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Authors Who Helped Me As an Author #2
A Listmania! list by Graham Worthington (Toronto, Canada)

1. Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver

The list author says:
	"....I'm continuing from where "Authors Who Helped Me As an Author #1" ended, with this 60s black author & activist. This list’s about books that helped me grow as a writer, producing my first, below…."

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2. Wake of the Raven by Graham Worthington

The list author says:
	"….it’s a mixed-genre fiction, with elements of psychological drama, erotic tension, war & adventure in exotic places, and social observation. Excellent reviews, and it’s set in the Far East, in 1951…"

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3. Zorn by Graham Worthington

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4. Penguin Classics History Of Tom Jones A Foundling by Henry Fielding

The list author says:
	"One of the longest novels I've ever read: Tom's search for unattainable Sophia Weston, whose name also means 'wisdom.'"

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5. The Associate: A Novel by John Grisham

The list author says:
	"ex-lawyer John Grisham entertains and informs again with a story of the dark twists of the legal industry."

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6. The Odyssey by Homer

The list author says:
	"Millenia ago, blind Homer wrote this most enduring story of Odysseus's struggle to return across the mediterranean to Ithica and his wife, Penelope."

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7. The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text by Franz Kafka

The list author says:
	"As in "The Trial," a puzzled man tries to solve the mystery of his life, with little success. the novel is incomplete."

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8. Penguin Classics Women In Love by D H Lawrence

The list author says:
	"Possibly the best novel by lawrence, who - very controversialy for the early 1900s - wrote on human love and sexuality."

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9. The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author by Norman Mailer

The list author says:
	"....Mailer's famous novel of the brutality of war, matched by the corruption of the men who wage it...."

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10. The Death of a Pope: A Novel by Piers Paul Read

The list author says:
	"The latest offering from a writer who has produced a series of fine novels, usually dealing with war and intrigue."

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11. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The list author says:
	"The enduring story of a man called on to act, who becomes emmeshed in thought."

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12. Way We Live Now Tv Tie In Edition by Anthony Trollope

The list author says:
	"Trollope - not appreciated as much as he should be amongst authors of the 1800/1900s. A study of financial scheming that's very relevant nowadays."

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13. My Father's Tears and Other Stories by John Updike

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14. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The list author says:
	"An early Sci-Fi from the man recognised - along with HG Wells - as a Father of science fiction."

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15. Lord Of Light by Roger Zelazny

The list author says:
	"....no Xs or Ys spring to mind, so I'll continue with this excellent and re-readable novel by Zelazny...."

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16. Penguin Classics Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen

The list author says:
	"....an 18th century lady who isn't my favourite, but deserves a lot of respect for what she achieved in those days...."

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17. Transition by Iain M. Banks

The list author says:
	"....and for B, this vastly different Scottish author, who usually inserts an M between his names when authoring Sci-Fi novels like this one...."

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18. Empire by Orson Scott Card

The list author says:
	"....which puts me in mind of this prolific writer of Sci-Fi, many of whose novels I've read...."

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19. The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders by Robertson Davies

The list author says:
	"....and how come I haven't yet listed the man who I consider the greatest of Canadian writers? This is the best of his trilogies...."

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20. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The list author says:
	"....even as this is the greatest of Umberto's historical mysteries...."

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21. To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer

The list author says:
	"....not my favourite of Farmer's series novel, but it is the first of his Riverworld series (Can't find "World of Tiers" -which is better - on Amazon)...."

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22. The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property and In Chancery by John Galsworthy

The list author says:
	"....and these three the start of this early 20th century author's best known series. Passable but not my favourite author from those days: Anthony Trollope was far better...."

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23. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

The list author says:
	"....as was this mid-20th century German author, little concerned withe society - which Galsworthy was - but instead probing deep into man's relationship with his mysterious self...."

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24. Campbells Kingdom by Hammond Innes

The list author says:
	"....one of best known of that prolific writer of adventure, Innes, often filmed, now deceased and sadly neglected...."

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25. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The list author says:
	"....and now for something completely different, as the Monty Python crew used to say, a short novel by the overrated Irish writer Joyce...."