Readers by Author
Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author
(by the way – I respect every author on here, kind of)
J.D. Salinger
Kids who don’t fit in (duh).
Stephenie Meyer
People who type like this: OMG. Mah fAvvv <3 <3.
J.K. Rowling
Smart geeks.
Jack Kerouac
Umphrey’s McGee fans.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Girls who didn’t get enough drama when they were younger.
Lauren Weisberger
Girls who can’t read. Or think.
Jonathan Safran Foer
30somethings who were cool when they were 20something.
Jodi Picoult
Your mom when she’s at her time of the month.
Chuck Klosterman
Boys who don’t read.
Chuck Palahniuk
Boys who can’t read.
Christopher Hitchens
People I would love to hang out with.
Leo Tolstoy
Guys I want to date.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Guys I want to sleep with. (The difference between the two Russian authors lies in the fact that I think the Underground Man is sexier than Pierre Buzukhov).
Christopher Buckley (or William F. Buckley)
People who love excess verbiage.
Ayn Rand
Workaholics seeking validation.
David Foster Wallace
Confirmed 90’s literati.
Jane Austen (or Bronte Sisters)
Girls who made out with other girls in college when they were going through a “phase”.
Haruki Murakami
People who like good music.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who can start a fire.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
People who used to sleep so heavy that they would pee their pants.
Charles Dickens
Ninth graders who think they’re going to be authors someday but end up in marketing.
William Shakespeare
People who like bondage.
Mark Twain
Liars.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
People who drink scotch.
Joseph Conrad
People who drink old fashioneds.
Dominick Dunne
People who get their class from Vanity Fair.
Anne Rice
People who don’t use conditioner in their hair.
Edgar Allan Poe
Men who live in their mother’s basements. Or goth seventh graders.
Michael Crichton
Doctors who went to third-tier medical schools.
John Grisham
Doctors who went to medical schools in the Dominican Republic.
Dan Brown
People who used to get lost in supermarkets when they were kids.
Dave Eggers
Guys who are in the third coolest frat of a private college.
Emily Giffin
Women who give their boyfriend marriage ultimatums.
Richard Russo
People whose favorite day in elementary school was “Grandparent’s Day”.
Anais Nin
Librarians.
Margaret Atwood
Women whose favorite color is hunter green.
William Faulkner
People who are good at crosswords.
Jackie Collins
Your drunk stepmother.
Nicholas Sparks
Women who are usually constipated.
James Patterson
Men who score a 153 on their LSAT exam.
Sylvia Plath
Girls who keep journals (too easy).
George Orwell
Conspiracy theorists (too easy).
Aldous Huxley
People who are bigger conspiracy theorists than Orwell fans.
Harper Lee
People who have read only one book in their life and it was To Kill A Mockingbird (and it was their assigned reading in the ninth grade).
Nick Hornby
Guys who wear skinny jeans and the girls that love them.
Ernest Hemingway
Men who own cottages.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
People who get adjustable-rate mortgages.
Vladimir Nabokov
Men who use words like ‘dubious’ and ‘tenacity’.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sommeliers.
Bret Easton Ellis
Foo Fighters’ fans.
Hunter S Thompson
That kid in your philosophy class with the stupid tattoo.
Cormac McCarthy
Men who don’t eat cream cheese.
Thomas Aquinas
Premature ejaculators.
Pearl S. Buck
Women whose favorite president was Harry S. Truman.
Toni Morrison
Female high-school English professors who only have an undergraduate degree.
Thomas Pynchon
People who used to be fans of J.D. Salinger.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Women who liked the movie “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” but didn’t read the book.
Rebecca Wells
Women on the East coast who wish they were from the South.
Tama Janowitz
Cougars who went to an urban college in the 80s.
Alice Sebold
People who liked Gilmore Girls – even in the first season.
Michael Swanwick
Men who argue Neil Gaiman is overrated.
Terry Goodkind
People who have never been dungeons master but still play D&D.
Stephen King
11th graders who peed their pants while watching the movie It.
H.P. Lovecraft
People who can quote the Comic Book Guy from Simpsons.
Brothers Grimm
Only children with Oedipal complexes.
Lewis Carroll
People who move to Thailand after high school for the drug scene.
C.S. Lewis
Youth group leaders who picked their nose in the 4th grade.
Elmore Leonard
People who know how to perform a “Michigan left”.
Shel Silverstein
Girls who can’t spell “leheim”.
Douglas Adams
People who bought the first generation Amazon Kindle.
Tucker Max
Guys who haven’t convinced their girlfriends to try anal yet.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Political theory and constitutional democracy majors.
Tom Clancy
People who skipped school by hiding out in the gym.
Herman Hesse
People who own one straw chair in their house.
Phillippa Gregory
Women who have repressed their desire to go to Renaissance Festivals
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Men who can’t lie but will instead be silent if they know you don’t want to hear the truth.
Susan Wiggs
Older women who are surprisingly loud during sex.
Nicole Krauss
Girls who intern at Nylon but end up moving back to the Midwest for their real job.
Mitch Albom
People who didn’t go to college but do well on crossword puzzles.
Stieg Larsson
Girls who are too frightened to go skydiving.
Sue Grafton
Women who have an @aol.com email address.
Seth Grahame-Smith
People who own a smart phone which requires a stylus to use it.
David Baldacci
No one. Even the police say Clancy before they’ll say Baldacci.
Michael Pollan
The girl who just turned vegan to cover up her eating disorder.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
People who refer to themselves as “playing devil’s advocate”.
O. Henry
Men who have names like Earl or Cliff and were really close with their paternal grandfather.
Virginia Woolf
Female high-school French teachers who have their master’s degree.
Michael Chabon
People who hate Ayelet Waldman.
Ray Bradbury
People who own golf head covers.
Joseph Heller
People who love buying drinks for their friends. See also, people who cringe when they see their bar tab.
David Mitchell
Women who live in any area of Brooklyn other than Park Slope, but may end up there someday and if that day comes, they will switch to Barbara Kingsolver fans.
Max Barry
People who don’t mind the color orange.
Dean Koontz
People who would never dream of owning any type of “toy” breed dog.
John Irving
People whose parents are divorced.
Richard Dawkins
People who have their significant other grab them under the table in order to shut them up whenever someone else at a dinner says something absolutely ridiculous and wrong.
Salman Rushdie
People who google image search Padma Lakshmi late at night.
Albert Camus
People who went to art school after “trying it out” at a public university.
Kurt Vonnegut
People who played Creep by Radiohead while having sex or smoking pot. Longer explanation here.
James Joyce
People who do not like John Cusack movies.
Charlaine Harris
Elementary school teacher’s aids.
Jorge Luis Borges
People who took care of their dying grandparents.
Terry Pratchett
People who really like monkeys.
Oscar Wilde
People who can’t resist anything. See also, people who claim they’re going to change but never do.
Truman Capote
People who would never dream of owning anything that could be classified as a “knick-knack”.
Tom Wolfe
People who don’t mind others smoking around them.
Neil Gaiman
People who can name at least two Miyazaki films.
Who Am I?
The creator and co-founder of Texts From Last Night and Mom’s Msgs. Judge away.
Or check out: Fake Your Favorite Author
Lauren Leto
Hahahaha, I love this…so true! Is this your own stereotyping or a list you found online?
haha i’m evil and i made it
Evil genius I say! You made my morning with this list.
Lauren Leto: girls with a who only have an undergraduate degree and still consider themselves hyperclever because they know who Tolstoi, Dostoyevski and García Marquez are!
Well you got me kinda wrong,love Mark Twain but not considered a liar,exact opposite in fact,maybe because I refer to him as Sam Clement? What of Jean M. Auel?
left a lot to be desired on some. many are very clever. men who own cottages for hemingway, though? really? what about ‘hard drinking males w/ masculinity issues’ ? just throwing it out there. also, you apparently created my most hated site on the planet. tfln is an online hub for the dregs of society to all congregate and congratulate one another for being so drunk and worthless. ultimately i liked the author steretypes tho. bye
I am surprised to see no Franz Kafka here….
I was waiting for Kafka the whole time too!
how the hell did you get the shakespeare?
that’s dead on man. bahaha
You are too, too accurate! Ha, this is genius.
This list is pretty accurate, but I disagree about Hunter S. Thompson and H.P. Lovecraft. Luckily I am a Haruki Murakami.
Wooh! Me too I’m glad mine is cool. >.<
Me three. Whew. Haha.
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Awesome list. Brought a big laugh on a Sunday afternoon work day. Dare I ask your determination of people who like Hermann Hesse?
Wait for it, picking up Siddhartha now. Updates tomorrow…
Wow. Not only do I own a straw chair, but a straw hat too. Well played!
I’m waiting for this one, too.
I felt zinged by the Pynchon one, then I realized that it was merely two true statements and not a good or bad thing.
You might like the Pynchon movie plot then http://laurenleto.wordpress.com/movie-plots/
You are spot on with this list… Props. I especially agree with the Leo Tolstoy.. where are they all hiding?
they are already sleeping with someone else…. sigh…
Re: Jane Austen/Bronte sister fans: I think you mean Virginia Woolf fans.
phi kappa alpha at trinity college, and yes, i am a dave eggers fan.
What about John Irving fans? Why were we spared?
No one is spared
Updates daily…
Harlan Coben readers???????????
I second this. John Irving! (But now I’m a little nervous).
Not heard of Lauren Weisberger but now I’m intrigued!
devil wears prada and such. terrible books, ok movie. The only movie i have actually liked more than the book
This list is great. I was hoping to see Ray Bradbury on this list…
This is a wonderful list. Spotted you in twitter feeds… Need to add business authors to your list
I’ve never read any business authors! Gladwell is about as close as I’ve gotten.
Gladwell is good and qualifies. Time for you to broaden your reading habits!
Do Michael Chabon!
I must say, I am a fan of Stephen King, Alice Sebold, Hunter S. Thompson, Chuck Klosterman and Chuck Palahniuk and none of their stereotypes apply to me, sadly.
Very well done..I do think you might want to reconsider the Sylvia Plath one though…I think “girls with superficial marks on their wrists” may be better
Hilarious! I’m a Conrad and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle devotee, so I guess that means I drink a lot.
What about Thoreau, though? Maybe his fans own fewer than three pairs of pants.
you had me pegged with margaret atwood.
i laughed particularly hard at the sue grafton one.
Joseph Heller?
it’s lev tolstoy dude stop changing people’s names… but whtever. i read both tolstoy and dostoievsky, so how about a date? :>:>
The Michael Crichton and Douglas Adams one is bullseye!
Nice, but a couple of inaccuracies -
1. ‘Smark Geeks’ prefer Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman over J K Rowling.
2. And real Douglas Adams fans would have bought an ebook reader before the Kindle was launched – like the Sony Reader.
#2 oooooh. Snap.
Does being a programmer count as a “smart geek”? I loved Good Omens way too much.
shut up
Thank you! I was about to say that.
Some smart geeks think Neil Gaiman is overrated. And prefer JK Rowling.
And some geeks like all three to varying degrees. Come on, folks, can’t we all just get along?
(Also: Jim Butcher – i.e. the writer who does The Dresden Files urban fantasy series- totally needs to be on this list. I say this because he’s my favorite writer that isn’t a screenwriter or comic book writer.)
No, those aren’t the smart ones. Those are the ones who find that Rowling is more their reading level.
-only one french author
-no Borges
Derp.
some of these are really great! i love ayn rand one, hunter thompson (you could say the same for charles bukowski). i don’t get some of them – nathaniel hawthorne? but then, i’m not that much of a bibliophile. i think a few could be improved. michael pollan isn’t really popular w/ vegans – his should be, like, “guys who won’t eat food that was grown more than 50 miles from their hipstery, gentriftying neighborhood.” or something.
I really enjoyed reading this. I am actually a PTCD major and I love Tocqueville.
What about Tom Wolfe? Too easy?
Why do you sometimes write “people who…” and sometimes write “people that…”? Is it some rule I’ve never known?
It’s a mistake, and one which is really bugging me here. It’s one thing to break a rule consistently, but to continue switching back and forth seems to imply (at least to me) misguided pretension.
“Who” is for people. “That” is for other nouns:
Books that I like.
People who read them.
zomg. edit
I’ve switched around because these were all written on other days. This has been going on for three months. That’s why they’re kinda in spurts. I guess some days I’m dumber than others.
Grammar rules are meant to be broken!
Says the guy struggling with “Highlights”
Can’t use “that” for people? Name one grammar book that agrees with you.
‘that’ can be used for both people and thing.
That is one of those grammar “rules” that is so arbitrary that the only time I notice it being broken is when grammar nazis bother to point it out. And even then, it’s a rare grammar nazi that bothers.
If I can read it the whole way through without thinking of it, “that was awkward-sounding”, it’s FINE. Language evolves, people. And the wonderful thing about the evolution of English is that it has become increasingly flexible on points like that.
Seriously, language “rules” (at least when it comes to English) were made to be broken… and your argument that it’s somehow a worse error because she occasionally uses “who” in place of it instead of “consistently” using the exact same wording? Is one of the silliest things I’ve ever heard. Any decent writer will tell you it’s better to VARY your prose, lest it get too repetitive.
So, needless to say I disagree greatly.
Laurell K. Hamilton?
Gregory Maguire?
Dan Brown ftw. What about Tom Robbins?
Right? I want to know what my logophilia says about me.
I was wondering the same. Gotta be extra special to be a Robbins fan.
hahaha the nicole krauss one made me laugh out loud
..how about douglas coupland & donna tartt ?
i would also have liked to see douglas coupland.
Jodi Picoult is my favourite author!
Ok, please classify:
1. Richard Dawkins
2. Andre Gide
3. Flannery O’Connor
ps. I’m down with Tolstoy, Hitchens and Dostoevsky.
i second number 1. dawkins
Ignored
ooh yeah, I love Flannery O’Connor. People who hate people, I guess? (too obvious)
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Heh, liked the list. What about Kurt Vonnegut though?
I second the Vonnegut! I was looking for him. I need validation!
VONNEGUT FANS DO NOT NEED VALIDATION
did i miss henry miller? do me, do me! wait…that came out wrong…
Yes do drew and I!
I too thought I missed Henry, particularly after seeing Anais. And feel free to do you worst-I am feeling pretty good with my other favorite Fydor.
This is pretty great… although I love Nabokov and am not a man and prefer words like “languorous.”
What about Zadie Smith?
“Whites who wish they weren’t,” I say.
Zadie Smith is kind of covered here…http://laurenleto.wordpress.com/movie-plots/
I’m a Nabokov fan who finds your assessments most dubious, but your tenacity for covering a broad array of authors laudable.
That was awesome! (and Harper Lee is probably true) lol
What about Dean koontz?
Did I miss seeing Tolkein on the list?
Loved it, but you lost me at the Ayelet Waldman dig. I love her!
The Mysteries of Pittsburg–
Arthur Lecomte– “I hate Phlox (or something like that)…”
Arthur Lecomte wants to have sex with Art Bechstein. Art Bechstein is having sex with Phlox. Arthur hates Phlox.
This is a typical Chabon love triangle.
The concept (I assume) is that everyone (males included) wants to have sex with Michael Chabon (right?).
Did I miss Neil Gaiman??
Funny, but not quite right. My favorite author is Ayn Rand.
I am by no means a workaholic seeking validation.
Haha, good one. Boys who cannot read like Chuck Palahniuk? Did you take these “definition” out of our arse?
This is great! What about people who love Amy Tan?
Kind of sad there’s no Robert Heinlein yet.
Douglas Adams hits home – I wanted a Kindle the instant I saw it!
Robert Jordan, Stephen R. Donaldson,Terry Pratchett and Isaac Asimov would also be welcome additions!
William S. Burroughs
Cut-up men with a morbid sense of humour.
Allen Ginsberg
Nostalgics who keep a dream diary under their beds.
Would kind of like to see Graham Greene.
Very clever.
VONNEGUT!
agreed, vonnegut was missing.
Dean Koontz- people who love labradors and never get tired of stories with dogs in them.
Ok, THIS Dean Koontz stereotype is more accurate for me..
It’s nice to know that reading Rowling makes me a smart geek. As if I needed any help in that area.
Where’s John Steinbeck? Or Joyce Carol Oates??
You would love to hang out with me.
You misspelled Stephenie Meyer and where the hell is J.R.R. Tolkien? How bout people who read that are 30yr old men who still play dungeons and dragons and listen to Stix. hahaha
Well, you misspelled “Styx.” So I guess you two are even.
I think I’m going to use this when I’m old and succomb to an EHarmony account.
I’m a tolstoy looking for an austen
What about women who like Dostoevsky? Would you like to sleep with them? ;P
Joking aside, this list is awesome!
Great stuff. If this were a stand-up routine I’d be heckling “Do Borges, Lethem, Vonnegut and Calvino!” after I caught by breath from laughing.
Hilarious, flattered since my favorite book is Brothers Karamazov but would defend myself from the charge of conspiracy nut for my love of Orwell. Forgetting 1984 he is a great essayist.
This is hilarious. I would love to see what you have to say about a few others (not all are authors I particularly like, but I have read something by all): David Sedaris, Amy Tan, Carl Hiaasen, P.G. Wodehouse, Graham Hancock, and Paul Theroux.
Also, I agree with previous statements that: 1) the Austen/Brontes one is a bit off. I love all of them (well, maybe not Anne), but I have never tried making out with another woman in university. Although maybe I’m just a late bloomer and haven’t hit my “phase” yet.
And 2) I can’t speak for all J.K. Rowling readers, but the ones I know tend to be more removed from reality and act like children (not counting those who still are).
Otherwise, I feel this is quite spot on.
No James Joyce???
This was hilarious. But I do think the Michael Pollan one is all wrong. Those are the people more likely to pluck the feathers from a live chicken and eat it raw.
I wholly agree with this assessment. Although I would never eat raw chicken. Beef yes, chicken, no.
To say that this made my day would be an understatement. Thank you
I can’t think of a single person who matches any of these. Well okay, except maybe Dan Brown and Jodi Picoult. I think I’d say JK Rowling is the favorite of geeks who think they’re smart.
This is so funny. You are so interesting! People are so predictable. It’s so cool when you stereotype!
Very funny, and for the most part true (in an over the top generalization kind of way). I am going to echo those who said there’s seriously a lack of Vonnegut and John Irving. Especially since I happen to know a lot of people who would say they are their favorite authors. Also Borges and Albert Camus…
And nothing about Douglas Kennedy?
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Proust? Philip Pullman? Cormac McCarthy? Salman Rushdie? Ian McEwen? Orson Scott Card? Wally Lamb?
I’m dying to know how to peg these
And all those people who think their favorite doesn’t match them are just in denial. These are balls-on accurate.
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Lauren Leto is hilarious. I’m honored to be included. Even if she did put an R in my last name.
Emily Giffin
ps Good luck to all the single women out there when they give their boyfriends a holiday ultimatum!
I just died. Honored! Thank you! Fixed it already, I can’t believe I did that!
A few hit too close to home, but more often than not, I laughed out loud. One thing: please correct the typo in Emily Giffin’s name. Unless there is also a less well-known novelist named Emily Griffin.
I like cream cheese….but then again I don’t like everything Cormac McCarthy writes.
Also, thanks to you I will now give Murakami a try and I will not read Thomas Aquinas or Ayelet Waldmen ( The first one alone may have saved a month of my time.) Thank you so much Evil Genius.
I had no idea that reading Palahniuk could make me illiterate. If I had, I never would have picked up Choke. FML.
Most of this is accurate and brilliant. As an Ellis fan, I’m also a fan of Fighting Foo, so alrighty then. I agree with Mike a bit, though – Invisible Monsters is a rather brilliant book, as is Survivor.
Suggested change for Palahniuk fans:
Boys who still pretend that they are their own Tyler Durden.
I agree with Byrd’s suggestion. I often pretend that I am my own Tyler Durden. Just ask any of the people I was drinking with this weekend… it wasn’t pretty.
I totally agree with this Palahniuk assessment. My ex-husband TOTALLY lives up to this description!
I’m just amazed that there exists a non-Japanese female who read Haruki Murakami. Ever read any Ryu Murakami?
Just a question, though: If a man read Dostoevsky and Thomas Aquinas would he be a premature ejaculator that you’d want to go to bed with? There are other permutations even more horrible than that one, but I shudder to think…
Dostoevsky and Tucker Max (both of which I’ve read, one of which I will admit to reading in public). Call me.
I love Murakami (Haruki) and turned my cousin on to his works.
I’d like to think Lauren’s assessment is true!
“I’m just amazed that there exists a non-Japanese female who read Haruki Murakami.”
yeah, we’re out here.
and there may also be people out here, too, who read Nabokov and aren’t men. gasp.
Brava!
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I read Dostoevsky and Murakami and Dostoevsky is definitely the better of the two big Russian greats.
I don’t understand the Austen/BrontË thing. Virginia Woolf was lesbian, not Austen nor the Brontë sisters.
Eh, sort of witty, except for John Grisham’s. I would’ve written “crypto-Republican soccer moms,” but you decided to be a RACIST. Kudos!
Hmm, I can’t say I think any of these is accurate, and some, for example JK Rowling, are, in my opinion, plain wrong.
Well, maybe the author meant to portray what she thinks when she sees someone reading a book, and it might work in that way, but only in a very individual level!
Dashiell Hammett: Skinny male college poets who think they’re too hip to read Hemingway. Do Anais Nin librarians graduate to Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Tan, or People magazine?
I worked for Dave Eggars in high school and am now in the third coolest frat of my private college. I can say a few of these are fairly accurate.
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I am looking into Tucker Max. Does he propose a stronger argument than, “We can get real drunk!”
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Outstanding!
This is frickin’ genius. I think Atwood might be my favourite.
All this and no Kurt Vonnegut?
please read to bottom
I AM PASSING KIDNEY STONES
SO OBLIGE ME!
what about Updike
meaning i am a female who read mostly books males would have read: [i gues who knows anymore- i am old school]
and james joyce?
kv?
proust
roth
..
this is “stereotyping” so i suppose each person sterotypes a certain way.and age/gender
i find this a bit sexist.
only because of my father. [maybe this can help freak/terry gilliamize? your stereotyping out a bit? but its your cool site. gr8 idea!]
..
kafka?
hunter s. thompson/ no way. total fail[i am copying that vernacular from children now]
on that. but i.ve been reading him since child.
[i am 38] i have only suddenly seen a “fad” of HST fans appear since depp movie came out and they are just now seeing it: and then documentery came out and latest book. sort of like people not really understanding who annie veibovitz is or what she did in tandum with hunter. how their styles were the same[in the middle if it:[. sorry. i talk too much. hence the name my dad gave me.
but i didn.t talk for 30 some years so i am making up for it.
don marquis?
ts elliot?
keirkigaard? [sp?]
WHOEVER WROTE THE ANARCHIST COOKBOOK!
[just call that person ANARCHIST!]—-that would be super funny ha!
[like think of all the books that used to be banned but now they are all "glossy and photoshoppy at barnes and noble!] [soon A. COOKBOOK will show up]
it used to be no doors of perception OR heaven and hell/ so the stereo typing is on a generation/ and the stereotyping is coming froma geneation.[you: but you might be my age i do not know]
…
fail on salinger. you cant use cliff notes to stereo type.
also some of us were catcher’s in the rye. [really cared] if that’s the book yer using to stereotype off of. the glass family is much more basis to stereo type.
“suicidal zen epiphanies of their own imagination who are parranoid that the world is conspiring to make them happy” [? did i do okay?]
You mentioned Neil Gaiman but didn’t give him a stereotypical reader!! ACK.
THis is more Stephenie Meyer fans:
Lonely teenage girls or mothers with cheatiung husbands.
ANyways, keep them going. Try Rick RIordan and Garth Nix
A lot of these are funny, but I confess that I’m mystified by the David Mitchell entry. The only people I know who like Mitchell are dudes, and most of the girls I know who have read him don’t really dig.
Great list: I don’t agree with all of your.. epithets, but it was an enjoyable read. I’m sure one could learn a lot about a person by reading their version of this list.
Murakami Ryu is awesome… but definitely too easy. Irvine Welsh? Philip K Dick? Anne Carson? I could make my own suggestions for all of these! Also what about the ‘other Russians’ Chekov and Pushkin?
Vonnegut: People who say they also love Mark Twain, but have only read Tom Sawyer.
PLEASE REFER TO DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
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I didn’t know anyone knew what a PTCD major WAS outside of my college! Oh, Alexis de Tocqueville.
International Relations majors read him too!
Sorry chica, I did go to your college. I was a PTCD major. HAHA
I like Nabokov and Klosterman and I’m female I think I may be a lesbian…
I use conditioner. I just hate that two in one stuff. And that damn Pennywise is probably the cause of me not lliking clowns. He’s just scary. What a fun list.
And where is Terry Pratchett on that list? And as a fan of Alice Sebold I tell you that I have watched, in all my eighton years, not a single episode of Gilmore Girls in it’s entirety.
The person responsible for this list doesn’t know shit.
You missed Kurt Vonnegut an’ made me all sad n’stuff.
No stereotype for readers of Bukowski?
what a riot
most i agree with, but all of it is funny
for your consideration…
angela carter
evelyn waugh
v.s. naipaul
zadie smith
michael ondantje
This is fantastic.
I know you’ve had a lot of requests, but….
Carl Sagan?
Milan Kundera?
I’m going to join the masses and say: VONNEGUT.
I’m very curious…
Also, Asimov?
Oh, so many missing
Philip K. Dick
The people who wondered if the government can read your thoughts through walls.
Jon Ronson
The people who think the government will walk through walls to steal your thoughts.
Carl Sagan
Spaced out hippy who thinks the Universe is like, whoa man! far out!
Terry Pratchett
Obnoxious smartarses who footnote your every conversational comment with a witty quip that makes you look stupid.
How’s about:
The Marquis De Sade?
Closet Devil Worshippers with underachieving equipment.
Dante Alighieri
Jesuits; scarred, or scared, for life
Hugh Heffner
Honestly, I just subscribe for the articles.
Stephen Hawking
Trekkies! Be thankful you can outrun the electric wheelchair of doom!
Margaret Atwood – Hunter green and I am so so so guilty. Spot on. Scarily so. I’m afraid of you now.
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What about Richard Brautigan?
-R
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Very accurate, though I think I need to broaden my horizons a bit, perhaps start delving into Tolstoy…
Anywho, classical authors? No Dante Alighieri or Geoffrey Chaucer up there. Not even Homer! Nothing for us high school dorks that wish we were heroes.
you forgot to add one more
Lauren Leto
Sad people with no excitement in their life.
Dawkins and Hitchens are two of my faves – your Dawkins assessment being spot-on, of course.
Here’s hoping you’ll get around to adding Robert Jordan, Philip Roth, E.L. Doctorow, and Henry James at some point . . .
Mine is Lovecraft but I don’t watch Simpsons… and have been a bigger comic book nerd back in the day.
Dawkins was my favorite, so utterly true!
How funny for so many readers to take these so literally and so personally, even taking the time to defend their alignment with each cliche. Dubious. Tenacity.
Awesomeness! This was superb!
I’d like to see you classify Paulo Coelho. I am a Tolstoy myself.
Yeah, I’d also like to see how you would classify Coelho.
what about readers of Lauren Leto?
for those who disagreed with the hunter s. thompson, i KNEW a guy with the tattoo!
Fantastic list, far too true for comfort. What are your thought on Charlaine Harris and Gregory Maguire?
My two favourite authors: Dostoyevsky and Tolstoi. I think we should meet…
http://www.teamsikorski.com/2009/12/judging-people-by-their-favorite.html
Linked to ya. Thank you for the shockingly accurate judgement.
“John Irving
People whose parents are divorced.”
HAH, this explains my introduction and fascination with his books almost IMMEDIATELY after my parents split. This list is fantastic.
I am surprised, as many are, that Terry Pratchett/Philip Pullman isn’t on there though…
Philip Pullman: People who still don’t believe Aslan exists, even after reading the entire Narnia series.
Kudos for Murakami! None of my friends have ever heard of him.
I love his work and like to think I have good taste in music.
I like Margaret Atwood but not the color hunter green. Maybe I just haven’t read enough of her stuff yet to convert…
And I would also like to see Joyce Carol Oats and Flannery O’Conner on here!
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HI. I read Tosltoy and Dostoyevsky the most. Have never read a sentence written by Rowling. I obsess with Nin and appreciate Woolf. I read Poe at night to feel better.
According to you I am female librarian high-school french teacher with a master’s who you’d like to date and sleep with – even if it is in my parent’s basement.
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ha, Thomas Aquinas.
No representation for science fiction nerds?!?! Heinlein deserves a spot up there.
haha – here’s one. Mary Karr – read by women who blame everyone else for their screw ups.
Pure genius. I have to get back to work now…
did you have trouble writing the one for gabriel garcia marquez? i’m only familiar with his short stories “strange pilgrims” and 100 years of solitude. i like what you did with twain, are you saying everybody is a mark twain fan? doesn’t everybody lie?
Please classify John le Carre. Be nice.
fabulous. and dead-on, at least for me
(murakami + plath lover)
Yeah, thats pretty correct ^^
(Gorge Orwell)
Wow, this is fantastic. I am now going to start reading certain authors because I like the connotations of doing so.
Also, I am joining the people who insist that Tolkien must be on this list. And Jeremy Clarkson may be an amusing addition…
heh. how tragic: i’m a Dickenser. however, i don’t suppose you’d add Sir Terry Pratchett to that list? i think that might be those who share his sense of humor, or humour, if you prefer.
what about stereotyping people based on their favorite musicians? and you should add Timothy Zahn for nerdy teenage boys with greasy hair but i suppose that’s too easy
Funny but poor Thomas Aquinas was a cleric so he hadn’t had much experience
Scholasticism with an emphasis on the last part.
So, apparently my darling sweetiekins is terribly offended by the omission of Harlan Ellison. His take, “Harlan Ellison fans are the ones who would be offended by leaving his name off the list.” My take, “Harlan Ellison fans tell you to f**k off when you say have a nice day.”
I update every weekday. I like that take on Harlan Ellison.
Hey! I PLAN on reading Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood! But really I was looking for Tom Wolfe.
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Ah.
Sarah Dessen?
Herman Melville?
Philip Pullman?
Neil Gaiman?
Stephen Chbosky?
Christopher Moore?
Mary Shelley?
Ann Brashares?
Jostein Gaarder?
James Frey?
Shakespeare?
I almost started listing more playwrights and poets, but I figured the list is long enough already.
Needless to say, I LOVE this.
Christopher Moore, yes!
V.C. Andrews: Emotionally abused women and boys who grow up to be gay
Oh hell no.
what about soren kierkegaard?
http://flavorwire.com/57909/stereotyping-people-by-their-favorite-indie-bands
Thanks for the inspiration!
Love it!
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Brilliant list. An old one I heard a while back:
J. R. R. Tolkien
- Guys who have always been curious but never tried it.
You’re missing a lot of Fantasy and Science Fiction authors
Suggested Authors (some from my bookshelf):
Iain M Banks
Iain Banks
Peter F Hamilton
Robin Hobb
Isaac Asimov
Piers Anthony
Terry Pratchett
Anne McCaffrey
Robert Jordan
David Eddings
see terry goodkind most of those fall in to the same category lol
Ha ha ha!
“ARM mortgages” is redundant.
Add in another….
Whatever your favorite author is, “Don’t make lists in alphabetical order.”
Nice list.
If you like Tolstoy and Dostoyevski and want to try some Russian poetry, look into Pushkin.
Also…let’s see some George R. R. Martin.
Lewis Carroll is almost right–with the addition of underage prostitutes it would be perfect.
What about Douglas Coupland?
I saw no Oscar Wilde or Brothers Grimm/Hans Christian Anderson
But pretty much these are dead on lmao
what about Truman Capote, Franz Kafka, Oscar Wilde and Milan Kundera?
sorry, my bad. found Brothers Grimm. It’s so wrong lol but I found it. Lewis Carrol I think should be changed to girls who are outgrowing their social constraints. Because really, those are the only people who actually understand what’s going on lol
Strongly agree re: Lewis Carroll. Also, girls who consider themselves “whimsical.” (Me.)
Henry James, William Golding, L. Frank Baum??
what about augusten burroughs?
Right, ok, literally millions upon millions of people read J.K. Rowling, sometimes entire classes of schoolkids, and ALL of them are “smart.” Likewise, Ayn Rand is read by “workaholics” and not merely by right-winger child-men. If only such things were true…
Favorite author. Not “author you read once”
Note: ’school kids’ Rowling is written for school children!
Funny, I run a website somewhat related to writing and from what I’ve noticed about the contributors/commentators, this is all true.
My favorite author is Michio Kaku, though.
People whose favorite word is “limning/limned.”
So funny, but my tattoos are cool.
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I haven’t bought a single kindle, let alone the 1st generation. Though that might just be because its functionality is rather limited where I live (as in, the hitchhiker’s guide-like free wiki-access is non-existant).
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I’m not much of a reader, but I think John Kennedy Toole should be on the list, even though he only has 2 published books. I wouldn’t have the slightest idea on how to identify one of his readers though.
People who laugh at pretentious assholes who suffer from delusions of grandeur?
of course, I’m not really being fare to Ignatius here…
Richard Dawkins should be changed to;
People who like to quote popular authors but are not critical enough to realize his theories on religion are laughed out of every University.
Nope. That’s the description for Malcolm Gladwell readers.
WOMEN LIKE NABOKOV 2
FUCK YOU LOSER
Faulkner’s and Nabokov’s stereotypes work better the other way round. And the JK Rowling is way off: smart geeks might have cracked open a Potter or two, but no way in the world would this be their favourite author. Ballard, Burroughs, Pynchon or especially Neal Stephenson are much more likely candidates. Rowling’s true parish (in the UK at least) is women who were especially taken with Grandma’s old Nancy Drews – and who want that feeling back, dammit.
This would make a pretty good after-dinner-party game, depending of course on your dinner party.
Also, no love for Paul Auster?
SOOOO HILARIOUS!!!! thanks for giving me a laugh
I wanted to enjoy the list but I had to stop as soon as I read “ARM mortgages.”
I’m stupid! I don’t own a house.
Don’t justify it. That’s perfect for F. Scott Fitzgerald–especially Gatsby. Sean, don’t take it personally.
The Fyodor Dostoevsky one caught me off guard (I read everything he wrote in college, while studying computers) but I couldn’t stand Leo Tolstoy at all.
So like *wink*.
Please add Italo Calvino to the list
I echo the aghastness at smart geeks = jkrowling.
Suggest instead something along the lines of (these authors all need adding anyway…):
smart geeks = neal stephenson or william gibson
whimsical geeks = terry pratchett or roald dahl
otherwise fairly spookily accurate
jkrowling is a tough one. When an author has sold THAT MANY books, which are children’s books, but loved by adults as well, which cut across country, ethnicity, and educational lines as well, it’s hard to stereotype people who would call her their favorite. My offhand try might be: Pretension-hating geeks. See also anti-hipster geeks.
OMG that is so much better. Or self-depracating geeks.
Aw, I like it, and it absolutely describes the people I know who are in love with the books! (The midnight premiers have surprisingly fabulous people– mostly the kids who grew up with Harry Potter since now we’re old enough to stay up past ten, haha.)
I disagree about the ‘to kill a mockingbird’ thing–my mother loves this book and she is a big southern lit fan and she grew up in a similar way… so I would say ‘literary southerners who love southern literature’
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Victor Hugo?
What about V.S. Naipaul? The man is embittered, but his writing is awesome. And I love Virginia Woolf, though I’m not female, do not know French, am not a teacher, and have not gotten a master’s degree (though I’m in the process of acquiring one). The Nabokov reference was right on, along with the Twain one!
this shit is terrible
Great list. Though I think you did go too easy for the Rowling one. I’d say “People who may or may not read Rowling’s next Harry Potter book.”
Also for Chabon: “Comic fans who pretend they regularly read novels”
Oops. I mean “People who may or may not read Rowling’s first Non-Harry Potter book”.
Where is my Oscar Wilde? Might be too easy…
This is fantastic. Any thoughts on Somerset Maugham?
Pretty funny. How about Richard Powers fans?
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I’m sure this is a great list but I didn’t have time to read it. Too busy reading Dostoevsky.
if you’re taking requests: zadie smith? joan didion?
I think the Dawkins one may be my fave!
Put me under the Smart Geeks category. Have read everything from the Rowling stable
Love it, just wish there was something about the women who like Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Amen.
I don’t think he can be your favorite author if you’re a woman.
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I’m upset. Chuck Palahniuk being my favorite does not make me a male. And I can read. But I do know some male fans that fit this stereotype
Haha. What about Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh, T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land is one of my most memorable reads), Ezra Pound, and Sir Walter Scott? Also Brian Jacques (Redwall).
I don’t drink Old Fashioneds, but do think Conrad is awesome.
Thanks for this! You are too cool!
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John Banville
Didactic auto-didacts.
or…
Uxurious men?
Make that: men who wouldn’t piss-spell uxorious!!
Ooh…. do me! Raymond Carver.
I am a woman and i like Dostoevsky, what does that make me
I agree with the list thats so true, I like Marquez, and im pretty much like your description.
i just want to know your take on Honore de Balzac,
have a nice christmas.
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“Richard Dawkins
People who have their significant other grab them under the table in order to shut them up whenever someone else at a dinner says something absolutely ridiculous and wrong.”
Fucking priceless
You’ve hit it on the head in my case 
I like yr list.
How about Flann O’Brien? I’m thinking “People who might try to slip arsenic into your drink – but only to see what would happen.”
Fantastic list, but I think the Chabon item was tops. To hear any interview with her, Ayelet Waldman’s entire life is defined by being Mrs. Michael Chabon. The kicker was her comment to the effect that she could survive losing her kids — all of them — but not her husband. Super-creepy.
Nicely done. This list is genius. I’ll try to think of one for Julian Barnes.
What of Elmore Leonard fans?
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Ha! This was hilarious!
List was somewhat dece. What about Milan Kundera? He’s my favorite…
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Another second for Tom Robbins. I think I’m tied for favorites between him and Dostoyevsky. A rather odd combination, I admit. (That in itself may speak volumes …)
What about:
Neil Gaiman
Robin Mckinley
Nagaru Tanigawa
my faves!
ahhh! my soulmate!
the bret easton ellis one kind of makes no sense. foo fighters? to mainstream and contemporary. i would say new order, or something of the sort.
*too
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please do one for tom wolfe!
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I studied philosophy at university and I can confirm that somebody in my class had a stupid Gonzo tattoo.
Camus, Dawkins, Nietzsche and Dostojevski,
but only because Saul Bellow is not on this list…
How is this possible?
Give me one for Malcolm Gladwell
Also, I LOLed at Thomas Aquinas
That would be absolutely true if I had a significant other. Maybe people would like me better… >.>
Wait, never mind. I love arguing at mealtimes and my friends still love me for it. I think I shall remain single.
J.K. Rowling? Smart Geeks?
Not a chance. You might really enjoy her books, but they are at 5th grade level at best.
J.K. Rowling is for people who aren’t smart enough to read Tolkien or even Robert Jordan.
Don’t be pretentious. I know hardcore Rowling fans who actually read Tolkien in 5th grade.
You pretentious little prick. Harry Potter may not be high literature, but it’s certainly a multi-layered and immersing story with fully-fledged characters, a plot you can care about, and yes, even motifs and symbolism. It’s also a lot of fun to read.
By the way, I read Tolkein in 4th grade, so suck it. And you know what the best part is? I still think Rowling is a better storyteller.
Agree.
yes, that proves your literacy
Just checked the P-list—No, none of us were fans of J. D. Salinger in High School. But we still don’t fit in.
what about bukowski!
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I read that entire list waiting for Bukowski
Would be more fun if the list were alphabetized
)
Haha, love it. No Chekov or Steinbeck, but that’s cool, you can’t get everyone.
I was surprised not to see Raymond Carver who is clearly for those who are in their first creative writing class at a community college.
sophie kinsella!!!
I have to admit, I don’t understand the Ray Bradbury stereotype. He’s my favorite author, and…well, where does golfing come into play?
This makes me realize how many potentially great authors there are that I haven’t read. Now I feel I’ll be inclined to check them out based on their reader stereotypes.
John Updike. Guys who were good at sports in high school only to realize as a grown up that they have no marketable skill.
Jon Krakauer – People who need a pat on the back for being purposely distant.
pure greatness
So if I’m a girl, and I love Dostoevsky, what does that say about me?
I find this list amusing. Haven’t read most of the authors’ works on this list, so it’ll be interesting to run their names through Google or Amazon. Ingenious list though!!!
John Kennedy Toole, definately. for People who love the name “Ignatius”.
HAHAHH!! This list is fantastic!
I do love Salman Rushdie…and yes, I have google image searched Padma Lakshmi…but during the day..
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you seem incredibly arrogant and pretentious.
No, check the list– you’re probably thinking of Swanwick and Thompson fans. Easy mistake.
Agree with all of them, except for J.K Rowling. Smart Geeks actually read good books. ZING. But no, really, 11 year olds and basement dwellers read Harry Potter.
Really? You want to sleep with me?
Tom Wolfe is clearly for people who wish they had a stylish white coat.
Richard Price
Irvine Welsh
John Kennedy Toole
Philip Roth
I am enjoying this
I thought this was a joke but after I took care of my dying grandparents, two years ago, I read Jorge Louis Borges.
This is great!
You’ve got a few of my favorites on here:
Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens (actually just took a small break from reading God is Not Great to read this list)
J.K. Rowling
Douglas Adams
All of them, you were spot on!
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This seems rather silly…none of these stereotypes really even come close to matching reality, or are so forced that they’re not really funny. And I enjoy stereotyping quite a bit.
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Jeanette Winterson?
I think it would be more accurate to say about David Foster Wallace fans, that it’s people who think they are much smarter than they actually are, or people who want to appear much smarter than they actually are.
Hawthorne: Yep.
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Hahaha great list! Totally laughed at the Jodi Picoult and Nicholas Sparks ones. I also recommend adding “females with an extended vocabulary of synonyms for ’shiny’, but otherwise a shorter than average vocabulary”, but it seems too verbose.
Lastly, where are Neil Gaiman and Oscar Wilde???
No Steinbeck? c’mon
Not true of Nabokovians. Our favorite words are “penumbra” and “synesthete.”
I love Nick Hornby, and I am a girl who wears skinny jeans and I love other girls. So you almost had it right
You described the most devout Toni Morrison fan I know 100%. On the other hand, I feel like the description for Virginia Woolf might suit Proust better.
I love this list! I’m a Murakami reader and I think I do have one of the most well-edited iPod playlists where I come from. This made my day. Happy holidays!
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Yeah, i’d love an explanation for that one
I LEIK TOLSTOI & IM A GURL
SO THIS IS WRONG
YOU SHOULD CHANGE It
jk this was funny!
ms. leto,
wonderful list. as a fellow michigander, you went to james madison, didn’t you? tocqueville was a dead giveaway =)
love from sweden, this was so fun.
though smart geeks don’t like harry potter, that’s for kids and people in their early sixties (my dad and his wife). Gibson maybe (or Gaiman or Coupland.. Aisimov?).
plz, do Greene, that’s lying wankers like me
Ms(?)Leto your list is beautiful but this was so funny
” Larian LeQuella said, on December 21, 2009 at 5:13 pm Brilliant list. An old one I heard a while back:
J. R. R. Tolkien
- Guys who have always been curious but never tried it.”
Dude. YOU made textsfromlastnight?! Comment-jacking here, but tfln is possibly the greatest website in the WORLD. <3
That’s how I decided the list stereotypes were legit, haha.
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hilarious!!
You left out NOAM CHOMSKY!
no paul coelho? i was disappointed
i update every weekday.
Paulo Coelho:
People who think farting in a dark room full of smelling candles is a great transcendental experience.
My favorite author is D. H. Lawrence. Tentative suggestion: Girls who smoke joints before sex?
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This is brilliant. I highlighted this on my blog.
One question though… my fav is P.G. Wodehouse – what does that say about me?
Little late to the post but what about Melville, Annie Dillard, or Frederick Buechner?
I shouldn’t tell this… I am Dostoievsky, but you can call me Tolstoy.
What about Oscar Wilde or Balzac, maybe (bleaaargh) Gunther Grass?
(merry christmas!)
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This was a great idea but executed poorly.
Do it better! I think it’s fascinating regardless of execution, and I’d legitimately like to read other peoples’.
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italo svevo: who? tell me who i am, im lost
georges perec? I must be totally out of this world!
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Hilarious! I read (and enjoy) too many from the list to fit in one catagory – but it was still a funny read.
How about John Fowles and Roald Dahl?…
how about ann patchett, eh?
You are who you are. Appreciate your respect for what you read. Do not ask a judgemental world to pass judgement on you. Do not encourage the folly.
The UTTER FOLLY.
Is it possible I know how to perform a Michigan left without knowing what it is?
I’m sorry, but this is utter folly. Your stereotyping is totally based off your interpretation of an author. This is about as low as stereotyping–an already dubious practice–can go.
this list is wonderful!
Love to know what you think about people who read Jodi Picoult
Would love to hear Victor Hugo, he is my absolute favorite! Also, Oscar Wilde?
So I am a gal who likes Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, AND Austen+Brontes which seems to say that I am lesbian according to this list, but I am most definitely not! Hehe.
I think I’m going to use this list to find new authors to read by looking at their stereotypes!
P.S.: my boyfriend loves Kafka – would be interested to see what he would be.
Haha, the Austen thing was right on for me!
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I’m sorry, KV is my favorite author, and I hate Radiohead. Sooooo…….yeah.
I really didn’t think many of these were very spot on. For example, the Bronte sisters should be read by 30 year old virgins. But hell, Twilight is just the Wuthering Heights of our time.
Beautiful, girl. Your evil is beautiful. You pegged me on the David Foster Wallace, I hate John Irving while my friends of broken homes love him, and my hippie cousin who lives on Martha’s Vineyard with outdoor showers leaves Anne Rice books around her house! My only exception is that you should switch the Shakespeare and Mark Twain stereotype. Anyone who doesn’t LOVE Connecticut Yankee or The Mysterious Stranger is lying.
You forgot Edward Abbey.
Or maybe you never knew him. You may continue wasting your lives in the aisles of crate and barrel.
Lauren Leto: american girls with a who only have an undergraduate degree and still consider themselves hyperclever because they know who Tolstoi, Dostoyevski and García Marquez are!
That’s a bingo!
I’ve said something like that previously, but my comment got censored.
David Sedaris, Tom Robbins, John Steinbeck and Sarah Vowell
On a side note my roommate loves Hunter S Thompson so much that he has multiple quotes tattooed on his arm and when I read this to him we both laughed a lot.
oh and Edward Abbey.
Requests:
A.S. Byatt
Nadine Gordimer
Pat Barker
Peter Carey
E.M. Forster
Lauren Leto: SMOKING HOT!!!!!!!!
Brilliant! Your blog: straight to bookmarks.
HAhahaha, Joseph Heller. Ive read Catch-22 countless times and Im always the first to order a round of shots, followed by many more rounds of drinks until last call. Spot on!
Carson McCullers: women who, growing up, felt inexplicably drawn to the weirdo on their block. In an innocent way.
This list is fantastic, but more southern writers please! What about Flannery O’Connor, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and Eudora Welty?
Also: Tom Robbins, Alice Munro, Roald Dahl, Jasper Fforde, Neil Gaiman, Maya Angelou, Christopher Moore, Frank McCourt, Helen Fielding, David Sedaris
I am a straight woman and I eat cream cheese and I LOVE Cormac McCarthy. What does this mean?
Is your favorite book “All the Pretty Whorses”?
Looking for Jonathan Lethem, Doris Lessing, Joan Didion?
I am very disappointed that this list does not have every author you have read also.
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Your Thomas Pynchon joke made me laugh out loud, ditto Hemingway. I haven’t read any David Foster Wallace (I’m saving him for when I’m dead, as Julian Barnes once wrote), but lose the apostrophe in that joke. Mistakes like that make the literati bristle. Or make you look stupid because you’re supposed to be widely read. Should we now suspect that you haven’t read most of the authors you listed?
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Terry Goodkind seeks Lauren Weisberger.
fantastic list! bookmarked!
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Now all the peope is expert!
this is unimaginative
Unimaginative would’ve been
OSCAR WILDE
Gay.
God, thank you. I sent this to everyone in my book club. We’ve read Palahniuk (totally agree), Larsson (guy who picked this shrieks at spiders, so prob correct), McCarthy (meeting for this one is in Jan, I’ll bring something w/cream cheese to test this out), and Murakami (spot on) lately. Murakami was my pick, and everyone hated it. Thanks for validating me, Lauren Leto!
Yeah, like I’ve read ALL of them. Plus a million.
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A lot of good stereotypes but the Kerouac one is way, way off.
see: Jawbreaker, Banner Pilot, Lawrence Arms, or other lyric-s based artists, not a progressive improv jam band.
I’m sure a lot of guys are going to change their reading lists to Tolstoy after this! Beware!
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Nice list. Jeffrey Eugenides was mine, but the opposite of the stereotype is true for me. Regardless, nice list.
This list was tweeted by Alyssa Milano. I loved “Who’s The Boss” as a kid. How about stereotyping people by TV shows?
All I have to say in response–
“The Virgin Suicides”
Naturally, although I haven’t met you, I’m now reading Fyodor Dostoevsky…
Firstly shocked that Arthur C. Clarke not among listing
Secondly I am not among the listing, oh yeah, because I am not YET famous, oh there is a famous JOHN HARVEY, its just not me, and quite frankly he’s preventing me by taking up the first 16 pages of Amazon for our name.
He writes crime, I write comedy, political intrigue, romance, scifi, crime, and considering fantasy for young adults. The last 4 under nom de plumes so I avoid that whole 16 page problem.
What is that of doctor that went to medical school in the DR! I’m Dominican and medical school here is actually excelent. I find your comment insulting.
I know it is – my doctor went there
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Do you have anything on Laurel K. Hamilton fans?
Happy New Year.
Ha! This is BRILLIANT!
Confirmed 90’s literati?? I’m hoping it’s just a typo, and that you really understand the difference between ’90s and 90’s.
Nice Catch-22 reference. My book collection turned up a large number of works by the following authors:
Chuck Palahniuk
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Christopher Buckley
Ayn Rand
William Shakespeare
Ernest Hemingway
Lewis Carroll
Kurt Vonnegut
I am really confused as to what this says about me.
Tucker Max gets points for his childish narcissism.
So The Brothers Karamazov is my favourite book of all time.
Your place or mine?
I agree with everyone who suggested Flannery!
People who like peacocks?
Naguib Mahfouz – People who have no understanding of the English language.
“Confirmed 90’s literati?? I’m hoping it’s just a typo, and that you really understand the difference between ’90s and 90’s.”
I said the same thing and got no reply. I fucking hate blogs. And the bloggers who run them. And the blogosphere they all think matters.
It clearly matters enough for you to comment on it.
Unless you were being ironic and I’m too tired to spot it, in which case I refuse to apologise out of exhaustion and stubbornness.
this was bloody brilliant!
J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, and Tom Robbins, please!
So Rowling, Hemingway, and Orwell are my current favorites, that means….oh crap! Unabomber!
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wow, what a bunch of bs.
How in the world do you draw these conclusions? Please e-mail me and let me know. I want to know how you got the F. Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce ones, because I don’t understand in the least. Also, I am an Honours English student and read constantly and I’m a devoted Klosterman fan. Why do you propose Klosterman enthusiasts cannot read? Some of these are witty, but so many of them seem to draw on nothing whatsoever.
They’re jokes.
F. Scott Fitzgerald–
His characters have a serious case of class-envy and ultimately do everything in their power to become a part of the elite class–think of summering in the Hamptons. Hence, adjustable rate mortgages.
forgot to add, then they FAIL big time.
Lauren,
Would you be able to do David Sedaris?
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If you like Notes from the Underground, I think you might like this blog post I wrote: http://marquisgrissom.blogspot.com/2009/10/21st-century-sex-diary-of-narrator-of.html
What about Jhumpa Lahiri (The Namesake, The Interpreter of Maladies, An Unaccustomed Earth)? I’m curious. And I love F. Scott Fitzgerald and I can’t even begin to think about affording a house….
That’s easy… children of immigrants.
Any thoughts on Alexandre Dumas?
Apparently you want to sleep with my husband.
What of Joan Didion, Raymond Carver and Henry Miller?
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additions required for T.S Eliot and Walt Whitman!
This is very witty. Except I must disagree with you when it come to Chuck Palahniuk. I loved Fight Club, and I took AP English in High School.
Oh, and by the way, I like reading Tolstoy.
Pretty please do Steinbeck, Chekhov, or Guy de Maupassant for me! I need a stereotype!
This list is already brilliant though, the Shakespeare one especially.
I’d love to see an update with both Pat Conroy and Neil Gaiman.
I *actually* laughed out loud when I read the Dan Brown one! I’m putting in my requests for: William Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, Elizabeth Hand and Geoff Ryman.
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funny list.. didn’t read all the posts so maybe these were already suggested, but….
Philip K. Dick
T.S. Elliot
Annie Proulx
Robert Frost
Bill Bryson
Lewis Hyde
William Blake
David Sedaris
few problems w/ the list. sommeliers read Nietzsche? that’s the best you can do. what about- teenage boys that think increasing the number of push-ups they can do is “existentially fulfilling”. but your the humorist, i guess. Also, Chirstopher Hitchens is “people i’d love to hang out with”? fucking gross
I thought about this post when I was browsing at the bookstore today. You what I really need? An algorithm to help me figure out who to read in the new decade. Like, if you used to read VS Naipaul, now you read….”
Looks like I’ve got a new pickup line!
“Hey, baby. One of my favorite books is Notes from Underground and I identified fairly strongly with the protagonist.”
Try to resist it.
Amazing! But I didn’t see Dorothy Parker. double
dear lauren leto,
people like you are dousche bags. get a life.
love, christina
i think you mean “douche bag”.
That’s a tad rude. This site is all in good fun. I hope you didn’t take anything personally; I’m sure I have much more cause for anger since Lauren labeled me an illiterate, drug-abusing, workaholic pervert.
The only REAL douchebags are the guys who are trying to use book-related pickup lines on a blog.
20,000 points for sean
Thank you for the points.
Start a charity devoted to improving literacy rates in developing nations and I’ll donate those points to it (or a douchebag-eradication charity; your choice).
For now, they will sit in an escrow account.
Stellar idea!
…Stephenie Meyers fan? or maybe Sparks?
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I will add to the requests for Tom Robbins and Robin McKinley.
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holy shit.
it’s like you never go outside & actually have human interaction.
this list is completely incorrect in so many ways.
the only ones i can remember to say off the top of my head without it exploding with anger are:
salman rushdie readers don’t give a F about padma. stop watching so much bravo.
george orwell didn’t just write conspiracy literature. stop watching so much john stewart.
holy shit holy shit.
i want to pour acid in my ears to dissolve my own brain after reading this.
i bet you are the kind of female who reads harry potter AND sees the movies AND can justify it with some sort of bullshit about never growing up & always needing a world to escape to. and i bet you a million dollars the girl who compiled this list reads jodi picoult. we all know picoult fans are anyone between the ages of 16-50 who has a vagina and thinks pornography is demeaning to women.
i’m melting. meeeeeellllllltttttiiiiiiiinnnnnngggggggg.
Did you really make your name a Sarah Palin quote?
pwnd.
totally agree about dostoyevsky vs. tolstoy
While a couple of these are almost funny and it’s an interesting idea that might work provided you put some more effort into this, most of it was pretty much garbage.
First – Rowling for “smart geeks?” How do you figure? Maybe if they’re smart for fifth graders.
Huxley and Orwell are for conspiracy theorists? Camus for art school dropouts [an absolute miss]? And Hemingway… Men who own cottages? These are the stand-out losers, but most of these seem arbitrarily picked, likely premised on anecdotal observations. Hence, your desire to want to have sex with anyone who reads Dostoyevsky…
… were I a betting man, I’d wager there’s some sort of ex you’re still clinging to who idolized Fyodor based on an undergraduate literature course.
Though, in fairness, this one did make me chuckle:
Chuck Palahniuk
Boys who can’t read.
Thanks for a bit of entertainment. Hope you continue working on it.
What about Joyce Carol Oates, just saying…
funny because it’s true. My favorite on this list is Margaret Atwood and I wear a LOT of hunter green!
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lauren: love your site & tweets !!! curious & nervous what a “tom robbins” reader is to be ? and john kennedy toole ? look forward to your updates .
i don’t quite agree. i don’t watch simpsons and know i can’t quote it. but i am in love with H.P. Lovecraft
Hi[:
I don’t usually comment on things like this especially since I’m only 15 but, I had to. This was one of the best things I’ve ever read, like EVER. I’ve only read stories from about 15 of the authors but the ones i did know were very funny. Ahah.
Anyways, I actually spent my entire day reading texts from last night ahah… home sick from school (: So I wanted to say thanks! ahaha.
Have a good day.
~Bye.
AND JANE EYRE WAS A GOOD BOOK! SOO!
I can’t argue with this list (even if I only know around 50% of the authors) after I read the Stereotype of the Marquez readers. I’ll try to be a better liar from now.
Now I’m gonna read the letter to Vonnegut’s fans…
Hey! I never made love to Creep by Radiohead! I always keep my depression to myself. Maybe if I had some pot I would try the second option.
This is one of the worst lists I’ve ever seen. And I’m not saying that as someone “scorned” by authors I like on here, but even plenty that I can’t stand, I think you summed most of them up completely horribly, this is ridiculous, why the hell is it so damn popular? Get a life, or go back to your drunken texts.
Yeah, because stereotypes are supposed to be true and stuff.
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wow. great list. but i might say there must be something more to chuck palahniuck. but you totally got me with albert camus.
heehe thanks for a great read!
can you do ursula le guin and franz kafka, roald dahl and sir arthur conan doyle??
awesome im a murakami!
I’m disappointed. I love Terry Pratchett, but I really don’t like monkeys.
what no bukowski
I missed some french guys, like Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas. The list is really awesome, anyway.
This is hilarious… pure genoius. I can’t stop laughing.
This is my favourite
Aldous Huxley
People who are bigger conspiracy theorists than Orwell fans.
I too noticed the lack of Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo.. but well I think you can put them in “people who have way tooo much time in their hands and grow a kind of goatie”
Kisses
T.
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You’re a fool to put people who love Austen and people who love the Brontes in the same category. They’re polar opposites. Regardless, on the whole fairly amusing.
Agreed – like the list, don’t get the grouping of Austen and Brontes. Of the two, Austen better fits the stereotype you gave (she’s my favorite author, and I’m a Smithie who knows many other Smithies who love Austen…and you know what they say about Smith girls). People who read the Brontes are more like…middle-aged women who secretly love melodramatic romance novels but want to seem cultured.
Ah! I defer to the greatness of Smith girls and consider myself pwned.
I mean, I’d even argue that Emily and Charlotte are radically different, even if you can’t quite count them as opposites.
I thought this list was so funny that I blogged about it. Hope that’s okay…
http://hivingout.blogspot.com/2010/01/are-you-who-you-read.html
pls add Irvine Welsh
Holy crap I just about pissed myself when I saw the Charlaine Harris one…..it’s so….TRUE. Oh, and well played regarding Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Omga, I LOVE THIS.
This is ridiculously stupid. Seriously, shut the fuck up. Just because you have a (kind of) successful website doesn’t mean people want to read your contrived ignorant bullshit.
No one forced you to read this. It’s kind of like TV. If you don’t like it, change the channel.
My only complaint is it hasn’t been updated in a while.
You attend NCSU? North Carolina State University? Never heard of it. Maybe that’s why you have an inferiority complex. (I can see your IP)
ZIIIIIIING!
20,000 points (yeah, I regifted your original points back to you).
NEIL GAIMAN
NEIL GAIMAN
NEIL GAIMAN
Erica Jong?
Oh man Dostoevsky is my all time favorite author. I wish I could meet a girl who doesn’t say “The Brothers what?” when I tell her my favorite book.
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Kerouac one was spot on! My brother is a sophomore in college; huge Umphrey’s and Kerouac fan. Nice work. I read Terry Goodkind in junior-high and…yeah I never got to DM, had a level 17 Half-Elf Thief though.
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This is brilliant. I posted a link to your lovely post on my blog. Thanks!
STEVE GUTTENBERG HEADER?! I love you!
This was a fun read. Corny, funny, and sometimes spot on, too!
What amazes me is how defensive some folks got over it.
It’s not exactly DMS-IV now is it?
Seems like some of us have been hitting the hard stuff for too long and could use a little Jerome K Jerome, Dave Barry, Garrison Keillor, {insert funny author here} and comic books to exercise and/or restart the humor sections of the brain.
Life is hard enough without making everything so dreadfully serious.
So thanks for the laugh and I hope everyone learns to laugh more at life cause otherwise we’ve got too much to cry about.
Thank you!
I’m afraid people who read the DSM-IV have thier veryown list.
I’ve read all of Thoreau’s works for whatever that indicates..
This list will seem like smart-ass bullshit to you in 20 years. Trust me.
So will that comment, this comment, and most of what anyone says. That’s how time works.
Is this a way of being all intellectual in a nonchalant manner by showing that you have enough knowlegde about ALL these authors to make insider-jokes about them..?
No, it’s a way of being actually intellectual, by reading a lot of books. Which I think you’ll find is one of the more popular routes.
Ah, yes. Because everyone who reads aspires to be intellectual. Are you familiar with Texts From Last Night?
Ha, I don’t own a cottage or even know who the hell Umphreys Mcgee is but now I feel even MORE pretentious admitting that ‘Crime and Punishment’ recently became my favorite book and ‘Underground’ is scaring me even more. Oh well, time to drink some scotch.
Orwell fans are not paranoid, they’re just out to get us, that’s all.
So funny. I can’t imagine the effort put into this.
Not very good–she just makes shit up, but it could be fun to try this.
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Lauren Leto
dumb stereotyping bitch
Someone’s a Sparks fan
hey I’ve dungeon mastered before. With tenacity.
i love cormac mccarthy and cream cheese
seriously these are two things that i greatly enjoy
I just watched the movies hecklers
Then I just saw this
And now my head wants to explode
AHH! so much to think about!
Thanks Lauren. I got a pretty good belly laugh going there a few times reading your list. What I find amusing, in a pathetic sort of way, is how many readers were insulted by your list.
Cheers
i don’t get the foo fighters one…shouldn’t it be something like “people who say they loved ‘Heathers’” or “white Prince fans?”
no no no. Palahniuk fans are the kind of people who think the idea rioting in the streets is beautiful and sexy.
you missed a few:
Piers Anthony: Nerds without an imagination
J.R.R. Tolkien: Nerds in costume
Terry Goodkind: Nerds with long hair
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman: Nerds who own at least three dragon posters
Hmmm Terry Pratchett and I am an anthropologist/archaeologist…
But I still prefer him and Tolkien over Rowling… more original.
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i love me some sir arthur connan doyle, although i must say i am more of a burbon lady myself.
Uh, oh. Can’t choose. I’ll just settle as someone with MPD.
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Bad form on the Morrison.
This is great! Nick Hornby is dead on, I’ll admit it haha.
BOO THIS WOMAN!
BBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
My favorite authors are Nabokov and Gaiman. I’m a woman, but I like a word with some heft to it, and I can name more than two Miyazaki films.
I’d like to suggest Iain Banks for future consideration.
This is good stuff, but it’s a shame there’s no Voltaire.
Fuck reading, i have better things to do with my time…like watching paint dry.
What stereotype does that make me?
I love this list! So funny!
If Kerouac fans listen to Umphrey’s Mcgee, what do Ginsberg fans listen to? Rage Against the Machine? I’m also not entirely certain that I want to know what Burroughs fans listen to.
Amazing!!!!
Doris Lessing
Women in their sixties who wear their hair in a long braid and live with cats
missing bukowski and tom robbins :/
otherwise, fantastic, and, for the most part, dead accurate.
Yeah im a smart geek….but I also loved Mary Browns book the unlikely ones its been my favorite book since I was 11….I would say the sterotype would be people who didn’t have much of a childhood….but Id like to see what you think. Sorry for any bad spelling I have dyslexia.
Thomas Mann?
John Green?
And 20000 points right back to you!