TTT: Giving Props Where Props are Due

This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is: Top Ten Authors Who Deserve More Recognition.

So, props to you:

7. Yevgeny Zamayatin:  The novel We is a dystopian in the vein of 1984 and Brave New World. It just doesn't get nearly the air time.

6.  Maira Kalman:  I basically think everyone should be obsessed with Maira Kalman, because this...
Read And the Pursuit of Happiness now.  It will take only one blissful afternoon.

5. Jane Green:  In general, bloggers don't post a ton about the genre unfortunately known as "chick lit."  However, occasionally there is some mention of a Jennifer Weiner or such.  Jane Green is the awesomest though.

4. Gloria Anzaldua:   She is fantastic and fascinating if you enjoy essays, non-fiction. literary theory, and poetry. 

3. Daniel Defoe:  This Dead White Dude appears frequently on syllabi, but not so much on classics blogs that I've noticed.  Robinson Crusoe is the go-to, but Moll Flanders is fantastic.

2. Graham Swift:  He won a Booker (?) I think, and I don't hear much about him, and his book Waterland is in my top five favorites of all time.

1. Anne Carson:  This is another one that I would go to bat for, because she is awesome-sauce.  The Autobiography of Red is one of the most unusual and wonderful things I have ever read.