Fiction (Literature, Novels, Novellas)

• Herman Hesse
  • Steppenwolf
• Saul Bellows
• Marcel Proust
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Franz Kafka
• Oscar Wilde (i base my melodramatic personality off of him)
• Jane Austen (i base my entire personality off of her)
• James Joyce
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Jean Rhys
• Virginia Woolf
• D.H. Lawrence
• Margaret Atwood
• William Faulkner
• George Orwell
• Vladimir Nabokov
• Harper Lee
• Phillip Roth
• Thomas Pynchon
• Shirley Jackson
• Ayn rand
• Raymond Carver (mostly shorts!)
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Yoko Ogawa
• George Saunders
• Jack Kerouac
• Samuel Beckett
• Josephine Tey
• Isaac Asimov
• John Banville
• David Foster Wallace
• Arthur Clarke
• Chuck Palahniuk
• HP Lovecraft (i had a disturbed childhood but who doesn't)
• Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Poetry

• Philip Larkin
• Walt Whitman
• Emily Dickinson (my galpal)
• Sylvia Plath (my second bff)
• William Blake
• Carol Ann Duffy
• E. E. Cummings
• Langston Hughes
• John Keats
• Felicia Hemans
• Joanna Baillie
• Percy Shelley
• John Clare
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• William Wordsworth
• Anna Letitia Barbauld
• Charlotte Smith

Non-Fiction (bordering and most likely crossing into philosophy, psychology and sociology: sometimes they appear in my texts or required readings, I read more about them and decide I like them enough to put them here. They don't get a plaque, just a stupid list made by some stupid starry-eyed girl)

• Jean Baudrillard
• Noam Chomsky
• Slavoj Zizek
• Carl Jung
• Roland Barthes
• Jacques Lacan
• Marshall McLuhan
• Guy Debord
• Jean-François Lyotard
• Zigmunt Bauman
• Tonnies
• Mark Andrejevic
• David Lyon
• Pierre Bourdieu (french intellectual narcissist, lovablee only depending on whether you have had coffee and adequate amounts of sleep while reading him)
• Jurgen Habermas
• Henri Tajfel
• Anthony Giddens
• Jean Paul Sartre
• Ferdinand de Saussure
• Jacques Derrida
• Martin Heidegger
• Gilles Deleuze
• Pierre-Félix Guattari
• Walter Benjamin
• Siegfried Kracauer
• José Ortega y Gasset
• Andre Bazin (god, i hate him but I also love him. he is the slightly more lovable version of bourdieu in film theory)
• Laura Mulvey
• Hannah Arendt (do you think she and mulvey would make best friends? just me? damn)
• Edmund Husserl (my favourite theory of his is Lebenswelt)
• Michel Foucault (my favourite theory of his is heterotopia, can you believe 6 months before I've never even heard of his name??? i love me some character development)
• Miriam Hansen
• Antonio Gramsci
• Tom Gunning
• Giuliana Bruno
• Michel de Certeau
• Oskar Negt
• Alexander Kluge
• David Harvey (uhhh)
• György Lukács
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Soren Kierkegaard
• Peter Barry
• David Bordwell
• Martin Buber
• Voltaire
• Alexis de Tocqueville
• John Dewey (& Hull House)
• Alfred North Whitehead
• Paul Tillich (theologist)
• Alexander Herzen
• Mikhail Bakunin
• Joseph de Maistre
• Abraham Maslow
• Rollo May (Love & Will)
• Carl Rogers (Humanistic Psychology)
• Louis Althusser
• Harold Lasswell
• William James
• Wilhelm Wundt
• Emile Durkheim
• George Herbert Mead
• Jacques Ranciere
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• Gregory Bates
• Harry Stack Sullivan
• Robert E. Park
• Theodor Adorno
• Max Horkenheimer (critical school/post-marxist)
• Leo Lowenthal
• Erich Fromm
• Herbert Marcuse
• Margaret Mead
• Georg Simmel
• Herbert Blumer
• Erving Goffman
• Frantz Fanon
• Norbert Weiner
• Claude Shannon
• Kurt Lewin
• Robert Merton
• Robert Lynd
• Carl Hovland
• George Creel
• Harold Innis
• C. Wright Mills
• Horton Cooley

you might be wondering why Karl Marx is not here. Well. me too.

Also this list is long. my memory isn't.