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Proust 50ad (17) prose is not my favorite form of writing 6nianji-ZHC (38) Jean Rhys, Truman Capote, Sallinger A real phony (27) For now, Alison Weir and Jon Favreau. A.J. (27) Bob Dylan. AROG Pynchon, Kafka, Cervantes, Proust AR (20) I have yet to reach this conclusion. AS (32) Vladimir Nabokov, Eudora Welty A (19) i dont have one. i mostly read non fiction. Aaron (32) J.R.R. Tolkien, Walker Percy, Chesterton Abs charles Bukowski, Adam Hyde (26) Henry Rollins, Jack Kerouac and Chuck Palahniuk Adam (22) I don't know Adam (25) Victor Hugo. Admiral Love (33) Chatwin Adrian Martyn (34) bob dylan Adriana (16) bob dylan Adriana (16) Tom Holt and Patricia Highworth Ady (22) Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Patricia Highsmith, Carson McCullers, Samuel Becket, Camilo José Cela, Aggie White faulkner Agreen (29) too many... Agustina (27) Haruki Murakami, JD Salinger, Lewis Carroll Ai (21) John Grisham and Jane Green Aisha Milburn (32) Mark Haddon, Cormac McCarthy, Isaac Asimov. Ajay (17) none Ajm9511 (21) Crystal Zevon and Richard Bach Al (28) Keats Alan (58) For now, Pablo Coehlo, Stephen King, Michael Crichton Aldonza77 (47) To be honest with you, myself. Alecksi Edgar Allan Poe, Indro Montanelli Alessandro Pian (30) Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Mary Wollstonecraft Alex C. At the moment, Jose Saramago is on top. Alex Jean Genet and Water Benjamin Alex (22) Dean Kootnz Alex (17) havent read any prose Alexandra Bryhter (24) Elizabeth Gilbert and Mark Twain Alexandra (27) I don't keep track of creators. I pay attention to their words, their lessons. Alexandra (19) Walt Whitman, Jean Paul Satre, Ernst Hemingway, Robert Frost Alexandra (24) Voltaire AlexandriaHMerlin (40) any, just as long as i learn from them Alexis Johnson (19) Flaubert, Anita Brookner and Dostoievsky. Ali (37) don't know Alicein1derland (27) Wilde, Huysmans, Cioran Alin (23) At the moment, Rick Bragg, Flannery O'Connor, Feinman, Will and Ariel Durant Allison Jean Hazen (34) Charlotte Bronte and Jeffrey Eugenides Allison Jean (21) Toni Morrison Allison (33) Vladimir Nabokov, Cormac Mccarthy Allison (20) Alice Walker Amanda None Ame (37) R. L. Stine Amelia (13) Barbara Kingsolver, Sue Monk Kidd Amy (33) forster, kundera. Ana (21) neil gaiman, jose saramago, gabriel garcia marquez, osho Ana (30) Homer Andrea (16) William Faulkner and Kurt Vonnegut. Andreas (19) I do not know. Andrew (22) Langston Hughes Andrew (25) Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Fry, Hilary Mantel Andrew (20) Daniel Silva, Eça Queirós Ângela (24) Charlotte Bronte, E M Forster and Jane Austen Anjel (28) edgar allen poe. he is amazing Ankassandra (15) Amélie Nothomb, Will Christopher Baer, (Jonathan Carrol) Anke! (17) Alice Munro, Willa Cather Ann Delaney (44) Murakami Haruki and about 20 others Anna Kalimar (18) Herta Muller, Colette, Bataille, Gombrowicz, Borowski, Konwicki, Hrabal, Hesse, Gretkowska etc. Anna O. too many to list Anne Louise Sheldon (34) Too many, too many. At the moment - Rushdie, Pamuk. Annelise (40) Anne Tyler, Anne Rivers Siddons, Lucy Maud Montgomery Anniel (62) I actually like Dan Brown AnonAzure (19) David Foster Wallace, Saul Bellow. Anthony D C (20) Chaucer Anthony (24) ? Antoinette (21) Eça de Queirós Antonio Lemos (18) dan brown Anya (22) I couldn't say Anzi (27) Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, Paul Auster, F Scott Fitzgerald Aoife Walsh Borges, Proust, Ronald Knox, Evelyn Waugh, Sydney Smith, George Steiner Apollo (58) Jack Kerouac Apos Joyce, Austen, Dumas and Asimov April (20) Marion zimmer Bradley, Virginia Woolf, João Aguiar Aranneaa (19) J.R.R. Tolkien (though he could also be a poet) and J.K. Rowling Artie Mondello (18) J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling Artie (17) Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, John Steinbeck, Richard Yates, Truman Capote, Flannery O'Conner. Ash (23) Cosmopolitan sex books are about all that interest you right now Ashley Brazil (17) Laurence Sterne, Michael Ondatje, Mark Lord. Ashley Meller (26) PG Wodehouse, Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Neil Gaiman, Dawkins, Hawking, Guha, Frank Herbert, Kurt Vonnegut... Ashwin Murali (21) Sharon Kay Penman, Voltaire, Astrid Pagnol Atuona (38) George Orwel Audrey Mahone (29) Nakobov, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Conrad Aya DICK FRANCIS, LEE CHILD, JOHN GRISHAM & DAVID BALDACCI BIPS (46) - BM (20) anything romantic or unrequited love Baby (32) Chuck Palahnuick. Bailey (19) prose? I never read it. Barbarita (21) Mark Twain Baron Von Nazzenpoppel (46) unknown Batgirl (23) Austen, Jilly Cooper, Irvine Welsh, the Russians Beatrice Moore (30) José Saranago Beatriz (13) John Green, JKR, Jonathan Friesan Becca (16) Any Becca (17) Haruki Murakami BeckBeck (26) Samuel Beckett, Thomas Pynchon, and Murasaki Shikibu. Ben Isaac Asimov, Mary Renault, Hugh Nibley, Paula Fredriksen Benjamin Urrutia (61) I don't really have one. Beth Ellis (15) don't know Beth (20) Christopher Moore Bethany (23) Orhan Pamuk Betty Usabiaga (37) David Foster Wallace, Dostoevsky, Kurt Vonnegut, J.D. Salinger, Voltaire... Bhakti Brophy (41) Oscar Wilde Bianca (18) Contemporarily, Bill Bryson BillyBobABC123zzz Mishima, Twain Blademan (60) Milan Kundera, David Foster Wallace Blaine (21) I wish I knew... BlondShamrock (16) None Blood (15) Stephen King Bluebird (27) Leo Tolstoy and Charles Dickens Bluto (29) What's.... uh.... nevermind. Bill James? Bob (22) so many Bobia (25) one who inspires me Bonnie (15) Roberto Bolano, Kerouac Boris (16) Proust, Chekhov, Hugo, Nabokov Brad (17) Emily Brontë Bree Ogden Camus Brendan (24) Mark Twain Brian A. Henegar (26) Kurt Vonnegut, Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman, Ayn Rand Brian (22) At the moment, Paulo Coelho, Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Janet Fitch and Adrian Stumpp Britta Bandit (30) My girlfrend, when she ever does write prose. Rarely. Brutus (20) i have none Bryon Springer (25) Robert Rodi Buddy (34) Oscar Wilde. C face. (22) ....... CAVCAV (26) John Irving, Christopher Isherwood, Milan Kundera, Phillip Pulman, Alan Bennett, Dorothy Parker. C none C (14) Edna O'Brien and Kurt Vonnegut Caidy (54) Christopher Moore and Neil Gaiman. Candice (23) Michael Crichton, Christopher Moore, Lewis Carroll, Jean Plaidy, Margaret George, and J.K. Rowling. Candy Too many to name Carlie (24) Borges. Carlo (26) Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Camille Paglia Carlos A. (24) Plath, Salinger, Vonnegut, Plascencia, Foer Carly (19) In no particular order - Edith Wharton, Sylvia Plath, David Nicholls, Alan de Botton, Emile Zola Carly (21) Austen, Tolstoy, Toni Morrison, Barbara Kingsolver, Carol Lacoss (62) Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde Caroline (38) Dostoyevsky, Balzac, Proust, Mauriac Caroline (25) Elizabeth von Arnim, Marquez, Calvino, Flaubert, Tom Hodgkinson Caroline (33) Thomas Mann. Carolyn (18) I'm sure it's Huysman, and maybe Wilde, too. It's obvious, isn't it? Cassie (16) At the moment, John Steinbeck Cat (36) I dont have favourites Cat (24) Vargas Llosa, Sábato, Saramago Catalina Jiménez Correa (27) too many Catalina (44) not sure Cate (23) Currently Ellen Hopkins and Jay Asher. Catherine Jean Don't know any Cattie Chong (26) Hardy, Dickens, Burgess Cee Cee (17) myself Cestmoi Not much of a reader no favorites. Channon (45) Cortázar, Ibargüengoitia, Joseph Conrad Chari (21) ???? Charlene (17) Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke, Ernest Hemingway Charles L Davis Jr (51) People who see the humour in their experiences, light and dark Charlotte (18) Jeanette Winterson, Kerouac, Virginia Woolfe Charly Mariaan (49) Jerry Spinelli and Margaret Atwood Chary Silva (22) Steven Saylot Cheemargh (36) ? Cherish Robinson (21) Have not a favourite but non favourites Cherub (30) Ruben Dario Chinita (34) Wut? Chiu Jing Hua (17) And the say they are good men Chonda T.E. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, George Orwell Chris S. Edgar Allen Poe. Chris (16) No one Chris frost, shakespeare, chaucer Christian Soldier (33) Thomas Hardy, Michael Ondaatje, Max Frisch, Robert Walser, Kafka Christian (44) Oscar Wilde. JM Barrie. Any and all. Christina Kronberg (23) William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Ernest Hemingway, David Milch, Henry Miller Christobel in College (18) William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Kafka, Hemingway, Henry Miller Christobel (17) Marcel Proust, Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco, Herman Hesse. Christopher Blaum (37) I do not understand prose Christopher Boone At the moment, J. D. Salinger Christopher James Stagg (16) William Gibson at the moment. Christopher Mitchell (17) Henry James, Anton Chekhov Christopher (24) Haven't got any~ Ciera (16) Don't know. Cindy Shakespeare Cissa Fireheart (32) Jane Austen, as always. Claire Bartholomew (16) Annie Dillard, James Lee Burke ClaireW (65) I could never choose just one. Karl Marx. Claire Chuck Palahniuk Clancy Salinger, Dafoe Clara (20) Yann Martel Clarissa (18) Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman Clark Langridge (32) carlos fuentes Claudia (36) Clay Douglass: Updike and Ellison Clay Douglass (34) I dont know much about poetry Clelia Beatriz Valdez (22) Joseph Campbell, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien Cody Gould (17) Stephen King and Robertson davies Colin (39) james clavell Cookie Mary Higgins Clark Core (25) I don't like the idea of having heroes/heroines or favorites so thus I don't have any. Craig Suga Biles (22) Lots. Crystal (17) Virginia Wolf, Anna Kavan, Jean Rhys, Margaret Atwood, Anais Nin, Margarita Karapanou, Patricia Highsmith, Proust, Kafka, Ballard,etc Crystal (32) Qian Zhongshu Crystal (22) Nicholson Baker, T.H.White, Patrick O'Brian, Dave Eggers. D.S.de.P.Ramos At the moment, Ray Bradbury D.X (22) Don't have one - prefer reality bok Daisy (27) None at the moment Damien TC (36) David Sedaris Dan (29) Michael Connely, Jeffery Deaver, Timothy Zahn, Tom Clancy Dan roald dahl Dan (20) Matthew Riley, Jack DuBrul, James Rollins Dan (39) Sylvia Plath Danae (17) Chuck Palahniuk Danger (16) Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Tom Robbins, Larry McMurtry, David Sedaris, etc... Dani (31) sergei lukyanenko, Tolkein Dani (19) Victor Hugo Daniella (27) Vince Flynn, Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz Danny (25) Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson Darcy (20) C.S. Forrester, Patrick O’Brien, Herman Melville, Loren Eiseley. Dave Cresswell (46) Hunter S Thompson DaveyD (24) I am not educated enough in the works of prose to say Davey (18) Marcel Proust David K (46) Haruki Murakami, Oscar Wilde. David Timme (19) Shakespeare David (19) Shakespeare. David (10) Edgar Allen Poe DeAndre Beck (20) Charles Dickens and Harper Lee Deb (37) Too many to name. Debby Creech-West (43) Virginia Woolf, ZJames Lee Burke, and Gloria Naylor Deborah S. Wilson (56) Shakespeare Dee (19) Yasunari Kawabata, Nick Joaquin, Salman Rushdie, Densio (25) Virginia Woolf Derek (27) James Joyce and Richard Brautigan Dev Tucker (17) I don't like to read... Devon (18) adele parks jkrowling shakespeare Devu (22) those who express my thoughts, but with eloquence Diana (20) J.K.Rowling maybe... Diana (15) Gabriel García Márquez. Diego Miguel Danura Puyó (30) JK Rowling Dindin (20) Calvino, maybe Dolores Nabokov (26) Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Jean-Paul Sartre Dominick Miller (19) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Flannery O'Connor, George Orwell and Plato Dominick Miller (20) Ernest Hemingway, Fyodor Dostoyevesky, Plato. Dominick Miller (21) stephen king, bentley little Dori (23) Jean Plaidy who weaves historical fact into her fiction. Bryce Courtenay Doug Lambert (65) Emmerson, Thoreau, and those of that era Doug (30) Oh dear. There are too many. How could I choose two, or even twenty, without offending the rest in my mind? Dragontongue (22) Dostoevski, J. D. Salinger DreamBrother (27) Nabokov Drella (26) Proust, Dostoevsky, McCullers, Frame. Dru (24) Vladimir Nabokov, Hunter S. Thompson Dylan (17) Dickens, Dostoyevsky, etc. E.A. Latham (25) Maybe Toni Morrison; I have read a lot of her books but I love so many authors E.Jay (21) I'm not much of a reader. EAR (19) peter gammons...murakami, vonnegut, halberstam. EJ (29) Hemingway Ed (30) Anyone who puts the effort in Eden (19) Alexandre Dumas Edmond Dantes (26) There are too many: Ha Jin, Dostoyevsky, Seneca, Henry Miller are but a few. Edouard (41) pass Eduardo (19) Camus, Kafka. Eiichi (16) Oscar Wilde, Charlotte Bronte, Lewis Carroll Elena Dorothy Parker, Anne Rice, Lewis Caroll, Brothers Grim, Hans Christian Anderson. Eleni Constantinou (20) John Irving, Tom Robbins, Umberto Eco Eliaz McMillan (33) Proust Elissa (22) Jane Austen, Jasper Fforde, and J.K. Rowling Elizabeth Lois McMaster Bujold, Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, Stephenie Meyer, Orson Scott Card, Wen Spencer Elizabeth (25) Thomas Friedman Ellen (48) Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Capote, Runyon Ellen F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.M.Forster, Evelyn Waugh Ellie_Estrella (19) George Orwell. Elliot Kafka, Márquez, J.D Salinger, Tennessee Williams... Ema (18) J.R.R. Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, Diane Duane Emilie (23) Marcel Proust, Helen Fielding, Paulo Coelho Emillia (16) Calvino Emily Harford Barrett John Steinbeck and Arthur Conan-Doyle. Emily (19) ? Emily (24) Robert Bolt, Harper Lee, Bram Stoker Emma (20) William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers Emme (21) Dostoevsky, Turgenjev , Aristotle Endimion If I had one, I wouldn't write at all Enis Proust, Shakespeare, Kafka and Eco Eno A. Agolli (15) Clarke, Copeland. I rarely read prose. Enrique (21) John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, Bono Eric C. Wolfe (28) Fyodor Dostoevsky and Jack Kerouac. Eric (15) Voltaire Erica Johnson (21) ? Erica David Eddings, Tom Clancy Erich (20) Oscar Wilde and Christopher Isherwood Erik Isaac (19) Dylan Thomas Erik Price (18) Edgar Allan Poe and Shakespeare Erin (27) Sandbergy Erin (53) Oscar Wilde, Jamie O'Neill Escapism (19) Aristotle. Plato. James Baldwin. Et Cetera (22) unsure Et (32) I have no idea Eva (23) Melina Marchetta, Jaclyn Moriarty, Paulina Simons (I just went for favourite authors) Evie (22) Dunno Ferroever (43) Frank Herbert, Amy Tan, Anchee Min, Terry Pratchett, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen King FeydRautha (46) erica jong, charlaine harris, Feysweetie (43) I fear I am not well educated in prose to answer this question Finokio (38) Thucydides, Cicero, Churchill, Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Stephen King. FlameHorse (28) george bernanrd shaw Flo Joe Abercrombie, Chuck Palahniuk and Glen Cook right now FlyinMonki (27) José Saramago and Milan Kundera Francisca Bastos (17) Musil, Tournier, Camus, Sterne, James, Proust FrankieSmash (49) isabel allende Gab (19) Don't have any... Gabriel Gonzalez (26) Anatole France Gail Flaherty Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Mark Twain Galareh (23) The people I follow on tumblr. Garrett (19) robertson davies, vonnegut Gene (51) Proust, Dostoevsky, Nabokov. Genevieve (22) George Orwell, William Hazlitt, Jonathan Swift George Owers (21) I don't keep track of creators. I pay attention to their words, their lessons George I have not read many books to express an opinion yet Georgia (14) none Georgia (53) Nabokov and Balzac Gia (21) Thomas Cahill (also a historian) Giannico (40) John Irving, David Mitchell Gillian Martin (40) Milan Kundera, Haruki Murakami, E.M. Forster Gina (19) Anais Nin. Gionna (28) I ain't got none Girl You Too Rude chuck palahniuk, neil gaiman, gabriel garcia-marquez and jonathan safran foer. Giselle (18) Obama Gloria Heatley (58) Hesse and (though a playwrite) Beckett Godfrey (19) justin cronin, patrick marber Golden Boy (20) Jorge Luis Borges, Manuel Mujica Láinez, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. Gonzalo Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, Jerry Holkins, David Lynch, Kevin Smith Greg Lytle (26) Tolkien, Rowling, and Palanchuk Greg (19) Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Cormac McCarthy Greg (24) Neil Gaiman Greg (17) Balzac, Thomas Mann, William Faulkner, Flaubert, Proust, Kafka, Camus, a lista é interminável Gustavo (21) Kafka, Joyce, Mann, and yes: Proust Guy Van Driessche (44) Marion Zimmer Bradley H. McMillan (33) Dostojevskij, Tolstoi. H.Nakashima (21) Those who are most poetic HCE (15) Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald HHP (41) Anton Chekhov and Marcel Proust and Conrado de Quiros Hakusha Senbon (24) Douglas Adams, Philip Pullman and Walter Moers. Hal (18) Janet Fitch Haley (19) J.D Salinger,Douglas Adams,Neil Gaiman,Franz Kafka HandeG. (13) At the moment, ronald sukenick Hari (21) No one immediate or popular, probably. Vernon Lee, Isak Dinesen. Harold E. Leighton (37) Emerson, Toni Morrison Hassan (21) Bathroom wall grafitti artists. Hayzeus (23) James Joyce Heidi R. i don't read enough prose writers to have a favorite. Helen Mattison Wyatt (20) All those who write prose that catches my attention Helen (32) poe Hetal (22) I don't have any longterm favorites, I used to love Bettina von Arnim and Christoph-Martin Wieland, in the field of scifi, Stanislaw Lem and Greg Egen, most often the author I currently read, right now Marcel Proust. Hoelder1in (51) shakespeare I Beg (54) Edgar Allen Poe Ian (23) None Illinibeatle (44) Why have a favourite - there are so many that one may read and enjoy! Inkie (60) wilde, sartre Iris (18) Proust, obviously; Joyce; and, Borges. Isaac (16) bob dylan, salinger Isaac (29) Dostoyevsky,Breton,Blanchot,Bernhard Isabelle (26) Zoze Saramago, Isabela Allende, Aziz Nessin Isadora Duncan (32) proust. pynchon Iva Pasztor (20) Marquez. Iva Now Stephenie Meyer and J. K. Rowling Ivy (10) Ralph Ellison, Aldous Huxley, JK Rowling J.A. Lawrence Orson Scott Card; though at the moment, myself... And Masashi Kishimoto J.L. Odom (16) None JD (21) Carolyn Keene JJ (20) anais nin JLo (34) None to name JM (28) H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Robert Anton Wilson JW (27) Poe Jack Goodman (18) Tolkien Jack (14) Sidney Sheldon Jackie Cavalcante (40) F. Scott Fitzgerald, chris prentiss, Elizabeth Gilbert Jackie Vega (27) Dorothy Dunnett, Joan Aiken, Raymond Chandler, Paul Scott, John Banville, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens Jackie Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Tom Wolfe. Jackson8471 (23) Anyone but Sarah Palin JaclynM (19) Kevin Smith haha Jaclyn (22) Octavia E. Butler, Rita Mae Brown, John Irving Jacqueline Garrett (38) Stephen King.. Jacqueline (34) oscar wilde, gertrude stein and bob dylan Jadelynn (24) Pablo Neruda Jafari (33) Mario Benedetti Jaime (18) shelley James Green (29) Marcel Proust, Frank Herbert, Herman Hess, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury James La Salandra (31) HG Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad James (64) Not a fan of any, really. Jamie (25) J.K. Rowling, Edgar Allan Poe, Kim Wilkins, and Laini Taylor. Jamie (22) Virginia Woolf Jan I have none Jan (54) Laurance Durrell, E.M Forrester, Jan (55) i dont reaqd writings Janae (17) Annie Proulx and Albert Camus. Jared Oswald (19) Bill Simmons, Rick Telander Jay West (27) Homer Jay (26) Poe, Shakespeare, Angelou Jenn (35) David Byrne, Lennon and McCartney, Bernie Taupin, Billy Joel Jenni Webb Reynolds (29) George Orwell & Mary Shelley Jennifer Lewis (26) Kerouac JennyLynn (23) John Irving, Vladimir Nabokov Jenny (23) Too many. Jenny (28) Jack Kerouac Jeremy (30) Cormac Jeremy (17) Me!!! Jessica (18) Henry Miller, Edgar Allen Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald Jeux William S. Burroughs, Philip K. Dick Jim (20) Diana Gabaldon Jo-Anne Too many Jo (41) Dr.Seuss...always knew how to cheer one's soul up Jo (16) William Styron, Virginia Woolf, Nicholas Sparks Jo (21) Jane Austen Jo I'm not familiar with enough prose writers to choose favorites, yet. Jo (20) James Marsden Joel (17) will self JoeyO (34) Bukowski, Woolf, Joyce, Marquez John Porter none John (28) Emmily Bronte, Neil Gaiman Johnathan Durand (19) don't like to read Johnny (21) Isabel Allende, Anna Gavalda, Ayn Rand, John Steinbeck, Haruki Murakami Jollie (21) Don't like prose Jonas (We) Henrik Ibsen, JD Salinger Jordan (19) Christopher moore Jorelle (18) 能寫出好作品的作家 Joseph Cheng (28) I can't remember Josephine A (19) gabriel garcia marquez, shaw Josh (23) Shel Silverstein. Joshua Levi (21) Probably people in the same movement or style as Louis Aragon and Coetzee Ju (28) Fher Olvera, Glen Phillips Juan Jose Campos (34) Jorge Luis Borges, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Gabriel Keith Chesterton Juancho (32) Mauve Binchy, J K Rowlings, L M Montgomery, Mary Stewart, J R Tolkien, Stephen King, Thomas Hardy, AA Milne Juanita Joann Harty Buck (49) Many. Jubin (21) Cormac McCarthy Judyka (64) At the moment – Joan Didion, Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Austen and Henry James Jules (19) Carlos Ruiz Zafon Jules (26) Neil Gaiman, Jack Kerouac Jules (23) Dont have any Julian (16) brina svit, proust Juliette (25) anais nin, I mean, her diaries. June (23) none Justin Rasile (23) Anchee Min & Joyce Carol Oates. Donna Tartt K Yeo (19) Italo Calvino, T.H. White, Borges. KG (38) The old standbys are Bronte, Austen, Hugo, Hemmingway...but I am discovering new treasures all the time KKC (26) Aravind Adiga KK (32) Sheen KLVS (22) none K (21) William Maugham and R.K. Naraya Kait (23) don't have one Kaleena (23) Toni Morrison comes to mind. Kameke Oscar Wilde, JD Salinger, Joseph Conrad Kamila (18) edward allen poe Kandi (26) Edgar Alan Poe, Anne Rice Karen (22) Clarice Lispector, Machado de Assis, Miguel de Cervantes Karina Marcano (26) Right now Italo Calvino and Cormac McCarthy Kasper (19) J.K. Rowling, Beverly Cleary, Tolstoy, F. Scott Fitzgerald Kate McJ (31) Dont have one Kate (23) Anne Rice and my love. Kate (21) Mark Twain . . . he must have been a fun and witty dude to be around! Kate Tolkien and Tom Robbins. Katerina (22) at the moment Fred Vagas Katharina (32) Fyodor Dostoevsky. Katherine (18) George Will, Anna Quindlin Katie (20) Shakespere Katrina Thiessen-Beasse (28) Sarah Dessen Kayla Marie (17) Pushkin. Jonathan Carroll. Good journalism. Excellent short stories (I have a fondness for them, and they're so hard to write). Kechiro (33) F scott Fitzgerald, AS Byatt Kelli (47) I don't have a favorite. Kendyl (20) Dante Kenn (47) Dickens, Wilde, Capote, Lee Kevbo At the moment, Stephen King and Hunter S Thompson Kevlar Myself, when I'm in a certain mind state. Kiara M. (15) Patrick O'Brian, Graham Greene, John Cheevers, William Langewiesche Kid Jasper Kurt Vonnegut, James Joyce and Joseph Conrad. Kieran (22) don't have one Kika Jane Austen, C. Bronte, C. Dickens Kiki (27) Marilynne Robinson, Laurie Hertzel Kim Randall Cox (43) frost Kim (37) Oscar Wilde Kim (17) Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Emily Bronte, Kimberly (23) paulo coelho, john grisham, jefferey archer, etc. Kinmin (24) Oscar Wilde, Molière, Agatha Christie, George Orwell, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway Kitty (21) Lawrence Block and David McCullough Koinekid (28) I don't know enough to really say... Kreuzz Steig Larson, Kris (41) Terry Pratchett. A. S. Byatt. Sarah Monette. Banana Yoshimoto. Kristi (35) vonnegut, palahniuk, gaiman. Kristie (22) Isaac Asimov, Dickens, Arthur C. Clarke and Truman Capote Krum Kirov (16) William Gibson, Anthony Bourdain and Voltaire Krysstofer Pierre (23) Sylvia Plath Krystal (24) Vladimir Nabokov, Truman Capote, Bernard Schlink and Francoise Sagan Kt (15) J.D. Salinger, Haruki Murakami and the lambent happiness of children Kunal Sen (27) At the moment, Ken Follet and P. G. Wodehouse Kyrie (18) Kafka, Albert Camus, and J.D.Salinger. L. Kadey (18) Camus L. Kadey (19) Anne Rice, Daphne Du Maurier, Ellen Hopkins, Charles Bukowski, Philippa Gregory, and Augusten Burroughs. L.E.Murphy (17) Neil Gaiman, Haruki Murakami LAND (22) Sue Monk Kidd, Kathleen Norris, Kate Chopin, Jane Austen, JK Rowling LB Perkins (42) Stephen J. Gould. LVG - Lacharria (18) Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Atwood Lainey (38) F Scott Fitzgerald, Helen Mirren, Barbara Walters, Shakespeare, Racine Laura (20) I can never name favorites. Laura (24) don't know Lauren (28) virginia woolf Lauren (22) Proust, Mann, Austen, Cervantes Laurie (58) Orson Scott Card, James Clavell, Haruki Murakami Layla (22) Jack Kerourac. Leah (16) Nietzsche Leeham Too many to ever list, but primarily Shakespeare. Leena (16) Mark Twain, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Nathaniel Hawthorne Legacy Lee (31) Sidney Sheldon. Leigh Lagamayo (27) thank you for the plural; hemingway, wharton, green, fitzgerald, tolstoy, balzac, waugh Lem (24) José de Alencar Lena (21) George Orwell, Joseph Conrad LeonidasStokely Steve Tesich LiamP (25) Vonnegut, Wilde, Dostoevsky, Emerson, and many more. Liliana Ayn Rand, Hemingway Lily (16) Charles Perrault Linda C (41) Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wharton, Steinbeck Linda (23) Tolkien, Goodkind, Rowling. Lindsey B. (17) The Beats and The Decadents (in all international forms) Lint (17) Shakespeare, Jane Austen Lisa Russel Bernard LittleT (24) Martin Buber; Robert Thurman; Barbara Kingsolver; William Shakespeare. Liz (28) Willy Morse Lizzie Pickle (27) I don't read prose. LodRose (32) Austen, Doyle, Bronte sisters, Ishiguro Log Brian Jacques, Patrick Rothfuss, Richard Castle Logan (23) Nick Cave, Irvine Welsh Lolita Hazed (18) If I understand prose correctly, Frank McCourt Lori (37) Douglas Adams, Joseph Heller Louf (39) Margret Peterson Haddix. I read lots of books but dont pay attention to the authors names Loui Edgington (12) Baudelaire Louis (19) D.J. MacHale? Lemony Snicket :] Louisalokyee (15) J.M Barrie, Ian McEwan, Fitzgerald. Louise (17) Neil Gaiman, Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Alexandre Dumas, Gaston Leroux, Thomas Hardy, Phillip Pullman, Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Garth Nix Loz (17) jk rowling Luc (27) Arthur Conan Doyle, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Jorge Luis Borges, Stephen King. Lucho (32) Kundera, Borges, Cortazar Lucija (25) Jane Austen, Steven Saylor, Agatha Christie, Joanne Harris Luísa (21) Jane Austen, Steven Saylor, Agatha Christie, Joanne Harris and Alexandre Dumas (both of them). Luísa (22) J.D Salinger, David Sedaris Luisa (18) Saul Bellow, Walter Wangerin Jr. Luke Anthony (19) don't know Lydia (50) C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Kurt Vonnegut. Lyndsey (19) I cannot say that I quite believe in the term prose being synomous with any work of written word MJ (22) Elizabeth Gilbert, Gail Carson Levine, JRR Tolkien, Jodi Picoult MJ (23) Alice Walker, Isabelle Allende, Zadie Smith MM (34) I lack one. MP3 (22) Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Amos Oz, Emerson and Sartre MPaylor (21) Stephen King Mach (44) Stephen King, Tom Clancy, Machiavelli_Mx (38) Alexander Dumas Madhusudhan (63) I have none Magen (22) Saul Bellow, Peter Hedges Maggie (24) Philip K Dick, William Gibson, Aldous Huxley Mahalo (/) Hemingway, Bolero, Wolff (Tobias) Malibu (31) mason dickson Mallory (21) Victor Hugo, Franz Kafka, Vincent van Gogh (his letters), Neil Gaiman... Maltet Scott Fitzgerald, Proust Mandar (27) None. Manu (22) Poe, King, Hardy, Orwell, Bradbury, Wharton MaraMichelle John Lennon, Bob Dylan Mara (58) ummm geez-how about i don't know Marc_Meyer Chekhov, Dostoyevski Mari (30) Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Jaida Jones, Jane Austen Maria Patenaude (29) Janet Tashjian Maria Jk Rowling Maria (45) alexandre dumas, charles bukowski, jules verne, oscar wilde, jack kerouac, vladimir nabokov, f. scott fitzgerald, ernest hemingway Mariana (16) ? Mark Angus Wilson (28) Tom Robbins, John Steinbeck, Neil Gaiman, and Tolkein Mark D Anderson (23) Garth Nix or Raymond E. Feist Mark (16) Hugo, Dostoevsky, Austen Marty (18) Nicolai Gogol, Sergei Dovlatov, Boris Pasternak, Andrea Camilleri Martyshka (31) Ah! Steinbeck and Dostoevsky, but don't assume I'm literary, Maruku (18) I don't have any Mary Ann (62) Erica Jong, Augusten Burroughs Mary Ellen Collins-Davis (59) Erica Jong, Augusten Burroughs Mary Ellen Collins-Davis (59) too many MaryFred (24) David Sedaris and Kurt Vonnegut Mary (22) Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Sedaris, Jonathan Safran Foer Masha Shannon (26) Kurt Cobain, John Lennon, Billie Joe Armstrong Mat (15) Sinclair, Eco, Ellison, Gibson Mathew Gallant (22) Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, C.S Lewis, Oscar Wilde, Markus Zusak, Lewis Carroll, Jonathan Safren Foer, Neil Gaiman, Anais Nin, Bob Dylan, Nicole Krauss, Antoine De Saint-Exupery. Matisse (15) Franz Kafka and James Joyce. Matt DeCostanza (17) Henry James, Frank Herbert, Twain Matt (30) George Orwell and Douglas Adams Matt (20) Albert Camus, Leo Tolstoy Meaghan do not have one Meebo I much prefer plays Meg (16) I dont know Megan (25) Nicholas Sparks Megan (20) Carson McCullers Megil (51) I'm going to translate "prose" as "fiction." I like Edgardo Vega Yunque, John Steinbeck, Edwidge Danticat, and Truman Capote among others. Mel Sundquist (20) Stephenie Meyer, Philippa Gregory, Bram Stoker Mel (16) Hemingway, Salinger, and Kafka Mel (20) Chuck Palahnuik. Melinda (18) Laurie Notaro Melissa Farr (25) George Orwell, Mark Twain Melissa (23) Anne Fine, Frances Hodgeson Burnette, Melly Poe Menjou (21) Zola Meredith Paulo Coelho Mersiha (20) Douglas Adams, Steven King, Patricia Cornwell, Dan Brown, Iris Johansen, etc etc etc Metztli (23) Edgar Allen Poe, CS Lewis, Orwell, Kafka Michael (40) Jonathan Swift, Stephen Fry, Flann O'Brien, Peter Ackroyd Michael (46) Haruki Murakami, Dostoevsky, Bret Easton Ellis Michael None. Michaela Tee (15) Jane Austen, more to come in the future. Michelle Jeong (20) Tea Michelle (30) I don't like to play favourites here much, but I do like reading science fiction. Mick (28) Reading Trollope, Jane Austen, Dickens and Thomas Hardy for the 100th time Mignonne (53) Cormac McCarthy, Mike G. (25) Truman Capote Mike Sadler (53) can't help you here Mike (33) Kerouac, Haruki Murakami Mike (14) - Mike (32) Me Mike (53) Amy In Dallas Milfred (35) Ivo Andric, Franz Kafka. Milly (23) Ummmm Mimi (24) Jane Eyre Mimi (53) Don't have one Mimi (31) Marilynne Robinson, LM Montgomery, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens. Minerva Black (30) Langston Hughes Miriam Liggett (48) I tend to like books more than writers now. Misha (24) He's not the best, he's not the greatest novelist alive, he will never win the Nobel prize for literature, but I love the Universes that Douglass Coupland create. Miss Mia Moriarty (29) Leo Tolstoy. Mitela (22) The ones that surprise me. Who catch me off guard and all of a sudden have me find myself in tears. Mkeekee (30) Depends on my mood. MlleJacqueline William Gibson, Samuel Beckett and Voltaire Mnemonic Aberration Kurt Vonnegut Molly (19) N/A Mooke (16) J. S. LeFanu, Oscar Wilde, Peter Ackroyd Morgan Toft No favourite Morgana Don't have one, don't want one Mouse (42) lewis carroll Mr. Mandarin (41) Writers that can put magic into print. Ms. L (22) Flannery O'Connor; Harper Lee; Sherman Alexi; William Shakespeare Ms. Martin (46) Terry Brooks Muffin (25) Joyce, Celine, Genet, Lewis, Wallace, Dickens, McCabe Murphy (21) Anais Nin My Dear Materialista (27) Brooks. Mychel Shannon (18) I will pass on this question. I do not know any. Myron (26) i have no idea Mystery Mind Over Matter (19) Edgar Allen Poe, Franz Kafka, Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Carver, Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Ray Bradbury… N (20) E. B. White, George Orwell, Jane Austen Nancy (78) Richard Yates and so many others. Natalie MJ (31) Shakespeare, Haruki Murakami, Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, Jk Rowling, Jeffrey Eugenides Natalie (18) maroun abboud Nathalie (20) Jack Kerouac Nathan Plato Nathan (28) Bill James, C.S. Lewis Nathaniel (24) none Neller (35) C. S. Lewis, Dylan Thomas, William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, J. D. Sallinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell and Frank Herbert. Nels (31) Meg Cabot, Carol Smith and Leon Uris Nessie (18) Why is there not a nonfiction section here? Plato, Nietzsche, Zizek. Newlin (25) Charlotte Bronte, Louisa Alcott and Anais Nin Nia Robinson (19) At the moment I like Scott westerfield, Hugo, and Vonnegut... you? Nia (15) None at present Nicholas Kovacev (12) William Faulkner and Pat Conroy Nicholas (18) Nabakov Nick Schiff (16) None Nik (30) Margaret Atwood, Margaret Lawrence, The Bronte Sisters Nikki (35) I don't have any Nikon Shooter Alexandre Dumas, Elias Petropoulos Nikos (29) Currently (and possibly for always) Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Jane Austen. Nina (21) im not sure right now Nirmal Singh (99) I'm working on being my own NoGurus (20) FAR too many! Nomers (19) Feist, Dahl and Pratchett Not (26) Frank Herbert, Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, Bertrand Russell Nuance (26) Joyce, David Foster Wallace, and Fitzgerald. ORK (22) maybe myself. Oliver Don't have one. Olly (37) Nabokov, Orwell Omar (17) Orwell,M.G.Dantec PUNK PAINTER (37) Rhonda Byrne Paldies (39) Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Lovecraft, Tolkien, Clive Barker Pamcake (28) Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre Panic (18) Hemingway and Fitzgerald and etc. Parker (18) John Updike, Robert Harris, Thomas Hardy Pat Garrett (26) Kurt Vonnegutt and Larry McMurtry Pat (39) JD Salinger, Angelo Lacuesta Patti (20) Evelyn Waugh, Margaret Atwood Patty Cake (29) salmon rushdie Paula (54) Stephen King and Neil Gaiman Paulie (23) Lester Bangs Paulshrug (44) J.R.R. Tolkien, Alexandre Dumas (the father) Pedro Albernaz (20) Cervantes, Henry James, Marcel Proust, James Joyce Pedro Luis Munoz (24) Woolf, Yates, Kerouac, Eugenides, plenty upon plenty of short story writers. I love your works more with time. Pedro Tejada (20) Annie Proulx, Elizabeth George Peggy (57) F Scott Fizgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, Kazao Ishiguro Penney (48) To have a favorite one must be aware of more than a single example Peregrine Currently Flaubert and Nietzsche Pessoa non Grata Le Carre, Cheever, Proust, Borges Peter Heron (57) I have not the eye for poetry Peter Joseph Tamber Maxima Gaffney impossible to answer Petree (22) ian mcewan, john fowles, d h lawrence Phil (44) Parker, Grisham, Patterson, Rule, among others Phyllis Boyajian Branche Tolstoy - Dawkins- Euginedes Pingbluto Steinbeck, Harper Lee Pistol Pete David Foster Wallace, Fitzgerald. Pleiadian7 (59) Banana Yoshimoto Plusein (25) Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh Poobah (65) Thomas Kohnstamm Pope (31) proust and dickens Prismatic (74) William Shakespear Quasimodo (30) Still reading. Quinn (23) Neil Gaiman, Edgar Allan Poe R. W. (26) Wilde RD Neil Gaiman Rachel (21) Tolstoy and Tolkein Rachelmate (39) JK Rowling, John Steinbeck Rain (16) JK Rowling, John Steinbeck Rain for now, Audrey Niffennegger, Robert Frost Raquelle (17) Tracy Chevalier, Charlotte Bronte. Raven (30) Cory Doctorow and Neil Gaiman. Ray of Mars (36) none Rebekah (29) At the moment, Jim Butcher and Robert Jordan and George R.R. Martin Redbeard (24) Anyone willing to spill their hearts and dreams out for me to read Ree (21) William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway Reed Braden (19) Not sure Remi (28) none Renath Marcel Proust Renos (24) I can't answer this with enough knowledge Rethinker (26) Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Adams, Harper Lee, Kurt Vonnegut Ric H (41) Mike Shinoda Riley (26) memiors ... those would be hardest to write. Rini I really need to read more prose. Rinilia (17) Milan Kundera Riss (37) Don DeLillo, Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Paul Auster, Antoine Saint-Exubery RiverSong (32) Chekhov - and all those who keep it simple Rizwan (21) He thought for a long period of time over this question. His heart welled with the weight of possibility presented before him. He then pressed his fingers on the keys and typed, "Me." Robert Tatler (18) Willa Cather, George Elliott, Amy Tan Robo (56) In ym opinion, William Shakespeare, but as i said before, favorites are demening. Robyn (15) Anaïs Nin, Maya Angelou, Dottie Parker, Robert Benchley. Rochelle (40) Right now, P.G. Wodehouse Rodrigo (24) King Solomon Roma (14) Shakespeare, Capote, John L:ennon and Paul McCartney Romina (16) Robert Frost Ronald (40) John Macdonald Fraser Rorshavhanswer (18) Thomas Hardy, always, but Elizabeth Jolley, Jeannette Winterson Rosalee Firth Henery Thoreu Rosalie Grace (16) Ernest Hemingway Rox (17) Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ruska (33) Margret Peterson Haddix. I like lots of books, but I dont pay attention to the authors names. Ruskin Clay (17) me Ruskin Clay (17) J.R.R. Tolkien Ryan B (23) Thompson, Crichton, Hemmingway. Ryan Brun (23) David Foster Wallace Ryan (18) Pahlaniuk, Gaiman, Quinn, and McCarthy Ryno (26) C.S. Lewis, Edgar Allan Poe, J.K Rowling Ryssan (22) Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Borges. S.P. (20) William S Burroughs, J R R Tolkein SJ (44) Don't have any SL (22) I can't say that any have my attention, just one book here, one there, I'll try to take better note as I read so many books STUPID IDIOT (0) oscar wilde Sabri (19) Don't have one Sacha (30) I'm not entirely sure that I have a favorite. Sam Gordon (18) Dostoyevski SamSam (33) germans Sam (24) songwriters in general Samantha (17) Marilynne Robinson Sandy none Sandy (32) enjoying bonnie prince billy's lyrics right now and morrissey's Sara C aka Snacks aka Sarbs (26) David Foster Wallace, Geoff Dyer, Eula Biss Sara Ortiz (27) I'm not sure? Sarah Taylor Vernarecci (19) Plato Sarah Taylor Vernarecci (19) Beckett and Proust Sarah (23) I have none Sarah (23) none Sarah (38) cesar aira, umberto eco, fred vargas Sarah (33) Ethelreda Lewis, Jhumpa Lahiri, F. Scott Fitzgerald Sasha Sutton (22) Ellen Hopkins Scooter190 (21) Nabokov, Ishiguro, Grahams both Swift & Greene, Richard Russo Scooter (29) Contemporarily, Bill Bryson Scott777 Many...Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jean Paul Satre, Jack Kerouac, Phillip K. Dick, Joseph Conrad, Ken Saro-wiwa and many more Screaming Bastard Child of the Apocalyps (23) Currently, John Mortimer and P.J. O'Rourke. Sean D. Thompson (22) EM Forster, Herman Melville, Nabokov, Maugham. Sebastian (18) proust and italo calvino Sedona (16) deSade SeraphimeRising (31) Marian Keyes is the only name I recall. Serena (26) André Gide & Jean d' Ormesson. Sexismandthecity (28) Bukowski, Flaubert Shane (19) "I fear I am not well educated in prose to answer this question." Shanna (19) Sylvia Plath Shari (21) So far, William Faulkner. Sharice (22) Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy have affected me the most so far. SharonBillings none right now Shawna (21) Maya Angelou Sheila D (55) none Shelly (17) Iain Banks, Dostoyevski, Pratchett, John M. Ford Shinydan (34) jane austin ShiversB (19) Woolf, Shukle, Winterson, Wilde, shakespeare of course Shubhda (24) The ones who are clever, funny, absurd and above all truthful Siena (21) kerouac, salinger, eggers Simon (20) Oscar Wilde, Ignas Šeinius, Maxence Fermine Simona (16) Andrei Codrescu, Jack Kerouac, Anne Tyler SkinnyBoneTree (25) Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Iris Murdoch, Ismail Kadare, Arundhati Roy, Dostoyeviski Smaranda (33) Gene Roddenberry Smeghead Paul Auster, Nick Hornby Sofi (24) Sallinger and Pablo de Santis Sofia Picasso (14) Nicholas Sparks ans Stephenie Meyer Sofyzitahh (23) None Solomon (24) Laura Mulvey Sonia (25) Nabokov Sonya Dahl (21) Jack Kerouac and James Joyce. Sophie (17) Marrion Zimer-Bradley Sorrow (23) Proust, Marlowe SoundofWater (35) Tom Clancy, HP Lovecraft, Voltaire. Spike Spiegel greeks Stella (28) C. S. Forrester, Jane Austen, Jasper Fforde, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde Stephanie (23) J.K. Rowling Stephanie (21) Proust, Twain, Dickens, Michael Chabon, Michael Cunningham, David Sedaris Stephen (56) J.D. Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Voltaire, Carl Sagan, Thomas Paine, Christopher Hitchens Steve Shives (29) William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Jules Verne. Steve (20) Subramania Bharathi and Vivekananda Sundaraa (32) Terry Pratchett Susie (20) jose saramago Suzy (19) Oscar Wilde, Alexandre Dumas, Ambrose Bierce, John Green, J.D. Salinger, Garth Nix, Edgar Allen Poe. Sydchez Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wodehouse, Waugh, Tom Wolfe T. Christopher Cox (43) опять таки, слишком много. TAHbKA CHARLES LAMB. PLATO . TERRY YORK II john berger, haruki murakami T (19) At the moment, a friend of mine. I cannot think of others right now. Taylore Dawn (18) smith Ted (26) None really Tee (40) My son Teresa (43) I have none. Terra (22) Jane Austen, Forster, Hawthorne, Flaubert Terry (41) Will Self and Robert McLaim Wilson TerryG (49) Anais Nin, Charles Bukowski Terrylynn0609 (39) hard to say - Nabokov, Lee + others Tess Calopedos (17) Lara Adrien Tess Fiennes (40) Saki, Colette, Roald Dahl, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dorothy L. Sayers, Naomi Novik, Nancy Mitford, R. K. Narayan Thambi (24) William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Ernest Hemingway That New Chris Sloce (18) David Foster Wallace, Kurt Vonnegut The Desert (22) Haruki Murakami The Essential Man (26) Sedaris, The Imprecise Duke Of Phonology (77) Chuck Palahniuk and JD Salinger The Josh Rollins (21) Anthony Burgess, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, & Eve Titus The Mouse Avenger (20) Sontag, Erdrich, Arendt The Roomba Mifi (28) Gaiman. Hill. Perez Revente. Conan Doyle. Hemingway. Tolkien TheDoctor76 (35) Thomas Mann, Julien Green, Stendhal Thomas12081983 John Irving and Mark Childress Thomzagod (39) I dunno. Thrakish (18) Nabokov Tianna Fitzgerald TiffanyTee (26) Hemingway and Nabokov. Tim Proser (17) George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Thomas Hardy Tim Sandle not much a fan for prose Tivia Stewart (40) James Baldwin, Gore Vidal, Edmund White, Kurt Vonnegut, C.S. Lewis, Ken Wilber, Thomas Merton. Todd (I don't have one yet) Tofu (19) I have none Tom G (19) John le Carre, J K Rowling, Heinrich Harrer, Joe Simpson Tom (21) Leo Tolstoy and George Eliot Tommy (19) Robert Jordan, David Eddings, Terry Pratchett & Raymond E. Feist Tony (30) none Toria (37) Francesca Lia Block, JD Salinger, Vladimir Nabokov Trisha (17) Poe Trisha (29) Curently, Gregory Maguire, Turtle Heart Capote, Faulkner, O'Conner, O'Henry, Tennessee Williams, Sherwood Anderson Twigtwill (21) Dostoyevsky, Camus, Tolkien Tyler (24) Virginia Woolf, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, Soren Kierkegaard, Ernest Hemingway Valentina (17) Ian McEwan, Virginia Woolf, J. D. Salinger Valeria Ryrak (21) That is a good question! Varna (25) Shakespeare, Nabokov Veronica (20) Eggers, Tan Vicky (24) Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. Umberto Eco. Neil Gaiman. George R.R. Martin Victoria Song (22) Dean Koontz Victoria (37) I like Kurt Vonnegut, and I appreciate Dickens. I have enjoyed Bill Bryson and Dave Barry. The 17th and 18th century English literature radiates far more perfectly than any other set of work, and it is hard not to admire that. Vijay Pierce (23) Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Flaubert Vikram Krishnan (24) Vonnegut, Irvine Welsh Viktor Corzich (35) A.A. Milne Village Of Brooklin (45) Céline, Proust, Dostoevsky, Sartre, Kerouac, Henry Miller, John Fante, Knut Hamsun... Vincent (19) carl sagan, christopher hitchens VinnyGreenock72 Myself, Dean Koontz, Jim Butcher. Virginia (20) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut Viv (14) Voltaire Vivianne Liliaceae Aspho Vilth Lewis Lapham Waleed (32) Flaubert, Carroll/Dodgson, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Chekhov. Walter (19) Willa Cather, Alain-Fourniar, Gustave Flaubert, Anais Nin Wanda (26) Shakespeare Wendy (34) Dan Brown, C.S. Lewis Whitney (19) william faulkner, franz kafka, samuel beckett William (43) The People who write for Castle the TV series and the books. Richard Castle Willow Skylor To be honest, I don't know any or perhaps, my memory has already betrayed me. Windalfr (23) - Wormsie (24) Stephanie Meyer. Wyteria (20) George Orwells XYZ (17) Alice Walker. George Orwell. Xan Etienne Liu Yong,Ba Jin, Stefan Zweige Xialing Gan (27) Luis Leante right now, but he is not and won´t be the only Yuki (20) An ever expanding list of writers that touch me at the time of reading. Z (31) pessoa, murakami Zee (21) Kropotkin, Orwell, Pullman Zozobra (17) Camus a young boy (91) rilke, dostoevsky, and emerson a.g. (23) F. Scott Fitzgerald. aaaaaaa (18) Fyodor Dostoevsky, Brendan Matthews, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bertrand Russell, E.D. Klemke, Kurt Baier, Chinua Achebe, Deogracias Rosario aag (22) sylvia plath aallisonr (30) John Irving, F.Scott Fitzgerald aetilson (41) undecided agony (25) edgar allan poe and fyodor dostoevsky aiko (20) C.S. Lewis, Charles Dickens aimee.dawson (21) John Kennedy Toole, Gabriel García Márquez and many others al-g (24) tolstoy, sartre, nabokov alessa (21) Rainer Maria Rilke alexa (28) Gabriel García Márquez, Lucy Maud Montgomery. alexandrine (15) lewis carroll, mary gaitskill, jonathan safran foer, orson scott card, phillip pullman alison wonderland ? alli (49) Nicholson Baker, Marquez, Palahniuk, Julian Barnes almavidrio (35) Tolkien, Pratchett, Dickens. ameliowata (20) stephanie meyer ames (21) jacqueline wilson amz (16) parker, tolkien, nietzsche ana (16) gabriel garcia marques anasonic (29) Van Damme ancientrobot (31) none andraya (23) I have none, like wine, i read what I enjoy. andy rayford (28) at the moment: Liz Gilbert.... was it prose? Also: Douglas Coupland, Zafon, Robert Williams ang (99) i do not have one angie (29) jonathan safran foer anjali na anon moose (19) I don't have any. anonim (18) gerald durrell, roald dahl antoinette (24) William S. Burroughs, Nikos Kazantzakis, Thomas Merton. ascetic monk (51) Camus, asherville (55) not sure ashley baus (24) sappho ashleytheresa (20) Andre Schwarz-Bart, D.H. Lawrence, Styron, Stendahl asmitchel (67) kelsey autumn (17) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera, Sylvia Plath ayda (25) Currently Leo Tolstoy - epic love aym (30) dostoevsky ayumi (20) paulo coelho, f scott fitzgerald, daphne du maurier, countless more i imagine baggal21 (28) Anna Quindlen barbara (50) Lobo Antunes belita (39) have not yet decided, as i do not know enough on the subject bella (16) atwood, kerowak, wolfe,capote, bhl dont have one big guy (16) james joyce jack kerouac billy boy watson (3) i like it when people tell me stories bismuth I can't pick just one blip52 (27) I don't read much prose blodot johnny (41) Oh dear god, again? Actually, Jorge Luis Borges, but I note this is the first time we're going plural. bob (38) henry miller bobblins Orson Card, A. Conan Doyle, Gould boku_wa_kami (25) kevin smith brad w (35) alice walker isabelle allende gabriel marquis broad (45) Kerouac bubby (43) none buckyballs (35) At the moment, Mich Hedgeburg, Bob Dylan, John Lennon bunny forester c (21) none cacharel (37) Julio Cortazar carolina (23) any that write horror, thrillers and manage to give me goosebumps cartike no favorites ccchnl Tolstoj, Dostoevskij, Marguerite Yourcenar, Arthur Schnitzler cdl (35) thomas hardy, cormac macarthy, joanne harris, martin amis charlotte (29) I like all literature codered (18) to many to list comnomnomor (15) Jack Kerouac and Franz Kafka constanceeee (19) len deighton cookie none cookie (51) none corinne None, or all depending on how you look at it cr Dovstoyevski cuchi (40) Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Dickens, Wilde, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Rebreanu cucu (26) Jean-Paul Sartre, Rimbaud, Albert Camus dA member: sonicbutterfly (17) shakespeare daniiii (18) Hemingway, Thesiger, Flaubert dbrown (24) none dcsnowbunny (25) i dont know. aven't thought of that dendoo (23) Ernest Hemingway devanand elizabeth peters, clive cussler diana (52) Doyle, Flann O'Brien, George McDonald Fraser, Eric Hobsbawm dlew919 (40) ? dmca (38) Thoreau, Dickens donkeys4eva (20) ann tyler, anne pachett dorothy6@aol.com (50) chuck palahniuk, dostoyevsky drift Oğuz Atay ehk2 (30) Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Michael Chabon, Margaret Atwood ejb (22) Huxley, Pirsig el3vat0r Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Milan Kundera elSigno (37) Jules Verne, Arthur Clarke, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jessica Zafra, Bob Ong, Nick Joaquin elay (21) David Hontiveros, Randy David, Arthur Clarke, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Nick Joaquin, Douglas Adams, H.G. Wells elay (23) boris vian,sartre, camus, egar allan poe, tolkien, salinger eldar (25) στηβεν κινγκ ελενη (33) edgar allen poe eliciabg (23) oh no. emma (18) Dostoievsky, Proust, Hesse, Stendhal, Petronius, Flaubert, Goethe, to name some encolpio8 (22) Michel de Montaigne endor Italo Calvino, Ayn Rand esayer (35) Henry Rollins, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Charles Bukowski esteban (29) fuck em all but cormac mccarthy evan ass hatch (18) Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges and José Rafael Pocaterra evilwonders (28) leo tolstoy fallen (24) Lovecraft, and Poe for the most part. fatgaynig (20) Carroll, Barrie, Bryson, Fry feanix (20) the people who writes the classified section of the newspapers filinia (22) John le Carre fk2005 (34) Flaubert, Burgess, Vidal frank (57) Oscar Wilde, Tolkien, Pratchett fred (16) N/A fumble (19) currently: a lot of swedes. edith wharton, hemingway, libba bray. furies (27) Wilde, Kerauc, Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe, Voltaire ghazaleh (27) Frances Itani, Elizabeth Hay, Phillip Pullman goblin64 (45) iain banks goose (20) Dan Brown goukrish (19) Can't decide greatlove (32) perez reverte, umberto eco, gabriel garcia marquez, jorge luis borges gruchi (63) the ones who appreciate infintessimal things. guiller van mistoffellees (17) marian keyes hellgirl (19) Gene Wolfe, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien herbertofwestlake (43) Chekhov hodouk (22) Terry Pratchett hoffsta j.d salinger, charles bukowski, jane austen, chuck palahniuk holden (27) Ian McEwan, Jane Austen, The Bronte's and Truman Capote. holly (17) No one can be my favorite holyjkms (29) none howard (34) I do not have any favorite writers. howard (34) charles bukowski, williams gibson huggybear (29) to date: bulgakov, hemingway, dostoevsky, lee, seth i.p. so far, Borges. inez (21) Penn Warren, Faulkner, Powers j2a18m (43) noone jabbar (23) none jackie (40) Right now Kingsley Amis, Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens, and Nicollo Machiavelli jameson_welsh (22) jane austen jane (41) bhai vir singh ji jasleen Asimov, tolkien jasonstafford (53) dont no jb (13) unknown jemimah (32) tolkein, colfer and tacitus jezza (18) p g wodehouse, v s naipaul and ruskin bond jg (36) VS Naipaul, Peter Carey, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munroe jj (43) poe jonathan (31) raymond carver jordan rutter (18) Mencken, HItchens, Gore Vidal & Jigger Latoza joseph (31) shakespear poe? josie (25) marc levi joyce (20) Charlotte Bronte; F. 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Dick, Mervyn Peake, Virginia Woolf sj (23) anonymous skitalica (27) none come to mind right away sleepy (20) Montaigne sluggishflow (22) madeline l'engle snorris (23) Murakami, Auster, Garcia Marquez, McCarthy, Plath socksless vargas llosa, auster, javier marias sooz (38) Hardy, Greene sp3ccylad (44) charles dickens ( most recently read little dorrit, bleak house and Pickwick papers ) stephbsemilla (40) don't know any stoffie (26) many stojan (32) Austen, Sartre, Hamsun, Dickens, Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Murdoch, stradling hemingway & miller sunshineguerilla (28) dostoevsky, horace walpole susie karpasitis (26) too many sybann (50) dostoevski t1 Steven Brust tai (22) ellen gilchrist taintme ernest hemingway tamara (48) too meany to name tamera miller (33) gabriel garcia marquez tanichis (32) tenessy williams tess (24) rohington mistry, vikram seth tg (48) Fitzgerald theGeneral (19) Steven Fry thebabycub (39) Tennessee Williams tick jane austen, jd salinger tiffany; (lifefromtheshelf.blogspot.com) (17) don't have one tiffany Joseph Campbell timwarnock (34) I love Virginia Woolf tracynle (20) quim monzo and dostoyevski triplet (30) no one tt (27) edgar allan poe veri333 (21) David Mitchell videoalex what's prose? vinnie smalls (15) oscar wilde, philosophers visualizations (22) Martin McDonagh, Bertolt Brecht and John Godber. wattc128 frank herbert waypast thomas hardy whim (40) Michael Ende. 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