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This is a complete list of the novels grouped into different categories on this website listed which I have classified as GEMs. The list includes links for several associated items which may be available online for each book: (a) Wikipedia page, (b) e-book, and (c) audiobook. There is also a column called “More info” with links to optional posts on each book.

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Category	Year	Author	Book Title	GEM!	Comments	Wikipedia	E-book	Audiobook	More
1.Crime-Agth	1920	Christie, Agatha	The Mysterious Affair at Styles		First Poirot/Hastings/Japp
1.Crime-Agth	1926	Christie, Agatha	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1.Crime-Agth	1934	Christie, Agatha	Murder on the Orient Express (aka Murder in the Calais Coach)
1.Crime-Agth	1937	Christie, Agatha	Death on the Nile
1.Crime-Agth	1938	Christie, Agatha	Hercule Poirot's Christmas (aka Murder for Christmas / A Holiday for Murder)
1.Crime-Agth	1939	Christie, Agatha	And Then There Were None (aka Ten Little Indians)
1.Crime-Agth	1944	Christie, Agatha	Towards Zero (aka Come and Be Hanged)
1.Crime-Agth	1950	Christie, Agatha	A Murder is Announced
1.Crime-Agth	1967	Christie, Agatha	Endless Night
1.Crime-Agth	1975	Christie, Agatha	Curtain: Poirot's Last Case		Final Poirot novel; written during WW II
1.Crime-Chase	1939	Chase, James Hadley	No Orchids for Miss Blandish (aka The Villain and the Virgin)		Chase's debut novel
1.Crime-Chase	1948	Chase, James Hadley	The Flesh of the Orchid
1.Crime-Chase	1948	Chase, James Hadley	Trusted Like the Fox (aka Ruthless)		(writing as Raymond Marshall)
1.Crime-Chase	1949	Chase, James Hadley	You Never Know With Women
1.Crime-Chase	1951	Chase, James Hadley	Strictly For Cash
1.Crime-Chase	1952	Chase, James Hadley	The Double Shuffle
1.Crime-Chase	1952	Chase, James Hadley	The Wary Transgressor		(writing as Raymond Marshall)
1.Crime-Chase	1953	Chase, James Hadley	This Way For A Shroud
1.Crime-Chase	1954	Chase, James Hadley	Tiger By The Tail
1.Crime-Chase	1960	Chase, James Hadley	What's Better Than Money?
1.Crime-Chase	1965	Chase, James Hadley	The Way the Cookie Crumbles
1.Crime-Chase	1969	Chase, James Hadley	The Vulture Is A Patient Bird
1.Crime-Doyle	1887	Doyle, Arthur Conan	A Study in Scarlet [novelette]		Debut of Holmes and Watson
1.Crime-Doyle	1902	Doyle, Arthur Conan	The Hound of the Baskervilles		Serialized 1901–1902 in The Strand with original illustrations by Sidney Paget
1.Crime-Doyle	1915	Doyle, Arthur Conan	The Valley of Fear		Novel in two parts, serialized 1914–1915
1.Crime-Other	1868	Collins, Wilkie	The Moonstone		First English detective novel
1.Crime-Other	1938	du Maurier, Daphne	Rebecca
1.Crime-Other	1939	Chandler, Raymond	The Big Sleep		Debut of Philip Marlowe
1.Crime-Other	1943	Cain, James M.	Double Indemnity
1.Crime-Other	1975	Chark, Mary Higgins	Where Are the Children?
2.Adv-Alstr	1957	MacLean, Alistair	The Guns of Navarone
2.Adv-Alstr	1961	MacLean, Alistair	Fear Is the Key
2.Adv-Alstr	1963	MacLean, Alistair	Ice Station Zebra
2.Adv-Alstr	1967	MacLean, Alistair	Where Eagles Dare
2.Adv-Alstr	1976	MacLean, Alistair	The Golden Gate
2.Adv-Bond	1954	Fleming, Ian	Live and Let Die		James Bond
2.Adv-Bond	1958	Fleming, Ian	Dr. No (aka Doctor No)		James Bond
2.Adv-Bond	1959	Fleming, Ian	Goldfinger		James Bond
2.Adv-Other	1919	McCulley, Johnston	The Curse of Capistrano (aka The Mark of Zorro)		Debut of Zorro
2.Adv-Other	1932	Nordhoff, Charles & Hall, James Norman	Mutiny on the Bounty
2.Adv-Other	1949	Schaeffer, Jack	Shane
2.Adv-Other	1952	Boulle, Pierre	The Bridge on the River Kwai (originally in French)
2.Adv-Other	1963	Le Carre, John	The Spy Who Came In from the Cold		Part 1 of the Karla trilogy
2.Adv-Other	1970	Bagley, Desmond	Running Blind
2.Adv-Other	1974	Weverka, Robert	The Sting (novelization)
2.Adv-Other	2008	Collins, Suzanne	The Hunger Games		Part 1 of the Hunger Games trilogy
3.Pop-Baldci	1998	Baldacci, David	The Winner
3.Pop-Brown	2000	Brown, Dan	Angels and Demons
3.Pop-Brown	2003	Brown, Dan	The Da Vinci Code
3.Pop-Brown	2009	Brown, Dan	The Lost Symbol
3.Pop-Cook	1989	Cook, Robin	Mutation
3.Pop-Cook	1999	Cook, Robin	Vector		4th in series
3.Pop-Follett	1978	Follett, Ken	Eye of the Needle (aka Storm Island)
3.Pop-Follett	1982	Follett, Ken	The Man from St. Petersburg
3.Pop-Follett	1989	Follett, Ken	The Pillars of the Earth		Kingsbridge Series Part 1
3.Pop-Forsyth	1971	Forsyth, Frederick	The Day of the Jackal
3.Pop-Forsyth	1972	Forsyth, Frederick	The Odessa File
3.Pop-Grisham	1991	Grisham, John	The Firm
3.Pop-Grisham	1996	Grisham, John	The Runaway Jury
3.Pop-Grisham	2004	Grisham, John	The Last Juror
3.Pop-Hailey	1959	Hailey, Arthur	The Final Diagnosis
3.Pop-Hailey	1965	Hailey, Arthur	Hotel
3.Pop-Hailey	1968	Hailey, Arthur	Airport
3.Pop-Hailey	1984	Hailey, Arthur	Strong Medicine
3.Pop-Irving	1962	Wallace, Irving	The Prize
3.Pop-Irving	1964	Wallace, Irving	The Man
3.Pop-Irving	1976	Wallace, Irving	The R Document
3.Pop-Sidney	1973	Sheldon, Sidney	The Other Side of Midnight
3.Pop-Various	1969	Puzo, Mario	The Godfather
3.Pop-Various	1974	Goldman, William	Marathon Man
3.Pop-Various	1975	Higgins, Jack	The Eagle Has Landed
3.Pop-Various	1979	Archer, Jeffrey	Kane and Abel
3.Pop-Various	1980	Auel, Jean M.	The Clan of the Cave Bear
3.Pop-Various	1987	Turow, Scott	Presumed Innocent
3.Pop-Various	1987	Wolfe, Tom	The Bonfire of the Vanities
3.Pop-Various	1988	Harris, Thomas	The Silence of the Lambs
3.Pop-Various	1990	Crichton, Michael	Jurassic Park
3.Pop-Various	1993	Diehl, William	Primal Fear
3.Pop-Various	1994	Crichton, Michael	Disclosure
3.Pop-Various	1995	Koontz, Dean	Intensity
3.Pop-Various	1995	Patterson, James	Kiss the Girls
3.Pop-Various	2000	DeMille, Nelson	The Lion's Game
3.Pop-Various	2003	Roberts, Gregory David	Shantaram
3.Pop-Various	2005	Connelly, Michael	The Lincoln Lawyer
3.Pop-Various	2005	Larsson, Steig	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (originally in Swedish)		Part 1 of the Millennium trilogy
3.Pop-Various	2012	Flynn, Gillian	Gone Girl
4.Lit-BioHist	1976	Haley, Alex	Roots: The Saga of an American Family		18th Century & beyond: Saga of an African-American family
4.Lit-Classic	1719	Defoe, Daniel	Robinson Crusoe		First ever English novel
4.Lit-Classic	1726	Swift, Jonathan	Gulliver's Travels
4.Lit-Classic	1811	Austen, Jane	Sense and Sensibility
4.Lit-Classic	1813	Austen, Jane	Pride and Prejudice
4.Lit-Classic	1818	Shelley, Mary	Frankenstein		Subtitled: Or, The Modern Prometheus
4.Lit-Classic	1819	Scott, Sir Walter	Ivanhoe
4.Lit-Classic	1838	Dickens, Charles	Oliver Twist		Subtitled: Or, the Parish Boy's Progress
4.Lit-Classic	1839	Dickens, Charles	Nicholas Nickleby		aka The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
4.Lit-Classic	1843	Dickens, Charles	[Novelette] A Christmas Carol		Subtitled: In Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
4.Lit-Classic	1846	Dumas, Alexandre	The Count of Monte Cristo		(originally in French)
4.Lit-Classic	1847	Brontë, Emily	Wuthering Heights
4.Lit-Classic	1847	Thackeray, William Makepeace	Vanity Fair
4.Lit-Classic	1850	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	The Scarlet Letter
4.Lit-Classic	1851	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	The House of the Seven Gables
4.Lit-Classic	1851	Melville, Herman	Moby Dick (or, The Whale)
4.Lit-Classic	1852	Stowe, Harriet Beecher	Uncle Tom's Cabin
4.Lit-Classic	1859	Dickens, Charles	A Tale of Two Cities
4.Lit-Classic	1862	Hugo, Victor	Les Misérables		(originally in French)
4.Lit-Classic	1865	Carroll, Lewis	[Children's Novel] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (aka Alice in Wonderland)		aka Alice in Wonderland
4.Lit-Classic	1866	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor	Crime and Punishment		(originally in Russian)
4.Lit-Classic	1869	Tolstoy, Leo	War and Peace		(originally in Russian)
4.Lit-Classic	1872	Verne, Jules	Around the World in Eighty Days		(originally in French)
4.Lit-Classic	1876	Twain, Mark	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
4.Lit-Classic	1877	Sewell, Anna	[Children's Novel] Black Beauty		Subtitled: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse
4.Lit-Classic	1877	Tolstoy, Leo	Anna Karenina		(originally in Russian)
4.Lit-Classic	1880	Wallace, Lew	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
4.Lit-Classic	1881	Twain, Mark	[Children's Novel] The Prince and the Pauper
4.Lit-Classic	1883	Pyle, Howard	[Children's Novel] The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (illustrated)
4.Lit-Classic	1885	Twain, Mark	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn		Sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
4.Lit-Classic	1886	Hardy, Thomas	The Mayor of Casterbridge		Subtitled: The Life and Death of a Man of Character
4.Lit-Classic	1886	Stevenson, Robert Louis	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
4.Lit-Classic	1887	Haggard, H. Rider	She		Subtitled: A History of Adventure
4.Lit-Classic	1890	Wilde, Oscar	The Picture of Dorian Gray
4.Lit-Classic	1891	Hardy, Thomas	Tess of the d'Urbervilles		Subtitled: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented
4.Lit-Classic	1894	Hope, Anthony	The Prisoner of Zenda
4.Lit-Maugham	1915	Maugham, W. Somerset	Of Human Bondage
4.Lit-Maugham	1919	Maugham, W. Somerset	The Moon and Sixpence
4.Lit-Maugham	1944	Maugham, W. Somerset	The Razor's Edge
4.Lit-Modern	1902	James, Henry	The Wings of the Dove
4.Lit-Modern	1903	London, Jack	The Call of the Wild
4.Lit-Modern	1905	Orczy, Baroness	The Scarlet Pimpernel		Debut of the Scarlet Pimpernel
4.Lit-Modern	1910	Forster, E.M.	Howards End
4.Lit-Modern	1922	Lewis, Sinclair	Arrowsmith
4.Lit-Modern	1923	Gibran, Kahlil	[Linked Stories] The Prophet
4.Lit-Modern	1924	Forster, E.M.	A Passage to India
4.Lit-Modern	1925	Dreiser, Theodore	An American Tragedy
4.Lit-Modern	1925	Fitzgerald, F. Scott	The Great Gatsby
4.Lit-Modern	1925	Kafka, Franz	The Trial		(originally in German)
4.Lit-Modern	1932	Huxley, Aldous	Brave New World
4.Lit-Modern	1934	Graves, Robert	I, Claudius
4.Lit-Modern	1936	Mitchell, Margaret	Gone with the Wind
4.Lit-Modern	1937	Cronin, A.J.	The Citadel
4.Lit-Modern	1937	Steinbeck, John	[Novelette] Of Mice and Men
4.Lit-Modern	1937	Tolkien, J.R.R.	[Children's Novel] The Hobbit		Subtitled: Or There and Back Again
4.Lit-Modern	1939	Steinbeck, John	The Grapes of Wrath
4.Lit-Modern	1940	Wright, Richard	Native Son
4.Lit-Modern	1942	Camus, Albert	The Stranger
4.Lit-Modern	1943	Rand, Ayn	The Fountainhead
4.Lit-Modern	1945	Orwell, George	[Novelette] Animal Farm
4.Lit-Modern	1946	Warren, Robert Penn	All the King's Men
4.Lit-Modern	1947	Steinbeck, John	[Novelette] The Pearl
4.Lit-Modern	1948	Greene, Graham	The Heart of the Matter
4.Lit-Modern	1949	Orwell, George	Nineteen Eighty-Four (aka 1984)
4.Lit-Modern	1951	Hemingway, Ernest	[Novelette] The Old Man and the Sea
4.Lit-Modern	1951	Wouk, Herman	The Caine Mutiny
4.Lit-Modern	1955	Nabokov, Vladimir	Lolita
4.Lit-Modern	1960	Lee, Harper	To Kill a Mockingbird
4.Lit-Modern	1961	Stone, Irving	The Agony and the Ecstasy
4.Lit-Modern	1962	Burgess, Anthony	A Clockwork Orange
4.Lit-Modern	1970	Segal, Erich	Love Story
4.Lit-Modern	1982	Walker, Alice	The Color Purple
4.Lit-Modern	1985	Tyler, Anne	The Accidental Tourist
4.Lit-Modern	1988	Coelho, Paulo	The Alchemist
4.Lit-Modern	2003	Hosseini, Khaled	The Kite Runner
4.Lit-Modern	2003	Lahiri, Jhumpa	The Namesake
5.SF-AClarke	1953	Clarke, Arthur C.	Childhood's End
5.SF-AClarke	1956	Clarke, Arthur C.	The City and the Stars		Reworked version of "Against the Fall of Night"
5.SF-AClarke	1968	Clarke, Arthur C.	2001: A Space Odyssey		Space Odyssey series #1
5.SF-AClarke	1972	Clarke, Arthur C.	Rendezvous with Rama		Rama series #1. Hugo & Nebula Award winner
5.SF-AClarke	1979	Clarke, Arthur C.	The Fountains of Paradise		Nebula Award winner
5.SF-AClarke	1986	Clarke, Arthur C.	The Songs of Distant Earth
5.SF-AClarke	1997	Clarke, Arthur C.	3001: The Final Odyssey
5.SF-Asimov	1951	Asimov, Isaac	Foundation		Foundation novel series #1
5.SF-Asimov	1952	Asimov, Isaac	Foundation and Empire		Foundation novel series #2
5.SF-Asimov	1953	Asimov, Isaac	Second Foundation		Foundation novel series #3
5.SF-Asimov	1954	Asimov, Isaac	The Caves of Steel		Robot novel series #1
5.SF-Asimov	1957	Asimov, Isaac	The Naked Sun		Robot novel series #2
5.SF-Asimov	1983	Asimov, Isaac	The Robots of Dawn		Robot novel series #3
5.SF-Asimov	1985	Asimov, Isaac	Robots and Empire		Robot novel series #4
5.SF-Asimov	1986	Asimov, Isaac	Foundation and Earth		Foundation novel series #5
5.SF-Asimov	1988	Asimov, Isaac	Prelude to Foundation		Foundation novel series #7 (1st in chronology)
5.SF-Other	1864	Verne, Jules	A Journey to the Center of the Earth (aka A Journey to the Interior of the Earth)		(originally in French)
5.SF-Other	1870	Verne, Jules	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea		(originally in French) Anticipates the modern submarine
5.SF-Other	1895	Wells, H. G.	The Time Machine
5.SF-Other	1897	Wells, H. G.	The Invisible Man
5.SF-Other	1898	Wells, H. G.	The War of the Worlds
5.SF-Other	1963	Boulle, Pierre	Planet of the Apes		(originally in French)
5.SF-Other	1965	Herbert, Frank	Dune		Hugo & Nebula Awards. Dune saga #1
5.SF-Other	1985	Card, Orson Scott	Ender's Game		Hugo and Nebula Awards
5.SF-Other	1985	Sagan, Carl	Contact
6.Com- PGW	1909	Wodehouse, P. G.	(Part 2 of 'Mike') Mike and Psmith		aka Enter Psmith, or The Lost Lambs. Starts from Ch. 30 of 'Mike'
6.Com- PGW	1910	Wodehouse, P. G.	A Gentleman of Leisure		aka The Intrusion of Jimmy. Expanded from novelette The Gem Collector
6.Com- PGW	1910	Wodehouse, P. G.	Psmith in the City
6.Com- PGW	1915	Wodehouse, P. G.	Psmith, Journalist
6.Com- PGW	1915	Wodehouse, P. G.	Something Fresh		aka Something New. Blandings debut
6.Com- PGW	1917	Wodehouse, P. G.	Uneasy Money
6.Com- PGW	1922	Wodehouse, P. G.	The Adventures of Sally		aka Mostly Sally
6.Com- PGW	1922	Wodehouse, P. G.	The Girl on the Boat		aka Three Men and a Maid
6.Com- PGW	1923	Wodehouse, P. G.	Leave It to Psmith		Co-stars Psmith
6.Com- PGW	1934	Wodehouse, P. G.	Right Ho, Jeeves		aka Brinkley Manor
6.Com- PGW	1938	Wodehouse, P. G.	The Code of the Woosters
Category	Year	Author	Book Title	GEM!	Comments	Wikipedia	E-book	Audiobook	More