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

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