250 authors every person should read

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  2. 2.
    Sophie's Choice
    by William Styron
  3. 3.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  4. 4.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev
  5. 5.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  6. 6.
    Night
    by Elie Wiesel
  7. 7.
    The Once and Future King, Complete Edition
    by T H White
  8. 8.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde
  9. 9.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père
  11. 11.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams
  12. 12.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams
  13. 13.
    Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Aesop
  14. 14.
    A Death In The Family
    by James Agee
  16. 16.
    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  17. 17.
    The Book of Illusions: A Novel

  18. 18.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  19. 19.
    Talk Before Sleep: A Novel
    by Elizabeth Berg
  20. 20.
    Tortilla Curtain
    by T.C Boyle
  21. 21.
    Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  22. 22.
    Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Emily Brontë
  23. 23.
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown
  24. 24.
    The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
    by Pearl S. Buck
  25. 25.
    A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
    by Robert Olen Butler
  26. 26.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Bunyan
  27. 27.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus
  28. 28.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote
  29. 29.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov
  30. 30.
  31. 31.
    The Alienist
    by Caleb Carr
  32. 32.
    The Stories of John Cheever
    by John Cheever
  33. 33.
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    Cold Sassy Tree
    by Olive Ann Burns
  34. 34.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather
  35. 35.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin
  36. 36.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke
  37. 37.
    Body and Soul
    by Frank Conroy
  38. 38.
    The Prince of Tides: A Novel
    by Pat Conroy
  40. 40.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  41. 41.
    Fanny Hill (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by John Cleland
  42. 42.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins
  43. 43.
    The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely (Modern Library)
    by Raymond Chandler
  44. 44.
    Slow Man
    by J.M. Coetzee
  45. 45.
    Birds Without Wings
    by Louis de Bernières
  46. 46.
    Robinson Crusoe (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Daniel Defoe
  47. 47.
    The Red Tent
    by Anita Diamant
  48. 48.
    Great Expectations (The Classic Collection)
    by Charles Dickens
  49. 49.
    Fifty Poems Emily Dickenson
    by Emily Dickinson
  50. 50.
    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Annie Dillard

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Created by Dodgerj on Mar 23, 2007.
 

Comments

Snarkattack

Swift / Gulliver's Travels — 33 weeks ago

is listed twice – two different versions, but not sure what author to replace it with? Ace list btw :D

Oct 01, 03:54AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

ms_chanandler_bong

Untitled — 5 years ago

Gulliver’s travels is on here twice

Jan 18, 02:38PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

southernbohemian

Changed — 5 years 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?

Dec 02, 06:40AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

mizoguchi

Untitled — 5 years ago

A valuable list. Isn’t Hesse on twice?

Nov 17, 11:03PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

bwittkop

Confederacy of Dunces — 5 years ago

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

Aug 13, 07:25AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

tassini

Untitled — 6 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to create this inspiring list!

Mar 24, 08:32AM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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