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26 Famous Authors' Favorite Books

A list of 26 authors and the books they say are their favorites, or that impacted their life or their own writing in any way.
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Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Hemingway)
Ernest Hemingway
1
Ernest Hemingway
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
2
Leo Tolstoy
Far Away and Long Ago
Far Away and Long Ago
3
Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks
4
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
5
Emily Bronte
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
6
Gustave Flaubert
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
7
Leo Tolstoy
A Sportsman's Sketches (Ivan Turgenev)
A Sportsman's Sketches
8
Ivan Turgenev
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
9
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Hail and Farewell (George Moore)
Hail and Farewell
10
George Moore
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
11
Mark Twain
Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)
Winesburg, Ohio
12
Sherwood Anderson
La Reine Margot
La Reine Margot
13
The Maison Tellier (Guy De Maupassant)
The Maison Tellier
14
Guy De Maupassant
Le Rouge Et Le Noir (Stendhal)
Le Rouge Et Le Noir
15
Stendhal
La Chartreuse De Parme (Stendhal)
La Chartreuse De Parme
16
Stendhal
Dubliners (James Joyce)
Dubliners
17
James Joyce
Autobiographies by W. B. Yeats
Autobiographies by W. B. Yeats
18
Joan Didion
Joan Didion
19
Victory (Joseph Conrad)
Victory
20
Joseph Conrad
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury
21
The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw (George Bernard Shaw)
The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw
22
George Bernard Shaw
Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos (Loren Eiseley)
Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos
23
Loren Eiseley
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
24
Herman Melville
The Collected John Carter of Mars, Volume Two (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
The Collected John Carter of Mars, Volume Two
25
Edgar Rice Burroughs
George R.R. Martin (3)
George R.R. Martin (3)
26
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R.Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings
27
J.R.R.Tolkien
Station Eleven (Emily St John Mandel)
Station Eleven
28
Emily St John Mandel
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
29
Calumet K (Merwin and Webster)
Calumet K
30
Merwin and Webster
Gillian Flynn
Gillian Flynn
31
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
And Then There Were None
32
Agatha Christie
The Executioner's Song (Norman Mailer)
The Executioner's Song
33
Norman Mailer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
34
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
35
James Joyce
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis
36
Franz Kafka
Petersburg
Petersburg
37
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
38
Marcel Proust
Jane Austen (U.K.)
Jane Austen
39
U.K.
The Corsair (Lord Byron)
The Corsair
40
Lord Byron
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