Best American authors
- John Steinbeck
- Mark Twain
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Ernest Hemingway
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- William Faulkner
- Herman Melville
- Emily Dickinson
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Ray Bradbury
- Jack London
- Walt Whitman
- Robert Frost
- Henry David Thoreau
- T. S. Eliot
- Cormac McCarthy
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- James Baldwin
- Tennessee Williams
- Louisa May Alcott
- Harper Lee
- Dr. Seuss
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Stephen King
- Thomas Paine
- Flannery O’Connor
- J. D. Salinger
- Upton Sinclair, Jr.
- Arthur Miller
- Sinclair Lewis
- Washington Irving
- Isaac Asimov
- O. Henry
- Jack Kerouac
- Edith Wharton
- Langston Hughes
- Benjamin Franklin
- Philip Roth
- Raymond Chandler
- Joseph Heller
- Toni Morrison
- Henry James
- Frederick Douglass
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Willa Cather
- Eugene O’Neill
- Stephen Crane
- Ralph Ellison
- Ken Kesey
- Shel Silverstein
Best Romance authors
- J R. Ward
- Christine Feehan
- Nora Roberts
- Johanna Lindsey
- Julie Garwood
- Jane Austen
- Kristen Ashley
- Lisa Kleypas
- Jude Deveraux
- Judith McNaught
- Sylvain Reynard
- Gena Showalter
- Kresley Cole
- Diana Gabaldon
- Julia Quinn
- Penny Reid
- Karen Marie Moning
- Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
- Susan Elizabeth P
- Sylvia Day
- Nalini Singh
- Lora Leigh
- Amanda Quick
- Lorelie James
- Lori Foster
- Jayne Ann Krentz
- Jodi Ellen Malpas
- Linda Howard
- Sandra Brown
- Colleen Hoover
- Shayla Black
- Debbie Macomber
- Christina Lauren
- Christina Dodd
- Lauren Blakely
- Nicholas Sparks
- Janet Evonovich
- Mary Balogh
- Emma Chase
- Stephanie Laurens
- Jay Crownover
- Susan Mallery
- Linda Lael Miller
- Patricia Briggs
- Eloisa James
- Tessa Dare
- Brenda Novak
- LaVyrle Spencer
- Jennifer Crusie
- E. L. James
Best Women authors
- Jane Austen
- Emily Brontë
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Dickinson
- Agatha Christie
- Mary Shelley
- Virginia Woolf
- Harper Lee
- Maya Angelou
- George Eliot
- Margaret Atwood
- Shirley Jackson
- Daphne du Maurier
- Louisa May Alcott
- Toni Morrison
- Edith Wharton
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Flannery O’Connor
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Sylvia Plath
- Sappho
- Margaret Mitchell
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Anne Frank
- Alice Munro
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Amy Tan
- Alice Walker
- Willa Cather
- Astrid Lindgren
- Doris Lessing
- P. L. Travers
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- J. K. Rowling
- Joan Didion
- Carson McCullers
- Isabel Allende
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Judy Blume
- Rachel Carson
- Enid Blyton
- Patricia Highsmith
- S. E. Hinton
- Madeiline L’engle
- Iris Murdoch
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Arundhati Roy
- Dorothy Parker
- Anaïs Nin
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