My author/poet wish-list:
(authors I've read but don't actually own the books of, and authors I want to read... the books excluded are ones I already own. Painfully few, but I'm broke, so no surprises there).
Ernest Hemingway
Henry Thoreau
Leo Tolstoy
Marcel Proust
HG Wells
Thomas Pynchon
Fyodor Doestoevsky
Kurt Vonnegut
Lord Byron
Allen Ginsberg
Walt Whitman
Chuck Palahniuk (except Survivor and Haunted)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Wordsworth
Victor Hugo
Charlotte Bronte
Sylvia Plath
Thomas Wolfe
Jack Kerouac
William Burroughs
Gary Snyder
Oscar Wilde
George Orwell (except Animal Farm)
Arthur Rimbaud
Pablo Neruda
Ezra Pound
TS Eliot
Jim Morrison (except the Lords and the New Creatures)
Dante Alighieri
James Joyce
William Carlos Williams
David Ignatow
Robert Duncan
Reed Whitemore
Howard Nemerov
James Dickey
Denise Levertov
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Muriel Barbury
Theodore Dreiser
Cormac McCarthy
Hart Crane
Henry Miller
DH Lawrence
Vladimir Nabokov
Noam Chomsky (except What We Say Goes)
Carl Sandburg
Chad Kultgen
Jim Harrison (except The English Major)
Nick Cave
Leonard Cohen
Add to that list:
ReplyDeleteJose Saramago
Ha Jin
Haruki Murakami
Kazuo Ishiguro
Jhumpa Lahiri
Ian McEwan
Herta Muller
Salman Rushdie
Cormac McCarthy
Albert Camus
Milan Kundera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Franz Kafka
Cees Nooteboom
Samuel Beckett
J. M. G. Le Clezio
Orhan Pamuk
Richard Powers
Doris Lessing
That's enough.