The 50 Greatest Writers Ever

The Book Depository recently ran a poll for readers to chose the greatest ever authors and the list is pasted below. No surprise that I didn't make the list but it makes for interesting reading. What do you all think?  Does Jane Austin deserve the top spot?



50 of your greatest authors ever according to the readers of the Book Depository are:

1. • 
   • Jane Austen
2. • 
   • J. R. R. Tolkien
3. • 
   • J. K. Rowling
4. • 
   • Charles Dickens
5. • 
   • Roald Dahl
6. • 
   • C. S. Lewis
7. • 
   • George Orwell
8. • 
   • Agatha Christie

9. • 
   • Stephen King
10. • 
    • Sir Terry Pratchett
11. • 
    • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
12. • 
    • Emily Brontë
13. • 
    • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
14. • 
    • Leo Tolstoy
15. • 
    • Haruki Murakami
16. • 
    • Neil Gaiman
17. • 
    • John Steinbeck
18. • 
    • Margaret Atwood
19. • 
    • Harper Lee
20. • 
    • Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• 21 Charlotte Brontë
  22 F. Scott Fitzgerald
  23 George R. R. Martin
  24 William Shakespeare
  25 Thomas Hardy
  26 Kurt Vonnegut
  27 Oscar Wilde
  28 Enid Blyton
  
• 29 Ian McEwan
  30 John Green
  31 Tim Winton
  32 Victor Hugo
  33 Franz Kafka
  34 Virginia Woolf
  35 Albert Camus
  36 Diana Gabaldon
  
• 37 Vladimir Nabokov
  38 Philip Pullman
  39 George Eliot
  40 Kazuo Ishiguro
  41 Graham Green
  42 Cormac McCarthy
  43 Edgar Allan Poe
  44 H. G. Wells
  
• 45 P. G. Wodehouse
  46 Salman Rushdie
  47 Phillip K. Dick
  48 William Faulkner
  49 Ray Bradbury
  50 Ursula K. Le Guin