Octavia E. Butler
American science fiction and speculative fiction writer known for Afrofuturist, feminist, and socially engaged fiction.
17 works3 series
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Authors
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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
P. C. Cast
American author of fantasy, paranormal romance, and young adult fiction, best known for the co-authored House of Night series.
52 works12 series
P. Craig Russell
American comics artist, writer, adapter, and graphic novelist known for lush, ornate adaptations of opera, mythology, fairy tales, and modern fantasy.
33 works5 series
P. D. James
English crime novelist, memoirist, nonfiction writer, and playwright best known for the Adam Dalgliesh mysteries.
27 works2 series
P. Djèlí Clark
P. Djèlí Clark is an American speculative-fiction author and historian known for historical fantasy, alternate-history fiction, and middle-grade fantasy.
9 works2 series
P. G. Wodehouse
English-American comic novelist, humorist, playwright, lyricist, and memoirist best known for Jeeves and Wooster, Blandings Castle, Psmith, and Mr. Mulliner.
108 works9 series
Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet, diplomat, and Nobel Prize laureate whose work ranges from intimate love poetry to political, historical, ecological, and autobiographical writing.
69 works2 series
Padraic Colum
Irish poet, playwright, novelist, folklorist, biographer, memoirist, and children's author associated with the Irish Literary Revival.
63 works0 series
Paolo Bacigalupi
American science-fiction and fantasy author known for climate fiction, biopunk dystopias, and young-adult speculative fiction.
14 works2 series
Pat Barker
English novelist known for psychologically acute fiction about war, trauma, class, gender, and history.
17 works3 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
Patricia A. McKillip
American fantasy and science-fiction author known for lyrical, mythic prose and predominantly standalone novels.
32 works4 series
Patricia Briggs
American fantasy and urban fantasy novelist best known for the Mercy Thompson and Alpha and Omega series.
38 works7 series
Patricia C. Wrede
American fantasy author known for inventive fairy-tale, historical, and young-adult fiction.
26 works5 series
Patricia Cornwell
American crime novelist best known for the Kay Scarpetta forensic-thriller series.
44 works5 series
Patricia Highsmith
American novelist and short-story writer known for psychologically intense crime fiction, the Tom Ripley novels, and the landmark novel The Price of Salt.
37 works1 series
Patricia Lockwood
American poet, novelist, memoirist, and essayist known for surreal, comic, and formally inventive writing.
7 works2 series
Patrick deWitt
Canadian-American novelist and screenwriter known for darkly comic literary fiction.
6 works0 series
Patrick Lencioni
American author, consultant, and founder of The Table Group, known for books on leadership, teamwork, and organizational health.
13 works1 series
Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness is an American-British novelist and short-story writer known for speculative, young adult, and children's fiction.
20 works3 series
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist, short-story writer, biographer, and translator best known for the Aubrey-Maturin naval novels.
39 works2 series
Patrick Radden Keefe
American investigative journalist and staff writer at The New Yorker, known for deeply reported narrative nonfiction.
6 works0 series
Patrick Rothfuss
American fantasy author best known for The Kingkiller Chronicle and its companion novellas, with additional nonfiction and graphic fiction.
8 works3 series
Patrick Süskind
German novelist, playwright, essayist, and screenwriter best known for Das Parfum.
9 works0 series
Patti Smith
American poet, memoirist, visual artist, and musician whose poetry, prose, and performance helped shape punk.
30 works1 series
Patton Oswalt
American comedian, actor, writer, and author known for stand-up comedy, memoir, nonfiction, and comic-book writing.
15 works4 series
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, memoirist, biographer, screenwriter, and translator known for metafiction, coincidence, identity, and literary self-reference.
44 works1 series
Paul Beatty
American novelist, poet, and editor known for incisive, satirical writing about race, identity, and American culture.
7 works0 series
Paul Kalanithi
Paul Kalanithi (1977–2015) was an American neurosurgeon and writer best known for his posthumous memoir, When Breath Becomes Air.
1 works0 series