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Based pretty much solely on the books I have read multiple times or wish to read again:
The Secret History
The Dead Zone
The Stand
Endless Love
Hill Towns
Outer Banks
Rebecca
While I Was Gone
Gone Girl
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Boleyn Inheritance
All the King's Men
Moby Dick
A Clockwork Orange
1984
Fahrenheit 451
The Demon Haunted World
Livy's books on the second Punic War
The Anabasis
The Jewish War
The Histories of Herodotus
The Twelve Caesars
The Annals of Imperial Rome
The Odyssey
Dune
The Exorcist
Slaughterhouse 5
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Crime and Punishment
The Washing of the Spears
The Conquest of New Spain
Conquest
Egil's Saga
The Devil's Horsemen
The Epic of Sundiata
Shadows in the Desert
The Poison King
Cleopatra (Stacy Schiff)
Pompeii
The Afghan Campaign
Black Athena /Not Out of Africa (read them both together)
The Damnation Game
The Great and Secret Show
Machiavelli's Discourses and The Price
Things Fall Apart
Could probably think of a whole bunch of others but that is a good list.
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Here are the best I've read in the last decade, alphabetical by author.
Thomas Cobb "Shavetail"
Ron Currie, Jr. , "Everything Matters"
Don Delillo "White Noise"
Charles Frazier "Thirteen Moons"
James Galvin "The Meadow"
David Guterson, "Snow Falling on Cedars"
Shirley Hazzard 'The Great Fire
Seth Kantner "Ordinary Wolves"
Rachel Kushner "The Flamethrowers"
Stieg Larsson "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" et.seq.
David Lodge "Deaf Sentence"
Cormac McCarthy "Suttree"
Cormac McCarthy, "The Crossing"
Cormac McCarthy "Blood Meridian"
Frank McCourt "'Tis" ***
Ian McEwan "Atonement"
Michael Ondaatje "Divisadero"
Michael Ondaatje, "In the Skin of a Lion"
Lance Olsen. "Nietzsche's Kisses"
Arundhati Roy, "The God of Small Things"
Norman Rush, "Mating"
Bernhard Schlink "The Reader".
B. Traven "The Death Ship"
Brady Udall, "The Lonely Polygamist"
Abraham Verghese, "Cutting for Stone
Simon Winchester "The Professor and the Madman"
Tim Winton, "Cloudstreet"
Tobias Wolff "This Boy's Life"
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