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Novelists
Chinua Achebe
Nelson Algren
Isabel Allende
Rudolfo Anaya
Antonio L. Antunes
Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen
Enid Bagnold
Beryl Bainbridge
James Baldwin
Balzac
Djuna Barnes
Ann Beattie
Saul Bellow
Ambrose Bierce
Jorge Luis Borges
Elizabeth Bowen
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Anita Brookner
Rita Mae Brown
Pearl Buck
Charles Bukowski
Anthony Burgess
William Burroughs
A. S. Byatt
Italo Calvino
Albert Camus
Truman Capote
Angela Carter
Barbara Cartland
Ana Castillo
Willa Cather
Denise Chavez
John Cheever
G. K. Chesterton
Kate Chopin
Sandra Cisneros
Helene Cixous
Colette
Joan Collins
Laurie Colvin
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Joseph Conrad
Robertson Davies
Patti Davis
Joan Didion
Isak Dinesen
E. L. Doctorow
Harriet Doerr
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Margaret Drabble
Theodore Dreiser
Daphne du Maurier
Alexandre Dumas
Gerald Durrell
Lawrence Durrell
Susan Dworkin
Umberto Eco
Deborah Eisenberg
George Eliot
Ralph Ellison
Louise Erdrich
Laura Esquival
Fanny Flagg
Shelby Foote
Ford Madox Ford
Richard Ford
E. M. Forster
Marilyn French
Carlos Fuentes
Rumer Godden
Gail Godwin
Nadine Gordimer
Mary Gordon
Gunter Grass
Robert Graves
Margaret Halsey
Thomas Hardy
Shirley Hazzard
Ernest Hemingway
O. Henry
Hermann Hesse
Georgette Heyer
Alice Hoffman
Maureen Howard
Zora Neale Hurston
Anne Ireland
Kazuo Ishiguro
Ruth Prawer Jabvala
Shirley Jackson
Henry James
Erica Jong
James Joyce
Franz Kafka
Jamaica Kincaid
Barbara Kingsolver
Maxine Hong Kingston
Milan Kundera
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Novelists, contd.
Ring Lardner
D. H. Lawrence
Harper Lee
Doris Lessing
Sinclair Lewis
Penelope Lively
David Lodge
Jack London
Sylvia Lopez-Medina
Bette Bao Lord
Alison Lurie
Norman Mailer
Thomas Mann
Katherine Mansfield
Gabriel García Márquez
Somerset Maugham
Armistead Maupin
Mary McCarthy
Frank McCourt
Carson McCullors
Colleen McCullough
Jay McInerney
Terry McMillan
Margaret Millar
Henry Miller
Margaret Mitchell
Nancy Mitford
Toni Morrison
H. H. Monro
Iris Murdoch
Vladimir Nabokov
R. K. Narayan
Gloria Naylor
John Nichols
Anais Nin
Joyce Carol Oates
Flannery OíConnor
George Orwell
Grace Paley
Dorothy Parker
Elaine Perry
Brenda Peterson
Katherine Anne Porter
Richard Price
E. Annie Proulx
Marcel Proust
Mario Puzo
Barbara Pym
Amanda Quick
M. K. Rawlings
Jean Rhys
Anne Siddon Rivers
Judith Rossner
Leo Rosten
Philip Roth
Arundhati Roy
Salman Rushdie
Joanna Russ
Richard Russo
Françoise Sagan
George Sand
Irwin Shaw
Carol Shields
Isaac B. Singer
A. Solzhenitsyn
Muriel Spark
Jean Stafford
Christina Stead
Wallace Stegner
Gloria Steinem
Harriet B. Stowe
Amy Tan
Booth Tarkington
Donna Tartt
Leo Tolstoy
Leon Trotsky
Anne Tyler
John Updike
Victor Villasenor
Alice Walker
Sylvia T Warner
Evelyn Waugh
Mary Webb
Katharine Weber
Fay Weldon
Eudora Welty
Rebecca West
Edith Wharton
Angus Wilson
P. G. Wodehouse
Tom Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe
Virginia Woolf
Richard Wright
Emile Zola |
Non-Fiction
Hannah Arendt
Bruno Bettelheim
Robert Bly
Jimmy Breslin
Heywood Broun
Susan Brownmiller
Thomas Carlyle
Rachel Carson
Ilka Chase
Julia Child
Cyril Connolly
Sara Davidson
Simone de Beauvoir
Midge Decter
Descartes
Annie Dillard
Dominick Dunne
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ralph W. Emerson
Gene Fowler
Sigmund Freud
Betty Friedan
John K. Galbraith
Henry L. Gates, Jr.
Germaine Greer
Susan Griffin
Edith Hamilton
Carolyn Heilbrun
Chester Himes
Karen Horney
Robert Hughes
Christopher Isherwood
William James
Elizabeth Janeway
Samuel Johnson
Carl Jung
Helen Keller
Florynce Kennedy
Florence King
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Nancy Kress
R. D. Laing
Sara L. Lightfoot
Konrad Lorenz
Andre Malraux
Judith Martin
Marshall McLuhan
Margaret Mead
H. L. Mencken
Thomas Merton
Jessica Mitford
Maria Montessori
Eleanor Holmes Norton
P. J. O'Rourke
Camille Paglia
Gordon Parks
J. B. Priestley
V. S. Pritchett
Mike Royko
Bertrand Russell
George Santayana
Jean Paul Sartre
William Shirer
B. F. Skinner
Susan Sontag
Patricia Spacks
Gertrude Stein
George Steiner
I. F. Stone
D. T. Suzuki
Ida Tarbell
Susan Taylor
Studs Terkel
H. D. Thoreau
Alice B. Toklas
Arnold Toynbee
Lionel Trilling
Barbara Tuchman
Voltaire
von Clausewitz
Simone Wiel
Ida B. Wells
E. B. White
Shirley A. Williams
Alexander Woolcott
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Poetry and Drama
Virginia Adair James Agee
Anna Akhmatova
Maya Angelou
Jean Anouilh
W. H. Auden
Amiri Baraka
Charles Baudelaire
Samuel Beckett
Brendan Behan
Hillaire Belloc
Stephen Vincent Benet
Elizabeth Bishop
Kate Braverman
Bertold Brecht
Rupert Brooke
Gwendolyn Brooks
Byron
Anton Chekhov
Alice Childress
Lucille Clifton
Noel Coward
Eduardo de Filippo
Rita Dove
T. S. Eliot
Robert Frost
Christopher Fry
Tess Gallagher
Penelope Gilliatt
Nikki Giovanni
Susan Griffin
Lorraine Hansberry
Seamus Heaney
Langston Hughes
John Keats
Jean Kerr
Anne M. Lindbergh
Anita Loos
Audre Lorde
Robert Lowell
Edna St. V. Millay
Arthur Miller
Gabriela Mistral
Marianne Moore
Pablo Neruda
Sean OíCasey
Eugene OíNeill
John Osborne
Cynthia Ozick
Octavio Paz
Robert Pinsky
Harold Pinter
Sylvia Plath
Ezra Pound
Dawn Powell
Adrienne Rich
Rainer Maria Rilke
Muriel Rukeyser
Carl Sandburg
May Sarton
Anne Sexton
George Bernard Shaw
Edith Sitwell
Stevie Smith
Wole Soyinka
Stephen Spender
J. August Strindberg
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dylan Thomas
Derek Walcott
Wendy Wasserstein
Oscar Wilde
Thornton Wilder
Tennessee Williams
August Wilson
Elinor Wylie
William Butler Yeats |
Mysteries
Margery Allingham
Catherine Ayrd
Nicholas Blake
Raymond Chandler
Agatha Christie
Mary Higgins Clark
Patricia Cornwell
Amanda Cross
Peter Dickinson
Paul Engelman
Ian Fleming
Dick Francis
Elizabeth George
Dorothy Gilman
Sue Grafton
Martha Grimes
John Grisham
Dashiell Hammett
Carl Hiassen
Patricia Highsmith
Tony Hillerman
Jane Aiken Hodge
Michael Innes
Susan Isaacs
P. D. James
John LeCarré
Elmore Leonard
Helen MacInnis
Ngaio Marsh
Marcia Muller
Orania Papazoglou
Sara Paretsky
Robert Parker
Ellis Peters
Ruth Rendell
Dorothy Sayers
Georges Simenon
Julie Smith
Martin Cruz Smith
Mickey Spillane
Mary Stewart
Josephine Tey
Sara Woods
Science Fiction
& Fantasy
Lloyd Alexander
Isaac Asimov
Jean Auel
Greg Bear
Michael Bishop
Ray Bradbury
C. J. Cheryl
Philip K. Dick
Jack Finney
Robert Heinlein
Aldous Huxley
Stephen King
Ursula Le Guin
Stanislaw Lem
Elizabeth Lynn
H. P. Lovecraft
Elizabeth A. Lynn
Anne McCaffrey
Edgar A. Poe
Ayn Rand
Anne Rice
Mary Shelley
Robert Silverberg
Jonathan Swift
J. R. R. Tolkien
Jules Verne
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Connie Willis
Roger Zelazny |
Children's Authors
Joan Aiken
Louisa May Alcott
Hans C. Andersen
L. Frank Baum
Nina Bawden
Judy Blume
Frances H. Burnett
Betsy Byars
Lewis Carroll
Beverly Cleary
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Roald Dahl
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Paula Fox
James F. Garner
Eloise Greenfield
Mary D. Hahn
Virginia Hamilton
Charles Kingsley
Rudyard Kipling
E. L. Konigsburg
Edward Lear
Madeleine L'Engle
C. S. Lewis
Margaret Mahy
Norma Fox Maser
Vonda N. McIntyre
Robin McKinley
A. A. Milne
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
E. Nesbit
Mary Norton
Katherine Paterson
Beatrix Potter
Faith Ringgold
Cynthia Rylant
Elizabeth A. Scarborough
Dr. Seuss
Robert Louis Stevenson
P. L. Travers
Cynthia Voigt
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Kate Wilhelm
Patricia C. Wrede
Jane Yolen
Humor
Franklin P. Adams
Richard Armour
Dave Barry
Erma Bombeck
Art Buchwald
Jeff Foxworthy
Lewis Grizzard
Jerome K. Jerome
Garrison Keillor
Fran Lebowitz
Oscar Levant
Robert Morley
S. J. Perelman
James Thurber
Mark Twain |