Recommended Reading — What's Considered the Best of the Best?

For those who want good writing from the past, here are three lists of books to suit all tastes.

Classics

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontλ
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Barchester Chronicles – Anthony Trollope
The Illiad and The Odyssey – Homer
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
War and Peace – Tolstoy

Literary Fiction

A la recherche du temps perdu – Proust
Beloved – Toni Morrison
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Mαrquez
Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
Rabbit Series – John Updike
Sword of Honour Trilogy – Evelyn Waugh
The Ballad of Peckham Rye – Muriel Spark
The Human Stain – Philip Roth
Ulysses – James Joyce

Crime

Killshot – Elmore Leonard
Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
Red Dragon – Thomas Harris
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
The Complete Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
The Murders in the Rue Morgue – Edgar Allan Poe
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – John le Carrι

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