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The Greatest Books Of All Time Most Prolific Authors

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Name that authors featured at least 10 times in the full list (over 18K books) of greatest books of all time according to thegreatestbooks.org which uses an algorithm-based approach over 100’s of best-of book lists to determine its rankings. # of books and year span of books in the list shown. Object is most books, not authors.

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