I thought this thread was about guns/police/detective books.jimlongley wrote:Melville
Twain
Cerf
Frost
Chaucer
Alighieri
Defoe
Poe
Asimov
Card
Niven
And many many more.
But my man Longley opened the door. I'll add:
Shakespeare (goodness, how was he neglected?)
Cervantes
Arthur C. Clark
Dickens
Faulkner
Goethe
Robert Heinlein
Frank Herbert
Ibsen
James Joyce
Kafka
Stephen King
Dean Kuntz
Milton
Proust
Samuel Johnson
Tolstoy
Roger Zelazny
And, of course, the number one book of all time, the Bible.