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russellbeattie ◴[] No.41853399[source]
What does it say about me that I've only actually read 14 of the 56 authors in the second list [1] as an adult (i.e. by choice)? I know of quite a few, but haven't read most of them.

Here's my list (++ indicates more than 1):

  Fitzgerald
  Hemingway ++
  Shakespeare ++
  Christie ++
  Brown ++
  Dickens
  McCarthy ++
  Wodehouse ++
  Steinbeck ++
  Stoppard
  Kafka
  Conan Doyle ++
  Seuss (of course) ++
  Lee
A missing classic author is Robert Louis Stevenson - all his books are amazing, even 150 year later.

If you've read more than one Dickens novel, you have my deepest respect.

1. https://www.the-fence.com/all-possible-plots-ii/

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1. chadcmulligan ◴[] No.41853570[source]
A friend of mine has been reading Ulysses since 2022, I've stopped asking him about it.