I love Hemingway and I also enjoyed Steinbeck – I really enjoyed The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls, and I also enjoyed The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms – so as you can see I like his style. I enjoyed The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck. I read a lot of Leo Tolstoy for pleasure reading, I especially enjoyed Anna Karenina and I love all Charles Dickens. I recently finished Les Miserable by Victor Hugo and that was excellent. I enjoyed The Far Pavilians by MM Kaye, The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas and I especially enjoy George Elliott novels – my favourite being Middlemarch.
Hope you find something to spend the card on – there are always too many books and not enough time for me, lol. Linda