james baldwin

Jorge Luis Borges

italo calvino

fernando pessoa

dostoyevsky

richard wright

vonnegut

Edit: no women authors in this list

Bell hooks

Joan didion

Angela davis

Damn im trash

surprised to not see one of my all time favorites in the thread...

Aldous Huxley

masterpieces include: Brave New World, Island (personal favorite), The Doors of Perception (where The Doors got their band name), After Many A Summer Dies The Swan (GOAT ending), The Perennial Philosophy

Thomas Pynchon
Stephen King
Donna Tart
Joan Didion
James Joyce
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jack Kerouac
J.R.R. Tolkien

I've only read The Brothers Karamazov, but it was life changing.

donna tartt

the secret history a cult classic
the goldfinch was great too

did you finish the little friend? picked it up and thought i would love it after very much enjoying her other two novels but man this one was a drag... only read like 1/3 of it and never finished

She’s unreal, hopefully we’re due for another one in the next couple years

I haven’t read The Little Friend yet, it’s close up on my reading list though along with Swing Time by Zadie Smith and A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway

Margret Atwood and Albert Camus come to mind

Real for Camus

If I had to pick one specific author it would be John Steinbeck but HM include Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Wilde, and Hemingway

China Mieville atm

Starting to really like Vonnegut

Gillian Flynn had a run for me

just stumbled upon this thread, did you read the little friend yet?

add sylvia plath

been reading exclusively women authors since i made that list lmfao.

i add saidiya hartman, toni morrison, and bell hooks to that list as well.

i read the bell jar like 3 or 4 times, absolute cult classic. So sad that she took her life so young. Cant recommend it enough

Add Virginia Woolf to that list king

Just read i already added bell hooks to the og post

And facts Virginia a legend. I need to get to her work asap.

on my list for sure. Idk why i havent read that yet. I hear nothing but praise

Yo we got mad mutuals !

Yooo you got any more recs of women authors?

Zora Neale Hurston and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (reading her currently for the first time)

Zora wrote their eyes are watching god? And adichie wrote “america” and purple hibiscus right? They on the list gotta peep asap.

Indeed enjoy

I wanna read more Morrison so so bad. Beloved is probably the best novel I’ve ever read

I haven’t yet, wbu?