Authors by book count

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Carrie Vaughn

Carrie Vaughn is an American science-fiction and fantasy author best known for the New York Times bestselling Kitty Norville urban-fantasy series.

42 works8 series

Daphne du Maurier

English novelist, biographer, playwright, memoirist, and short-story writer known for psychologically complex gothic, suspense, historical, and romantic fiction.

42 works0 series

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian novelist, short-story writer, journalist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize-winning author associated with magical realism and the Latin American Boom.

42 works1 series

Joe Haldeman

American science-fiction novelist, short-story writer, poet, and Vietnam veteran known especially for military science fiction.

42 works7 series

Julio Cortázar

Argentine-born novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, playwright, and translator, celebrated for experimental fiction and his central role in the Latin American Boom.

42 works0 series

Kristin Cast

American author known for young adult fantasy, science fiction, paranormal romance, and contemporary thrillers.

42 works7 series

L. J. Smith

American author of young-adult fantasy, horror, romance, and science fiction.

42 works9 series

Michael Ende

German author best known for imaginative children's and fantasy literature, including Jim Knopf, Momo, and Die unendliche Geschichte.

42 works1 series

Sylvia Day is an American bestselling author of contemporary, historical, paranormal, and suspense romance, as well as urban fantasy and science fiction. She also writes under the pseudonyms S.J. Day and Livia Dare.

42 works9 series

Drew Hayes

Texas author of humorous fantasy, science fiction, and progression-fantasy novels.

41 works7 series

Frank Miller

American comic-book writer, artist, novelist, screenwriter, film director, and producer known for Daredevil, Ronin, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City, and 300.

41 works7 series

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist, novelist, essayist, playwright, editor, and memoirist best known for Three Men in a Boat.

41 works2 series

Kate DiCamillo

American children's author known for emotionally resonant novels, early chapter books, picture books, and fairy tales.

41 works6 series

Kate Elliott

Kate Elliott is an American science fiction and fantasy author known for immersive worldbuilding, epic fantasy, space opera, and historical alternate-world fiction.

41 works9 series

Kurt Vonnegut

American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, memoirist, playwright, and artist known for satirical science fiction, dark humor, humanist themes, and formally inventive storytelling.

41 works0 series

L.J. Shen

L.J. Shen is a bestselling author of contemporary romance, new adult romance, and dark romance.

41 works7 series

Laurie Halse Anderson

American author of children’s literature, young adult fiction, historical fiction, memoir, and nonfiction.

41 works3 series

Mark Lawrence

American-British novelist known for grimdark fantasy and science fiction, including The Broken Empire, The Red Queen's War, Book of the Ancestor, and The Library Trilogy.

41 works8 series

Maya Angelou

American poet, memoirist, essayist, playwright, children's author, and civil rights activist.

41 works2 series

Stephen Mitchell

American poet, writer, editor, and translator known for poetic adaptations of classic spiritual, biblical, and literary texts.

41 works0 series

Tim Powers

American science-fiction and fantasy author known for supernatural secret histories, historical fantasy, and steampunk.

41 works4 series

Barbara A. Mowat

American Shakespeare scholar, textual editor, and former director of research at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

40 works1 series

bell hooks

bell hooks (1952–2021) was an American author, feminist theorist, cultural critic, educator, and poet whose work examined race, gender, class, love, representation, and pedagogy.

40 works1 series

Catherynne M. Valente

American novelist, poet, short-fiction writer, and literary critic known for mythic fantasy, science fiction, and mythpunk.

40 works5 series

Chip Zdarsky

Canadian comic-book writer, artist, journalist, illustrator, and designer, known professionally as Chip Zdarsky and born Steven Murray.

40 works29 series

Daniel José Older

Daniel José Older is an American author of fantasy, science fiction, young adult, middle-grade, and graphic fiction.

40 works10 series

Donald Keene

American-born scholar, writer, editor, and translator who became one of the leading international interpreters of Japanese literature and culture.

40 works1 series

Elly Griffiths

Elly Griffiths is the pen name of British novelist Domenica de Rosa, known for crime fiction, historical mysteries, children's mysteries, short stories, and nonfiction.

40 works5 series

Harlan Coben

American author of crime, mystery, thriller, young adult, children's, and memoir literature.

40 works4 series

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher whose critical philosophy shaped modern metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy.

40 works0 series

Junji Ito

Japanese manga artist and writer best known for psychological, supernatural, body, and cosmic horror.

40 works10 series

K.A. Tucker

K.A. Tucker is a Canadian USA Today bestselling author of romance, fantasy, romantic suspense, and young adult fiction.

40 works9 series

Kim Harrison

Kim Harrison is the pen name of American fantasy author Dawn Cook, best known for the Hollows urban-fantasy series.

40 works6 series

Lucy Score

Lucy Score is a #1 New York Times bestselling romance author known for humorous, steamy contemporary romances.

40 works9 series

Osamu Dazai

Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, memoirist, and playwright (1909–1948), known for autobiographical fiction, literary retellings, and psychologically intense depictions of alienation.

40 works0 series

Ralph Steadman

British cartoonist, author, illustrator, and satirist known for anarchic visual storytelling, gonzo journalism, and distinctive ink-and-watercolor work.

40 works1 series

Rik Hoskin

UK-based science-fiction and fantasy writer of novels and graphic works, including books published under the shared house name James Axler.

40 works4 series

Alexander Pushkin

Russian poet, novelist, dramatist, and prose writer (1799–1837), widely regarded as the founder of modern Russian literature.

39 works0 series

David Brin

American astrophysicist and author of hard science fiction, nonfiction, young-adult fiction, graphic novels, and plays.

39 works5 series

Derek Landy

Irish author and screenwriter best known for the Skulduggery Pleasant and Demon Road series.

39 works18 series

Erich Fromm

German-American psychoanalyst, social psychologist, humanist philosopher, and social critic (1900–1980).

39 works1 series

Gail Carriger

Gail Carriger is a New York Times bestselling author and former archaeologist whose comedies of manners blend steampunk, urban fantasy, science fiction, paranormal romance, and cozy queer joy. She also writes as G. L. Carriger.

39 works11 series

Hiro Arikawa

Japanese novelist known for romantic, contemporary, military, science-fiction, and popular fiction.

39 works6 series

Isabel Allende

Chilean-American novelist, memoirist, journalist, and playwright known for historical fiction, magical realism, feminist themes, and autobiographical writing.

39 works2 series

J.G. Ballard

English novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and satirist known for psychologically provocative science fiction, dystopian fiction, and explorations of technology, media, sexuality, and social breakdown.

39 works0 series