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Authors listed in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

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.
    Mohsin Hamid

  199. 199.
    Dashiell Hammett

  200. 200.
    Knut Hamsun

  201. 201.
    Peter Handke

  202. 202.
    Thomas Hardy

  203. 203.
    L. P. Hartley

  204. 204.
    Jaroslav Hasek

  205. 205.
    Max Havelaar

  206. 206.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  207. 207.
    Eliza Haywood

  208. 208.
    H.D.

  209. 209.
    Bessie Head

  210. 210.
    Robert Heinlein

  211. 211.
    Heliodorus

  212. 212.
    Joseph Heller

  213. 213.
    Ernest Hemingway

  214. 214.
    Aleksandar Hemon

  215. 215.
    Amy Hempel

  216. 216.
    Michael Herr

  217. 217.
    Hermann Hesse

  218. 218.
    Patricia Highsmith

  219. 219.
    Chester Himes

  220. 220.
    Barry Hines

  221. 221.
    William Hope Hodgson

  222. 222.
    Peter Hoeg

  223. 223.
    Gert Hofmann

  224. 224.
    James Hogg

  225. 225.
    Friedrich Holderlin

  226. 226.
    Allan Hollinghurst

  227. 227.
    Michel Houellebecq

  228. 228.
    Victor Hugo

  229. 229.
    Zora Neale Hurston

  230. 230.
    Siri Hustvedt

  231. 231.
    Aldous Huxley

  232. 232.
    Joris-Karl Huysmans

  233. 233.
    John Irving

  234. 234.
    Christopher Isherwood

  235. 235.
    Kazuo Ishiguro

  236. 236.
    Henry James

  237. 237.
    Storm Jameson

  238. 238.
    Tove Jansson

  239. 239.
    Elfriede Jelenik

  240. 240.
    Jo Jung-rae

  241. 241.
    B. S. Johnson

  242. 242.
    Samuel Johnson

  243. 243.
    Uwe Johnson

  244. 244.
    David Jones

  245. 245.
    Erica Jong

  246. 246.
    James Joyce

  247. 247.
    Jung Chang

  248. 248.
    Ismail Kadare

  249. 249.
    Franz Kafka

  250. 250.
    Nikos Kazantzakis

  251. 251.
    James Kelman

  252. 252.
    Thomas Keneally

  253. 253.
    A. L. Kennedy

  254. 254.
    Jack Kerouac

  255. 255.
    Imre Kertész

  256. 256.
    Ken Kesey

  257. 257.
    Stephen King

  258. 258.
    Charles Kingsley

  259. 259.
    Barbara Kingsolver

  260. 260.
    Rudyard Kipling

  261. 261.
    William Kotzwinkle

  262. 262.
    Laszlo Krasnahorkai

  263. 263.
    Karl Kraus

  264. 264.
    Milan Kundera

  265. 265.
    Hanif Kureishi

  266. 266.
    Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne La Fayette

  267. 267.
    Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

  268. 268.
    Selma Lagerlöf

  269. 269.
    Giuseppe Lampedusa

  270. 270.
    Nella Larsen

  271. 271.
    Comte de Lautreamont

  272. 272.
    D.H. Lawrence

  273. 273.
    Halldór Laxness

  274. 274.
    John Le Carre

  275. 275.
    J Sheridan Le Fanu

  276. 276.
    David Leavitt

  277. 277.
    Harper Lee

  278. 278.
    Laurie Lee

  279. 279.
    Stanislaw Lem

  280. 280.
    Charlotte Lennox

  281. 281.
    Siegfried Lenz

  282. 282.
    Elmore Leonard

  283. 283.
    Nicolai Leskov

  284. 284.
    Doris Lessing

  285. 285.
    Carlo Levi

  286. 286.
    Primo Levi

  287. 287.
    M. G. Lewis

  288. 288.
    Sinclair Lewis

  289. 289.
    Wyndham Lewis

  290. 290.
    Clarice Lispector

  291. 291.
    Mario Vargas Llosa

  292. 292.
    Jack London

  293. 293.
    Howard Phillips Lovecraft

  294. 294.
    Malcolm Lowry

  295. 295.
    John Lyly

  296. 296.
    Patrick McCabe

  297. 297.
    Horace McCoy

  298. 298.
    Ian McEwan

  299. 299.
    John McGahern

  300. 300.
    Heather McGowan

  301. 301.
    Colin MacInnes

  302. 302.
    Henry Mackenzie

  303. 303.
    Ian Macpherson

  304. 304.
    Heinrich Mann

  305. 305.
    Thomas Mann

  306. 306.
    Frederic Manning

  307. 307.
    Katherine Mansfield

  308. 308.
    Peter Manson

  309. 309.
    Alessandro Manzoni

  310. 310.
    Sandor Marai

  311. 311.
    Javier Marias

  312. 312.
    David Markson

  313. 313.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  314. 314.
    Yann Martel

  315. 315.
    Harry Mathews

  316. 316.
    Charles Robert Maturin

  317. 317.
    W. Somerset Maugham

  318. 318.
    Guy de Maupassant

  319. 319.
    Margaret Mazzantini

  320. 320.
    Zakes Mda

  321. 321.
    Herman Melville

  322. 322.
    Anne Michaels

  323. 323.
    henry miller

  324. 324.
    Yukio Mishima

  325. 325.
    Pankaj Mishra

  326. 326.
    Rohinton Mistry

  327. 327.
    David Mitchell

  328. 328.
    Margaret Mitchell

  329. 329.
    Nancy Mitford

  330. 330.
    Alan Moore

  331. 331.
    Lorrie Moore

  332. 332.
    Alberto Moravia

  333. 333.
    William Morris

  334. 334.
    Toni Morrison

  335. 335.
    Harry Mulisch

  336. 336.
    Haruki Murakami

  337. 337.
    Iris Murdoch

  338. 338.
    Robert Musil

  339. 339.
    Vladimir Nabokov

  340. 340.
    V.S. Naipaul

  341. 341.
    Thomas Nashe

  342. 342.
    Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  343. 343.
    Anaïs Nin

  344. 344.
    Cees Nooteboom

  345. 345.
    Amélie Nothomb

  346. 346.
    Joyce Carol Oates

  347. 347.
    Edna O'Brien

  348. 348.
    Flann O'Brien

  349. 349.
    Tim O'Brien

  350. 350.
    Flannery O'Connor

  351. 351.
    Kenzaburo Oe

  352. 352.
    Ardal O'Hanlon

  353. 353.
    Michael Ondaatje

  354. 354.
    Jamie O'Neill

  355. 355.
    George Orwell

  356. 356.
    Ovid

  357. 357.
    Emine Ozdamar

  358. 358.
    Marcel Pagnol

  359. 359.
    Chuck Palahniuk

  360. 360.
    Park Kyong-ni

  361. 361.
    Pier Paolo Pasolini

  362. 362.
    Boris Pasternak

  363. 363.
    Walter Pater

  364. 364.
    Alan Paton

  365. 365.
    Cesare Pavese

  366. 366.
    Milorad Pavic

  367. 367.
    Octavio Paz

  368. 368.
    David Peace

  369. 369.
    Mervyn Peake

  370. 370.
    Victor Pelevin

  371. 371.
    Georges Perec

  372. 372.
    Luigi Pirandello

  373. 373.
    Sylvia Plath

  374. 374.
    James Plunkett

  375. 375.
    Edgar Allen Poe

  376. 376.
    Alexander Pope

  377. 377.
    Anthony Powell

  378. 378.
    Padgett Powell

  379. 379.
    E. Annie Proulx

  380. 380.
    Marcel Proust

  381. 381.
    Mario Puzo

  382. 382.
    Thomas Pynchon

  383. 383.
    Raymond Queneau

  384. 384.
    Francois Rabelais

  385. 385.
    Ann Radcliffe

  386. 386.
    Raymond Radiguet

  387. 387.
    Pauline Reage

  388. 388.
    Erich Maria Remarque

  389. 389.
    Jean Rhys

  390. 390.
    Anne Rice

  391. 391.
    Dorothy Richardson

  392. 392.
    Samuel Richardson

  393. 393.
    Alain Robbe-Grillet

  394. 394.
    Frederick Rolfe

  395. 395.
    Gillian Rose

  396. 396.
    Henry Roth

  397. 397.
    Joseph Roth

  398. 398.
    Philip Roth

  399. 399.
    Jean-Jaques Rousseau

  400. 400.
    Raymond Roussel

  401. 401.
    Arundhati Roy

  402. 402.
    Salman Rushdie

  403. 403.
    Akutagawa Ryunosuke

  404. 404.
    Marquis de Sade

  405. 405.
    Carl Sagan

  406. 406.
    Francoise Sagan

  407. 407.
    Antoine de Saint Exupery

  408. 408.
    Jerome David Salinger

  409. 409.
    José Saramago

  410. 410.
    jean-paul sartre

  411. 411.
    George Saunders

  412. 412.
    Dorothy L. Sayers

  413. 413.
    Bernhard Schlink

  414. 414.
    Sir Walter Scott

  415. 415.
    W. G. Sebald

  416. 416.
    Anna Seghers

  417. 417.
    Will Self

  418. 418.
    Sam Selvon

  419. 419.
    Victor Serge

  420. 420.
    Vikram Seth

  421. 421.
    William Shakespeare

  422. 422.
    Akhil Sharma

  423. 423.
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  424. 424.
    Carol Shields

  425. 425.
    Nevil Shute

  426. 426.
    Henryk Sienkiewicz

  427. 427.
    Alan Sillitoe

  428. 428.
    Iain Sinclair

  429. 429.
    May Sinclair

  430. 430.
    Upton Sinclair

  431. 431.
    Jack Sleigh

  432. 432.
    Zadie Smith

  433. 433.
    Tobia George Smollett

  434. 434.
    Alexsandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

  435. 435.
    Edith Somerville

  436. 436.
    Natsume Soseki

  437. 437.
    Muriel Spark

  438. 438.
    Gertrude Stein

  439. 439.
    John Steinbeck

  440. 440.
    Stendhal

  441. 441.
    James Stephens

  442. 442.
    Neal Stephenson

  443. 443.
    Laurence Sterne

  444. 444.
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  445. 445.
    Bram Stoker

  446. 446.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe

  447. 447.
    August Strindberg

  448. 448.
    Patrick Suskind

  449. 449.
    Italo Svevo

  450. 450.
    Graham Swift

  451. 451.
    Jonathan Swift

  452. 452.
    Antonio Tabucchi

  453. 453.
    Donna Tartt

  454. 454.
    William Makepeace Thackeray

  455. 455.
    Hunter S. Thompson

  456. 456.
    Jim Thompson

  457. 457.
    Henry David Thoreau

  458. 458.
    Newton Thornburg

  459. 459.
    James Grover Thurber

  460. 460.
    Uwe Timm

  461. 461.
    Colm Toibin

  462. 462.
    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

  463. 463.
    Leo Tolstoy

  464. 464.
    John Kennedy Toole

  465. 465.
    Jean Toomer

  466. 466.
    Jachym Topol

  467. 467.
    Michel Tournier

  468. 468.
    Rose Tremain

  469. 469.
    Robert Tressell

  470. 470.
    William Trevor

  471. 471.
    Anthony Trollope

  472. 472.
    Tsitsi Dangarembga

  473. 473.
    Leonid Tsypkin

  474. 474.
    Ivan Turgenev

  475. 475.
    Mark Twain

  476. 476.
    John Updike

  477. 477.
    Giovanni Verga

  478. 478.
    Jules Verne

  479. 479.
    Simon Vestdijk

  480. 480.
    Gore Vidal

  481. 481.
    Elio Vittorini

  482. 482.
    Voltaire

  483. 483.
    Kurt Vonnegut

  484. 484.
    Alice Walker

  485. 485.
    David Foster Wallace

  486. 486.
    Lew Wallace

  487. 487.
    Horace Walpole

  488. 488.
    Alan Warner

  489. 489.
    Marina Warner

  490. 490.
    Sylvia Townsend Warner

  491. 491.
    Keith Waterhouse

  492. 492.
    Sarah Waters

  493. 493.
    Winifred Watson

  494. 494.
    Evelyn Waugh

  495. 495.
    Chris Webb

  496. 496.
    Herbert George Wells

  497. 497.
    Irvine Welsh

  498. 498.
    Nathanael West

  499. 499.
    Rebecca West

  500. 500.
    Edith Wharton

  501. 501.
    Edmund White

  502. 502.
    Patrick White

  503. 503.
    T. H. White

  504. 504.
    Oscar Wilde

  505. 505.
    Henry Williamson

  506. 506.
    Angus Wilson

  507. 507.
    Jeanette Winterson

  508. 508.
    P. G. Wodehouse

  509. 509.
    Christa Wolf

  510. 510.
    Thomas Wolfe

  511. 511.
    Tom Wolfe

  512. 512.
    Virginia Woolf

  513. 513.
    Richard Wright

  514. 514.
    John Wyndham

  515. 515.
    Marguerite Yourcenar

  516. 516.
    Yevgeny Zamyatin

  517. 517.
    Emile Zola

  518. 518.
    Stefan Zweig

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