Writers Reading Canon

The following list is composed of the books and authors most frequently cited as influences by writers.

1. Ulysses by James Joyce
2. The novels of Charles Dickens
3. Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
4. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
5. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
6. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
7. The novels of Jane Austen
8. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
9. The novels of Feodor Dostoevsky
10. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
11. The short stories of Ernest Hemingway
12. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
13. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
14. Middlemarch by George Eliot
15. The short stories of Franz Kafka
16. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. Trilogy by Samuel Beckett
18. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
19. The short stories of Anton Chekhov
20. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
21. The works of D.H. Lawrence
22. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
23. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
24. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
25. The short stories of Katherine Anne Porter
26. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
27. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
28. The essays of Sir Thomas Browne
29. The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
30. Lord Jim/ Heart of Darkness/ Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
31. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
32. The Once and Future King by T.H. White
33. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy