Marcus WeeksSimilar authors

Members who read books by

Marcus Weeks
24 followers
Author of including
Marcus Weeks é colaborador frequente de enciclopédias e livros de referência, atuando também como consultor de vários títulos da editora britânica Dorling Kindersley. É autor de diversos livros, como …

also read

Peter Handke
1,188 followers
Author of including
Peter Handke (* 6. Dezember 1942 in Griffen, Kärnten) ist ein österreichischer Schriftsteller und Übersetzer.

Peter Handke is an Avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright. His body of work has been…
Jack London
7,930 followers
Author of including
John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t…
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
4,124 followers
Author of including
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.
Émile Zola
4,670 followers
Author of including
Émile Zola was a prominent French novelist, journalist, and playwright widely regarded as a key figure in the development of literary naturalism. His work profoundly influenced both literature and soc…
Franz Kafka
40,276 followers
Author of including
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking writer from Prague whose work became one of the foundations of modern literature, even though he published only a small part of his writing during his lifetime. Born …
Karl Marx
6,900 followers
With the help of Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867-1894), works, which explain historical development …
Victor Hugo
13,418 followers
Author of including
After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables…
Niccolò Machiavelli
5,251 followers
Author of including
The Prince , book of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian political theorist, in
1513 describes an indifferent ruler to moral considerations with determination to achieve and to maintain power.

Niccolò di B…
Stefan Zweig
11,009 followers
Author of including
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
René Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) and Principles of Philosophy (1644), main works of French mathematician and scientist René Descartes, considered the father of analytic geometry and the …
Cal Newport
Cal Newport is Provost’s Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, and the author of seven books. His ideas and writing are frequently featured in major publications and on…
William B. Irvine
William B Irvine is professor of philosophy at Wright State University. The author of seven books, including A Guide to the Good Life, he has also written for the Huffington Post, Salon, Time, and the…
Claire Keegan
11,253 followers
Author of including
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Wicklow. She completed her undergraduate studies at Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana and subsequently earned an MA at The University of Wales and an M.Ph…
Tim  Marshall
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Tim Marshall was Diplomatic Editor and foreign correspondent for Sky News. After thirty years' experience in new…
Halide Edib Adıvar
218 followers
Author of including
Halide Edib Adıvar was a Turkish novelist and feminist political leader. She was best known for her novels criticizing the low social status of Turkish women and what she saw as the disinterest of mos…
Omar Khayyám
1,290 followers
Arabic:عمر الخيام Persian:عمر خیام
Kurdish: عومەر خەییام


Omar Khayyám was a Persian polymath, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, physician, and poet. He wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, a…
Gündüz Vassaf
Gündüz Vassaf (d. 1946, ABD), Türk yazar ve psikolog.

Liseyi İstanbul Robert Koleji'nde tamamladıktan sonra 1968'de George Washington Üniversitesi'nde psikoloji eğitimi gördü. 1977'de Ankara Hacettepe …
Yaşar Kemal
1,126 followers
Author of including
Yaşar Kemal, asıl adı Kemal Sadık Gökçeli. Van Gölü’ne yakın Ernis (bugün Ünseli) köyünden olan ailesinin Birinci Dünya Savaşı’ndaki Rus işgali yüzünden uzun bir göç süreci sonunda yerleştiği Osmaniye…
Fyodor Dostoevsky
76,432 followers
Author of including
Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)

Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich …
Samipaşazade Sezai
16 followers
Author of including
Sami Paşazade Sezai (Osmanlıca: سامى باشا زاده سزائى), (d. 1859 İstanbul - ö. 26 Nisan 1936 İstanbul) Türk realist öykücü, romancı.
Türk Edebiyatının ilk gerçekçi romanlarından birisi olma özelliğiyle …
Mine Söğüt
Mine Söğüt (1968, İstanbul), Türk gazeteci, yazar.

Babası bir deniz subayı olan Mine Söğüt, ortaöğrenimini Kadıköy Kız Lisesi’inde tamamladığı 1985 yılında babasını kaybetti. Aynı yıl İstanbul Üniversi…
Mieko Kawakami
9,504 followers
Author of including
Mieko Kawakami (川上未映子, born in August 29, 1976) is a Japanese singer and writer from Osaka.

She was awarded the 138th Akutagawa Prize for promising new writers of serious fiction (2007) for her novel …
Sang Young Park
226 followers
Author of including
Sang Young Park was born in 1988 and studied French at Sungkyunkwan University. He worked as a magazine editor, copywriter, and consultant before debuting as a novelist. The title story of his bestsel…