250 authors every person should read

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  1. 1.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

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  2. 2.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

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  3. 3.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

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  4. 4.
    Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Aesop

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  5. 5.
    A Death In The Family
    by James Agee

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  6. 6.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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  7. 8.
    Kane and Abel
    by Jeffrey Archer

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  8. 10.
    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  9. 11.
    The Book of Illusions: A Novel

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  10. 13.
    Père Goriot (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Honoré de Balzac

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  11. 14.
    The Sea
    by John Banville

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  12. 15.
    Peter Pan (Aladdin Classics)
    by J. M. Barrie

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  13. 16.
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    by L. Frank Baum

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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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    FARHENHEIT 451.
    by RAY. BRADBURY

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  20. 23.
    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Bronte

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  21. 24.
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown

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  22. 25.
    Year of Wonders
    by Geraldine Brooks

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  23. 26.
    The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
    by Pearl S. Buck

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  24. 27.
    Rubyfruit Jungle
    by Rita Mae Brown

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  25. 28.
    A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
    by Robert Olen Butler

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  26. 29.
    Possession A. S.. Byatt
    by A S BYATT

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

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    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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  29. 32.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

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  30. 33.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

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  31. 34.
    Alice in Wonderland (Norton Critical Edition Ser.)
    by Lewis Carroll

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  32. 35.
    The Alienist: A Novel
    by Caleb Carr

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  33. 36.
    The Stories of John Cheever
    by John Cheever

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    Cold Sassy Tree
    by Olive Ann Burns

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  35. 38.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

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  36. 39.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

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  37. 40.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke

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  38. 41.
    Body and Soul
    by Frank Conroy

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  39. 42.
    The Prince of Tides
    by Pat Conroy

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  40. 44.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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  41. 45.
    Fanny Hill (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by John Cleland

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  42. 46.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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  43. 47.
    The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely (Modern Library)
    by Raymond Chandler

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  44. 48.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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  45. 49.
    Slow Man
    by J.M. Coetzee

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  46. 50.
    Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
    by Joseph Conrad

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Created by Dodgerj on Mar 23, 2007.
 

Comments

Untitled — 24 weeks ago

Gulliver’s travels is on here twice


Changed — 31 weeks 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 — 33 weeks ago

A valuable list. Isn’t Hesse on twice?


bwittkop
Minneapolis

Confederacy of Dunces — 46 weeks ago

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


Untitled — 1 year ago

Thanks for taking the time to create this inspiring list!