My suggestion would be to start with the authors nominated for a Nobel prize for literature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literatur

My suggestion would be to start with the authors nominated for a Nobel prize for literature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Literature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Lit... Filtering by those available in readily available English translations should yield a workable list.