Authors


The Shining (The Shining, #1)
Beach Read
Misery
Bag of Bones
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
The Dark Half
Lisey's Story
Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)
Yellowface
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Pride and Prejudice
The Fault in Our Stars
Verity
A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)
The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
100 Best American Authors
754 books — 618 voters
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Stranger by Albert CamusThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Best French Literature
830 books — 1,582 voters

Interview with the Vampire by Anne RiceThe Vampire Lestat by Anne RiceThe Queen of the Damned by Anne RiceThe Witching Hour by Anne RiceThe Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
The Best of Anne Rice
27 books — 241 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë1984 by George Orwell
Best British and Irish Literature
1,182 books — 1,115 voters

Rubinrot by Kerstin GierInkheart by Cornelia FunkeMomo by Michael EndeSaphirblau by Kerstin GierSmaragdgrün by Kerstin Gier
Best German Authors
625 books — 710 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Best Books Written By Women
1,136 books — 403 voters

Shannon L. Alder
“ I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to light the way through the darkness for others. I write to be seen and heard. I write to be near those I love. I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper. I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear. I write past the embarrassment of exposure. I write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to heal. I write myself ou ...more ”
― Shannon L. Alder

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor
“ If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy. ”
― Dorothy Parker

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