Ranked #1
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, aka Alexandre Dumas, was a prolific French writer active throughout the middle of the 19th... Read more
11 Dec 2019
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34mins
Ranked #2
Hunter S Thompson
Hunter S Thompson
Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author, most notably remembered for pioneering the infamous Gonz... Read more
21 Jul 2017
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #3
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis, or as he was later called Jack, was an Irish born novelist, poet, essayist, academic, medievalist, ... Read more
14 Jun 2018
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36mins
Ranked #4
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac, or as he liked to call himself, Jean Louis Lebris de Kerouac was an American novelist and poet active duri... Read more
15 Jan 2019
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37mins
Ranked #5
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was a 19th century poet whose immense body of influential works was not even found until after... Read more
10 Nov 2017
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42mins
Ranked #6
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, critic, and publisher active during the first half of the 20th... Read more
20 Sep 2018
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53mins
Ranked #7
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner was a Mississippi-born novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, poet, essayist, and playwri... Read more
15 Dec 2018
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31mins
Ranked #8
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, known to most of us as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American writer active during the 1920s... Read more
4 May 2018
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44mins
Ranked #9
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was a 20th century literary icon whose career spanned a whopping fifty years and includes the publicat... Read more
21 Jun 2018
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44mins
Ranked #10
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was and still is one of the most famous English writers to date, and is regarded by many as ... Read more
29 Dec 2017
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43mins
Ranked #11
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or as we have all come to know him, Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, publisher, l... Read more
20 Oct 2017
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57mins
Ranked #12
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American author, short story writer, and journalist active during the late 1920s and int... Read more
5 Jan 2018
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36mins
Ranked #13
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot was an Anglo-American poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, and critic active during the early 20t... Read more
16 Aug 2018
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36mins
Ranked #14
James Joyce
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and short story writer active during the early 20th century ... Read more
6 Sep 2018
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38mins
Ranked #15
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, literary critic, and editor, who is remembered for his incredibly imaginative an... Read more
1 Sep 2017
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50mins
Ranked #16
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was an American poet, philosopher, essayist, naturalist, abolitionist, tax resister, surveyor, and h... Read more
5 Jan 2019
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35mins
Ranked #17
George Orwell
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair, or as we all have come to recognize him – Mr. George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journ... Read more
1 Dec 2018
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44mins
Ranked #18
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist active during the later 18th and early 19th centuries, and her writing was best-know... Read more
16 Dec 2017
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35mins
Ranked #19
Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O’Connor was an American short story writer, essayist, and novelist, active throughout the first half of t... Read more
22 Oct 2019
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29mins
Ranked #20
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Herman Melville was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer active during the American Renaissance period fro... Read more
27 Sep 2018
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38mins