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

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There are over 500 individual authors represented in the book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, 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.

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

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  1. 1.
    Chinua Achebe

  2. 2.
    Kathy Acker

  3. 3.
    Peter Ackroyd

  4. 4.
    Douglas Adams

  5. 5.
    Aesopus

  6. 6.
    M. Ageyev

  7. 7.
    Louisa May Alcott

  8. 8.
    Nelson Algren

  9. 9.
    Marcel Allain

  10. 10.
    Isabel Allende

  11. 11.
    Jorge Amado

  12. 12.
    Eric Ambler

  13. 13.
    Kingsley Amis

  14. 14.
    Martin Amis

  15. 15.
    Ivo Andric

  16. 16.
    Maya Angelou

  17. 17.
    Anonymous

  18. 18.
    Lucius Apuleius

  19. 19.
    John Arbuthnot

  20. 20.
    Michael Arlen

  21. 21.
    Isaac Asimov

  22. 22.
    Margaret Atwood

  23. 23.
    Jane Austen

  24. 24.
    Paul Auster

  25. 25.
    James Baldwin

  26. 26.
    J. G. Ballard

  27. 27.
    Honore de Balzac

  28. 28.
    Iain M. Banks

  29. 29.
    Russell Banks

  30. 30.
    John Banville

  31. 31.
    Henri Barbusse

  32. 32.
    Alessandro Baricco

  33. 33.
    Pat Barker

  34. 34.
    Djuna Barnes

  35. 35.
    Julian Barnes

  36. 36.
    John Barth

  37. 37.
    Donald Barthelme

  38. 38.
    Giorgio Bassani

  39. 39.
    Georges Bataille

  40. 40.
    Samuel Beckett

  41. 41.
    William Beckford

  42. 42.
    Brendan Behan

  43. 43.
    Aphra Behn

  44. 44.
    Saul Bellow

  45. 45.
    Arnold Bennett

  46. 46.
    John Berger

  47. 47.
    Thomas Bernard

  48. 48.
    Louis de Bernieres

  49. 49.
    Maurice Blanchot

  50. 50.
    Heinrich Böll

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Created by Perlle on May 07, 2007.
 

Comments

Entitet

#236 — 3 years ago

The surname is Jelinek, not Jelenik.

This list is great, by the way!

Jul 17, 04:00AM | 1 comment | Reply to this

Nickelini

#420 — 4 years 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?

Oct 25, 04:27PM | 1 comment | Reply to this

Nickelini

Duplicates — 4 years 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.

Oct 25, 04:15PM | 1 comment | Reply to this

TGTE

Duplicates — 4 years ago

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

Aug 31, 08:00AM | 2 comments | Reply to this

Perlle

It's finally finished! — 4 years ago

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

Jun 24, 10:01AM | 2 comments | Reply to this

southernbohemian

I noticed... — 4 years 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!

May 16, 09:44PM | 1 comment | Reply to this

Saph

Anonymous — 4 years ago

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

May 15, 08:35AM | 1 comment | Reply to this

Perlle

Grr — 4 years 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.

May 07, 12:12PM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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