A meme of bookishness, and it goes like this

[xatalantax]

I post a list of ten authors on the shelf of an LJ friend, then replace the authors I don't have on my shelf with ones I do. You do the same.

irene_adler's list:

Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
J.K. Rowling
David Brin
Wendy and Richard Pini
Ursula K. LeGuin
Connie Willis
Bill Bryson
Tim Cahill
Herman Melville

My list:

Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
Orson Scott Card
Junichiro Tanizaki
A.S. Byatt
Ursula K. LeGuin
Patrick O'Brian
Nicholas Christopher
Michael Ondaatje
Richard Powers

and I'm adding something to the meme - here's my "embarrassing author" that I enjoy reading a lot even though I don't think much of the quality of the books: Anne Rivers Siddons, who writes about women findings themselves in some way while traipsing around beautiful exotic locales.

Comments

[ex-ilyavinar899.livejournal.com]

Funny that I have zero intersections with your list. I have read a Card and a LeGuin, but found them unworthy to occupy space on my bookshelf.

How about:

H. G. Wells
Gore Vidal
Kurt Vonnegut
George Orwell
Jonathan Swift
Robert Graves
Aldous Huxley
Edward Gibbon
Herodotus
Jonathan Spence

(this is English-language and translated fiction and narrative history, of course)