1.
Leo Tolstoy
105 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli - 1 comment
Comments:
The Death of Ivan Ilyich is comical, yet not, yet comical. It is so short everyone should try it.
Added 8 years ago by guest, 1 point
2.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
105 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli - 1 comment
Comments:
Dosto(Y)evsky
Added 13 years ago by guest, 0 points
3.
Wolfgang Goethe
103 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
4.
Friedrich Schiller
100 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
5.
Edgar Allen Poe
97 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
6.
Mark Twain
94 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
7.
Victor Hugo
89 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
8.
King David
85 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
9.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
82 points - added 6 years ago by redbarron80 -
10.
Anton Chekhov
76 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
11.
Heinrich Heine
75 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
12.
George Orwell
75 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
13.
HG Wells
72 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
14.
Adolf Heller
71 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
15.
Vladimir Nabokov
65 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
16.
Mikhail Bulgakov
65 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
17.
Alexander Pushkin
56 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
18.
F Scott Fitzgerald
55 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
19.
William Shakespeare
While many people dread reading Shakespearean plays, there are just as many who appreciate him. His ability to play on words and inject so many literary elements into his writing really put him on a level above others.
51 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
20.
Alexandre Dumas
He wrote "the Count of Monte Cristo" and "the Three Musketeers"
49 points - added 7 years ago by guest -
21.
Friedrich Hölderlin
47 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
22.
Thomas Mann
45 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
23.
Dante Alighieri
43 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
24.
William Faulkner
Sound and the Fury???
37 points - added 11 years ago by guest -
25.
Arthur Miller
28 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
26.
Charles Dickens
He has written so many amazing novels that are studied in countless high school and college classrooms through the world.
28 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli - 1 comment
Comments:
Yep. Just A Tale of Two Cities has sold might near 150-million copies. I'm a fan. Got hooked and still am.
Added 8 years ago by guest, 0 points
27.
Walt Whitman
Without a doubt one of the most influential and talented poets of all time.
27 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
28.
Ivan Turgenev
25 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
29.
Franz Kafka
22 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
30.
Virginia Woolf
21 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
31.
Lord Tennyson
21 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
32.
Oscar Wilde
20 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
33.
Nikolai Gogol
19 points - added 12 years ago by NickDrake -
34.
Nathanial Hawthorne
19 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
35.
Ernest Hemingway
19 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli - 1 comment
Comments:
Sorry I added him. I missed him as I scanned.
Added 8 years ago by guest, 0 points
36.
James Joyce
19 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
37.
Jane Austen
18 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli - 1 comment
Comments:
Forty-something on the list (when I got here)? That's ridiculous. *Rolls up sleeve and presses the "up" button in a burst of righteous indigation*
Added 13 years ago by guest, 0 points
38.
Emily Bronte
17 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
39.
Bram Stoker
16 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
40.
Dr. Suess
16 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
41.
DH Lawrence
15 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
42.
Ivan Bunin
14 points - added 12 years ago by NickDrake -
43.
Theodor Fontane
14 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
44.
Anna Akhmatova
13 points - added 12 years ago by NickDrake -
45.
Charlotte Bronte
12 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
46.
Edith Wharton
11 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
47.
Ivan Goncharov
10 points - added 12 years ago by NickDrake -
48.
Karl May
10 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
49.
Agatha Christie
10 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
50.
Arthur Conan Doyle
10 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
51.
Jules Verne
10 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
52.
JRR Tolkien
10 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
53.
John Grisham
10 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
54.
John Milton
He wrote "Paradise Lost"
9 points - added 7 years ago by guest -
55.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
She wrote "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus" at the age of 19!
9 points - added 7 years ago by guest -
56.
Kurt Vonnegut
1512
9 points - added 12 years ago by guest -
57.
Boris Pasternak
9 points - added 12 years ago by NickDrake -
58.
Sylvia Plath
9 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
59.
Heinrich von Kleist
8 points - added 13 years ago by guest -
60.
Roald Dahl
8 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
61.
Jack Kerouac
8 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
62.
Stephen King
8 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
63.
Chuck Palahniuk
8 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
64.
JD Salinger
7 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
65.
CS Lewis
6 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
66.
Truman Capote
6 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
67.
Harper Lee
5 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
68.
Emily Dickenson
5 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
69.
James Patterson
The best-selling author in the United States. He writes a page-turner like no other and keeps you guessing until the last moment.
5 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
70.
Samuel Beckett
4 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
71.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
What he lacked in ability he more than made up with his sheer passion. His "Gulag" series is brilliant, especially since he had to smuggle it out.
2 points - added 8 years ago by guest -
72.
Thomas Hardy
2 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
73.
Chuck Klosterman
2 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
74.
Toni Morrison
2 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli - 1 comment
Comments:
She is underrated. Paradise, Song of Solomon are her best of several.
Added 8 years ago by guest, -7 points
75.
Brandon Sanderson
Author of The Mistborn Series and The Storm Light Archives (The Way of Kings). Easily the most diverse Fantasy author ever.
1 point - added 4 years ago by guest -
76.
Henry Miller
1 point - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
77.
Jodi Picoult
-4 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
78.
Nicholas Sparks
-5 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
79.
JK Rowling
She created an entire world that is loved and known by millions of people. She paints pictures with her writing and brings you into her mind.
-26 points - added 14 years ago by ambereli -
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