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Sarah J. Maas

Sarah Janet Maas is an American fantasy author known for her series Throne of Glass, A Court of Thorns and Roses, and Crescent City. As of 2024, she has sold more than 75 million copies of her books and her work has been translated into 40 languages.

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Bram Stoker
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Bram Stoker

Irish author (1847–1912)

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Suzanne Collins
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Suzanne Collins

American television writer and novelist

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Mary Shelley
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Mary Shelley

English writer (1797–1851)

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William S. Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs

American writer and visual artist (1914–1997)

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Charles III
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Charles III

King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (born 1948)

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Jane Austen
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Jane Austen

English novelist (1775–1817)

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George Orwell
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George Orwell

English author and journalist (1903–1950)

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Colleen Hoover
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Colleen Hoover

Margaret Colleen Hoover is an American author who primarily writes novels in the romance and young adult fiction genres. She is best known for her 2016 novel It Ends with Us. Many of her works were self-published before they were picked up by a publishing house. As of October 2022, Hoover had sold approximately 20 million books. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.

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Paul the Apostle
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Paul the Apostle

Christian apostle and missionary (c. 5 – c. 64/65)

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Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf

English modernist writer (1882–1941)

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Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy

Russian writer (1828–1910)

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Niccolò Machiavelli
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Niccolò Machiavelli

Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist (1469–1527)

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Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie

Indian-born English and American novelist (born 1947)

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James Joyce
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James Joyce

Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)

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Tiger Woods
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Tiger Woods

American golfer

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Malcolm Gladwell
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Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell is a British-Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published eight books. He is also the host of the podcast Revisionist History and co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries.

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Harlan Coben
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Harlan Coben

American writer

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John Grisham
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John Grisham

American writer (born 1955)

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Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison

American novelist and editor (1931–2019)

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Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood

Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)

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Lee Child
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Lee Child

British thriller writer (born 1954)

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Thomas Pynchon
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Thomas Pynchon

American novelist (born 1937)

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Alex Garland
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Alex Garland

Alexander Medawar Garland is an English author and filmmaker. He rose to prominence with his novel The Beach (1996). He received praise for writing the Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later (2002) and its sequel, 28 Years Later (2025), and Sunshine (2007), as well as Never Let Me Go (2010) and Dredd (2012). In video games, he co-wrote Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010) and was a story supervisor on DmC: Devil May Cry (2013).

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