C. J. Cherryh
American science fiction and fantasy author known for linguistically rich worldbuilding, political space opera, and psychologically complex characters.
92 works19 series
Author index
Authors beginning with C
C. J. Tudor
British novelist and short-story writer known for psychological thrillers, gothic horror, and supernatural suspense.
7 works0 series
C. K. Scott Moncrieff
Scottish writer, editor, and translator best known for his English translation of Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.
3 works0 series
C. L. Clark
American speculative fiction author and editor known for queer fantasy, political intrigue, and stories about empire, war, and revolution.
5 works1 series
C. L. Polk
C. L. Polk is a Canadian fantasy author known for queer romantic fantasy, including the Kingston Cycle and The Midnight Bargain.
8 works2 series
C. M. Waggoner
C. M. Waggoner is an American fantasy novelist known for humorous, warmhearted fantasy mysteries and magical adventures.
4 works0 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
C.N. Crawford
C.N. Crawford is the shared pen name of Christine and Nick Crawford, a writing duo known for fantasy romance and urban fantasy.
48 works17 series
C.S. Pacat
Australian author of fantasy novels and graphic works, best known for the Captive Prince trilogy, Dark Rise, and Fence.
20 works7 series
Cadwell Turnbull
Award-winning speculative-fiction author from St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, known for The Lesson and the Convergence Saga.
9 works2 series
Caitlin Doughty
American mortician, nonfiction writer, filmmaker, and advocate for death acceptance and funeral-industry reform.
3 works0 series
Caitlin Kelly
Canadian-American journalist, nonfiction author, editor, and writing coach.
2 works0 series
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Irish-born American writer and vertebrate paleontologist known for weird fiction, dark fantasy, horror, science fiction, and graphic fiction.
73 works4 series
Caitlin Starling
Caitlin Starling is a nationally bestselling author of horror-tinged speculative fiction.
7 works0 series
Cal Newport
Computer scientist, Georgetown University professor, and bestselling nonfiction author writing about technology, work, focus, and meaningful productivity.
8 works1 series
Caleb Azumah Nelson
British-Ghanaian writer and photographer from southeast London, known for lyrical literary fiction about Black identity, love, family, music, and place.
3 works0 series
Caleb Carr
American novelist, military historian, and memoirist known for historical thrillers and nonfiction about warfare, national security, and terrorism.
11 works1 series
Callie Hart
British-born author of dark romance, contemporary romance, fantasy, and young adult fantasy; she also writes under the pseudonym Frankie Rose.
51 works13 series
Cameron Stewart
Canadian comic-book writer, artist, and co-creator known for Sin Titulo, Batgirl, Motor Crush, Seaguy, and Assassin's Creed.
12 works5 series
Candice Carty-Williams
British novelist, showrunner, and culture writer known for contemporary fiction about race, identity, relationships, family, and popular culture.
5 works1 series
Carissa Broadbent
Carissa Broadbent writes fantasy novels with romance and strong female protagonists.
13 works6 series
Carissa Orlando
Horror novelist and clinical-community psychologist specializing in children and adolescents.
1 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
Carl Sagan
American astronomer, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator best known for popularizing astronomy and scientific skepticism.
30 works0 series
Carley Fortune
Canadian bestselling author of contemporary romance and women's fiction, and a former journalist and editor.
5 works1 series
Carlo Rovelli
Italian theoretical physicist and author known for work on loop quantum gravity and for writing popular science and philosophy of science.
16 works0 series
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Spanish novelist known for atmospheric literary mysteries and acclaimed young-adult fiction.
9 works2 series
Carmen Maria Machado
American author of fiction, memoir, essays, poetry, and comics, known for horror and speculative work.
8 works1 series
Caro Claire Burke
American novelist and co-host of the culture and politics podcast Diabolical Lies.
1 works0 series
Carol S. Dweck
American psychologist known for research on motivation, achievement, and growth mindsets.
4 works0 series
Caroline Balderston Parry
Canadian author, poet, musician, performer, and educator whose books span children's nonfiction, historical diary writing, poetry, and memoir.
4 works1 series
Caroline Criado Perez
British writer, campaigner, and speaker whose nonfiction examines gender inequality, data bias, and women's representation.
2 works0 series
Caroline Kepnes
Caroline Kepnes is an American novelist, screenwriter, and former entertainment journalist best known for the You series.
7 works1 series
Caroline O'Donoghue
Irish novelist, podcaster, and screenwriter known for adult fiction and young adult fantasy.
7 works2 series
Caroline Peckham
British author of fantasy, paranormal romance, dark romance, and young-adult fiction, best known for the Zodiac Academy and The Rise of Isaac series.
74 works17 series
Carrie Fisher
American author, screenwriter, actress, and memoirist known for sharply comic novels and candid books about addiction, mental illness, family, fame, and Hollywood.
7 works1 series
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
Carson McCullers
American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, memoirist, and poet known for psychologically acute portraits of loneliness, alienation, and outsiders in the American South.
10 works0 series
Caryl Phillips
Kittitian-British novelist, essayist, playwright, and professor whose work explores migration, race, belonging, and empire.
24 works0 series
Casey McQuiston
Casey McQuiston is a New York Times bestselling author of queer romantic comedies.
5 works1 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
Cassandra Clare
American author best known for the Shadowhunter Chronicles and the Magisterium series.
51 works14 series
Cassandra Khaw
Malaysian nonbinary horror and science-fiction writer known for dark fantasy, weird fiction, poetry, and game writing.
19 works5 series
Catherine Belsey
Catherine Belsey (1940–2021) was a British literary critic and academic known for influential work in literary theory, cultural criticism, Shakespeare studies, and early modern literature.
13 works6 series
Catherine Miles Wallace
American cultural historian and author of literary criticism, Christian theology, ethics, memoir, and religious nonfiction.
11 works1 series
Catherine Steadman
London-based British author and screenwriter best known for psychological thrillers.
7 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
Cathy O'Neil
American mathematician, data scientist, author, and algorithmic auditor known for writing about data, algorithms, inequality, and social harm.
4 works0 series
Catriona Ward
Catriona Ward is an American-born British horror novelist known for gothic, psychological, and literary thrillers.
6 works0 series
Cavan Scott
British novelist, comic-book writer, nonfiction author, and audio dramatist known for Star Wars, Doctor Who, and original horror and fantasy comics.
90 works16 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
Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng is an American novelist whose fiction explores family, race, identity, motherhood, belonging, and social injustice.
3 works0 series
CG Drews
CG Drews is an Australian award-winning, bestselling author of queer young adult and adult horror fiction.
10 works1 series
Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris is an American author of mystery, fantasy, and paranormal fiction.
56 works8 series
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) was a French poet, essayist, art critic, and translator whose work helped define modern poetry.
12 works0 series
Charles Bukowski
German-American poet, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and memoirist known for his frank, comic, and unsentimental writing about marginal lives, work, drinking, sex, literature, and Los Angeles.
128 works0 series
Charles C. Mann
American journalist and nonfiction author known for accessible books on history, science, technology, ecology, and globalization.
9 works0 series
Charles Darwin
English naturalist whose theory of evolution by natural selection transformed biology.
25 works4 series
Charles de Lint
Canadian fantasy author best known for urban fantasy, contemporary fantasy, young adult fiction, children's books, and poetry.
89 works5 series
Charles Dickens
English novelist, journalist, editor, playwright, and social critic whose fiction combined exuberant characterization with sustained concern for poverty, inequality, childhood, and social reform.
38 works1 series
Charles Duhigg
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and nonfiction author known for books on habits, productivity, and communication.
3 works0 series
Charles Soule
American novelist and comic-book writer, musician, and attorney known for speculative fiction, superhero comics, and Star Wars stories.
52 works37 series
Charles Stross
British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for the Eschaton, Merchant Princes, Laundry Files, Halting State, and Freyaverse works.
46 works7 series
Charles Van Doren
American writer, editor, and educator best known for works on reading, knowledge, and history.
29 works3 series
Charles Vess
American fantasy artist, comics creator, illustrator, and author known for mythic, folkloric, and fairy-tale imagery.
14 works1 series
Charlie Adlard
British comic-book artist and penciller best known for The Walking Dead, Savage, White Death, and other graphic novels.
26 works11 series
Charlie Donlea
Charlie Donlea is a USA Today, IndieBound, and internationally bestselling author of suspense and psychological thriller novels.
10 works1 series
Charlie Jane Anders
Charlie Jane Anders is an award-winning American author of science fiction, fantasy, young-adult fiction, short fiction, and nonfiction.
12 works1 series
Charlie Mackesy
British artist, illustrator, and author best known for his illustrated fables about the boy, the mole, the fox, and the horse.
3 works1 series
Charlie N. Holmberg
American bestselling author of fantasy and romance fiction, including The Paper Magician, Spellbreaker, Star Mother, Whimbrel House, and The Shattered King series.
28 works7 series
Charlie Thurston
American actor, playwright, and audiobook narrator whose plays have been developed or produced by regional theaters including Trinity Rep, Huntington Theatre Company, and The Wilbury Theatre Group.
8 works0 series
Charlotte Brontë
English novelist and poet best known for Jane Eyre, writing much of her fiction under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
31 works0 series
Charlotte McConaghy
Australian novelist and screenwriter known for young-adult speculative fiction and environmentally focused literary novels.
11 works3 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
Charmaine Wilkerson
Caribbean-American writer and former journalist whose literary fiction explores family, identity, memory, history, and belonging.
4 works1 series
Chelsea G. Summers
American writer whose fiction explores sex, food, power, violence, and female desire.
2 works0 series
Cherie Dimaline
Cherie Dimaline is a Métis author from the Georgian Bay Métis Community whose fiction spans literary, speculative, and young adult writing.
12 works2 series
Cherie Priest
Cherie Priest is an American author of horror, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and young adult fiction.
30 works6 series
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian writer known for novels, short fiction, poetry, essays, memoir, drama, and children's literature exploring Nigerian history, migration, identity, gender, and feminism.
13 works0 series
China Miéville
China Miéville is an English novelist, short-story writer, essayist, political theorist, and comic-book author known for inventive speculative fiction.
26 works1 series
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and memoirist whose writing transformed modern African literature in English.
24 works1 series
Chip Heath
American organizational-behavior scholar and nonfiction author known for books on communication, decision making, and organizational change.
8 works1 series
Chip Zdarsky
Canadian comic-book writer, artist, journalist, illustrator, and designer, known professionally as Chip Zdarsky and born Steven Murray.
40 works29 series
Chloe Benjamin
American novelist known for literary and speculative fiction exploring mortality, fate, family, science, and human connection.
3 works0 series
Chloe Gong
Chloe Gong is a New Zealand author of young adult fantasy, adult fantasy, and science fiction.
11 works5 series
Chloe Liese
Chloe Liese is a USA TODAY bestselling author of inclusive contemporary romance.
16 works4 series
Chloe Walsh
Irish author of contemporary, new adult, and adult romance, best known for the Boys of Tommen series.
37 works11 series
Cho Nam-joo
South Korean novelist known for feminist literary fiction about gender, class, family, and ordinary lives.
9 works0 series
Chris Bachalo
Canadian comic-book artist and co-creator known for Generation X, The Witching Hour, and Steampunk.
4 works3 series
Chris Bohjalian
American author of literary fiction, historical fiction, psychological thrillers, essays, short fiction, and stage plays.
30 works1 series
Chris Hadfield
Canadian astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot, science communicator, and bestselling author.
6 works1 series
Chris McGrath
Australian environmental lawyer, academic, and author of environmental-law nonfiction and the thriller Remote Control.
3 works0 series
Chris Miller
American historian and author specializing in Russia, economic history, geopolitics, and semiconductor technology.
4 works0 series
Chris Riddell
English illustrator, author, and political cartoonist best known for authored-and-illustrated children's books, the Ottoline and Goth Girl series, and the Edge Chronicles collaboration with Paul Stewart.
98 works18 series
Chris Ruen
American writer and author whose work focuses on music, digital culture, piracy, and creativity.
1 works0 series
Chris Voss
American author, entrepreneur, and former FBI lead international kidnapping negotiator specializing in negotiation and tactical empathy.
3 works0 series
Chris Wooding
British author of fantasy, science fiction, young-adult novels, and graphic works.
34 works6 series
Christelle Dabos
French-Belgian fantasy author best known for the completed La Passe-miroir quartet.
8 works2 series
Christie Golden
American author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, media tie-in fiction, and graphic works.
55 works14 series
Christina Henry
American horror and dark fantasy author known for dark retellings, urban fantasy, and original horror novels.
19 works2 series
Christina Lamb
British foreign correspondent and nonfiction author known for reporting on war, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, and the experiences of women in conflict.
11 works0 series
Christina Lauren
Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of writing partners Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, known for contemporary romance and young adult fiction.
37 works5 series
Christopher Buehlman
American author, comedian, playwright, and poet known for horror, dark fantasy, historical fiction, and fantasy novels.
11 works1 series
Christopher Golden
American novelist and comic-book writer known for horror, fantasy, suspense, science fiction, and media tie-ins.
155 works31 series
Christopher Hitchens
British-American author, journalist, essayist, literary critic, and public intellectual known for political nonfiction, literary criticism, memoir, and antireligious writing.
31 works2 series
Christopher Johnson McCandless
American traveler, adventurer, and writer whose photographs, journals, letters, and postcards were published posthumously.
1 works0 series
Christopher McDougall
American journalist and nonfiction author known for narrative books about endurance, human potential, adventure, and true crime.
6 works0 series
Christopher Moore
American author known for humorous novels blending fantasy, horror, mystery, satire, and historical or literary parody.
20 works5 series
Christopher Moore
American novelist known for comic fantasy, horror, satire, absurdist fiction, and mystery.
20 works5 series
Christopher Paolini
American author best known for the Inheritance Cycle fantasy novels and the Fractalverse science-fiction novels.
10 works3 series
Christopher Priest
British novelist and nonfiction writer known for psychologically intricate science fiction, slipstream fiction, and literary speculative fiction.
35 works1 series
Christopher Ruocchio
American science-fiction and fantasy author best known for The Sun Eater series.
14 works1 series
Christopher Tolkien
English editor, scholar, translator, and literary executor best known for editing and publishing J. R. R. Tolkien's posthumous writings.
29 works2 series
Chuck Hogan
American novelist and screenwriter known for crime fiction and horror, including Prince of Thieves, Gangland, and The Strain trilogy co-authored with Guillermo del Toro.
17 works3 series
Chuck Klosterman
American author, essayist, journalist, and cultural critic known for writing about popular culture, rock music, sports, media, and morality.
15 works0 series
Chuck Palahniuk
American novelist and essayist known for transgressive fiction, dark satire, horror, and literary nonfiction.
26 works3 series
Chuck Tingle
Pseudonymous American author of erotic romance, fantasy, satire, and queer horror.
87 works9 series
Chuck Wendig
American novelist, comics writer, screenwriter, and game designer known for horror, science fiction, fantasy, thrillers, and young adult fiction.
51 works10 series
Cinda Williams Chima
American author of young adult fantasy, best known for The Heir Chronicles, The Seven Realms, The Shattered Realms, and The Runestone Saga.
15 works4 series
Cixin Liu
Cixin Liu is a Chinese science-fiction writer best known for the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy and The Wandering Earth.
28 works2 series
Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan is an Irish writer known for concise, powerful short fiction and novellas.
6 works0 series
Claire Lamont
British literary scholar and editor specializing in Jane Austen, Walter Scott, and Romantic literature.
10 works1 series
Claire Legrand
Claire Legrand is an American author of dark fantasy, horror, and children's, young adult, and adult fiction. She is best known for the Empirium and Middlemist trilogies.
20 works4 series
Claire North
Claire North is the pseudonym of British author Catherine Webb, known for speculative, science-fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction.
16 works2 series
Clare Mackintosh
Former police officer and Sunday Times number-one bestselling crime author.
14 works1 series
Clarence Brown
American scholar, literary critic, translator, and Princeton University professor specializing in modern Russian literature and Osip Mandelstam.
2 works0 series
Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) was a Brazilian novelist, short-story writer, chronicler, journalist, essayist, and children's author known for intensely interior prose and linguistic experimentation.
24 works0 series
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
American poet, author, spoken-word artist, and senior Jungian psychoanalyst known for mythic storytelling and Women Who Run with the Wolves.
5 works0 series
Claudia Gray
Claudia Gray is the pseudonym of Amy Vincent, an American author of young adult science fiction, fantasy, romance, and mystery.
43 works8 series
Clayton M. Christensen
American scholar, business consultant, and author known for developing the theory of disruptive innovation.
12 works0 series
Clem Robins
American comics letterer, artist, and author of The Art of Figure Drawing.
1 works0 series
Cliff Chiang
American comic-book artist, writer, colorist, and letterer known for Paper Girls, Wonder Woman, and Catwoman: Lonely City.
16 works9 series
Cliff Rathburn
American comic-book writer and artist known for his work on The Walking Dead, Brit, and Remote Space.
46 works6 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
Clive Barker
English author, playwright, filmmaker, and visual artist known for visionary horror, dark fantasy, and imaginative fiction.
36 works3 series
Clive Cussler
American adventure novelist, underwater explorer, and founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency.
87 works6 series
Colleen Doran
American cartoonist, writer, illustrator, and graphic novelist known for A Distant Soil, manga instruction books, and graphic-novel adaptations of Neil Gaiman's fiction.
13 works1 series
Colleen Hoover
American bestselling author of contemporary romance, young adult fiction, and psychological thrillers.
25 works4 series
Colleen McCullough
Australian novelist and nonfiction writer known for historical fiction, romance, mystery, biography, memoir, and a cookbook.
26 works2 series
Colm Tóibín
Irish novelist, essayist, journalist, playwright, poet, and literary critic.
35 works1 series
Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead is an American novelist and essayist whose genre-spanning fiction and nonfiction often examine race, history, identity, and American life.
12 works1 series
Connie Willis
American science fiction and fantasy writer known for time-travel fiction, social satire, and historical themes.
26 works1 series
Constance Garnett
English writer and translator who introduced major nineteenth-century Russian literature to generations of English-language readers.
59 works0 series
Coralie Bickford-Smith
British designer, illustrator, and author known for Penguin's Clothbound Classics and her author-illustrated picture-book fables.
4 works0 series
Cormac McCarthy
American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter known for Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic fiction.
16 works2 series
Cornelia Funke
German author and illustrator best known for fantasy and adventure fiction for children and young adults, including the Inkheart, Dragon Rider, MirrorWorld, Ghosthunters, and Wild Chicks series.
81 works7 series
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British science fiction author, journalist, activist, and technology critic.
35 works2 series
Costanza Casati
Costanza Casati is an American-born Italian author and screenwriter known for historical novels inspired by ancient myth and history.
2 works0 series
Courtney Summers
Canadian author of critically acclaimed young adult fiction known for emotionally intense contemporary thrillers and horror novels.
9 works1 series
Craig Alanson
American science-fiction and fantasy author best known for the Expeditionary Force military space-opera series.
33 works4 series
Craig DiLouie
American-Canadian author of horror, apocalyptic fiction, science fiction, historical fiction, military thrillers, and technical nonfiction.
51 works7 series
Craig Thompson
American cartoonist and graphic novelist known for autobiographical, literary, and fantastical comics.
9 works1 series
Cullen Bunn
American comics writer, novelist, and short-story writer known for horror, fantasy, western, crime, and superhero comics.
177 works34 series
Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld is an American novelist and short-story writer known for psychologically astute fiction about class, identity, politics, relationships, and public life.
14 works3 series
Cynthia Hand
American young adult author known for fantasy, contemporary, and historical novels.
14 works3 series