I Semester Research Project

Author List

Classics

1. Edith Wharton -

2. Ernest Hemingway(3) –

3. Herman Melville –

4. Thomas Hardy –

5. Mark Twain –

6. Charles Dickens –

7. Agatha Christie (3)–

8. Charlotte Bronte

9. Willa Cather

10. Ray Bradbury (3) –

11. Jane Austen –

12. Louisa May Alcott -

13. Lewis Carroll –

14. Sinclair Lewis –

15. E.M. Forrester –

16. Virginia Woolf –

17. Victor Hugo –

18. Theodore Dreiser –

19. Truman Capote –

20. Rudyard Kipling –

21. Daphne DuMaurier –

22. James Fenimore Cooper –

23. George Eliot –

24. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle –

25. Alexander Dumas –

26. Kurt Vonnegut –

Contemporary/General

1. Alice Walker –

2. Sue Monk Kidd –

3. Anne Tyler –

4. Barbara Kingsolver –

5. John Irving –

6. Maeve Binchy –

7. Robert Cormier –

8. John Updike –

9. Jane Smiley – Katie Boudreau

10. Joyce Carol Oates –

11. Fannie Flagg –

12. Alice Sebold –

13. Cormac McCarthy –

14.Kaye Gibbons

15. Jodi Piccoult –

16.

17. Anna Quindlen (fiction only) -

18. James Herriot –

19. Patricia Highsmith

20. Alice Hoffman (3)

21. Tim O’Brien –

22. Walter Dean Myers(3) –

23.Kristin Hannah –

24. James D. Forman –

Multi-Cultural

1. N. Scott Momaday

2. Zora Neale Hurston

3. Julia Alvarez

4. Ayn Rand –

5. Amy Tan

6. Mario Puzo –

7. Ernest J. Gaines

8. KhaledHosseini–

9. Cynthia Voigt -

10. Jim Fergus

Historical Fiction

1. Toni Morrison –

2. Tracy Chevalier -

3. Patrick O’Brien –

4. Susan Vreeland -

5.Katherine Neville –

6. Michael Shaara

7. Jeff Shaara -

8.MaileMeloy –

9. Philip Roth –

11. Charles Todd (WWI) –

12. Phillipa Gregory –

13. L. A. Meyer

14. Kate Morton

15. James Michener*

16. Irving Stone

Mystery

1. John Grisham –

2. Clive Cussler –

3. Joseph Finder –

4. Dan Brown –

5. Tom Clancy –

6. Dick Francis –

7. Tony Hillerman –

8. SharynMcCrumb –

9. Mary Higgins Clark –

10. Iris Johanson –

11. James Patterson –

12. Nevada Barr –

13. Patricia Cornwell –

14. Sidney Sheldon –

15. M.C. Beaton –

16. Diane Mott Davidson –

17. Ken Follett –

18. Martha Grimes –

19. Pat Conroy –

20. Harlan Coben–

21. Ellis Peters (Cadfael)

22.

23. Thomas Perry –

24. Joanne Fluke –

25. Sara Shepard (3) –

26.Stephen Coonts–

27. Lisa Jackson –

28. Stuart Woods –

29. Brad Thor –

30. Ian Flemming (3) –

31. Jeffrey Deaver –

32. Stieg Larsson –

33. Dennis Lehane –

34. Tana French –

35. Nelson DeMille –

36. Scott Turow –

37. Robert Ludlum –

38. Steve Berry –

39. Michael Connelly –

40. Matthew Pearl –

41. David Baldacci –

42. Lisa Gardner –

43. Elizabeth George –

Romance

Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb –
Danielle Steele –

3. Nicholas Sparks –

4. Mary Stewart –

5. Janet Evanovich–

6. Luann Rice–

7. Debbie Macomber –

8. Susan Wiggs–

9. Fern Michaels –

10. Anne Stuart –

11. Stella Cameron –

12. Robyn Carr -

13. Sherryl Woods –

14. Jenny Han –

Thriller/Horror

1. Robin Cook –

2. Stephen King –

3. Lincoln Child/Douglas Preston –

5. Dean Koontz –

6. Thomas Harris –

7. V.C. Andrews –

8. Kathy Reichs–

9. Tess Gerritsen –

10. Elizabeth Peters –

11. Jonathan Kellerman –

12.

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Religious/Inspirational

1. Frank Peretti –

2. Jerry B. Jenkins (by himself)–

3. Tim LaHaye(by himself)–

4. Karen Kingsbury –

5. John Aubrey Anderson

6. Elizabeth Musser -

7. Tim LaHaye/Jerry B. Jenkins –(must co-author) –

8. Ted Dekker –

9. Francine Rivers

10. Jan Karon

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Adventure

1.Douglas Adams –

2. Isabel Allende –

3. Jules Verne(3) –

4. Michael Crichton –

5. C.S. Lewis (3) –

6. J.R.R. Tolkien –

7. Orson Scot Card –

8. Philip Pullman –

9. Anne Rice –

10.Frank Herbert –

11. Jim Butcher –

12. Brian Jacques –

13. Diana Wynne Jones(3) –

14. Ursula Le Guin (3) –

15. Isaac Asimov –

16. R.A. Salvatore –

17. J.K. Rowling (3) –

18.Daniel Defoe –

20. Jean M. Auel -

21. Marion Zimmer Bradley -

22. Neil Gaimon

23. Libba Bray

24. Jonathan Stroud

25. Cinda Williams Chima –

26. Robin McKinley

27. Garth Nix –