As promised, and in no particular order, are some of the books I’ve read and reread. All of these have inspired me in one way or another.
Dracula                                                           Bram Stoker
The Hound of the Baskervilles                      Arthur Conan Doyle
A Princess of Mars/Tarzan of the Apes         Edgar Rice Burroughs
Hunchback of Notre Dame                            Victor Hugo
Interpretation of Dreams                                Sigmund Freud          
The Big Sleep                                                 Raymond Chandler
The Martian Chronicles                                 Ray Bradbury
Psycho                                                            Robert Bloch
The Lord of the Rings                                    J.R.R. Tolkien
The Grapes of Wrath/Cannery Row              John Steinbeck
For Whom the Bell Tolls                               Ernest Hemingway
Nineteen Eight-Four                                      George Orwell
Frankenstein                                                  Mary Shelly
Slaughterhouse-Five                                      Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 
In Cold Blood                                                Truman Capote
Atlas Shrugged                                              Ayn Rand
Flowers for Algernon                                    Daniel Keyes
The Godfather                                               Mario Puzo
 Lolita                                                            Vladimir Nabokov
Catch-22                                                        Joseph Heller
The Road                                                       Cormac McCarthy
The Call of the Wild                                      Jack London
Jurassic Park                                                  Michael Crichton
Trainspotting                                                  Irvine Welsh

What are some of your favorite books?

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