{"id":538,"date":"2022-07-22T14:03:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ong.dso.mybluehostin.me\/?page_id=538"},"modified":"2022-09-01T17:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T17:33:36","slug":"reading-list-classics-and-popular-fiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wrandomly.com\/?page_id=538","title":{"rendered":"Reading list: classics and popular fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some of the English authors I have read and enjoyed. Many are in the public domain, so they\u2019re free &#8211; the best things in life, and so forth. It\u2019s not \u2018literature\u2019, mostly \u2018popular\u2019 fiction, but: rasavant (with \u2018rasa\u2019), so it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/poetry.wrandomly.com\/mortality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">time well spent<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P G Wodehouse (the greatest)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Dickens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas Hardy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fanny Burney (<em>Evelina<\/em> is her best novel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rafael Sabatini<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stanley J Weyman (a lot like Raphael Sabatini \u2013historical adventure page turners with the archetypical male hero)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P C Wren<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J Meade Falkner (<em>Moonfleet<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erskine Childers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Buchan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frederick Marryat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A E W Mason (<em>The Four Feathers, The Broken Road, Clementina<\/em> and the Inspector Hanaud books)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terry Pratchett<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jerome K Jerome<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephen Leacock<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>G K Chesterton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saki (H H Munro)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rudyard Kipling<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bronte sisters (Charlotte, Emily and Anne)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>R L Stevenson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Douglas Adams (<em>Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em> and <em>Dirk Gentley<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daphne Du Maurier (especially <em>Rebecca<\/em> and <em>The Scapegoat<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C S Forester (Hornblower series)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patrick O\u2019Brian (Aubrey-Maturin series)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bernard Cornwell (Sharpe series)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>H R F Keating (Inspector Ghote)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jane Austen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lewis Carroll<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James Herriott<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Bryson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joseph Conrad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel Defoe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johann David Wyss (<em>Swiss Family Robinson<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conan Doyle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Henry Fielding<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>E Nesbit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enid Blyton (even if you\u2019re a senior citizen; maybe especially then)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevil Shute<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walter Scott<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>R K Narayan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emile Zola<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jules Verne<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O Henry&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victor Hugo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Graham Greene<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neil Gaiman (maybe)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Susanna Clarke<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Galsworthy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthony Trollope<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William Faulkner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louis L&#8217;amour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J T Edson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Max Brand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oliver Strange and Frederick H Christian (The Sudden series \u2013 known as Picadilly westerns, which were Wild West books written by English authors, the print equivalent of Spaghetti westerns)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheridan Le Fanu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilkie Collins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edgar Allan Poe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agatha Christie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Willa Cather (<em>My Antonia<\/em>, in particular)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C S Lewis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Georgette Heyer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Reade<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somerset Maugham<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J G Farrell (<em>The Siege Of Krishnapur<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J G Ballard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jonathan Swift (<em>A Modest Proposal, Gulliver\u2019s Travels, A Tale of A Tub<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roald Dahl<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frances Hodgson Burnett (<em>The Secret Garden<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephen Fry (<em>the Hippopotamus, The Ode Less Travelled (<\/em>non-fiction, a beautiful introduction and workbook to prosody<em>), The Liar<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom Sharpe (<em>Porterhouse Blues, The Throwback<\/em>, Wilt series etc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom Holt (<em>Doughnut, Snow White and the Seven Samurai<\/em> etc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A A Gill (<em>Sap Rising<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Steinbeck (<em>Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom Wolfe (<em>Bonfire of The Vanities<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Margaret Mitchell (<em>Gone With The Wind<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Irving (<em>The World According to Garp, The Ciderhouse Rules<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the English authors I have read and enjoyed. 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