Name Dropping

Aphra Behn
Cervantes
Daniel Defoe
Samuel Richardson
Henry Fielding
Lawrence Sterne
Mary Wolstencraft
Jane Austen
Sir Walter Scott
Leo Tolstoy
Honoré de Balzac
Edgar Allan Poe
Charlotte Brontë
Anne Brontë
Nikolaï Gogol
Gustave Flaubert
William Makepeace Thackeray
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Charles Dickens
Anthony Trollope
Fyodor Dostoevski
Mark Twain
George Eliot
Emile Zola
Henry James
Thomas Hardy
Joseph Conrad
Katherine Mansfield
Edith Wharton
D.H. Lawrence
E.M. Forster
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
Marcel Proust
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Hermann Hesse
Evelyn Waugh
William Faulkner
Anaïs Nin
Ford Maddox Ford
Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
Albert Camus
Franz Kafka
Thomas Mann
Graham Greene
Jack Kerouac
William S. Burroughs
Kingsley Amis
Doris Lessing
Vladimir Nabokov
William Golding
J.G. Ballard
Richard Brautigan
Milan Kundera
Ivy Compton Burnett
Paul Theroux
Günter Grass
Gore Vidal
John Updike
Kazuro Ishiguro
Malcolm Bradbury
Iain Banks
A.S. Byatt
Martin Amis
Brett Easton Ellis
Umberto Eco
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Roddy Doyle
Salman Rushdie

The Divine Comedy, "The Booklovers", Promenade, Setanta, 1994.