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Propaganda Daily | 11 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +7 
 What’s your top 3-5 authors ? #bookstr

1 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2 Fyodor Dostoevsky 
3 George Orwell
4 Ernest Hemingway
5 not sure on this one John Milton / cs Lewis
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edouard | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 1) Nietzsche
2) Balzac
3) Tolstoy
4) Fitzgerald
5) Stendhal
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edouard | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 1 German. 1 American, 1 Russian, TWO French - seems about right
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jascha | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Steinbeck
Kafka
Hunter S. Thompson
Charles Bukowski
Asimov 
Brunner
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GHOST | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 HP Lovecraft 
Philip K Dick
Arthur Conan Doyle
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Enki | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 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.
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Eshara | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I’m coming back to this post 💯💯💯♥️🔥
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captain | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Based
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Propaganda Daily | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Dang, it needs to be longer I need to add Viktor Frankl
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[ARCHIVED] Jay | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 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.
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nobody | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Crichton is so good. Way ahead of his time and just brilliant books.
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Heretic | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Damn great list, Lewis for sure on the last one
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JoeMaro | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 1 Hermann Hesse
2 Dostojewski
3 Larry McMurtry
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JoeMaro | 11 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 4 Chuck Palahniuk
5 Kenneth Wapnick