Jeffrey Archer’s Best Book Recommendations: Crime, Mystery, & Classic Novels

Books you must read

For fifty years I’ve been a working novelist — and for all of them, first a reader. Three hundred million books have sold with my name on the spine, but it’s the books on my shelves that taught me to write them. On this page you’ll find my Unputdownable lists: the crime writers I can’t put down, the murder mysteries I re-read every summer, the autobiographies that made me braver, the plays that shaped me. I couldn’t keep any of them to ten.

— Jeffrey Archer

My new novel, Adam & Eve, is published October 2026

Its the hardest book I’ve ever written – and my last one – Jeffrey

Eighteen months. Twenty drafts. A story thats been with me 50 years. 

 

If you have not read any of the Unputdownable lists, maybe start with these two

Top 10 Agatha Christie Books
Top 12 Best Classic Novels of All Time

 

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