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Autobiography
Jung Chang, Wild Swans Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life
Detective Stories
James Lee Burke, Cadillac Jukebox; The Neon Rain Ed McBain, Killer’s Choice; Fiddlers Patricia Cornwell, ‘The Scarpetta Mystery Series’ (Potter’s Field; Point of Origin, etc.) James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia; L. A. Confidential Sue Grafton, ‘The Millhone Mysteries’ (A Is for Alibi; B Is for Burglar, etc.) Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man; The Maltese Falcon Patricia Highsmith, The Ripley novels (Ripley’s Game, etc.) Elmore Leonard, Freaky Deaky; Out of Sight; Get Shorty Walter Mosley, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned; Devil in a Blue Dress Scott Turow, Presumed Innocent
Historical Novels / Rewriting History
Thomas Berger, Little Big Man Caleb Carr, The Alienist Colleen McCullogh, The First Man in Rome Michael Schaara, The Killer Angels Martin Cruz Smith, The Indians Won; Rose
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Horror
Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs Stephen King, Carrie; Misery; The Shining Dean Koontz, Darkness Comes Peter Straub, Ghost Story
Science Fiction / Fantasy
Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (filmed in 2004); Nightfall (the title story has been voted the best SF story ever written) James Blish, stories based on the TV series Star Trek; After Such Knowledge series Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (filmed as Bladerunner) David Eddings, The Belgariad series Philip José Farmer, The Riverworld series William Gibson, Neuromancer Harry Harrison, Deathworld I-III; A Stainless Steel Rat series Robert Heinlein, Job; Starship Troopers Frank Herbert, Dune series Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed Robert Silverberg, Dying Inside; The Majipoor Trilogy Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
Teenagers / Young Adults
Lisa Alther, Kinflicks Susan Eloise Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now; The Outsiders J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye Charles Webb, The Graduate
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Thrillers / Spy Novels
Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely; The Big Sleep; The Long Goodbye John Grisham, The Pelican Brief Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs Richard North Patterson, The Outside Man
Travel
Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent; Made in America Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
War
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms; For Whom the Bell Tolls Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
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