Some books I have read and enjoyed

 A Dance to the Music of Time By Anthony Powell

http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Music-Time-First-Movement/dp/0226677141

Hornblower Saga by C. S. Forester as well as other novels by him

http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Midshipman-Hornblower-Saga/dp/0316289124/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333473710&sr=1-4

The Adventures of Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) J. M. Cohen (Translator)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Adventures-Quixote-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140440100/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337792741&sr=1-1

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

http://www.amazon.com/Name-Everymans-Library-Classics-Contemporary/dp/0307264890/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337792773&sr=1-1

King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard

http://www.amazon.com/Solomons-Mines-Henry-Rider-Haggard/dp/161949180X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337792836&sr=1-1

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Dover-Thrift-Editions/dp/0486284735/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337792878&sr=1-1

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

http://www.amazon.com/Robinson-Crusoe-Daniel-Defoe/dp/1613822553/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337793111&sr=1-1

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

http://www.amazon.com/Kidnapped-Robert-Louis-Stevenson/dp/1619491818/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337793146&sr=1-1

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

http://www.amazon.com/Ivanhoe-Sir-Walter-Scott/dp/1619491338/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337793180&sr=1-1

Random Harvest by James Hilton

http://www.amazon.com/Random-Harvest-James-Hilton/dp/1604444037/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337793234&sr=1-5

Lost Horizon by James Hilton

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Horizon-Novel-James-Hilton/dp/0060594527/ref=pd_cp_b_0

Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger

http://www.amazon.com/Arabian-Penguin-Classics-Wilfred-Thesiger/dp/0141442077/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337793338&sr=1-1

Big Red Train Ride by Eric Newby

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Train-Ride-Picador-Books/dp/033030805X/ref=sr_1_sc_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337793414&sr=1-2-spell

The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone

http://www.amazon.com/The-Agony-Ecstasy-Biographical-Michelangelo/dp/0451213238/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337793507&sr=1-1

Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Mississippi-Mark-Twain/dp/1463590776/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337793588&sr=1-1

Judge Dee at Work: Eight Chinese Detective Stories by

Robert van Gulik

http://www.amazon.com/Judge-Dee-Work-Detective-Mysteries/dp/0226848663/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337793795&sr=1-1

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

http://www.amazon.com/Nineteen-Eighty-Four-George-Orwell/dp/0452284236/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337794619&sr=8-1

Ravelstein by Saul Bellow

http://www.amazon.com/Ravelstein-Penguin-Great-Books-Century/dp/0141001763/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337794673&sr=1-1

Shane by Jack Schaefer

http://www.amazon.com/Shane-Jack-Schaefer/dp/0553271105/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337794822&sr=1-1

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Glory-Penguin-Classics/dp/0142437301/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337794876&sr=1-1

The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

http://www.amazon.com/The-Thin-Man-Dashiell-Hammett/dp/0679722637/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337794930&sr=1-1

Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh

http://www.amazon.com/Men-at-Arms-Evelyn-Waugh/dp/0316926280/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337795104&sr=1-2

Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh

http://www.amazon.com/Brideshead-Revisited-Profane-Memories-ebook/dp/B003MQNENY/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337795167&sr=1-1

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

http://www.amazon.com/Kim-Rudyard-Kipling/dp/1613821905/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337795255&sr=1-1

Right Ho Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

http://www.amazon.com/Right-Ho-Jeeves-P-Wodehouse/dp/1456506889/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337795352&sr=1-1

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: A George Smiley Novel by John le Carre

http://www.amazon.com/Tinker-Tailor-Soldier-Spy-George/dp/014312093X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337795493&sr=1-1

Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Rabbit-Tom-Clancy/dp/0425191184/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337795529&sr=1-1

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

http://www.amazon.com/The-Hunt-Red-October-Clancy/dp/0870212850/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337795585&sr=1-1