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The overlap score (K) indicates how many of the three source categories (Publishers, Pedagogical, Contemporary) include a given author — a rough proxy for cross-domain literary consensus.
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| Author ↕ | Birth Year ↕ | Sources ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| A. S. Byatt | 1936 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Alfred Tennyson | 1809 | Cowen Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Angela Carter | 1940 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Anthony Burgess | 1917 | 1001 books Cowen Greatest Modern Norton Open |
| Aristophanes | 448 BC | Complete Everyman Old Greatest Open Penguin |
| August Strindberg | 1849 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman Old Greatest Modern Open Penguin |
| Bertolt Brecht | 1898 | 1001 books Complete Greatest Open Penguin |
| Charles Dickens | 1812 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Cormac McCarthy | 1933 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Cynthia Ozick | 1928 | Complete Everyman New Open |
| Dante Alighieri | 1265 | Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Doris Lessing | 1919 | 1001 books Complete Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Open |
| Edith Wharton | 1862 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Emily Dickinson | 1830 | Cowen Greatest Modern Open |
| Franz Kafka | 1883 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Gabriel García Márquez | 1927 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | 1343 | Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| George Eliot | 1819 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Gustave Flaubert | 1821 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Haruki Murakami | 1949 | 1001 books Complete Cowen Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Henrik Ibsen | 1828 | Cowen Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Henry James | 1843 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Herman Melville | 1819 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Homer | 900 BC | Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Ian McEwan | 1948 | 1001 books Complete Cowen Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Italo Calvino | 1923 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Greatest Open Penguin |
| James Joyce | 1882 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Jane Austen | 1775 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | 1712 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| John Keats | 1795 | Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| John Milton | 1608 | Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Jonathan Swift | 1667 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Jorge Luis Borges | 1899 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Greatest Modern Open Penguin |
| Joseph Conrad | 1857 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Julian Barnes | 1946 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Open |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | 1954 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Laurence Sterne | 1713 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Leo Tolstoy | 1828 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Marcel Proust | 1871 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Margaret Atwood | 1939 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Martin Amis | 1949 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Mary Shelley | 1797 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Miguel De Cervantes | 1547 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Muriel Spark | 1918 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Greatest Modern Open |
| Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o | 1938 | 1001 books Complete Open Penguin |
| Orhan Pamuk | 1952 | 1001 books Complete Cowen Everyman New Open |
| Philip Pullman | 1946 | Cowen Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Philip Roth | 1933 | 1001 books Complete Greatest Modern Open |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | 1875 | 1001 books Cowen Greatest OWC Open Penguin |
| Raymond Chandler | 1888 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Greatest Modern Open |
| Salman Rushdie | 1947 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Thomas Hardy | 1840 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Thomas Mann | 1875 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Open Penguin |
| Umberto Eco | 1932 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Greatest Open |
| V. S. Naipaul | 1932 | 1001 books Complete Cowen Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Victor Hugo | 1802 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Open Penguin |
| Virgil | 70 BC | Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Open Penguin |
| Virginia Woolf | 1882 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 1899 | 1001 books Complete Cowen Everyman New Greatest Open Penguin |
| Willa Cather | 1873 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| William Blake | 1757 | Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Modern Open Penguin |
| William Faulkner | 1897 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Greatest Modern Norton Open |
| William Shakespeare | 1564 | Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| William Wordsworth | 1770 | Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Émile Zola | 1840 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern OWC Open Penguin |
| Adrienne Rich | 1929 | Norton Open |
| Aeschylus | 525 BC | Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Alain-Fournier | 1886 | Complete Greatest OWC Penguin |
| Alasdair Gray | 1934 | 1001 books Complete Cowen Everyman Old |
| Albert Camus | 1913 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Modern Open |
| Alberto Moravia | 1907 | 1001 books Complete Greatest Open |
| Aldous Huxley | 1894 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Open |
| Alejo Carpentier | 1904 | 1001 books Complete Greatest Open |
| Alessandro Manzoni | 1785 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Open Penguin |
| Alexander Pope | 1688 | 1001 books Everyman Old Modern Open |
| Alexander Pushkin | 1799 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Penguin |
| Ali Smith | 1962 | 1001 books Complete Open |
| Alice Munro | 1931 | 1001 books Everyman New Open |
| Ambrose Bierce | 1842 | Modern Open Penguin |
| Andrew Marvell | 1621 | Everyman New Open Penguin |
| Ann Radcliffe | 1764 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest OWC Open Penguin |
| Anna Kavan | 1901 | Complete Penguin |
| Anne Brontë | 1820 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old OWC Open Penguin |
| Anne Carson | 1950 | Complete Open |
| Annie Ernaux | 1940 | Complete Greatest Open |
| Anton Chekhov | 1860 | Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Anzia Yezierska | 1880 | Open Penguin |
| Aphra Behn | 1640 | 1001 books Greatest Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Apuleius | 0125 | 1001 books Greatest Modern Open Penguin |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 1917 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest Open |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Modern OWC Open Penguin |
| Arthur Koestler | 1905 | Greatest Modern Open |
| Arthur Miller | 1915 | Everyman Old Greatest Open Penguin |
| Arthur Rimbaud | 1854 | Greatest Open Penguin |
| Arthur Schnitzler | 1862 | 1001 books Modern Open |
| Ben Jonson | 1572 | Everyman Old Open Penguin |
| Benito Pérez Galdós | 1843 | 1001 books Complete Greatest Penguin |
| Bernard Malamud | 1914 | Modern Open |
| Blaise Pascal | 1623 | Everyman Old Greatest Modern Open Penguin |
| Boethius | 0480 | Modern Open Penguin |
| Bram Stoker | 1847 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| C. S. Lewis | 1898 | Everyman Old Greatest Open |
| Cao Xueqin | 1724 | 1001 books Complete Greatest Penguin |
| Carlo Goldoni | 1707 | Open Penguin |
| Cesar Vallejo | 1892 | Complete Penguin |
| Charles Baudelaire | 1821 | Everyman Old Greatest Modern Open Penguin |
| Charles Brockden Brown | 1771 | Greatest OWC Open Penguin |
| Charles Perrault | 1628 | OWC Open Penguin |
| Charles W. Chesnutt | 1858 | Norton Open Penguin |
| Charlotte Brontë | 1816 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 1860 | 1001 books Greatest OWC Open Penguin |
| Chinua Achebe | 1930 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Christa Wolf | 1929 | 1001 books Complete Open |
| Christina Georgina Rossetti | 1830 | Open Penguin |
| Christina Stead | 1902 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Greatest |
| Christine De Pizan | 1364 | Greatest Norton Open Penguin |
| Christopher Marlowe | 1564 | Everyman Old Greatest Norton Open Penguin |
| Claude McKay | 1889 | Open Penguin |
| Colson Whitehead | 1969 | Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Daniel Defoe | 1660 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Daniela Hodrová | 1946 | Complete Open |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 1828 | Everyman Old Open |
| Dashiell Hammett | 1894 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Modern Open |
| David Herbert Lawrence | 1885 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern OWC Open Penguin |
| David Mitchell | 1969 | 1001 books Complete Cowen Greatest Open |
| Desiderius Erasmus | 1466 | Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Don Marquis | 1933 | Open Penguin |
| Dylan Thomas | 1914 | Everyman Old Open |
| E. L. Doctorow | 1931 | 1001 books Greatest Modern Open |
| E. T. A. Hoffmann | 1776 | 1001 books Open Penguin |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 1809 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Edmund Spenser | 1552 | Everyman Old Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Edward Morgan Forster | 1879 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Elfriede Jelinek | 1946 | 1001 books Complete Greatest Open |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 1806 | Norton Open Penguin |
| Elizabeth Bowen | 1899 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Modern Open |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | 1810 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Emily Brontë | 1818 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Erich Maria Remarque | 1898 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1899 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Modern Norton Open |
| Eudora Welty | 1909 | 1001 books Modern Open |
| Eugene O'Neill | 1888 | Modern Open |
| Euripides | 480 BC | Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Evelyn Waugh | 1903 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Modern Open Penguin |
| Eça De Queirós | 1845 | 1001 books Complete Greatest Penguin |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1896 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Fakhraddin Gorgani | 1001 | Complete Penguin |
| Fanny Burney | 1752 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest OWC Open Penguin |
| Ford Madox Ford | 1873 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1849 | Greatest Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Francis Bacon | 1561 | Everyman Old Modern OWC Open Penguin |
| Frank Norris | 1870 | Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Frank O'Connor | 1903 | Everyman New Open |
| Franz Werfel | 1890 | Complete Modern |
| Friedrich Hölderlin | 1770 | 1001 books Cowen Greatest Penguin |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844 | Everyman Old Greatest Modern OWC Open Penguin |
| Friedrich Schiller | 1759 | Open Penguin |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1821 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Gabriele d'Annunzio | 1863 | 1001 books Modern Open |
| George Bernard Shaw | 1856 | Everyman Old Greatest Modern Open Penguin |
| George Gissing | 1857 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest Modern OWC Open Penguin |
| George Herbert | 1593 | Everyman New Open Penguin |
| George MacDonald Fraser | 1925 | Complete Everyman New |
| George Orwell | 1903 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open Penguin |
| Georges Perec | 1936 | 1001 books Complete Cowen Greatest Open |
| Georges Simenon | 1903 | Complete Penguin |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | 1844 | Open Penguin |
| Gertrude Stein | 1874 | 1001 books Greatest Modern Open |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | 1313 | Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Giovanni Verga | 1840 | 1001 books Greatest Open Penguin |
| Graham Greene | 1904 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Modern Open Penguin |
| Guy De Maupassant | 1850 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| H. G. Wells | 1866 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| H. P. Lovecraft | 1890 | 1001 books Greatest Open Penguin |
| H. Rider Haggard | 1856 | 1001 books Greatest Modern OWC Open Penguin |
| Ha Jin | 1956 | Cowen Everyman New |
| Halldór Laxness | 1902 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Greatest |
| Hannah Webster Foster | 1758 | Norton Open Penguin |
| Hans Christian Andersen | 1805 | Everyman Old Greatest OWC Open Penguin |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1811 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Heinrich Von Kleist | 1777 | 1001 books Greatest Open Penguin |
| Heliodorus Of Emesa | 0250 | 1001 books Complete Everyman Old |
| Henry David Thoreau | 1817 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Henry Fielding | 1707 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Hermann Hesse | 1877 | 1001 books Greatest Modern Norton Open |
| Honoré De Balzac | 1799 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Penguin |
| Horace | 65 BC | Everyman Old Greatest Modern Open Penguin |
| Horace Walpole | 1717 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest OWC Open Penguin |
| Iris Murdoch | 1919 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Greatest Penguin |
| Irène Némirovsky | 1903 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New |
| Isaac Asimov | 1920 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | 1903 | 1001 books Complete Modern |
| Isabel Allende | 1942 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Ivan Turgenev | 1818 | 1001 books Complete Cowen Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton Penguin |
| J. D. Salinger | 1919 | 1001 books Greatest Modern Open |
| J. M. Barrie | 1860 | Everyman Old Greatest OWC Open Penguin |
| J. M. Coetzee | 1940 | 1001 books Complete Cowen Greatest Open |
| J. M. Synge | 1871 | Everyman Old Open Penguin |
| J. R. R. Tolkien | 1892 | 1001 books Cowen Greatest Open |
| Jack Kerouac | 1922 | 1001 books Greatest Open Penguin |
| Jack London | 1876 | 1001 books Greatest OWC Open Penguin |
| James Baldwin | 1924 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open Penguin |
| James Fenimore Cooper | 1789 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest Modern OWC Open Penguin |
| James Hogg | 1770 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest OWC Open Penguin |
| James M. Cain | 1892 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Greatest |
| James Welch | 1940 | Open Penguin |
| James Weldon Johnson | 1871 | Everyman New Norton Open Penguin |
| Jane Smiley | 1949 | Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Jean Genet | 1910 | Greatest Modern Open |
| Jean Paul Sartre | 1905 | 1001 books Greatest Modern Open Penguin |
| Jean Racine | 1639 | Modern Open Penguin |
| Jean Rhys | 1890 | 1001 books Greatest Norton Open |
| Jean Toomer | 1894 | 1001 books Greatest Norton Open |
| Jeanette Winterson | 1959 | 1001 books Complete Greatest Open |
| Jens Peter Jacobsen | 1847 | Complete Penguin |
| Joan Didion | 1934 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Joanna Russ | 1937 | Complete Open |
| John Banville | 1945 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New |
| John Bunyan | 1628 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| John Clare | 1793 | Everyman Old Open Penguin |
| John Donne | 1572 | Everyman New Everyman Old Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| John Dryden | 1631 | Everyman Old Open Penguin |
| John Fowles | 1926 | 1001 books Cowen Greatest Open |
| John Gay | 1685 | Open Penguin |
| John Le Carré | 1931 | 1001 books Complete Cowen Greatest Penguin |
| John Ruskin | 1819 | Everyman New Everyman Old OWC Open Penguin |
| John Steinbeck | 1902 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Modern Open Penguin |
| John Updike | 1932 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Modern Open |
| John Webster | 1578 | Everyman Old Norton Open |
| Joseph Roth | 1894 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Juan Rulfo | 1917 | 1001 books Complete Greatest Open |
| Jules Verne | 1828 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest OWC Open Penguin |
| Julio Cortázar | 1914 | Complete Everyman New Greatest |
| Juvenal | 0055 | Complete Everyman Old Penguin |
| Kate Chopin | 1850 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Katherine Anne Porter | 1890 | Modern Open |
| Katherine Mansfield | 1888 | 1001 books Everyman New Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Ken Kesey | 1935 | 1001 books Greatest Open Penguin |
| Knut Hamsun | 1859 | 1001 books Complete Greatest Modern OWC Penguin |
| Kurt Vonnegut | 1922 | 1001 books Greatest Open Penguin |
| L. Frank Baum | 1856 | Greatest OWC Open Penguin |
| Langston Hughes | 1902 | Norton Open |
| Leonardo Sciascia | 1921 | 1001 books Complete Open |
| Lewis Carroll | 1832 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Lord Byron | 1788 | Everyman New Everyman Old Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Lorrie Moore | 1957 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Louisa May Alcott | 1832 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Lucretius | 94 BC | Everyman Old Greatest Open Penguin |
| Luigi Pirandello | 1867 | 1001 books Everyman Old Open |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | 106 BC | Everyman Old Modern Open Penguin |
| Margaret Cavendish | 1623 | Everyman Old Open Penguin |
| Margaret Fuller | 1810 | Norton Open |
| Marguerite Duras | 1914 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Marguerite Yourcenar | 1903 | 1001 books Complete Greatest Modern |
| Maria Edgeworth | 1768 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest OWC Open Penguin |
| Marianne Moore | 1887 | Open Penguin |
| Mariano Azuela | 1873 | 1001 books Norton Open Penguin |
| Marie De France | 1101 | Norton Open Penguin |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | 1936 | 1001 books Complete Greatest Open |
| Mark Twain | 1835 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Mary Elizabeth Braddon | 1835 | OWC Open Penguin |
| Matthew Arnold | 1822 | Everyman Old Open Penguin |
| Matthew Lewis | 1775 | 1001 books Greatest OWC Open Penguin |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | 1940 | Everyman New Open |
| Michael Ondaatje | 1943 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Michel De Montaigne | 1533 | Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Open Penguin |
| Michel Houellebecq | 1956 | 1001 books Complete Cowen Greatest Open |
| Mikhail Bulgakov | 1891 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open Penguin |
| Molière | 1622 | Cowen Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Penguin |
| Naguib Mahfouz | 1911 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Greatest |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1804 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Natsume Sōseki | 1867 | 1001 books Complete Penguin |
| Nella Larsen | 1891 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Norton Open Penguin |
| Nikolai Gogol | 1809 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Open Penguin |
| Norman Mailer | 1923 | Cowen Greatest Modern |
| Octavio Paz | 1914 | 1001 books Complete Greatest Open |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 1728 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest Modern OWC Open Penguin |
| Orson Scott Card | 1951 | Cowen Open |
| Oscar Wilde | 1854 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Ovid | 43 BC | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Norton Open Penguin |
| Pablo Neruda | 1904 | Greatest Open Penguin |
| Patricia Highsmith | 1921 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Patrick White | 1912 | 1001 books Complete Everyman New Greatest Penguin |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | 1872 | Open Penguin |
| Pedro Calderón De La Barca | 1600 | Complete Greatest Penguin |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | 1916 | Complete Everyman New |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792 | Everyman Old Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Peter Ackroyd | 1949 | 1001 books Complete Cowen Open |
| Peter Handke | 1942 | 1001 books Complete Open |
| Peter Weiss | 1916 | Complete Open |
| Philip Sidney | 1554 | OWC Open Penguin |
| Phillis Wheatley | 1753 | Open Penguin |
| Pierre Louys | 1870 | Complete Modern |
| Primo Levi | 1918 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Ralph Ellison | 1914 | 1001 books Greatest Modern Open |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803 | Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Ray Bradbury | 1920 | Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Raymond Queneau | 1903 | 1001 books Complete Greatest Open |
| Richard Wright | 1908 | 1001 books Greatest Modern Open |
| Roald Dahl | 1916 | Everyman New Modern Open |
| Robert Browning | 1812 | Everyman Old Modern Open Penguin |
| Robert Burns | 1759 | Everyman Old Open Penguin |
| Robert Burton | 1577 | Complete Everyman Old Penguin |
| Robert Frost | 1874 | Greatest Modern Open |
| Robert Herrick | 1591 | Everyman Old Open |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Robert Musil | 1880 | 1001 books Greatest OWC Open |
| Rudyard Kipling | 1865 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Ryszard Kapuscinski | 1932 | Complete Open |
| Samuel Beckett | 1906 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Samuel Johnson | 1709 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest Modern OWC Open Penguin |
| Samuel Richardson | 1689 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest Modern OWC Open Penguin |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772 | Everyman New Everyman Old Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Sandra Cisneros | 1954 | Everyman New Open |
| Sarah Orne Jewett | 1849 | Open Penguin |
| Sherwood Anderson | 1876 | Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Shirley Jackson | 1916 | Greatest Open Penguin |
| Sir Thomas Browne | 1605 | Cowen Everyman Old Penguin |
| Sir Thomas More | 1478 | Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Norton Open Penguin |
| Sophocles | 496 BC | Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Stefan Zweig | 1881 | 1001 books Greatest Open Penguin |
| Stendhal | 1783 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Stephen Crane | 1871 | Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Sylvia Plath | 1932 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open |
| T. H. White | 1906 | 1001 books Cowen Everyman Old Greatest |
| T. S. Eliot | 1888 | Greatest Norton Open Penguin |
| Ted Hughes | 1930 | Everyman Old Open |
| Theodore Dreiser | 1871 | 1001 books Greatest Modern Norton Open Penguin |
| Thomas Brussig | 1964 | Complete Open |
| Thomas Carlyle | 1795 | Everyman Old Modern OWC Open |
| Thomas De Quincey | 1785 | Everyman Old Modern OWC Open Penguin |
| Thomas Kyd | 1558 | Norton Open |
| Thomas Malory | 1405 | Everyman Old Greatest Norton Open Penguin |
| Thomas Middleton | 1580 | Norton Open Penguin |
| Thomas Pynchon | 1937 | 1001 books Greatest Modern Open |
| Tom Stoppard | 1937 | Complete Open |
| Toni Morrison | 1931 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Truman Capote | 1924 | 1001 books Greatest Modern Open |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 1929 | 1001 books Cowen Greatest Open |
| Voltaire | 1694 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| W. G. Sebald | 1944 | 1001 books Cowen Greatest Open |
| W. H. Auden | 1907 | Greatest Modern Open |
| Wallace Stegner | 1909 | Cowen Greatest Penguin |
| Wallace Stevens | 1879 | Cowen Greatest Open |
| Walt Whitman | 1819 | Everyman Old Greatest Modern Norton OWC Open Penguin |
| Walter Pater | 1839 | 1001 books Everyman Old Modern OWC Open Penguin |
| Walter Scott | 1771 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern OWC Open Penguin |
| Washington Irving | 1783 | Everyman Old Greatest Modern OWC Open Penguin |
| Wilhelm Grimm | 1786 | Open Penguin |
| Wilkie Collins | 1824 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern OWC Open Penguin |
| William Butler Yeats | 1865 | Everyman New Greatest Norton Open |
| William Dean Howells | 1837 | Everyman Old Modern Open Penguin |
| William Gaddis | 1922 | 1001 books Complete Greatest Penguin |
| William Gibson | 1948 | 1001 books Cowen Greatest Open |
| William Morris | 1834 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest Open Penguin |
| Wole Soyinka | 1934 | Norton Open |
| Yukio Mishima | 1925 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Open |
| Abbas Maroufi | 1957 | Complete |
| Abbe Prevost | 1697 | Everyman Old Greatest Modern Penguin |
| Abdelrahman Munif | 1933 | Complete |
| Abigail Adams | 1744 | Penguin |
| Abolqasem Ferdowsi | 0940 | Penguin |
| Adalbert Stifter | 1805 | 1001 books Greatest Penguin |
| Adam Roberts | 1965 | Open |
| Adelaide Anne Procter | 1825 | Everyman Old |
| Agatha Christie | 1890 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq | 1802 | Complete |
| Ahmadou Kourouma | 1927 | Complete |
| Alain René Le Sage | 1668 | Everyman Old |
| Alan Ayckbourn | 1939 | Complete |
| Alan Bennett | 1934 | Complete |
| Alan Hollinghurst | 1954 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Alan Moore | 1953 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Albert Cohen | 1895 | 1001 books Greatest Penguin |
| Albert Cossery | 1913 | Complete |
| Alejandro Jodorowsky | 1929 | Complete |
| Aleksander Wat | 1900 | Complete |
| Alessandro Baricco | 1958 | 1001 books Complete |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Modern |
| Alexandre Dumas | 1802 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern OWC Penguin |
| Alexandre Kuprin | 1870 | Modern |
| Alfred De Musset | 1810 | Penguin |
| Alfred De Vigny | 1797 | Penguin |
| Alfred Hayes | 1911 | Complete |
| Algernon Blackwood | 1869 | Penguin |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | 1837 | Everyman Old Modern Penguin |
| Alice Walker | 1944 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Alison Bechdel | 1960 | Open |
| Allen Ginsberg | 1926 | Greatest Open |
| Alphonse Daudet | 1840 | Everyman Old Modern Penguin |
| Amiri Baraka | 1934 | Open |
| Amitav Ghosh | 1956 | 1001 books Open |
| Amos Oz | 1939 | Complete |
| Amy Tan | 1952 | Greatest Open |
| Amélie Nothomb | 1967 | 1001 books Complete |
| Ana Castillo | 1953 | Open |
| Anatole France | 1844 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest Modern Penguin |
| Anders Bodelsen | 1937 | Complete |
| Andersen | 1873 | Modern |
| Andrea Levy | 1956 | 1001 books Open |
| Andreas Karkavitsas | 1865 | Penguin |
| Andreas Latzko | 1876 | Modern |
| Andrei Bely | 1880 | Greatest Penguin |
| Andrei Bitov | 1937 | Complete |
| Andrew Smith | 1961 | Open |
| Andrey Kurkov | 1961 | Complete |
| André Gide | 1869 | 1001 books Greatest Modern |
| André Malraux | 1901 | 1001 books Greatest Modern |
| Andrés Barba | 1975 | Complete |
| Andy Adams | 1859 | Penguin |
| Anita Konkka | 1941 | Complete |
| Anita Loos | 1889 | 1001 books Penguin |
| Anne Bradstreet | 1612 | Open |
| Anne Garréta | 1962 | Complete |
| Anne Manning | 1807 | Everyman Old |
| Anne Sexton | 1928 | Open |
| Anne Tyler | 1941 | Cowen |
| Annie Dillard | 1945 | Open |
| Annie Proulx | 1935 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Anthony Browne | 1946 | Open |
| Anthony Hope | 1863 | Everyman Old OWC Penguin |
| Anthony Trollope | 1815 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern OWC Penguin |
| Antje Rávic Strubel | 1974 | Complete |
| Antoine Volodine | 1949 | Complete |
| Antonio Di Benedetto | 1922 | Complete |
| Antonio Muñoz Molina | 1956 | Complete |
| Antonio Tabucchi | 1943 | 1001 books Complete |
| Arnaud d'Usseau | 1916 | Penguin |
| Arno Schmidt | 1914 | Complete |
| Arnold Bennett | 1867 | 1001 books Greatest Modern Penguin |
| Arnon Grunberg | 1971 | Complete |
| Arthur Morrison | 1863 | Modern OWC |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch | 1863 | Everyman Old |
| Arundhati Roy | 1961 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Aubrey Beardsley | 1872 | Modern |
| Audre Lorde | 1934 | Open |
| August Wilson | 1945 | Open |
| Augusto Monterroso | 1921 | Complete |
| Ayi Kwei Armah | 1939 | Complete |
| Ayn Rand | 1905 | Greatest Open |
| B. S. Johnson | 1933 | 1001 books Complete |
| B. Traven | 1882 | Modern |
| Bae Suah | 1965 | Complete |
| Bai Hua | 1930 | Complete |
| Baldassare Castiglione | 1478 | Penguin |
| Baltasar Gracián | 1604 | Everyman Old |
| Banarasidas | 1586 | Penguin |
| Barbara Kingsolver | 1955 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Baroness Orczy | 1865 | OWC |
| Ben Hecht | 1894 | Modern |
| Ben Okri | 1959 | Everyman New |
| Benjamin Constant | 1767 | Greatest Penguin |
| Benjamin Disraeli | 1804 | Everyman Old OWC |
| Bensalem Himmich | 1948 | Complete |
| Benvenuto Cellini | 1500 | Everyman New Everyman Old Modern OWC Penguin |
| Bernard Mandeville | 1670 | Penguin |
| Bernardin De Saint-Pierre | 1737 | Penguin |
| Bernhard Schlink | 1944 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Beroul | 1150 | Penguin |
| Bharati Mukherjee | 1940 | 1001 books Open |
| Bharavi | 0501 | Complete |
| Bhāsa | 0200 | Penguin |
| Billy Collins | 1941 | Open |
| Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | 1832 | Everyman Old |
| Bobbie Ann Mason | 1940 | Open |
| Bolesław Prus | 1847 | 1001 books Complete |
| Booth Tarkington | 1869 | Penguin |
| Bora Ćosić | 1932 | Complete |
| Boris Pasternak | 1890 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Modern |
| Boris Strugatsky | 1933 | Complete |
| Borislav Pekić | 1930 | Complete |
| Brad Leithauser | 1953 | Complete |
| Bret Harte | 1836 | Everyman Old Modern Penguin |
| Breyten Breytenbach | 1939 | Complete |
| Brian Friel | 1929 | Open |
| Brigitte Reimann | 1933 | Complete |
| Bruno Schulz | 1892 | 1001 books Greatest Penguin |
| Buchi Emecheta | 1944 | Open |
| Budd Schulberg | 1914 | Modern |
| Bán Zsófia | 1957 | Complete |
| Béla Zsolt | 1895 | Complete |
| C. S. Forester | 1899 | Greatest Modern |
| Cameron Mccabe | 1915 | Complete |
| Carlo Collodi | 1826 | Everyman Old Greatest OWC Penguin |
| Carlos Bulosan | 1913 | Penguin |
| Carlos Fuentes | 1928 | 1001 books Open |
| Carlos Rojas | 1928 | Complete |
| Carol Ann Duffy | 1955 | Open |
| Carol Dunlop | 1946 | Complete |
| Carson McCullers | 1917 | Greatest Open |
| Caryl Churchill | 1938 | Open |
| Caryl Phillips | 1958 | Open |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick | 1789 | Penguin |
| Catherine O'flynn | 1970 | Complete |
| Cees Nooteboom | 1933 | 1001 books Complete |
| Ch'oe Yun | 1102 | Complete |
| Chang-rae Lee | 1965 | Open |
| Charles Cotton | 1630 | OWC |
| Charles Ferdinand Ramuz | 1878 | Complete |
| Charles James Lever | 1806 | Everyman Old |
| Charles Johnson | 1948 | Open |
| Charles Lamb | 1775 | Everyman Old Modern Penguin |
| Charles Palliser | 1947 | Cowen |
| Charles Reade | 1814 | Everyman Old Modern |
| Charles Robert Maturin | 1782 | 1001 books Greatest OWC Penguin |
| Charlotte Lennox | 1730 | 1001 books OWC Penguin |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge | 1823 | Everyman Old |
| Chatrian | 1826 | Everyman Old |
| Chester Himes | 1909 | 1001 books Everyman New |
| Chi Ta-Wei | 1972 | Complete |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 1977 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| China Miéville | 1972 | Cowen |
| Christian Bobin | 1951 | Complete |
| Christoph Ransmayr | 1954 | 1001 books Complete |
| Christopher Isherwood | 1904 | 1001 books Greatest Modern |
| Christopher Morley | 1890 | Modern |
| Christopher Reid | 1949 | Everyman Old |
| Chrétien De Troyes | 1135 | Everyman Old Penguin |
| Chuck Palahniuk | 1962 | 1001 books Open |
| Chōmei | 1470 | Penguin |
| Clarence Day | 1874 | Modern |
| Clarence Major | 1936 | Penguin |
| Clarice Lispector | 1920 | 1001 books Greatest Penguin |
| Clark Ashton Smith | 1893 | Penguin |
| Claudia Rankine | 1963 | Open |
| Claudio Magris | 1939 | Complete |
| Clifford Odets | 1906 | Modern |
| Colette | 1873 | 1001 books Greatest Modern OWC |
| Colley Cibber | 1802 | Everyman Old |
| Comte De Lautréamont | 1846 | 1001 books Greatest Penguin |
| Corinne Hoex | 1946 | Complete |
| Cyril Connolly | 1903 | Complete |
| César Aira | 1949 | Complete |
| D. G.Compton | 1930 | Complete |
| Dag Solstad | 1941 | Complete |
| Damon Runyon | 1880 | Modern Penguin |
| Dan Simmons | 1948 | Cowen |
| Dana Gioia | 1950 | Open |
| Daniel Evan Weiss | 1953 | Complete |
| Daniel Kehlmann | 1975 | 1001 books Complete |
| Daphne Du Maurier | 1907 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Modern Penguin |
| Dave Eggers | 1970 | 1001 books Open |
| David Albahari | 1948 | Complete |
| David Edgar | 1948 | Everyman Old |
| David Foster Wallace | 1962 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| David Jones | 1895 | 1001 books Complete |
| David Lodge | 1935 | Open |
| David Malouf | 1934 | 1001 books Open |
| David Mamet | 1947 | Open |
| David Markson | 1927 | 1001 books Complete |
| David Punter | 1949 | Open |
| David Sedaris | 1956 | Open |
| David Toscana | 1961 | Complete |
| Daša Drndić | 1946 | Complete |
| Delarivier Manley | 1663 | Penguin |
| Denis Johnson | 1949 | Open |
| Dennis Potter | 1935 | Complete |
| Deon Meyer | 1958 | Complete |
| Derek Marlowe | 1938 | Complete |
| Derek Raymond | 1931 | Complete |
| Derek Walcott | 1930 | Open |
| Diego Marani | 1959 | Complete |
| Dimitri Verhulst | 1972 | Complete |
| Dinah Craik | 1826 | Everyman Old |
| Dino Buzzati | 1906 | 1001 books Complete Greatest |
| Djuna Barnes | 1892 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Dmitri Merejkowski | 1865 | Modern |
| Don DeLillo | 1936 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Donald Barthelme | 1931 | 1001 books Penguin |
| Donald E. Westlake | 1933 | Complete |
| Donn Byrne | 1889 | Modern |
| Dorothy Allison | 1949 | Greatest Open |
| Dorothy Canfield | 1879 | Modern |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | 1893 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest |
| Dorothy Osborne | 1627 | Everyman Old |
| Dorothy Parker | 1893 | Modern Penguin |
| Dubose Heyward | 1885 | Modern |
| Durs Grünbein | 1962 | Complete |
| Dương Thu Hương | 1947 | 1001 books Complete |
| E. B. White | 1899 | Greatest Open |
| E. E. Cummings | 1894 | 1001 books Modern Norton |
| E. W. Hornung | 1866 | Penguin |
| Earl Of Rochester | 1647 | Penguin |
| Eavan Boland | 1944 | Open |
| Edgar Lee Masters | 1868 | Penguin |
| Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1875 | 1001 books Greatest Penguin |
| Edgar Saltus | 1855 | Modern |
| Edmond Rostand | 1868 | Modern Penguin |
| Edna Ferber | 1885 | Modern |
| Edogawa Ranpo | 1894 | Complete |
| Edouard Levé | 1965 | Complete |
| Eduard Mörike | 1804 | Penguin |
| Eduard Von Keyserling | 1855 | Complete |
| Eduardo Rabasa | 1978 | Complete |
| Edward Abbey | 1927 | Open |
| Edward Albee | 1928 | Open |
| Edward Bellamy | 1850 | Modern OWC Penguin |
| Edward Bulwer-Lytton | 1803 | Everyman Old |
| Edward Carpenter | 1844 | Modern |
| Edward Howard | 1624 | Everyman Old |
| Edward St. Aubyn | 1960 | 1001 books Everyman New |
| Edward W Said | 1935 | Open |
| Edwidge Danticat | 1969 | Open |
| Edwin A. Abbott | 1838 | OWC Penguin |
| Eka Kurniawan | 1975 | Complete |
| Eleanor Catton | 1985 | Complete |
| Elena Ferrante | 1943 | 1001 books Cowen Greatest |
| Eliot Weinberger | 1949 | Complete |
| Eliza Fowler Haywood | 1693 | 1001 books Open |
| Elizabeth Bishop | 1911 | Greatest Open |
| Elizabeth Garver Jordan | 1865 | Penguin |
| Elizabeth Madox Roberts | 1881 | Modern |
| Elizabeth Sara Sheppard | 1830 | Everyman Old |
| Elizabeth Stoddard | 1823 | Penguin |
| Elizabeth Von Arnim | 1866 | OWC |
| Elleke Boehmer | 1961 | Open |
| Ellen Glasgow | 1873 | Modern Penguin |
| Elliot Paul | 1891 | Modern |
| Emilia Pardo Bazán | 1851 | 1001 books Penguin |
| Emilio Lascano Tegui | 1887 | Complete |
| Emmanuel Bove | 1898 | Complete |
| Emmanuel Carrère | 1957 | Complete |
| Enrique Vila-Matas | 1948 | 1001 books Complete |
| Ernest Dowson | 1867 | Modern |
| Ernest J. Gaines | 1933 | Open |
| Erskine Caldwell | 1903 | 1001 books Greatest Modern |
| Erskine Childers | 1870 | 1001 books Greatest OWC |
| Esterházy Péter | 1950 | 1001 books Complete |
| Eugene Sue | 1804 | Modern |
| Ezra Pound | 1885 | Open |
| Farid Ud-Din Attar | 1145 | Penguin |
| Fatos Kongoli | 1944 | Complete |
| Fay Weldon | 1931 | Complete |
| Felix Salten | 1869 | Complete |
| Fernando De Rojas | 1465 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest Penguin |
| Fernando Del Paso | 1935 | Complete |
| Fernando Pessoa | 1888 | 1001 books Greatest Penguin |
| Flann O'Brien | 1911 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest |
| Flannery O Connor | 1925 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Florence Converse | 1871 | Everyman Old |
| Frances Browne | 1816 | Everyman Old |
| Francesco Petrarca | 1304 | Greatest Open |
| Francine Prose | 1947 | Open |
| Francis Beaumont | 1584 | Everyman Old |
| Francis Ponge | 1899 | Complete |
| Francis Thompson | 1931 | Modern |
| Francis Turner Palgrave | 1824 | Everyman Old Modern |
| Francisco De Quevedo | 1584 | Complete Greatest |
| Frank Herbert | 1920 | Cowen Greatest |
| Frank Miller | 1957 | Open |
| Frank Swinnerton | 1884 | Everyman Old |
| Frank Wedekind | 1864 | Complete |
| François La Rochefoucauld | 1613 | Modern Penguin |
| François Rabelais | 1494 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern Penguin |
| François Villon | 1431 | Everyman Old Modern |
| Françoise Sagan | 1935 | 1001 books Greatest Penguin |
| Fred Uhlman | 1901 | Everyman New |
| Frederick Marryat | 1792 | Everyman Old |
| Frederick Rolfe | 1860 | 1001 books Modern |
| Friedrich Dürrenmatt | 1921 | 1001 books Complete Greatest |
| Friedrich Hebbel | 1813 | Everyman Old |
| Fyodor Sologub | 1863 | Penguin |
| G. J. Whyte-Melville | 1821 | Everyman Old |
| G. P. R. James | 1799 | Everyman Old |
| Gao E | 1738 | Penguin |
| Gary Goshgarian | 1942 | Open |
| Gary Snyder | 1930 | Open |
| Gaston Leroux | 1868 | Greatest OWC |
| Geetanjali Shree | 1957 | Complete |
| Gene Luen Yang | 1973 | Open |
| Geoff Dyer | 1958 | Complete |
| Geoff Nicholson | 1953 | Complete |
| Geoffrey Hill | 1932 | Complete |
| Georg Büchner | 1813 | Norton Penguin |
| Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | 1742 | Penguin |
| George Douglas Brown | 1869 | Modern Penguin |
| George Du Maurier | 1834 | Everyman Old Modern OWC |
| George Gilfillan | 1813 | Everyman Old |
| George Henry Borrow | 1803 | Everyman Old |
| George MacDonald | 1824 | Everyman Old Penguin |
| George Meredith | 1828 | Everyman Old Greatest Modern Penguin |
| George Sand | 1804 | 1001 books Everyman Old OWC |
| George Santayana | 1863 | Modern |
| George Saunders | 1958 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| George Washington Cable | 1844 | Penguin |
| Georges Bataille | 1897 | 1001 books Open |
| Georgi Gospodinov | 1968 | Complete |
| Gerald Murnane | 1939 | 1001 books Complete |
| Gerald Vizenor | 1934 | Complete |
| Gerard Reve | 1923 | Complete Greatest |
| Gerbrand Bakker | 1962 | Complete |
| Gerhart Hauptmann | 1862 | Modern |
| Gertrude Atherton | 1857 | Modern |
| Giacomo Leopardi | 1798 | Greatest Open |
| Gilbert Adair | 1944 | Complete |
| Gilbert Imlay | 1754 | Penguin |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton | 1874 | Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Modern |
| Gina Apostol | 1963 | Complete |
| Giorgio Bassani | 1916 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest |
| Giorgio Manganelli | 1922 | Complete |
| Giorgio Scerbanenco | 1911 | Complete |
| Gish Jen | 1955 | Open |
| Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa | 1896 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest |
| Gloria E. Anzaldúa | 1942 | Open |
| Gloria Naylor | 1950 | Open |
| Goce Smilevski | 1975 | Complete |
| Gonçalo M. Tavares | 1970 | Complete |
| Gordon Burn | 1948 | Complete |
| Gore Vidal | 1925 | 1001 books Modern |
| Gottfried Von Strassburg | 1180 | Penguin |
| Graham Swift | 1949 | 1001 books Everyman New |
| Grant Allen | 1848 | Penguin |
| Greg Bear | 1951 | Cowen |
| Gui De Cambrai | 1170 | Penguin |
| Guido Morselli | 1912 | Complete |
| Guillaume Apollinaire | 1880 | Greatest Open |
| Gustav Frenssen | 1863 | Modern |
| Gustave Aimard | 1818 | Everyman Old |
| Guy Boothby | 1867 | Penguin |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | 1917 | Open |
| Gérard De Nerval | 1808 | Penguin |
| Günter Grass | 1927 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest |
| H. H. Munro | 1870 | Everyman Old Modern |
| H. M. Tomlinson | 1873 | Everyman Old Modern |
| H. M. Van Den Brink | 1956 | Complete |
| Hallgrímur Helgason | 1959 | Complete |
| Hammerstein | 1895 | Modern |
| Hanif Kureishi | 1954 | 1001 books Open |
| Harold Frederic | 1856 | Penguin |
| Harold Pinter | 1930 | Open |
| Harper Lee | 1926 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Harriet A Jacobs | 1813 | Open |
| Harriet E. Wilson | 1825 | Penguin |
| Harriet Jacobs | 1813 | Norton OWC Penguin |
| Harry Crews | 1935 | Penguin |
| Harry Mathews | 1930 | 1001 books Complete |
| Harry Mulisch | 1927 | 1001 books Complete Greatest |
| Heiner Müller | 1929 | Complete |
| Heinrich Böll | 1917 | 1001 books Greatest Penguin |
| Heinrich Heine | 1797 | Everyman Old Penguin |
| Helen DeWitt | 1957 | Complete Greatest |
| Helena Maria Viramontes | 1954 | Open |
| Helene Cixous | 1937 | Open |
| Henri Barbusse | 1873 | 1001 books Everyman Old Penguin |
| Henri Michaux | 1899 | Complete |
| Henrik Pontoppidan | 1857 | Everyman New |
| Henry Green | 1905 | 1001 books Greatest Penguin |
| Henry Handel Richardson | 1870 | Greatest Modern Penguin |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1807 | Everyman Old Modern Penguin |
| Henryk Sienkiewicz | 1846 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest |
| Heo Gyun | 1569 | Penguin |
| Hermann Broch | 1886 | 1001 books Complete Cowen Greatest |
| Hermann Burger | 1942 | Complete |
| Hermann Sudermann | 1857 | Modern |
| Hesiod | 776 BC | Greatest Open |
| Hilaire Belloc | 1870 | Everyman Old |
| Hjalmar Söderberg | 1869 | Complete |
| Honor Tracy | 1913 | Modern |
| Horatio Alger Jr. | 1832 | Norton Penguin |
| Howard Fast | 1914 | Modern |
| Howard Jacobson | 1942 | Complete |
| Hugh Walpole | 1884 | Everyman Old Modern |
| Hugo Claus | 1929 | 1001 books Complete |
| Iain Pears | 1955 | Complete |
| Iain Sinclair | 1943 | 1001 books Complete |
| Ian Cross | 1925 | Penguin |
| Ian Hamilton | 1938 | Everyman Old |
| Ibrahim Al-Koni | 1948 | Complete |
| Ignacio Padilla | 1968 | Complete |
| Ignatius Sancho | 1729 | Penguin |
| Ilya Troyanov | 1965 | Complete |
| Imre Kertész | 1929 | 1001 books Complete Greatest |
| Inaki Irazu | 1954 | Open |
| Inka Parei | 1967 | Complete |
| Inoue Yasushi | 1907 | Complete |
| Inès Cagnati | 1937 | Complete |
| Irmtraud Morgner | 1933 | Complete |
| Irwin Shaw | 1913 | Modern |
| Isabel Colegate | 1931 | Complete |
| Isak Dinesen | 1885 | 1001 books Greatest Modern |
| Ishmael Reed | 1938 | Open |
| Ismail Kadare | 1936 | 1001 books Complete |
| Italo Svevo | 1861 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest |
| Ivan Goncharov | 1812 | 1001 books Everyman New Everyman Old Greatest Penguin |
| Ivan Vladislavić | 1957 | Complete |
| Ivo Andrić | 1892 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest |
| Iván Repila | 1978 | Complete |
| Izaak Walton | 1593 | Everyman Old Modern OWC |
| J. B. Priestley | 1894 | Everyman Old |
| J. De Goncourt | Modern | |
| J. F. Powers | 1917 | Modern |
| J. G. Ballard | 1930 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| J. G. Farrell | 1935 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest |
| J. Hector St. John De Crèvecoeur | 1735 | Everyman Old Penguin |
| J. K. Rowling | 1965 | Greatest Open |
| J. M.Ledgard | 1968 | Complete |
| J. Slauerhoff | 1898 | 1001 books Complete |
| Jackie Kay | 1961 | Open |
| Jacques Derrida | 1930 | Open |
| Jacques Roubaud | 1932 | Complete |
| Jalal al-Din Rumi | 1207 | OWC Penguin |
| Jamaica Kincaid | 1949 | 1001 books Open |
| James Branch Cabell | 1879 | Modern |
| James Ellroy | 1948 | 1001 books Everyman New |
| James Gould Cozzens | 1903 | Modern |
| James Hawes | 1960 | Complete |
| James Jones | 1921 | Greatest Penguin |
| James Michener | 1907 | Modern |
| James Morier | 1780 | Everyman Old Modern |
| James Russell Lowell | 1819 | Everyman Old |
| James Stephens | 1882 | 1001 books Modern |
| James T. Farrell | 1904 | Modern Penguin |
| James Thurber | 1894 | 1001 books Modern |
| Jan Kjærstad | 1953 | Complete |
| Jan Křesadlo | 1926 | Complete |
| Jan Potocki | 1761 | Greatest Penguin |
| Jane Gardam | 1928 | Complete |
| Janet Burroway | 1936 | Open |
| Jang Eun-Jin | 1976 | Complete |
| Jaroslav Hašek | 1883 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Penguin |
| Jason Robert Brown | 1970 | Everyman Old |
| Javier Marías | 1951 | 1001 books Complete Greatest |
| Jean Améry | 1912 | Complete |
| Jean Cocteau | 1889 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Jean De La Fontaine | 1621 | Everyman Old Greatest Penguin |
| Jean De La Ville De Mirmont | 1886 | Complete |
| Jean Dutourd | 1920 | Complete |
| Jean Echenoz | 1947 | Complete |
| Jean François Paul De Gondi De Retz | 1613 | Everyman Old |
| Jean Froissart | 1337 | Everyman Old Modern Penguin |
| Jean Ingelow | 1820 | Everyman Old |
| Jean Webster | 1876 | Penguin |
| Jean-Marie Blas De Roblès | 1954 | Complete |
| Jean-Philippe Toussaint | 1957 | Complete |
| Jeff Noon | 1957 | Complete |
| Jeffrey Eugenides | 1960 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Jennie Erdal | 1951 | Complete |
| Jennifer Egan | 1962 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Jenny Erpenbeck | 1967 | Complete |
| Jens Baggesen | 1764 | OWC |
| Jeremias Gotthelf | 1797 | Everyman Old Greatest |
| Jerome K. Jerome | 1859 | Everyman Old Greatest OWC Penguin |
| Jerome Weidman | 1913 | Modern |
| Jerzy Kosinski | 1933 | Modern |
| Jesmyn Ward | 1977 | Open |
| Jessica Au | 1986 | Complete |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | 1967 | 1001 books Open |
| Jia Pingwa | 1952 | Complete |
| Joanne Greenberg | 1932 | Penguin |
| Joe Simon | 1913 | Penguin |
| Joel Chandler Harris | 1848 | Penguin |
| Johann David Wyss | 1743 | Everyman Old Penguin |
| Johann Peter Hebel | 1760 | Penguin |
| Johanna Spyri | 1827 | Everyman Old Greatest |
| John Ashbery | 1927 | Open |
| John Barth | 1930 | 1001 books Open |
| John Berger | 1926 | 1001 books Open |
| John Buchan | 1875 | 1001 books Greatest OWC Penguin |
| John Cheever | 1912 | Greatest Open |
| John Cleland | 1709 | 1001 books OWC Penguin |
| John Davidson | 1857 | Modern |
| John Dos Passos | 1896 | 1001 books Greatest Modern Penguin |
| John Fletcher | 1579 | Everyman Old |
| John Galsworthy | 1867 | 1001 books Everyman Old Greatest OWC |
| John Galt | 1779 | Everyman Old |
| John Gardner | 1926 | Open |
| John Gibson Lockhart | 1794 | Everyman Old |
| John Henry Newman | 1801 | Everyman Old Modern Penguin |
| John Hollander | 1929 | Open |
| John Lennard | 1964 | Open |
| John Mortimer | 1923 | Penguin |
| John O'Hara | 1905 | Modern Penguin |
| John P. Marquand | 1893 | Modern |
| John Polidori | 1795 | OWC |
| John Romita Sr. | 1930 | Penguin |
| John Strachey | 1901 | Modern |
| John Wain | 1925 | Everyman Old |
| John William De Forest | 1826 | Penguin |
| John Woolman | 1720 | Everyman Old |
| Johnston McCulley | 1883 | Penguin |
| Jon Krakauer | 1954 | Open |
| Jonathan Coe | 1961 | 1001 books Complete |
| Jonathan Franzen | 1959 | 1001 books Complete Greatest |
| Jonathan Lethem | 1964 | Everyman New |
| Jonathan Safran Foer | 1977 | 1001 books Open |
| Joris-Karl Huysmans | 1848 | 1001 books Greatest Modern OWC Penguin |
| Josef Peterka | 1944 | Open |
| Joseph Heller | 1923 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest Modern |
| Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu | 1814 | 1001 books Greatest OWC Penguin |
| Joseph Viktor Von Scheffel | 1826 | Everyman Old |
| Joshua Cohen | 1980 | Complete |
| José Garcia Villa | 1908 | Penguin |
| José Martí | 1853 | Penguin |
| José Rizal | 1861 | Penguin |
| José Saramago | 1922 | 1001 books Cowen |
| Joy Harjo | 1951 | Open |
| Joyce Carol Oates | 1938 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Joyce Cary | 1888 | Everyman New |
| Juan Filloy | 1894 | Complete |
| Juan Goytisolo | 1931 | 1001 books Complete |
| Juan José Millás | 1946 | Complete |
| Juana Inés De La Cruz | 1651 | Norton Penguin |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer | 1952 | Open |
| Jules Laforgue | 1860 | Penguin |
| Julia Alvarez | 1950 | Open |
| Julia Bell | 1971 | Open |
| Julian Cope | 1957 | Complete |
| Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing | 1841 | Everyman Old |
| Julien Green | 1900 | Complete |
| Jun'ichirō Tanizaki | 1886 | 1001 books Everyman New Greatest |
| Junot Díaz | 1968 | 1001 books Greatest Open |
| Justin Cartwright | 1945 | Complete |
| Kalidasa | 300 | Everyman Old |
| Karel Čapek | 1890 | 1001 books Greatest Penguin |
| Kari Hotakainen | 1957 | Complete |
| Karl Kraus | 1874 | 1001 books Open |
| Karl Ove Knausgård | 1968 | Complete Cowen Greatest |
| Karl Philipp Moritz | 1756 | 1001 books Greatest Penguin |
| Kate Atkinson | 1951 | Complete |
| Kate Douglas Wiggin | 1856 | Penguin |
| Katharine Burdekin | 1896 | Complete |
| Kay Dick | 1915 | Complete |
| Kenkō | 1959 | Penguin |
| Kenneth Grahame | 1859 | Greatest OWC |
| Kenzaburō Ōe | 1935 | 1001 books Complete |
| Keri Hulme | 1947 | Cowen |
| Khaled Hosseini | 1965 | Greatest Open |
| Kim Addonizio | 1954 | Open |
| Kim Stanley Robinson | 1952 | Complete |
| Kingsley Amis | 1922 | 1001 books Greatest Penguin |
| Kong Shangren | 1648 | Complete |
| Kosztolányi Dezső | 1885 | Complete |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 1689 | Everyman New Everyman Old Penguin |
| Lady Sarashina | 1008 | Penguin |
| Lafcadio Hearn | 1850 | Modern Penguin |
| Lars Saabye Christensen | 1953 | Complete |
| Laura Esquivel | 1950 | 1001 books Open |
| Layamon | 1200 | Everyman Old |
| Leif Gw Persson | 1945 | Complete |
| Leigh Hunt | 1784 | Everyman Old |
| Len Deighton | 1929 | Greatest Penguin |
| Leon De Winter | 1954 | Complete |
| Leonardo Padura | 1955 | Complete |
| Leonid Andreyev | 1871 | Modern |
| Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch | 1836 | Penguin |
| Leopoldo Alas | 1852 | 1001 books Penguin |
| Leopoldo Marechal | 1900 | Complete |
| Les Murray | 1938 | Complete |
| Leslie Marmon Silko | 1948 | Open |
| Lew Wallace | 1827 | 1001 books Modern |
| Lewis Grassic Gibbon | 1901 | 1001 books Everyman Old Penguin |
| Li Po | 0701 | Penguin |
| Libuse Moníková | 1945 | Complete |
| Liesl Ujvary | 1939 | Complete |
| Lillian Hellman | 1905 | Modern |
| Linda Boström Knausgård | 1972 | Complete |
| Linda Hogan | 1947 | Open |
| Lion Feuchtwanger | 1884 | Modern |
| Lisa Tuttle | 1952 | Complete |
| Liu Cixin | 1963 | Cowen |
| Lloyd Jones | 1951 | Complete |
| Lois Lowry | 1937 | Open |
| Longus | 0200 | Penguin |
| Lord Dunsany | 1878 | Modern Penguin |
| Lorraine Hansberry | 1930 | Open |
| Lothar-Günther Buchheim | 1918 | Modern |
| Louis Auchincloss | 1917 | Modern |
| Louis Couperus | 1863 | 1001 books Complete |
| Louis Hemon | 1880 | Modern |
| Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 1894 | 1001 books Complete Greatest |
| Louise Erdrich | 1954 | 1001 books Open |
| Lu Xun | 1881 | Greatest Open |
| Lucian | 0120 | Penguin |
| Ludovico Ariosto | 1474 | Greatest OWC Penguin |
| Ludwig Bemelmans | 1898 | Modern |
| Ludwig Lewisohn | 1882 | Modern |
| Luis Goytisolo | 1935 | Complete |
| Luis Valdez | 1940 | Open |
| Luo Guanzhong | 1334 | 1001 books Greatest Penguin |
| Luís De Camões | 1524 | 1001 books Penguin |
| Lydie Salvayre | 1948 | Complete |
| Lynne Truss | 1955 | Open |
| M. R. James | 1862 | Greatest Penguin |
| M.John Harrison | 1945 | Complete |
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| Murray Bail | 1941 | Complete |
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| O. V.Vijayan | 1930 | Complete |
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