1) Nietzsche

2) Balzac

3) Tolstoy

4) Fitzgerald

5) Stendhal

Steinbeck

Kafka

Hunter S. Thompson

Charles Bukowski

Asimov

Brunner

HP Lovecraft

Philip K Dick

Arthur Conan Doyle

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Oh man, this is tough, but I'll try. My answer would change depending on which genre you're asking about but

Vonnegut, Mises and Proudhon are in the top 3 for sure

Then there's Heinlein and Neil Stevenson If I had to restrict it to top 5 all time.

I’m coming back to this post 💯💯💯♥️🔥

Based

Dang, it needs to be longer I need to add Viktor Frankl

I have too many. GFY with just 3-5 😂

J. R. R. Tolkien

N. N. Taleb

Shirley Jackson

Stephen King

Michael Crichton

Saifedean Ammous

Eknath Easwaran

Ursula K. LeGuin

Naomi Novik

Jane Austen

etc. etc.

Damn great list, Lewis for sure on the last one

1 Hermann Hesse

2 Dostojewski

3 Larry McMurtry