The following is a list of authors and books that everyone should read.
Authors[]
List of renowned authors:
- Aeschylus
- Aesop
- Robert Aickman
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Poul Anderson
- Aristophanes
- Isaac Asimov
- Jane Austen
- Honoré de Balzac
- Pio Baroja
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Charles Baudelaire
- L. Frank Baum
- Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
- Samuel Beckett
- Mario Benedetti
- Ambrose Bierce
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Ray Bradbury
- Robert Burns
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Lord Byron
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Albert Camus
- Lewis Carroll
- Camilio Jose Cela
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Anton Chekhov
- Agatha Christie
- Tom Clancy
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Paulo Coelho
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Joseph Conrad
- Robin Cook
- Julio Cortazar
- Michael Crichton
- Roald Dahl
- Dante Alighieri
- Ruben Dario
- Alphonse Daudet
- Daniel Defoe
- Charles Dickens
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Maurice Druon
- Du Bu
- Alexandre Dumas
- Maurice Druon
- Umberto Eco
- George Eliot
- T.S. Eliot
- Harlan Ellison
- José de Esponceda
- Euripides
- Howard Fast
- Gustave Flaubert
- Anatole France
- Frederick Forsyth
- Carlos Fuentes
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- William H. Gass
- Geoffrey of Monmouth
- William Gibson
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Nikolai Gogol
- William Golding
- Luis de Gongora
- Noah Gordon
- Maxim Gorky
- Baltasar Gracian
- Robert Graves
- Graham Greene
- Brothers Grimm
- René Guenon
- H. Rider Haggard
- Robert Heinlein
- Ernest Hemingway
- O. Henry
- Herodotus
- Herman Hesse
- Homer
- Victor Hugo
- Vicente Huidobro
- Aldous Huxley
- Henrik Ibsen
- Washington Irving
- Shirley Jackson
- Christian Jacq
- Henry James
- M.R. James
- James Joyce
- Franz Kafka
- Omar Khayyam
- Rudyard Kipling
- Gaston Leroux
- Thomas Ligotti
- Li Bai
- Jack London
- Federico Garcia Lorca
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Antonio Machado
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Naguib Mahfouz
- Thomas Malory
- Thomas Mann
- Herbert Marcuse
- Jose Marti
- Guy de Maupassant
- Herman Melville
- John Stuart Mill
- A.A. Milne
- John Milton
- Molière
- Thomas Moore
- Toni Morrison
- Pablo Neruda
- Larry Niven
- José Ortega y Gasset
- George Orwell
- Ovid
- Octavio Paz
- Benito Pérez Galdós
- Charles Perrault
- Pertrarch
- Petronius
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Frederick Pohl
- Alexander Pope
- Beatrix Potter
- Marcel Proust
- Mario Puzo
- Thomas Pynchon
- Horacio Quiroga
- Francisco de Quevedo
- Jean Arthur Rimbaud
- Fernando de Rojas
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Juan Ruiz de Alcaron
- Juan Rulfo
- Ernesto Sábato
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Saki
- Emilio Salgari
- Félix María Samaniego
- Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Friedrich von Schiller
- Walter Scott
- William Shakespeare
- Mary Shelley
- Wole Soyinka
- John Steinbeck
- Sophocles
- Stendhal
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Bram Stoker
- Jonathan Swift
- Thomas Aquinas
- Tirso de Molina
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Leo Tolstoy
- Mark Twain
- Miguel de Unamuno
- Jack Vance
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Jules Verne
- Virgil
- Voltaire
- David Foster Wallace
- H.G. Wells
- Morris West
- Oscar Wilde
- Virginia Woolf
- Marguerite Yourcenar
- José Zorrilla
- Stefan Zweig
Major writings[]
These are major writings which do not have a particular author, mostly anonymous.
- Beowulf
- The Bhagavad Gita
- The Bible
- Book of the Dead
- Buddhist scriptures
- Cantar de Mio Cid
- La Chanson de Roland
- Chu Ci
- David of Sasun
- Dhammapada
- Enuma Elish
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Epic of Sundiata
- Heike Monogatari
- I Ching
- Journey to the West
- Lazarillo de Tormes
- Mabinogion
- Mahaparinibbana Sutta
- Njal's Saga
- Okagami
- One Thousand and One Nights
- Popol Vuh
- The Qur'an
- Ramayana
- Rig Veda
- Shijing
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- The Song of the Nibelungs
- Upanishads
- Vedanta Sutra
- Vedas
- Zend-Avesta
- Zohar