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Jean Auel

Jan Karon

Margaret Atwood

Stephen King

Maeve Binchy

Louis L'Amour

Sandra Brown

Robert Ludlum

Tom Clancy

Larry McMurtry

Mary Higgins Clark

Janette Oke

Catherine Cookson

Oprah

Patricia Cornwell

Robert B. Parker

Nelson DeMille

Ellis Peters

Diane Mott Davidson

Kathy Reichs

Janet Evanovich

Nora Roberts

Joy Fielding

John Sandford

Helen Fielding

Serial Killers

Financial Intrigue

Danielle Steel

Diana Gabaldon

J.R.R. Tolkien

Sue Grafton

Victorian Mysteries

John Grisham

Stuart Woods

Linda Howard

 

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Margaret Atwood

Ann Beattie
A.S. Byatt
Gail Godwin
Mary Gordon
Doris Grumbach
Barbara Kingsolver
Toni Morrison
Joyce Carol Oates
Marge Piercy
Annie Proulx
Carol Shields
Jane Smiley
Alice Walker
Fay Weldon

 

 

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Jean Auel

Margaret Allan
Amanda Cockrell
W. Michael Gear
Sue Harrison
Richard Herley
Ardath Mayhar
William Sarabande
Linda Lay Shuler
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

 

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Maeve Binchy

Thomas Berger
Jacqueline Briskin
Elizabeth Goudge
Joanne Greenberg
Colleen McCullough
Joyce Carol Oates
Rosamunde Pilcher
Belva Plain
Eugenia Price
Anne Rivers Siddons
Joanna Trollope
Anne Tyler

 

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Sandra Brown

Elizabeth Adler
Jennifer Blake
Kathryn Harvey
Jayne Ann Krentz
Elizabeth Lowell
Meagan McKinney
Judith McNaught
Doris Mortman
Nora Roberts
Katherine Stone

 

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Tom Clancy

Larry Bond
Stephen Coonts
Harold Coyle
Len Deighton
Frederick Forsyth
John Gardner
Payne Harrison
Jack Higgins
David Poyer
Gerald Seymour

 

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Mary Higgins Clark

Joy Fielding
Bill Pronzini
Nancy Price
Jonathan Kellerman
Phillip Margolin
James Patterson
Barbara Michaels
Elizabeth Peters

 

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Catherine Cookson

Tessa Barclay
Maeve Binchy
Josephine Cox
Teresa Crane
Helen Forrester
Iris Gower
Audrey Howard
Sheelagh Kelly
Lena Kennedy
Malcolm Macdonald
Pamela Oldfield
Rosamunde Pilcher
Claire Rayner
Jessica Stirling
E. V. Thompson

 

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Patricia Cornwell

Jay Bonansinga
Jeffrey Deaver
Jeff Denhart
Susan Dunlap
Joseph Glass
Jonathan Kellerman
Sarah Lovett
T. Jefferson Parker
James Patterson
Ridley Pearson
Kathy Reichs
Leah Ruth Robinson
Anna Salter
David Wiltse

 

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Nelson DeMille

Gerald A. Browne
James Carroll
Michael Connelly
Andrew Greeley
Craig Holden
Ridley Pearson
Lawrence Sanders
Irving Wallace
Stuart Woods

 

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Diane Mott Davidson

Claudia Bishop
Jill Churchill
Phillip R. Craig
Joanne Fluke
Jean Hager
Peter King
Tamar Myers
Katherine Hall Page
Nancy Pickard
Virginia Rich
Phyllis Richman
Lou Jane Temple

 

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Janet Evanovich

Donna Andrews
Nancy Bartholomew
Selma Eichler
Carole Epstein
Sparkle Hayter
Lauren Henderson
Lindsay Maracotta
Lia Matera
Marissa Piesman
Chris Rogers
Sarah Shankman
Sarah Strohmeyer

 

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Helen Fielding

Joy Fielding

Margot Abbott
Margaret Atwood
Anita Brookner
Frederick Busch
Mary Higgins Clark
Gloria Goldreich
Susan Howatch
Penelope Lively
Joyce Carol Oates
Marcel Proust
Ruth Rendell
Barbara Vine
Stephen Walsh White

 

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Financial Intrigue

David Aaron
Jack Anderson
Po Bronson
Linda Davies
Paul Erdman
Stephen Frey
E. Howard Hunt
Franklin A. Leib
Anton Myrer
Michael Ridpath
Michael M. Thomas

 

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Diana Gabaldon

Dorothy Dunnett
Barbara Erskine
Roberta Gellis
Margaret George
Pamela Kaufman
Sharon Kay Penman
Edith Pargeter
Judith Merkle Riley
Anya Seton
Sara Donati

 

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Sue Grafton

Linda Barnes
Barbara D'Amato
Janet Dawson
Susan Dunlap
Linda Grant
Wendy Hornsby
J.A. Jance
Susan Kelly
Karen Kijewski
Marcia Muller
Sara Paretsky
Nancy Pickard
Kerry Tucker
Charlene Weir
Sharon Zukowski

 

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John Grisham

Philip Friedman
William Bernhardt
Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
Steve Martini
Robert Daley
William Diehl
Lisa Scottoline
William Coughlin
Perri O'Shaughnessy
Darian North
Mark Gimenez

 

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Linda Howard

Elizabeth Adler
Sandra Brown
Catherine Coulter
Barbara Erskine
Kay Hooper
Iris Johansen
Julie Garwood
Elizabeth Lowell
Judith McNaught

 

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John Irving

Margaret Atwood
Larry Baker
Robertson Davies
Katherine Dunn
Barbara Gowdy
Jon Hassler
Howard Frank Mosher
Howard Norman
Mordecai Richler
Tom Robbins
Richard Russo

 

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Jan Karon

Carrie Brown
Jennifer Chiaverini
Sandra Dallas
Philip Gulley
Jon Hassler
J. Lynn Hinton
Anne Lamott
Joan A. Medlicott
Bill Richardson
Ann B. Ross
Angela Thirkell
Bailey White

 

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Stephen King

Clive Barker
John Farris
Neil Gaiman
Dean Koontz
Tanith Lee
Robert R. McCammon
Anne Rice
John Saul
Dan Simmons
Peter Straub
Whitley Strieber
F. Paul Wilson
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

 

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Louis L'Amour

Clifford Blair
Max Brand
Robert J. Conley
Tom Eidson
Loren D. Estleman
Janice Holt Giles
Zane Grey
Terry C. Johnston
Jake Logan
Giles Lutz
F.M. Parker
Luke Short
Richard S. Wheeler

 

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Robert Ludlum

Ted Allbeury
Len Deighton
Ken Follett
Frederick Forsyth
Brian Freemantle
Bill Granger
Jack Higgins
David Ignatius
John LeCarre
David Morrell
Craig Thomas

 

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Larry McMurtry

Isabel Allende
Dorothy Allison
Ivan Doig
Alice Hoffman
John Irving
Shirley Jackson
Elmer Kelton
Michael Korda
Anne Lamott
Elmore Leonard
E. Annie Proulx
Mario Puzo
Thomas Sanchez
Ruth A. Sasaki
Amy Tan
Phyllis A. Whitney

 

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Janette Oke

Terri Blackstock
Lawana Blackwell
B.J. Hoff
Beverly LaHaye
Beverly Lewis
Lynn Morris
Judith Pella
Tracie Peterson
Michael Phillips
Francine Rivers
Bodie Thoene
Lori Wick

 

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Robert B. Parker

Linda Barnes
Lawrence Block
Michael Connelly
K.C. Constantine
Sue Grafton
J.A. Jance
Dennis Lehane
Sara Paretsky
Thomas Perry
Ian Rankin
Les Standiford
Donald Westlake

 

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Ellis Peters

P. C. Doherty
Margaret Frazer
C. L. Grace
Edward Marston
Ian Morson
Sharan Newman
Candace Robb
Kate Sedley
Peter Tremayne

 

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Kathy Reichs

Sarah Andrews
Beverly Connor
Susan Dunlap
Leonard Goldberg
Tess Gerritsen
Mary Kittredge
Sarah Lovett
Darian North
Leah Ruth Robinson
Karin Slaughter
Marianne Wesson

 

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Nora Roberts

Lisa Appignanesi
Jennifer Blake
Stella Cameron
Diane Chamberlain
Catherine Coulter
Barbara Erskine
Judith Gould
Kristin Hannah
Kay Hooper
Iris Johansen
Una Mary Parker
Karen Robards
Deborah Smith
Penny Vincenzi

 

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John Sandford

Anthony Bruno
Rex Burns
William Caunitz
Andrew Coburn
Michael Connelly
Jeffery Deaver
Laurence Gough
James Harvey
William Heffernan
Tony Hillerman
Hugh Holton
J.A. Jance
Stuart Kaminsky
Ed McBain
Ridley Pearson
Stephen White

 

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Serial Killers

Rennie Airth
Jeffrey Deaver
Thomas Harris
Mo Hayder
A.J. Holt
Rochelle Krich
Sarah Lovett
James Patterson
Kathy Reichs
John Sandford
Rosamond Smith
Andrew Taylor
Robert W. Walker

 

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Danielle Steel

Elizabeth Adler
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Jennifer Blake
Diane Chamberlain
Barbara Delinsky
Elizabeth Lowell
Meagan McKinney
Judith McNaught
Doris Mortman

 

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J.R.R. Tolkien

Terry Brooks
Stephen R. Donaldson
David Eddings
Kate Elliott
Raymond E. Feist
Robert Jordan
Dennis McKiernan
Margaret Weis
Michelle West
Tad Williams

 

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Victorian Mysteries

Bernard Bastable
Emily Brightwell
Carole Nelson Douglas
Mark Frost
Ray Harrison
Alanna Knight
Peter Lovesey
Amy Myers
Robin Paige
Anne Perry

 

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Stuart Woods

David Baldacci
Lawrence Block
Michael Connelly
Thomas Cook
William Diehl
Don DeLillo
Dominick Dunne
Stephen Frey
John Gilstrap
James W. Hall
Elmore Leonard
John Lutz
Thomas Perry
Mario Puzo
John Sandford

 

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