I enjoy reading. Mistakes in books seem to leap out at me, so I've begun making notes of them. I am not a writer and am not here to critique writing, only to point out mistakes in editing.

No Way Back, by Michael Crow

No Way Back by Michael Crow
Harper Collins ISBN 0-06-072583-4

pg 7
find the the sense of it
the the

pg 43
Westley's got me taped to the millimeter
typed? tapped?

pg 110
Only Nadya seems usually cheerful and sassy
unusually? her usual...self?

pg 150
mare's tales
tails

pg 190
I know something certain Allison does not
for certain?

pg 218
those dirty shamless sluts
shameless

pg 242
sinicized
is that a word?

pg 261
no worse, I guess, then some Rust Belt cities
than

pg 262
a neighborhood where out-of-towners are seldom seem
seen

Taking Lottie Home, by Terry Kay

Taking Lottie Home by Terry Kay
Harper Collins ISBN 0-688-17646-1

pg 118, and throughout
the Kentucky mountains
the area around Bowling Green is not by any stretch of the imagination mountainous.

pg 169
I kept telling him not till, but he wouldn't listen
not to

pg 243
They were the worse kind, he thought.
worst

Cross Country, by James Patterson

Cross Country by James Patterson
Little, Brown and Company ISBN 978-0-316-01872-2

I found no mistakes in this book, though I got the distinct impression some writer less experienced than Patterson wrote it. Weird. Just small odd things like the narrator using lots of exclamation points. Did not "feel" like a Patterson book.

Now what?

Either I've gotten less observant lately, or I've hit a series of books with good editing.

I gave up on Cloudsplitter, couldn't get "into" it. My other half said the same thing about the book.

Next in my list, in no particular order:
(update June 4th, I've bolded the ones I've read)
Terry Kay: Taking Lottie Home
Michael Crow: No Way Back
John Grisham: The Associate
James Patterson: Cross Country
James Lee Burke: Swan Peak
John Sandford: Dead Watch
Best of the Oxford American
Best American Short Stories 2007
Barbara Kingsolver: Homeland and Other Stories
Neil Gaiman: Fragile Things
Kurt Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larrson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Vintage Books / Random House ISBN 978-0-307-47347-9

I found no mistakes in this book.

City of Thieves, by David Benioff

City of Thieves by David Benioff
Plume / Penguin Group ISBN 978-0-452-29529-2

I found no mistakes in this book.

Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Harper Collins ISBN 978-0-06-170325-6

pg 210
Teddy and Chuck watched ...rock a jeep off its side. When they tried the ignition, it started on the fifth try, and they roared (away).

I think if you started any internal combustion engine that had laid on its side for more than a couple hours, you'd have a real danger of the engine seizing up (because the oil would drain out), if you could get it started at all.

The Lost, by J.D. Robb

The Lost by J.D. Robb
Berkley / Penguin ISBN 978-0-515-14718-6

pg 12
last line, "canteen's." Erroneous apostrophe.

pg 42
don't kill in a room with only one out
with only one way out

pg 259
like ...a shark biding its time until it could pounce.
Cats, dogs, lions, wolves, etc "pounce." Sharks don't.

11,000 Years Lost, by Peni R. Griffin

11,000 Years Lost by Peni R. Griffin
Amulet / Abrams / La Martiniere ISBN 0-8109-4822-2

I found no mistakes in this book.

Armageddon in Retrospect, by Kurt Vonnegut

Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
G.P. Putnam's Sons ISBN 978-1-60751-143-4

I found no mistakes in this book.

Knit the Season, by Kate Jacobs

Knit the Season by Kate Jacobs
G.P. Putnam's Sons ISBN 978-0-399-15638-0

pg 89
First sentence on the page is a fragment. Should be more like, "...she hesitated, freshly aware..."

pg 134
last paragraph on the page does not have a transition from her being in the front room with them, to "flopped down on her bed." It's as if her bed is in the living room.

pg 197
marked the page that there was a mistake, but can't find it now.

Mother Night, by Kurt Vonnegut

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Delta ISBN 0-385-33414-1

I found no mistakes in this book.

How She Knows What She Knows About Yo-Yos, by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

How She Knows What She Knows About Yo-yos by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
Sarabande ISBN 1-889330-37-X

pg 87
marked the page that I'd found a mistake, but now I can't identify it.

South of Broad, by Pat Conroy

South of Broad by Pat Conroy
Doubleday / Random House ISBN 978-0-385-41305-3

pg 149
"Leo found my sister and I handcuffed to chairs..."

my sister and me

pg 206
...as Murray helps us get our luggage inside the ornate entryway.

nitpicking, but "inside" seems the wrong word for the situation. Like the luggage is going into the walls, or something.

Homer's Odyssey, by Gwen Cooper

Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper
Delacorte Press ISBN 978-1-61664-199-3

I found no mistakes in this book

I'm not here to critique, just to edit, but I have to say, this one will haunt me like Black Beauty has, for the rest of my life, I'm sure.

Rough Country, by John Sandford

Rough Country by John Sandford
G. P. Putnam's Sons / Penguin Group ISBN 978-0-399-15598-7

I found no mistakes in this book

Scavenger, by David Morrell

Scavenger by David Morrell
Vanguard Press ISBN 978-1-59315-441-7

pg 144
"It's what caught my intention..."

attention

pg 204
Costs extra You do it through your home computer...

missing punctuation

So Brave, Young, and Handsome, by Leif Enger

So Brave, Young, and Handsome by Leif Enger
Atlantic Monthly Press / Grove/Atlantic ISBN 978-1-60751-199-1

pg 139
Perhaps there was still time to keep my own hazy outline from becoming permanent.

I think he means impermanent, permanently hazy, something else than how it reads

pg 192
Siringo didn't answer but less than an hour he reined up

in less than an hour; less than an hour later, etc

Mother Road, by Dorothy Garlock

Mother Road by Dorothy Garlock
Doubleday / Warner Books ISBN 0-7394-3547-7

I found no mistakes in this book

Bagombo Snuff Box, by Kurt Vonnegut

Bagombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut
Berkley Books ISBN 0-425-17446-8

I found no mistakes in this book

Sisters of the Raven, by Barbara Hambly

Sisters of the Raven by Barbara Hambly
Aspect / Warner Books ISBN 0-446-61536-6

I found no mistakes in this book

Homeland, by R. A. Salvatore

Homeland R. A. Salvatore
Wizards of the Coast ISBN 978-0-7869-3953-4

pg 26
Every now and came a killing flash

now and then?

pg 121
"Just what the first house needs more clerics!"

needs a comma

An Innocent Client, by Scott Pratt

An Innocent Client Scott Pratt
Onyx / Penguin Group ISBN 978-0-451-41265-2

pg 232
floosies

floozies

A Stained White Radiance, by James Lee Burke

A Stained White Radiance James Lee Burke
Harper Collins ISBN 978-0-380-72047-7

pg 10
neutrias

nutria is the singular and plural (no 'e', no 's')

pg 31
Tripod zigzagged back and forth on his chin

chain

pg 124
"It's really good." It was, too. Ham and onion and horseradish, one of my favorites."

there's either one too many or one too few quotation marks in the line

pg 181
neutria

nutria

pg 282
Gerardo Rivera

Geraldo

2009 Best American Short Stories, edited by Alice Sebold

The Best American Short Stories 2009 Alice Sebold, ed.; Heidi Pitlor, series ed.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN 978-0-618-79225-2

pg 28
the plastic in box

inbox, or in-box

pg 133
"...but maybe he's thinking, Thanks for the hand but he's on top of it."

need some more quotation marks in there

Elsewhere, by William Peter Blatty

Elsewhere by William Peter Blatty
Cemetery Dance Publications ISBN 978-1-61523-582-7

pg 25
about a tenth of mile

left out another 'a'

The Broker, by John Grisham

The Broker by John Grisham
Doubleday / Random House ISBN 0-385-51045-4

I found no mistakes in this book

Road Dogs, by Elmore Leonard

Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard
William Morrow / Harper Collins ISBN 978-1-61523-826-2

pg 52
"There rich people and not rich people..."

They're, or there're, or they are or there are

pg 72
pg 79
that's what I get for waiting so long before entering these... now I can't find what I thought was wrong on these pages.

pg 129
should have quotation marks around the sentence at the bottom of the page --where he's thinking to himself-- to set it off from what he's not thinking.
"No, you don't go back, you go straight ahead."

pg 130
?

pg 185
making a Uey

not sure, but shouldn't that be U-ey?

pg 217
Actually it's been, four.

pause for effect? Comma doesn't belong.

now reading...

Road Dogs, by Elmore Leonard (several mistakes)

The Farmer's Daughter, by Jim Harrison (no mistakes)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz (no mistakes)

A Stained White Radiance, by James Lee Burke (several mistakes)

Crusader's Cross, by James Lee Burke

Crusader's Cross by James Lee Burke
Simon and Schuster ISBN 978-0-7432-7720-4

pg 102 and throughout
"The Chalonses..."

although when speaking of Valentine Chalons and his family you'd pronounce it "Chalonses," you'd spell it Chalons'.

pg 137
He was sitting at a metal desk, in the middle of large room...

in the middle of "a" large room

pg 140
The rumors that he did business with the Giacanos were I'm sure true.

need some punctuation around "I'm sure"

pg 198
Her eyes lighted on the packages in the bed of my pickup

since she's sitting in a subcompact and "stopped abreast of me," it's unlikely she could see into the bed of the pickup.

pg 427
The guy was in his car at the Fair Grounds,

unnecessary capitalization

Zen and the Art of Knitting, by Bernadette Murphy

Zen and the Art of Knitting by Bernadette Murphy
Adams Media Corporation ISBN 1-58062-654-8

pg 118
A t-bone sits on a yarn, constructed plate

no comma after yarn; actually "yarn-constructed" would look better hyphenated.

pg 120
She was in bed recovering from wisdom teeth surgery

that would be wisdom tooth surgery, even when referring to more than one tooth.

pg 206
If you've never done it before, buy a pair of needles and experiment.

She's talking about knitting in the round, which is done on circular needles, which are referred to as "a needle," not "a pair of needles."

Paper Doll, by Robert B. Parker

Paper Doll by Robert B. Parker
G. P. Putnam's Sons ISBN 0-425-14155-1

pg 7
framing hammer... the kind with a long wooden handle

Framing hammers generally have a steel or fiberglass handle. Ball-peen hammers and mauls have wooden handles.

pg 77
He had on engineer's boots

they are called engineer boots. No possessive.

pg 159
"He at home?"
Farrell shook his head.
"Hospice," he said.

I assume Farrel shook his head no, but hospice is generally at home.

pg 189
...its wake a glassy furrow in the surface.

on the surface

..the trees, half unleaved, made spectral...

unleafed

pg 249
dog...jumped up on the couch... lay down between us.

Only Spenser is seated on the couch. Jefferson remained standing (see page 248).

This Perfect Day, by Ira Levin

This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
Hard-cover edition, published in 1970 by Random House.
Old enough edition there is no ISBN.

I found no mistakes in this book.