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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 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

  105. 105.
    James Fennimore Cooper

  106. 106.
    Robert Coover

  107. 107.
    Jim Crace

  108. 108.
    E. E. Cummings

  109. 109.
    Michael Cunningham

  110. 110.
    David Dabydeen

  111. 111.
    Mark Z. Danielewski

  112. 112.
    Lydia Davis

  113. 113.
    Daniel Defoe

  114. 114.
    Don DeLillo

  115. 115.
    G. V. Desani

  116. 116.
    Shashi Deshpande

  117. 117.
    Philip K. Dick

  118. 118.
    Charles Dickens

  119. 119.
    Denis Diderot

  120. 120.
    Ellis Dillon

  121. 121.
    Isak Dinesen

  122. 122.
    Alfred Doblin

  123. 123.
    E. L. Doctorow

  124. 124.
    Jim Dodge

  125. 125.
    Dos Passos

  126. 126.
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  127. 127.
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  128. 128.
    Margaret Drabble

  129. 129.
    Slavenka Drakulic

  130. 130.
    Theodore Dreiser

  131. 131.
    daphne du Maurier

  132. 132.
    Alexandre Dumas

  133. 133.
    Patricai Duncker

  134. 134.
    Marguerite Duras

  135. 135.
    Lawrence Durrell

  136. 136.
    Friedrich Durrenmatt

  137. 137.
    Umberto Eco

  138. 138.
    Maria Edgeworth

  139. 139.
    George Eliot

  140. 140.
    Bret Easton Ellis

  141. 141.
    Ralph Ellison

  142. 142.
    James Ellroy

  143. 143.
    Oloudah Equiano

  144. 144.
    Laura Esquivel

  145. 145.
    Peter Esterhazy

  146. 146.
    Jeffrey Eugenides

  147. 147.
    Michel Faber

  148. 148.
    J. G. Farrell

  149. 149.
    William Faulkner

  150. 150.
    Sebastian Faulks

  151. 151.
    Henry Fielding

  152. 152.
    F Scott Fitzgerald

  153. 153.
    Gustave Flaubert

  154. 154.
    Ian Fleming

  155. 155.
    Jonathan Safran Foer

  156. 156.
    Theodor Fontane

  157. 157.
    Ford Madox Ford

  158. 158.
    E. M. Forster

  159. 159.
    John Fowles

  160. 160.
    Janet Frame

  161. 161.
    Jonathan Franzen

  162. 162.
    Esther Freud

  163. 163.
    Max Frisch

  164. 164.
    William Gaddis

  165. 165.
    Benito Perez Galdos

  166. 166.
    Paul Gallico

  167. 167.
    Janice Galloway

  168. 168.
    John Galsworthy

  169. 169.
    Alan Garner

  170. 170.
    Romain Gary

  171. 171.
    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

  172. 172.
    John Gay

  173. 173.
    David Gemmell

  174. 174.
    Lewis Grassic Gibbon

  175. 175.
    Stella Gibbons

  176. 176.
    William Gibson

  177. 177.
    André Gide

  178. 178.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  179. 179.
    George Gissing

  180. 180.
    William Godwin

  181. 181.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  182. 182.
    Nikolay Gogol

  183. 183.
    Arthur Golden

  184. 184.
    William Golding

  185. 185.
    Oliver Goldsmith

  186. 186.
    Ivan Goncharov

  187. 187.
    Nadine Gordimer

  188. 188.
    Maxim Gorky

  189. 189.
    Julien Gracq

  190. 190.
    Günter Grass

  191. 191.
    Alasdair Gray

  192. 192.
    Henry Green

  193. 193.
    Graham Greene

  194. 194.
    George Grossmith

  195. 195.
    Hella Haasse

  196. 196.
    Mark Haddon

  197. 197.
    H. Rider Haggard

  198. 198.
    Patrick Hamilton

  199. 199.
    Radclyffe Hall

  200. 200.
    Dashiell Hammett

  201. 201.
    Knut Hamsun

  202. 202.
    Peter Handke

  203. 203.
    Thomas Hardy

  204. 204.
    L. P. Hartley

  205. 205.
    Jaroslav Hasek

  206. 206.
    Max Havelaar

  207. 207.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  208. 208.
    Eliza Haywood

  209. 209.
    H.D.

  210. 210.
    Bessie Head

  211. 211.
    Robert Heinlein

  212. 212.
    Heliodorus

  213. 213.
    Joseph Heller

  214. 214.
    Ernest Hemingway

  215. 215.
    Aleksandar Hemon

  216. 216.
    Amy Hempel

  217. 217.
    Michael Herr

  218. 218.
    Hermann Hesse

  219. 219.
    Patricia Highsmith

  220. 220.
    Chester Himes

  221. 221.
    Barry Hines

  222. 222.
    William Hope Hodgson

  223. 223.
    Peter Hoeg

  224. 224.
    Gert Hofmann

  225. 225.
    James Hogg

  226. 226.
    Friedrich Holderlin

  227. 227.
    Allan Hollinghurst

  228. 228.
    Michel Houellebecq

  229. 229.
    Victor Hugo

  230. 230.
    Zora Neale Hurston

  231. 231.
    Siri Hustvedt

  232. 232.
    Aldous Huxley

  233. 233.
    Joris-Karl Huysmans

  234. 234.
    John Irving

  235. 235.
    Christopher Isherwood

  236. 236.
    Kazuo Ishiguro

  237. 237.
    Henry James

  238. 238.
    Storm Jameson

  239. 239.
    Tove Jansson

  240. 240.
    Elfriede Jelenik

  241. 241.
    Jo Jung-rae

  242. 242.
    B. S. Johnson

  243. 243.
    Samuel Johnson

  244. 244.
    Uwe Johnson

  245. 245.
    David Jones

  246. 246.
    Erica Jong

  247. 247.
    James Joyce

  248. 248.
    Jung Chang

  249. 249.
    Ismail Kadare

  250. 250.
    Franz Kafka

  251. 251.
    Nikos Kazantzakis

  252. 252.
    James Kelman

  253. 253.
    Thomas Keneally

  254. 254.
    A. L. Kennedy

  255. 255.
    Jack Kerouac

  256. 256.
    Imre Kertész

  257. 257.
    Ken Kesey

  258. 258.
    Stephen King

  259. 259.
    Charles Kingsley

  260. 260.
    Barbara Kingsolver

  261. 261.
    Rudyard Kipling

  262. 262.
    William Kotzwinkle

  263. 263.
    Laszlo Krasnahorkai

  264. 264.
    Karl Kraus

  265. 265.
    Milan Kundera

  266. 266.
    Hanif Kureishi

  267. 267.
    Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne La Fayette

  268. 268.
    Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

  269. 269.
    Selma Lagerlöf

  270. 270.
    Giuseppe Lampedusa

  271. 271.
    Nella Larsen

  272. 272.
    Comte de Lautreamont

  273. 273.
    D.H. Lawrence

  274. 274.
    Halldór Laxness

  275. 275.
    John Le Carre

  276. 276.
    J Sheridan Le Fanu

  277. 277.
    David Leavitt

  278. 278.
    Harper Lee

  279. 279.
    Laurie Lee

  280. 280.
    Stanislaw Lem

  281. 281.
    Charlotte Lennox

  282. 282.
    Siegfried Lenz

  283. 283.
    Elmore Leonard

  284. 284.
    Nicolai Leskov

  285. 285.
    Doris Lessing

  286. 286.
    Carlo Levi

  287. 287.
    Primo Levi

  288. 288.
    M. G. Lewis

  289. 289.
    Sinclair Lewis

  290. 290.
    Wyndham Lewis

  291. 291.
    Clarice Lispector

  292. 292.
    Mario Vargas Llosa

  293. 293.
    Jack London

  294. 294.
    Howard Phillips Lovecraft

  295. 295.
    Malcolm Lowry

  296. 296.
    John Lyly

  297. 297.
    Patrick McCabe

  298. 298.
    Horace McCoy

  299. 299.
    Ian McEwan

  300. 300.
    John McGahern

  301. 301.
    Heather McGowan

  302. 302.
    Colin MacInnes

  303. 303.
    Henry Mackenzie

  304. 304.
    Ian Macpherson

  305. 305.
    Heinrich Mann

  306. 306.
    Thomas Mann

  307. 307.
    Frederic Manning

  308. 308.
    Katherine Mansfield

  309. 309.
    Peter Manson

  310. 310.
    Alessandro Manzoni

  311. 311.
    Sandor Marai

  312. 312.
    Javier Marias

  313. 313.
    David Markson

  314. 314.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  315. 315.
    Yann Martel

  316. 316.
    Harry Mathews

  317. 317.
    Charles Robert Maturin

  318. 318.
    W. Somerset Maugham

  319. 319.
    Guy de Maupassant

  320. 320.
    Margaret Mazzantini

  321. 321.
    Zakes Mda

  322. 322.
    Herman Melville

  323. 323.
    Anne Michaels

  324. 324.
    henry miller

  325. 325.
    Yukio Mishima

  326. 326.
    Pankaj Mishra

  327. 327.
    Rohinton Mistry

  328. 328.
    David Mitchell

  329. 329.
    Margaret Mitchell

  330. 330.
    Nancy Mitford

  331. 331.
    Alan Moore

  332. 332.
    Lorrie Moore

  333. 333.
    Alberto Moravia

  334. 334.
    William Morris

  335. 335.
    Toni Morrison

  336. 336.
    Harry Mulisch

  337. 337.
    Haruki Murakami

  338. 338.
    Iris Murdoch

  339. 339.
    Robert Musil

  340. 340.
    Vladimir Nabokov

  341. 341.
    V.S. Naipaul

  342. 342.
    Thomas Nashe

  343. 343.
    Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  344. 344.
    Anaïs Nin

  345. 345.
    Cees Nooteboom

  346. 346.
    Amélie Nothomb

  347. 347.
    Joyce Carol Oates

  348. 348.
    Edna O'Brien

  349. 349.
    Flann O'Brien

  350. 350.
    Tim O'Brien

  351. 351.
    Flannery O'Connor

  352. 352.
    Kenzaburo Oe

  353. 353.
    Ardal O'Hanlon

  354. 354.
    Michael Ondaatje

  355. 355.
    Jamie O'Neill

  356. 356.
    George Orwell

  357. 357.
    Ovid

  358. 358.
    Emine Ozdamar

  359. 359.
    Marcel Pagnol

  360. 360.
    Chuck Palahniuk

  361. 361.
    Park Kyong-ni

  362. 362.
    Pier Paolo Pasolini

  363. 363.
    Boris Pasternak

  364. 364.
    Walter Pater

  365. 365.
    Alan Paton

  366. 366.
    Cesare Pavese

  367. 367.
    Milorad Pavic

  368. 368.
    Octavio Paz

  369. 369.
    David Peace

  370. 370.
    Mervyn Peake

  371. 371.
    Victor Pelevin

  372. 372.
    Georges Perec

  373. 373.
    Luigi Pirandello

  374. 374.
    Sylvia Plath

  375. 375.
    James Plunkett

  376. 376.
    Edgar Allen Poe

  377. 377.
    Alexander Pope

  378. 378.
    Anthony Powell

  379. 379.
    Padgett Powell

  380. 380.
    E. Annie Proulx

  381. 381.
    Marcel Proust

  382. 382.
    Mario Puzo

  383. 383.
    Thomas Pynchon

  384. 384.
    Raymond Queneau

  385. 385.
    Francois Rabelais

  386. 386.
    Ann Radcliffe

  387. 387.
    Raymond Radiguet

  388. 388.
    Pauline Reage

  389. 389.
    Erich Maria Remarque

  390. 390.
    Jean Rhys

  391. 391.
    Anne Rice

  392. 392.
    Dorothy Richardson

  393. 393.
    Samuel Richardson

  394. 394.
    Alain Robbe-Grillet

  395. 395.
    Frederick Rolfe

  396. 396.
    Gillian Rose

  397. 397.
    Henry Roth

  398. 398.
    Joseph Roth

  399. 399.
    Philip Roth

  400. 400.
    Jean-Jaques Rousseau

  401. 401.
    Raymond Roussel

  402. 402.
    Arundhati Roy

  403. 403.
    Salman Rushdie

  404. 404.
    Akutagawa Ryunosuke

  405. 405.
    Marquis de Sade

  406. 406.
    Carl Sagan

  407. 407.
    Francoise Sagan

  408. 408.
    Antoine de Saint Exupery

  409. 409.
    Jerome David Salinger

  410. 410.
    José Saramago

  411. 411.
    jean-paul sartre

  412. 412.
    George Saunders

  413. 413.
    Dorothy L. Sayers

  414. 414.
    Bernhard Schlink

  415. 415.
    Sir Walter Scott

  416. 416.
    W. G. Sebald

  417. 417.
    Anna Seghers

  418. 418.
    Will Self

  419. 419.
    Sam Selvon

  420. 420.
    Victor Serge

  421. 421.
    Vikram Seth

  422. 422.
    William Shakespeare

  423. 423.
    Akhil Sharma

  424. 424.
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  425. 425.
    Carol Shields

  426. 426.
    Nevil Shute

  427. 427.
    Henryk Sienkiewicz

  428. 428.
    Alan Sillitoe

  429. 429.
    Iain Sinclair

  430. 430.
    May Sinclair

  431. 431.
    Upton Sinclair

  432. 432.
    Jack Sleigh

  433. 433.
    Zadie Smith

  434. 434.
    Tobia George Smollett

  435. 435.
    Alexsandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

  436. 436.
    Edith Somerville

  437. 437.
    Natsume Soseki

  438. 438.
    Muriel Spark

  439. 439.
    Gertrude Stein

  440. 440.
    John Steinbeck

  441. 441.
    Stendhal

  442. 442.
    James Stephens

  443. 443.
    Neal Stephenson

  444. 444.
    Laurence Sterne

  445. 445.
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  446. 446.
    Bram Stoker

  447. 447.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe

  448. 448.
    August Strindberg

  449. 449.
    Patrick Suskind

  450. 450.
    Italo Svevo

  451. 451.
    Graham Swift

  452. 452.
    Jonathan Swift

  453. 453.
    Antonio Tabucchi

  454. 454.
    Donna Tartt

  455. 455.
    William Makepeace Thackeray

  456. 456.
    Hunter S. Thompson

  457. 457.
    Jim Thompson

  458. 458.
    Henry David Thoreau

  459. 459.
    Newton Thornburg

  460. 460.
    James Grover Thurber

  461. 461.
    Uwe Timm

  462. 462.
    Colm Toibin

  463. 463.
    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

  464. 464.
    Leo Tolstoy

  465. 465.
    John Kennedy Toole

  466. 466.
    Jean Toomer

  467. 467.
    Jachym Topol

  468. 468.
    Michel Tournier

  469. 469.
    Rose Tremain

  470. 470.
    Robert Tressell

  471. 471.
    William Trevor

  472. 472.
    Anthony Trollope

  473. 473.
    Tsitsi Dangarembga

  474. 474.
    Leonid Tsypkin

  475. 475.
    Ivan Turgenev

  476. 476.
    Mark Twain

  477. 477.
    John Updike

  478. 478.
    Giovanni Verga

  479. 479.
    Jules Verne

  480. 480.
    Simon Vestdijk

  481. 481.
    Gore Vidal

  482. 482.
    Elio Vittorini

  483. 483.
    Voltaire

  484. 484.
    Kurt Vonnegut

  485. 485.
    Alice Walker

  486. 486.
    David Foster Wallace

  487. 487.
    Lew Wallace

  488. 488.
    Horace Walpole

  489. 489.
    Alan Warner

  490. 490.
    Marina Warner

  491. 491.
    Sylvia Townsend Warner

  492. 492.
    Keith Waterhouse

  493. 493.
    Sarah Waters

  494. 494.
    Winifred Watson

  495. 495.
    Evelyn Waugh

  496. 496.
    Chris Webb

  497. 497.
    Herbert George Wells

  498. 498.
    Irvine Welsh

  499. 499.
    Nathanael West

  500. 500.
    Rebecca West

  501. 501.
    Edith Wharton

  502. 502.
    Edmund White

  503. 503.
    Patrick White

  504. 504.
    T. H. White

  505. 505.
    Oscar Wilde

  506. 506.
    Henry Williamson

  507. 507.
    Angus Wilson

  508. 508.
    Jeanette Winterson

  509. 509.
    P. G. Wodehouse

  510. 510.
    Christa Wolf

  511. 511.
    Thomas Wolfe

  512. 512.
    Tom Wolfe

  513. 513.
    Virginia Woolf

  514. 514.
    Richard Wright

  515. 515.
    John Wyndham

  516. 516.
    Marguerite Yourcenar

  517. 517.
    Yevgeny Zamyatin

  518. 518.
    Emile Zola

  519. 519.
    Stefan Zweig

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