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I could never get into poetry, but looking at my Kindle I can see that I frequently reread Pride & Prejudice, Wouk's Winds of War (I guess an American fits as a European author), Lord of the Rings (though I feel like a geek for saying so), Gone With the Wind, and the Patrick O'Brian seafaring novels. Clavell's Shogun also gets a frequent reading.
For mysteries I prefer Dick Francis, his characters are so well drawn.
Because I'm cheap, I've explored the free books available on Kindle extensively and that led me to Stoker's Dracula (a revelation) and Tarzan. The latter, while not great literature, is a fantastic window into a previous era when readers could be swept up by such tales of distant places.
I see we have somewhat similar tastes. I have a one volume collection of all of Jane Austen's novels and re-read them every couple of years. I'm getting more and more fond of "Persuasion". Same for Gone with the Wind, and yes, I like the Winds of War and Shogun as well. I've already said I love Lord of the Rings. :)
I've taken to getting all my fiction books on loan from the library. As long as you have a library card, getting it on a kindle is a click and done. You can extend it for more than two weeks as well. If I really want it permanently, I'll buy it. Sometimes it's almost as cheap to get a paperback good quality used copy as to get it on kindle, and for certain things, I really want "the book".
Non si fa il proprio dovere perchè qualcuno ci dica grazie, lo si fa per principio, per se stessi, per la propria dignità. Oriana Fallaci