Nobel laureates in literature. List the ones you've read anything by. If you want to list all of them and do bolding and italicizing and blinky-tags when you propagate this, by all means go ahead.
Harold Pinter Toni Morrison Gabriel Garcia Marquez Czeslaw Milosz Samuel Beckett Jean-Paul Sartre John Steinbeck Albert Camus Bertrand Russel William Faulkner T.S. Eliot Herman Hesse Pearl Buck Eugene O'Neill Sinclair Lewis George Bernard Shaw Rudyard Kipling
I've read: * Wislawa Szymborska (Leaves of grass) * Seamus Heaney (Beowulf translation, misc poems) * Octavio Paz (misc poems) * William Golding (Lord of the Flies) * Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude) * Saul Bellow (Herzog) * Pablo Neruda (misc poems) * Jean-Paul Sartre (a short story whose title I can't recall) * John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath) * Albert Camus (The Plague) * Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises, The Fifth Column, misc stories) * Winston Churchill (History of the English Speaking Peoples, History of WW2) * Bertrand Russell (History of Western Philosophy, Why I Am Not A Christian, misc essays) * William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying, Light in August) * T.S. Eliot (Most of his poems and plays, a few essays) * Thomas Mann (The Magic Mountain) * George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion, misc essays) * William Butler Yeats (misc poems) * Rudyard Kipling (Just So Stories, misc poems)
I've started and need to finish as soon as I find my copy: * Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (The Gulag Archipelago)
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Toni Morrison
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Czeslaw Milosz
Samuel Beckett
Jean-Paul Sartre
John Steinbeck
Albert Camus
Bertrand Russel
William Faulkner
T.S. Eliot
Herman Hesse
Pearl Buck
Eugene O'Neill
Sinclair Lewis
George Bernard Shaw
Rudyard Kipling
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* Wislawa Szymborska (Leaves of grass)
* Seamus Heaney (Beowulf translation, misc poems)
* Octavio Paz (misc poems)
* William Golding (Lord of the Flies)
* Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
* Saul Bellow (Herzog)
* Pablo Neruda (misc poems)
* Jean-Paul Sartre (a short story whose title I can't recall)
* John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath)
* Albert Camus (The Plague)
* Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises, The Fifth Column, misc stories)
* Winston Churchill (History of the English Speaking Peoples, History of WW2)
* Bertrand Russell (History of Western Philosophy, Why I Am Not A Christian, misc essays)
* William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying, Light in August)
* T.S. Eliot (Most of his poems and plays, a few essays)
* Thomas Mann (The Magic Mountain)
* George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion, misc essays)
* William Butler Yeats (misc poems)
* Rudyard Kipling (Just So Stories, misc poems)
I've started and need to finish as soon as I find my copy:
* Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (The Gulag Archipelago)
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* Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot.)
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