Give me your Top 10 writers of all time

My favourites (i haven´t read all great writers, so i wouldn´t know who are the greatest of all time).

Borges
Pessoa
García Márquez
Baudelaire
Rimbaud
Joyce
Whitman
Faulkner
De Maupassant
Zola

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>>8847463
>Borges
>Garcia Marquez
>Joyce
>Faulkner

Kys, you hopeless pleb.

>>8847417
MY PERSONAL FAVORITES

Coover
Barthelme
Gallant
Maugham
pynchon
Gass
Mcelroy
Federman
Gaddis
Barth

Faulkner
Melville
Steinbeck
Hemingway
Twain
Cormac
Delillo
Pynchon
Gaddis
Mishima

>>8847545
How pedestrian anon. You should be ashamed of yourself.

>>8847477
>>8847568
>Anything outside of traditional English writing is pedestrian

Cervantes
Zola
Shakespeare
Bulgakov
Goethe

Honestly, haven't read much beyond that.

>>8847545
>reads the Declaration of Independence once

>>8847577
woah woah woah no need to bring language into this.

>>8847577

It just shows he's hardly read at all.

Homer
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Cervantes
Goethe
Tolstoi
Dostoevsky
Proust
Joyce
Wallace

>>8847623
you seem like a 19 year old douche

>>8847623
1 American

>>8847463

2 Americans

How can Americans even compete?

shakespeare
the bard
the guy who wrote Hamlet
the inventor of the human
anne hathaway's husband

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>>8847417
lil baby boy tommy mann
lil naggingcough
lil HEMBOY
lil tallboy tolstoy
lil DOSTOLITSKY

me


>mfw
>mfw/tfw
>mfw
>mfw
>mfw
>mfw
>mfw

>>8847802
>Shakespeare
>the inventor of the human
redundancy

>>8847417
>Give me your Top 10 writers of all time
Kerouac
Burroughs
Bukowski
Kesey
Hunter S. Thompson
Tom Wolfe
Vonneguht
Hemingway
Steinbeck
Bob Dylan

>>8847786
>How can Americans even compete?
we do better with heterosexual readers

>>8847623
Patrician detected

Either everyone here follows those charts to a T, wants to seem patrician, or they don't read at all. Not an original choice in the thread. All based on impressions and categories. Fuck you all.

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>>8847830
now this is layered

>>8847493
I want to fuck you.

>>8847463
>Pessoa
Go fuck yourself. Machado is lighyears better.

andersson
carroll
horace
ilf
martinson
melville
munro
ngugi
petrov
wodehouse

>>8847417

Fredric Jameson
Henry James
William H. Gass
Elmore Leonard
Gertrude Stein
James Joyce
Donald Barthelme
Aijaz Ahmad
Richard Rorty
Ralph Waldo Emerson

1. Shakespeare
2. Dostoevsky
3. Lagerlöf
4. Carroll
5. Le Guin
6. Philip K Dick
7. Cervantes
8. Kafka
9. Becket
10. Bulgakov

>>8848120
Nice.

Harry or Moa Martinson?

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>>8848161
the one with the manlier hairline

>>8848152
>mentioning a women writer on /lit/
be ready for war anon

>>8848194
this is a horrible post
please reconsider your life choices

Martin
Tolstoy
Ellis
Carnegie
Orwell

>>8847477
>Faulkner
>pleb

Just kill yourself, but slowly and painfully, and look at the wrong you've done to your peers. Or rather, reflect on the wrong you've you've done to yourself; let it sink in the fsct you deserve all the wrong done you simply because you stood by and let it happen. Let yourself drown in all the hate you reserved for yourself, and let it consume you alive.

>>8848204
I did not meant it was my opinion, instead the general one from /lit/

>>8847545
>gass
Lol look at all these fuckin similes

Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
Joyce
Flaubert
Steinbeck
Borges
Woolf
Proust
Kafka
The guy who wrote Infinite Jest

>>8848259
>muh stream of consciousness

You fell for Faulkner's memeposting, friend. It's. It actually """"""good"""""".

>>8847417
My personal favorites include, in no particular order:

Endō
Dumas
Saint-Exupéry
Lewis
Chesterton
O’Connor
Waugh
Dostoevsky
Tolkien
Poe

Don Delillo

Knut Hamsun

Dostoevsky

Woolf

Austen

Italo Calvino

Fitzgerald

Gaddis

Kafka

Dickens

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I don't have ten favorite writers. I'm simply not well read enough to have that many. Ask me again when I'm 50.

>>8848523
nice list

>>8847623
>Wallace
kek

>>8848536
this is what i thought when making it. I love myself lol

George Eliot, Pynchon, Edith Wharton, Tolstoy, Roth, Bellow, Hemingway, John Williams, Dumas, Cervantes, Hesse, Faulkner, and any number of Brontës all deserve a spot too (i could go on but it feels silly)

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Pynchon
Marquez
Joyce
Faulkner
Tolstoy
Balano
Proust
Melville
Shakespeare
Hemmingway
(Wallace)

A lot of meme shit, but this is what I enjoy.

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>>8848610

>>8848052
post taste

>>8848610
>Balano
stop

I got a list, here's the order of my list that it's in:
It goes Borges, Walser, Calvino and Cortazar
Chekhov from Russia, Joyce, Kafka then me last

>>8849220
it's not even close to the original rythm

>>8847417
J K rowling
john Green
Tao Lin
Ta-Nehisi Coates
chinua achebe
Ernest cline
Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
Stephen King
Proust

>>8849313
>1 (one) female author

Why do you hate women, anon?

I should have mentioned that "writer" is not excluisive to novelist. It can include poets and philosophers.

>>8847493
patrician AF

Plato
Shakespeare
Nietzsche
Evola

>>8849766

Plato
>communist, boy-fucking edge lord who saw "beyond the cave" LMAO shit tier

Shakespeare
>his plays bore every honest person to sleep

Nietzsche
>fedora NEET virgin with schizophrenia

Evola
>Literally who, esoteric muh tradition and manliness, 0/10 trash

>>8849660
In that case

Laurie Penny
Lindy West
Jessica Valenti
Clementine Ford
Lena Dunham
Elizabeth Gilbert
Alice Walker
Toni Morrison
Maya Angelou
Virginia Woolf

>>8849789
Woah, BTFO, I hate those authors now.

>>8847417
>“I had nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with one hundred and fifty well–chosen books a man possesses, if not a complete summary of all human knowledge, at least all that a man need really know. I devoted three years of my life to reading and studying these one hundred and fifty volumes, till I knew them nearly by heart; so that since I have been in prison, a very slight effort of memory has enabled me to recall their contents as readily as though the pages were open before me. I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important.”

Was he right in this?

Yeah I know its 13

>>8848094
Bless your soul anon.

>literally nobody said Dante up to now
...I don't follow.
I mean, there's a whole chart on which translation of the Divine Comedy (which, by the way, is full pleb, leggono il originale y'all), this makes no sense.

my favorite brazilian authors to break this monotony

>machado de assis
>guimarães rosa
>euclides da cunha
>clarice lispector

>nabokov
>faulkner
>cervantes
>joyce
>alighieri
>tolstoi

melville
solzhenitsyn
nietzsche
tolkien
DH lawrence (poetry)

tolstoy and dosto but why do you fags even name them like ofcourse you liked them, everyone does. there should be a clause to begin the thread.

cant really say I have any other favorites

>>8850077
>like = favorite
i'm pretty sure some people like them but does not have them as favorites

and you talk like melville or nietzsche or tolkien are some obscure, underrated authors who are never posted here, fuck off

>>8850114
>you "talk" like melville or nietzsche or tolkien are some obscure, underrated authors who are never posted here, fuck off

you seem upset, do you think Im trying to be hip with my choices? none of the authors I listed are even close to the top of any ALL TIME lists that tolstoy and dosto consistently dominate. Thats what I mean, picking the very very best example of literature as your favorite is useless because its almost a default favorite for everyone. but hey stay mad bro, dont let my advanced taste make you feel inadequate

>>8850145
k looks like most lists are fucking bad and put L Ron below rand at the top, and no one cares about russians I retract my statement. one thousand apologies

>>8847417
Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Joyce. There, don't need 5.

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>>8850145
kek

>>8850077
>D.H. Lawrence (poetry)

good man

>>8847417

Objectively the best (in no order):
>Homer
>Dante
>Shakespeare
>Cervantes
>Proust
>Joyce
>Melville
>Tolstoy
>Plato
>Dostoyevsky

Personal list (in no order):
>Melville
>Meme Wolfe
>G.K. Chesterton
>Faulkner
>Dante
>Dostoyevsky
>Tolkien
>Flan Flan "Based mom queen of /lit/" O'Connor
>Borges
>Joyce

>>8848094
I think Machado is better because i rather prose, but Pessoa is a good poet.

>>8850344
No Milton?

>>8850374

I suppose you could replace Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, or Joyce for Milton...

>>8847417

Victor Hugo
Mark Twain
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
Qian Zhongshu
J.R.R. Tolkien
Jane Austen
Nathaniel Hawthorne
George Orwell
China Mieville

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>this whole thread
>plebs tryna be patties

My list:
Borges
Cervantes
Chaucer
Dostoevsky
Dumas
Faulkner
Garcia Marquez
Heinlein
Livy
Tolstoy

>>8847493
>Barth
true story i bought some of his books at a used bookstore. i mean they used to belong to him, in his home library. have Chimera, haven't read it. is it worth the time?

>>8849796
Alice McDermott is pretty good.

Marilynne Robinson is great.

>>8847417

Zweig
Kafka
Abdolah
Dostojevski
Conrad
Proust

>>8850442
how do you know they belonged to him. that's cool though if true.

>>8850610
they have his personal stamp inside the cover. name, addr, etc. i have his wife's copy of hero with a thousand faces.

Knut Hamsun
Kjell Askildsen
Henrik Ibsen
Tarjei Vesaas
Karl Ove Knausgård
Jens Bjorneboe
Gabriel Scott
Sigrid Undset
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Per Petterson

1.Papa Hemingway
2. Milton
3. Fitzgerald (I just really like Gatsby to be perfectly honest)
4. Shakespeare
5. Camus
6. T.S. Eliot
7. Seneca the Younger
8. Nietzsche
No one else particularly worth mentioning for me

>>8848376
what about sanctuary?

>muh rapist
>muh impotent rapist
>muh impotent rapist who uses a corncob

I haven't even read ten authors.

>tfw I've been posting my shit opinions about books I haven't read for years now
>tfw I get you retards to agree with me

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>>8847417
>Leave the plebs to me.

George Bernard Shaw
Wole Soyinka
Garcia Marquez
Camus
Shakespeare
Harold Pinter
WB Yeats
Fernando Pessoa
Seamus Heaney
Alice Munro

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>>8847786
I think you mean, "how can the rest of the world compete with Americans."

Oh, wait.

They can't.

>>8847856
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT.

Absolute shit.

>>8847493
Barth is such a beauty, wish he was more popular, my Barth general threads never get participated in

>>8847856
>Steinbeck
whats wrong with him?

>>8849313
Dis is bad, mayne. Like way bad.

>>8849789
You, worm, mock god-like men whose works you cannot comprehend.

Go and amuse yourself with whatever filth you man-children rut around in.

>>8849313
You forgot Coelho.

David
Foster
Wallace

>>8847603
Or maybe that he's being honest and not lying about his 'favorite' authors to impress 21 year olds on an anonymous message board

>>8847477
Good lord, go back to goodreads already.

1.Wallace
2. Plath
3. Handler
4. Keyes
5. Emerson
6. Whitman
7. Shakespeare
8. Wolfe
9. Tolkien
10. Parker

>>8847623
>>8848120
>>8848152
>>8848372
>>8848523
>>8850006


Trying way too hard

>>8852443
I have to believe you said that ONLY bc i typed mine double spaced, friend

theyre just my top 10

most people here look down on Female writers and would question Dickens and maybe calvino in a top 10. I just wanted to participate in a online literature forum; sure, i hoped people would reply but i wasn't dishonest or trying to impress

All of you mentioning almost exclusively men writers!!! Sexist pigs... Women are way more intelligent than men!! Didnt you get the memo?!
>>8848204
>>8848194

>>8852443
post your non tryhard list then

>>8847856
Are you old enough to use this website son?

>>8847417
>virgil and zyzz.jpg

>>8849789
>Plato
>communist

Actually one of the most elitist people of all time. Also fuck you Plato is great I'm triggered.

Shakespeare
Dante
Joyce
Proust
Tolstoy
Kafka
Nabokov
Milton
Cervantes
Homer

Knut Hamsun
Andrei Bely
Pynchon
Mishima
Dostoevsky
Osamu Dazai
Halldor Laxness
Joyce
Gogol
Turgenev

>>8852904

>Plato is great

I think you mean "boring."

>>8852925
pseud detected

W.B. Yeats
Lope de Vega
T.S. Eliot
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
William Faulkner
James Joyce
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Oscar Wilde
Gabriel García Lorca
César Vallejo

>>8853731
>muh caravel

>>8847493
What do you like so much about Federman? I read Double or Nothing and didn't really find the gimmick worthwhile. People I respect seem to like him, though, so there's something I'm missing.

Gaddis
Delillo
Wallace
Nabokov
Dostoevsky
Roubaud
Markson
Beckett
McElroy
Steve Erickson

>>8847856
wow, this is a strong meme

Dante
Lucretius
Leopardi
Dickinson
Balzac
Kafka
Virgil
Proust
Joyce
Melville

>>8850344
>Proust before Joyce

You ready to back up your claims?

>>8855725
>(in no order)

>>8855795
kek

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No Augustine, Virgil, Paul, Aquinas, Solomon, Thucydides, Ovid?

>>8847477
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TwdXee1dnE

Homer
Virgil
Alighieri
Chaucer
Milton
Shakespeare
Goethe
Dostoevsky
Joyce
Pynchon

I could namedrop and make you feel bad all day, but I have to get back to reading. Ciao.

>>8856795
v classic tbqhfam

>>8856795
>Goethe
>Dostoevsky
>Joyce
Good fucking shit bro.

Any list that doesn't have Dostoevsky is shit.

I don't know about my personal top 10, because I mostly study philosophy and STEM, but it would definitely include:
Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Franz Kafka
Lewis Carroll
Ivan Turgenev

Also I'm reading Stendhal's The Red and the Black, and I'm guessing he's gonna have to go up there too.

>>8852443
Not sure if this is bait or if you're just retarded. What''s so tryhard about these lists? Is it just that they consist entirely of literature and contain no genre fiction or YA? Any /lit/ list is going to look "tryhard" and as if the person making the list was trying to be intellectually impressive, but speaking for myself, I genuinely like "highbrow" literature and don't really like (or ever read) shitty ass genre fiction, and I think the same goes for most of /lit/. Maybe some people here are trying to seem liike "intellectuals", but most of us just like good literature.

>>8847493

>most generic postmodernist list
>everyone says its patrician

>>8857321
>Any list that doesn't have Dostoevsky is shit
Then I'll tell you that any list that doesn't have Leopardi is shit.
You've never read him? Well, bad lack.
The most innocent and wretched poet of the 19th century, though his thought overpowers and ridicules any other thinker of that period; thousands and thousands of diary pages in which you lose youself, philosophical works about nature, history, destiny, human condition, science, politics, religion, faith; was ahead of his time, anticipated existentialism and nihilism, free verse and stream of consciousness; he represented the link between classicism and romanticism just like Kant, but everything he said was fucking unique and incredibly modern, he didn't steal anything from his coeval authors, he was just on his way and he didn't give a shit about success or glory; stunning and definitive poems, eye-opening idas, elevation of spirit and mind to infinity.

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>>8857400
>complaining that a list of postmodernists lacks originality

>>8857409
Where does one start with Leopardi?

>>8857461
It depends on whether you prefer poetry, philosophy or prose.

Poetry: Canti (his only poetical work)
Philosophy: Operette Morali
Prose: Zibaldone

>>8847856
Dank shit desu senpai

Victor Hugo
Homer
Dante
Milton
Blake
Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
Shakespeare
Cervantes
Proust

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>>8847856

>>8857486
Thanks. Will try to look for them once Christmas is over.

>>8858068
You're welcome. Don't forget to let /lit/ know what you think

>>8847477
Well, recommend something by him.
I said these were my favourites, no the best.

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Dante
Leo Tolstoy
Jorge Luis Borges
Harold Laxness
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flannery O'Connor
Cormac McCarthy
Haruki Murakami
Karl Ove Knausgaard

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>>8850292
>the first one is a meme

>People putting Shakespeare below all these no names
He is undeniably the best English writer in history.

Also:
Nabakov
Nietczhe
Murdoch
Chaucer
Joyce
Cervantes
Chekhov
Stoppard
Milton

>>8847545
kek
good post

Eliot
Shakespeare (come on, he's amazing)
Lowry (solely because of Under the Volcano)
Dick
Joyce (memes aside, Ulysses is a work of art)
Gaddis
Kafka
Tolstoy
Pynchon (also memes aside, his books are beyond entertaining)
Borges

Honorable mentions: Wodehouse and Vonnegut for sheer funnies

>>8852341
The funniest shit ITT is when people have shoehorned an American in amongst people like Proust and Dostoyevsky. My sides went into orbit every time it was Cormack McfuckingCarthy

Vonnegut
Zinn
Orwell
Marx
Ivins
Gore

>>8853731
Congrats, you have the best taste in this thread

Shakespeare
Dante
Joyce
Beckett
T.S. Elliot
Virginia Woolf
Dostoevsky
Conrad
James Baldwin
Virgil

>>8862500
>Gabriel García Lorca

>>8849789
PLATO
>COMMUNIST
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHPORCODIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

>>8847417

Borges
Cervantes
Chekhov
Dickens
Dostoyevsky
Joyce
Lem
Proust
Tolstoy
Wallace

>>8862459
yes good call how could the third most populous nation on earth have a top author

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>>8856792

>>8863006
We absolutely have got top authors. People like Shakey and Gaz Goethe, though, are still being read and found relevant hundreds of years after their deaths. It's a little bit presumptuous to state with any certainty that will be the case with Pynchon or Steinbeck or Hemingway. We need to ease up with the jingoism.

Homer
Dante
Cervantes
Proust
Joyce
Tolstoy
Goethe
Shakespeare
Chaucer
Virgil

>>8864491
Was going to post something liek this but with the Bible instead of like Tolstoy or Joyce

>>8862602
zio facciamo un attentato contro sti figli di cagna ignoranti
ti lascio scegliere se in stile BB o CN

Ayn Rand
Victor Hugo
Mickey Spillane

>>8847417

Walt Whitman
Sophocles
Shakespeare
Dostoievski
Tolstoi
George Bernard Shaw
Rodolfo Usigli
Eugene O'Neill
Arthur Miller
Yoshihiro Togashi

>>8864415
implying novels will exist in hundreds of years

>>8847417
What are these expressions trying to convey?

>>8865854
"Why does /lit/ have such shit taste?"

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>>8847623
Patrician taste, anon.