This meme originates from Jo at The Book Jotter and having thoroughly enjoyed participating last year, I wanted to repeat the experience this year, better late then never eh?
The aim is to sort your reads into six categories – you can choose from the ones Jo suggests or come up with your own. Although the same book can obviously feature in more than one category, I’ve chosen to select one book for each category from my favourite reads of the year so far.
Six Books I Really, Really Loved
The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
The Night Visitor by Lucy Atkins
A Dangerous Crossing by Rachel Rhys
He Said/She Said by Erin Kelly
Six Books From A Series
The Sixth Window by Rachel Abbott #6 DCI Tom Douglas
Saturday Requiem by Nicci French #6 Frieda Klein
Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill #11 Dalziel & Pascoe
Quieter Than Killing by Sarah Hilary#4 DI Marnie Rome
The Cipher Garden by Martin Edwards #2 Lake District Mystery
Need You Dead by Peter James – #13 Roy Grace Series
Six physical books I have read
All The Good Things by Clare Fisher 
A Life Between Us by Louise Walters
Dead Woman Walking by Sharon Bolton
The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie
Six Books True Crime or Inspired by True Crime
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century by Peter Graham
The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Six authors I have read before
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell 
An Act of Silence by Colette McBeth
Greatest Hits by Laura Barnett
They All Fall Down by Tammy Cohen
Winter Garden by Beryl Bainbridge
My Sweet Revenge by Jane Fallon
Six Authors New To Me
The Housekeeper by Suellen Dainty 
The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
The Legacy by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Sewing The Shadows Together by Alison Baillie
Tattletale by Sarah J Naughton
So there are my choices from the first half of 2017 – What would you choose?
Cleopatra Loves Books 
I liked this 6 in 6 post. It’s interesting and something new. ☺
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Love this and will try and get a post together over the weekend. 😊
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I’m looking forward to seeing your choices 🙂
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Here they are! https://thesecretlibrarysite.wordpress.com/2017/07/30/the-six-in-six-2017-edition/
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I have really got to read He Said She Said. It seems to have fallen through the gaps somehow.
Great post and some other interesting books I should look out for.
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Thank you Ali 🙂
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I really like this post and think I’ll give it a go! The Night Visitor is on of my most loved books this year too.
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Oh I hope you do I’d love to check your selections out.
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This is a really creative way to share the books you’ve been reading, Cleo. And there are several authors here whose work I’ve not (yet) tried. I’m glad for the reminder of them.
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I did enjoy doing this last year and it is good to shout about the many great books I’ve had the pleasure of reading this year.
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What a great way to look back at your books! I see some that I’ve read: He Said/She Said, The Housekeeper, In Cold Blood, Saturday Requiem, The Child, and The Other Typist. I have A Dangerous Crossing on my physical stack of books.
Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you it is great dividing up all the great books I’ve read into different categories – We have great taste in books 😉
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What a great meme! I love this and may try to join in if I can find the time today 😀❤ You have several of my favorites from this year on your list but a lot I haven’t read that looks like I would love! Great post!
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Thank you Stephanie – I really enjoyed doing this meme last year too – it is a fab way to mark the (sort of) half-way point.
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It certainly looks it was great fun! It’s always nice to know where you are halfway in the year! 😊 I’m in the middle of packing for a 10 day getaway, but then I’m going to try and do this! Too fun not too!
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Excellent ne
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This is fun! I read a book a week but I have not read any of the books you have here… I better get to it 😍
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Well I’ve given you plenty to choose from 😉
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You cant go far wrong with Reginald Hill or Peter James. Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is someone Ive only just started to get familiar with too.
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I love the Reginald Hill series, he really was exceptionally good at coming up with a different ‘feel’ to each book in the Dalziel and Pascoe series and I am a huge Peter James fan…
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Eight in common, I think – six we agree on: The Other Typist, A Dangerous Crossing, Bones and Silence, Dead Woman Walking, The Thirteen Problems and The Long Drop. Not bad! But of course you’re wrong about He Said/She Said and See What I Have Done… 😉
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Haha I stand by my choices
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Thank you for taking part – I will add your post to my round up which will published on my blog in August.
I hope some more of your readers join in, to spread the word of this meme!
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It is a fab idea and I thoroughly enjoyed it – I’ll keep my fingers crossed for more participants.
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The Force by Don Winslow. Outstanding. Also, I know I’m behind this year, but I also felt DARKTOWN by Thomas Mullen and Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry, outstanding reads I only got to this year. There are a lot of books to read ALL THE TIME and sometimes it just takes time to get through them. Thanks for these categories, always enjoy your thoughtfulness.
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I did it! And realized I’d done one last year… my brain…. https://hopewellslibraryoflife.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/six-in-six-for-2017/
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Haha I read your list – cracking job!
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Thank you!
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