Fiction
John Berendt – Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Ernest Hemingway – The Garden of Eden
Homer
Mark Twain
Milton
Edger Allen Poe
Shakespeare: (I’ve loved his work since middle school, when my family and I went to London on a vacation.)
Romance/Paranormal Romance/Erotica
Jennifer L. Armentrout (J. Lynn) – Gamble Brothers
Annette Blair – Accidental Witch Trilogy
Alice Clayton – Wallbanger & Nuts
Mary Janice Davidson – Undead Series*
Amy Noelle
Jeaniene Frost – Night Huntress (all series that share characters)
Laura Kaye
Barbara Annino – Stacy Justice Mysteries & Sin City Goddess
Deanna Chase – Jade Calhoun
Molly Harper
Jay Crownover
L.A. Fiore – Beautifully Damaged Series
Katee Robert
Gina Maxwell
Kylie Scott – Stage Dive
Tessa Bailey
Samanthe Beck
Kristen Proby – The Boudreaux Series
MK Schiller
Emma Chase – Tangled Series & Legal Briefs Series
Mandy Baxter – US Marshals Series
Elle Kennedy
Audra North – Stanton Family
Marissa Clarke – Anderson Brothers
Sarah Ballance – The Marriage Agenda
Tawna Fenske
Cleo Peitsche – Executive Toy & Office Toy
J.S. Scott – Sinclair Family Series & Billionaire’s Obsession
Jamie Wesley – Entangled Lovestruck
Rachel Lyndhurst – Entangled Indulgence*
Melanie Marchande – His Secretary
Nina Croft – Babysitting a Billionaire
Samantha Young – On Dublin Street
Jenny Holiday – 49th Floor
Nina Crespo – A Birthday Dare
Nicolette Day – Fallen For You
Heather Thurmeier – The Hoax
Christine Bell – For Hire & Dare Me
C.C. Genovese
Ava Bell
JD Lexx*
Ethan Radcliff
Elias Raven
David S. Scott
JD Grayson
Sharon Johnson
Ellie Masters
Paranormal/Urban Fantasy/SciFi
Patricia Briggs – Mercy Thompson Series & Alpha Omega
Jim Butcher – Dresden Files
M.L.N Hanover – The Black Sun’s Daughter
Charlaine Harris – Sookie Stackhouse*
Kim Harrison – Rachel Morgan Series
Stephanie Meyers – The Host
Chloe Neill – Chicagoland Vampires
Carolyn Turgeon – Godmother
Carrie Vaughn – Kitty Norville
Vicki Pettersson – Signs of the Zodiac Series
Kelley Armstrong – some of the Otherworld Series
Deborah Harkness – All Souls Trilogy
Kat Richardson – Greywalker Series
Vicki Petterson – Zodiac Series
Shawntelle Madison – Coveted
Kalayna Price – Alex Craft Series
Shea MacLeod – A Sunwalker Saga
Melissa F. Olson – A Scarlett Bernard Series
Cecy Robson – A Weird Girls
E. J. Stevens – Ivy Grander, Psychic Detective
Jaye Wells – Sabrina Kane Series & Prospero’s War Series
Kimberly Frost – Southern Witch
Darynda Jones – Charlie Davision
Elliott James – Charming
S.J. Harper
J.D. Horn – A Witchings Savannah
Dannika Dark – Seven Year Series
Anita Clenney – A Relic Seekers Series
SM Reine – Preternatural Affairs
Donna Augustine – Karma Series
Damian J Clark
JS Underdown
Mason Sabre
Elias Raven
Cozy Mystery/Mystery/Thrillers/ Romance Suspense
Shirley Damsgaard
Iris Johansen – Pandora’s Daughter
Richard Castle
Janet Evanovich – Stephanie Plum Series
Kathy Reichs
Bailey Cates – The Lightfoot Chronicles
Carolyn Crane – The Associates
Katie Reus – Deadly Ops
Elie Masters
Elias Raven
YA
Michael Buckley – The Sister’s Grimm
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast – House of Night*
Patrick Skene Catling – The Touch of Chocolate
Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl (Yes we did name Arty after this book)
Kim Harrison – Madison Avery
Lauren Kate – Fallen
Carolyn MacCullough – Once a Witch & Always A Witch
Stephanie Meyers
Brandon Mull – Fablehaven
Chloe Neill – The Dark Elite
Aprilynne Pike *
Rick Riordan – Percy Jackson
J.K. Rowlings
Kelley Armstrong – The Darkest Powers
Shel Silverstein
Amy Carol Reeves – Ripper
Amy Plum – Revenants
Rachel Caine – Morganville Vampires*
Brother’s Grimm
C.C. Hunter
This list is not in any typed of order and there are a few authors that I no longer read. Those authors are labeled with *. There are also some I haven’t read in awhile or they haven’t written anything new lately but that I still really enjoy their stories.