Ocean Vuong
Vietnamese American poet and novelist known for intimate writing about war, migration, family, queer identity, grief, and survival.
6 works0 series
Author index
Authors beginning with O
Octavia E. Butler
American science fiction and speculative fiction writer known for Afrofuturist, feminist, and socially engaged fiction.
17 works3 series
Olena Bormashenko
Mathematician and literary translator known for her work in probability and combinatorics and her English translations of Russian science fiction.
1 works0 series
Olga Tokarczuk
Polish novelist, short-story writer, essayist, poet, playwright, and Nobel Prize–winning author.
21 works1 series
Oliver Burkeman
British author and journalist known for writing about productivity, mortality, meaningful living, and the power of limits.
4 works0 series
Oliver Sacks
British-American neurologist and writer known for humane narrative accounts of neurological conditions.
17 works0 series
Olivia Atwater
Olivia Atwater writes whimsical historical fantasy with a hint of satire.
12 works4 series
Olivia Dade
Olivia Dade is a romance author known for bawdy romantic comedies featuring nerdy characters, plus-size protagonists, and happily-ever-after endings.
18 works6 series
Olivie Blake
Olivie Blake is the pen name of Alexene Farol Follmuth, an American author of speculative fiction, fantasy, literary romance, young adult fiction, and comics.
22 works5 series
Omar El Akkad
Egyptian-born Canadian-American author and journalist known for literary speculative fiction and nonfiction about war, displacement, state violence, and Western political hypocrisy.
3 works0 series
Oprah Winfrey
American television host, producer, actress, media executive, philanthropist, and author known for memoir, self-help, spirituality, health, and inspirational nonfiction.
11 works0 series
Orhan Pamuk
Turkish novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter, and visual artist whose works explore Istanbul, memory, identity, history, and the tensions between East and West. He received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
23 works0 series
Orson Scott Card
American author best known for science fiction, fantasy, biblical fiction, nonfiction, plays, and graphic works.
115 works19 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
Oscar Wilde
Irish writer, poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and critic known for his wit, aestheticism, fairy tales, novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and late-Victorian comedies.
29 works0 series
Ottessa Moshfegh
American novelist and fiction writer known for psychologically intense, darkly comic novels, novellas, and short stories.
7 works0 series
Otto H. Frank
German-born businessman, Holocaust survivor, and editor of Anne Frank's diary.
4 works0 series
Owen King
American author of novels, short fiction, graphic works, and collaborative fiction.
8 works2 series
Oyinkan Braithwaite
Nigerian-British author, screenwriter, and illustrator known for crime and literary fiction.
3 works0 series