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Herman Wouk. Inside Outside is amazing. The Winds of War and War and Remembrance are much better than the miniseries.

Douglas Adams. Read him first in high school and college when my vocabulary was forming. Still can't shake the phrases I picked up reading those books. But I know where my towel is.

Robert Caro. His biography of Lyndon Johnson is like watching the man walk again. David McCullough. His biographies of Truman, et al have the same effect as Caro's.

William Penn Warren. Reading All The King's Men is like drinking single barrel bourbon drop by drop.

Alexander Dumas, A Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, William Chandler. And Len Deighton for his Bernard Sampson series.