General Fiction Core

[Expendable]

So I got to wondering what the general fiction core of my library was? Is it my Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? Is it Japanese Inn by Oliver Statler? What's your core books in General Fiction that you wouldn't want to give up?

 

[Westy]

I love my spy/thriller authors - Daniel Silva and Vince Flynn;

The historical fiction (Asian Saga) by James Clavell; and

The Lonesome Dove westerns by Larry McMurtry would all be up at the top of the list.

 

[Randy M.]

Like you, the Doyle Holmes canon. Also William Faulkner's fiction, and Hemingway's, John Steinbecks's, Dashiell Hammett's, Mark Twain's, Raymond Chandler's, and Shirley Jackson's (though I need to read more of her; still have books I haven't read). Individual titles would also include Labyrinths & Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, The Final Solution & The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon, The Collected Stories of Frank O'Connor, The Collected Stories of Stephen Vincent Benet, ...

I expect, if I was home checking the shelves, I'd find several other authors and works I'm not thinking of right now.

Randy M.

 

[Windshadow]

Before we get to the FSF stuff; Kipling, The man who would be king, Kim, the narrative poems like Tomlinson, The Hornblower stories, Robert L. Stevenson, Jonathon Swift, The Doyle Sherlock Holmes tales. I could go on and on there are so many I was reading before I got to the FSF stuff about age 12 or so.

 

[Carl L. Sanders]

James Joyce (particularly Ulysses; this year on Bloomsday I read the 'Nestor, wily Councilor' part)
Thomas Pynchon, esp. Against the Day An excellent 'many worlds' novel
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
Nabokov
...and on and on