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saintmaybe1121. Name the top 15 writers/ authors who you admire, quote, think about, or refer to that you can think of in fifteen minutes. I also added my favorite work of theirs.
1. David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas)
2. Kazuo Ishiguro (Never Let Me Go)
3. Anne McCaffery (Pern series)
4. Ha Jin (Waiting)
5. Ian McEwan (Chesil Beach)
6. Virginia Woolf (Jacob's Room)
7. Robert D. Kaplan (The Ends of the Earth)
8. Leila B. Hadley (Give Me the World)
9. Anchee Min (Red Azalea)
10. John Stuart Mill (On Liberty)
11. Gerard Manley Hopkins (Carrion Comfort)
12. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (The Danger of a Single Story)
13. Leila Aboulela (The Translator)
14. Peter Hessler (River Town)
15. Immanuel Kant (The Metaphysics of Morals)
I know as soon as I click post, I will think of at least 12 more people who should have been on this list.
Who are your favorite authors?