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N.K. Jemisin

N. K. Jemisin is an American writer whose work spans science fiction, fantasy, short fiction, and criticism. Her Broken...

Fantasy Sci Fi American Contemporary

8.6 Great

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer whose extensive body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, essays, poet...

American Contemporary Literary Bestseller

8.2 Great

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Richard Powers

Richard Powers is an American novelist whose fiction frequently connects individual lives with science, technology, musi...

American Contemporary Philosophical Literary

8.1 Great

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Stephen King

Stephen King is an American novelist primarily known for his contributions to horror and thriller genres. His prolific o...

American Contemporary Horror Thriller

8.0 Great

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Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr is an American novelist and short story writer who won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel A...

American Contemporary Historical Literary

7.9 Good

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Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer known for her experimental narrative techniques. She won th...

American Contemporary Literary Postmodern

7.9 Good

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Chang-rae Lee

Chang-rae Lee is a Korean-American novelist and professor whose fiction frequently explores themes of assimilation, alie...

American Contemporary Historical Literary

7.7 Good

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James Ellroy

James Ellroy is an American crime novelist whose fiction frequently examines policing, corruption, celebrity, and organi...

American Contemporary Mystery Noir

7.6 Good

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Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard was an American novelist and screenwriter known for Westerns and crime fiction built around criminals, la...

Classic American 20TH Century Crime

7.6 Good

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Min Jin Lee

Min Jin Lee is a Korean American novelist and essayist whose fiction examines migration, family, class, ambition, and th...

American Contemporary Historical Literary

7.6 Good

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Amor Towles

Amor Towles is an American novelist whose fiction often places carefully drawn characters within historically specific s...

American Contemporary Historical Literary

7.6 Good

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Abraham Verghese

Abraham Verghese is an Ethiopian-American physician, author, and professor of medicine at Stanford University. He is kno...

American Contemporary Medical Literary

7.5 Good

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Celeste Ng

Celeste Ng is an American novelist and short-story writer whose fiction examines family conflict, race, identity, belong...

American Contemporary Drama Literary

7.5 Good

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Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn is an American novelist, screenwriter, and former television critic known for psychological crime fiction...

American Contemporary Psychological Thriller

7.5 Good

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Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Lethem is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer whose work often blends literary fiction with...

American Contemporary Literary Postmodern

7.5 Good

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Hanya Yanagihara

Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist and editor born in 1974. She worked as an editor at Condé Nast Traveler and lat...

American Contemporary Tragedy Literary

7.3 Good

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Natsuo Kirino

Natsuo Kirino is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist known for crime fiction that examines violence, so...

Contemporary Japanese Thriller Noir

7.3 Good

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Jo Nesbø

Jo Nesbø is a Norwegian writer and musician known internationally for crime fiction, especially novels about Oslo police...

Contemporary Norwegian Thriller Bestseller

7.1 Good

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Suzanne Collins

Suzanne Collins is an American author and television writer best known for The Hunger Games novels. Her work includes th...

American Contemporary Dystopian Bestseller

7.1 Good

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John Grisham

John Grisham is an American novelist whose fiction often focuses on lawyers, courts, and conflicts involving the legal s...

American Contemporary Thriller Legal

6.5 Fair