1. Beverly Cleary
2. Louis L'Amour
3.Robert B Parker
4.Stephen King
5. Peter Straub
6.Joseph Heller
7. Rudyard Kipling
8. Mario Puzo
9. Herman Wouk
10.Robert Jordan
11. Bernard Cornwell
12. Lawrence Block
13. Bruce Catton
14. Neil Gaiman
15. Walter Lord
Honorable Mention: John Sandford, Ed McBain, Robert Crais, Steinbeck, Agatha Christie, Dick Francis, Hemingway, Heinlein (minus his piss poor characterizations of women), the author(s) behind the Three Investigator's series and Landmark's history books, along with the staff of the Britannica Young Person's Encyclopedia, Lawrence Sanders, Michael Connelly and, naturally, myself :)
Note: Other than Cleary (and my last second edit of Agatha Christie) there are no female authors on the list. That isn't intentional, but I've noted the fact on prior lists and it continues to bother me.
Dante Alighieri
ReplyDeleteRobin Cook
Dean Kontz
Stephen King
Alessandro Manzoni
Licia Troisi
Thomas Mann
Gianrico Carofiglio
Antonio Tabucchi
Luigi Pirandello
Andrea Camilleri
Milan Kundera
Paulo Coelho
Sergio Bambarèn
Agatha Christie
It's not easy but made in less that 5 minutes
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