• James Michener
• Leon Uris
• Gore Vidal
• Wilbur Smith

Literature 2
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• Pat Conroy
• Kent Haruf
• John Irving
• Norman Mailer (early)
• Madison Smartt Bell
• William Goldman
• Thomas Berger
• William Kotzwinkle
• Harry Crews
• Larry McMurtry
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Clyde Edgerton
• Richard Price

Literature 3
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• Tom Robbins
• John Irving
• Neal Stephenson
• William Goldman
• Carl Hiaasen

Literature 4
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• Don DeLillo
• Thomas Pynchon
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Neal Stephenson

Mystery 1
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• Tony Hillerman
• Nevada Barr
• Dana Stabenow
• Sherman Alexie
• Peter Bowen
• Margaret Coel
• James D. Doss
• Ed Gorman
• Jean Hager
• Mardi Oakley Medawar
• Marcia Muller
• Thomas Perry
• Naomi Stokes
• Aimee & David Thurlo
• James Doss (Charlie Moon series)
• Martin Cruz Smith

Mystery 2
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• John Grisham
• Nelson DeMille
• Robin Cook
• Wilbur Smith
• Michael Crichton
• Jonathan Kellerman
• Janet Evanovich
• Jan Burke
• James Lee Burke
• James Crumley
• Michael Connelly
• John Connelly
• Steve Womack
• Stephen White
• Robert Crais
• Raymond Chandler
• Dashiell Hammett
• Ross MacDonald
• Thomas Harris
• James Patterson (middle books)
• Patricia Cornwell
• James Ellroy
• Jefffrey Deaver
• Dennis Lehane
• Elmore Leonard
• Charles Willeford
• Mickey Spillane
• Robert Parker
• John Sandford
• Sue Grafton
• George Pelecanos
• Marcia Muller

Mystery 3
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• Agatha Christie
• Ngaio Marsh
• Elizabeth George
• Martha Grimes
• Dorothy Sayers
• P.D. James
• Ellis Peters
• Elizabeth Peters
• Rex Stout
• Josephine Tey
• Earl D. Biggers
• Georges Simenon
• Robert Van Gulik
• G.K. Chesterton

Mystery 4 (suspense)
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• John D. MacDonald
• G.M. Ford
• Randy Wayne White
• James Hall
• Robert Crais
• Earl Emerson
• Loren Estleman
• Steve Thayer
• Paul Erdman (early books)

Mystery 5
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• Robert Daley
• Thomas Cook
• Dick Francis
• Stephen Hunter
• George V. Higgins
• Tony Hillerman
• David Lindsey (early books)
• Ed McBain
• Walter Mosely (early books)
• Ruth Rendell
• Val McDermid
• Ross Thomas
• Scott Turow
• Cecelia Tishy

Mystery 6 (spy)
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• Len Deighton
• Ian Fleming
• Allan Folsom
• Ken Follett
• Frederick Forsyth
• Brian Freemantle
• Bill Granger
• Adam Hall
• Anthony Price
• Charles McCarry
• Gavin Lyall
• Richard Hoyt
• Edward S. Aarons
• Donald Hamilton

Mystery 7
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• Philip Margolin
• Steve Thayer
• Jeremiah Healy
• James Grippando
• Lynn Hightower
• Daniel Hecht
• Rick Hanson
• Laurie R. King
• Faye Kellerman
• Barbara Parker
• T. Jefferson Parker
• Ridley Pearson
• Thomas Perry
• Robert Ray
• Les Standiford
• Andrew Vachss
• Kate Wilhelm
• Don Winslow

Mystery 8
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• Ellis Peters
• Peter Tremayne
• Candace Robb
• Steven Saylor
• Lindsey Davis
• Elizabeth Peters
• P.C. Doherty
• Edward Marston
• J. Robert Janes

Fantasy (young readers)
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• Brian Jacques
• J.K. Rowling
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Philip Pullman
• Tad Williams

Fantasy (adult)
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Peter Pullman
• Tad Williams
• Caroline Stevermer
• Kara Dalkey
• Storm Constantine
• Gillian Bradshaw
• Octavia Butler
• Jean Auel
• Richard Adams

Like to travel through Dystopia? You’ll enjoy....

• Alas Babylon (Pat Frank)
• 1984 (George Orwell)
• Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
• Earth Abides (George Stewart)
• Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
• A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter Miller)
• Man in the High Castle (Philip Dick)

Short Stories
If you like your literature in manageable portions, look to these authors for great short stories:

• Ray Bradbury
• Shirley Jackson
• J.D. Salinger
• Isak Dinesen
• Andrea Barrett
• Margaret Atwood

Sui generis
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Agatha Christie
• Arthur C. Clarke
• Clifford Simak
• Philip K. Dick
• John Norman

Science Fiction 1
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• Robert Jordan
• Raymond Feist
• Philip Jose Farmer
• Stephen Donaldson
• Robert Howard
• Ray Bradbury
• Clive Barker
• Phillip K. Dick
• Tim Powers
• Fritz Leiber
• George R.R. Martin
• Roger Zelazny
• Michael Moorcock
• Andre Norton
• Fred Pohl
• John Varley
• Jean Auel
• Richard Adams

Science Fiction 2
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• Samuel Delany
• Harlan Ellison
• Stephen King
• Robert McCammon
• Dean Koontz
• Richard Matheson
• H.P. Lovecraft

Science Fiction 3
If you enjoy reading one of the following authors, you’ll also like the others on this list:

• Ursula K. LeGuin
• Robert Heinlein
• Orson Scott Card
• Kim Stanley Robinson
• Frank Herbert
• Isaac Asimov
• Neal Stephenson
• Dan Simmons
• Theodore Sturgeon