Authors I like
Listed alphabetically by last name within each section. Also see my recommended books and the reading log. Last updated August 1, 2026.
Nonfiction
- Anne Applebaum
- Mary Beard
- Robert A. Caro
- G. K. Chesterton
- Joan Didion
- Atul Gawande
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- David Grann
- Tom Holland
- Steven Johnson
- Erik Larson
- C. S. Lewis
- Candice Millard
- David McCullough
- Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Hugh Nibley
- Mary Roach
- Katherine Rundell
- Oliver Sacks
- Dava Sobel
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Isabel Wilkerson
- Simon Winchester
- Bob Woodward
- Andrea Wulf
- Ed Yong
Fiction (older)
- Charles Dickens
- George Eliot
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Thomas Hardy
- Henry James
- Herman Melville
- L. M. Montgomery
- Leo Tolstoy
- Edith Wharton
- Virginia Woolf
Fiction (contemporary)
- Joe Abercrombie
- Katherine Addison
- Beth Brower
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Shannon Chakraborty
- Ted Chiang
- Susannah Clarke
- Susan Cooper
- Steven Erikson
- Victoria Goddard
- Alix E. Harrow
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Benedict Jacka
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Claire Keegan
- C. S. Lewis
- Emily St. John Mandel
- Hilary Mantel
- Arkady Martine
- Seanan McGuire
- Tamsyn Muir
- Claire North
- K. J. Parker
- Terry Pratchett
- Robert V. S. Redick
- Marilynne Robinson
- Robin Sloan
- Neal Stephenson
- Richard Swan
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- M. L. Wang
- Martha Wells
- Connie Willis