Fiction books are classified by the author's country of birth; most fiction works by United States authors are in the PS class; British authors are in the PR class. Juvenile fiction, including young adult, is often found in the PZ class. All these are on the third floor.

To locate books by the authors listed below, search LUCIA by author. This list is a representative sample and is not inclusive. If you have an author in mind, be sure to search LUCIA. If you do not find books in LUCIA by an author in whom you are interested, check the Appleton Public Library.

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

Science Fiction

  • Brian Aldiss
  • Isaac Asimov
  • Ray Bradbury
  • Terry Carr
  • Arthur C. Clarke
  • Philip K. Dick
  • Robert Heinlein
  • Frank Herbert
  • Aldous Huxley
  • Stanislaw Lem
  • H.P. Lovecraft
  • C.S. Lewis
  • George Orwell
  • Jules Vern
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • H.G. Welles

Fantasy

  • Richard Adams
  • Jean Auel
  • Madeleine L'Engle
  • Ursula LeGuin
  • J.K. Rowling
  • J.R.R. Tolkien

Mystery & Suspense

  • Jorges Luis Borges
  • Agatha Christie
  • Raymond Chandler
  • Wilkie Collins
  • Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Daphne du Maurier
  • Ian Fleming
  • Dashiell Hammett
  • John Le Carre
  • John Mortimer
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Dorothy Sayers
  • George Simenon
  • Rex Stout
  • Josephine Tey
  • P.G. Wodehouse