First thoughts: I have read a lot of books

To start off, I thought I would throw a list out of some of the stuff I can remember reading (a lot of which I will go back and review later.)

I will edit and add to this list as things come back to me.

NOTE: there are many titles and authors I can only vaguely remember so I will have to find them and add them later......

General fiction:
John Grisham (everything, I will rank them later)
Michael Chrichton (everything, will rank them later)
Tom Clancy (all the fiction until the newest one)
Dan Brown (everything, and his older stuff is weak)
Audrey Niffenegger "The Time Traveler's Wife"
Stephen King, "The Stand"
Arthur Golden "Memoirs of a Geisha"
Mark Haddeon "The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night Time"
Scott Turow (everything, finished his WWII book a few weeks ago)
Anne Rice (a few vampire books)
Patel "Life of Pi"
etc.

Spy novels:
John LeCarre (everything)
Robert Ludlum (the good ones)
Jack Higgins
W.E.B. Griffin (mostly his WWII stuff)
a bunch more here I can't even remember now

Historial fiction:
Colleen McCullough's Roman series (excellent, great stuff)
Bernard Cornwell (series on the Archer, Alfred the Great are both good)
Robert Harris "Fatherland", "Pompeii", "Engima" and "Archangel" (All are very good!)


Fantasy (Arthurian):
Bernard Cornwell (Arthur - Warlord series)
Mary Stewart's series on Merlin
T.H. White "The Once and Future King" and its sequel


Fantasy (Epic)
Tolkien (everything, more literature than fantasy, the best ever)
George RR Martin ('Song of Fire and Ice' is the best non LOTR series ever)
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter series
Terry Goodkind, Sword of Truth series
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time series
Ursula K. LeGuin, Wizard of Earthsea series
Stephen R. Donaldson, Thomas Convenant series

Fantasy (General)
Piers Anthony (Xanth - probably 10 books, and all of Phaze Doubt?)
Margery Weis and Tracey Hickman - Dragonlance Chronicles (First 2 series are good)
Katherine Kurtz (Deryni series, first 7-8 books)
Terry Brooks (Sword of Shannara series)
C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia)
Michael Moorcock (Elric series)
Raymond Fiest (Magician - Riftwar series)
Robin Hobb (The Farseer Trilogy)
Fritz Lieber (Lankmar)


Science Fiction:
Frank Herbert (Dune series - the Tolkien of science fiction)
Follow on series to Dune by his son
Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game and sequels)
Tad Williams "Otherworld" (excellent science fiction-fantasy series)
Douglas Adams "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series (I have read them ten times and would still falll on the ground laughing if I read them now.)

Non-fiction (I don't read much of these.)
Thomas Friedman's books "The World is Flat" most recently
"The Five People you Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Album
"Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Album
Bryson "A Walk in the Woods"