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1. William Shakespeare
2. Stephen King
3. Charles Dickens
4. Betty MacDonald
5. John Milton
6. Dave Barry
7. Jane Austen
8. Oscar Wilde
9. Scott Hawkins
10. Allie Brosh

Wow, that was fun!! Now I‘m sad that I can‘t actually have this dinner party. 😢
#dinnerparty

1. Maya Angelou
2. Margaret Atwood
3. J.K. Rowling
4. Jane Austen
5. Lin Manuel Miranda
6. Jon Krakauer
7. Oprah
8. Walt Whitman
9. Colson Whitehead
10. Michelle Obama
#dinnerparty @Krisjericho

Laini Taylor
J. K. Rowling
Stephen King
Edgar Allen Poe
Gillian Flynn
Trevor Noah
Shirley Jackson
Gabrielle Union
Bill Nye
Minny McGinnis

This was so hard. #dinnerparty @Krisjericho

1 J.K. Rowling
2 U. Eco
3 A. Camilleri
4 I. Calvino
5 George R.R. Martin
6 Arthur Conan Doyle
7 Diana Gabaldon
8 J.R.R. Tolkien
9 H. Hesse
10 E. Hemingway

#dinnerparty @Krisjericho

1. J.K. Rowling
2. Neil Gaiman
3. Maya Angelou
4. Malala Yousafzai
5. Fredrick Backman
6. Margaret Atwood
7. Jane Austen
8. Trevor Noah
9. Salmon Rushdie
10. Hilary Rodham Clinton

#dinnerparty @Krisjericho

I‘ve never started one of these on Litsy, but I was thinking about this today, so I‘m going to try! Here‘s my list, and tags me in yours! Mine would be one hell of an interesting party. 😂#dinnerparty 1. Judy Blume
2. Neil Gaiman
3. Beverly Cleary
4. Fred Rogers
5. Stephen King
6. Jane Austen
7. Edgar Allen Poe
8. Harper Lee
9. bell hooks
10. Jenny Lawson

Good question...
1️⃣ Maya Angelou
2️⃣ Harper Lee
3️⃣ Toni Morrison
4️⃣ Ta Nehisi-Coates
5️⃣ Jesmyn Ward
6️⃣ Morgan Jerkins
7️⃣ Roxane Gay
8️⃣ Celeste Ng
@amber_ldsmom

I wanted to include so many more but decided to go with authors who wrote in English.
@amber_ldsmom
Stephen King
J.K Rowling
P.G Wodehouse
Roald Dahl
Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen
Mary Shelley
Oscar Wilde
*Sigh* I wish I could really host this😍

Dinner party: living author edition.
Alice Munro, Kate Atkinson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sherman Alexie, Zadie Smith.
Writers I love who challenge me. They are brilliant. They are funny.
As long as I am NOT the one cooking, I predict it would a success! 🍷🍷
Thanks for the tag @Billypar

@diovival tagged me for 5 authors I would have a dinner party with. I picked President Obama, Anne Rice, John Sandford, Colson Whitehead, and Stephen King.

I tag @Pamwurtzler

If I could plan a literary dinner party, I'd invite:
Jacqueline Carey, Meredith Russo,
Sarah Waters, Robin Hobb, and Patrick Rothfuss.

It's hard to stop at just the five of them!

@BarbaraBB #5fordinner

I can be very shy so I thought my dinner guests should have something in common with me -- all my guests have spent part of their lives in Minnesota.
Siri Hustvedt -- brillant, weird books
Al Franken -- would keep conversation lively
Helene Wecker -- an acquaintance from college and a lovely, intelligent woman
Neil Gaiman -- charming accent and seems to be a genuinely nice person
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- for the booze

Thanks for the tag, @batsy ! At my #5fordinner party I would gladly invite these writers:

🍽 Bukowski: For fun and booze
🍽 Gyasi: She seems so nice and smart; I‘d like to know her
🍽 De Beauvoir: I want to ask her why she always writes down what I can‘t put into words
🍽 Knausgaard: I‘d like having deep existential talks with him!
🍽 Englander: for his humor, knowledge and books

@Liz_M and @RidgewayGirl I‘d love to know who you would invite!

@britt_brooke and @jdtchicago also tagged me in naming the top 5 authors for a dinner party. I cheated though, I have 6. Who are your guests?
1. Maya Angelou
2. J.D. Salinger
3. Jack Kerouac
4. Sylvia Plath
5. Kurt Vonnegut
6. Nikki Giovanni