About the Author- Holding the books

I love reading, and find such character in printed books, so just looking on Amazon was never going to work for me. Today I went to Waterstones and found as many authors as I could on my list.

Because I was home educated, I didn't read a lot of the 'classics' so I thought I would try and explore these different authors, like Harper Lee and Edgar Allen Poe, but I found it difficult to disassociate the prestige of their works with the writing, and I just found them a lot less personal.

Which authors did I not like?
Harper Lee
Aldous Huxley
Edgar Allen Poe
Donna Tartt

Which did I like?
George Orwell
Italo Calvino
Franz Kafka
Patricia Highsmith
Haruki Murakami

Who could I not find??
Leonora Carrington
Naomi Klein
Susan Sontag
Malcolm Gladwell
Leonora Carrington
Lin Yutang

After looking more online, I really want to see the writing styles of both Leonora Carrington and Lin Yutang, so need to go to a bigger bookstore maybe?

GOOD

BAD

Might go to some of these? 

Books I bought