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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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