Since posting a list of some of my favorite short stories back on June 2nd, my mind clicked to some of my favorite novels. Many of these books inspired me to write fiction. These are favorite novels, not a best novel list. In no special order: The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell Goodbye Mickey Mouse by Len Deighton The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani The Frozen Hours by Jeff Shaara Pronto by Elmore Leonard The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah Fin Gall by James L. Nelson New York by Edward Rutherfurd Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson River Girl by Charles Williams The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Black Cross by Greg Iles A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin White Fang by Jack London The Cocktail Waitress by James M. Cain Night and the City by Cornell Woolrich T he Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg The Maddest Idea by James L. Nelson The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald A Bullet for Cinderella by John D. MacDonald Kazan by James Oliver Curwood Dune by Frank Herbert The Heydrich Deception by Daniel Savage Gray Ramage by Dudley Pope His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico (novella) Tourist Season by Carl Hiassen From Here to Eternity by James Jones The Killing Circle by Chris Wiltz Fortune's Fugitive by Linda Crockett Gray The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells The Wolves of Memory by George Alec Effinger When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger The Bolitho Novels of Alexander Kent The Ramage Novels of Dudley Pope Non-Fiction Novels: In Cold Blood by Trume Capote The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Trilogies: The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett Fall of Giants, Winter of the World, Edge of Eternity I have to stop or I'll go on and on.
That's all for now –
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