And Ray Bradbury as well. Another RIP

Poe. Vonnegut. Dostoevsky.

time for obi to list his senior year summer reading!!!

Hemingway easily

I'm going with authors whose work I've consistently enjoyed:
Arthur C. Clarke, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Bernard Cornwell, Neil Gaiman, Robert Heinlein, Robert Kaplan, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, H.L. Mencken, William Shakespeare, P.J. O'Rourke, Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child

Graham Greene

Larry Niven
Arthur C Clarke
Robert Heinlein
Isaac Asimov
Richard Morgan
Peter F Hamilton
Joe Haldeman

Terry Pratchett
J.R.R.Tolkien
George R. R. Martin

P. G. Wodehouse
Rudyard Kipling
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
J. R. R. Tolkien
Robert Asprin
Joel Rosenberg
H. Beam Piper
Lord Dunsany
Ambrose Bierce
Mark Twain

Christipher Paolini
Isaac Asimov
J.R.R Tolkien
Several more I can't think of ATM and possibly Suzanne Collins if she hadnt ruined the last book of hunger games trilogy.

Oh Rick Riordan and Neil Gaiman

Kipling, London, Milne, Conrad, Lermontov, Dickens, Hawthorne

SHAKESPEARE, MILTON, T.S. ELIOT...

And then a mass of others:

Oscar Wilde (can't read him without laughing at something absurd yet true at least once)
George Bernard Shaw (mixes satire with commentary perfectly, even if it is a bit extreme)
Charles Dickens (after Shakespeare, created the most amount of memorable characters)
Lord Byron (the ORIGINAL rock star)
John Keats (the original TRAGIC rock star)
Homer (when your impact on Western literature is rivaled only by the Bible itself...)
Sophocles (the Oedipus Cycle is brilliant, and Antigone the first great feminist character)
Euripides ("Medea" and "The Bacchae" alone could win him a place here)
D.H Lawrence (writing borderline-erotica literature since before it was "cool")
Virginia Woolf (it shows she and Eliot were friends, Best Female Writer I've Read)
George Orwell ("Animal Farm" is brilliant and "1984" I STILL say = #1 novel post-1900)
Franz Kafka (Probably the best Jewish writer of "modern" times, Master of the Absurd)
Fydor Dostoyevsky (Shakespeare, Dickens, the Bible, and Tsarist Russia blended...)
John Steinbeck (GO CALIFORNIA! Oh, and he brilliantly captured his landscape)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (May have come closest to portraying the American Dream/1900s USA)

And so on.

:)

Balzac, Dostoyevsky, Hugo, Tolstoy

In no particular order:

Arthur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells, Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, T.H. White, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Ian Fleming, Leslie Charteris, J.R.R. Tolkien, Frank Herbert, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein.

There are more, but that is off the top of my head.

C.S.Lewis, Tolkein, Heinlein, Cherryh, Biggle, both Shaaras=father and son, Schmitz, the Bible, and anything else in moderation. lol

David Weber!

Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, CS Lewis, George Orwell

Draugnar likes the sci-fi. Good stuff.

Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Kurt Vonnegut

I frequently forget that Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle existed, largely, I think, because of the difficulty with which I accept the idea that my friend Dr. Watson is a fictional character.