What follows is all the authors that I have read in the last four or so years. Pick a name, choose one of their books, and enjoy:


Thomas Pynchon,
Kurt Vonnegut,
Joseph Heller,
David Foster Wallace,
Vladimir Nabokov,
John Updike,
Jonathan Safran Foer,
Ray Bradbury,
Stephen King,
Bret Easton Ellis,
Danniel Handler,
Philip Roth,
Sylvia Plath,
Evelyn Waugh,
Bernhard Schlink,
J. R. R. Tolkien,
James Joyce,
William Faulker,
John Irving,
Cormac McCarthy,
Washington Irving,
Mary Shelly,
Bram Stoker,
Anne Rice,
Jack Kerouac,
Richard Yates,
Chuck Palahniuk,
John Kennedy Toole,
Milan Kundera,
Gene Wilder,
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Haruki Murakami,
Michael Chabon,
Annie Proulx,
J. D. Salinger,
William Styron,
Henry James,
Virginia Wolf,
Ian McEwan,
John Steinbeck,
Ezra Pound,
T. S. Eliot,
Walt Whitman,
Robert Frost,
Geoffrey Chaucer,
J. M. Barrie,
Jane Austen,
Charlotte Bronte,
Emily Bronte,
Willkie Collins,
Charles Dickens,
Gustave Flaubert,
D. H. Lawrence,
Henry James,
Upton Sinclair,
Sinclair Lewis,
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Herman Melville,
Ernest Hemingway,
Oscar Wilde,
Honore de Balzac,
Victor Hugo,
Marcel Proust,
Fydor Dostoyevsky,
Jean-Paul Satre,
Tom Robbins,
Ayn Rand,
Alice Sebold,
Robert Louis Stevenson,
Ken Kesey,
Roald Dahl,
James Michener,
John Fowles,
Clive Barker,
Bel Kaufman,
Flannery O’Connor