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* ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] | * ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' by Sir [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] | ||
* ''The Treasury of Oz'' by [[L. Frank Baum]] | * ''The Treasury of Oz'' by [[L. Frank Baum]] | ||
| − | * ''Pale Fire'' by [[Nabokov]] | + | * ''Pale Fire'' by [[Vladimir Nabokov]] |
* ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' by [[Gabriel García Márquez]] | * ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' by [[Gabriel García Márquez]] | ||
* ''The Sum of All Fears'' by [[Tom Clancy]] | * ''The Sum of All Fears'' by [[Tom Clancy]] | ||
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* ''Independent People'' by Halldor Laxness | * ''Independent People'' by Halldor Laxness | ||
* ''Pedro Paramo'' by Juan Rulfo | * ''Pedro Paramo'' by Juan Rulfo | ||
| + | * ''The Big Sky'' by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. | ||
[[Category:Professions]] | [[Category:Professions]] | ||
Revision as of 13:41, May 29, 2008
An author is someone who writes a piece of literature such as might appear in a book or a magazine article.
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.
Authors and Books
There are several lists of "Top authors" or "Best seller" books. Some include:
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 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
- The Iliad by Homer
- 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
- Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
- The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- 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 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Treasury of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Pale Fire by Vladimir 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
- The Big Sky by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.