Authors S - Z
Salinger, J.D. - F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ernest Hemingway
Sayers, Dorothy L. - Wilkie Collins (whom she considered the father of the detective story)
Sebald, W.G. - Sir Thomas Browne; Thomas Bernhard; Javier Marias (his "twin" writer); Bruce Chatwin; Primo Levi ("you cannot go beyond him"); Peter Handke; Wolfgang Hildesheimer; Elias Canetti
Self, Will - Martin Amis
Seth, Vikram - Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Shaw, George Bernard - Henrik Ibsen
Shields, Carol - T.S. Eliot; Graham Greene; Virginia Woolf; Jane Austen (Shields wrote a biography of Austen)
Smith, Alexander McCall - Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson; Lucia in Wartime by Tom Holt; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark; The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford; Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh; Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis; The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan; Die Gefangennahme eines Postboten (The Capture of a Postman) by Michael von Poser; The Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy by Sigmund Freud; The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury (top ten humorous books)
Smith, Lee - Smith's website, www.leesmith.com, has a list of eighty recommended books.
Styron, William - William Faulkner; James Joyce; Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert ("One of the few novels that move me in every way."); John Dos Passos; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Christopher Marlowe; William Blake; From Here to Eternity; The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer; Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote; Hortense Calisher; Carson McCullers; J.D. Salinger
Swift, Graham - Gustave Flaubert; Vladimir Nabokov; Montaigne
Thesiger, Wilfred - Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (his favorite novel)
Thompson, Hunter S. - Ernest Hemingway; F. Scott Fitzgerald; J.P. Donleavy; Jack Kerouac; William Faulkner
Thubron, Colin - Freya Stark; Patrick Leigh Fermor
Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Ring of the Nibelung; The Kalevala, compiled by Elias Lonnrot; Charles Williams
Tolstoy, Leo - Evgeny Onegin by Alexander Pushkin; Henry David Thoreau; La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas
Trollope, Anthony - William Makepeace Thackeray; R. Monckton Milnes; W.E. Forster; G.H. Lewes; early Dickens
Updike, John - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; Saul Bellow; Henry Green; early Anne Tyler; Philip Roth ("a great liberator of what could be said"); Muriel Spark; Iris Murdoch; Joseph Conrad; Deborah Eisenberg ("A writer with really something new to say about female experience."); Thom Jones; The Assistant by Bernard Malamud; short stories by Mary McCarthy; Herman Melville; the criticism of Walt Whitman; Nathaniel Hawthorne
Vonnegut, Kurt - Eugene Debs; George Bernard Shaw; Upton Sinclair; The Odyssey by Homer
Walker, Alice - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Walker was instrumental in getting this book widely recognized)
Warren, Robert Penn - "Horatius at the Bridge" (when he was six years old); "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" (when he was nine); "Lycidas"; History of Civilization in England by Buckle; The Oregon Trail; Prescott Samuel Eliot Morison; C. Van Woodword; Bruce Catton; America by Adam de Gurowski; Eudora Welty; Katharine Anne Porter; Nelson Algren; The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Waters, Sarah - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë; Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; Vanity Fair by William Thackeray; New Grub Street by George Gissing; Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë; Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens; Dracula by Bram Stoker; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (top ten Victorian novels)
Welty, Eudora - Patrick O’Brian
West, Rebecca - Henry Green ("The best writer of his time.")
Winterson, Jeanette - "I'm on the side of Harold Bloom. Everybody should read the Canon of Western Literature, even if you don't accept it as canonical. For a reader, it's riches. For a writer, it's roots."; "Orlando the Marmalade Cat is certainly a book I would take with me in the life and death struggle." Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy; The Accidental by Ali Smith; Matisse by Hilary Spurling
Wood, James - W.G. Sebald; Etruscan Places by D.H. Lawrence; Herzog/ The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow; Virginia Woolf; Jane Austen; "The Nose"/ Dead Souls by Gogol; Moby Dick by Herman Melville; Jane Austen; Anton Chekhov; The Golovlyov Family by M.E. Saltykov-Schedrin; Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Brick Lane by Monica Ali; A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul; Money by Martin Amis; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Wood has stated that Biswas, John Self, and Jean Brodie are the only three real characters of post-war British fiction); Loving by Henry Green; Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo; Giovanni Verga; Morte d'Urban by J.F. Powers; The Razedsky March by Joseph Roth
Authors A - I
Authors J - R
Sayers, Dorothy L. - Wilkie Collins (whom she considered the father of the detective story)
Sebald, W.G. - Sir Thomas Browne; Thomas Bernhard; Javier Marias (his "twin" writer); Bruce Chatwin; Primo Levi ("you cannot go beyond him"); Peter Handke; Wolfgang Hildesheimer; Elias Canetti
Self, Will - Martin Amis
Seth, Vikram - Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Shaw, George Bernard - Henrik Ibsen
Shields, Carol - T.S. Eliot; Graham Greene; Virginia Woolf; Jane Austen (Shields wrote a biography of Austen)
Smith, Alexander McCall - Mapp and Lucia by E.F. Benson; Lucia in Wartime by Tom Holt; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark; The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford; Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh; Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis; The English Teacher by R.K. Narayan; Die Gefangennahme eines Postboten (The Capture of a Postman) by Michael von Poser; The Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy by Sigmund Freud; The History Man by Malcolm Bradbury (top ten humorous books)
Smith, Lee - Smith's website, www.leesmith.com, has a list of eighty recommended books.
Styron, William - William Faulkner; James Joyce; Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert ("One of the few novels that move me in every way."); John Dos Passos; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Christopher Marlowe; William Blake; From Here to Eternity; The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer; Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote; Hortense Calisher; Carson McCullers; J.D. Salinger
Swift, Graham - Gustave Flaubert; Vladimir Nabokov; Montaigne
Thesiger, Wilfred - Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (his favorite novel)
Thompson, Hunter S. - Ernest Hemingway; F. Scott Fitzgerald; J.P. Donleavy; Jack Kerouac; William Faulkner
Thubron, Colin - Freya Stark; Patrick Leigh Fermor
Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Ring of the Nibelung; The Kalevala, compiled by Elias Lonnrot; Charles Williams
Tolstoy, Leo - Evgeny Onegin by Alexander Pushkin; Henry David Thoreau; La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas
Trollope, Anthony - William Makepeace Thackeray; R. Monckton Milnes; W.E. Forster; G.H. Lewes; early Dickens
Updike, John - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov; Saul Bellow; Henry Green; early Anne Tyler; Philip Roth ("a great liberator of what could be said"); Muriel Spark; Iris Murdoch; Joseph Conrad; Deborah Eisenberg ("A writer with really something new to say about female experience."); Thom Jones; The Assistant by Bernard Malamud; short stories by Mary McCarthy; Herman Melville; the criticism of Walt Whitman; Nathaniel Hawthorne
Vonnegut, Kurt - Eugene Debs; George Bernard Shaw; Upton Sinclair; The Odyssey by Homer
Walker, Alice - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Walker was instrumental in getting this book widely recognized)
Warren, Robert Penn - "Horatius at the Bridge" (when he was six years old); "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" (when he was nine); "Lycidas"; History of Civilization in England by Buckle; The Oregon Trail; Prescott Samuel Eliot Morison; C. Van Woodword; Bruce Catton; America by Adam de Gurowski; Eudora Welty; Katharine Anne Porter; Nelson Algren; The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Waters, Sarah - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë; Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; Vanity Fair by William Thackeray; New Grub Street by George Gissing; Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë; Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens; Dracula by Bram Stoker; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (top ten Victorian novels)
Welty, Eudora - Patrick O’Brian
West, Rebecca - Henry Green ("The best writer of his time.")
Winterson, Jeanette - "I'm on the side of Harold Bloom. Everybody should read the Canon of Western Literature, even if you don't accept it as canonical. For a reader, it's riches. For a writer, it's roots."; "Orlando the Marmalade Cat is certainly a book I would take with me in the life and death struggle." Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy; The Accidental by Ali Smith; Matisse by Hilary Spurling
Wood, James - W.G. Sebald; Etruscan Places by D.H. Lawrence; Herzog/ The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow; Virginia Woolf; Jane Austen; "The Nose"/ Dead Souls by Gogol; Moby Dick by Herman Melville; Jane Austen; Anton Chekhov; The Golovlyov Family by M.E. Saltykov-Schedrin; Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; Brick Lane by Monica Ali; A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul; Money by Martin Amis; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Wood has stated that Biswas, John Self, and Jean Brodie are the only three real characters of post-war British fiction); Loving by Henry Green; Confessions of Zeno by Italo Svevo; Giovanni Verga; Morte d'Urban by J.F. Powers; The Razedsky March by Joseph Roth
Authors A - I
Authors J - R