Reading 1001 discussion

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Question: Which author(s) have you discovered thanks to the 1001 list -- authors you may not have read if not for the list?

The list is long. By date, from oldest to newest:
Fanny Burney
Matthew Lewis
Emile Zola
Stefan Zweig
Nella Larsen
Jorge Luis Borges
Nevil Shute
John Wyndham
Heinrich Boll
Mikhail Bulgakov
Philip Roth
Salman Rushdie (I'd heard of him but was intimidated until the list)
Haruki Murakami
Bruce Chatwin
William Trevor
Angela Carter
Jeanette Winterson
Colm Toibin
Carol Shields
Paul Auster
David Foster Wallace
Arundhati Roy
David Mitchell
Ali Smith
And one of my very favorites: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
So many of these authors were gateways to other authors, and other books. And a very big TBR.

My list is long too, so I am going with the first year I read 1001, I was introduced to Margaret Atwood, Coetzee, and Drabble.

This year new to me authors; Maxim Gorky and Duncker.

Kristel wrote: "My list is long too, so I am going with the first year I read 1001, I was introduced to Margaret Atwood, Coetzee, and Drabble.

This year new to me authors; Maxim Gorky and Duncker."

Gorky is new to me too this year and Dunker although I was familiar with Gorky (just hadn't read his works yet).

I also have a long list. So I'll go with the ones I enjoyed
the most so far. Murakami, Rushdie, Mistry, Seth and
Wyndham.

There are many, but a few authors I would probably never have otherwise read without the list include:

Peter Ackroyd
Nelson Algren
Martin Amis
Djuna Barnes
Donald Barthelme
William Burroughs
Alain de Botton
Margaret Drabble
Chester Himes
Storm Jameson
Horace McCoy
Phillipp Meyer
Alan Moore
Mervyn Peake
Pauline Reage
Newton Thornburg
Jean Toomer
Edmund White
Thomas Wolfe

Diane wrote: "There are many, but a few authors I would probably never have otherwise read without the list include:

Peter Ackroyd
Nelson Algren
Martin Amis
Djuna Barnes
Donald Barthelme
William Burroughs
Alain..."

I would never have read Peter Ackroyd if it wasn't for the list.

Kristel wrote: "Diane wrote: "There are many, but a few authors I would probably never have otherwise read without the list include:

Peter Ackroyd
Nelson Algren
Martin Amis
Djuna Barnes
Donald Barthelme
William B..."

Me neither and I can't say that I'd be too sad about it either 😂

I like him in some odd way

My list is:
Joseph von Eichendorff
Hendrik Conscience
Multatuli
Strindberg
Grossmith
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Somerville and Ross
Sigrid Undset
Italo Svevo
Michael Green
Jaroslav Hasek
Georges Bataille
Frederic Manning
Miroslav Krleza
Henry Roth
Mulk Raj Anand
H.P. Lovecroft
Zora Neale Hurston
Winifrid Watson
Saul Bellow
Jorge Luis Borges
Mervyn Peake
Camilo Jose Cela
Octavio Paz
Yasunari Kawabata
Camara Laye
Pauline Reage
John Barth
Ward Ruyslinck
Tarjei Vesaas
Chinua Achebe
Kenzaburo Oe
Heinrich Boll
Stanislaw Lem
Xose Neira Vilas
Robert Heinlein
Jorge Luis Borges
Bohumil Hrabal
Shusaku Endo
Oles Honchar
Philip K Dick
Manuel Puig
Tayeb Salih
Peter Handke
Arto Paasilinna
Richard Brautigan
Imre Kertesz
Donald Barthelme
Ismail Kadare
Andrzej Szczypiorski
Pavlos Matesis
Arturo Perez-Reverte
Javier Marias
Gillian Rose
David Foster Wallace
Russell Banks
Neal Stephenson
Mark Z Danielewski
Michael Chabon
Orhan Pamuk
John McGahern
David Mitchell
Roberto Bolano
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Junot Diaz
Jose Saramago

Quite a list!

So far I've mainly been reading authors from the list that I already wanted to read, or had at least heard of. Or books that I have come across for other challenges that happen to also be on the 1001-list.

But when I needed an author (classic) for the letter O recently, I went with Edna O'Brien and Flann O'Brien because I found them on the 1001-list. (I'll be scouring the list for authors starting with R later on too, unless I just go with Ann Radcliffe.)

And next month I'll be introduced to Romain Gary, who I definitely have never heard of before.

Like others have mentioned too many to name them all. I will list the new ones I have discovered this year so far.
Maya Angelou
Horace McCoy
Michael Herr
E.L. Doctorow
William Kotzwinkle
Rebecca West
Arthur C. Clarke
Patrick McCabe
Kazuo Ishiguro
Nicole Drauss
Francois Mauiac

The list is quite long - but these are the ones I might have missed otherwise:

Barth, John
Bartol, Vladimir
Breton, André
Ellison, Ralph **
Huong, Duong Thu **
Kadare, Ismail **
Koeppen, Wolfgang
Laye, Camara **
MacPherson, Ian
McCabe, Patrick **
McCoy, Horace **
McGahern, John
Miyabe, Miyuki **
Musil, Robert
Nooteboom, Cees
Pym, Barbara **
Réage, Pauline
Roth, Joseph
Seghers, Anna
Slauerhoff, Jan Jacob
Tanizaki, Junichiro **
Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe **
van Heerden, Etienne
Vesaas, Tarjei **
Wassmo, Herbjorg **

** The ones that left a lasting impression.

I know it's too late for the points, but here are a few favourites of mine:
Murakami, Wyndham, Mitchell.