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50 Authors You Must Read in Your Lifetime

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Albert Camus
Albert Camus
1
Aldus Huxley
Aldus Huxley
2
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
3
Arthur C Clark
Arthur C Clark
4
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
5
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
6
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
7
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
8
Dietrick Bonhoeffer
Dietrick Bonhoeffer
9
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
10
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
11
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs
12
EE Cummings
EE Cummings
13
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
14
Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
15
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
16
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
17
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
19
George Orwell
George Orwell
20
H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells
21
Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison
22
Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle
23
Hp Lovecraft
Hp Lovecraft
24
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson
25
Isaac Asimov*
Isaac Asimov*
26
J.R.R Tolkein
J.R.R Tolkein
27
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
28
James Thurber
James Thurber
29
Jean Paul Satre
Jean Paul Satre
30
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
31
Jules Verne
Jules Verne
32
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey
33
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
34
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
35
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
36
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman
37
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
38
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck
39
Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick
40
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