Lonesome Dove, Deliverance, No Country For Old Men, The Road, A Confederacy of Dunces
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A Tree Grows in Brookyn
Pillars of the Earth
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I have a few lol but here’s probably top one. Honest Illusions by Nora Roberts
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Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
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a tree grows in Brooklyn, Anne of green gables, Prozac nation, the bell jar, the newest Sylvia Plath biography, the Joan Didion biography, the Rosemary Kennedy biography, the really radical Helen Keller biography, Kate zambreno books, being Lolita, my dark Vanessa, three women, trick mirror
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This is a tough one, but here are a few …
Classics: Jane Austen is a favorite, especially Emma and Persuasion. Beautiful prose and witty writing that is gentle and easy to consume while still providing food for thought.
Sci-Fi: The entire Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells. Funny, suspenseful, great world building. Just all around fantanstic series that people who enjoy all different genres have gotten excited about.
Historical Fiction: City of Thieves by David Benioff. Set during WWII it follows two young men who are trying to find eggs (yes, really) during the siege of Leningrad. The historical details woven in are realistic and while it get dark in places it also manages to have quite a bit of humor.
Non-Fiction: The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars by Jo Marchant. Just wow. A fascinating read that covers thousands of years of human history through our connections with the stars. Broken into broad catagories such as Time, Faith, Land, and Ocean each chapter covers various discoveries and how cultures throughout history incorporated these discoveries into their daily lives, technology, and beliefs.
I have more but these cover a good spread of books that I have recommened to almost anyone who enjoys reading.
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I’ll pick seven so we’re not here all day lol. 1) The Likeness by Tana French. 2) Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. 3) Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. 4) Morningstar by Pierce Brown. 5) The Devil in the Dark Water by Stuart Turton. 6) Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson. 7) Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen.
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**The Secret History** by Donna Tarte
**my Cousin Rachel** by Daphne Du Maurier
**The Beach** by Alex Garland
**I am legend** by Richard Matheson
**misery** by Stephen King
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A Gentleman in Moscow
King Leopold’s Ghost
The Hobbit
The Martian
The River of Doubt
– Teddy Roosevelt attempting to map the most dangerous and mysterious river in the Amazon. It is written by Candice Millard too who is without a doubt the best history writer we have today. Her book about the Garfield assassination is also amazing.
Tales from the Ant World
– E.O. Wilson was the foremost ant expert in the world and head of the Entomology department at Harvard. Each chapter is just a different amazing thing ants can do, but Wilson is so passionate and energetic about ants it becomes contagious.
How to Hide an Empire
– Really good history book about America’s imperialism. I had no idea so many parts of the world used to be owned by America
A Life on our Planet
– This is by David Attenborough and it’s half memoir about his experiences creating the nature documentary genre and half about climate change and habitat destruction he’s seen first hand. It’s so good and I think he narrates the audiobook version.
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I have a list of my top 10 reads ever that I update if a new favorite comes my way:
The Secret History, The Expanse, Light From Other Stars, The Song of Achilles, The Blacktongue Thief, I Who Have Never Known Men, Kindred, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Piranesi, In the Dream House
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The Last Aloha by Gaellen Quinn.
Rise of the Manō by Leialoha Humphreys.
Dragonfruit by Malia Mattoch McManus.
Never Whistle at Night.
Mauna Kea by Tom Peek.
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose.
Hula by Jasmin Iolani Hakes.
Reclaiming Kalākaua by Tiffany Lani Ing.
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The metamorphosis by Kafka
Beloved by Toni Morrison
More contemporarirly my fav books of the last few years:
Annie bot
Sorrow & bliss
Stay and fight
Oryx and crake
My year of rest and relaxation
Apparently if you put “and” in the title I’m bound to like it 😅
I like creepy, disturbing books, books with main characters that have weird internal motivations, books that are subtle with their themes/messages instead of beating you over the head with it, books that have a dark humor and satire
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1. Mistborn era 2 – Brandon Sanderson – Especially the last book in this series, but whole series is really great
2. Project hail mary – Andy Weir – the way the author writes and explains complex science is so cool
3. Talking to strangers – Malcolm Gladwell – extremely thought provoking. I was nervous to read this at first but definitely was hooked.
4. Red rising – damn I wish I could read this series again for the first time
5. Gods and monsters – Shelby Mahurin – the way death is presented was really beautiful to me.
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Lord of the rings
A prayer for Owen Meany
One hundred years of solitude
Blindness
Murderbot series
Rivers of London series
Vorkosigan saga
Broken Earth trilogy
The Prophet
Cyrano de Bergerac
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Well, my time is far from over but a few that come to mind are::
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Obsidian Butterfly by Laurell K. Hamilton
The Haunting of Hill House, & We Have Always Loved in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Something Wicked This Way Comes, & The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
The Little Prince by Antione Saint-Exupery
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
It, Pet Sematary, & Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd
Alexander
The Curse of Lono by Hunter S. Thompson
Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton
The Wastelands, & Wizard & Glass by Stephen King
Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgeson Burnett
Matilda, The Witches, James & the Giant Peach, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, & Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas by Fredrick Douglas
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
News of the World by Paulette Jules
Wyldling Hall by Elizabeth Hand
The Stranger Beside Me by Anne Rule
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
The Juniper Game by Sherryl Jordan
The World of Pooh by A. A. Milne
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Treasure Island, & Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
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*The Bridge of San Luis Rey* by Thornton Wilder
*The Lord of the Rings* by JRR Tolkien (fantasy)
*Till We Have Faces* by CS Lewis (fantasy)
*Watership Down* by Richard Adams (fantasy)
*Lonesome Dove* by Larry McMurtry
*HMS Surprise* by Patrick O’Brian (third in a series but I read this one first)
*Crime and Punishment* by Dostoevsky (liked this better than *The Brothers Karamazov* but maybe because it’s more simple and focused on a smaller cast of characters)
*Northanger Abbey* by Jane Austen
*Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy* by John le Carre
*Whose Body?* by Dorothy L. Sayers (detective fiction)
*The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie* by Alan Bradley (detective fiction)
*Dracula* by Bram Stoker
*The Last Unicorn* by Peter S. Beagle (fantasy)
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Some childhood favorites:
*The Boxcar Children* by Gertrude Chandler Warner
*Little House on the Prairie* by Laura Ingalls Wilder (I liked the whole series but this specific one had the best combination of travel and wilderness survival for me)
*The Changeling* by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
*The Yearling* by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
*Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh* by Robert C. O’Brien
*Kidnapped* by Robert Louis Stevenson
*The Hobbit* by JRR Tolkien
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Favorites from my Christian-fiction era (that might not carry over as well as, say, Dostoevsky):
*The Ball and the Cross* by GK Chesterton
*A Cry of Stone* by Michael D. O’Brien (the other one of his that affected me most at the time was *Sophia House*; but *The Fool of New York City* might be his most enjoyable book for people who aren’t O’Brien’s specific type of Catholic)
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Some non-fiction (I don’t read and remember enough of it):
*1491* by Charles Mann (pre-Columbian American history)
*I See By My Outfit* by Peter S. Beagle (travel memoir)
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The last unicorn
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*1Q84* by Haruki Murakami
*Demon Copperhead* by Barbara Kingsolver
*When Breath Becomes Air* by Paul Kalanithi
*The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue* by V.E. Schwab
*Shark Heart* by Emily Habeck
*Educated* by Tara Westover
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Classics –
Rebecca
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Great Gatsby
Newer –
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
All Elizabeth Strout books (Olive Kitteridge etc)
The Heart’s Invisible Furies
Three Junes
The Secret History
Blood, Bones & Butter (memoir)
The Correspondent
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Watership Down, Remains of the Day, Death of Ivan illych, a tree grows in Brooklyn, the book thief, the heart’s invisible furies by John Boyne. up the down staircase, all creatures great and small
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1. Lord of the Rings
2. Catch 22
3. Project Hail Mary
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Just the very best top reads in random order,
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Jack Dawkins by Charlton Daines
To Dance With Dragons by Jaq D. Hawkins
The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
Time Shifters by Shanna Lauffey
A Halloween Tale by Austin Crawley
Joyland by Stephen King
Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
Godstalk by P.C. Hodgell
Alaric the Goth by Marcel Brion
Phantom by Susan Kay
Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
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Lonesome Dove, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Nightingale, Kindred, The Shining
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Lonesome Dove, Deliverance, No Country For Old Men, The Road, A Confederacy of Dunces
A Tree Grows in Brookyn
Pillars of the Earth
I have a few lol but here’s probably top one. Honest Illusions by Nora Roberts
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
a tree grows in Brooklyn, Anne of green gables, Prozac nation, the bell jar, the newest Sylvia Plath biography, the Joan Didion biography, the Rosemary Kennedy biography, the really radical Helen Keller biography, Kate zambreno books, being Lolita, my dark Vanessa, three women, trick mirror
This is a tough one, but here are a few …
Classics: Jane Austen is a favorite, especially Emma and Persuasion. Beautiful prose and witty writing that is gentle and easy to consume while still providing food for thought.
Sci-Fi: The entire Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells. Funny, suspenseful, great world building. Just all around fantanstic series that people who enjoy all different genres have gotten excited about.
Historical Fiction: City of Thieves by David Benioff. Set during WWII it follows two young men who are trying to find eggs (yes, really) during the siege of Leningrad. The historical details woven in are realistic and while it get dark in places it also manages to have quite a bit of humor.
Non-Fiction: The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars by Jo Marchant. Just wow. A fascinating read that covers thousands of years of human history through our connections with the stars. Broken into broad catagories such as Time, Faith, Land, and Ocean each chapter covers various discoveries and how cultures throughout history incorporated these discoveries into their daily lives, technology, and beliefs.
I have more but these cover a good spread of books that I have recommened to almost anyone who enjoys reading.
I’ll pick seven so we’re not here all day lol. 1) The Likeness by Tana French. 2) Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. 3) Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. 4) Morningstar by Pierce Brown. 5) The Devil in the Dark Water by Stuart Turton. 6) Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson. 7) Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen.
**The Secret History** by Donna Tarte
**my Cousin Rachel** by Daphne Du Maurier
**The Beach** by Alex Garland
**I am legend** by Richard Matheson
**misery** by Stephen King
A Gentleman in Moscow
King Leopold’s Ghost
The Hobbit
The Martian
The River of Doubt
– Teddy Roosevelt attempting to map the most dangerous and mysterious river in the Amazon. It is written by Candice Millard too who is without a doubt the best history writer we have today. Her book about the Garfield assassination is also amazing.
Tales from the Ant World
– E.O. Wilson was the foremost ant expert in the world and head of the Entomology department at Harvard. Each chapter is just a different amazing thing ants can do, but Wilson is so passionate and energetic about ants it becomes contagious.
How to Hide an Empire
– Really good history book about America’s imperialism. I had no idea so many parts of the world used to be owned by America
A Life on our Planet
– This is by David Attenborough and it’s half memoir about his experiences creating the nature documentary genre and half about climate change and habitat destruction he’s seen first hand. It’s so good and I think he narrates the audiobook version.
I have a list of my top 10 reads ever that I update if a new favorite comes my way:
The Secret History, The Expanse, Light From Other Stars, The Song of Achilles, The Blacktongue Thief, I Who Have Never Known Men, Kindred, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Piranesi, In the Dream House
The Last Aloha by Gaellen Quinn.
Rise of the Manō by Leialoha Humphreys.
Dragonfruit by Malia Mattoch McManus.
Never Whistle at Night.
Mauna Kea by Tom Peek.
To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose.
Hula by Jasmin Iolani Hakes.
Reclaiming Kalākaua by Tiffany Lani Ing.
The metamorphosis by Kafka
Beloved by Toni Morrison
More contemporarirly my fav books of the last few years:
Annie bot
Sorrow & bliss
Stay and fight
Oryx and crake
My year of rest and relaxation
Apparently if you put “and” in the title I’m bound to like it 😅
I like creepy, disturbing books, books with main characters that have weird internal motivations, books that are subtle with their themes/messages instead of beating you over the head with it, books that have a dark humor and satire
1. Mistborn era 2 – Brandon Sanderson – Especially the last book in this series, but whole series is really great
2. Project hail mary – Andy Weir – the way the author writes and explains complex science is so cool
3. Talking to strangers – Malcolm Gladwell – extremely thought provoking. I was nervous to read this at first but definitely was hooked.
4. Red rising – damn I wish I could read this series again for the first time
5. Gods and monsters – Shelby Mahurin – the way death is presented was really beautiful to me.
Lord of the rings
A prayer for Owen Meany
One hundred years of solitude
Blindness
Murderbot series
Rivers of London series
Vorkosigan saga
Broken Earth trilogy
The Prophet
Cyrano de Bergerac
Well, my time is far from over but a few that come to mind are::
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Obsidian Butterfly by Laurell K. Hamilton
The Haunting of Hill House, & We Have Always Loved in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Something Wicked This Way Comes, & The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
The Little Prince by Antione Saint-Exupery
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
It, Pet Sematary, & Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd
Alexander
The Curse of Lono by Hunter S. Thompson
Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton
The Wastelands, & Wizard & Glass by Stephen King
Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgeson Burnett
Matilda, The Witches, James & the Giant Peach, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, & Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas by Fredrick Douglas
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
News of the World by Paulette Jules
Wyldling Hall by Elizabeth Hand
The Stranger Beside Me by Anne Rule
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
The Juniper Game by Sherryl Jordan
The World of Pooh by A. A. Milne
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Treasure Island, & Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
*The Bridge of San Luis Rey* by Thornton Wilder
*The Lord of the Rings* by JRR Tolkien (fantasy)
*Till We Have Faces* by CS Lewis (fantasy)
*Watership Down* by Richard Adams (fantasy)
*Lonesome Dove* by Larry McMurtry
*HMS Surprise* by Patrick O’Brian (third in a series but I read this one first)
*Crime and Punishment* by Dostoevsky (liked this better than *The Brothers Karamazov* but maybe because it’s more simple and focused on a smaller cast of characters)
*Northanger Abbey* by Jane Austen
*Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy* by John le Carre
*Whose Body?* by Dorothy L. Sayers (detective fiction)
*The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie* by Alan Bradley (detective fiction)
*Dracula* by Bram Stoker
*The Last Unicorn* by Peter S. Beagle (fantasy)
—–
Some childhood favorites:
*The Boxcar Children* by Gertrude Chandler Warner
*Little House on the Prairie* by Laura Ingalls Wilder (I liked the whole series but this specific one had the best combination of travel and wilderness survival for me)
*The Changeling* by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
*The Yearling* by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
*Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh* by Robert C. O’Brien
*Kidnapped* by Robert Louis Stevenson
*The Hobbit* by JRR Tolkien
—–
Favorites from my Christian-fiction era (that might not carry over as well as, say, Dostoevsky):
*The Ball and the Cross* by GK Chesterton
*A Cry of Stone* by Michael D. O’Brien (the other one of his that affected me most at the time was *Sophia House*; but *The Fool of New York City* might be his most enjoyable book for people who aren’t O’Brien’s specific type of Catholic)
—–
Some non-fiction (I don’t read and remember enough of it):
*1491* by Charles Mann (pre-Columbian American history)
*I See By My Outfit* by Peter S. Beagle (travel memoir)
The last unicorn
*1Q84* by Haruki Murakami
*Demon Copperhead* by Barbara Kingsolver
*When Breath Becomes Air* by Paul Kalanithi
*The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue* by V.E. Schwab
*Shark Heart* by Emily Habeck
*Educated* by Tara Westover
Classics –
Rebecca
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Great Gatsby
Newer –
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
All Elizabeth Strout books (Olive Kitteridge etc)
The Heart’s Invisible Furies
Three Junes
The Secret History
Blood, Bones & Butter (memoir)
The Correspondent
Watership Down, Remains of the Day, Death of Ivan illych, a tree grows in Brooklyn, the book thief, the heart’s invisible furies by John Boyne. up the down staircase, all creatures great and small
1. Lord of the Rings
2. Catch 22
3. Project Hail Mary
Just the very best top reads in random order,
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Jack Dawkins by Charlton Daines
To Dance With Dragons by Jaq D. Hawkins
The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
Time Shifters by Shanna Lauffey
A Halloween Tale by Austin Crawley
Joyland by Stephen King
Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
Godstalk by P.C. Hodgell
Alaric the Goth by Marcel Brion
Phantom by Susan Kay
Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Lonesome Dove, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Nightingale, Kindred, The Shining