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 ShaaraPronto 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 IlesA 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
The 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 GrayRamage 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 EffingerWhen 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 –