Fahrenheit 451

I beg to differ from a point of view. (And BTW, it's great to have a literature talk). Say there would be just 4 or 5 great Russian writers, but their work would be as consistant as the entire literature of a country.
I'll rephrase. I PREFER Russian writers. Because of the depth. Because of the vastness you can feel in their writing, given by the that huge country they have. The Russian people is great, so intense and withs ucha  huge pallet of feelings.

Frenchmen are great too, since Balzac is one of my favorite writers. I've almost finished "La comedie humaine".

And about Irish, that's one place I love to have been born.

About the dare...

1. Dostoyevski

2. Lev Tolstoy

3. Alexei Tolstoy ("The turmoil" is the best book I have ever written, I dearly and strongly recommend it to anybody, it's a masterpiece)

5. Anton Cehov

6. Maxim Gorky

7. Mikhail Sholokov

8. A.S Pushkin

9. Ivan Turgheniev

10. N.V. Gogol

on the top of my mind. I probably could come up with five more, but these 10 I've read.