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Agatha Christie

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Devon, England. Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, And Then There Were None, Poirot (eg The ABC Murders), Miss Marple, The Murder of Roger Akroyd, The Murder at the Vicarage, The Mousetrap (play)

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Charles Dickens

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England. Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, The Haunted Mansion, The Pickwick Papers.

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Roald Dahl

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Wales. Flying ace/spy. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, Fantastic Mr Fox.

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Ernest Hemingway

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USA/Spain/Cuba. The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea.

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Ayn Rand

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Russia/USA. Objectivism. Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead.

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John Steinbeck

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California. Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Cannery Row.

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Stephen King

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Maine. The Shining, The Green Mile, Under the Dome, Pet Sematary, It, Misery, The Stand, The Dark Tower series, Carrie, Cujo.

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Dr Suess

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MAssachusetts. Theodor Seuss Geisel. Political cartoons. Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, Oh The Places You’ll Go, Horton Hears a Who, How the Gring Stole Christmas, 1 Fish 2 Fish, The Lorax.

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Charlotte Bronte

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England. Jane Eyre, Vilette, The Professor, Shirley.

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Emily Bronte

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England. Wuthering Heights (Heathcliff).

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Herman Melville

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USA. Moby Dick, Typee.

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Jules Verne

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France. Around the World in 80 Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, The Mysterious Island.

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JM Barrie

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England. Peter Pan.

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Hans Christian Andersen

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Denmark. The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Little Match Girl.

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JD Salinger

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USA. The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories.

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Ray Bradbury

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USA. Fahrenheit 451 (world where books are outlawed), Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles.

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Joseph Heller

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USA. Catch-22.

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Alice Walker

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Georgia, USA. The Color Purple.

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William Faulkner

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Mississippi (classy looking guy). The Sound and the Fury (two brothers in civil war obsessed w/ sister).

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Toni Morrison

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USA. Beloved, Songs of Solomon, Tar Baby.

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Frank Herbert

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USA. Dune.

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Leo Tolstoy

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Russia. War and Peace, Anna Karenina.

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George Orwell

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England. 1984, Animal Farm, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia.

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Jane Austen

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England. Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Lazy Susan, Northanger Abbey.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Russia. Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot.

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Spain. Don Quixote.

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Alexandre Dumas

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France, Haitian mom. The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers.

Cardinal Richelieu, D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, Aramis.

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F Scott Fitzgerald

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USA, bad divorce/financial ruin, jazz age. Great Gatsby.

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CS Lewis

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England. Narnia (LWW, Prince Caspian, The Last Battle)

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Tolkein

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England. Hobbit, LOTR, The Silmarillion.

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Brothers Grimm

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Germany. Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, The Frog Prince.

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HG Wells

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England. War of the Worlds, The Time Machine.

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Mary Shelly

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England. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

Mother is Mary Wollstonecraft

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Bram Stoker

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Ireland. Dracula.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Scotland. Treasure Island, Jekyll and Hyde.

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Aldous Huxley

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England. Brave New World.

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Virginia Woolf

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England. Mrs Dalloway

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Jonathan Swift

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Ireland. Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal.

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Russia. Lolita.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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England. Sherlock Holmes (Hounds of Baskerville etc), The Lost World.

221B Baker St, Sherlock, John Watson, Moriarty, Mycroft Holmes, Mrs Hudson.

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Joseph Conrad

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Polish/English. Heart of Darkness.

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Kurt Vonnegut

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USA. Slaughterhouse-Five.

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Isaac Asimov

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Russia/USA. I Robot, Foundation series.

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HP Lovecraft

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USA. Cthulu

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Harper Lee

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USA. To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Aesop

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Ancient Greece. Fables.

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AA Milne

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England/Canada. Winnie the Pooh

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Astrid Lindgren

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Sweden. Pippi Longstocking.

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Albert Camus

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France. The Stranger.

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Arthur C Clarke

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England. 2001 A Space Odyssey

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EB White

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USA. Charlotte’s Web.

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Douglas Adams

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USA. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

53
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L Frank Baum

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USA. Wizard of Oz.

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Margaret Atwood

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Canada. The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, Alias Grace.

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Jack London

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USA. Magazine fiction, beauty ranch The Call of the Wild.

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Dashiell Hammett

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USA. Hard-boiled detective novels, The Maltese Falcon (Sam Spade).

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Franz Kafka

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Germany. The Metamorphosis (salesman turns into giant insect), The Trial, The Castle.

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Stephen Crane

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USA. Red Badge of Courage (civil war desertion/courage). War correspondent. scandal where acquaintance was prostitute.

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Hunter S Thompson

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USA. Suicide, big drug guy. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hells Angels.

60
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David Foster Wallace

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USA, suicide. Infinite Jest, The Pale King.

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Thomas Harris

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USA. Silence of the Lambs.

62
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JK Rowling

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UK. Harry Potter, Comoran Strike (under Robert Galbraith pseudo)

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Suzanne Collins

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Hunger Games.

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Stephanie Meyer

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Dan Brown

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The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Angels and Demons, Inferno

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EL James

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UK. 50 Shades of Gray

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John Grisham

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USA lawyer. The Firm, The Rainmaker.

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Truman Capote

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USA. Breakfast at Tiffany’s, In Cold Blood, Other Voices Other Rooms.

69
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John Irving

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The World According to Garp

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Thomas Mann

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Germany. Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks.

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Washington Irving

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Rib Van Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow

72
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Rachel Carson

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Silent Spring

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