My 11 Favorite Novelists of All Time
Who are yours?
Here are the 11 novelists who’ve written at least three novels that I regard as great, found to be deeply meaningful, and intend to read again:
J.R.R. Tolkien
British
1892 - 1973
3-novels-in-1
favorite: The Lord of the Rings
10.
Albert Murray
American
1916 - 2013
4 novels
favorite: Train Whistle Guitar
9.
Isabel Allende
Chilean
1942 -
4 novels
favorite: The House of the Spirits
8.
Thomas Keneally
Australian
1935 -
4 novels
favorite: Schindler’s List
7.
Vasily Grossman
Ukrainian
1905 - 1964
4 novels
favorite: Life and Fate
6.
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-American
1928 - 2016
5 novels
favorite: The Testament
5.
George Eliot
(Mary Ann Evans)
British
1819 - 1880
5 novels
favorite: Middlemarch
4.
Jane Austen
British
1775 - 1817
6 novels
favorite: Pride and Prejudice
3.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian
1918 - 2008
5 novels and 1 novella
favorite: The First Circle
2.
Honore de Balzac
French
1799 - 1850
7 novels
favorite: Lost Illusions
1.
Charles Dickens
British
1812 - 1870
10 novels
favorite: The Pickwick Papers
One novel I've read recently and really enjoyed was "The Way We Live Now" by Anthony Trollope. And, it is quite pertinent to the way we are living now. Highly recommend.
I couldn't commit to a favourite, but to whittle it down I'll name some whose work I have liked enough to read several of their novels. Like you, Jane Austen is on my list. I have also very much enjoyed John Irving, John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Iris Murdoch, Kingsley Amis and Ian McEwan. Finally, for me, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is a masterpiece.