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Originally Posted by Quoth
The Good Earth is on my TBR "pile". In paper with some others she wrote.
Probably I was too young when I read Catcher in the Rye.
I've enjoyed a few on drofgnal's list.
I think re-reading is a good criterion.
In no order and not at all comprehensive
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And other favourite authors, but
not comprehensive :
Anne Hepple, Mary Stewart, Mary Burchell, Zane Grey, C. J. Cherryh, Bob Shaw, James White, Alan Dean Foster (but not the Star Wars stuff), Helen McInnes, Len Deighton, Victor Canning, Mary Rinehart, Ṗ. G. Wodehouse, Andre Norton, Charlotte Brontë, jane Austen, Cordwainer Smith, Margery Allingham, George MacDonald, Elsie Jeanette Oxenham, Angela Brazil, L. T. Meade, Anne McCaffrey, John Wyndham, Alister Maclean, Ngaio Marsh, Hammond Innes, Nevil Shute, Mrs. Margaret Oliphant (Hester was the first I read), Joan Aiken, Clifford Simak, Poul Anderson, Peter S. Beagle, Alfred Bester, Rhys Bowen, Dorothy Cannell, Raymond Chandler, G. K. Chesterton, Manning Coles, Jeanne M. Dams, Raymond E. Feist, Larry Niven, Jasper Fford, Elizabeth Goudge, Anna Katharine Green, Dashiell Hammett, Veronica Heley, Charlie N. Holmberg, Naomi Novak, Stephen Lawhead, Jack l. Chalker, Harry Harrison, Ben Bova, EE "Doc" Smith, "Capt." W. E. Johns, Harry Kemelman, Erich Kästner, Diana Wynne Jones, T E Kinsey, Maurice Leblanc, A. E. W. Mason (detective), Noel Streatfeild (the publisher made some be "shoe books"), Berta Ruck (romances with twists), Roy j. Snell, Patricia Wentworth (Christie's Marple is a pale version of Miss Silver), Janny Wurts, Robert Silverberg, Madame d' Aulnoy, some Enid Blyton series, Jerome K. Jerome, Ray Bradbury, John Buchan, Erskine Childers …
And many more. Probably left out some more popular ones. I read the library dry between 10 and 15. Had to giveaway almost an entire library when moving house once. Still have about 3000 paper editions and over 8000 ebooks (most are PD).
I don't read Horror now for decades. I ditch books that are simply attempting erotic rather actual romance. I read Westerns, detective, mystery, romance, the spectrum of SF from attempted realistic to fantasy, all kinds of fantasy (except sexual), adventure, spy (but not Ian Fleming since a teen, I think Bond is junk), some historic fiction, fairy tales, folk tails, myth, legend and a tiny bit of history, poetry, play scripts and biography, especially for research. Mostly only read science & technology now for research.