Kim Stanley Robinson
American science-fiction writer best known for the Mars trilogy and environmentally focused novels about science, politics, exploration, and possible futures.
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Lisa Unger
Lisa Unger is an American bestselling author of psychological thrillers, suspense novels, horror fiction, novellas, and short stories.
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Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and an award-winning American novelist, poet, short-story writer, memoirist, and children's author.
36 works3 series
Michel Foucault
French philosopher and historian of ideas whose works analyzed knowledge, power, institutions, subjectivity, and sexuality.
36 works2 series
Mizuki Tsujimura
Mizuki Tsujimura is a Japanese novelist known for mystery fiction for adult and young-adult readers.
36 works2 series
Percival Everett
American novelist, short-story writer, poet, and professor known for intellectually playful, genre-crossing fiction.
36 works0 series
Peter Wohlleben
German forester, author, and nature-conservation advocate known for accessible books about forests, animals, ecology, and sustainable forestry.
36 works2 series
Richelle Mead
American fantasy author best known for the Vampire Academy, Bloodlines, Georgina Kincaid, Dark Swan, Age of X, and Glittering Court series.
36 works9 series
Robert Gavin Hampson
British poet and literary scholar known for innovative poetry and criticism of Joseph Conrad.
36 works1 series
Roland Barthes
French literary theorist, essayist, semiologist, critic, and cultural thinker whose work reshaped modern literary and cultural criticism.
36 works1 series
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British-American novelist and essayist known for magical realism, historical fiction, satire, and writing about migration, identity, censorship, and cultural conflict.
36 works1 series
Sebastien de Castell
Canadian author of swashbuckling fantasy, best known for The Greatcoats and Spellslinger series.
36 works5 series
Sophie Kinsella
English author known for romantic comedies, women's fiction, young adult fiction, and children's books, including the Shopaholic series.
36 works2 series
Tad Williams
American author of fantasy, science fiction, urban fantasy, young-adult fiction, short fiction, and comics.
36 works6 series
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian novelist, historian, memoirist, dramatist, and dissident whose writing exposed the Soviet labor-camp system and explored Russia's moral and historical crises.
35 works2 series
Alexis Hall
Alexis Hall is an English genrequeer author of LGBTQ+ romance, urban fantasy, historical fantasy, and science fiction.
35 works9 series
Anthony Ryan
Anthony Ryan is a Scottish author of epic fantasy, science fiction noir, and horror. He previously worked in the British Civil Service and writes under the name A. J. Ryan for some horror fiction.
35 works8 series
Betty Smith
American novelist and playwright best known for the bestseller A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
35 works0 series
Christopher Priest
British novelist and nonfiction writer known for psychologically intricate science fiction, slipstream fiction, and literary speculative fiction.
35 works1 series
Colm Tóibín
Irish novelist, essayist, journalist, playwright, poet, and literary critic.
35 works1 series
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British science fiction author, journalist, activist, and technology critic.
35 works2 series
Guy de Maupassant
French novelist, short-story writer, poet, journalist, travel writer, and playwright (1850–1893).
35 works0 series
Iain Banks
Scottish novelist Iain Banks (1954–2013), who wrote literary fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the Culture series.
35 works1 series
J.T. Geissinger
J.T. Geissinger is an award-winning bestselling author of contemporary romance, dark romance, paranormal romance, romantic suspense, and erotic romance.
35 works9 series
Kanae Minato
Japanese novelist and essayist known for psychologically focused mystery and literary fiction.
35 works1 series
Lemony Snicket
Pseudonym of American author Daniel Handler, best known for the children's series A Series of Unfortunate Events.
35 works2 series
Maureen Johnson
Maureen Johnson is an American author best known for young adult mystery, contemporary, fantasy, and romance fiction.
35 works9 series
Michael Crichton
American novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker, physician, and nonfiction author known for scientifically grounded thrillers.
35 works1 series
Nnedi Okorafor
Nigerian-American author of Africanfuturist and Africanjujuist science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, and nonfiction for adults, young adults, and children.
35 works5 series
Peter F. Hamilton
British science-fiction author known for large-scale space opera and interconnected future-history series.
35 works11 series
Peter S. Beagle
American fantasy novelist, short-story writer, essayist, poet, editor, nonfiction author, and screenwriter best known for The Last Unicorn.
35 works2 series
Saladin Ahmed
American writer of fantasy and science-fiction prose, poetry, and superhero comics.
35 works16 series
Seth Godin
American author, entrepreneur, and marketing thinker known for concise books on marketing, leadership, creativity, and meaningful work.
35 works1 series
Steven Brust
American fantasy and science-fiction author best known for the Vlad Taltos novels and the Dragaera setting.
35 works6 series
William Goldman
American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, and essayist known for The Princess Bride, Adventures in the Screen Trade, and two Academy Award-winning screenplays.
35 works3 series
William T. Vollmann
American novelist, essayist, journalist, memoirist, and visual artist known for expansive historical fiction, reportage, moral inquiry, and photography.
35 works5 series
Alan Durband
English teacher, writer, editor, Shakespeare adapter, and Liverpool theatre advocate.
34 works8 series
Beatrix Potter
English author and illustrator best known for her animal tales, nursery-rhyme books, and children's novel The Fairy Caravan.
34 works2 series
Chris Wooding
British author of fantasy, science fiction, young-adult novels, and graphic works.
34 works6 series
David Boyd
Canadian author, teacher, and playwright whose work spans children's fiction, young adult fiction, historical fiction, graphic works, poetry, and speculative fiction.
34 works6 series
Elise Kova
Elise Kova is a bestselling author of fantasy and fantasy romance, known for magical worlds, deep emotions, and romantic adventures.
34 works9 series
Elizabeth Hand
American novelist, short-fiction writer, critic, and comics writer known for science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime, and literary fiction.
34 works4 series
Elizabeth Moon
American science-fiction and fantasy author known for military science fiction, epic fantasy, and character-driven explorations of duty, identity, and community.
34 works11 series
John Flanagan
Australian author best known for the Ranger's Apprentice and Brotherband adventure series.
34 works5 series
Joseph Campbell
American mythologist, writer, and teacher best known for comparative mythology and the study of mythic symbolism.
34 works2 series
Julie Murphy
American author of young adult, middle-grade, children's, and adult romance fiction.
34 works9 series
Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon is an English writer and artist known for novels, children's fiction, poetry, short stories, plays, and memoir.
34 works2 series
Mary Oliver
American poet and essayist (1935–2019) known for lyric poetry rooted in the natural world.
34 works1 series