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Jo Nesbø
Pierre Lemaitre
Fred Vargas
any new book from them I automatically buy (as soon as the price is low enough)


Humour : P.G. Wodehouse
Travel : Paul Theroux"
I read and enjoyed The Great Railway Bazaar. What other books of his would you recommend?

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.


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


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



Books mentioned in this topic
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (other topics)In a Sunburned Country (other topics)
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar (other topics)
The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari (other topics)
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Martin Walker (other topics)C.J. Box (other topics)
J.A. Jance (other topics)
Jo Nesbø (other topics)
Pierre Lemaitre (other topics)
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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.