Who are your favorite authors and Why?

[Alex Ros]

1. James Joyce "Ulysses"
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10. Homer "Iliad"
11. Hermann Hesse "The Glass Bead Game" and other novels
12. Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov" and other novels
13. Franz Kafka - short stories
14. Thomas Mann "Joseph And His Brothers"
15. William Golding "The Lord Of The Flies"
16. Jorge Luis Borges - short stories
17. Gabriel Garcia Marquez "One Hundred Years Of Solitude"
18. Miguel De Cervantes "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha"
19. Umberto Eco "Baudolino" and other novels
20. Patrick Suskind "Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer"
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30. Stephen King "It" and other novels
31. Howard Lovecraft "At The Mountains Of Madness" and other novels and short stories

It's not just a list for a listing.
I really recommend to give those titles a try.
Honestly. High class literature.

P.S. The question "Why?" is really hard to answer. Extremely hard, be honest. And surely it's simply would need an incredibly large wall of text to explain such things, I mean to answer "Why?"