Author

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 Turn of The Screw 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
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
• 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
• An Outcast of the Islands Joseph Conrad
• A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
• Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
• Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• Miffy by Dick Bruna
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• 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
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• The Jungle Books Rudyard Kipling
• 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 Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
• Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
• Don Juan by George Gordon, Lord Byron
• 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.
• Late and Posthumous Poems by Pablo Neruda
• The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Peoples by Miguel de Unamuno
• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
• The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus