Mark Kurlansky
American journalist and author of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and children's books, known for richly researched histories of food, commodities, places, and culture.
39 works0 series
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Michael McDowell
American novelist and screenwriter best known for Southern Gothic horror, the Blackwater serial novel, and the screenplay for Beetlejuice.
39 works5 series
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist, short-story writer, biographer, and translator best known for the Aubrey-Maturin naval novels.
39 works2 series
Scott Westerfeld
American author of science fiction and young adult fiction, known for the Uglies, Leviathan, Midnighters, Zeroes, and Impostors series.
39 works11 series
Tess Gerritsen
American physician and internationally bestselling author of romantic suspense, medical thrillers, crime fiction, and spy novels.
39 works3 series
Albert Camus
French-Algerian novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist, and Nobel Prize-winning author associated with absurdism and the philosophy of revolt.
38 works3 series
Blake Morrison
English poet, novelist, memoirist, critic, journalist, playwright, and librettist.
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Charles Dickens
English novelist, journalist, editor, playwright, and social critic whose fiction combined exuberant characterization with sustained concern for poverty, inequality, childhood, and social reform.
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Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale (1896–1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, translator, journalist, and literary critic who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975.
38 works2 series
Jeff VanderMeer
American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and editor known for weird fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, and ecological horror.
38 works4 series
Jerry Spinelli
American author of children's and young-adult fiction, best known for Maniac Magee, Stargirl, and Wringer.
38 works7 series
Jodi Picoult
American author of contemporary and young-adult fiction, known for novels addressing family relationships, ethical dilemmas, and difficult social issues.
38 works2 series
John E. Woods
John Edwin Woods (1942–2023) was an American literary translator specializing in German literature.
38 works1 series
Julia Quinn
Julia Quinn is an American author of historical romance, best known for the Bridgerton novels.
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Ken Follett
Welsh author best known for epic historical fiction and espionage thrillers.
38 works4 series
Patricia Briggs
American fantasy and urban fantasy novelist best known for the Mercy Thompson and Alpha and Omega series.
38 works7 series
Raymond E. Feist
American fantasy author best known for the Riftwar Cycle, the Firemane Saga, and the standalone novel Faerie Tale.
38 works15 series
Robert T. Kiyosaki
American entrepreneur, investor, educator, and author best known for the Rich Dad personal-finance books.
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Samuel Beckett
Irish novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and translator whose austere modernist works helped define the Theatre of the Absurd.
38 works2 series
Zoraida Córdova
Ecuadorian-American author of fantasy, science fiction, middle-grade and young-adult fiction, adult fiction, romance, and graphic fiction.
38 works9 series
Arkady Strugatsky
Soviet and Russian science-fiction writer, translator, and co-author with Boris Strugatsky.
37 works2 series
Chloe Walsh
Irish author of contemporary, new adult, and adult romance, best known for the Boys of Tommen series.
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Christina Lauren
Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of writing partners Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, known for contemporary romance and young adult fiction.
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Dan Simmons
American novelist and short-fiction writer known for science fiction, horror, fantasy, historical fiction, and mystery.
37 works4 series
Elin Hilderbrand
American novelist known for contemporary women's fiction set largely on Nantucket.
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Evelyn Waugh
English novelist, satirist, biographer, travel writer, essayist, and journalist.
37 works1 series
Janci Patterson
American author of young adult contemporary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and romance.
37 works8 series
Karin Slaughter
Karin Slaughter is an American crime novelist known for the Grant County and Will Trent series and her standalone psychological thrillers.
37 works4 series
Kevin Hearne
American fantasy and science-fiction author best known for The Iron Druid Chronicles.
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Kōbō Abe
Japanese novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and avant-garde theater director known for surreal, existential works about alienation, identity, and social confinement.
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Matt Wagner
American comics writer and artist best known for creating Mage and Grendel.
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Patricia Highsmith
American novelist and short-story writer known for psychologically intense crime fiction, the Tom Ripley novels, and the landmark novel The Price of Salt.
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Philip Pullman
English novelist, playwright, and essayist best known for His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust.
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Roald Dahl
British author of celebrated children's fiction, adult short stories, poetry, memoirs, nonfiction, and drama.
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Stendhal
French novelist, essayist, art critic, memoirist, and travel writer (1783–1842), best known for Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme.
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Thomas Hardy
English novelist, poet, short-story writer, dramatist, and architect whose work is associated with Victorian realism, naturalism, Wessex, and modern lyric poetry.
37 works4 series
TJ Klune
TJ Klune is an award-winning, bestselling queer author of fantasy, science fiction, paranormal romance, and young adult fiction.
37 works8 series
William Makepeace Thackeray
English novelist, satirist, essayist, poet, lecturer, and illustrator (1811–1863).
37 works1 series
Alice Walker
American novelist, poet, essayist, memoirist, short-story writer, and activist.
36 works0 series
Boris Strugatsky
Russian and Soviet science-fiction writer, best known for his long collaboration with his brother Arkady Strugatsky and for two later novels published under the pseudonym S. Vititsky.
36 works3 series
Clive Barker
English author, playwright, filmmaker, and visual artist known for visionary horror, dark fantasy, and imaginative fiction.
36 works3 series
David Boyd
Canadian author and playwright of children's, young adult, historical, dystopian, and sports-related works.
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Eddie Campbell
Scottish-born comics artist, writer, cartoonist, and publisher known for Alec, Bacchus, and From Hell.
36 works2 series
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Russian novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, essayist, and memoirist whose fiction examined Russian society, generational conflict, serfdom, and the tension between Russia and Western Europe.
36 works1 series
Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is an American novelist and essayist whose work spans literary fiction, historical fiction, nonfiction, young-adult fiction, and children's literature.
36 works3 series
John Milton
English poet, polemicist, dramatist, historian, and civil servant, best known for Paradise Lost.
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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, memoirist, and translator, known for exploring desire, beauty, modernity, and Japanese tradition.
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