Give me your Top 10 writers of all time

It just shows he's hardly read at all.

Homer
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Cervantes
Goethe
Tolstoi
Dostoevsky
Proust
Joyce
Wallace

you seem like a 19 year old douche

1 American

2 Americans

How can Americans even compete?

shakespeare
the bard
the guy who wrote Hamlet
the inventor of the human
anne hathaway's husband

lil baby boy tommy mann
lil naggingcough
lil HEMBOY
lil tallboy tolstoy
lil DOSTOLITSKY

me

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>mfw/tfw
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>Shakespeare
>the inventor of the human
redundancy

>Give me your Top 10 writers of all time
Kerouac
Burroughs
Bukowski
Kesey
Hunter S. Thompson
Tom Wolfe
Vonneguht
Hemingway
Steinbeck
Bob Dylan

>How can Americans even compete?
we do better with heterosexual readers

Patrician detected

Either everyone here follows those charts to a T, wants to seem patrician, or they don't read at all. Not an original choice in the thread. All based on impressions and categories. Fuck you all.

now this is layered

I want to fuck you.

>Pessoa
Go fuck yourself. Machado is lighyears better.

andersson
carroll
horace
ilf
martinson
melville
munro
ngugi
petrov
wodehouse

Fredric Jameson
Henry James
William H. Gass
Elmore Leonard
Gertrude Stein
James Joyce
Donald Barthelme
Aijaz Ahmad
Richard Rorty
Ralph Waldo Emerson

1. Shakespeare
2. Dostoevsky
3. Lagerlöf
4. Carroll
5. Le Guin
6. Philip K Dick
7. Cervantes
8. Kafka
9. Becket
10. Bulgakov

Nice.

Harry or Moa Martinson?

the one with the manlier hairline

>mentioning a women writer on Veeky Forums
be ready for war user

this is a horrible post
please reconsider your life choices

Martin
Tolstoy
Ellis
Carnegie
Orwell

>Faulkner
>pleb

Just kill yourself, but slowly and painfully, and look at the wrong you've done to your peers. Or rather, reflect on the wrong you've you've done to yourself; let it sink in the fsct you deserve all the wrong done you simply because you stood by and let it happen. Let yourself drown in all the hate you reserved for yourself, and let it consume you alive.

I did not meant it was my opinion, instead the general one from Veeky Forums

>gass
Lol look at all these fuckin similes

Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
Joyce
Flaubert
Steinbeck
Borges
Woolf
Proust
Kafka
The guy who wrote Infinite Jest

>muh stream of consciousness

You fell for Faulkner's memeposting, friend. It's. It actually """"""good"""""".

My personal favorites include, in no particular order:

Endō
Dumas
Saint-Exupéry
Lewis
Chesterton
O’Connor
Waugh
Dostoevsky
Tolkien
Poe

Don Delillo

Knut Hamsun

Dostoevsky

Woolf

Austen

Italo Calvino

Fitzgerald

Gaddis

Kafka

Dickens

I don't have ten favorite writers. I'm simply not well read enough to have that many. Ask me again when I'm 50.

nice list

>Wallace
kek

this is what i thought when making it. I love myself lol

George Eliot, Pynchon, Edith Wharton, Tolstoy, Roth, Bellow, Hemingway, John Williams, Dumas, Cervantes, Hesse, Faulkner, and any number of Brontës all deserve a spot too (i could go on but it feels silly)

Pynchon
Marquez
Joyce
Faulkner
Tolstoy
Balano
Proust
Melville
Shakespeare
Hemmingway
(Wallace)

A lot of meme shit, but this is what I enjoy.

...

post taste

>Balano
stop

I got a list, here's the order of my list that it's in:
It goes Borges, Walser, Calvino and Cortazar
Chekhov from Russia, Joyce, Kafka then me last

it's not even close to the original rythm

J K rowling
john Green
Tao Lin
Ta-Nehisi Coates
chinua achebe
Ernest cline
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
Stephen King
Proust

>1 (one) female author

Why do you hate women, user?

I should have mentioned that "writer" is not excluisive to novelist. It can include poets and philosophers.

patrician AF

Plato
Shakespeare
Nietzsche
Evola

Plato
>communist, boy-fucking edge lord who saw "beyond the cave" LMAO shit tier

Shakespeare
>his plays bore every honest person to sleep

Nietzsche
>fedora NEET virgin with schizophrenia

Evola
>Literally who, esoteric muh tradition and manliness, 0/10 trash

In that case

Laurie Penny
Lindy West
Jessica Valenti
Clementine Ford
Lena Dunham
Elizabeth Gilbert
Alice Walker
Toni Morrison
Maya Angelou
Virginia Woolf

Woah, BTFO, I hate those authors now.

>“I had nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with one hundred and fifty well–chosen books a man possesses, if not a complete summary of all human knowledge, at least all that a man need really know. I devoted three years of my life to reading and studying these one hundred and fifty volumes, till I knew them nearly by heart; so that since I have been in prison, a very slight effort of memory has enabled me to recall their contents as readily as though the pages were open before me. I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important.”

Was he right in this?

Yeah I know its 13

Bless your soul user.

>literally nobody said Dante up to now
...I don't follow.
I mean, there's a whole chart on which translation of the Divine Comedy (which, by the way, is full pleb, leggono il originale y'all), this makes no sense.

my favorite brazilian authors to break this monotony

>machado de assis
>guimarães rosa
>euclides da cunha
>clarice lispector

>nabokov
>faulkner
>cervantes
>joyce
>alighieri
>tolstoi

melville
solzhenitsyn
nietzsche
tolkien
DH lawrence (poetry)

tolstoy and dosto but why do you fags even name them like ofcourse you liked them, everyone does. there should be a clause to begin the thread.

cant really say I have any other favorites

>like = favorite
i'm pretty sure some people like them but does not have them as favorites

and you talk like melville or nietzsche or tolkien are some obscure, underrated authors who are never posted here, fuck off

>you "talk" like melville or nietzsche or tolkien are some obscure, underrated authors who are never posted here, fuck off

you seem upset, do you think Im trying to be hip with my choices? none of the authors I listed are even close to the top of any ALL TIME lists that tolstoy and dosto consistently dominate. Thats what I mean, picking the very very best example of literature as your favorite is useless because its almost a default favorite for everyone. but hey stay mad bro, dont let my advanced taste make you feel inadequate

k looks like most lists are fucking bad and put L Ron below rand at the top, and no one cares about russians I retract my statement. one thousand apologies

Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Joyce. There, don't need 5.

kek

>D.H. Lawrence (poetry)

good man

Objectively the best (in no order):
>Homer
>Dante
>Shakespeare
>Cervantes
>Proust
>Joyce
>Melville
>Tolstoy
>Plato
>Dostoyevsky

Personal list (in no order):
>Melville
>Meme Wolfe
>G.K. Chesterton
>Faulkner
>Dante
>Dostoyevsky
>Tolkien
>Flan Flan "Based mom queen of Veeky Forums" O'Connor
>Borges
>Joyce

I think Machado is better because i rather prose, but Pessoa is a good poet.

No Milton?

I suppose you could replace Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, or Joyce for Milton...

Victor Hugo
Mark Twain
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
Qian Zhongshu
J.R.R. Tolkien
Jane Austen
Nathaniel Hawthorne
George Orwell
China Mieville

>this whole thread
>plebs tryna be patties

My list:
Borges
Cervantes
Chaucer
Dostoevsky
Dumas
Faulkner
Garcia Marquez
Heinlein
Livy
Tolstoy

>Barth
true story i bought some of his books at a used bookstore. i mean they used to belong to him, in his home library. have Chimera, haven't read it. is it worth the time?

Alice McDermott is pretty good.

Marilynne Robinson is great.

Zweig
Kafka
Abdolah
Dostojevski
Conrad
Proust

how do you know they belonged to him. that's cool though if true.

they have his personal stamp inside the cover. name, addr, etc. i have his wife's copy of hero with a thousand faces.

Knut Hamsun
Kjell Askildsen
Henrik Ibsen
Tarjei Vesaas
Karl Ove Knausgård
Jens Bjorneboe
Gabriel Scott
Sigrid Undset
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Per Petterson

1.Papa Hemingway
2. Milton
3. Fitzgerald (I just really like Gatsby to be perfectly honest)
4. Shakespeare
5. Camus
6. T.S. Eliot
7. Seneca the Younger
8. Nietzsche
No one else particularly worth mentioning for me

what about sanctuary?

>muh rapist
>muh impotent rapist
>muh impotent rapist who uses a corncob

I haven't even read ten authors.

>tfw I've been posting my shit opinions about books I haven't read for years now
>tfw I get you retards to agree with me

>Leave the plebs to me.

George Bernard Shaw
Wole Soyinka
Garcia Marquez
Camus
Shakespeare
Harold Pinter
WB Yeats
Fernando Pessoa
Seamus Heaney
Alice Munro

I think you mean, "how can the rest of the world compete with Americans."

Oh, wait.

They can't.

SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT.

Absolute shit.

Barth is such a beauty, wish he was more popular, my Barth general threads never get participated in

>Steinbeck
whats wrong with him?

Dis is bad, mayne. Like way bad.

You, worm, mock god-like men whose works you cannot comprehend.

Go and amuse yourself with whatever filth you man-children rut around in.

You forgot Coelho.

David
Foster
Wallace

Or maybe that he's being honest and not lying about his 'favorite' authors to impress 21 year olds on an anonymous message board

Good lord, go back to goodreads already.

1.Wallace
2. Plath
3. Handler
4. Keyes
5. Emerson
6. Whitman
7. Shakespeare
8. Wolfe
9. Tolkien
10. Parker

Trying way too hard

I have to believe you said that ONLY bc i typed mine double spaced, friend

theyre just my top 10

most people here look down on Female writers and would question Dickens and maybe calvino in a top 10. I just wanted to participate in a online literature forum; sure, i hoped people would reply but i wasn't dishonest or trying to impress

All of you mentioning almost exclusively men writers!!! Sexist pigs... Women are way more intelligent than men!! Didnt you get the memo?!

post your non tryhard list then

Are you old enough to use this website son?

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