1. Kingsley Amis
2. Beatrix Potter
3. Graham Greene
4. Salman Rushdie
5. Nick Hornby
6. Arthur Conan Doyle
7. Louis de Bernières
8. Doris Lessing
9. Sebastian Faulks
10. Virginia Woolf
You might disagree with half of it, but you’ll enjoy reading all of it
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