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Single work authors don't count.

David Foster Wallace (6)
Flannery o'Connor (4)
Haruki Murakami (12)
Jonathan Franzen (4)
Richard Yates (9)

Nothing like reading the whole oeurve of a writer. You feel a sense of completion when you...complete their work. And prolific writers are always good, because they give you so much to read.

>> No.1960507

Robert Heinlein.
That is it.

>> No.1960511

>>1960507

Only one of the Big Three I haven't read. Is he good? What's his best novel?

>> No.1960514

JK Rowling

>> No.1960516

Hemingway. Literally only because I loved all the titles and the cover art was awesome.

>> No.1960568
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brb completing Balzac's novels

>> No.1960581

>>1960568

Try reading PG Wodehouse's novels. You'd never be heard from again.

>> No.1961013

Jane Austen
Isaac Babel
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Khaled Hosseini
Oscar Wilde
Jhumpa Lahiri
Sophocles
Euripides
Aeschylus
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Nella Larsen
Carson McCullers
Flannery O'Connor
Edgar Alan Poe
Homer
Lu Xun
Saki
Eudora Welty
H. P. Lovecraft
Haruki Murakami
Christopher Moore
Jonathan Franzen
David Foster Wallace

>> No.1961025

Ulrich Haarbürste.

>>1961013
dude

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>>1961013
>>1961013

> H. P. Lovecraft
> Shakespeare
> the rest

You trump me, that's for sure.

>> No.1961053

jd salinger
ken kesey
...almost hemingway. missing one or two

>> No.1961059

>>1961013
how old are you?

>> No.1961100

William T. Vollmann
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

>>1961013
Holy shit. Brofist.

>> No.1961133

>>1961100

>William T. Vollmann

I don't believe you

>> No.1961154

>>1961041
Lovecraft isn't that impressive, compared to the rest of what he's got there. You can get all of lovecraft's work in a single hardcover and read it in about a week if you want to

>> No.1961355

>>1961133
All right. I haven't read one of his. I can't find Afghanistan Picture Show, so I'll have to order it. But yeah. Rising Up and Rising Down, all the prostitute novels, Europe Central, all of it.

>> No.1961358

>>1961355

Were you, like, the librarian at Deep Springs? Or just a compulsive reader who prefers to buy in bulk?

>> No.1961366

>>1961358
>the librarian at Deep Springs

looool

why do i spend so much time on this board when i'm always surprised to find a post that gives me the giggles

>> No.1961385

>>1961358
Compulsive might be a good word for it.

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Raymond E Feist (29)

Yeah.

>> No.1961819

>fiction

>> No.1961828

Michael Chrichton, I'm 30 for 31, but 31 isn't published yet.