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Marla

A-List Customer
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Attempts will be made to limit the size of this list, but...well, here are a few.

J.D. Salinger
Vladimir Nabokov
Sergei Dovlatov
Franz Kafka
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Sylvia Plath
Dorothy Parker
Voltaire
Milan Kundera
Oscar Wilde
Gustav Flaubert
Ilf and Petrov
Leo Tolstoy

Sometime later today I will be absolutely crippled by the realization that I forgot to mention someone important, but as of now the list stands.
 

djd

Practically Family
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570
Location
Northern Ireland
A few of mine:

Agatha Christie
Margery Allingham
Conan Doyle
William Gibson
Dashiell Hammett
PG Wodehouse
Larry Niven
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Robert E Howard
Leslie Charteris
 

Pompidou

One Too Many
Messages
1,242
Location
Plainfield, CT
Umberto Eco for Baudolino and The Name of the Rose. I couldn't really get too interested in his others, though I have them all - well, the fiction anyway.

Thomas Mallory for Le Morte d'Arthur.

Whoever wrote Beowulf.
 

davidraphael

Practically Family
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790
Location
Germany & UK
Haruki Murakami
Papa Hem'
Milan Kundera
Kazuo Ishiguro
Paul Auster
Ian McEwan
Charles Bukowski
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Raymond Carver
Hermann Hesse
George Orwell
John Fante
Richard Brautigan
Mikhail Bulgakov
Knut Hamsun

I was surprised and appalled that no women writers appeared on my list.
I hope to remedy that.
Next on my reading list: Margaret Atwood.

EDIT: I loved Enid Blyton as a kid: I was obsessed with The Faraway Tree series, The Adventure Series, The Wishing Chair Series and The Famous Five
 
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Gray Ghost

A-List Customer
Paul and his letters to the 7 Churches in the Holy Bible.

Jan Karon author of "The Mitford Series". Takes place in a fictional town of Mitford, NC. Based loosely on Blowing Rock, NC.

WEB Griffin and his Men at War series dealing with the OSS during WWII.
 

Rathdown

Practically Family
Messages
572
Location
Virginia
Hmm.

Katherine Kurtz (esp. The Adept series)
Philip K. Dick (esp. The Man In The High Tower)
Glendon Swarthout (except, possibly, Luck & Pluck)
Clair Huffaker (esp. The Cowboy and the Cossack)
Sax Rohmer (everything)
 

Mr Vim

One Too Many
Messages
1,306
Location
Juneau, Alaska
Ray Bradbury hands down...

But also Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Mark Twain, Harper Lee (all the only one book, Mockingbird says enough for a lifetime.)
 

Chasseur

Call Me a Cab
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2,494
Location
Hawaii
For classical literature: Emile Zola, Joseph Conrad, Guy de Maupassant, Mikhail Bulgakov, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway (short stories), Raymond Chandler, Leo Tolstoy (short stories), must read more classical literature...

Cotemporary fiction: Michael Moorecock, Alan Furst, James Ellroy, must be some others here... do not read much contemporary fiction...

Philosophy, strategy, non-fiction etc: Raymond Aron, Carl von Clausewitz, Niccolo Machiavelli, Charles de Gaulle, Raoul Castex, Andre Beaufre, Ramachandra Guha, Robert Jervis, Thomas Schelling, Richard Betts, Lawrence Freedman, Rajesh Bashrur, Amartya Sen, Stephen Walt, Daniel Drezner, Stephen van Evera, and too many others...
 
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Flipped Lid

One of the Regulars
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257
Location
The Heart of The Heartland
P.G. Wodehouse, John Steinbeck, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, J.D. Salinger, Pat Conroy, John Feinstein, Ken Follett.

Guilty pleasures are Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn, David Baldacci, and Jimmy Buffett.
 

Nanny Ogg

New in Town
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22
Location
Neverland
They are so many, but I will mention three of them Jerome Salinger, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett.
Nice Room!Reading Room. :)
 

Taz-man

Familiar Face
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84
Location
NOVA
My favorite author is Stephen Hunter, even though he is modern. The series based on the "Shooter"'s father is based in the 1940s and 1950s. I like to ready his books.
 

Dan'l

Practically Family
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821
Location
Somewhere in time
I'm going to limit my list to just two, or else the list could keep going...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Edgar Allen Poe

I feel like I'm "there" in the stories as I read them.
 

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