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Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel is a celebrated contemporary British novelist known for her meticulously researched and intricately plotte...

Contemporary Booker Historical British

8.5 Great

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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco was a prominent Italian novelist known for blending historical fiction with philosophical inquiry. His work,...

Italian Contemporary Historical Literary

8.5 Great

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W.G. Sebald

W.G. Sebald is a German-British novelist celebrated for deeply layered narratives exploring themes of memory, history, a...

Contemporary Memory Historical Literary

8.5 Great

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David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer known for his complex, postm...

Classic American Contemporary Literary

8.5 Great

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Eileen Chang

Eileen Chang, also known as Zhang Ailing, was a prominent 20th-century Chinese-American writer whose fiction extensively...

Classic 20TH Century Romance Literary

8.4 Great

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Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk is a prominent contemporary Turkish novelist known for blending historical fiction with explorations of Ista...

Contemporary Historical Literary Turkish

8.3 Great

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Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian author recognized for his realist novels that explore the social and politica...

Classic Realism Contemporary Canadian

8.2 Great

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Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje is a contemporary novelist of Sri Lankan-Canadian heritage. He gained significant recognition with *The...

Contemporary Booker Historical Literary

8.1 Great

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Mo Yan

Mo Yan, the pen name of Guan Moye, is a Chinese novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. He is di...

Contemporary Magical Realism Literary Chinese

8.0 Great

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Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh is an Indian novelist and essayist whose work connects migration, colonialism, trade, language, and environ...

Contemporary Indian Historical Literary

7.9 Good

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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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Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, and critic whose work explores Irish identity, emigration, sexuali...

Contemporary Historical Literary Lgbtq+

7.8 Good

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Peter Carey

Peter Carey is an Australian novelist whose fiction frequently engages with Australian colonial history, national mythol...

Contemporary Australian Booker Historical

7.8 Good

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Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth is an Indian novelist and poet best known for 'A Suitable Boy' (1993), a novel of over 1,300 pages set in po...

Epic Contemporary Indian Historical

7.8 Good

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Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston is a prominent Chinese-American author whose works combine memoir, mythology, and fiction to explor...

Classic American Contemporary Literary

7.8 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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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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Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak is a Turkish-British novelist born in 1971 in Strasbourg, France. She writes in both Turkish and English and...

Contemporary Historical Literary Feminist

7.4 Good

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Péter Nádas

Péter Nádas is a Hungarian novelist, essayist, and photographer born in 1942 in Budapest. He is best known for 'A Book o...

Hungarian Contemporary Experimental Historical

7.4 Good