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Until I found SN, I too was an avid reader. Varied genres. Left 7 bookcases of books behind when I moved out here. I now have 8 bookcases filled because I couldn’t leave all of my books behind. I would go through periods of reading one authors' entire works, Kazantzakis, Hermann Hesse, Vonnegut, Steinbeck, Twain, Anne Rice, Hemmingway, Fitzgerald, Bradbury, Clavell, Dickens, Harold Robbins, Tom Robbins, Tom Wolfe (although I wind up throwing his latest book across the room because he gets tired and after 300+ pages wraps the story up in 3-4 paragraphs and it makes me mad since he starts out so well and then gets bored or something.) Issak Dineson, Michael Ondaatje, Truman Capote, Annie Dillard, James Joyce (I have bought 7 different versions of Ulysses and still can’t get through it), H.P. Lovecraft, Herbert (Dune series) and of course J.K. Rowlings (although I felt like the last person on earth to start reading Harry Potter until after I saw the first film) P.D. Wodehouse, Jack Kerouac, J.D. Salinger. There are others but I can’t list them all here. These are just for comparing genres. These authors but not their entire works Christie, P.D. James, Mitchner, John Fowles (The Magus – original version 1965 was the best he tried to re-write it several times but was very disappointed in his re-writes – should have left well enough alone). I’ve read many, many non-fiction works as well and love biographies. Read historical books as well. Authors you may or may not have heard of but great writers: Rikki Ducornet, Laird Hunt, Bobbie Louise Hawkins and Junior Burke. I’m currently reading Junior’s latest book entitled “A Thousand Eyes” and highly recommend it. Go to Amazon and read the intro to see what I mean.