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List of the best authors of all time as voted on by normal, book-loving people. For this list, we will consider writers who are mainly novelists. Many of the people included on this list are famous authors who wrote popular books; others may not be as well-known, but are masters of their craft.
The most popular authors are ones that have somehow enriched our lives. J.D. Salinger gave us Holden Caulfield and the term "phony," James Joyce introduced us to stream-of-consciousness prose and Carson McCullers immortalized the misfits and outcasts of the U.S. South in the first half of the 20th century.The best writers are ones that changed the literary landscape in some way, introduced an iconic character, experimented with form and style and captured our imagination with their language.
While lists of "best novelists" are often attempted by individuals, they can be easily disputed because they often amount to no more than one person's opinion. Since this Ranker list is crowdsourced and open to voting, it benefits from the collective wisdom of many rather than the whims of a few.
Feel free to vote on this list of top authors, add some that may have been left off, or ReRank this list entirely.
http://www.ranker.com/list/best-novelists-of-all-time/ranker-books,
Arthur Conan Doyle
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Double and Notes from the Underground
George Orwell
Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Herman Melville
Moby Dick, Billy Budd
John Steinbeck
One of the great American writers you were forced to read in High School and probably didn't come to appreciate until later in life. Most famous for The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Of Mice And Men, Tortilla Flat
Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the earth
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Mark Twain
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, gambler, traveler and all-around funny dude.
William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying, Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!
Clik here to view.
List of the best authors of all time as voted on by normal, book-loving people. For this list, we will consider writers who are mainly novelists. Many of the people included on this list are famous authors who wrote popular books; others may not be as well-known, but are masters of their craft.
The most popular authors are ones that have somehow enriched our lives. J.D. Salinger gave us Holden Caulfield and the term "phony," James Joyce introduced us to stream-of-consciousness prose and Carson McCullers immortalized the misfits and outcasts of the U.S. South in the first half of the 20th century.The best writers are ones that changed the literary landscape in some way, introduced an iconic character, experimented with form and style and captured our imagination with their language.
While lists of "best novelists" are often attempted by individuals, they can be easily disputed because they often amount to no more than one person's opinion. Since this Ranker list is crowdsourced and open to voting, it benefits from the collective wisdom of many rather than the whims of a few.
Feel free to vote on this list of top authors, add some that may have been left off, or ReRank this list entirely.
http://www.ranker.com/list/best-novelists-of-all-time/ranker-books,
Arthur Conan Doyle
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Double and Notes from the Underground
George Orwell
Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Herman Melville
Moby Dick, Billy Budd
John Steinbeck
One of the great American writers you were forced to read in High School and probably didn't come to appreciate until later in life. Most famous for The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Of Mice And Men, Tortilla Flat
Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the earth
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Mark Twain
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, gambler, traveler and all-around funny dude.
William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying, Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!
