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I have to agree on Franzen. He seems to be one of these authors that is fighting the tide of "commercial" authors that pump out books like candy. He is trying to write real fiction for real people that like to read.
Jane Austen
All of the Bronte sisters
Haruki Murakami
Ayn Rand
George Eliot
Kurt Vonnegut
Isabel Allende
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Banana Yoshimoto
Harper Lee
Elizabeth Gaskell
JK Rowling
Kahlil Girban
I accidentally left of Margaret Atwood.
I should also add my guilty pleasure - Charlaine Harris!
And I mispelled Gibran. How embarrassing...
Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
Murakami
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pablo Neruda
Shakespeare (of course!)
Tom Stoppard
I'll just add some others that are worth mentioning
Dickens (though only for his shorter novels like Hard Times, his longer novels tend to be superfluously descriptive which tends to border on the mundane without contribution to the story -- like a painter habitually painting a certain way that it becomes a fetish).
Kerouac
Bourdain
Beckett (only for Waiting for Godot though)
Alan Lightman
I'm sure I'm forgetting a few others ... I'll torture myself until then.
I've read a number of authors who have written a few books...
Both Clancy and Grisham.
David Baldacci, James Lee Burke, Stephen Hunter, Vince Flynn, Patrick Robinson.
They all write thrillers, sometimes with a hint of political intrigue, sometimes not. The last listed writes about the U.S. Navy--as a Brit.
John Saul and John Sandford, I've mentioned. Greg Rucka, David Morrell.
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