250 authors every person should read

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    Sophie's Choice
    by William Styron

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    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

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    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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    Night (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Elie Wiesel

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    The Once and Future King
    by T.H. White

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    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde

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    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

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    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

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    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

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  11. 13.
    Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Aesop

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    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  13. 16.
    The Book of Illusions: A Novel

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  14. 17.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  15. 18.
    Talk Before Sleep: A Novel
    by Elizabeth Berg

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  16. 19.
    Midwives (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Chris Bohjalian

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  17. 20.
    Tortilla Curtain
    by T. Coraghessan Boyle

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  18. 21.
    Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Bronte

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  20. 23.
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown

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  21. 24.
    The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
    by Pearl S. Buck

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  22. 25.
    A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
    by Robert Olen Butler

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  23. 26.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Bunyan

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  24. 27.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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  25. 28.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

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  26. 29.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

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    Alice in Wonderland (Norton Critical Edition Ser.)
    by Lewis Carroll

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    The Alienist: A Novel
    by Caleb Carr

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    The Stories of John Cheever
    by John Cheever

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    Cold Sassy Tree
    by Olive Ann Burns

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    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

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  32. 35.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

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    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke

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  34. 37.
    Body and Soul
    by Frank Conroy

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  35. 38.
    The Prince of Tides
    by Pat Conroy

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    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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    Fanny Hill (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by John Cleland

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    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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  39. 43.
    The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely (Modern Library)
    by Raymond Chandler

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  40. 44.
    Slow Man
    by J.M. Coetzee

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  41. 45.
    Birds Without Wings
    by Louis De Bernieres

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  42. 46.
    Robinson Crusoe (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Daniel Defoe

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  43. 47.
    The Red Tent
    by Anita Diamant

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  44. 48.
    Great Expectations (The Classic Collection)
    by Charles Dickens

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  45. 49.
    Fifty Poems Emily Dickenson
    by Emily Dickinson

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    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
    by Annie Dillard

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Created by Dodgerj on Mar 23, 2007.
 

Comments

Untitled — 1 year ago

Gulliver’s travels is on here twice


Changed — 1 year ago

I put Faust up instead of the critical analysis of Goethe, which was by Harold Bloom. But the list is only 249 right now. Who is missing?


Untitled — 1 year ago

A valuable list. Isn’t Hesse on twice?


bwittkop
Minneapolis

Confederacy of Dunces — 1 year ago

The author for Confederacy of Dunces should be John Kennedy Toole.


Untitled — 2 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to create this inspiring list!