Authors A to Z
Every author recommended in at least three of our interviews and reading lists. See also the most recommended books.
A
- Chinua Achebe 6
- Douglas Adams 16
- Kim Addonizio 3
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9
- Mitch Albom 5
- Louisa May Alcott 9
- Naomi Alderman 5
- Elizabeth Alexander 3
- Lloyd Alexander 3
- Sherman Alexie 3
- Dante Alighieri 5
- James Allen 3
- Sarah Addison Allen 3
- Kingsley Amis 3
- Martin Amis 3
- Charlie Jane Anders 3
- Hans Christian Andersen 4
- Maya Angelou 6
- Dan Ariely 7
- Aristotle 6
- Isaac Asimov 8
- Kate Atkinson 6
- Margaret Atwood 25
- Marcus Aurelius 12
- Jane Austen 24
- Paul Auster 3
B
- Richard Bach 10
- Fredrik Backman 5
- Sarah Bakewell 5
- David Baldacci 4
- James Baldwin 10
- Iain Banks 3
- Leigh Bardugo 8
- J.M. Barrie 4
- Sebastian Barry 4
- Elif Batuman 3
- L. Frank Baum 7
- Mary Beard 5
- Paul Beatty 4
- Simone de Beauvoir 11
- Alison Bechdel 3
- Ernest Becker 3
- Stan Berenstain 3
- John Berger 6
- Louis de Bernières 5
- H.G. Bissinger 3
- Robert Bloch 3
- Judy Blume 8
- Enid Blyton 17
- Katherine Boo 4
- Jorge Luis Borges 6
- Alain de Botton 9
- Ray Bradbury 17
- Oyinkan Braithwaite 3
- Jessica Brody 3
- Charlotte Brontë 11
- Emily Brontë 6
- Margaret Wise Brown 4
- Bill Bryson 9
- Mikhail Bulgakov 8
- Anthony Burgess 3
- Frances Hodgson Burnett 10
- Augusten Burroughs 3
- Jessie Burton 3
- Octavia Butler 8
- Octavia E. Butler 3
- Rhonda Byrne 7
C
- Susan Cain 6
- Italo Calvino 4
- Julia Cameron 6
- Joseph Campbell 4
- Albert Camus 15
- Truman Capote 8
- Orson Scott Card 10
- Grant Cardone 3
- M.R. Carey 3
- Eric Carle 7
- Dale Carnegie 19
- Scott Carney 3
- Robert Caro 6
- John Le Carré 8
- Lewis Carroll 12
- Sean Carroll 3
- Rachel Carson 3
- Candice Carty-Williams 5
- Carlos Castaneda 3
- Willa Cather 4
- Miguel de Cervantes 8
- Michael Chabon 6
- Jung Chang 6
- Gary Chapman 5
- Stephen Chbosky 3
- Ron Chernow 5
- Apsley Cherry-Garrard 3
- Pema Chodron 5
- Noam Chomsky 3
- Agatha Christie 6
- Robert Cialdini 15
- Susanna Clarke 5
- Beverly Cleary 3
- Lucille Clifton 3
- Ernest Cline 6
- Ta-Nehisi Coates 16
- Jonathan Coe 3
- Paulo Coelho 21
- J.M. Coetzee 4
- Jim Collins 5
- Suzanne Collins 5
- Confucius 4
- Joseph Conrad 3
- Pat Conroy 5
- Susan Cooper 3
- Bryce Courtenay 3
- Jacques Cousteau 3
- Stephen R. Covey 14
- Michael Crichton 7
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 5
- Rachel Cusk 3
D
- Roald Dahl 21
- Mark Z. Danielewski 3
- Dante 3
- John Darnielle 3
- Charles Darwin 10
- Ram Dass 4
- Robertson Davies 3
- Miles Davis 3
- Richard Dawkins 10
- Daniel Defoe 4
- David Deida 3
- Kristi DeMeester 3
- Descartes 3
- Rene Descartes 5
- Patrick DeWitt 3
- Jared Diamond 6
- Junot Diaz 7
- Philip K. Dick 12
- Charles Dickens 19
- Joan Didion 11
- Franklin W. Dixon 8
- DK 6
- Anthony Doerr 12
- Emma Donoghue 4
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky 25
- Arthur Conan Doyle 7
- Angela Duckworth 5
- Charles Duhigg 3
- Alexandre Dumas 9
- Carol Dweck 9
- Dr. Wayne Dyer 3
- Bob Dylan 4
E
F
- J. Sheridan Le Fanu 3
- William Faulkner 7
- Sebastian Faulks 3
- Elena Ferrante 10
- Tim Ferriss 18
- Richard Feynman 6
- Helen Fielding 3
- F. Scott Fitzgerald 18
- Gustave Flaubert 4
- Gillian Flynn 5
- Jonathan Safran Foer 7
- Ken Follett 7
- E.M. Forster 6
- John Fowles 3
- Anne Frank 11
- Robert Frank 5
- Viktor Frankl 29
- Peter Frankopan 3
- Jonathan Franzen 3
- Paulo Freire 3
- Tana French 4
- Sigmund Freud 4
- Stephen Fry 3
- Cornelia Funke 3
G
- Jostein Gaarder 4
- Diana Gabaldon 3
- Neil Gaiman 15
- Robert Galbraith 4
- Timothy Gallwey 3
- John Gardner 3
- Bonnie Garmus 3
- Alan Garner 3
- Atul Gawande 8
- Ross Gay 3
- Roxane Gay 4
- Michael E. Gerber 3
- Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons 4
- Kahlil Gibran 4
- William Gibson 3
- Elizabeth Gilbert 13
- Allen Ginsberg 3
- Malcolm Gladwell 12
- Louise Gluck 3
- Peter Godfrey-Smith 3
- Seth Godin 7
- Natalie Goldberg 3
- William Golding 9
- William Goldman 4
- Daniel Goleman 3
- E.H. Gombrich 3
- Doris Kearns Goodwin 5
- René Goscinny 3
- Stephen Jay Gould 3
- David Grann 7
- Adam Grant 7
- Robert Grave 3
- Robert Graves 4
- John Green 6
- Stephen Greenblatt 5
- Graham Greene 6
- Robert Greene 6
- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 3
- Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm 3
- John Grisham 4
- Ursula K. Le Guin 7
- Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K. Le Guin 3
- Ursula Le Guin 8
- S.C. Gwynne 3
- Yaa Gyasi 5
H
- Mark Haddon 3
- Jonathan Haidt 4
- Matt Haig 4
- David Halberstam 3
- Mohsin Hamid 3
- Thich Nhat Hanh 5
- Kristin Hannah 7
- Yuval Noah Harari 23
- Thomas Hardy 4
- Tim Harford 5
- Amy Harmon 3
- Dan Harris 3
- Thomas Harris 3
- Stephen Hawking 6
- Paula Hawkins 5
- F.A. Hayek 3
- Chip and Dan Heath 5
- Martin Heidegger 4
- Robert Heinlein 3
- Joseph Heller 12
- Ernest Hemingway 23
- Grady Hendrix 4
- Emily Henry 3
- Frank Herbert 9
- Herman Hesse 6
- Hermann Hesse 3
- Thor Heyerdahl 3
- Joe Hill 4
- Napoleon Hill 14
- Susan Hill 3
- Laura Hillenbrand 4
- S.E. Hinton 6
- Christopher Hitchens 6
- Russell Hoban 4
- Andrew Hodges 3
- Alice Hoffman 5
- Douglas Hofstadter 9
- Homer 14
- Colleen Hoover 4
- Nick Hornby 5
- Ben Horowitz 3
- Khaled Hosseini 4
- Michel Houellebecq 4
- Victor Hugo 5
- David Hume 7
- Zora Neale Hurston 7
- Aldous Huxley 8
- Lewis Hyde 3
I
J
K
- Franz Kafka 11
- Daniel Kahneman 15
- Paul Kalanithi 4
- Immanuel Kant 6
- Byron Katie 3
- John Kay 3
- Carolyn Keene 6
- Gary Keller 3
- Kevin Kelly 4
- Ibram X. Kendi 5
- Caroline Kepnes 3
- Jack Kerouac 9
- Alex Kerr 4
- Ken Kesey 5
- John Maynard Keynes 3
- Sue Monk Kidd 4
- Stephen King 69
- Barbara Kingsolver 4
- Rudyard Kipling 8
- Robert Kiyosaki 4
- Naomi Klein 3
- Phil Knight 6
- Marie Kondo 5
- Maria Konnikova 3
- Jon Krakauer 8
- Thomas Kuhn 3
- Milan Kundera 9
- Ray Kurzweil 3
L
- Madeleine L’Engle 12
- Olivia Laing 5
- The Dalai Lama 4
- Wally Lamb 4
- Anne Lamott 17
- Alfred Lansing 5
- Shari Lapena 3
- Erik Larson 3
- Christina Lauren 5
- Victor LaValle 3
- Harper Lee 24
- Laurie Lee 3
- Min Jin Lee 4
- Stewart Lee 6
- Ben Lerner 3
- Doris Lessing 4
- Jonathan Lethem 3
- Primo Levi 5
- Gail Carson Levine 3
- Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt 6
- C.S. Lewis 27
- Michael Lewis 12
- Sinclair Lewis 3
- John Ajvide Lindqvist 3
- Cixin Liu 4
- Mario Vargas Llosa 3
- Arnold Lobel 4
- Jack London 7
- H.P. Lovecraft 3
- Janette Sebring Lowrey 3
- Lois Lowry 4
- Lucretius 4
M
- Sarah J. Maas 3
- Norman Mailer 3
- Emily St. John Mandel 5
- Nelson Mandela 3
- Thomas Mann 6
- Mark Manson 4
- Hilary Mantel 5
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez 25
- Megan Marshall 3
- Yann Martel 5
- Ann M. Martin 5
- George R.R. Martin 9
- Steve Martin 6
- Karl Marx 3
- Richard Matheson 5
- Peter Matthiessen 3
- Somerset Maugham 3
- Daphne du Maurier 9
- Robert McCammon 3
- Cormac McCarthy 17
- Scott McCloud 6
- David McCullough 6
- Ray Bradbury Jack McDevitt 3
- Ian McEwan 11
- Robert McKee 8
- Robin McKinley 3
- Larry McMurtry 5
- Michelle McNamara 3
- Jon Meacham 3
- Glennon Doyle Melton 3
- Herman Melville 19
- Stephenie Meyer 5
- China Miéville 3
- John Stuart Mill 7
- Donald Miller 3
- Frank Miller 3
- Henry Miller 4
- Madeline Miller 5
- A.A. Milne 10
- David Mitchell 7
- Margaret Mitchell 4
- Nancy Mitford 3
- Michel de Montaigne 3
- L.M. Montgomery 12
- Alan Moore 4
- Caitlin Moran 3
- Erin Morgenstern 3
- Liane Moriarty 5
- Toni Morrison 20
- Jojo Moyes 3
- Siddhartha Mukherjee 5
- Haruki Murakami 15
- Iris Murdoch 4
- Jill Murphy 3
N
O
P
- R.J. Palacio 5
- Chuck Palahniuk 5
- Ann Patchett 4
- Kerry Patterson 3
- Randy Pausch 4
- Dr Norman Vincent Peale 3
- Walker Percy 3
- Stephanie Perkins 4
- Sarah Perry 3
- Tamora Pierce 3
- Thomas Piketty 3
- Daniel Pink 7
- Steven Pinker 13
- Robert M. Pirsig 8
- Lonely Planet 4
- Sylvia Plath 10
- Plato 21
- Michael Pollan 13
- Anthony Powell 4
- Richard Powers 3
- Terry Pratchett 4
- Steven Pressfield 11
- Douglas Preston 3
- Daniel Priestley 4
- Marcel Proust 7
- Philip Pullman 11
- Mario Puzo 3
- Thomas Pynchon 5
R
- Ayn Rand 10
- Claudia Rankine 3
- Arthur Ransome 3
- Wilson Rawls 4
- Taylor Jenkins Reid 6
- Jean Rhys 3
- Anne Rice 5
- Rainer Maria Rilke 10
- Rick Riordan 4
- Tom Robbins 6
- Tony Robbins 7
- Gregory David Roberts 4
- Marilynne Robinson 3
- Jon Ronson 3
- Sally Rooney 4
- Hans Rosling 4
- Philip Roth 11
- Veronica Roth 3
- Patrick Rothfuss 4
- Carlo Rovelli 6
- Rainbow Rowell 3
- J.K. Rowling 43
- Arundhati Roy 8
- Don Miguel Ruiz 3
- Salman Rushdie 7
- Bertrand Russell 10
- Richard Russo 4
S
- Louis Sachar 3
- Oliver Sacks 3
- Carl Sagan 9
- Edward Said 4
- Antoine Saint-Exupery 4
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 12
- J.D. Salinger 31
- Brandon Sanderson 4
- Robert Sapolsky 5
- Jean-Paul Sartre 6
- George Saunders 11
- Eric Schlosser 3
- Patricia Schultz 3
- Alice Sebold 3
- David Sedaris 3
- Maurice Sendak 7
- Rebecca Serle 5
- Dr. Seuss 16
- William Shakespeare 28
- Dani Shapiro 4
- Robin Sharma 3
- Mary Shelley 4
- Russell Shorto 3
- Shel Silverstein 15
- Dan Simmons 3
- Jen Sincero 4
- Simon Sinek 6
- Michael A. Singer 3
- Simon Singh 5
- Frank Skinner 3
- Rebecca Skloot 3
- Elizabeth Smart 3
- Adam Smith 12
- Dodie Smith 3
- Dr Julie Smith 4
- Patti Smith 7
- Zadie Smith 4
- Blake Snyder 7
- Rebecca Solnit 8
- Art Spiegelman 5
- Wallace Stegner 3
- John Steinbeck 21
- Seth Stephens-Davidowitz 4
- Neal Stephenson 4
- Laurence Sterne 3
- Robert Louis Stevenson 10
- R.L. Stine 6
- Bram Stoker 6
- Jon Stone 4
- Peter Straub 3
- Cheryl Strayed 6
- Whitley Strieber 3
- Shunryu Suzuki 5
T
U
V
W
- Binyavanga Wainaina 3
- Alice Walker 3
- Matthew Walker 4
- David Foster Wallace 10
- Jeannette Walls 5
- Nigel Warburton 3
- Jesmyn Ward 3
- Gertrude Chandler Warner 3
- Sarah Waters 9
- Bill Watterson 4
- Alan Watts 3
- Evelyn Waugh 3
- Andy Weir 5
- H.G. Wells 7
- Irvine Welsh 3
- Tara Westover 6
- E.B. White 12
- William Strunk and E.B. White 5
- Colson Whitehead 5
- Elie Wiesel 6
- Oscar Wilde 3
- Laura Ingalls Wilder 7
- Isabel Wilkerson 4
- Bernard Williams 5
- Margery Williams 3
- Marianne Williamson 3
- Connie Willis 3
- Jeanette Winterson 3
- Tim Winton 3
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 3
- Tom Wolfe 7
- Michael Wolff 3
- Meg Wolitzer 3
- Mary Wollstonecraft 3
- David Wong 3
- Virginia Woolf 14