Jun 10, 2013 12:22
General because prepare thyself for epic list of epicness!
Agatha Christie's everything (99.8% of her books shit all over modern mysteries. Er, in a good way.)
P. B. Ryan's Nell Sweeney & S. S. Van Dine's Philo Vance murder mysteries
Chelsea Cain's Gretchen Lowell & Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter series (because men AND women can be serial killers)
Elizabeth Gaskell's 'North and South'
Åsne Seierstad's 'The Bookseller of Kabul'
Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead'
Gillian Flynn's 'Gone Girl'
Khaled Hosseini's 'The Kite Runner'
Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Interpreter of Maladies' & 'Unaccustomed Earth'
Chuck Palahniuk's 'Fight Club'
Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' & 'Brothers Karamazov'
Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina'
Vladimir Nabokov's 'Lolita' 'Pale Fire' & 'Pnin'
Anton Chekhov's too many to count (the undisputed master of the short story, bar none)
Science Fiction because badass marines/starship peeps/alien whatsits are a blast!
Isaac Asimov's everything (Brilliant. And dead. But still brilliant.)
David Weber's pre-bloat Honor Harrington series
Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series
C.S. Friedman's 'In Conquest Born'
Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game' & 'Ender in Exile'
Joe Haldeman's 'The Forever War' & John Scalzi's 'Old Man's War'
Tanya Huff's Valor Confederation series
Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan series
David Drake's Royal Cinnabar Navy series
Kristine Smith's Jani Kilian series
Charles Stross's Laundry series
Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
Fantasy because all antiheroes secretly long to swing a sword.
Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant & Mordant's Need series
GRRM's Song of Ice and Fire (aka Game of Thrones) series
Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn & Stormlight Archive series
Laurell K. Hamilton's early Anita Blake books before they became porno (they used to be a grittier Buffy!)
Jack Vance's Dying Earth series
Rachel Aaron's Legend of Eli Monpress series
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman's 'Good Omens'
Romance because oooh la la the feeeeels.
Georgette Heyer's everything (even her whodunnits aren't terrible)
Laura Kinsale's 'Flowers from the Storm'
Sherry Thomas's 'Not Quite a Husband' & 'Private Arrangements'
Jude Morgan's 'Indiscretion' (his others are a cut above the rest too and yep, he is a man)
Loretta Chase & Lisa Kleypas's pre-2000 historicals (they're Avon dreck now)
Sarah A. Hoyt's 'Darkship Thieves'
Judith Ivory's 'Black Silk'
Liz Carlyle's 'A Deal with the Devil'
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