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April 22, 2015

Top Ten Crime Fiction

The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V Higgins
Stick by Elmore Leonard
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carré
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
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Top Ten Contemporary Fiction

A Heart So White by Javier Marias
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marques
The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
The Untouchable by John Banville
London Fields by Martin Amis
May We Be Forgiven by A M Homes
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Sabbath’s Theatre by Philip Roth
Disgrace by J M Coetzee
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List of my top ten Literary Fiction of All Time

Embers by Zandor Marai
The Great Gatsby by F Scot Fitzgerald
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Voss by Patrick White
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
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