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Favorite Authors: Best Loved and Least Liked Works

Our maverick English Teacher looks at 50 authors whose work he has read with great interest and pleasure over the years. For each author he has listed 2 books - the book he liked the most followed by the book he liked the least. He does not feel that the books he liked the least are necessarily bad books ( although a couple are pretty bad); they just didn't grab his interest, or they just didn't come up to standard that he expected.
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The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
1
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
2
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
3
Charles Dickens
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Charles Dickens)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
4
Charles Dickens
The Moonstone (Collins)
The Moonstone
5
Collins
The Law and the Lady (Wilkie Collins)
The Law and the Lady
6
Wilkie Collins
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
7
Joseph Conrad
Under Western Eyes (Joseph Conrad)
Under Western Eyes
8
Joseph Conrad
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
9
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Black Arrow
10
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5) (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
11
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Valley of Fear
12
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Hemingway)
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
13
Ernest Hemingway
To Have and Have Not (Ernest Hemingway)
To Have and Have Not
14
Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
15
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
16
The First Circle (Solzhenitsyn)
The First Circle
17
Solzhenitsyn
Lenin in Zürich (Solzhenitsyn)
Lenin in Zürich
18
Solzhenitsyn
The Quiet American (Graham Greene)
The Quiet American
19
Graham Greene
The Human Factor (Graham Greene)
The Human Factor
20
Graham Greene
A Coffin for Dimitrios (Ambler)
A Coffin for Dimitrios
21
Ambler
The Care of Time (Eric Ambler)
The Care of Time
22
Eric Ambler
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert a Heinlein)
Stranger in a Strange Land
23
Robert a Heinlein
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (Robert A. Heinlein)
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
24
Robert A. Heinlein
11/22/63 (Stephen King)
11/22/63
25
Stephen King
Under the Dome (Stephen King)
Under the Dome
26
Stephen King
The Sheep Look Up (John Brunner)
The Sheep Look Up
27
John Brunner
The Atlantic Abomination (John Brunner)
The Atlantic Abomination
28
John Brunner
HMS Ulysses (MacLean)
HMS Ulysses
29
MacLean
Goodbye California (MacLean)
Goodbye California
30
MacLean
The Glass Key (Dashiell Hammett)
The Glass Key
31
Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man (Dashiell Hammett)
The Thin Man
32
Dashiell Hammett
The Long Goodbye (Raymond Chandler)
The Long Goodbye
33
Raymond Chandler
Playback (Raymond Chandler)
Playback
34
Raymond Chandler
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (John Le Carré)
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
35
John Le Carré
The Little Drummer Girl
The Little Drummer Girl
36
Phantom Lady (Irish)
Phantom Lady
37
Irish
Waltz Into Darkness (Woolrich)
Waltz Into Darkness
38
Woolrich
The Crook Factory (Simmons)
The Crook Factory
39
Simmons
The Hollow Man (Simmons)
The Hollow Man
40
Simmons
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