Perlle's "Authors listed in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"

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There are over 500 individual authors represtented in the book <i>1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die</i>, so this list is a way for me to keep track of how many authors’ works I have read—as opposed to how many individual works I have read.

One restriction: authors who I have read are not checked off unless I have read one of the works listed in the book.

If a book has more than one author, I have listed the first author listed. It’s not possible to cross reference here, so it’s the best solution I could come up with.

Listed in alphabetical order by last name.

<b>If you copy this list, please, at least change the description. Don’t just take what I’ve written as your own. Thanks. Perlle</b>

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  1. 1.
    Chinua Achebe

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  2. 2.
    Kathy Acker

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  3. 3.
    Peter Ackroyd

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  4. 4.
    Douglas Adams

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  5. 5.
    Aesopus

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  6. 6.
    M. Ageyev

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  7. 7.
    Louisa May Alcott

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  8. 8.
    Nelson Algren

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  9. 9.
    Marcel Allain

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  10. 10.
    Isabel Allende

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  11. 11.
    Jorge Amado

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  12. 12.
    Eric Ambler

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  13. 13.
    Kingsley Amis

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  14. 14.
    Martin Amis

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  15. 15.
    Ivo Andric

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  16. 16.
    Maya Angelou

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  17. 17.
    Anonymous

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  18. 18.
    Lucius Apuleius

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  19. 19.
    John Arbuthnot

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  20. 20.
    Michael Arlen

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  21. 21.
    Isaac Asimov

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  22. 22.
    Margaret Atwood

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  23. 23.
    Jane Austen

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  24. 24.
    Paul Auster

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  25. 25.
    James Baldwin

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  26. 26.
    J. G. Ballard

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  27. 27.
    Honore de Balzac

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  28. 28.
    Iain M. Banks

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  29. 29.
    Russell Banks

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  30. 30.
    John Banville

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  31. 31.
    Henri Barbusse

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  32. 32.
    Alessandro Baricco

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  33. 33.
    Pat Barker

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  34. 34.
    Djuna Barnes

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  35. 35.
    Julian Barnes

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  36. 36.
    John Barth

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  37. 37.
    Donald Barthelme

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  38. 38.
    Giorgio Bassani

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  39. 39.
    Georges Bataille

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  40. 40.
    Samuel Beckett

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  41. 41.
    William Beckford

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  42. 42.
    Brendan Behan

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  43. 43.
    Aphra Behn

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  44. 44.
    Saul Bellow

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  45. 45.
    Arnold Bennett

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  46. 46.
    John Berger

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  47. 47.
    Thomas Bernard

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  48. 48.
    Louis de Bernieres

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  49. 49.
    Maurice Blanchot

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  50. 50.
    Heinrich Böll

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Created by Perlle on May 07, 2007.
 

Comments

#420 — 29 weeks ago

Are you sure that Shakespeare (#420) is on the list? I thought much had been made about his absence (he didn’t write books, apparently). If I’ve missed him, what work is on the list for?


Duplicates — 29 weeks ago

More duplicates: #51 Karen Blixen and # 119 Isak Dinesen are the same person, and she wrote Out of Africa.

Karen something-something-something Dinesen married and became the Baroness Karen von Blixen. But she wrote her books under the pen name of Isak Dinesen, and that is the name you see on the spines of all her works. I’m not sure why 1001 Books confused things by mentioning both her pen and real names.


Duplicates — 36 weeks ago

Both 70 and 71 are Burroughs, so keep 71 and delete 70.


Perlle
East Hampton

It's finally finished! — 46 weeks ago

It should be accurate, but if you notice anything that seems strange just let me know.


I noticed... — 1 year ago

There are 2 duplicates: #135 and #136 are both Lawrence Durrell, and #146 and #147 are both Peter Esterhazy.

Also, the Graham Greene pictured is the actor, not the author. Don’t know if that really makes a huge difference to anyone.

Nice list!


Anonymous — 1 year ago

Hi, you had Anonymous listed at 17. I was just wondering what the book was?


Perlle
East Hampton

Grr — 1 year ago

I wish there was a better way of marking lists like this…
I’m not “meeting” the person.
So I guess I’ll have to mark each that I’ve read as “want to meet.”
But the percentage will stay at 0, so that’s not really a solution either.