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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

  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

  51. 51.
    Jorge Luis Borges

  52. 52.
    Alain de Botton

  53. 53.
    Elizabeth Bowen

  54. 54.
    T. Coraghessan Boyle

  55. 55.
    Richard Brautigan

  56. 56.
    Bertolt Brecht

  57. 57.
    Andre Breton

  58. 58.
    Vera Brittain

  59. 59.
    Anne Bronte

  60. 60.
    Charlotte Bronte

  61. 61.
    Emily Bronte

  62. 62.
    John Buchan

  63. 63.
    Mikhail Bulgakov

  64. 64.
    John Bunyan

  65. 65.
    Anthony Burgess

  66. 66.
    Fanny Burney

  67. 67.
    Edgar Rice Burroughs

  68. 68.
    William S Burroughs

  69. 69.
    Samuel Butler

  70. 70.
    Dino Buzzati

  71. 71.
    A. S. Byatt

  72. 72.
    James M. Cain

  73. 73.
    Italo Calvino

  74. 74.
    Albert Camus

  75. 75.
    Elias Canetti

  76. 76.
    Truman Capote

  77. 77.
    Peter Carey

  78. 78.
    Alejo Carpentier

  79. 79.
    Lewis Carroll

  80. 80.
    Angela Carter

  81. 81.
    Willa Cather

  82. 82.
    Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  83. 83.
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  84. 84.
    Raymond Chandler

  85. 85.
    Chariton

  86. 86.
    Bruce Chatwin

  87. 87.
    Erskine Childers

  88. 88.
    Giorgio de Chirico

  89. 89.
    Kate Chopin

  90. 90.
    Agatha Christie

  91. 91.
    Arthur C. Clarke

  92. 92.
    Hugo Claus

  93. 93.
    John Cleland

  94. 94.
    Jean Cocteau

  95. 95.
    Jonathon Coe

  96. 96.
    Paulo Coelho

  97. 97.
    J. M. Coetzee

  98. 98.
    Albert Cohen

  99. 99.
    Wilkie Collins

  100. 100.
    Joseph Conrad

  101. 101.
    James Fennimore Cooper

  102. 102.
    Robert Coover

  103. 103.
    Jim Crace

  104. 104.
    E. E. Cummings

  105. 105.
    Michael Cunningham

  106. 106.
    David Dabydeen

  107. 107.
    Mark Z. Danielewski

  108. 108.
    Lydia Davis

  109. 109.
    Daniel Defoe

  110. 110.
    Don DeLillo

  111. 111.
    G. V. Desani

  112. 112.
    Shashi Deshpande

  113. 113.
    Philip K. Dick

  114. 114.
    Charles Dickens

  115. 115.
    Denis Diderot

  116. 116.
    Ellis Dillon

  117. 117.
    Isak Dinesen

  118. 118.
    Alfred Doblin

  119. 119.
    E. L. Doctorow

  120. 120.
    Jim Dodge

  121. 121.
    Dos Passos

  122. 122.
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  123. 123.
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  124. 124.
    Margaret Drabble

  125. 125.
    Slavenka Drakulic

  126. 126.
    Theodore Dreiser

  127. 127.
    daphne du Maurier

  128. 128.
    Alexandre Dumas

  129. 129.
    Patricai Duncker

  130. 130.
    Marguerite Duras

  131. 131.
    Lawrence Durrell

  132. 132.
    Friedrich Durrenmatt

  133. 133.
    Umberto Eco

  134. 134.
    Maria Edgeworth

  135. 135.
    George Eliot

  136. 136.
    Bret Easton Ellis

  137. 137.
    Ralph Ellison

  138. 138.
    James Ellroy

  139. 139.
    Oloudah Equiano

  140. 140.
    Laura Esquivel

  141. 141.
    Peter Esterhazy

  142. 142.
    Jeffrey Eugenides

  143. 143.
    Michel Faber

  144. 144.
    J. G. Farrell

  145. 145.
    William Faulkner

  146. 146.
    Sebastian Faulks

  147. 147.
    Henry Fielding

  148. 148.
    F Scott Fitzgerald

  149. 149.
    Gustave Flaubert

  150. 150.
    Ian Fleming

  151. 151.
    Jonathan Safran Foer

  152. 152.
    Theodor Fontane

  153. 153.
    Ford Madox Ford

  154. 154.
    E. M. Forster

  155. 155.
    John Fowles

  156. 156.
    Janet Frame

  157. 157.
    Jonathan Franzen

  158. 158.
    Esther Freud

  159. 159.
    Max Frisch

  160. 160.
    William Gaddis

  161. 161.
    Benito Perez Galdos

  162. 162.
    Paul Gallico

  163. 163.
    Janice Galloway

  164. 164.
    John Galsworthy

  165. 165.
    Alan Garner

  166. 166.
    Romain Gary

  167. 167.
    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

  168. 168.
    John Gay

  169. 169.
    David Gemmell

  170. 170.
    Lewis Grassic Gibbon

  171. 171.
    Stella Gibbons

  172. 172.
    William Gibson

  173. 173.
    André Gide

  174. 174.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  175. 175.
    George Gissing

  176. 176.
    William Godwin

  177. 177.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  178. 178.
    Nikolay Gogol

  179. 179.
    Arthur Golden

  180. 180.
    William Golding

  181. 181.
    Oliver Goldsmith

  182. 182.
    Ivan Goncharov

  183. 183.
    Nadine Gordimer

  184. 184.
    Maxim Gorky

  185. 185.
    Julien Gracq

  186. 186.
    Günter Grass

  187. 187.
    Alasdair Gray

  188. 188.
    Henry Green

  189. 189.
    Graham Greene

  190. 190.
    George Grossmith

  191. 191.
    Hella Haasse

  192. 192.
    Mark Haddon

  193. 193.
    H. Rider Haggard

  194. 194.
    Patrick Hamilton

  195. 195.
    Radclyffe Hall

  196. 196.
    Dashiell Hammett

  197. 197.
    Knut Hamsun

  198. 198.
    Peter Handke

  199. 199.
    Thomas Hardy

  200. 200.
    L. P. Hartley

  201. 201.
    Jaroslav Hasek

  202. 202.
    Max Havelaar

  203. 203.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  204. 204.
    Eliza Haywood

  205. 205.
    H.D.

  206. 206.
    Bessie Head

  207. 207.
    Robert Heinlein

  208. 208.
    Heliodorus

  209. 209.
    Joseph Heller

  210. 210.
    Ernest Hemingway

  211. 211.
    Aleksandar Hemon

  212. 212.
    Amy Hempel

  213. 213.
    Michael Herr

  214. 214.
    Hermann Hesse

  215. 215.
    Patricia Highsmith

  216. 216.
    Chester Himes

  217. 217.
    Barry Hines

  218. 218.
    William Hope Hodgson

  219. 219.
    Peter Hoeg

  220. 220.
    Gert Hofmann

  221. 221.
    James Hogg

  222. 222.
    Friedrich Holderlin

  223. 223.
    Allan Hollinghurst

  224. 224.
    Michel Houellebecq

  225. 225.
    Victor Hugo

  226. 226.
    Zora Neale Hurston

  227. 227.
    Siri Hustvedt

  228. 228.
    Aldous Huxley

  229. 229.
    Joris-Karl Huysmans

  230. 230.
    John Irving

  231. 231.
    Christopher Isherwood

  232. 232.
    Kazuo Ishiguro

  233. 233.
    Henry James

  234. 234.
    Storm Jameson

  235. 235.
    Tove Jansson

  236. 236.
    Elfriede Jelenik

  237. 237.
    Jo Jung-rae

  238. 238.
    B. S. Johnson

  239. 239.
    Samuel Johnson

  240. 240.
    Uwe Johnson

  241. 241.
    David Jones

  242. 242.
    Erica Jong

  243. 243.
    James Joyce

  244. 244.
    Jung Chang

  245. 245.
    Ismail Kadare

  246. 246.
    Franz Kafka

  247. 247.
    Nikos Kazantzakis

  248. 248.
    James Kelman

  249. 249.
    Thomas Keneally

  250. 250.
    A. L. Kennedy

  251. 251.
    Jack Kerouac

  252. 252.
    Imre Kertész

  253. 253.
    Ken Kesey

  254. 254.
    Stephen King

  255. 255.
    Charles Kingsley

  256. 256.
    Barbara Kingsolver

  257. 257.
    Rudyard Kipling

  258. 258.
    William Kotzwinkle

  259. 259.
    Laszlo Krasnahorkai

  260. 260.
    Karl Kraus

  261. 261.
    Milan Kundera

  262. 262.
    Hanif Kureishi

  263. 263.
    Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne La Fayette

  264. 264.
    Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

  265. 265.
    Selma Lagerlöf

  266. 266.
    Giuseppe Lampedusa

  267. 267.
    Nella Larsen

  268. 268.
    Comte de Lautreamont

  269. 269.
    D.H. Lawrence

  270. 270.
    Halldór Laxness

  271. 271.
    John Le Carre

  272. 272.
    J Sheridan Le Fanu

  273. 273.
    David Leavitt

  274. 274.
    Harper Lee

  275. 275.
    Laurie Lee

  276. 276.
    Stanislaw Lem

  277. 277.
    Charlotte Lennox

  278. 278.
    Siegfried Lenz

  279. 279.
    Elmore Leonard

  280. 280.
    Nicolai Leskov

  281. 281.
    Doris Lessing

  282. 282.
    Carlo Levi

  283. 283.
    Primo Levi

  284. 284.
    M. G. Lewis

  285. 285.
    Sinclair Lewis

  286. 286.
    Wyndham Lewis

  287. 287.
    Clarice Lispector

  288. 288.
    Mario Vargas Llosa

  289. 289.
    Jack London

  290. 290.
    Howard Phillips Lovecraft

  291. 291.
    Malcolm Lowry

  292. 292.
    John Lyly

  293. 293.
    Patrick McCabe

  294. 294.
    Horace McCoy

  295. 295.
    Ian McEwan

  296. 296.
    John McGahern

  297. 297.
    Heather McGowan

  298. 298.
    Colin MacInnes

  299. 299.
    Henry Mackenzie

  300. 300.
    Ian Macpherson

  301. 301.
    Heinrich Mann

  302. 302.
    Thomas Mann

  303. 303.
    Frederic Manning

  304. 304.
    Katherine Mansfield

  305. 305.
    Peter Manson

  306. 306.
    Alessandro Manzoni

  307. 307.
    Sandor Marai

  308. 308.
    Javier Marias

  309. 309.
    David Markson

  310. 310.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  311. 311.
    Yann Martel

  312. 312.
    Harry Mathews

  313. 313.
    Charles Robert Maturin

  314. 314.
    W. Somerset Maugham

  315. 315.
    Guy de Maupassant

  316. 316.
    Margaret Mazzantini

  317. 317.
    Zakes Mda

  318. 318.
    Herman Melville

  319. 319.
    Anne Michaels

  320. 320.
    henry miller

  321. 321.
    Yukio Mishima

  322. 322.
    Pankaj Mishra

  323. 323.
    Rohinton Mistry

  324. 324.
    David Mitchell

  325. 325.
    Margaret Mitchell

  326. 326.
    Nancy Mitford

  327. 327.
    Alan Moore

  328. 328.
    Lorrie Moore

  329. 329.
    Alberto Moravia

  330. 330.
    William Morris

  331. 331.
    Toni Morrison

  332. 332.
    Harry Mulisch

  333. 333.
    Haruki Murakami

  334. 334.
    Iris Murdoch

  335. 335.
    Robert Musil

  336. 336.
    Vladimir Nabokov

  337. 337.
    V.S. Naipaul

  338. 338.
    Thomas Nashe

  339. 339.
    Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  340. 340.
    Anaïs Nin

  341. 341.
    Cees Nooteboom

  342. 342.
    Amélie Nothomb

  343. 343.
    Joyce Carol Oates

  344. 344.
    Edna O'Brien

  345. 345.
    Flann O'Brien

  346. 346.
    Tim O'Brien

  347. 347.
    Flannery O'Connor

  348. 348.
    Kenzaburo Oe

  349. 349.
    Ardal O'Hanlon

  350. 350.
    Michael Ondaatje

  351. 351.
    Jamie O'Neill

  352. 352.
    George Orwell

  353. 353.
    Ovid

  354. 354.
    Emine Ozdamar

  355. 355.
    Marcel Pagnol

  356. 356.
    Chuck Palahniuk

  357. 357.
    Park Kyong-ni

  358. 358.
    Pier Paolo Pasolini

  359. 359.
    Boris Pasternak

  360. 360.
    Walter Pater

  361. 361.
    Alan Paton

  362. 362.
    Cesare Pavese

  363. 363.
    Milorad Pavic

  364. 364.
    Octavio Paz

  365. 365.
    David Peace

  366. 366.
    Mervyn Peake

  367. 367.
    Victor Pelevin

  368. 368.
    Georges Perec

  369. 369.
    Luigi Pirandello

  370. 370.
    Sylvia Plath

  371. 371.
    James Plunkett

  372. 372.
    Edgar Allen Poe

  373. 373.
    Alexander Pope

  374. 374.
    Anthony Powell

  375. 375.
    Padgett Powell

  376. 376.
    E. Annie Proulx

  377. 377.
    Marcel Proust

  378. 378.
    Mario Puzo

  379. 379.
    Thomas Pynchon

  380. 380.
    Raymond Queneau

  381. 381.
    Francois Rabelais

  382. 382.
    Ann Radcliffe

  383. 383.
    Raymond Radiguet

  384. 384.
    Pauline Reage

  385. 385.
    Erich Maria Remarque

  386. 386.
    Jean Rhys

  387. 387.
    Anne Rice

  388. 388.
    Dorothy Richardson

  389. 389.
    Samuel Richardson

  390. 390.
    Alain Robbe-Grillet

  391. 391.
    Frederick Rolfe

  392. 392.
    Gillian Rose

  393. 393.
    Henry Roth

  394. 394.
    Joseph Roth

  395. 395.
    Philip Roth

  396. 396.
    Jean-Jaques Rousseau

  397. 397.
    Raymond Roussel

  398. 398.
    Arundhati Roy

  399. 399.
    Salman Rushdie

  400. 400.
    Akutagawa Ryunosuke

  401. 401.
    Marquis de Sade

  402. 402.
    Carl Sagan

  403. 403.
    Francoise Sagan

  404. 404.
    Antoine de Saint Exupery

  405. 405.
    Jerome David Salinger

  406. 406.
    José Saramago

  407. 407.
    jean-paul sartre

  408. 408.
    George Saunders

  409. 409.
    Dorothy L. Sayers

  410. 410.
    Bernhard Schlink

  411. 411.
    Sir Walter Scott

  412. 412.
    W. G. Sebald

  413. 413.
    Anna Seghers

  414. 414.
    Will Self

  415. 415.
    Sam Selvon

  416. 416.
    Victor Serge

  417. 417.
    Vikram Seth

  418. 418.
    Akhil Sharma

  419. 419.
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  420. 420.
    Carol Shields

  421. 421.
    Nevil Shute

  422. 422.
    Henryk Sienkiewicz

  423. 423.
    Alan Sillitoe

  424. 424.
    Iain Sinclair

  425. 425.
    May Sinclair

  426. 426.
    Upton Sinclair

  427. 427.
    Jack Sleigh

  428. 428.
    Zadie Smith

  429. 429.
    Tobia George Smollett

  430. 430.
    Alexsandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

  431. 431.
    Edith Somerville

  432. 432.
    Natsume Soseki

  433. 433.
    Muriel Spark

  434. 434.
    Gertrude Stein

  435. 435.
    John Steinbeck

  436. 436.
    Stendhal

  437. 437.
    James Stephens

  438. 438.
    Neal Stephenson

  439. 439.
    Laurence Sterne

  440. 440.
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  441. 441.
    Bram Stoker

  442. 442.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe

  443. 443.
    August Strindberg

  444. 444.
    Patrick Suskind

  445. 445.
    Italo Svevo

  446. 446.
    Graham Swift

  447. 447.
    Jonathan Swift

  448. 448.
    Antonio Tabucchi

  449. 449.
    Donna Tartt

  450. 450.
    William Makepeace Thackeray

  451. 451.
    Hunter S. Thompson

  452. 452.
    Jim Thompson

  453. 453.
    Henry David Thoreau

  454. 454.
    Newton Thornburg

  455. 455.
    James Grover Thurber

  456. 456.
    Uwe Timm

  457. 457.
    Colm Toibin

  458. 458.
    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

  459. 459.
    Leo Tolstoy

  460. 460.
    John Kennedy Toole

  461. 461.
    Jean Toomer

  462. 462.
    Jachym Topol

  463. 463.
    Michel Tournier

  464. 464.
    Rose Tremain

  465. 465.
    Robert Tressell

  466. 466.
    William Trevor

  467. 467.
    Anthony Trollope

  468. 468.
    Tsitsi Dangarembga

  469. 469.
    Leonid Tsypkin

  470. 470.
    Ivan Turgenev

  471. 471.
    Mark Twain

  472. 472.
    John Updike

  473. 473.
    Giovanni Verga

  474. 474.
    Jules Verne

  475. 475.
    Simon Vestdijk

  476. 476.
    Gore Vidal

  477. 477.
    Elio Vittorini

  478. 478.
    Voltaire

  479. 479.
    Kurt Vonnegut

  480. 480.
    Alice Walker

  481. 481.
    David Foster Wallace

  482. 482.
    Lew Wallace

  483. 483.
    Horace Walpole

  484. 484.
    Alan Warner

  485. 485.
    Marina Warner

  486. 486.
    Sylvia Townsend Warner

  487. 487.
    Keith Waterhouse

  488. 488.
    Sarah Waters

  489. 489.
    Winifred Watson

  490. 490.
    Evelyn Waugh

  491. 491.
    Chris Webb

  492. 492.
    Herbert George Wells

  493. 493.
    Irvine Welsh

  494. 494.
    Nathanael West

  495. 495.
    Rebecca West

  496. 496.
    Edith Wharton

  497. 497.
    Edmund White

  498. 498.
    Patrick White

  499. 499.
    T. H. White

  500. 500.
    Oscar Wilde

  501. 501.
    Henry Williamson

  502. 502.
    Angus Wilson

  503. 503.
    Jeanette Winterson

  504. 504.
    P. G. Wodehouse

  505. 505.
    Christa Wolf

  506. 506.
    Thomas Wolfe

  507. 507.
    Tom Wolfe

  508. 508.
    Virginia Woolf

  509. 509.
    Richard Wright

  510. 510.
    John Wyndham

  511. 511.
    Marguerite Yourcenar

  512. 512.
    Yevgeny Zamyatin

  513. 513.
    Emile Zola

  514. 514.
    Stefan Zweig

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