33 Literary Geniuses Who Happen To Be Super Hot

Baby, you're like the most popular book in the library. Everyone is checking you out.

1. Ernest Hemingway

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He was misogynistic, yes, but it can't be denied that Hemingway was a looker.

2. Alice Walker

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Dayyyyyyum, The Color Purple bagged the National Book Award in '83, and its author just bagged a top spot on this list.

3. Rupert Brooke

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The poet was once described by W.B. Yeats as "the handsomest young man in England."

4. Jhumpa Lahiri

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She won the 2000 Pulitzer for Interpreter of Maladies. Jhumpa Lahiri = whole package.

5. Langston Hughes

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He pioneered Jazz Poetry and he could get it.

6. Zadie Smith

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Zadie Smith could cut you with her words and her cheekbones.

7. John Steinbeck

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John Steinbeck? More like, John FINE-beck.

8. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Hawthorne was a studmuffin, and having penned The Scarlet Letter, totally a feminist too.

9. Nell Freudenberger

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She was a 2010 winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and hearts everywhere.

10. Daphne du Maurier

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Who would've thunk that Hitchcock's creepy movie The Birds was a adapted from a story that came from this angelic head? Respect.

11. Anton Chekhov

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He wasn't just a sexy beast, if you've ever read The Kiss, you know he was also devastatingly romantic.

12. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Also one of the New Yorker's 2010 20 Under 40 selections, Adichie is a supertalented writer and a perfect 10.

13. Voltaire

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Voltaire could even make a long curly wig look sexy.

14. Daniel Alarcón

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Looks and talent, Alarcón was one of the New Yorker's 20 Under 40 selections in 2010. What a cutie.

15. Louise Glück

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This former Poet Laureate isn't just easy on the eyes, her poems are easy on the ears too.

16. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. Scott and his wife, Zelda, were the physical embodiment of the Jazz Age. Can write. Can party.

17. Tao Lin

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Tao Lin might be controversial, but his studliness certainly isn't.

18. Jack Kerouac

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This was Jack Kerouac's U.S. Naval Reserve enlistment photo. Don't all go enlisting at once now.

19. Lord Byron

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Hands down, hottest Romantic poet ever. Also the inspiration for the Byronic hero. Sigh.

20. Marisha Pessl

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Her debut novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics has been translated into 30 languages. Can you say hot in 30 languages?

21. Toni Morrison

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Born Chloe Wofford in 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, Toni Morrison is a legend and a looker.

22. Andrew Sean Greer

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This prize-winning writer should win a prize for those baby blues.

23. Charlotte Brontë

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Jane Eyre-resistable, amirite?

24. Paul Auster

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Those eyes. So piercing.

25. Nicole Krauss

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Probably most people would like to discuss The History of Love with Nicole Krauss, but Jonathan Safran Foer won. High five, Jonathan Safran Foer.

26. D.H. Lawrence

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No wonder Lawrence had so many books about love, by the looks of it, he was probably an expert.

27. Chang-Rae Lee

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So brilliant and such a babe.

28. Joan Didion

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Joan Didion could've given Kate Moss a run for her money.

29. Richard Mason

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Brooding, handsome, and brilliant? Check, check, and check.

30. Neil Gaiman

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Multi-talented Neil Gaiman is basically Jim Morrison's hair twin.

31. Margaret Mitchell

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Scarlett O'Hara who? Margaret Mitchell's doe eyes are way more captivating.

32. Junot Diaz

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This broodingly hot author has a way with words. His novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao won the Pulitzer in 2008.

33. J.D. Salinger

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Theory: Salinger was reclusive because he was sick of all the groupies he was attracting.

CORRECTION: An image of Gillian Flynn was misidentified as Nell Freudenberger in an earlier version of this post.