100 Writers

Submitted by clairebearz on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 22:59
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  1. 1. William Shakespeare (Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III)
  2. 2. Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita)
  3. 3. William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying, Sound and the Fury)
  4. 4. Flannery O’Connor (A Good Man is Hard to Find, Everything That Rises Must Converge)
  5. 5. George Orwell (1984, Animal Farm)
  6. 6. Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat’s Cradle)
  7. 7. Roald Dahl (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Matilda)
  8. 8. J.D. Salinger (Nine Stories, Catcher in the Rye, Franny & Zooey)
  9. 9. Arthur Miller (The Crucible, Death of a Salesman)
  10. 10. F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)
  11. 11. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)
  12. 12. Albert Camus (The Stranger)
  13. 13. Mark Twain (Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer)
  14. 14. Charles Dickens (Great Expectations, Tale of Two Cities)
  15. 15. Alexander Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
  16. 16. Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)
  17. 17. Dr. Seuss (Fox in Socks, Green Eggs in Ham, The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish)
  18. 18. Carson McCullers (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter)
  19. 19. Cormac McCarthy (The Road, All the Pretty Horses)
  20. 20. Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)
  21. 21. Franz Kafka (The Metamorphosis)
  22. 22. Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass)
  23. 23. John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men, The Pearl)
  24. 24. Herman Melville (Moby Dick, Billy Budd)
  25. 25. James Joyce (Dubliners)
  26. 26. Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)
  27. 27. J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings)
  28. 28. C.S. Lewis (Narnia, The Screwtape Letters)
  29. 29. Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
  30. 30. Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)
  31. 31. Joseph Heller (Catch-22)
  32. 32. Judy Blume (Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret)
  33. 33. Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead)
  34. 34. Stephen King (The Shining)
  35. 35. William Golding (Lord of the Flies)
  36. 36. Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
  37. 37. J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter)
  38. 38. Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)
  39. 39. John Fowles (The French Lieutenant’s Woman)
  40. 40. Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
  41. 41. Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray)
  42. 42. Isaac Asimov (I, Robot)
  43. 43. Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter, The Birth Mark, Young Goodman Brown)
  44. 44. Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, Love and Freindship)
  45. 45. Louis Sachar (Wayside School, Holes, Someday Angeline)
  46. 46. David Halberstam (Playing for Keeps)
  47. 47. Ben Mezrich (Bringing Down the House)
  48. 48. Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
  49. 49. Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
  50. 50. Antoine Saint Exupéry (The Little Prince)
  51. 51. Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)
  52. 52. Agatha Christie (And Then There Were None)
  53. 53. S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders, That Was Then, This is Now, Rumble Fish)
  54. 54. Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth)
  55. 55. Thomas Pynchon (The Crying of Lot 49)
  56. 56. Lloyd Alexander (The Book of Three)
  57. 57. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnets, Runaway Slave)
  58. 58. E.B. White (Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little, The Trumpet of the Swan)
  59. 59. Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
  60. 60. Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl, The Supernaturalist)
  61. 61. Brian Jacques (Redwall, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman)
  62. 62. Gregory Maguire (Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister)
  63. 63. Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)
  64. 64. Kate Chopin (The Awakening)
  65. 65. Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
  66. 66. Jerry Spinelli (Maniac Magee, Crash, Loser)
  67. 67. Katherine Patterson (Bridge to Terabithia)
  68. 68. Beverly Cleary (The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Ramona Quimby, Dear Mr. Henshaw)
  69. 69. H.G. Wells (The Time Machine, The Invisible Man)
  70. 70. John Green (Looking for Alaska)
  71. 71. Dave Cullen (Columbine)
  72. 72. Lois Lowry (The Giver)
  73. 73. George Selden (The Cricket in Times Square)
  74. 74. Paul Zindel (The Pigman)
  75. 75. Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
  76. 76. Koushun Takami (Battle Royale)
  77. 77. Alice Walker (The Color Purple)
  78. 78. Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game)
  79. 79. Ellen Raskin (The Westing Game)
  80. 80. Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness
  81. 81. Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon)
  82. 82. Robert Cormier (The Chocolate War
  83. 83. Collier (My Brother Sam is Dead)
  84. 84. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Shiloh, Boys vs Girls)
  85. 85. R.L. Stine (Goosebumps)
  86. 86. Darren Shan (Cirque du Freak)
  87. 87. Bruce Coville
  88. 88. Carl Hiassen (Hoot)
  89. 89. Samuel Taylor Coelridge (Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
  90. 90. Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion)
  91. 91. Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code
  92. 92. George Meredith (Modern Love)
  93. 93. Eliot Asinof (Eight Men Out)
  94. 94. Michael Lewis (Moneyball)
  95. 95. Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God)
  96. 96. Susanna Rowson (Charlotte Temple)
  97. 97. Washington Irving (Rip Van Winkle)
  98. 98. Christopher Marlowe (Faustus)
  99. 99. Thomas More (Utopia)
  100. 100. Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance)
  101. 101. Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado)
  102. 102. John Donne (The Flea)
  103. 103. John Milton (Paradise Lost)