• Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• William Faulkner
• Anton Chekhov
• Mikhail Bulgakov
• Mikhail Lermontov
• Vladimir Nabokov
• Banana Yoshimoto
• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Baruch Spinoza
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari
• Edogawa Ranpo
• Franz Kafka
• Shirley Jackson
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Soren Kierkegaard
• Wallace Stevens
• Mirabai
• Akutagawa Ryuunosuke
• Hermann Hesse

I read widely and often; many favorites are not on this list. If you're wondering if I've read something classic and/or well known, chances are that I have and I would love to talk about it.