R. A. Salvatore
American fantasy author best known for The Legend of Drizzt, Forgotten Realms novels, and the DemonWars Saga.
83 works29 series
Author index
Authors beginning with R
R. J. Hollingdale
British biographer, translator, and journalist best known for his work on Friedrich Nietzsche.
3 works0 series
R. J. Palacio
American author and graphic designer best known for children's fiction about kindness, empathy, and acceptance.
14 works2 series
R. L. Stine
R. L. Stine is an American author best known for children's and young-adult horror fiction, especially Goosebumps and Fear Street.
440 works42 series
R. Scott Bakker
Canadian novelist and philosopher known for the Second Apocalypse fantasy series and fiction exploring cognition, consciousness, and determinism.
10 works5 series
R.F. Kuang
R.F. Kuang is a Chinese-American novelist and scholar known for historical and speculative fiction.
7 works1 series
Rachael Lippincott
Rachael Lippincott is an American young adult novelist and New York Times bestselling author known for contemporary, LGBTQ+ romance.
7 works1 series
Rachel Aaron
American fantasy and science-fiction author who also writes science fiction under the pen name Rachel Bach.
34 works9 series
Rachel Caine
American author of urban fantasy, young adult fantasy, horror, science fiction, and thrillers.
62 works0 series
Rachel Cohn
American author best known for bestselling young adult novels and co-authored contemporary fiction.
20 works4 series
Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk is a Canadian-born British novelist and nonfiction writer known for literary fiction, memoir, essays, and formally innovative autobiographical writing.
19 works1 series
Rachel Gillig
Rachel Gillig is an American author of gothic fantasy and romantic fantasy novels.
4 works2 series
Rachel Harrison
Rachel Harrison is a New York Times bestselling author of contemporary horror fiction and short stories.
9 works0 series
Rachel Hawkins
American author of young-adult and middle-grade fiction, adult gothic suspense, and thrillers.
18 works3 series
Rachel Lynn Solomon
Rachel Lynn Solomon is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of romantic comedies and young adult fiction.
11 works1 series
Rachel S.F. Heller
American psychologist and co-author of Attached, a bestselling nonfiction book on adult attachment and romantic relationships.
1 works0 series
Rachel Smythe
New Zealand comic artist and writer best known as the creator of the Eisner Award-winning webcomic and graphic-novel series Lore Olympus.
12 works1 series
Rachel Yoder
Rachel Yoder is an American fiction and nonfiction writer, best known for the novel Nightbitch.
2 works0 series
Rae Carson
Rae Carson is an American author of young adult fantasy, historical fiction, and science fiction.
14 works3 series
Rafael Albuquerque
Brazilian comic creator known for creator-owned graphic works and major superhero and horror comics.
10 works6 series
Rainbow Rowell
American author of contemporary and young adult fiction, short fiction, and comics.
29 works4 series
Rainer Maria Rilke
German-language poet and writer known for visionary poetry, prose, drama, art criticism, and letters.
49 works2 series
Ralph Ellison
American novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and cultural critic best known for Invisible Man.
7 works0 series
Ralph F. McCarthy
American writer and translator best known for retellings of Japanese folktales and children's classics.
13 works1 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
Ramez Naam
Egypt-born American computer scientist, futurist, author, and climate-tech investor known for near-future science fiction and nonfiction about technology, human enhancement, and global resource challenges.
5 works1 series
Ramsey Campbell
English horror and dark-fantasy author known for psychologically complex supernatural fiction, urban unease, and the Brichester Mythos.
91 works2 series
Randall Munroe
American cartoonist, author, and former NASA roboticist best known for creating the webcomic xkcd and writing popular-science books.
5 works1 series
Randy Pausch
American computer scientist, educator, author, and co-founder of Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center.
2 works0 series
Ransom Riggs
American writer and filmmaker best known for the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children novels, which combine dark fantasy with found photography.
14 works3 series
Rashid Khalidi
Palestinian-American historian of the modern Middle East, Palestinian nationalism, and U.S. Middle East policy.
19 works5 series
Raven Kennedy
Raven Kennedy is a California-born author of fantasy romance, paranormal romance, and dark romance.
27 works7 series
Ray Bradbury
American author best known for science fiction, fantasy, horror, dystopian fiction, short stories, novels, poetry, plays, and essays.
88 works3 series
Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio is an American investor, hedge-fund founder, and nonfiction author.
5 works1 series
Ray Nayler
Ray Nayler is a Canadian-American science fiction, speculative fiction, noir, horror, and literary writer whose fiction often explores ecology, technology, consciousness, and authoritarianism.
8 works0 series
Raymond Carver
American short-story writer and poet known for spare, emotionally resonant fiction about ordinary working and middle-class lives.
29 works0 series
Raymond Chandler
American-British novelist and screenwriter best known for the Philip Marlowe crime novels and hard-boiled short fiction.
26 works1 series
Raymond E. Feist
American fantasy author best known for the Riftwar Cycle, the Firemane Saga, and the standalone novel Faerie Tale.
38 works15 series
Raymond Todd
Australian philatelist and author specializing in postal stationery, postal history, and airmails.
1 works0 series
Rebecca Makkai
American novelist and short-story writer, author of four novels and the collection Music for Wartime.
5 works0 series
Rebecca Roanhorse
American speculative-fiction writer known for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and Indigenous-centered storytelling.
11 works5 series
Rebecca Serle
Rebecca Serle is a New York Times bestselling author of contemporary and young adult fiction.
9 works1 series
Rebecca Skloot
American science writer and author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
1 works0 series
Rebecca Solnit
American writer, historian, essayist, memoirist, and activist known for nonfiction on feminism, place, art, environmentalism, politics, walking, disaster, and hope.
33 works3 series
Rebecca Thorne
Rebecca Thorne is an author of fantasy, science fiction, romance, and writing craft nonfiction.
12 works3 series
Rebecca Yarros
Rebecca Yarros is a bestselling American author of contemporary romance, women's fiction, and fantasy romance.
31 works8 series
Renée Ahdieh
Renée Ahdieh is an American-Korean author of fantasy, romance, young adult fiction, and contemporary fiction, best known for The Wrath & the Dawn, Flame in the Mist, and The Beautiful quartet.
16 works3 series
Reni Eddo-Lodge
British journalist and author whose work focuses on structural racism, feminism, race, class, and politics.
1 works0 series
Richard Adams
English novelist best known for Watership Down and other animal fantasies, as well as fantasy, historical fiction, children's literature, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry.
20 works2 series
Richard Armitage
Richard Armitage is an English actor, voice actor, and novelist known for psychological thrillers including Geneva and The Cut.
2 works0 series
Richard Bach
American author and pilot best known for aviation-themed fiction, memoirs, and philosophical fables.
23 works2 series
Richard Bachman
Richard Bachman was the pseudonym used by Stephen King for seven published novels, beginning with Rage in 1977.
7 works0 series
Richard Case
American comics artist best known for pencilling Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol and for Vertigo graphic series including Ghostdancing, Shade the Changing Man, and the Tim Hunter stories.
14 works14 series
Richard Chizmar
American horror, thriller, and dark-fiction author, editor, publisher, and screenwriter; founder of Cemetery Dance magazine and Cemetery Dance Publications.
19 works2 series
Richard Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist, ethologist, and author known for influential writing on evolution, gene-centered selection, science, and atheism.
20 works1 series
Richard H. Thaler
American economist and Nobel laureate whose research helped establish behavioral economics.
7 works1 series
Richard Howard
American poet, literary critic, essayist, translator, and educator known for dramatic-monologue poetry and influential translations from French.
18 works0 series
Richard J. Dunn
Richard J. Dunn is an American literary scholar and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Washington, known for scholarship on nineteenth-century British literature and Victorian fiction.
9 works1 series
Richard K. Morgan
British science-fiction and fantasy author known for cyberpunk, hardboiled, dystopian, and grimdark fiction.
15 works3 series
Richard Kadrey
American author of cyberpunk, horror, dark fantasy, supernatural noir, nonfiction, and graphic fiction.
30 works3 series
Richard Matheson
American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and nonfiction author known for horror, science fiction, fantasy, suspense, and western fiction.
65 works2 series
Richard Osman
English author, producer, television presenter, and comedian best known for mystery novels and quiz books.
14 works3 series
Richard P. Feynman
American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate known for quantum electrodynamics, Feynman diagrams, and exceptionally clear scientific writing.
19 works1 series
Richard Pevear
American poet, literary translator, and professor emeritus best known for his collaborative translations with Larissa Volokhonsky.
4 works2 series
Richard Powers
American novelist whose fiction explores science, technology, music, ecology, consciousness, and human interdependence.
14 works0 series
Richard Preston
American nonfiction writer and novelist known for scientifically grounded books about infectious disease, bioterrorism, astronomy, steelmaking, and the natural world.
10 works1 series
Richard Rothstein
American author and policy researcher specializing in education, racial segregation, and housing policy.
12 works0 series
Richard Swan
English author of military science fiction, space opera, and epic fantasy.
14 works4 series
Richard Van Camp
Tłı̨chǫ Dene author, storyteller, and educator from Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, known for fiction, children's books, graphic works, and storytelling nonfiction.
30 works4 series
Richard Wright
Richard Wright was an American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, social critic, dramatist, and poet whose work confronted racism, poverty, migration, and political exile.
20 works0 series
Richard Zenith
American-Portuguese writer, translator, editor, and literary critic best known for his scholarship on Fernando Pessoa.
3 works1 series
Richelle Mead
American fantasy author best known for the Vampire Academy, Bloodlines, Georgina Kincaid, Dark Swan, Age of X, and Glittering Court series.
36 works9 series
Richmond Lattimore
American poet, classicist, and translator best known for influential English translations of Homer and Greek tragedy.
28 works1 series
Richmond Lewis
American painter and comics artist known for experimental comics, editorial work, and comic-book coloring.
1 works1 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
Rick Rubin
American record producer, record executive, and author known for co-founding Def Jam Recordings and writing about creativity.
1 works0 series
Rick Yancey
American author of suspense, mystery, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and young-adult fiction.
18 works5 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
Riley Sager
New York Times bestselling American novelist known for twist-driven psychological thrillers, suspense, and horror.
9 works0 series
Rin Chupeco
Rin Chupeco is a Chinese Filipino nonbinary author of young adult and adult speculative fiction, fantasy, and horror.
15 works6 series
Rina Kent
Rina Kent is a bestselling author of dark contemporary romance, known for intense enemies-to-lovers stories, antiheroes, villains, and interconnected fictional worlds.
49 works14 series
Rivers Solomon
Rivers Solomon is an American author of speculative and literary fiction whose work explores race, gender, disability, queerness, memory, and inherited trauma.
5 works1 series
RJ Barker
British fantasy author known for epic, dark, and historical fantasy novels.
11 works4 series
Roald Dahl
British author of celebrated children's fiction, adult short stories, poetry, memoirs, nonfiction, and drama.
37 works2 series
Rob Hart
American author of crime, thriller, science fiction, horror, and speculative fiction.
17 works3 series
Rob J. Hayes
British fantasy and science-fiction author known for grimdark, epic, science-fantasy, and steampunk fiction.
29 works11 series
Robert A. Caro
American journalist, historian, and biographer known for expansive studies of political power and American public life.
6 works1 series
Robert A. Heinlein
American science-fiction writer known for influential novels, short fiction, essays, political writing, and screenplays.
50 works3 series
Robert B. Cialdini
American social psychologist and Regents Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, known for research and writing on persuasion, compliance, and social influence.
10 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
Robert C. Martin
American software engineer, author, consultant, and educator known for influential books on software craftsmanship, agile development, object-oriented design, and software architecture.
12 works0 series
Robert Charles Wilson
Robert Charles Wilson is an American-Canadian science-fiction author known for ambitious novels about time, identity, society, and humanity's place in the universe.
22 works2 series
Robert Dugoni
Robert Dugoni is an American bestselling author of legal thrillers, police procedurals, espionage thrillers, historical fiction, literary fiction, and nonfiction.
32 works4 series
Robert E. Howard
American writer and poet best known for Conan the Cimmerian and for pioneering sword-and-sorcery fiction.
136 works15 series
Robert Galbraith
Robert Galbraith is the crime-fiction pseudonym of J.K. Rowling, author of the Cormoran Strike detective novels.
8 works1 series
Robert Gavin Hampson
British poet and literary scholar known for innovative poetry and criticism of Joseph Conrad.
36 works1 series
Robert Graves
English poet, novelist, critic, mythographer, translator, and memoirist best known for I, Claudius, The White Goddess, and Goodbye to All That.
130 works2 series
Robert Greene
American nonfiction author known for books on power, strategy, seduction, mastery, and human behavior.
7 works0 series
Robert Harris
British novelist and former journalist known for historical, political, military, and speculative thrillers, as well as early nonfiction.
21 works1 series
Robert J. Sawyer
Canadian science-fiction novelist and short-fiction writer known for scientifically grounded stories about consciousness, technology, evolution, religion, and the future of humanity.
29 works4 series
Robert Jackson Bennett
American speculative-fiction author known for fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery novels.
14 works3 series
Robert Jordan
American fantasy author and pen name of James Oliver Rigney Jr. (1948–2007), best known for The Wheel of Time.
29 works3 series
Robert K. Massie
American historian, journalist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer known for narrative histories of Russia, the Romanov dynasty, and World War I naval power.
7 works0 series
Robert Kirkman
American comic-book writer, creator, and publisher best known for The Walking Dead and Invincible.
125 works30 series
Robert Kolker
Robert Kolker is an American journalist and nonfiction author known for narrative journalism, true crime, and science writing.
3 works0 series
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, travel writer, dramatist, biographer, and author of short fiction.
55 works2 series
Robert Ludlum
American novelist best known for internationally bestselling espionage and conspiracy thrillers, including the original Jason Bourne trilogy.
30 works5 series
Robert M. Pirsig
American writer and philosopher best known for the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila.
4 works0 series
Robert M. Sapolsky
American neuroendocrinologist, primatologist, neuroscientist, and science writer known for research and writing on stress, behavior, and the biology of human and animal life.
7 works0 series
Robert Macfarlane
British writer and academic known for award-winning books about landscape, nature, memory, language, travel, and environmental change.
15 works2 series
Robert McKee
American author, lecturer, and story consultant best known for his influential books on storytelling and screenwriting.
5 works1 series
Robert Mighall
British literary scholar, writer, and brand strategist known for work on Gothic fiction, cultural history, literary biography, and corporate storytelling.
4 works0 series
Robert R. McCammon
American novelist and short-story writer known for horror, dark fantasy, historical fiction, suspense, and literary fiction.
34 works3 series
Robert Silverberg
American science-fiction writer, editor, essayist, and nonfiction author known for prolific pulp-era fiction, psychologically rich New Wave science fiction, and the Majipoor novels.
227 works11 series
Robert T. Kiyosaki
American entrepreneur, investor, educator, and author best known for the Rich Dad personal-finance books.
38 works1 series
Robert Tombs
British historian specializing in modern French history, the Paris Commune, Franco-British relations, and English history.
8 works1 series
Robert W. Chambers
American painter, novelist, and short-story writer best known for The King in Yellow.
90 works1 series
Robert Warshow
American film, literary, and cultural critic associated with the New York Intellectuals.
2 works0 series
Robin DiAngelo
American scholar and author whose work focuses on whiteness, structural racism, and anti-racist education.
6 works2 series
Robin Feuer Miller
American scholar of Russian and comparative literature, known especially for her work on Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy.
6 works1 series
Robin Hobb
American fantasy author Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, best known by the pen name Robin Hobb; she also writes as Megan Lindholm.
34 works10 series
Robin McKinley
American fantasy author known for fairy-tale retellings, young-adult fantasy, adult fantasy, children's books, and collaborative story collections.
23 works3 series
Robin Sharma
Canadian author and leadership expert known for books on personal mastery, leadership, productivity, and purposeful living.
17 works2 series
Robin Sloan
American novelist and writer of speculative fiction, mystery, and technology-focused literary fiction.
7 works1 series
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer is an Indigenous botanist, writer, professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
4 works0 series
Roger Zelazny
American science-fiction and fantasy writer best known for the Chronicles of Amber, Lord of Light, and his mythic, stylistically experimental fiction.
71 works7 series
Roland Barthes
French literary theorist, essayist, semiologist, critic, and cultural thinker whose work reshaped modern literary and cultural criticism.
36 works1 series
Roma Gill
British literary scholar and editor known for accessible scholarly editions of Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
31 works3 series
Ron Chernow
American writer, journalist, historian, and biographer known for bestselling narrative nonfiction about finance, American politics, and literary figures.
8 works0 series
Ron McMillan
Scottish novelist, travel writer, and freelance photojournalist known for crime fiction set in Asia and Scotland.
6 works2 series
Ron Rosenbaum
American journalist, essayist, literary critic, and author of investigative and cultural nonfiction.
10 works0 series
Ronald Meyer
American scholar, editor, translator, and writer specializing in Russian literature.
3 works0 series
Ronald S. Gottesman
American literary scholar, film scholar, editor, and bibliographer known for work on Upton Sinclair, Orson Welles, King Kong, textual editing, and American literature.
19 works2 series
Ronan Farrow
Ronan Farrow is an American investigative journalist, author, attorney, and former State Department official.
2 works0 series
Rory Power
Rory Power is an American author of speculative fiction, horror, and fantasy for young adult and adult readers.
7 works2 series
Ros Ballaster
Ros Ballaster is a British literary scholar and editor specializing in eighteenth-century fiction, theatre, women's writing, oriental tales, and the history of magazines.
9 works3 series
Rosalind Ballaster
Rosalind Ballaster is a British literary scholar specializing in eighteenth-century fiction, theatre, women's writing, and oriental tales.
9 works2 series
Rosemary Ashton
Rosemary Ashton is a British literary scholar and biographer specializing in nineteenth-century English literature, intellectual history, and Anglo-German cultural relations.
14 works2 series
Roshani Chokshi
Roshani Chokshi is an American author of fantasy fiction inspired by mythology, folklore, and fairy tales.
21 works3 series
Roswitha Quadflieg
German novelist, essayist, memoirist, dramatist, radio author, and book artist, born in Zürich in 1949.
34 works0 series
Roxane Gay
American writer, cultural critic, essayist, novelist, memoirist, and comic-book writer known for incisive work on feminism, race, gender, trauma, and popular culture.
11 works1 series
Ruby Dixon
American romance author known for science-fiction, paranormal, and fantasy romance.
115 works9 series
Rudyard Kipling
English novelist, poet, short-story writer, journalist, and Nobel Prize-winning author.
68 works3 series
Rufus Goodwin
American poet, novelist, journalist, and nonfiction writer whose work includes poetry, fiction, spirituality, religion, and dreams.
19 works0 series
RuNyx
RuNyx is a New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of dark romance.
8 works2 series
Rupi Kaur
Rupi Kaur is a poet, artist, and performer known for accessible poetry, prose, and visual art.
4 works0 series
Russell Baker
American journalist, humorist, satirist, essayist, and memoirist best known for his New York Times “Observer” column and Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Growing Up.
17 works0 series
Ruta Sepetys
Ruta Sepetys is a Lithuanian-American author of internationally published historical fiction for young adults and adults, and co-author of The Bletchley Riddle.
8 works0 series
Rutger Bregman
Dutch historian, writer, and journalist known for nonfiction on history, economics, human nature, and moral ambition.
8 works0 series
Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki is an American and Canadian novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest.
6 works0 series
Ryan Cahill
Irish author of epic fantasy, best known for The Bound and the Broken series.
8 works1 series
Ryan Holiday
American author and marketer known for books on Stoicism, practical philosophy, marketing, media, and character.
16 works2 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
Ryka Aoki
Ryka Aoki is an American poet, novelist, composer, and teacher whose writing spans fiction, poetry, essays, short stories, and children's literature.
5 works0 series
Ryū Murakami
Japanese novelist, essayist, filmmaker, and cultural commentator known for psychologically intense fiction about alienation, sexuality, violence, technology, and contemporary Japanese society.
127 works3 series
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japanese modernist writer celebrated for psychologically intense short fiction, historical tales, essays, criticism, travel writing, and aphorisms.
22 works0 series