reading inspiration needed

[pussweasel]

Need some new reading inspiration reached an impasse and want to load up my newish kindle - any suggestions? favourites include: anything by George Gissing, Maupassant,george Eliot, Zola so like classics. Also like Haruki Murakami, some Attwood's,Michael Faber. Don't like grisly detective - all other suggestions welcome.
thanks

Lolita.

Fight Club chappie esp Lullaby.

Douglas Coupland.

Lucretia grindle - my new favourite author. And sally vickers - miss garnetts angel is brilliant

Fight Club chappy is Chuck Pahlahniuk. He is very good. Also give John Connolly a go.

Andrew Miller's Ingenious Pain or Pure.

Flaubert's Madame Bovary

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

Thanks everyone -suggestions are all in my field/s.
Remus - Have been meaning to read Lolita for years- will put on list, thanks for reminder. Have read Douglas Couplands books. Liked Fight Club film - will look at author's other stuff on Amazon.
Grumpypants - will look at your suggestions - not heard of those authors before- great.
Nicholas- have read some Connolly before and quite liked.
OnceHomeless- have read most of the Flaubert and Tolstoys over the years. Not heard of Miller so will look at him - Thanks

Keep them coming

Have you read Jane Harris - 'The Observations' and her new one 'Gillespie and I'? We like similar stuff and I loved these.

Read, 'A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius' by Dave Eggars too. I re-read this recently and it was just as fab as I remembered it.

Not read any jane Harris so will have a look at her - thanks.

Will look at Dave Eggars - never read it beacuase of all the hype when it came out and thought it would be poncey but will ahve a look at it too

many thanks for taking time to reply

puss is George Gissing good? What book would you suggest reading first?

I would start with the Nether World or the Odd Women or New Grub Street. They are his most famous books and the easiest and cheapest to get your hands on- some of his best, most tightly written as well.

have put Lolita on my Kindle also Choke and Lullaby by fight club guy and have Grindle and Harris on my wishlist to load up at later date - many thanks
my friend is getting me the Eggers book form the charity shop as she saw it there yesterday!

Rant by Pahlahniuk is strange. It's a belting read with a weird form of backwards time travel with a strange purpose to the time travel. The method is a lot too. :o

Ivy common burnett (mentioned by alan Bennett in his wonderful uncommon reader)
Assume you've read all of James, Wolf, Mansfield, Rebecca West.

Do you like victorian thrillers? If you like Wilkie Collins you might like John Meade Faulkner's the Nebuly Coat, Mary Braddon's lady audley's secret.

What about Mrs gaskell, charlotte m yonge and Mrs oliphant?

Guy Mannering?

Henry Miller and Laurence Durrell?

Hesse?

Borges?

Camus, Satre, de Beauvoir and Genet?

Forster?

God, don't read 'Choke' first or you will never want to read another by him. It's HORRIBLE. Read 'Lullaby' first, whatever you do!

'Lady Audley's Secret' really annoyed me - a pretty good story marred by really terrible intrusion on the part of the writer.

Remus, I sort of agree but thought she felt she had to do that. But someone else who has read it, at last. Can't recall the titles of her other ones.

Read Louis de Bernieres - his Latin American trilogy is brilliant, magical realism, beautifully done. Also Captain Corelli's Mandolin is lovely, forget the film.

For something off the wall try Keith Robers - Pavane. Weird and wonderful alternative reality fiction, lovely writing.