#1 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Born: 1821 Died: 1881
From: Moscow, Russian Empire
Notable works: Crime and Punishment
Reader Rating: 9
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#1 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Born: 1821 Died: 1881
From: Moscow, Russian Empire
Notable works: Crime and Punishment
Reader Rating: 9
#2 Homer
Born: 8th century BC
From: Ionia, Turkey
Notable works: The Odyssey
Reader Rating: 9
#3 Adam Smith
Born: 1723 Died: 1790
From: Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
Notable works: The Wealth of Nations
Reader Rating: 9
#4 Phil Knight
Born: 1938 (age 88)
From: Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Notable works: Shoe Dog
Reader Rating: 8
#5 Sam Walton
Born: 1918 Died: 1992
From: Kingfisher, Oklahoma, U.S.
Notable works: Sam Walton: Made in America
Reader Rating: 8
#6 Leo Tolstoy
Born: 1828 Died: 1910
From: Yasnaya Polyana, Russian Empire.
Notable works: War And Peace
Reader Rating: 8
#7 Lanny Bassham
Born: 1947 (age 79)
From: Comanche, Texas, U.S.
Notable works: With Winning in Mind
Reader Rating: 8
#8 Hermann Hesse
Born: 1877 Died: 1962
From: Calw, Germany
Notable works: Siddhartha Steppenwolf Demian
Reader Rating: 7.7
#9 Will Coombe
Born: 1986 (age 40)
From: London, England
Notable works: 3 months to No. 1
Reader Rating: 7
#10 Jason Fried
Born: 1974 (age 52)
From: Deerfield, Illinois, U.S.
Notable works: Rework
Reader Rating: 7
#11 NiccolĂČ Machiavelli
Born: 1469 Died: 1527
From: Republic of Florence, Italy
Notable works: The Prince
Reader Rating: 7
#12 Leil Lowndes
Born: 1950 (age 76)
From: United States
Notable works: How to Make Anyone Fall in Love With You
Reader Rating: 7
#13 Mark Manson
Born: 1984 (age 42)
From: Austin, Texas, U. S.
Notable works: Models: Atract Women through Honesty
Reader Rating: 7
#14 Neil Strauss
Born: 1969 (age 57)
From: Chicago, Illinois, U. S.
Notable works: The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pick Up Artists
Reader Rating: 7
#15 Douglas Adams
Born: 1952 Died: 2001
From: Cambridge, England
Notable works: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Reader Rating: 6
#16 Jerome David Salinger
Born: 1919 Died: 2010
From: New York City, New York, U.S.
Notable works: The Catcher in the Rye
Reader Rating: 6
#17 David Airey
Born: 1979 (age 47)
From: Bangor, Northern Ireland
Notable works: Logo Design Love
Reader Rating: 5
#18 Benjamin Graham
Born: 1894 Died: 1976
From: London, England
Notable works: The Intelligent Investor
Reader Rating: 4
#19 Atul Gawande
Born: 1965 (age 61)
From: New York City, U.S.
Notable works: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get things Done
Reader Rating: 4
#20 Aldoux Huxley
Born: 1894 Died: 1963
From: Godalming, Surrey, England
Notable works: Brave New World
Reader Rating: 0
#21 Victor Hugo
Born: 1802 Died: 1885
From: Besançon, France
Notable works: Les Misérables
Reader Rating: 0
#22 Jane Austen
Born: 1775 Died: 1817
From: Steventon, Hampshire, England
Notable works: Pride and Prejudice
Reader Rating: 0
#23 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Born: 1900 Died: 1944
From: Lyon, France
Notable works: The Little Prince
Reader Rating: 0
#24 Arthur Golden
Born: 1956 (age 70)
From: Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.
Notable works: Memoirs of a Geisha
Reader Rating: 0
#25 Cassandra Clare
Born: 1973 (age 53)
From: Tehran, Iran
Notable works: City of Bones
Reader Rating: 0
#26 Markus Zusak
Born: 1975 (age 51)
From: Sydney, Australia
Notable works: The Book Thief
Reader Rating: 0
#27 Lewis Carroll
Born: 1832 Died: 1898
From: Daresbury, Cheshire, England
Notable works: Through the Looking-Glass Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Reader Rating: 0
#28 Kathryn Stockett
Born: 1969 (age 57)
From: Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.
Notable works: The Help
Reader Rating: 0
#29 Stephenie Meyer
Born: 1973 (age 53)
From: Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Notable works: Twilight
Reader Rating: 0
#30 Elwyn Brooks White
Born: 1899 Died: 1985
From: Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.
Notable works: Charlotte's Web
Reader Rating: 0
#31 John Steinbeck
Born: 1902 Died: 1968
From: Salinas, California, U.S.
Notable works: Of Mice And Men
Reader Rating: 0
#32 George Orwell
Born: 1903 Died: 1950
From: Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India
Notable works: 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-four) Animal Farm
Reader Rating: 0
#33 Audrey Niffenegger
Born: 1963 (age 63)
From: South Haven, Michigan, U.S.
Notable works: Time Traveller's Wife
Reader Rating: 0
#34 Paulo Coelho
Born: 1947 (age 79)
From: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Notable works: The Alchemist
Reader Rating: 0
#35 Margaret Mitchell
Born: 1900 Died: 1945
From: Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Notable works: Gone With The Wind
Reader Rating: 0
#36 J.K. Rowling
Born: 1965 (age 61)
From: Yate, Gloucestershire, England
Notable works: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Reader Rating: 0
#37 John Green
Born: 1977 (age 49)
From: Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Notable works: The Fault Of Our Stars
Reader Rating: 0
#38 William Shakespeare
Born: 1564 Died: 1616
From: Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Notable works: Romeo And Juliet Hamlet A Midsummer Night Dream
Reader Rating: 0
#39 Louisa May Alcott
Born: 1832 Died: 1888
From: Germantown, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Notable works: Little Women
Reader Rating: 0
#40 Rick Riordan
Born: 1964 (age 62)
From: San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Notable works: The Lightning Thief
Reader Rating: 0
#41 Suzanne Collins
Born: 1962 (age 64)
From: Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Notable works: The Hunger Games
Reader Rating: 0
#42 Dan Brown
Born: 1964 (age 62)
From: Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.
Notable works: The Da Vinci Code
Reader Rating: 0
#43 Lucy Maud Montgomery
Born: 1874 Died: 1942
From: New London, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Notable works: Anne of Green Gables
Reader Rating: 0
#44 Harper Lee
Born: 1926 Died: 2016
From: Monroeville, Alabama, U.S.
Notable works: To Kill a Mockingbird
Reader Rating: 0
#45 Bram Stoker
Born: 1847 Died: 1912
From: Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland
Notable works: Dracula
Reader Rating: 0
#46 Frances Hodgson Burnett
Born: 1849 Died: 1924
From: Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England
Notable works: The Secret Garden
Reader Rating: 0
#47 Emily Jane Brontë
Born: 1818 Died: 1848
From: Thornton, Yorkshire, England
Notable works: Wuthering Heights
Reader Rating: 0
#48 William Golding
Born: 1911 Died: 1993
From: St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England
Notable works: Lord of the Flies
Reader Rating: 0
#49 Gabriel GarcĂa MĂĄrquez
Born: 1927 Died: 2014
From: Aracataca, Colombia
Notable works: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Reader Rating: 0
#50 Veronica Anne Roth
Born: 1988 (age 38)
From: New York City, New York, U.S.
Notable works: Divergent
Reader Rating: 0
#51 J.R.R. Tolkien
Born: 1892 Died: 1973
From: Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa
Notable works: The Lord of the Rings The Hobbit
Reader Rating: 0
#52 Stephen Chbosky
Born: 1970 (age 56)
From: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Notable works: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Reader Rating: 0
#53 Madeleine L'Engle
Born: 1918 Died: 2007
From: New York City, New York, U.S.
Notable works: A Wrinkle in Time
Reader Rating: 0
#54 George R. R. Martin
Born: 1948 (age 78)
From: Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S.
Notable works: A Game of Thrones
Reader Rating: 0
#55 Khaled Hosseini
Born: 1965 (age 61)
From: Kabul, Afghanistan
Notable works: A Thousand Splendid Suns The Kite Runner
Reader Rating: 0
#56 Ray Bradbury
Born: 1920 Died: 2012
From: Waukegan, Illinois, U.S.
Notable works: Fahrenheit 451
Reader Rating: 0
#57 Susan Eloise Hinton
Born: 1948 (age 78)
From: Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Notable works: The Outsiders
Reader Rating: 0
#58 Charlotte Bronte
Born: 1916 Died: 1955
From: Thornton, Yorkshire, England
Notable works: Jane Eyre
Reader Rating: 0
#59 Sheldon Allan Silverstein
Born: 1930 Died: 1999
From: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Notable works: The Giving Tree
Reader Rating: 0
#60 Orson Scott Card
Born: 1951 (age 75)
From: Richland, Washington, U.S.
Notable works: Ender's Game
Reader Rating: 0
#61 Oscar Wilde
Born: 1854 Died: 1900
From: Dublin, Ireland
Notable works: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Reader Rating: 0
#62 Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Born: 1896 Died: 1940
From: St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Notable works: The Great Gatsby
Reader Rating: 0
#63 Clive Staples Lewis
Born: 1898 Died: 1963
From: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Notable works: The Chronicles Of Narnia
Reader Rating: 0
#64 William Goldman
Born: 1931 Died: 2018
From: Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.
Notable works: The Princess Bride
Reader Rating: 0
#65 Mary Shelley
Born: 1797 Died: 1851
From: Somers Town, London, England
Notable works: Frankenstein
Reader Rating: 0
#66 Lois Ann Lowry
Born: 1937 (age 89)
From: Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Notable works: The Giver
Reader Rating: 0
#67 Margaret Atwood
Born: 1939 (age 87)
From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Notable works: The Handmaid's Tale
Reader Rating: 0
#68 Alice Sebold
Born: 1963 (age 63)
From: Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Notable works: The Lovely Bones
Reader Rating: 0
#69 Maurice Sendak
Born: 1928 Died: 2012
From: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Notable works: Where the Wild Things Are
Reader Rating: 0
#70 Reid Hoffman
Born: 1967 (age 59)
From: Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Notable works: Blitzscaling
Reader Rating: 0
#71 David Heinemeier Hansson
Born: 1979 (age 47)
From: Copenhagen, Denmark
Notable works: N/A
Reader Rating: 0
#72 Stephen King
Born: 1947 (age 79)
From: Portland, Maine, U.S.
Notable works: The Shining 11/22/63 The Stand
Reader Rating: 0
#73 Jesse Livermore
Born: 1877 Died: 1940
From: Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, U.S.
Notable works: How to Trade in Stocks
Reader Rating: 0
#74 Walter Isaacson
Born: 1952 (age 74)
From: New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Notable works: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Reader Rating: 0
#75 Nitobe InazĆ
Born: 1862 Died: 1933
From: Morioka, Mutsu Province, Japan
Notable works: Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Reader Rating: 0
#76 Mark Minervini
Born: 1965 (age 61)
From: Queens, New York, U.S.
Notable works: Mindset Secrets for Winning
Reader Rating: 0
#77 Sun Tzu
Born: 544 BC Died: 496 BC
From: Le'an, State of Qi, China
Notable works: Art of War
Reader Rating: 0
#78 Musashi Miyamoto
Born: 1584 Died: 1645
From: Harima Province, Japan.
Notable works: The Book of Five Rings
Reader Rating: 0
#79 Isaac Asimov
Born: 1920 Died: 1992
From: Petrovichi, Russia
Notable works: Foundation Prelude to Foundation Second Foundation
Reader Rating: 0
#80 Herman Melville
Born: 1819 Died: 1891
From: New York City, New York, U.S.
Notable works: Moby Dick
Reader Rating: 0
#81 Mark Twain
Born: 1835 Died: 1910
From: Florida, Missouri, U.S.
Notable works: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Reader Rating: 0
#82 Dr. Seuss
Born: 1904 Died: 1991
From: Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Notable works: Green Eggs and Ham
Reader Rating: 0
#83 Allen Levi
Born: Not listed
From: Bay Minette, Alabama, U.S.
Notable works: Theo of Golden
Reader Rating: 0
#84 Baltasar Gracian
Born: 1601 Died: 1658
From: Belmonte de Gracian, Aragon, Spain
Notable works: The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
Reader Rating: 0
#85 Yann Martel
Born: 1963 (age 63)
From: Salamanca, Spain
Notable works: Life of Pi
Reader Rating: 0
#86 Allen Carr
Born: 1934 Died: 2006
From: London, England
Notable works: The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
Reader Rating: 0
#87 Charles Dickens
Born: 1812 Died: 1870
From: United Kingdom
Notable works: A Tale of Two Cities
Reader Rating: 0
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