Camus
Chimamanda
Gaiman
Vonnegut
Shakespeare
Achebe

yessir, a book of short stories. gonna make a thread soon for discussion and maybe even some synchronized reading as I know there are a lot of Murakami fans here

what's the best book to start with by Jhumpa Lahiri?

Terrance Hayes, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Zadie Smith & Colson Whitehead

Only one volume of poetry out but Layli Long Soldier too

Zadie Smith, Camus, Chimamanda

St. Fyodor

Salman Rushdie
Dostoevsky
Bulgakov
Anne Rice
Oscar Wilde
V.S Naipaul
Cervantes

Interpreter of maladies. Nothing graphic but some of those stories will f*** you up. She’s great.

added to the list

have a lot of books to work through but hopefully I'll get to it in the next few months

Hp Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe

i feel like some users itt are just posting names that'll make them sound cool and cultured

george rr martin is my goat

idc his works are just immaculate, one of the few authors who excel in both character building and world building

Please explain why you think that

Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Toni Morrison

Real as several mfs

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Mrs. Dalloway prolly my top 2 novels tbh

Crying of Lot 49 is very accessible yet very great

Dostoevsky
Nabokov
Steinbeck

Italo Calvino
Haruki Murakami
Richiro Inagaki
George Clinton
Steely Dan
Danny Brown
Charles Hamilton
Richard Kadrey
Sun Ra
Miguel De Cervantes
Umberto Ecco
Emily Rhoda
Ralph Ellison
Lemony Snicket
Toshio Sako
Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro
Tracy Morgan
Demetri Martin
Joey Diaz
Dj Screw

... and everybody else s***

ps : Damn forgot about Curtis Mayfield