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Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Chris
The most powerful and impactful drama/tragedy I have ever read. I think about this book often.
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
The best book I have ever read about The Sea and man's struggle against nature.
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
U.S. Grant's "coup d'oeil of the battlefield is second to none. Grant is a humble, honest narrator and writes about his war time experiences in the Mexican War and the American Civil War as well as his interwar years in California. Best war-time biography out there.
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
Love this book. Great description of Los Angeles in the mid-twentieth century.
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco
Surreal, fast past thriller where you are never quite sure what is happening.
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
Great early spy novel that takes place in London. Precursor to John LeCarre, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
Roger Ebbatson
The Magus
John Fowles
The Killer Inside Me
Jim Thompson
I don't know why, but for me this is the perfect book. Fast-based, well-written, believable, and terrifying. Took me 50 years, but think I found my favorite author.
I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54
Robert Graves
Brilliantly written and riveting tale about palace intrigue during the Roman Empire.
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
E.B. Sledge
E.B Sledge's experiences in the Pacific with the U.S. Marines during WW2. One of the best war-biographies I've ever read along with "We Were Soldiers Once and Young", "Storm of Steel", and U.S. Grant's Memoirs.
Storm of Steel
Ernst Junger
Ernst Junger's WW1 biography about combat on the Western Front is harrowing counterpart to All Quiet on the Western Front. Junger was wounded numerous times and led his small band of soldiers through hell. Great biography.
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote