1. Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, We the Living, Anthem, For the New Intellectual, etc.)
2. Isaac Asimov (The Foundation Series, Caves of Steel, I, Robot, etc.)
3. Victor Hugo (Les Misérables, Hunchback of Notre Dame)
4. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment)
5. Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Lost Prince)
6. Leo Tolstoi (War and Peace, Anna Karenina)
7. Harold Robbins (The Carpetbaggers, The Adventurers, Memories of Another Day, Goodbye, Janette, etc.)
8. Mark Twain (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper)
9. Louis L'Amour (Sackett's Land, most of his works anyway
)
10. Robert Ludlum's works (too many of them)
11. Clive Cussler (Atlantis Found, Inca Gold, Pacific Vortex, Numa Files, Trojan Odyssey, etc.)
12. Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist, of course)
13. Alfred Bester (The Demolished Man—highly recommended, sci-fi)
14. Loup Durand (Daddy—surprise of the lot)
15. Alexandre Dumas (Count of Monte Cristo, Three Musketeers)
16. Charles Dickens (Great Expectations, Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, Hard Times)
17. Frederick Forsyth (Day of the Jackal, Odessa File, etc.)
18. J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
19. Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita—yes, that Lolita
)
20. George Orwell (1984, Animal Farm)
21. E.M. Forster (A Passage to India—film is also very good)
22. D.H. Lawrence (Sons and Lovers, etc.)
23. Ernest Hemingway (Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, etc.)
24. Danielle Steel
thanks sis (Perfect Stranger, Crossings, etc.)
25. John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath)
26. Sidney Sheldon (Sands of Time, etc.)
27. Janet Dailey (Calder series novels)
28. Jeffrey Archer (Kane and Abel, The Prodigal Daughter, etc.)
29. Erich Segal (Man, Woman, and Child; Love Story)
30. Michael Crichton (Terminal Man, Congo, etc.)
31. Tom Clancy (Hunt for Red October, Executive Orders, etc.)
32. Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
33. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Hundred Years of Solitude)
34. Wilbur Smith (A Time to Die, etc.)
35. James Michener (The Covenant, The Drifters)
36. Mickey Spillane (Mike Hammer series)
37. John Grisham (Pelican Brief, The Firm, etc.)
38.
Picaresque works: Alain-René Lesage (Gil Blas), Francisco de Quevedo (El Buscón, or The Swindler)
...more or less...
