Exceptional Books discussion

Please post here the name of the author or authors that you considered one of the best in the XX century, considering if the date of death or if the publishing of some of their works were in that century. Later we will publish a list in Listopia to choose the best.

I'll start nominating some of my favourites.

1. Franz Kafka
2. Virgina Woolf
3. Samuel Beckett
4. Jorge Luis Borges
5. Julio Cortázar
6. Pablo Neruda
7. Italo Calvino
8. Aldous Huxley
9. Marcel Proust
10. George Orwell
11. Isaac Asimov
12. Arthur C. Clarke
13. Robert Musil
14. James Joyce
15. Herman Hesse
16. Ernest Hemingway
17. Bertrand Russell
18. Emil Cioran
19. Ludwig Wittgenstein
20. Albert Camus
21. Ernesto Sábato
22. Ricardo Piglia
23. Roberto Bolaño
24. Roberto Arlt
25. Mario Vargas Llosa
26. Gabriel García Márquez
27. Milan Kundera
28. Jean-Paul Sartre
29. André Breton
30. Arthur Conan Doyle
31. Agatha Christie
32. Truman Capote
33. Noam Chomsky
34. Karl R. Popper
35. Umberto Eco
36. Howard Philips Lovecraft
37. Charles Bukowski
38. Federico García Lorca
39. Mario Benedetti
40. Fernando Pessoa
41. José Saramago
42. Octavio Paz
43. Robert Musil
44. Bram Stoker
45. Adolfo Bioy Casares

Don't forget James Baldwin, Chinua Achebe, John Steinbeck, and Robert Penn Warren! :)

Please add Herman Hesse, Henry Williamson, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Elie Weisel and H.M. Tomlinson.

The unranked list:

1. Franz Kafka
2. Virgina Woolf
3. Samuel Beckett
4. Jorge Luis Borges
5. Julio Cortázar
6. Pablo Neruda
7. Italo Calvino
8. Aldous Huxley
9. Marcel Proust
10. George Orwell
11. Isaac Asimov
12. Arthur C. Clarke
13. Robert Musil
14. James Joyce
15. Herman Hesse
16. Ernest Hemingway
17. Bertrand Russell
18. Emil Cioran
19. Ludwig Wittgenstein
20. Albert Camus
21. Ernesto Sábato
22. Ricardo Piglia
23. Roberto Bolaño
24. Roberto Arlt
25. Mario Vargas Llosa
26. Gabriel García Márquez
27. Milan Kundera
28. Jean-Paul Sartre
29. André Breton
30. Arthur Conan Doyle
31. Agatha Christie
32. Truman Capote
33. Noam Chomsky
34. Karl R. Popper
35. Umberto Eco
36. Howard Philips Lovecraft
37. Charles Bukowski
38. Federico García Lorca
39. Mario Benedetti
40. Fernando Pessoa
41. José Saramago
42. Octavio Paz
43. Robert Musil
44. Bram Stoker
45. Adolfo Bioy Casares
46. James Baldwin
47. Chinua Achebe
48. John Steinbeck
49. Robert Penn Warren
50. Henry Williamson
51. Juan Ramón Jiménez
52. Elie Wiesel
53. H.M. Tomlinson

I think William Faulkner, T.S. Eliot and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry could be added.