Kristin Hannah
American novelist and former attorney known for emotionally driven historical and contemporary fiction.
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Martin Amis
English novelist, essayist, literary critic, memoirist, and journalist known for satirical, formally inventive fiction and incisive cultural criticism.
26 works1 series
Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson is an American scholar, author, ordained Baptist minister, and public intellectual whose work examines race, religion, politics, popular culture, and African American life.
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Mieko Kawakami
Japanese novelist, poet, essayist, and memoirist born in Osaka in 1976.
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Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist, playwright, physician, and satirist.
26 works0 series
Natsume Sōseki
Japanese novelist, essayist, literary critic, and poet whose fiction helped define modern Japanese literature.
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Neal Stephenson
American author of science fiction, cyberpunk, historical fiction, techno-thrillers, and nonfiction.
26 works7 series
Nevil Shute
English novelist and aeronautical engineer whose adventure, war, science-fiction, and Australian-set novels combined practical detail with accessible storytelling.
26 works1 series
Patricia C. Wrede
American fantasy author known for inventive fairy-tale, historical, and young-adult fiction.
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Philip G. Zimbardo
American social psychologist, Stanford professor emeritus, and author known for the Stanford prison experiment, research on shyness and time perspective, and public-facing psychology books.
26 works0 series
Raymond Chandler
American-British novelist and screenwriter best known for the Philip Marlowe crime novels and hard-boiled short fiction.
26 works1 series
Scott McCloud
American cartoonist, comics theorist, writer, and artist known for influential nonfiction comics and graphic novels.
26 works3 series
Sean Hawker
Sean Hawker is an author of extreme horror, splatterpunk, and transgressive fiction.
26 works0 series
A. S. Byatt
English novelist, short-story writer, critic, and essayist best known for Possession and the Frederica Quartet.
25 works1 series
Annie Proulx
American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, memoirist, and nonfiction author known for works rooted in rural landscapes, environmental history, and regional communities.
25 works1 series
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand was a Russian-American novelist, playwright, essayist, and philosopher who developed Objectivism, a philosophy centered on reason, individual rights, rational self-interest, and laissez-faire capitalism.
25 works0 series
Brian McClellan
American epic fantasy author known for flintlock, military, and urban fantasy.
25 works5 series
Bryan Talbot
British comics writer and artist known for pioneering graphic novels including The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, The Tale of One Bad Rat, Alice in Sunderland, and Grandville.
25 works3 series
Cecelia Ahern
Irish novelist and short-story writer known for contemporary romantic fiction, women's fiction, young adult fiction, and magical realism.
25 works2 series
Charles Darwin
English naturalist whose theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology.
25 works4 series
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American writer, feminist theorist, social reformer, lecturer, and editor best known for The Yellow Wallpaper, Women and Economics, and Herland.
25 works1 series
Colleen Hoover
American bestselling author of contemporary romance, young adult fiction, and psychological thrillers.
25 works4 series
Don DeLillo
American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist.
25 works0 series
Edward S. Herman
American economist, media scholar, and social critic known for political-economy research and media criticism.
25 works1 series
Edward W. Said
Edward W. Said (1935–2003) was a Palestinian-American literary theorist, cultural critic, public intellectual, and professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He was a founding figure in postcolonial studies and a prominent advocate for Palestinian self-determination.
25 works0 series
Eliezer Yudkowsky
American artificial intelligence researcher, decision theorist, and writer known for work on AI safety, rationality, and speculative fiction.
25 works1 series
Eliot Schrefer
American and British author of adult, young adult, and children's fiction and nonfiction, twice a National Book Award finalist.
25 works8 series
Emma Donoghue
Irish-Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and literary historian known for historical fiction, short stories, and the novel Room.
25 works1 series
Greg Capullo
Greg Capullo is an American comic-book artist known for Spawn, Batman, Reborn, and creator-owned horror comics.
25 works9 series
James Baldwin
James Baldwin (1924–1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, short-story writer, and social critic whose work explored race, sexuality, religion, identity, and American society.
25 works0 series
James Dashner
American author of speculative fiction for young adults, best known for The Maze Runner and The Mortality Doctrine series.
25 works7 series
James Ellroy
American crime novelist, memoirist, essayist, and journalist known for hard-boiled fiction about Los Angeles and American political history.
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Jason Reynolds
Jason Reynolds is an American author and poet best known for acclaimed fiction, poetry, nonfiction, picture books, and graphic works for young people.
25 works3 series
John Crowley
American novelist and essayist known for literary science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, and speculative nonfiction.
25 works1 series
Joost Elffers
Dutch-born author, artist, and book producer known for visual nonfiction, design books, puzzles, and collaborative children's books.
25 works2 series
Joss Whedon
American screenwriter, filmmaker, television creator, comic-book writer, and composer known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and Marvel's Avengers films.
25 works10 series
László Krasznahorkai
Hungarian novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and artist-book collaborator known for expansive, apocalyptic prose and collaborations with filmmaker Béla Tarr.
25 works0 series
Laura Thalassa
Laura Thalassa is an American author of paranormal and fantasy romance, including dark fantasy, dystopian romance, and young adult fantasy.
25 works8 series
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, poet, memoirist, editor, and translator.
25 works0 series
Michael J. Sullivan
American fantasy and science-fiction author best known for the Riyria novels.
25 works4 series
Mick Herron
British crime and espionage novelist best known for the Slough House series.
25 works2 series
Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom is an American author, journalist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster, and musician known for memoirs, inspirational fiction, nonfiction, and stage works.
25 works1 series
Pat Cadigan
Pat Cadigan is an American-British science fiction writer best known for cyberpunk novels exploring the relationship between technology, identity, and the human mind.
25 works6 series
Poppy Z. Brite
American author of gothic horror, dark fantasy, Southern Gothic, and darkly comic fiction, also known for nonfiction and short fiction set in New Orleans.
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