Rachel Aaron
American fantasy and science-fiction author who also writes science fiction under the pen name Rachel Bach.
34 works9 series
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Robert R. McCammon
American novelist and short-story writer known for horror, dark fantasy, historical fiction, suspense, and literary fiction.
34 works3 series
Robin Hobb
American fantasy author Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, best known by the pen name Robin Hobb; she also writes as Megan Lindholm.
34 works10 series
Roswitha Quadflieg
German novelist, essayist, memoirist, dramatist, radio author, and book artist, born in Zürich in 1949.
34 works0 series
Sarah Pinborough
British author and screenwriter of horror, dark fantasy, thrillers, historical mysteries, and young adult fiction.
34 works7 series
Steven Erikson
Canadian novelist, archaeologist, and anthropologist best known for the Malazan Book of the Fallen fantasy series.
34 works5 series
Tamora Pierce
American fantasy and young adult author known for the Tortall and Circle fantasy universes and their strong, complex heroines.
34 works11 series
Alan Lee
American crime writer based in Roanoke, Virginia, known for mystery, crime, and thriller novels.
33 works4 series
Andy Weir
American science-fiction author and former software engineer best known for The Martian, Artemis, and Project Hail Mary.
33 works5 series
Ben Aaronovitch
British author and screenwriter best known for the Rivers of London urban-fantasy series and Doctor Who fiction.
33 works5 series
Byung-Chul Han
South Korean-born German philosopher and cultural theorist known for concise critiques of neoliberalism, digital society, technology, and contemporary culture.
33 works0 series
Carl Hiaasen
American journalist, satirical novelist, and author of nonfiction and fiction for young readers, known for Florida-set crime novels and environmental themes.
33 works2 series
Craig Alanson
American science-fiction and fantasy author best known for the Expeditionary Force military space-opera series.
33 works4 series
Dave Gibbons
English comics writer, artist, letterer, and graphic novelist best known for Watchmen, co-created with Alan Moore.
33 works8 series
Dave McKean
English artist, writer, photographer, filmmaker, and graphic novelist known for experimental mixed-media comics, graphic novels, art books, and photography.
33 works4 series
David Gemmell
British author of heroic fantasy, historical fantasy, and crime fiction, best known for morally complex heroes, epic battles, and themes of courage, honour, redemption, and hope.
33 works7 series
Ernest Hemingway
American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, essayist, poet, and playwright known for spare prose and understated emotional intensity.
33 works0 series
Freida McFadden
Pseudonymous physician and bestselling author of psychological thrillers, medical thrillers, and medical-humor fiction.
33 works3 series
Howard Zinn
American historian, playwright, memoirist, and activist known for writing history from the perspective of ordinary people and social movements.
33 works0 series
Jack McDevitt
Jack McDevitt is an American science fiction author known for first-contact, xenoarchaeological, space-opera, and science-fiction mystery stories.
33 works3 series
John Ajvide Lindqvist
Swedish horror writer known for psychologically rich supernatural fiction, crime novels, short stories, plays, and nonfiction.
33 works2 series
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, memoirist, and playwright known for his socially engaged fiction about working people and California.
33 works0 series
Justina Ireland
Justina Ireland is an American science-fiction, fantasy, and young adult author known for historical fantasy, horror, middle-grade fiction, Star Wars novels, and comics.
33 works9 series
Kate Stewart
Texas-born American romance author known for contemporary romance, romantic suspense, and romantic comedy.
33 works8 series
Libba Bray
American author of young adult fiction, including the Gemma Doyle trilogy, The Diviners series, and several standalone novels and anthologies.
33 works3 series
P. Craig Russell
American comics artist, writer, adapter, and graphic novelist known for lush, ornate adaptations of opera, mythology, fairy tales, and modern fantasy.
33 works5 series
Pittacus Lore
Collective pseudonym associated primarily with James Frey and Jobie Hughes, used for young adult science-fiction fiction.
33 works5 series
Rebecca Solnit
American writer, historian, essayist, memoirist, and activist known for nonfiction on feminism, place, art, environmentalism, politics, walking, disaster, and hope.
33 works3 series
Scott Sigler
American science-fiction and horror novelist known for podcast fiction, high-concept thrillers, and the Galactic Football League series.
33 works7 series
Sylvia Plath
American poet, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and children's author (1932–1963), best known for The Bell Jar and Ariel.
33 works0 series
Alastair Reynolds
Welsh hard-science-fiction author known for space opera, deep-time settings, and scientifically informed worldbuilding.
32 works6 series
Annie Barrows
American author of children's fiction, picture books, nonfiction, and adult novels, best known for the Ivy + Bean and Iggy series and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
32 works4 series
Anonymous
A cataloging designation for literary works whose authorship is unknown, undisclosed, or collective.
32 works2 series
Aristotle
Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath (384–322 BCE), founder of the Lyceum and a foundational figure in logic, ethics, political philosophy, natural science, biology, rhetoric, and poetics.
32 works3 series
Brandon Mull
American author best known for middle-grade and young-adult fantasy series including Fablehaven, Dragonwatch, Beyonders, Five Kingdoms, and The Candy Shop War.
32 works9 series
Eiji Yoshikawa
Japanese historical novelist (1892–1962), best known for popular retellings of Japanese and Chinese classics, including Musashi, Taiko, and Shin Heike monogatari.
32 works0 series
J. M. Coetzee
South African-born Australian novelist, essayist, memoirist, and literary critic, twice a Booker Prize winner and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
32 works2 series
Jennifer Weiner
American novelist and nonfiction writer known for witty, emotionally candid fiction about women, relationships, family, friendship, body image, and contemporary social life.
32 works2 series
Jeremy Tambling
British writer, literary critic, and scholar of comparative literature, literary theory, Dante, Dickens, psychoanalysis, and urban literary studies.
32 works4 series
Jo Nesbø
Norwegian novelist and musician best known for the Harry Hole crime novels and Doctor Proctor children's books.
32 works5 series
Joanne Harris
Anglo-French British author of novels, fantasy, gothic fiction, short stories, novellas, cookbooks, and nonfiction.
32 works4 series
Julian Barnes
English novelist, essayist, short-story writer, memoirist, and translator.
32 works2 series
Karl Marx
German philosopher, economist, historian, and revolutionary socialist best known for his critique of political economy and analysis of capitalism.
32 works1 series
Kiersten White
Kiersten White is a #1 New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction for readers of all ages.
32 works6 series
Maria V. Snyder
American fantasy and science-fiction author best known for the Study, Glass, Soulfinders, Healer, Insider, Sentinels of the Galaxy, and Archives of the Invisible Sword series.
32 works9 series
Patricia A. McKillip
American fantasy and science-fiction author known for lyrical, mythic prose and predominantly standalone novels.
32 works4 series