Author↕ | Country↕ | Genre↕ | Era↕ | Top Work↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Stephen King | USA | Horror & Thriller | 1974–present | The Shining |
J.K. Rowling | UK | Fantasy | 1997–present | Harry Potter |
Agatha Christie | UK | Mystery | 1920–1976 | And Then There Were None |
Haruki Murakami | Japan | Magical Realism | 1979–present | Norwegian Wood |
Toni Morrison | USA | Literary Fiction | 1970–2019 | Beloved |
Gabriel García Márquez | Colombia | Magical Realism | 1955–2014 | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
Jane Austen | UK | Romance | 1811–1817 | Pride and Prejudice |
George Orwell | UK | Dystopian | 1933–1950 | 1984 |
Leo Tolstoy | Russia | Realist | 1852–1910 | War and Peace |
Margaret Atwood | Canada | Speculative Fiction | 1969–present | The Handmaid's Tale |
Neil Gaiman | UK | Fantasy/Mythology | 1988–present | American Gods |
Fyodor Dostoevsky | Russia | Psychological | 1846–1881 | The Brothers Karamazov |
Isabel Allende | Chile | Magical Realism | 1982–present | The House of the Spirits |
Ernest Hemingway | USA | Literary Fiction | 1926–1961 | The Old Man and the Sea |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Nigeria | Literary Fiction | 2003–present | Half of a Yellow Sun |
Brandon Sanderson | USA | Fantasy | 2005–present | The Stormlight Archive |
Khaled Hosseini | Afghanistan/USA | Literary Fiction | 2003–present | The Kite Runner |
Franz Kafka | Czech/Austria | Absurdist | 1915–1924 | The Metamorphosis |
Virginia Woolf | UK | Modernist | 1915–1941 | Mrs Dalloway |
Orhan Pamuk | Turkey | Postmodern | 1982–present | My Name Is Red |
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