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Mishima Yukio ( luxurious vocabulary and decadent metaphors, its fusion of traditional Japanese and modern Western literary styles); Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Dostoevsky is the godfather of anyone who begins to read, he’s a true legend); Leo Tolstoy (Tolstoy is just great, also like incredible Dostoyevsky, but Tolstoy is also great because he wrote something that has no comparison in any other literature except Russian, "War, and Peace"; Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude is my favorite...and those last couple of chapters are more frightening than any horror novel ever written) ; Miguel de Cervantes ( Don Quite de la Mancha , since French is closer to Spanish (both being Romance languages)), if I were you I would probably read it in French (also I’m Lebanese this is why I talk French)Don't make the mistake of reading Don Quixote quickly. The best scenes are those of Don Quixote and Sancho conversing as they amble across the countryside. Try to imagine you are moving alongside this mismatched pair as they discuss life, love and virtue. Take your time, as they did.); #1 Herman Melville (Moby Dick, It’s easily one of my top 3 or if not favorite books of all time. You may find the writing style of Moby-Dick a little stilted if most of your reading is twentieth and twenty-first novelists. But persevere. It is well worth it!)