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

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There are 525 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.

Since my goal with the list is to read at least one book by every author, not necessarily to read all 1001 books, this list helps accomplish that.

Listed in alphabetical order by last name. A work in progress…

  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 Banks

  29. 29.
    Iain M. Banks

  30. 30.
    Russell Banks

  31. 31.
    John Banville

  32. 32.
    Henri Barbusse

  33. 33.
    Alessandro Baricco

  34. 34.
    Pat Barker

  35. 35.
    Djuna Barnes

  36. 36.
    Julian Barnes

  37. 37.
    John Barth

  38. 38.
    Joseph Barth

  39. 39.
    Donald Barthelme

  40. 40.
    Giorgio Bassani

  41. 41.
    Georges Bataille

  42. 42.
    Samuel Beckett

  43. 43.
    William Beckford

  44. 44.
    Brendan Behan

  45. 45.
    Aphra Behn

  46. 46.
    Saul Bellow

  47. 47.
    Arnold Bennett

  48. 48.
    John Berger

  49. 49.
    Thomas Bernard

  50. 50.
    Louis de Bernieres

  51. 51.
    Maurice Blanchot

  52. 52.
    Karen Blixen

  53. 53.
    Heinrich Böll

  54. 54.
    Jorge Luis Borges

  55. 55.
    Alain de Botton

  56. 56.
    Elizabeth Bowen

  57. 57.
    T. Coraghessan Boyle

  58. 58.
    Richard Brautigan

  59. 59.
    Bertolt Brecht

  60. 60.
    Andre Breton

  61. 61.
    Vera Brittain

  62. 62.
    Anne Bronte

  63. 63.
    Charlotte Bronte

  64. 64.
    Emily Bronte

  65. 65.
    John Buchan

  66. 66.
    Mikhail Bulgakov

  67. 67.
    John Bunyan

  68. 68.
    Anthony Burgess

  69. 69.
    Fanny Burney

  70. 70.
    Edgar Rice Burroghs

  71. 71.
    Edgar Rice Burroughs

  72. 72.
    William S Burroughs

  73. 73.
    Samuel Butler

  74. 74.
    Dino Buzzati

  75. 75.
    A. S. Byatt

  76. 76.
    James M. Cain

  77. 77.
    Italo Calvino

  78. 78.
    Albert Camus

  79. 79.
    Elias Canetti

  80. 80.
    Truman Capote

  81. 81.
    Peter Carey

  82. 82.
    Alejo Carpentier

  83. 83.
    Lewis Carroll

  84. 84.
    Angela Carter

  85. 85.
    Willa Cather

  86. 86.
    Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  87. 87.
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  88. 88.
    Raymond Chandler

  89. 89.
    Chariton

  90. 90.
    Bruce Chatwin

  91. 91.
    Erskine Childers

  92. 92.
    Giorgio de Chirico

  93. 93.
    Kate Chopin

  94. 94.
    Agatha Christie

  95. 95.
    Arthur C. Clarke

  96. 96.
    Hugo Claus

  97. 97.
    John Cleland

  98. 98.
    Jean Cocteau

  99. 99.
    Jonathon Coe

  100. 100.
    Paulo Coelho

  101. 101.
    J. M. Coetzee

  102. 102.
    Albert Cohen

  103. 103.
    Wilkie Collins

  104. 104.
    Joseph Conrad

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Created by Lisili on May 11, 2007.
 

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