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As my first love are the Victorian classics, quite a few of these were very straightforward. I was surprised, though, how many I'd never even heard of, let alone read! Margaret Atwood --vs-- George Orwell --vs-- Daphne Du Maurier Vladimir Nabokov --vs-- John Banville Samantha Hayes --vs-- Stephen King Edward Rutherford --vs-- L.E. Modesitt Sophie McKenzie --vs-- Leo Tolstoy Peter F Hamilton --vs-- Chris Manby Franz Kafka --vs-- Bernard Cornwell Hilary Mantel --vs-- Terry Pratchett Charles Dickens --vs-- Salman Rushdie Robert Jordan --vs-- Edgar Allan Poe Donna Leon --vs-- Paul Auster Elizabeth George --vs-- E M Forster Tash Aw --vs-- Oscar Wilde Maggie O'Farrell --vs-- George Eliot Virginia Woolf --vs-- JRR Tolkien Fyodor Dostoyevsky --vs-- Edith Wharton Conn Iggulden --vs-- Jane Austen Neil Gaiman --vs-- Sophie Kinsella Gabriel Garcia Márquez --vs-- William Faulkner Paulo Coelho --vs-- Rebecca Gable

Just discovered this - I have been browsing a lot, now for my first post! As I love the classics the most, it seems right to start here. Like many others, I'm a lover of all things Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, so they have both got to feature. I think my favourite by Jane is probably Emma, but that may be because it was the first I read. For Charles Dickens, it's currently Bleak House, just in front of David Copperfield. Really stuck in trying to choose a third - there's just so many - but I think I will have to go with one of the great originals: The Canterbury Tales. I've never read it in the original, but the modern version I've read is brilliant - the stories are so full of life, and I love the rhythm of the poetry.