Hopefully a relatively interesting challenge that doesn't involve any reading. I'm clueless on this, so I really do need the benefit of your collective wisdom. - Rob

The pre 1970 cutoff gives plenty of choice and I will work on this later. - Norman

Neat idea Rob and I'll participate. - Mack Lundy

I'm so proud of myself; I restricted myself to two Christies: ). What self-restraint! - Margot Kinberg

Margot, I'm astounded that you were able to respond so quickly. Nice list, by the way. I'm still in the mulling stage. It is going to be fun to see what participants choose. - Mack Lundy

Thanks, Mack : ). I really do look forward to seeing what others offer. - Margot Kinberg

I did mine but unfortunately a Baker's dozen, not 10. - Maxine

Oh Maxine you're so bad. And there was I, restricting my list to the required 10, too. Tut tut - Donna

Many thanks for all the comments on the blog, I'll get round to writing a reply soon. I'm going to be cheeky now and ask that you might also post your lists on your own blogs to encourage some others to take part so I can try and gather a representative sample (thanks Norm for doing this). I have a feeling that between this and Dorte's global challenge I'll have a large chunk of my reading sorted for the year! Looking forward to it ... as I'm sure is the local bookshop. - Rob

I am just starting to remember all the books I enjoyed thirty years ago and had forgotten about. Ed McBain, Nicholas Freeling, Georges Simenon, and Josephine Tey. Actually it must have been forty years ago. :o( - Norman

Best not to dwell on that Norman. - Mack Lundy

or dwell on the fiction, but not when you read them! - Rob

I will try to come up with something in a few days. Like Maxine, I am not very good at counting to ten, though ... - Dorte Jakobsen

Well I only had six so some else can have four of mine :) - Bernadette

I remember reading all of Nicholas Freeling, Norman - and there were a lot of them! I read Georgette Heyer (detection, not romance), Josephine Tey, Simenon, Chesterton - many others. I wish there had been the internet back then as I would have probably made an archive of them - now they are but distant memories. - Maxine