Road are both great choices!
Patricia Highsmith and Scott Smith are two authors i really need to read.
Its cool that you incuded as new as Alison Rumfitt. I liked Tell Me i am Worthless and i am anout 1/3 into Brainwurms. I may half to track down the Doctor Who novel.
Hope you enjoy Highsmith and Smith!
It's nice to find another channel that talks about crime fiction - woefully underrepresented on TH-cam I think. There are several authors here I'd never heard of and need to research. Thanks for the video!
Yeah, there aren't many of us!
Loved Tell Me Im Worthless. I have yet to read Nat Cassidy but have ordered rest stop and Mary based on your glowing reviews of both of those
Hope you enjoy them as much as I did!
@@CriminOllyBlog I've enjoyed every single recommendation from you so far, so I have complete faith I will. Thanks again. Your videos are very much appreciated.
Lookin good with that full beard, Man!!
Thank you!
I discovered SA Cosby via your channel, so diolch yn fawr for that 😃
My pleasure!
Great idea for a video topic Olly and got me thinking about my current list. I'd go with:
Stephen King
Irvine Welsh
Agatha Christie
PG Wodehouse
Ragnar Jonassan
Andrew Michael Hurley
David Peace
Harlan Coben
Tom Hindle
Adam Nevill.
This list would have been different even just 5 years ago
Nice list! I think I’ve read all of them apart from Tom Hindle who I clearly need to try
Great video Olly! I have a large collection of Ed McBain books, really need to start reading more of his books.I have just not been in the mood for crime. I have also recently discovered Adam Nevill: The Ritual and really enjoyed the read. I will definitely be reading All The Fiends of Hell soon. I have heard some amazing reviews about Mary, definitely a novel I want to read next year. Tell Me I'm Worthless is on my tbr. Would love a top 10 horror authors video.
Hope too enjoy McBain when you dive into that collection! Thanks Cliff
I finished nat Cassidy’s Rest Stop today and read Mary last year. I enjoyed both but Rest Stop was impossible to put down. So gnarly!
Wasn’t it! Such a gripping book
Loved this video. Just came across you now. And subscribed!
Yay! Thank you!
I came home from FCon with 47 new books this week. But oh well, looks like I need to extend my wish list and TBR again! I agree about Scott Smith - he's phenomenal!
Wow, that's impressive!
@@CriminOllyBlog Impressive/Unhinged lol
You know that line from Jerry Maguire - ''you had me at hello'' ? Well ''you lost me at Stephen King'' 🤭 But I did watch the whole video. I do like Chambers but haven't tried many of the others apart from Stephen Snooze...ahem...King. I did purchase a Simple Plan but haven't read it yet.
I really really think you'll like a Simple Plan. And King has written at least one non fiction sports book I think
Yes! Crosby is so good!! I am hyped for his next book
Me too! He's great
Awesome list!
Thanks!
I love the concept of this video! I'm looking forward to reading a book by Han Kang now that she has won the Nobel prize. I think I might start with The Vegetarian ... after I finish Clarissa which is a very slow paced epistalory book on the 1001 books to read before you die. I understand why this is on the list but I can't wait to be done with it lol.
Oh and Stephen King is a master. Love his stuff and S A Cosby as well.
I read The Vegetarian a few years ago and while I didn’t love it, it’s definitely an interesting book
I enjoy Chambers' stuff but i'm not _quite_ as enamoured as many seem to be. King I was fanatical about back in the day and now we've kind of settled into a dip-in-and-out pattern (he's still pretty reliable though IMO). Highsmith is great. Some of the others sound interesting.
Crime wise, Andrew Vacchs' Burke books are about as dark as i'm happy going (Burke is a _kind_ of PI who pretty much exclusively sticks to child abuse cases so as you'd imagine, it's basically all sunshine and rainbows. Ahem). Walter Moseley, Elmore Leonard both also great. And before Peter F Hamilton started producing breeze blocks, he wrote some decent sci-fi detective novels, starting with "Mindstar Rising". Chandler is still probably the GOAT for me though (yeah, yeah, stop the presses, "Raymond Chandler wrote pretty good crime fiction. Film at 11" :).
I do need to try Vacchs. I read one years ago but don’t really remember it. Moseley very nearly made the list
Wow, I am only familiar with three of the authors you’ve mentioned in the above video. I look forward to checking out the other authors you’ve mentioned, Olly.
Hope you enjoy them!
Patricia Highsmith is my favourite writer, and I highly recommend that you read her non-fiction book 'Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction'. It gives very good insight into her writing with lots of examples from her fiction.
I'll have to try that one! She's certainly well qualified to write it
I've probably landed on the wrong channel since none of these authors are on my top 10 list. Highsmith is one I'd like to get around to. In terms of contemporary fiction, I read very little, so there's that. I consider Franz Kafka to be an author of horror fiction, or shall we say his subject matter is nightmarish and could qualify, at least in my book. Graham Greene wrote wonderful works of suspense and mystery that could be on my list.
Graham Greene is fantastic!
Enjoyed hearing about your Top 10 authors currently. I've read many of them. Since you like horror too, have you read anything from A. Lopez, Jr. ? He is fantastic!
I haven’t! I’ll have to look him up
I would also include Stephen King, Nat Cassidy, and SA Cosby on my favorites list. I particularly am hoping to try Ed McBain and Patricia Highsmith soon. With the 47th Precinct book, do you feel they are best read in order?
It’s definitely not essential too, but there are some character arcs that you’ll appreciate more if you read them in order
Wonderful video, Olly. I, too, love Becky Chambers. I’ve just started reading S.A. Cosby. I think he’s terrific too. I read a wonderful profile of him a couple years ago in The NY Times, I think. I’ll try to find it again if you haven’t read it. Really interesting guy…
Thanks Pat! Yes have seen that profile. I think he’s got a great future ahead of him as an author
@@CriminOllyBlog most definitely!
best book reviewer on youtube.
Thank you so much!
I’m curious about whether or not you have read any Jackson Brodie mysteries by Kate Atkinson? The plot devices you were describing sound a bit like her. I’m not sure how I feel about the content of her work, at times I feel it is slightly distasteful (I tend toward the cozy not the gritty) but I love how the loose ends all come together in the end and I love the character of Jackson. Curious as to your thoughts?
I haven't read these - sounds like I need to check them out!
@@CriminOllyBlog the first one is Case Histories, and the most recent one just came out called The Sign of the Rook. The first one is fairly “old” and there’s been a bit of a gap between a few of them. I’d recommend reading them in order though.
Nice video, Olly! I have a question - what's your opinion on Ross Macdonald? He was a popular crime writer and I didn't hear him mentioned on this channel. Have a good one!
He is an author I definitely need to read more by! I've read The Drowning Pool but not for years and years
I highly recommend Derek Raymond's "Not Till the Red Fog Rises". It's a standalone thriller which is set in the Factory universe but has different characters. It's horrifying and hilarious, sometimes simultaneously. See also his "Nightmare in the Street", originally published only in French but came out in an English version some years ago.
I'll have to look out for those 2. I have 'A State of Denmark' by him to read next
@@CriminOllyBlog "The Crust on Its Uppers" is his first novel and it's a great read. It's vaguely autobiographical but his actual autobiography is "The Hidden Files".
CriminOllyBlog@@CriminOllyBlogLoved the Bigme 751C by the way. Looks like Amazon is about to release a colour Kindle using the same eink system.
- The classics, the names that never change:
Lovecraft, Poe, Henry James, Stevenson, Dostoyevksi, Bécquer, Oscar Wilde, Jules Verne and many more.
- Contemporary literature of the 20th century. Pretty solid too:
Asimov, Bradbury, Philip K Dick, Alfred Bester, Frank Herbert, Michael Crichton, Herman Hesse, Graham Greene, Dashiell Hammet, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, Agatha Christie, Patricia Highsmith, Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Dean Koontz, Richard Laymon, Stine, Dan Simmons and others.
- Emerging Authors:
Adam Neville, Kristopher Triana, Todd Keisling, Gillian Flynn...I want to find more but i didnt like Stephen Graham Jones, Edward Lee, Grady Hendrix or Paul Tremblay so help me with some names please.
You must try Jonathan Dunsky and his detective Adam Lapid.
Yes! I've read the prequel book and really liked it.
Love Nat Cassidy. Read both and just got rest stop
He's so good!
Michael Crichton for the win!
He is a good one!
I can’t tell you how much I adore you ❤ (actually I guess I just did lol)
LOL thank you
Do you read manga? If so would love to hear about your favourites
I do occasionally. Favourite are probably Monster and Blood on the Tracks
Interesting list because a lot of those writers verge on lit fic which you always say you don't like! Would this list differ from your "always buy" list?
I think I'd classify them all as genre fiction writers that had mastered their craft to the extent that they gained wider acclaim. It would differ I think - all these writers would be on that list, but there's a wider list of authors whose books I would always buy if I saw them second hand
Ed McBain: a favorite, great writer. Stephen King: I just can't take on some of those massive tomes, but he's great and super readable. Highsmith: very creepy, I've read only two or three.
McBain is the GOAT!
I read Ed McBain and S.A.Cosby as a direct result of this channel!
Wonderful!
💚🖤
Stephen King
Joe R. Lansdale
Robert R. McCammon
Charles Bukowski
Frank Herbert
Ed Brubaker
J.R.R. Tolkien
Michael Moorcock
H.G. Wells
J.K.Rowling
I just finished Swan Song and loved and I have. The Wolf Hour I believe which I still have to read.
I really need to read some Brubaker
Nice. Maganda na walang TV at buspad. Overrated ang buspad, masabi lang na premium experience.
*breaks the bank*
LOL
What, no Matt Shaw? :P
😂😂😂
"He's no longer with us, so no more books from him"...oh Olly, we both know death never stopped an author putting out new books...lol
Ha! Good point
Man, I hate you. Most of the authors you list here have no translation into Portuguese. Even Ed McBain has only a few titles here. It is very annoying to hear your opinions, that I endorse usually, and not to be able to check. And I strongly suggest to you to read Blake Crouch. A mix of science fiction with crimes. Recursion and wayward Pines trilogy are fantastic. Thanks for the video. 😊😊
😂 sorry about that. Yes! I’ve enjoyed Blake Crouch. Read the Pines books and Dark Matter and more recently Recursion.
I live in Michigan and leaving Stephen King out of a top 10 list if you live in the US would be like me leaving Motown out of my top 10 in music. I still haven't read The Green Mile. 🫢 So ordered it yesterday. Having just finished Starve Acre another Hurley is my next read.
The Loney is super creepy
Okay. I'll look for that one. @@CriminOllyBlog