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Country
Genre
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Stephen King
USAHorror & Thriller1974–presentThe Shining
J.K. Rowling
UKFantasy1997–presentHarry Potter
Agatha Christie
UKMystery1920–1976And Then There Were None
Haruki Murakami
JapanMagical Realism1979–presentNorwegian Wood
Toni Morrison
USALiterary Fiction1970–2019Beloved
Gabriel García Márquez
ColombiaMagical Realism1955–2014One Hundred Years of Solitude
Jane Austen
UKRomance1811–1817Pride and Prejudice
George Orwell
UKDystopian1933–19501984
Leo Tolstoy
RussiaRealist1852–1910War and Peace
Margaret Atwood
CanadaSpeculative Fiction1969–presentThe Handmaid's Tale
Neil Gaiman
UKFantasy/Mythology1988–presentAmerican Gods
Fyodor Dostoevsky
RussiaPsychological1846–1881The Brothers Karamazov
Isabel Allende
ChileMagical Realism1982–presentThe House of the Spirits
Ernest Hemingway
USALiterary Fiction1926–1961The Old Man and the Sea
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
NigeriaLiterary Fiction2003–presentHalf of a Yellow Sun
Brandon Sanderson
USAFantasy2005–presentThe Stormlight Archive
Khaled Hosseini
Afghanistan/USALiterary Fiction2003–presentThe Kite Runner
Franz Kafka
Czech/AustriaAbsurdist1915–1924The Metamorphosis
Virginia Woolf
UKModernist1915–1941Mrs Dalloway
Orhan Pamuk
TurkeyPostmodern1982–presentMy Name Is Red

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