General Fiction
- Louisa May Alcott
- Isabel Allende
- Kingsley Amis
- Maya Angelou
- A. Manette Ansay
- Margaret Atwood
- Louis Auchincloss
- Paul Auster
- Russell Banks
- John Barth
- Louis Begley
- Dan Brown
- Charles Bukowski
- Olive Ann Burns
- Truman Capote
- Willa Cather
- Michael Chabon
- Lan Samantha Chang
- Kelly Cherry
- J.M. Coetzee [South Africa]
- Frank Conroy
- Michael Crichton
- Mark Dintenfass
- Ivan Doig
- Louise Erdrich
- Jasper Fforde
- Michael Frayn [humor, spy, futuristic]
- Mark Haddon
- Jane Hamilton
- Kent Haruf
- Joseph Heller
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Zora Neal Hurston
- John Irving
- Ha Jin
- Edward P. Jones
- Jack Kerouac
- Sue Monk Kidd
- Stephen King
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Chang-Rae Lee
- David Lodge
- Frank McCourt
- Ian McEwan
- Norman Mailer
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Yann Martel
- James Michener
- Jacquelyn Mitchard
- Margaret Mitchell
- Toni Morrison
- Iris Murdoch
- Audrey Niffenegger
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Flannery O'Connor
- Ann Packer
- Alan Paton
- Reynolds Price
- Annie Proulx
- Ayn Rand
- Marilyn Robinson
- Philip Roth
- Salmon Rushdie
- Helen Hoover Santmyer
- Carol Shields [Canada]
- Alice Sebold Mona Simpson
- Jane Smiley
- Wallace Stegner
- John Steinbeck
- Irving Stone
- Amy Tan
- Colm Toibin [Ireland]
- John Kennedy Toole
- Anthony Trollope
- Scott Turow
- Mark Twain
- Anne Tyler
- Barry Unsworth
- John Updike
- Leon Uris
- Guy Vanderhaeghe [Canada]
- Gore Vidal
- Alice Walker
- James Welch
- Fay Weldon
- Eudora Welty
- Nathanael West
- Edith Wharton
- Marianne Wiggins
- Tom Wolfe