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SF:

• Douglas Adams: H2G2, Dirk Gently
• Poul Anderson: Tau Zero
• Neal Asher: Ian Cormac/Polity series, Prador series, SpatterJay series, etc
• Isaac Asimov: Foundation books, Robot series
• Alfred Bester: The Stars My Destination
• Max Brooks: World War Z
• Arthur C Clarke: 2001 series, Rama series
• James S. A. Corey: Expanse series
• Stephen Donaldson: Gap Series
• Peter F Hamilton: Reailty Dysfunction, Commonwealth Saga I (Judas), Commonwealth Saga II (Dreaming Void), Greg Mandel series
• Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land, Number of the Beast
• Frank Herbert: Dune
• William Gibson: Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive
• Julian May: Saga of the Exiles, Galactic Milieu series, The Rampart Worlds series
• Richard Morgan: Takeshi Kovaks books, Th1rteen (Black Man)
• Alastair Reynolds: Chasm City and sequels
• Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Seveneves

Fantasy:

• Poul Anderson: The Broken Sword, Thee Hearts and Three Lions
• Clive Barker: Weaveworld, Imajica
• CJ Cherryh: Morgaine chronicles
• Stephen Donaldson: Thomas Covenant series
• Neil Gaiman: American Gods, Ananzi Boys
• Lev Grossman: The Magicians series
• Robert Holdstock: Mythago Wood series, Merlin Codex series
• Stephen King: The Talisman
• Scott Lynch: Gentleman Bastards series
• China Mieville: Perdido St Station, The Scar
• Michael Moorcock: Elric series (especially the ‘classic’ ones), Corum, Hawkmoon/Runestaff, Von Bek, Eternal Champion, Danders at the End of Time
• Terry Pratchett: Discworld series
• Patrick Rothfuss: Kingkiller Chronicles
• Robert Silverberg: Majipoor Chronicles
• JRR Tolkien: The Hobbit, LOTR, The Silmarillion (nothing else comes close, IMO, but…)
• Jack Vance: Tales of the Dying Earth
• Gene Wolfe: Books of the New Sun
• Roger Zelazny: Chronicles of Amber

Horror:

• William Peter Blatty: The Exorcist, Legion
• William Hope Hodgson: Carnacki the Ghost Finder
• Shirley Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House
• Stephen King: Salem’s Lot, The Shining, The Stand
• H.P. Lovecraft: Everything!
• Dan Simmons: The Terror
• Bram Stoker: Dracula

General/Mainstream:

• Bernard Cornwell: Warlord Chronicles, Grail Quest chronicles, Sharpe series, Starbuck series, everything!
• Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker
• Thomas Harris: Hannibal Lecter series
• Stieg Larsson: Millenium series
• George MacDonald Fraser: Flashman Papers
• Arturo Perez-Reverte: The Club Dumas
• Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle
• Eric Van Lustbader: The Ninja (Nicholas Linnear series)