Darina's votes on the list World's greatest authors on Literature and Writing

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1	Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino 3.81 avg rating — 3,506 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 4.22 avg rating — 276,985 ratings Darina rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 4.34 avg rating — 325,991 ratings Darina rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera 3.98 avg rating — 7,556 ratings Darina rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Orhan Pamuk 3.95 avg rating — 3,176 ratings Darina rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	On Literature by Umberto Eco 3.95 avg rating — 2,355 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different by Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author) 4.37 avg rating — 6,011 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	The Art of the Novel by Henry James 3.89 avg rating — 147 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Talking About Detective Fiction by P.D. James 3.77 avg rating — 2,307 ratings Darina rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Why I Write by George Orwell 4.01 avg rating — 16,172 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov 4.32 avg rating — 2,713 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places by Ursula K. Le Guin 4.12 avg rating — 1,736 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa 3.87 avg rating — 4,179 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You by Ray Bradbury 4.08 avg rating — 21,874 ratings Darina rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	This Craft of Verse by Jorge Luis Borges 4.31 avg rating — 2,013 ratings Darina rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art by Joyce Carol Oates 3.79 avg rating — 1,304 ratings Darina rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by Patricia Highsmith 3.78 avg rating — 1,795 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983-2005 by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 395 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon 3.68 avg rating — 4,296 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	On Writing by Eudora Welty 4.03 avg rating — 612 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ 4.26 avg rating — 2,957 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories by Gianni Rodari 4.23 avg rating — 2,026 ratings Darina rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Beginnings, Middles & Ends by Nancy Kress (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,521 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy by Orson Scott Card 3.91 avg rating — 4,920 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante 3.79 avg rating — 6,946 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami 3.89 avg rating — 19,180 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	L'Écriture comme un couteau by Annie Ernaux (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 1,331 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders 4.53 avg rating — 27,087 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars