A colourful list in many ways. From the covers of the books to the authors' lives to the content of their novels. Quite comprehensive as well, with both famous & lesser known novels. Click on the link to go to the 2nd instalment (authors E-K).
The writers' short story collections etc are not included. Alphabetical by author's surname (except the hopelessly out of place Dickens).
The authors in this instalment are:
Chinua Achebe
Douglas Adams
Mitch Albom
Isaac Asimov
Jean Auel
Jane Austen
Ray Bradbury
Ann Brashares
Charlotte Brontë
Dan Brown
Willa Cather
Michael Chabon
Tom Clancy
Cassandra Clare
Suzanne Collins
Joseph Conrad
Michael Crichton
James Dashner
Don DeLillo
Charles Dickens
Theodore Dreiser
This list is derived from the Data Sources section of "Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve" (Blatt, 2017). It is a subset of the novels used in his data analyses. Some novels not available in electronic format were omitted by Blatt.
