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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.

  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.
    Joseph Barth

  38. 38.
    Donald Barthelme

  39. 39.
    Giorgio Bassani

  40. 40.
    Georges Bataille

  41. 41.
    Samuel Beckett

  42. 42.
    William Beckford

  43. 43.
    Brendan Behan

  44. 44.
    Aphra Behn

  45. 45.
    Saul Bellow

  46. 46.
    Arnold Bennett

  47. 47.
    John Berger

  48. 48.
    Thomas Bernard

  49. 49.
    Louis de Bernieres

  50. 50.
    Maurice Blanchot

  51. 51.
    Karen Blixen

  52. 52.
    Heinrich Böll

  53. 53.
    Jorge Luis Borges

  54. 54.
    Alain de Botton

  55. 55.
    Elizabeth Bowen

  56. 56.
    T. Coraghessan Boyle

  57. 57.
    Richard Brautigan

  58. 58.
    Bertolt Brecht

  59. 59.
    Andre Breton

  60. 60.
    Vera Brittain

  61. 61.
    Anne Bronte

  62. 62.
    Charlotte Bronte

  63. 63.
    Emily Bronte

  64. 64.
    John Buchan

  65. 65.
    Mikhail Bulgakov

  66. 66.
    John Bunyan

  67. 67.
    Anthony Burgess

  68. 68.
    Fanny Burney

  69. 69.
    Edgar Rice Burroughs

  70. 70.
    William S Burroughs

  71. 71.
    Samuel Butler

  72. 72.
    Dino Buzzati

  73. 73.
    A. S. Byatt

  74. 74.
    James M. Cain

  75. 75.
    Italo Calvino

  76. 76.
    Albert Camus

  77. 77.
    Elias Canetti

  78. 78.
    Truman Capote

  79. 79.
    Peter Carey

  80. 80.
    Alejo Carpentier

  81. 81.
    Lewis Carroll

  82. 82.
    Angela Carter

  83. 83.
    Willa Cather

  84. 84.
    Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  85. 85.
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  86. 86.
    Raymond Chandler

  87. 87.
    Chariton

  88. 88.
    Bruce Chatwin

  89. 89.
    Erskine Childers

  90. 90.
    Giorgio de Chirico

  91. 91.
    Kate Chopin

  92. 92.
    Agatha Christie

  93. 93.
    Arthur C. Clarke

  94. 94.
    Hugo Claus

  95. 95.
    John Cleland

  96. 96.
    Jean Cocteau

  97. 97.
    Jonathon Coe

  98. 98.
    Paulo Coelho

  99. 99.
    J. M. Coetzee

  100. 100.
    Albert Cohen

  101. 101.
    Wilkie Collins

  102. 102.
    Joseph Conrad

  103. 103.
    James Fennimore Cooper

  104. 104.
    Robert Coover

  105. 105.
    Jim Crace

  106. 106.
    E. E. Cummings

  107. 107.
    Michael Cunningham

  108. 108.
    David Dabydeen

  109. 109.
    Mark Z. Danielewski

  110. 110.
    Lydia Davis

  111. 111.
    Daniel Defoe

  112. 112.
    Don DeLillo

  113. 113.
    G. V. Desani

  114. 114.
    Shashi Deshpande

  115. 115.
    Philip K. Dick

  116. 116.
    Charles Dickens

  117. 117.
    Denis Diderot

  118. 118.
    Ellis Dillon

  119. 119.
    Isak Dinesen

  120. 120.
    Alfred Doblin

  121. 121.
    E. L. Doctorow

  122. 122.
    Jim Dodge

  123. 123.
    Dos Passos

  124. 124.
    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  125. 125.
    Arthur Conan Doyle

  126. 126.
    Margaret Drabble

  127. 127.
    Slavenka Drakulic

  128. 128.
    Theodore Dreiser

  129. 129.
    daphne du Maurier

  130. 130.
    Alexandre Dumas

  131. 131.
    Patricai Duncker

  132. 132.
    Marguerite Duras

  133. 133.
    Lawrence Durrell

  134. 134.
    Friedrich Durrenmatt

  135. 135.
    Umberto Eco

  136. 136.
    Maria Edgeworth

  137. 137.
    George Eliot

  138. 138.
    Bret Easton Ellis

  139. 139.
    Ralph Ellison

  140. 140.
    James Ellroy

  141. 141.
    Oloudah Equiano

  142. 142.
    Laura Esquivel

  143. 143.
    Peter Esterhazy

  144. 144.
    Jeffrey Eugenides

  145. 145.
    Michel Faber

  146. 146.
    J. G. Farrell

  147. 147.
    William Faulkner

  148. 148.
    Sebastian Faulks

  149. 149.
    Henry Fielding

  150. 150.
    F Scott Fitzgerald

  151. 151.
    Gustave Flaubert

  152. 152.
    Ian Fleming

  153. 153.
    Jonathan Safran Foer

  154. 154.
    Theodor Fontane

  155. 155.
    Ford Madox Ford

  156. 156.
    E. M. Forster

  157. 157.
    John Fowles

  158. 158.
    Janet Frame

  159. 159.
    Jonathan Franzen

  160. 160.
    Esther Freud

  161. 161.
    Max Frisch

  162. 162.
    William Gaddis

  163. 163.
    Benito Perez Galdos

  164. 164.
    Paul Gallico

  165. 165.
    Janice Galloway

  166. 166.
    John Galsworthy

  167. 167.
    Alan Garner

  168. 168.
    Romain Gary

  169. 169.
    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

  170. 170.
    John Gay

  171. 171.
    David Gemmell

  172. 172.
    Lewis Grassic Gibbon

  173. 173.
    Stella Gibbons

  174. 174.
    William Gibson

  175. 175.
    André Gide

  176. 176.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  177. 177.
    George Gissing

  178. 178.
    William Godwin

  179. 179.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  180. 180.
    Nikolay Gogol

  181. 181.
    Arthur Golden

  182. 182.
    William Golding

  183. 183.
    Oliver Goldsmith

  184. 184.
    Ivan Goncharov

  185. 185.
    Nadine Gordimer

  186. 186.
    Maxim Gorky

  187. 187.
    Julien Gracq

  188. 188.
    Günter Grass

  189. 189.
    Alasdair Gray

  190. 190.
    Henry Green

  191. 191.
    Graham Greene

  192. 192.
    George Grossmith

  193. 193.
    Hella Haasse

  194. 194.
    Mark Haddon

  195. 195.
    H. Rider Haggard

  196. 196.
    Patrick Hamilton

  197. 197.
    Radclyffe Hall

  198. 198.
    Dashiell Hammett

  199. 199.
    Knut Hamsun

  200. 200.
    Peter Handke

  201. 201.
    Thomas Hardy

  202. 202.
    L. P. Hartley

  203. 203.
    Jaroslav Hasek

  204. 204.
    Max Havelaar

  205. 205.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  206. 206.
    Eliza Haywood

  207. 207.
    H.D.

  208. 208.
    Bessie Head

  209. 209.
    Robert Heinlein

  210. 210.
    Heliodorus

  211. 211.
    Joseph Heller

  212. 212.
    Ernest Hemingway

  213. 213.
    Aleksandar Hemon

  214. 214.
    Amy Hempel

  215. 215.
    Michael Herr

  216. 216.
    Hermann Hesse

  217. 217.
    Patricia Highsmith

  218. 218.
    Chester Himes

  219. 219.
    Barry Hines

  220. 220.
    William Hope Hodgson

  221. 221.
    Peter Hoeg

  222. 222.
    Gert Hofmann

  223. 223.
    James Hogg

  224. 224.
    Friedrich Holderlin

  225. 225.
    Allan Hollinghurst

  226. 226.
    Michel Houellebecq

  227. 227.
    Victor Hugo

  228. 228.
    Zora Neale Hurston

  229. 229.
    Siri Hustvedt

  230. 230.
    Aldous Huxley

  231. 231.
    Joris-Karl Huysmans

  232. 232.
    John Irving

  233. 233.
    Christopher Isherwood

  234. 234.
    Kazuo Ishiguro

  235. 235.
    Henry James

  236. 236.
    Storm Jameson

  237. 237.
    Tove Jansson

  238. 238.
    Elfriede Jelenik

  239. 239.
    Jo Jung-rae

  240. 240.
    B. S. Johnson

  241. 241.
    Samuel Johnson

  242. 242.
    Uwe Johnson

  243. 243.
    David Jones

  244. 244.
    Erica Jong

  245. 245.
    James Joyce

  246. 246.
    Jung Chang

  247. 247.
    Ismail Kadare

  248. 248.
    Franz Kafka

  249. 249.
    Nikos Kazantzakis

  250. 250.
    James Kelman

  251. 251.
    Thomas Keneally

  252. 252.
    A. L. Kennedy

  253. 253.
    Jack Kerouac

  254. 254.
    Imre Kertész

  255. 255.
    Ken Kesey

  256. 256.
    Stephen King

  257. 257.
    Charles Kingsley

  258. 258.
    Barbara Kingsolver

  259. 259.
    Rudyard Kipling

  260. 260.
    William Kotzwinkle

  261. 261.
    Laszlo Krasnahorkai

  262. 262.
    Karl Kraus

  263. 263.
    Milan Kundera

  264. 264.
    Hanif Kureishi

  265. 265.
    Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne La Fayette

  266. 266.
    Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

  267. 267.
    Selma Lagerlöf

  268. 268.
    Giuseppe Lampedusa

  269. 269.
    Nella Larsen

  270. 270.
    Comte de Lautreamont

  271. 271.
    D.H. Lawrence

  272. 272.
    Halldór Laxness

  273. 273.
    John Le Carre

  274. 274.
    J Sheridan Le Fanu

  275. 275.
    David Leavitt

  276. 276.
    Harper Lee

  277. 277.
    Laurie Lee

  278. 278.
    Stanislaw Lem

  279. 279.
    Charlotte Lennox

  280. 280.
    Siegfried Lenz

  281. 281.
    Elmore Leonard

  282. 282.
    Nicolai Leskov

  283. 283.
    Doris Lessing

  284. 284.
    Carlo Levi

  285. 285.
    Primo Levi

  286. 286.
    M. G. Lewis

  287. 287.
    Sinclair Lewis

  288. 288.
    Wyndham Lewis

  289. 289.
    Clarice Lispector

  290. 290.
    Mario Vargas Llosa

  291. 291.
    Jack London

  292. 292.
    Howard Phillips Lovecraft

  293. 293.
    Malcolm Lowry

  294. 294.
    John Lyly

  295. 295.
    Patrick McCabe

  296. 296.
    Horace McCoy

  297. 297.
    Ian McEwan

  298. 298.
    John McGahern

  299. 299.
    Heather McGowan

  300. 300.
    Colin MacInnes

  301. 301.
    Henry Mackenzie

  302. 302.
    Ian Macpherson

  303. 303.
    Heinrich Mann

  304. 304.
    Thomas Mann

  305. 305.
    Frederic Manning

  306. 306.
    Katherine Mansfield

  307. 307.
    Peter Manson

  308. 308.
    Alessandro Manzoni

  309. 309.
    Sandor Marai

  310. 310.
    Javier Marias

  311. 311.
    David Markson

  312. 312.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  313. 313.
    Yann Martel

  314. 314.
    Harry Mathews

  315. 315.
    Charles Robert Maturin

  316. 316.
    W. Somerset Maugham

  317. 317.
    Guy de Maupassant

  318. 318.
    Margaret Mazzantini

  319. 319.
    Zakes Mda

  320. 320.
    Herman Melville

  321. 321.
    Anne Michaels

  322. 322.
    henry miller

  323. 323.
    Yukio Mishima

  324. 324.
    Pankaj Mishra

  325. 325.
    Rohinton Mistry

  326. 326.
    David Mitchell

  327. 327.
    Margaret Mitchell

  328. 328.
    Nancy Mitford

  329. 329.
    Alan Moore

  330. 330.
    Lorrie Moore

  331. 331.
    Alberto Moravia

  332. 332.
    William Morris

  333. 333.
    Toni Morrison

  334. 334.
    Harry Mulisch

  335. 335.
    Haruki Murakami

  336. 336.
    Iris Murdoch

  337. 337.
    Robert Musil

  338. 338.
    Vladimir Nabokov

  339. 339.
    V.S. Naipaul

  340. 340.
    Thomas Nashe

  341. 341.
    Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  342. 342.
    Anaïs Nin

  343. 343.
    Cees Nooteboom

  344. 344.
    Amélie Nothomb

  345. 345.
    Joyce Carol Oates

  346. 346.
    Edna O'Brien

  347. 347.
    Flann O'Brien

  348. 348.
    Tim O'Brien

  349. 349.
    Flannery O'Connor

  350. 350.
    Kenzaburo Oe

  351. 351.
    Ardal O'Hanlon

  352. 352.
    Michael Ondaatje

  353. 353.
    Jamie O'Neill

  354. 354.
    George Orwell

  355. 355.
    Ovid

  356. 356.
    Emine Ozdamar

  357. 357.
    Marcel Pagnol

  358. 358.
    Chuck Palahniuk

  359. 359.
    Park Kyong-ni

  360. 360.
    Pier Paolo Pasolini

  361. 361.
    Boris Pasternak

  362. 362.
    Walter Pater

  363. 363.
    Alan Paton

  364. 364.
    Cesare Pavese

  365. 365.
    Milorad Pavic

  366. 366.
    Octavio Paz

  367. 367.
    David Peace

  368. 368.
    Mervyn Peake

  369. 369.
    Victor Pelevin

  370. 370.
    Georges Perec

  371. 371.
    Luigi Pirandello

  372. 372.
    Sylvia Plath

  373. 373.
    James Plunkett

  374. 374.
    Edgar Allen Poe

  375. 375.
    Alexander Pope

  376. 376.
    Anthony Powell

  377. 377.
    Padgett Powell

  378. 378.
    E. Annie Proulx

  379. 379.
    Marcel Proust

  380. 380.
    Mario Puzo

  381. 381.
    Thomas Pynchon

  382. 382.
    Raymond Queneau

  383. 383.
    Francois Rabelais

  384. 384.
    Ann Radcliffe

  385. 385.
    Raymond Radiguet

  386. 386.
    Pauline Reage

  387. 387.
    Erich Maria Remarque

  388. 388.
    Jean Rhys

  389. 389.
    Anne Rice

  390. 390.
    Dorothy Richardson

  391. 391.
    Samuel Richardson

  392. 392.
    Alain Robbe-Grillet

  393. 393.
    Frederick Rolfe

  394. 394.
    Gillian Rose

  395. 395.
    Henry Roth

  396. 396.
    Joseph Roth

  397. 397.
    Philip Roth

  398. 398.
    Jean-Jaques Rousseau

  399. 399.
    Raymond Roussel

  400. 400.
    Arundhati Roy

  401. 401.
    Salman Rushdie

  402. 402.
    Akutagawa Ryunosuke

  403. 403.
    Marquis de Sade

  404. 404.
    Carl Sagan

  405. 405.
    Francoise Sagan

  406. 406.
    Antoine de Saint Exupery

  407. 407.
    Jerome David Salinger

  408. 408.
    José Saramago

  409. 409.
    jean-paul sartre

  410. 410.
    George Saunders

  411. 411.
    Dorothy L. Sayers

  412. 412.
    Bernhard Schlink

  413. 413.
    Sir Walter Scott

  414. 414.
    W. G. Sebald

  415. 415.
    Anna Seghers

  416. 416.
    Will Self

  417. 417.
    Sam Selvon

  418. 418.
    Victor Serge

  419. 419.
    Vikram Seth

  420. 420.
    William Shakespeare

  421. 421.
    Akhil Sharma

  422. 422.
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  423. 423.
    Carol Shields

  424. 424.
    Nevil Shute

  425. 425.
    Henryk Sienkiewicz

  426. 426.
    Alan Sillitoe

  427. 427.
    Iain Sinclair

  428. 428.
    May Sinclair

  429. 429.
    Upton Sinclair

  430. 430.
    Jack Sleigh

  431. 431.
    Zadie Smith

  432. 432.
    Tobia George Smollett

  433. 433.
    Alexsandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

  434. 434.
    Edith Somerville

  435. 435.
    Natsume Soseki

  436. 436.
    Muriel Spark

  437. 437.
    Gertrude Stein

  438. 438.
    John Steinbeck

  439. 439.
    Stendhal

  440. 440.
    James Stephens

  441. 441.
    Neal Stephenson

  442. 442.
    Laurence Sterne

  443. 443.
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  444. 444.
    Bram Stoker

  445. 445.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe

  446. 446.
    August Strindberg

  447. 447.
    Patrick Suskind

  448. 448.
    Italo Svevo

  449. 449.
    Graham Swift

  450. 450.
    Jonathan Swift

  451. 451.
    Antonio Tabucchi

  452. 452.
    Donna Tartt

  453. 453.
    William Makepeace Thackeray

  454. 454.
    Hunter S. Thompson

  455. 455.
    Jim Thompson

  456. 456.
    Henry David Thoreau

  457. 457.
    Newton Thornburg

  458. 458.
    James Grover Thurber

  459. 459.
    Uwe Timm

  460. 460.
    Colm Toibin

  461. 461.
    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

  462. 462.
    Leo Tolstoy

  463. 463.
    John Kennedy Toole

  464. 464.
    Jean Toomer

  465. 465.
    Jachym Topol

  466. 466.
    Michel Tournier

  467. 467.
    Rose Tremain

  468. 468.
    Robert Tressell

  469. 469.
    William Trevor

  470. 470.
    Anthony Trollope

  471. 471.
    Tsitsi Dangarembga

  472. 472.
    Leonid Tsypkin

  473. 473.
    Ivan Turgenev

  474. 474.
    Mark Twain

  475. 475.
    John Updike

  476. 476.
    Giovanni Verga

  477. 477.
    Jules Verne

  478. 478.
    Simon Vestdijk

  479. 479.
    Gore Vidal

  480. 480.
    Elio Vittorini

  481. 481.
    Voltaire

  482. 482.
    Kurt Vonnegut

  483. 483.
    Alice Walker

  484. 484.
    David Foster Wallace

  485. 485.
    Lew Wallace

  486. 486.
    Horace Walpole

  487. 487.
    Alan Warner

  488. 488.
    Marina Warner

  489. 489.
    Sylvia Townsend Warner

  490. 490.
    Keith Waterhouse

  491. 491.
    Sarah Waters

  492. 492.
    Winifred Watson

  493. 493.
    Evelyn Waugh

  494. 494.
    Chris Webb

  495. 495.
    Herbert George Wells

  496. 496.
    Irvine Welsh

  497. 497.
    Nathanael West

  498. 498.
    Rebecca West

  499. 499.
    Edith Wharton

  500. 500.
    Edmund White

  501. 501.
    Patrick White

  502. 502.
    T. H. White

  503. 503.
    Oscar Wilde

  504. 504.
    Henry Williamson

  505. 505.
    Angus Wilson

  506. 506.
    Jeanette Winterson

  507. 507.
    P. G. Wodehouse

  508. 508.
    Christa Wolf

  509. 509.
    Thomas Wolfe

  510. 510.
    Tom Wolfe

  511. 511.
    Virginia Woolf

  512. 512.
    Richard Wright

  513. 513.
    John Wyndham

  514. 514.
    Marguerite Yourcenar

  515. 515.
    Yevgeny Zamyatin

  516. 516.
    Emile Zola

  517. 517.
    Stefan Zweig

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