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The rules: Don't take too long to think about it. List 15 authors (I'm including fiction and non-fiction) who have influenced you and who will always stick with you. List the first 15 you can identify in no more than 15 minutes.

1. J.R.R. Tolkien

2. Donatien Alphonse François

3. Dante Alighieri

4. Umberto Eco

5. Camille Paglia

6. Mikhail Bakhtin (his work on Rabelais)

7. Jean de la Fontaine

8. Mário de Andrade

9. Arthur Conan Doyle

10. H.P. Lovecraft

11. Murray Rothbard

12. Friedrich Nietzsche

13. Ayn Rand

14. H.G. Wells

15. Albert Camus

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Avi Burra 2y ago

In no particular order, spanning childhood to the present:

1. Joseph Heller

2. JD Salinger

3. Camus

4. Sartre

5. Terry Pratchett

6. PG Wodehouse

7. GK Chesterton

8. Wittgenstein

9. Bertrand Russell

10. Oscar Wilde

11. Any Rand

12. Robert M. Pirsig

13. Douglas Hofstadter

14. Enid Blyton

15. Virginia Woolf

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Discussion

Avi Burra 2y ago

Ugh, I feel like I missed so many

Luigi 2y ago

Yeah, it’s difficult to summarise one’s whole life in books

Avi Burra 2y ago

Looking at some of the other lists in the replies. Yeah, 90% of those as well

Luigi 2y ago

Bertrand Russell and Oscar Wilde are great! And I always go back to The Catcher in the Rye after all these years 😅