100 Most Influential Authors in my Opinion

Guess these 100 book authors, which had the most influence on literature in my opinion.

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	Work	Answer
1	Illiad	Homer
2	Hamlet	William Shakespeare
3	The Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri
4	Oedipus Rex	Sophokles
5	Oresteia	Aeschylus
6	Romance of the Three Kingdoms	Luo Guanzhong
7	Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes
8	Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoevsky
9	Metamorphoses	Ovid
10	The Trial	Franz Kafka
11	Sense and Sensibility	Jane Austen
12	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea	Jules Verne
13	Utopia	Thomas More
14	Ulysses	James Joyce
15	War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy
16	Journey to the West	Wu Cheng'en
17	Paradise Lost	John Milton
18	The Frogs	Aristophanes
19	Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe
20	The Decameron	Giovanni Boccaccio
21	The Sorrows of Young Werther	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
22	Gitanjali	Rabindranath Tagore
23	1984	George Orwell
24	The Aeneid	Virgil
25	A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens
26	The Raven	Edgar Allan Poe
27	Hansel and Gretel	Brothers Grimm
28	The Little Mermaid	Hans Christian Andersen
29	Alice in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll
30	Dream of the Red Chamber	Cao Xueqin
31	Don Juan	Lord Byron
32	In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust
33	The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway
34	The Threepenny Opera	Bertolt Brecht
35	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Victor Hugo
36	The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien
37	Daphnis and Chloe	Longus
38	Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift
39	Candide	Voltaire
40	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain
41	Mrs Dalloway	Virginia Woolf
42	It	Stephen King
43	The Red and the Black	Stendhal
44	The Misanthrope	Molière
45	Fathers and Sons	Ivan Turgenev
46	The Stranger	Albert Camus
47	Jacques the Fatalist	Denis Diderot
48	Prose Edda	Snorri Sturluson
49	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde
50	Dantons Death	Georg Büchner

	Work	Answer
51	William Tell	Friedrich Schiller
52	Waiting for Godot	Samuel Beckett
53	The Catcher in the Rye	J. D. Salinger
54	Harry Potter	J.K. Rowling
55	Pippi Longstocking	Astrid Lindgren
56	Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle
57	Murder on the Orient Express	Agatha Christie
58	The Seagull	Anton Chekhov
59	Moby-Dick	Herman Melville
60	The Nose	Nikolai Gogol
61	Nathan the Wise	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
62	Discworld	Terry Pratchett
63	Frankenstein	Mary Shelley
64	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
65	Beloved	Toni Morrison
66	Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte
67	Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë
68	To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee
69	Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad
70	The Lusiads	Luís de Camões
71	Catch 22	Joseph Heller
72	Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
73	Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck
74	The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer
75	The Magic Mountain	Thomas Mann
76	The Waste Land	T. S. Eliot
77	The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald
78	Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert
79	Absalom, Absalom!	William Faulkner
80	Shahnameh	Ferdowsi
81	Divan-e-Hafez	Hafez
82	A Doll's House	Henrik Ibsen
83	The Tale of Genji	Murasaki Shikibu
84	The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
85	On the Road	Jack Kerouac
86	Father Goriot	Honoré de Balzac
87	Leaves of Grass	Walt Whitman
88	Medea	Euripides
89	The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas
90	The Call of the Wild	Jack London
91	The Leopard	Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
92	Jerusalem Delivered	Torquato Tasso
93	A Universal History of Infamy	Jorge Luis Borges
94	Odes	Horace
95	Gargantua and Pantagruel	François Rabelais
96	The Time Machine	H. G. Wells
97	Uncle Tom’s Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe
98	The Book of Disquiet	Fernando Pessoa
99	Ode to Aphrodite	Sappho
100	Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie

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