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100 Authors to Read

100 authors that I think everyone should try: novelists, children's authors, poets, and playwrights. If I don't love something they've written, they aren't on here!
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Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
1
Alice Munro
Alice Munro
2
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
3
Ami McKay
Ami McKay
4
Angela Carter
Angela Carter
5
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Ann-Marie MacDonald
6
Bronte, Anne
Bronte, Anne
7
Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
8
Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte
9
Camila Gibb
Camila Gibb
10
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
11
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
12
Chris Cleave
Chris Cleave
13
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy
14
Daphne Du Maurier
Daphne Du Maurier
15
E.M. Forster
E.M. Forster
16
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
17
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
18
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
19
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
20
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1940)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1940)
21
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
22
George Orwell
George Orwell
23
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
24
Helen Humphreys
Helen Humphreys
25
Henry James
Henry James
26
Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel
27
Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay
28
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
29
Jane Urquhart
Jane Urquhart
30
Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago
31
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
32
Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes
33
Kathleen Grissom
Kathleen Grissom
34
Kathleen Winter
Kathleen Winter
35
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro
36
Lawrence Hill
Lawrence Hill
37
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
38
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
39
Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence
40
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