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Ranking the Sherlocks of the world, in multiple categories, produces winners you might not expect. Sorry, Batman.

Readers recommend the best books for reading aloud April 28, 2017 — 10:26am Text size Copy shortlink: The secret is out — you love reading aloud, and you love being read to. I knew it! And I am delighted. Last month I wrote about books that I thought would be great to read out loud. But you came up with a much better list. Let’s get to it: It took me less than a millisecond to frame a response: “Babbitt,” by Sinclair Lewis. Not only is this the pre-eminent novel meant to be read out loud, it is also the one most delightful...

Hot cuppa tea, blanket, cozy mystery, cat optional. Perfect. New to cozies? Well, let us introduce you to this crime fiction sub-genre whose sleuths are often amateurs and whose gritty crime and steamy sex generally take place tastefully out of sight. How very civilized! A cozy’s setting — often a small town stocked with eccentrics and at least one skeptical copper — is always a main character, like the English village of St. Mary Mead, where Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple solves crimes from behind her knitting. And if you find a sleuth you like (most of them are women, by ...