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Ayn Rand

[ranking: 1]
Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Philosophy: Who Needs It

Jonathan Franzen

[ranking: 2]
The Corrections, The Twenty-Seventh City, The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

Dan Brown

[ranking: 3]
The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, Digital Fortress

Bret Easton Ellis

[ranking: 4]
American Psycho, Less Than Zero, Glamorama

Jonathan Safran Foer

[ranking: 5]
Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Eating Animals

David Foster Wallace

[ranking: 6]
Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Dave Eggers

[ranking: 7]
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, What Is the What, A Hologram for the King

Norman Mailer

[ranking: 8]
The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song, Ancient Evenings

James Joyce

[ranking: 9]
Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegans Wake

Jack Kerouac

[ranking: 10]
On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels

Philip Roth

[ranking: 11]
American Pastoral, Portnoy's Complaint, The Human Stain

Thomas Pynchon

[ranking: 12]
Gravity's Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49, Mason & Dixon

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Outliers: The Story of Success, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Malcolm Gladwell

[ranking: 13]
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Outliers: The Story of Success, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

J. D. Salinger

[ranking: 14]
The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories

Salman Rushdie

[ranking: 15]
The Satanic Verses, Midnight's Children, Shame

Jonathan Lethem

[ranking: 16]
Motherless Brooklyn, Kafka Americana, The Wall of the Sky

Miranda July

[ranking: 17]
No One Belongs Here More Than You, Learning to Love You More, Tin House

John Updike

[ranking: 18]
Rabbit, Run, Rabbit at Rest

Michael Chabon

[ranking: 19]
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Wonder Boys, The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Charles Bukowski

[ranking: 20]
Post Office, Ham on Rye, Women

Richard Bach

[ranking: 21]
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, The bridge across forever

Henry David Thoreau

[ranking: 22]
Walden, Civil Disobedience, Faith in a seed

Joe Meno

[ranking: 23]
BrickJournal Compendium Volume 1, Demons in the Spring, How the Hula Girl Sings

Ernest Hemingway

[ranking: 24]
The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Don DeLillo

[ranking: 25]
White Noise, Underworld, Libra

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

[ranking: 26]
A Coney Island of the Mind, City Lights Journal Number Four, Berlin

Chuck Palahniuk

[ranking: 27]
Fight Club, Haunted, Choke

Erich Segal

[ranking: 28]
Man, Woman and Child, The Class

Anthony Burgess

[ranking: 29]
A Clockwork Orange, Inside Mr.

Dan Simmons

[ranking: 30]
Hyperion, Song of Kali, Carrion Comfort

Leo Tolstoy

[ranking: 31]
War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Resurrection

Nick Hornby

[ranking: 32]
High Fidelity, A Long Way Down, Click

Nathaniel Hawthorne

[ranking: 33]
The Scarlet Letter, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun

Stephen King

[ranking: 34]
Needful Things, The Stand, The Shining

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No matter how brilliant or groundbreaking or bro-appealing a piece of literature may be, it fails to make up for the pretentious authors behind them. The most pretentious writers of the world, despite their ways with written words, fail terribly when it comes to opening their mouths, usually because their foot is in the way. Many authors who are douches retain any semblance of literary cred only due to the equally douchey masses who praise their often overrated books. Relying heavily gimmicks or "their own personal style" instead of true substance, numerous douchey writers give off an air of trying to be deep (read this back-and-forth between Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer to get an idea).

The annoying writers of this list frustrate the world for a number of reasons. Some actively embodied the term "hypocrite," taking support from the very systems their works admonished (hello, welfare recipient Ayn Rand). Others simply ride the coattails of their past works to remain relevant, unable to understand no one's actually read American Psycho. But what unites all these writers are their acolytes, who will stop their fixed-gear bikes to tell you "Well, actually," your negative opinion of their books is wrong. Never mind them though, for you know the truth: that Walden pond was nowhere near the wildnerness.

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