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The 76 Authors You Need to Read to Become a Writer According to Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works which span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy Award.[1] He also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz.
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The Plays of William Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
The Plays of William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
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Dante Alighieri
Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
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Miguel De Cervantes
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
Moll Flanders
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Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
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Jonathan Swift
Clarissa (Samuel Richardson)
Clarissa
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Samuel Richardson
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones
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Henry Fielding
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Laurence Sterne)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Laurence Sterne
The Vicar of Wakefield (Oliver Goldsmith)
The Vicar of Wakefield
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Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer (Oliver Goldsmith)
She Stoops to Conquer
12
Oliver Goldsmith
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
13
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
Mansfield Park
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Jane Austen
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
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Jane Austen
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
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Stendhal
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley
Old Man Goriot (Honoré De Balzac)
Old Man Goriot
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Honoré De Balzac
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
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Charles Dickens
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
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Charles Dickens
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
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Charles Dickens
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
Barchester Towers
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Anthony Trollope
The Warden (Anthony Trollope)
The Warden
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Anthony Trollope
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
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Emily Bronte
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
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George Eliot
Silas Marner (George Eliot)
Silas Marner
29
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
The Mill on the Floss
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George Eliot
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
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Gustave Flaubert
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
Sentimental Education
32
Gustave Flaubert
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Crime and Punishment
33
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
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Leo Tolstoy
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain
Therese Raquin (Emile Zola)
Therese Raquin
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Emile Zola
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)
The Mayor of Casterbridge
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Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native (Thomas Hardy)
The Return of the Native
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Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
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Thomas Hardy
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