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| | The term author is usually used with works that have been mass produced either in written or electronic form and have the capability to be widely read and distributed. | | The term author is usually used with works that have been mass produced either in written or electronic form and have the capability to be widely read and distributed. |
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| | + | == Authors and Books == |
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| | + | There are several lists of "Top authors" or "Best seller" books. Some include: |
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| | + | * ''Anna Karenina'' by [[Leo Tolstoy]] |
| | + | * ''Don Quixote'' by [[Miguel de Cervantes]] |
| | + | * ''Hamlet'' by [[William Shakespeare]] |
| | + | * ''A Tale of Two Cities'' by [[Charles Dickens]] |
| | + | * ''The Sound and the Fury'' by [[William Faulkner]] |
| | + | * ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' by [[Mark Twain]] |
| | + | * ''The Ambassadors'' by [[Henry James]] |
| | + | * ''In Search of Lost Time'' by [[Marcel Proust]] |
| | + | * ''Madame Bovary'' by [[Gustave Flaubert]] |
| | + | * ''Answered Prayers'' by [[Truman Capote]] |
| | + | * ''Le Petit Prince'' by [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] |
| | + | * ''The Stories of Anton Chekhov'' by [[Anton Chekhov]] |
| | + | * ''Middlemarch'' by [[George Eliot]] |
| | + | * ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'' by [[Jules Verne]] |
| | + | * ''The Brothers Karamazov'' by [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] |
| | + | * ''The Lord of the Rings'' by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] |
| | + | * ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' by [[C.S. Lewis]] |
| | + | * ''The Alchemist'' by [[Paulo Coelho]] |
| | + | * ''Labyrinths'' by [[Jorge Luis Borges]] |
| | + | * ''The Prince'' by [[Niccolo Machiavelli]] |
| | + | * ''The Great Gatsby'' by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] |
| | + | * ''The Godfather'' by [[Mario Puzo]] |
| | + | * ''A Man in Full'' by [[Tom Wolfe]] |
| | + | * ''Wolf Totem'' by Jiang Rong |
| | + | * ''And Then There Were None'' by [[Agatha Christie]] |
| | + | * ''Miffy'' by [[Dick Bruna]] |
| | + | * ''Gone with the Wind'' by [[Margaret Mitchell]] |
| | + | * ''Lolita'' by [[Vladimir Nabokov]] |
| | + | * ''Musashi'' by Eiji Yoshikawa |
| | + | * ''Of Human Bondage'' by [[W. Somerset Maugham]] |
| | + | * ''U.S.A.'' by [[John Dos Passos]] |
| | + | * ''The Treasury of Oz'' by [[L. Frank Baum]] |
| | + | * ''Pale Fire'' by [[Nabokov]] |
| | + | * ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' by [[Gabriel García Márquez]] |
| | + | * ''The Sum of All Fears'' by [[Tom Clancy]] |
| | + | * ''Guin Saga'' by [[Kaoru Kurimoto]] |
| | + | * ''The Plague'' by [[Albert Camus]] |
| | + | * ''Legend of the Galactic Heroes'' by Yoshiki Tanaka |
| | + | * ''The Stand'' by [[Stephen King]] |
| | + | * ''Shōgun'' by [[James Clavell]] |
| | + | * ''Perfume'' by [[Patrick Süskind]] |
| | + | * ''The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson'' |
| | + | * ''Meditations'' by Marcus Aurelius |
| | + | * ''The Purpose Driven Life'' by Rick Warren |
| | + | * ''The Man Who Loved Children'' by Christina Stead |
| | + | * ''The Da Vinci Code'' by [[Dan Brown]] |
| | + | * ''The Double Flame'' by [[Octavio Paz]] |
| | + | * ''Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome'' by E. M. Berens |
| | + | * ''Blindness'' by [[Jose Saramago]] |
| | + | * ''House of Leaves'' by Mark Z. Danielewski |
| | + | * ''The Death of Artemio Cruz'' by [[Carlos Fuentes]] |
| | + | * ''Scaramouche'' by Rafael Sabatini |
| | + | * ''Independent People'' by Halldor Laxness |
| | + | * ''Pedro Paramo'' by Juan Rulfo |
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