- William Shakespeare
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- George Orwell
- Charles Dickens
- Leo Tolstoy
- Jane Austen
- Ernest Hemingway
- Homer
- John Steinbeck
- James Joyce (1882 – 1941) Irish novelist
- Mark Twain
- Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) French writer. Author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899 – 1977) Russian author Lolita (1955) Pale Fire (1962)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) American author
- Robert Frost (1874 – 1963) – American poet
- Virgil (70 BC – 19 BC) Roman poet
- William Wordsworth
- Oscar Wilde
- C.S. Lewis
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927 – 2014) Colombian author. Nobel Prize in Literature (1982). Wrote: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)
- Victor Hugo (1802 – 1885) French novelist and poet. Wrote Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831
- J.K. Rowling
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1842) American author, poet, editor, and literary critic
- Virginia Woolf
- Emily Dickinson
- D. H. Lawrence
- Walt Whitman
- George Eliot (1819 – 1880) Pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Wrote novels, The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876)
- Marcel Proust
- Albert Camus
- J.D. Salinger
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Thomas Hardy
- Joseph Heller
- Salman Rushdie
- Charlotte Bronte
- Douglas Adams
- Emily Bronte
- W. Somerset Maugham
- Honore de Balzac
- Khalid Hosseini
- Toni Morrison
- Agatha Christie
- Ayn Rand
- Joseph Conrad
- Evelyn Waugh
- William Faulkner
- John Updike
- Dante Alighieri
- Franz Kafka
- Edith Wharton
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Henry Miller
- William Butler Yeats
- Aldous Huxley
- Paulo Coelho
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Marcus Aurelius
- Jack London
- Henry David Thoreau
- Thomas Mann
- Graham Greene
- George R.R. Martin
- Jules Verne
- Jack Kerouac
- Jean Paul Sarte
- Agatha Christie
- Hunter S. Thompson
- William Blake
- Maya Angelou
- Tennessee Williams
- John Keats
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- George Bernard Shaw
- Rudyard Kipling
- E. M. Forster
- Plato
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Gabriela Mistral
- Jalalud’din Rumi
- Wilfred Owen
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- John Milton
- Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
- Roald Dahl
- W H Auden
- T.S.Eliot
- Anne Frank
- Ian McEwan
- Stephen King
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Phillip Roth
- Beatrix Potter
- Paulo Coelho
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Anton Chekhov
- G.K. Chesterton
- Enid Blyton
- Czeslaw Milosz
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