John Sanford -- and start at the beginning because you will have to read them all. Detectives Lucas Davenport in the first 25 or so books, and Virgil Flowers in the most recent series will keep you entertained -- I bought them as used paperbacks, but all are available as ebooks.

Anything by Theodor Geisel

The Story Of Philosophy - by Will Durant

"Life" Keith Richards. Good shepherds pie recipe too.

Charles Cumming is being touted as the new Le Carre, and he really is very good if you enjoy this genre.

Bernard Cornwell for napoleonic historical fiction (Sharpe series)
Patrick O'Brian for Nautical historical fiction (Master and Commander is one)
Wilbur Smith for tales of Egypt and Southern Africa (Courtney series and others)
George RR Martin for Song of fire and Ice series (Game of Thrones)

and Bernard Cornwell for The Saxon Stories (formation of early England)

I've read "Night Crew", "Bad Blood", and "Dark of the Moon" so far this month....Pretty good....I rate them a 7 or 8 on my 1-10 scale........

I'm reading The Odyssey right now, by Homer. I am stunned by how good this book is, particularly considering the cultural, language and time (multi-millennia) gaps.

My sister speaks three languages and had read the Russian Masters (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn) before she finished high school. To this day, she remains a voracious reader. Her most-loved book of all time: Les Miserables. I need to read that thing.

I picked this up on this recommendation. I'm about halfway through it and it am really enjoying it.

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Very believable account of the fate of Jimmy Hoffa...

"This Present Darkness" by Frank Perretti
Great book if you like Angels and Demons

Anything by Scott Turow

If you get started on Patrick o'Brian, you will not stop until you have read them all and you will know more about sailing and Napoleonic era naval battles than you thought possible.

Bernard Cornwell's Sharp series is also excellent, several were made into very good series which were broadcast on PBS over the years. He also has written several historical fictions on early England and the US civil war which are very good.

Civil War / History
 

Anything by Gordon Rhea. He has a great series of books on the peninsular battles beginning with the Wilderness thru Petersburg.

Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

We have forgotten our favorite pelican author..

CJ Fusco!

I have a book shelf full of Ian Rankin. While discussing his "Inspector Rebus" series one day, a fellow said, "Well, if you like Rankin, you'll love Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series."

He was right.

Les

Third World America by Arianna Huffington. It is all about how the politicians and some corporations are putting the shaft to America, the squeeze on the middle class and why real estate values have gone down etc etc etc. She is a bright lady, educated in Cambridge uk. Very insightful.

A couple of books by one author. Joseph Boyden.
"Three Day Road". Published in about 2005.
"Through Black Spruce". Published in about 2008.
The story line is intertwined so read Three Day Road first.

Don't know if this one was mentioned. Not a huge Stephan King fan, but I really enjoyed 11/22/63. Pretty entertaining.