Richard Matheson
American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and nonfiction author known for horror, science fiction, fantasy, suspense, and western fiction.
65 works2 series
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Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, memoirist, novelist, essayist, and playwright.
64 works2 series
J. R. Ward
American romance and suspense novelist best known for the Black Dagger Brotherhood paranormal-romance series.
64 works12 series
John Shirley
American novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, essayist, and musician known for cyberpunk, horror, dark fantasy, thrillers, and westerns.
64 works2 series
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine writer, poet, essayist, and translator (1899–1986), renowned for labyrinthine fiction, metaphysical essays, and influential poetry.
64 works0 series
Neal Shusterman
American author of award-winning fiction and nonfiction for children, teens, and adults, known for speculative, dystopian, science-fiction, fantasy, and contemporary novels.
64 works14 series
Rick Riordan
American author of adult mysteries and middle-grade fantasy, best known for the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and related mythological fiction.
64 works8 series
Tessa Bailey
American author of contemporary, paranormal, and romantic-comedy romance.
64 works15 series
Alan Watts
British-American writer, speaker, and interpreter of Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, and comparative religion.
63 works1 series
Greg Rucka
American novelist, comic-book writer, and screenwriter known for crime thrillers, graphic novels, and long-running work for DC, Marvel, and Image Comics.
63 works12 series
Jack Vance
American science-fiction, fantasy, mystery, and travel writer best known for The Dying Earth, Lyonesse, the Demon Princes, and the Cadwal Chronicles.
63 works11 series
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher, novelist, playwright, essayist, and public intellectual best known as a leading figure of existentialism.
63 works3 series
Madeleine L'Engle
American writer of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, memoir, drama, and children's literature, best known for A Wrinkle in Time.
63 works7 series
Padraic Colum
Irish poet, playwright, novelist, folklorist, biographer, memoirist, and children's author associated with the Irish Literary Revival.
63 works0 series
Sarina Bowen
Sarina Bowen is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance, new adult, and LGBTQ+ romance.
63 works16 series
Frederick Whishaw
Frederick Whishaw was a Russian-born British novelist, historian, poet, musician, and children's writer best known for historical and adventure fiction, especially stories set in Russia.
62 works0 series
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer of weird fiction whose work helped establish modern cosmic horror.
62 works4 series
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer, philologist, medievalist, poet, and academic best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
62 works3 series
John Sandford
John Sandford is the pseudonym of Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and novelist John Roswell Camp. He writes crime thrillers, young-adult thrillers, science fiction, and nonfiction.
62 works5 series
Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist theorist, historian, memoirist, and co-leader of the October Revolution.
62 works3 series
Mark Twain
Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an American humorist, novelist, travel writer, essayist, lecturer, and social satirist.
62 works1 series
Rachel Caine
American author of urban fantasy, young adult fantasy, horror, science fiction, and thrillers.
62 works0 series
Robert Bloch
American writer of horror, suspense, crime, science fiction, fantasy, memoir, and nonfiction, best known for Psycho and his long career in pulp and genre fiction.
62 works4 series
Cass R. Sunstein
American legal scholar and author known for work in constitutional law, administrative law, behavioral law and economics, and public policy.
61 works0 series
Doris Lessing
British novelist, short-story writer, essayist, memoirist, playwright, poet, and Nobel laureate.
61 works3 series
Bill Willingham
American comic-book writer, artist, and prose novelist best known for creating Elementals and Fables.
60 works15 series
C. S. Lewis
Irish-born British writer, literary scholar, Christian apologist, and author of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy.
60 works2 series
Émile Zola
French novelist, critic, journalist, playwright, and leading figure of literary naturalism.
60 works3 series
Frances Hodgson Burnett
British-American novelist, playwright, memoirist, and author of influential children's literature.
60 works4 series
Laurell K. Hamilton
American fantasy, horror, paranormal romance, and urban fantasy author best known for the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter and Merry Gentry series.
60 works6 series
Michael Swanwick
Michael Swanwick is an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for award-winning novels, short fiction, collections, criticism, and literary biography.
60 works3 series
Constance Garnett
English writer and translator who introduced major nineteenth-century Russian literature to generations of English-language readers.
59 works0 series
D. H. Lawrence
English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic, and travel writer (1885–1930).
59 works1 series
Douglas Preston
American author and journalist known for archaeological nonfiction, adventure thrillers, and co-authored suspense novels.
59 works10 series
Jeffrey Archer
British novelist, short-story writer, playwright, memoirist, and author of children's books.
59 works7 series
Mike Carey
British writer of novels, graphic works, comics, short fiction, and screenplays, also published as M. R. Carey and Adam Blake.
59 works17 series
Natsuo Kirino
Japanese novelist known for psychologically intense crime fiction, literary thrillers, feminist noir, and socially incisive contemporary fiction.
59 works2 series
William R. Forstchen
American historian, professor, and author of science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, alternate history, military history, and thrillers.
59 works14 series
Deborah Smith
American bestselling author of romance, women's fiction, contemporary fantasy, and related fiction, and a co-founder of BelleBooks.
58 works9 series
Ed Brubaker
American comic-book writer, cartoonist, and screenwriter known for crime, noir, espionage, and superhero comics.
58 works21 series
Gene Luen Yang
American cartoonist and graphic novelist known for culturally grounded graphic fiction, superhero comics, and nonfiction comics.
58 works14 series
Ryan North
Canadian author and comic-book writer known for Dinosaur Comics, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Fantastic Four, and humorous nonfiction.
58 works14 series
Vi Keeland
American bestselling author of contemporary romance, romantic comedy, romantic suspense, and thriller fiction.
58 works6 series
Diana Wynne Jones
British fantasy author known for imaginative novels for children, young adults, and adults, including Howl's Moving Castle and the Chrestomanci series.
57 works5 series
John Berger
English writer, art critic, novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and artist.
57 works1 series
Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, memoirist, critic, playwright, and lepidopterist.
57 works0 series
Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris is an American author of mystery, fantasy, and paranormal fiction.
56 works8 series
Clifford D. Simak
American science-fiction and fantasy author known for humane, pastoral stories about ordinary people, robots, aliens, time, and rural Wisconsin.
56 works2 series