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message 1: by W (last edited Mar 03, 2021 08:11AM) (new)

W Dick Francis : He wrote forty plus thrillers,I've read them all.
James Hadley Chase : He wrote eighty plus thrillers,I'm yet to read a dozen or so.
Agatha Christie : Several dozen still to go this time.Read lots of her books years ago.


message 2: by Thomas (last edited Mar 03, 2021 10:25AM) (new)

Thomas (tom471) | 2003 comments Robert B. Parker
Elmore Leonard
I have read every book of each author


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CBRetriever | 2551 comments J.A. Jance
Jo Nesbø
Pierre Lemaitre
Fred Vargas

any new book from them I automatically buy (as soon as the price is low enough)


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W Jeffrey Archer. Even though he spent time in prison,that didn't slow him down.However,prison and prisoners repeatedly turn up in his books,since then.


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Linda (beaulieulinda117gmailcom) | 1741 comments Michael Connelly, John Connolly


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W In other genres :

Humour : P.G. Wodehouse
Travel : Paul Theroux


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Thomas (tom471) | 2003 comments W wrote: "In other genres :

Humour : P.G. Wodehouse
Travel : Paul Theroux"


I second both authors.


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W Glad you like them too,Thomas.


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Tara  | 470 comments W wrote: "In other genres :

Humour : P.G. Wodehouse
Travel : Paul Theroux"


I read and enjoyed The Great Railway Bazaar. What other books of his would you recommend?


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W Tara,I have read the following so far :
The Happy Isles of Oceania : Paddling the Pacific
Dark Star Safari
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
All are good.

Recently bought :
Riding the Iron Rooster
The Pillars of Hercules
But yet to read them.


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W And another author I read many years ago and have rediscovered again,Irwin Shaw.Reading his best book Rich Man,Poor Man again after many years and enjoying it.


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James Best (jamesbest) | 299 comments For me it is mostly mysteries and thrillers by authors I have read and collected over the last 25+ years.

Lawrence Block - the Matthew Scudder series
Lawrence Block - the Bernie Rhodenbarr series
James Lee Burke - the Dave Robicheaux series
Max Allan Collins - the Nate Heller series
Michael Connelly - the Harry Bosch series
Robert Crais - the Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series
Loren Estleman - the Amos Walker series
G.M. Ford - the Leo Waterman series
Mick Herron - the Slough House series
Greg Iles - the Penn Cage series
Craig Johnson - the Walt Longmire series
Stuart Kaminsky - the Porfiry Rostnikov series
Philip Kerr - the Bernie Gunther series
Ian Rankin - the John Rebus series
S.J. Rozan - the Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series
Andrew Vachss - the Burke series


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W John Grisham,I have rather mixed feelings about his work.Some terrific books and several ordinary and very lengthy ones,as well.Still,I'd like to read more by him.


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CBRetriever | 2551 comments Tara wrote: "I read and enjoyed The Great Railway Bazaar. What other books of his would you recommend?"

i just finished recently Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar which is Theroux's return to the same router, 30 years later, of the Great Railway Bazaar. It was excellent reading. The only travel book he wrote that I didn't really like was The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari where he gave up halfway through a trip from the south of Africa to the north. He was fed up with the situations he ran into and gave up in disgust.

For early travel books he wrote, I really enjoyed:

The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas = South America
and
Riding the Iron Rooster = China
The Pillars of Hercules = around the Mediterranean
The Kingdom by the Sea = Great Britain


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W Theroux writes fiction as well,though I have yet to read any of his fiction books.


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