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These are inclined to change order depending on the day, so there's no ranking system. It might not even be these same writers all the time. But that's who it is today. Pretty easy list to make, I just have to look at the bookshelf. Novelists only since I don't read enough non-fiction or poetry these days, unfortunately. 11. Phillip Roth -  American Reference Novels: Portnoy's Complaint; Nemesis; American Pastoral Why: Been good since the sixties and still at it ( Nemesis was released in 2010), I loved Portnoy's Complaint (yes, I'm a perv) and how it sounded like a long novel of standup comedy. First time I'd ever seen that done. He's got character-driven prose down too,  American Pastoral is as cerebral a novel as they come. 10. Salman Rushdie - British/Indian Reference Novels: Midnight's Children; Shalimar the Clown; Haroun and the Sea of Stories Why: Sadly most famous for the fatwa due to The Satanic Verses which isn't one ...

Disclaimer: I'm sure there will be many authors I've missed out simply because I haven't heard of them. It is impossible for me to read anything not published or translated into English or French. Or works that I cannot get a hold of even if translations exist ( the book market in Trinidad is a bit limited. It's not a perfect world). I'm making guesses with the material I have and hopefully the guesses are good. In no particular order: 12. Chinua Achebe - Nigeria Language : English Genres: Poems; Short Stories; Essays; Novels Reference Works: Things Fall Apart (1958); A Man of the People (1966); Hopes and Impediments (1988) 11. E.L. Doctorow - United States of America Language: English Genre: Novels, Essays, Short Stories, Plays Reference Works: The Book of Daniel (1971); Ragtime (1975); The March (2005) 10. Yasar Kemal - Turkey Language : Turkish Genre: Novel, Plays Reference Works: Memed, My Hawk (1955); Teneke (1955); The Legen...

10. The Shadow of the Wind -Carlos Ruiz Zafon -2001- Spain 9.The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz- 2007- Dominican Republic/USA 8. Everything Is Illuminated-Jonathan Safran Foer - 2002. USA 7.The Famished Road - Ben Okri -1992- Nigeria 6.In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje -1987 - Sri Lanka/Canada 5. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- 1985-Colombia 4.The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera -1979- Czechoslovakia 3. The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass -1958 -Germany 2. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie -1981- UK 1.One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 1967- Colombia