Here is a list of important authors to read. All of thier books are considered "important" or "the best." Why are they the best? Because they changed literature, and thusly the way we read it. Secondly, because all of thier books deal with subjects/themes that can (if you are open to the possibility) change the way you see the world which in turn makes you a more cultured human being. Knowledge is power.
Walt Whitman
Samuel Coleridge
John Keats
W. B. Yeats
Shelley (both Percy and Mary)
Emily Dickinson
Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
George Eliot
Hemingway
Toni Morrison
Jane Austen
Mark Twain
James Joyce
Robert Frost
Flannary O'Connor
Charlotte Perkins-Gilman
The Bronte Sisters
Kate Chopin
Emerson
Thoreau
Henry James
Herman Melville
Tennyson
T.S. Eliot
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Oscar Wilde
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
Sherwood Anderson
Stephen Crane
James Fenimore Cooper
Theodore Dreiser
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell
John Steinbeck
Harper Lee
Ayn Rand
Virginia Woolf
Sylvia Plath
Amy Tan
Edith Wharton
Joseph Conrad
2007-01-15 19:23:37
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answered by imhalf_the_sourgirl_iused_tobe 5
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According to the 2002 survey, some 100 authors from 54 countries voted "Don Quixote" by Cervantes as No. 1 in the list of 100 most meaningful books of all time (before this, it said something like '100 great books of all time' but I don't know why it changed) . Therefore, the other 99 English books are also the best to read since they've been widely read and favored by their own literary distinction. However, many titles have long been translated from foreign languages including German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Greek, Indian, and Japanese.
Please visit the web site below for the list.
2007-01-16 03:45:53
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answered by Arigato ne 5
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1. The younger ones can start with small poems and books such as Gullivers travels by Jonathan Swift and English Teacher/The Malgudi days of R.K. Narayanan, Green's books etc.,The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Crafts Books for Kids, Cinderella Resources, children's poetry books about winter.
Adults and others
Science Fair Handbook, Future shock, The fountain head, the man, the word, the R document, vivero letters, 90minutes at Entebbe, The chariots of the Gods, The black shrike, The overload, The pappilon, The final diagnosis are some of the books which should be read by everyone.
VR
2007-01-16 03:30:23
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answered by sarayu 7
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It is a vague question.
I suggest good classical literature because it educates you, makes you a better human being.
2007-01-16 03:17:44
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answered by King of Hearts 6
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The works credited to Shakespeare I consider must reads. Just watching the movies is no substitute. If those are too long, read a sonnet. Chaucer is overrated.
First post, WTF. Ellison was from Oklahoma.
2007-01-16 03:34:39
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answered by Billy Dee 7
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invisible man / Ralph Elisson , when you read it you'll know why
2007-01-16 03:16:54
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answered by skepti m 3
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