13. Greatest Writers

TOP 100

  1. William Shakespeare (Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Othello, Henry V)
  2. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russian crime and punishment novels)
  3. Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist, Christmas Carrol, Tale of 2 Cities, David Copperfield)
  4. Leo Tolstoy (Russian writer – War and Peace, Anna Karenina)
  5. J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the rings)
  6. Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice)
  7. Ernest Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea)
  8. John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath)
  9. George Orwell (1984, Burmese Days, Animal Farm, A Clergyman’s Daughter)
  10. James Joyce (Ulysses)
  11. Mark Twain (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Dog’s Tale)
  12. William Faulkner
  13. Franz Kafka
  14. Alexandre Dumas
  15. Vladimir Nabokov
  16. J.D. Salinger
  17. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  18. Kurt Vonnegut
  19. Oscar Wilde
  20. C.S. Lewis
  21. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  22. Victor Hugo
  23. J.K. Rowling
  24. Edgar Allan Poe
  25. Virginia Woolf
  26. Agatha Christie
  27. George Eliot
  28. Marcel Proust
  29. Joseph Conrad
  30. Albert Camus
  31. Ayn Rand
  32. Ray Bradbury
  33. Homer
  34. Herman Melville
  35. Thomas Hardy
  36. Joseph Heller
  37. Salman Rushdie
  38. Anton Chekhov
  39. Charlotte Bronte
  40. Douglas Adams
  41. Ian McEwan
  42. Emily Bronte
  43. W. Somerset Maugham
  44. Cormac McCarthy
  45. Honore de Balzac
  46. D. H. Lawrence
  47. Khalid Hosseini
  48. Toni Morrison
  49. Miguel de Cervantes
  50. Phillip Roth
  51. Evely Waugh
  52. Stephen King
  53. John Updike
  54. Dante Alighieri
  55. Edith Wharton
  56. Henry Miller
  57. Chuck Palahniuk
  58. John Milton
  59. Aldous Huxley
  60. Saul Bellow
  61. Paulo Coelho
  62. Thomas Pynchon
  63. Anthony Burgess
  64. Jorge Luis Borges
  65. Jodi Picoult
  66. Jack London
  67. Harper Lee
  68. John Irving
  69. Thomas Mann
  70. Dr. Seuss
  71. Graham Greene
  72. Virgil
  73. Mikhail Bulgakov
  74. William Wordsworth
  75. Jules Verne
  76. Jack Kerouac
  77. Philip Pullman
  78. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  79. Willa Cather
  80. Jean Paul Sarte
  81. Sylvia Plath
  82. Robert Heinlein
  83. William Butler Yeats
  84. Hunter S. Thompson
  85. Philip K. Dick
  86. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  87. Henry David Thoreau
  88. Tennessee Williams
  89. H.P. Lovecraft
  90. John Keats
  91. Bram Stoker
  92. Flannery O’Connor
  93. Orson Scott Card
  94. Robert Louis Stevenson
  95. Rudyard Kipling
  96. Robert Frost
  97. E. M. Forster
  98. Emily Dickinson
  99. Raymond Chandler
  100. Plato

~ by djlowes on October 21, 2010.

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