Hi everyone,
I’m looking for book recommendations. I’ve listed authors, books, and preferences below to give a clear idea of what I enjoy. I’m open to classics as well as popular fiction, as long as it fits broadly with this list.

Authors I’ve enjoyed

Jeffrey Archer
Leo Tolstoy
P. G. Wodehouse
Guy de Maupassant
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Agatha Christie
Alexandre Dumas
Mark Twain
Wilkie Collins
Edgar Allan Poe
H. G. Wells
Rudyard Kipling
Jerome K. Jerome
Oscar Wilde
Anton Chekhov
Victor Hugo
Jules Verne
George Eliot
Premchand
Ruskin Bond
Bram Stoker
Dan Brown
Darren Shan

(Favourite authors overall: Jeffrey Archer, P. G. Wodehouse, Leo Tolstoy)

Books / works I liked

The Count of Monte Cristo
The Gambler (especially the ending)
The Godfather
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
Wuthering Heights
Dracula
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
And Then There Were None
Daddy-Long-Legs
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
The Shawshank Redemption
Don Quixote
Treasure Island
Gulliver’s Travels
The Fourth Estate
The Railway Children
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Folklore / traditional stories I enjoy

Panchatantra
Jataka Tales
Tenali Raman stories
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Greek epics
Norse epics
Sanskrit / Vedic epics
Shinto tales
Egyptian epics
Sumerian epics
Aztec epics (these felt almost Lovecraftian)

Things I didn’t enjoy / lost interest in

Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice didn’t work for me)
Charles Dickens (generally didn’t click; disliked the repeated “innocent poor boy rescued from criminal London” trope)
Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist didn’t work for me)
Frederick Forsyth (felt motivational / self-help-like)
Long fantasy series (often feel repetitive)
Jack Reacher books (lost interest after repetition)
Dexter books (same issue: repetition)

Reading preferences

• To be honest I dont know my preferences
• Spoilers don’t bother me I enjoy seeing how outcomes are written or achieved.
• I reread books I like and don’t get bored.
• I often stop reading series when plot structure starts repeating.
• Also, if you’re wondering about the lack of non-fiction: I’m a maths student, so I already read plenty of non-fiction for work 😅
• I also had a phase of reading fanfictions mainly self inserts which I still do as a guilty pleasure but this is mainly of animes and such
• I also enjoy reading manga if that helps (Oyasumi Punpun, Vinland Saga, Hunter Hunter, Natsume Book of Friends, Akira, Slam Dunk, Monster, Mushishi, Banana Fish, Pluto

Any recommendations that fit this broadly would be appreciated. Thanks!