A.F. Steadman
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A.F. Steadman is the author of the Skandar series. A former lawyer who grew up in Kent, she moves into adult fantasy with TimeLess, the opening book of a new time-travel series.
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Aaron Johnston
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Aaron Johnston is a science-fiction author and screenwriter. He has collaborated with Orson Scott Card on the Formic Wars books.
Abbott Kahler
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Abbott Kahler, formerly publishing nonfiction as Karen Abbott, is the author of Where You End and several works of narrative history. She is based in New York.
Abby Dewsnup
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Abby Dewsnup is the author of Rabbit Heart. The young-adult horror romance follows a girl whose duty to an ancient being conflicts with her feelings for its intended sacrifice.
Abby Jimenez
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Abby Jimenez writes contemporary romance and founded the bakery Nadia Cakes. Her novels include Say You’ll Remember Me and The Night We Met.
Adam Mastroianni
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Adam Mastroianni is an experimental psychologist and the writer behind Experimental History. He studied at Princeton, Oxford and Harvard and writes about psychology, scientific discovery and the ways people reason about the world.
Adam Tooze
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Economic historian and Columbia University professor whose books include Crashed, The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction.
Adrian Gore
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South African business leader and founder of Discovery, the financial-services group. His writing and public work focus on leadership, behavior and institutional decision-making.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British science-fiction and fantasy author. His books include Children of Time and City of Last Chances.
Ahmad Qatato
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Ahmad Qatato is a Jordanian graphic designer and artist of Palestinian descent. Born in Saudi Arabia, he grew up and worked in Jordan before moving to Italy, and has published comics online and in print.
Alex Sasse
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Alex Sasse is credited alongside her father Ben Sasse on Redeem the Time. Their collaboration considers faith, family and the meaning of time following his cancer diagnosis.
Alexa Martin
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Alexa Martin writes romance and women’s fiction. Her work has been featured by Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly and NPR.
Alexis Schaitkin
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Alexis Schaitkin is the author of Saint X and Elsewhere. Two Lives continues her interest in memory, place and the stories people construct about one another.
Ali Hazelwood
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Ali Hazelwood writes contemporary romance, including The Love Hypothesis. Her background is in neuroscience and academia.
Alice Feeney
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Alice Feeney is a suspense novelist and former BBC journalist. Her books include His & Hers and Rock Paper Scissors.
Alice Winn
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Alice Winn is the author of In Memoriam and Worship. She grew up in Paris, studied English literature at Oxford and lives in Brooklyn. Worship reimagines figures from Arthurian legend.
Alison Stine
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American novelist and poet whose books include Road Out of Winter, Trashlands and the young-adult novel Dust. Her fiction often explores imagined worlds shaped by loss, environment and social pressure.
Alli Hoff Kosik
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Alli Hoff Kosik is the author of Too Blessed to Stress. People, Please is her first novel for adult readers.
Alyssa Maxwell
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Alyssa Maxwell writes the Gilded Newport Mysteries and historical mysteries set in England.
Amanda M. Fairbanks
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Amanda M. Fairbanks is a journalist and the author of Tick Boom. Her account combines reporting on the history of Lyme disease with her own experience as a patient.
Amy Bloom
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Amy Bloom writes fiction and nonfiction, including In Love. Her work explores relationships, memory and family across novels, stories and personal essays.
Amy Butler Greenfield
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Amy Butler Greenfield is a historian and author of A Perfect Red. Her writing explores the people behind major cultural and scientific developments.
Amy Lea
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Amy Lea writes romantic comedies for adults and teenagers, including Set on You and Woke Up Like This. She lives in Ottawa, Canada.
Amy Tintera
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Amy Tintera is a novelist whose books include Listen for the Lie and several young-adult series.
Ana Huang
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Ana Huang writes contemporary romance, including the Twisted and Kings of Sin series.
Andrew Arsan
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Andrew Arsan is a historian of the modern Middle East whose research and writing focus on the social and political history of the Arab world.
Angie Cruz
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Angie Cruz is the author of How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, Dominicana, Soledad, and Let It Rain Coffee. She founded the literary and arts journal Aster(ix) and teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.
Ann Cleeves
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Ann Cleeves created the Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn detective series. Her books inspired the television series Vera, Shetland and The Long Call, and she received the CWA Diamond Dagger.
Anna James
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Anna James writes the Pages & Co. and Chronicles of Whetherwhy series. A former school librarian and books journalist, she also writes for adult readers.
Annie Summerlee
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Annie Summerlee writes fantasy and paranormal romance, including The Book of Blood and Roses. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies.
Anthony Horowitz
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Anthony Horowitz writes crime fiction and books for young readers. His novels include The Word Is Murder and Magpie Murders.
Antonia Hodgson
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Antonia Hodgson is an editor and novelist whose Thomas Hawkins historical crime series began with The Devil in the Marshalsea, winner of the CWA Historical Dagger. The Eternal Path Trilogy is her epic-fantasy series.
Ariel Sullivan
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Ariel Sullivan is the author of Conform and Beneath. Her speculative romance series follows Emeline through a stratified society, rebellion and relationships that complicate the struggle against its ruling order.
Arthur H. Manners
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Science-fiction writer with a PhD in space physics from Imperial College London and graduate study in creative writing at the University of Cambridge. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in Analog, Strange Horizons, Pseudopod and Solarpunk Magazine.
Ashley Audrain
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Canadian novelist and author of The Push and The Whispers. Before publishing fiction, she worked in book publicity and public relations.
Ashley Poston
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Ashley Poston writes romance and fantasy, including The Dead Romantics and The Seven Year Slip.
Ausma Zehanat Khan
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British-born Canadian mystery and fantasy writer with a PhD in international human rights law. Her books include the Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty mysteries, the Khorasan Archives and the Blackwater Falls crime series.
Ava Wilder
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Ava Wilder writes contemporary romance, including How to Fake It in Hollywood, Will They or Won’t They and Some Kind of Famous. Her fiction often explores relationships alongside public-facing entertainment careers.
Avery Curran
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Avery Curran is the author of Spoiled Milk. Her fiction explores desire and authority, drawing on an interest in history and spiritualism.
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B. Celeste
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B. Celeste writes contemporary, new-adult and paranormal romance. Her background includes study in English and creative writing.
B. L. Thota
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B. L. Thota is a medical student and writer from Dallas. Vital Signs is a romance shaped by her familiarity with medical training and the pressures surrounding it.
B.K. Borison
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B.K. Borison writes contemporary romance, including Lovelight Farms and First-Time Caller.
Beatriz Williams
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Beatriz Williams is a bestselling novelist whose books include Husbands & Lovers and A Hundred Summers. She also publishes as Juliana Gray.
Becky Mandelbaum
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American fiction writer and author of The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals and Bad Kansas.
Ben Sasse
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Ben Sasse is an author and former US senator, university president and history professor. Redeem the Time brings his Christian faith and family experience into reflections on mortality.
Beth Brower
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Author of The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, a series of fictional journals set in Victorian London. The ninth volume is scheduled for 2027.
Beth O’Leary
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Beth O’Leary is a British novelist whose books include The Flatshare, The Switch and The Road Trip.
Brian Panowich
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Georgia novelist and firefighter whose debut Bull Mountain won the ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel and the Southern Book Prize. His fiction includes Like Lions, Hard Cash Valley and Nothing But the Bones.
Bridget Morrissey
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Bridget Morrissey writes fiction for adults and young readers, including That Summer Feeling and Everything She Does Is Magic. She also co-writes fantasy under the shared pen name E.B. Asher.
Brit Bennett
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Brit Bennett is the author of The Mothers and The Vanishing Half. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review.
Brynne Weaver
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Brynne Weaver writes fiction combining dark comedy, romance and suspense. Her series include the Ruinous Love trilogy and the Seasons of Carnage trilogy.
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Caitlin Doughty
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Caitlin Doughty is a mortician and the author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and From Here to Eternity. She created Ask a Mortician.
Cal Newport
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Cal Newport is a computer scientist and nonfiction author. His books include Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity.
Candice Iloh
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Nigerian American writer whose novels for young adults include Every Body Looking and Salt the Water. Their work focuses on home, identity and young people finding language for difficult experiences.
Candice Millard
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Candice Millard writes narrative history, including The River of Doubt, Destiny of the Republic and Hero of the Empire.
Carl Hiaasen
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Carl Hiaasen is a Florida novelist and journalist. His adult fiction includes Bad Monkey, Squeeze Me and Fever Beach; his books for younger readers include Hoot and Flush.
Carley Fortune
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Carley Fortune is a Canadian novelist and journalist. Her novels include Every Summer After and One Golden Summer.
Carola Lovering
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Carola Lovering is a novelist whose books include Tell Me Lies, Bye, Baby and other relationship-centered suspense stories.
Catharina Maura
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Catharina Maura writes contemporary romance and romantic fantasy. Her books include A Curse of Shadows and Ice and its sequel, These Cursed Fates, in The Shadowbound Series.
Catriona Ward
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Catriona Ward is the author of The Last House on Needless Street, Sundial and Looking Glass Sound. She writes psychological and gothic horror.
Celeste Perri
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Celeste Perri is a journalist who has worked at Bloomberg News. A Brown University graduate originally from New York, she lives in Amsterdam. In August is her debut novel.
Chad Millman
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Author and sports-media executive whose previous books include The Odds and The Ones Who Hit the Hardest. His work has long focused on sports, betting and digital media.
Charlaine Harris
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Charlaine Harris writes supernatural mysteries and fantasy. Her Sookie Stackhouse novels inspired True Blood, and her other series include Midnight, Texas and Gunnie Rose.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Science-fiction and fantasy writer whose novels include All the Birds in the Sky and The City in the Middle of the Night.
Chloe Cherry
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Chloe Cherry is an actor and model who played Faye in HBO’s Euphoria. Somewhere Dark and Hot is her memoir.
Chris Mooney
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Chris Mooney is a credited collaborator on Animal Doctors, joining James Patterson and Matt Eversmann on a collection of veterinarians' stories about animals and their human companions.
Christine Smonk
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Toronto-based writer and product manager with a background in media, information and technoculture. The Minute Givers is her debut novel.
Christopher Hinz
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Christopher Hinz writes science fiction. His novels include Liege-Killer and the Paratwa trilogy.
Christy Lefteri
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Christy Lefteri is the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Songbirds and The Book of Fire; she grew up in London in a Cypriot family.
Chuck Tingle
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Chuck Tingle writes horror and other fiction. Rainbow Capital follows a financially vulnerable actress into an investment startup whose promises of belonging conceal an increasingly threatening workplace.
CJ Green
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CJ Green studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and lives in Virginia. Record Lows, a family novel set during the 1977 Buffalo blizzard, is his fiction debut.
Clare Mackintosh
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Clare Mackintosh is a former police officer and crime novelist. Her books include I Let You Go and The Last Party.
Claudia Gray
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Claudia Gray is the pen name of Amy Vincent. Her work includes young-adult series, Star Wars novels and the Austen-inspired Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mysteries.
Clay McLeod Chapman
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Clay McLeod Chapman writes horror, including Wake Up and Open Your Eyes. His work also spans other storytelling forms; Mr. Lonelyhearts turns a schoolgirl fantasy into a threat that returns decades later.
Coco Mellors
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Coco Mellors is the author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Blue Sisters. She grew up in London and New York.
Colleen Oakley
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Colleen Oakley is the author of The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise and Jane and Dan at the End of the World. She previously worked in magazine editing.
Craig Johnson
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Craig Johnson is the author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the television series Longmire, and has received multiple awards for Western and crime fiction.
Crystal Smith Paul
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Crystal Smith Paul is the author of Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? She studied at Spelman College and UCLA and holds a master’s degree in journalism from NYU.
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Dan Fesperman
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Dan Fesperman is a novelist and former Baltimore Sun foreign correspondent. His reporting in Sarajevo informed his debut, Lie in the Dark; later books continue his interest in espionage.
Dana Baerger
1 book in the 2027 guide
Clinical psychologist specializing in complex trauma and developmental PTSD, and a clinical assistant professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She holds a JD from Cornell and a PhD from Northwestern.
Daniel Finn
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Writer on British and Irish politics, member of the New Left Review editorial committee and author of One Man’s Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA.
Daniel Suarez
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Daniel Suarez is a novelist and former systems analyst. His books include Daemon, Influx, Change Agent, Delta-v and Critical Mass, exploring the social consequences of technological change.
Danny Ramadan
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Danny Ramadan is a Syrian-Canadian writer whose books include The Clothesline Swing, The Foghorn Echoes and the memoir Crooked Teeth. He also writes the Salma children's series.
David Baldacci
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David Baldacci writes crime and political thrillers. His fiction includes the Aloysius Archer novels.
David Ellis
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David Ellis is a novelist and Illinois appellate judge. His debut, Line of Vision, received the Edgar Award, and he has collaborated with James Patterson on the Billy Harney thrillers.
David Parry
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Author of The Numbers, a conspiracy thriller about coded warnings and disappearances.
Deborah Yelle
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Deborah Yelle grew up in Southern California and lives in Texas. Her debut novel, A Most Decadent Curse, reworks gothic and poetic influences through a story of two sisters.
Dhonielle Clayton
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Fantasy writer known for The Belles and The Marvellers. Conjure the Bones is her first novel for adults.
Donald Antrim
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American novelist, memoirist and New Yorker contributor whose books include The Verificationist and The Hundred Brothers. He was a MacArthur Fellow.
Douglas Preston
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Douglas Preston writes fiction and narrative nonfiction, including The Lost City of the Monkey God. With Lincoln Child he created the Pendergast novels and the Nora Kelly investigations.
Dr. Kim Sage
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Dr. Kim Sage is a clinical psychologist whose work addresses chronic hypervigilance, relationship trauma and emotionally unsafe childhoods. She discusses these subjects in clinical practice and through public educational work.
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Ed Yong
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Ed Yong is a science journalist and the author of I Contain Multitudes and An Immense World. His reporting received a Pulitzer Prize.
Elaine U. Cho
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Elaine U. Cho wrote the duology Ocean's Godori and Teo's Durumi. She has worked as a film critic and bookseller and is an associate editor at Shelf Awareness.
Elayna R. Gallea
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Canadian romantic-fantasy writer and author of The Binding Chronicles. Her fiction combines gothic fantasy, vampires, court intrigue and romance.
Eleanor Davies
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Eleanor Davies is a writer from northwest England and a graduate of Newcastle University and the University of Manchester. We Shall Be Monsters is her debut novel.
Eli Rallo
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Eli Rallo is an author and creator of the Prose Society podcast and book club. After publishing nonfiction, she turns to the novel with I Hope Eden Reads This.
Elisabeth Kamakawiwoole
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Children's writer whose debut novel, The Seventeenth Quest, follows a robot and a girl searching for humanity.
Elizabeth Loftus
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Psychology and criminology professor at the University of California, Irvine and distinguished professor of law whose research focuses on memory. She holds a Stanford PhD and has published more than 20 books and 600 scientific articles.
Elizabeth May
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Elizabeth May writes fantasy and speculative fiction, including The Falconer trilogy.
Elizabeth O'Roark
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Elizabeth O'Roark is a romance novelist and former medical writer and therapist. Her books include Good at Being Alive and This Is Not a Meet Cute.
Elizabeth Prochaska
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Elizabeth Prochaska is a public lawyer specializing in equality and human rights and the founder of Birthrights, an organization focused on rights in maternity care.
Elle Hardy
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Elle Hardy is a journalist and foreign correspondent whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The New Republic, GQ, and Foreign Policy. She has reported from the United States, the former USSR, North Korea, and elsewhere.
Eloise Rodger
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Eloise Rodger is a London-based writer who studied at Trinity College Dublin. Death’s a Bitch is her debut novel.
Elsie Silver
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Elsie Silver is a Canadian author of contemporary small-town romance. Her fiction includes the Emerald Lake series.
Elwood Reid
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Elwood Reid writes fiction and television. His books include If I Don't Six, Midnight Sun and D.B.; his television work includes The Bridge and Tracker.
Emilia Hart
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Emilia Hart is the author of Weyward and The Sirens. A British-Australian writer who trained as a lawyer, she writes fiction connecting women’s lives with supernatural abilities and inherited histories.
Emily Cooper
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Emily Cooper is the author of What Makes a Monster, a young-adult romantic fantasy. The novel places a would-be destroyer inside a guard tasked with protecting her world.
Emily Henry
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Emily Henry is a bestselling romance and women's-fiction novelist whose books include Beach Read, Book Lovers, Funny Story and Great Big Beautiful Life.
Emily McIntire
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Emily McIntire writes contemporary and dark romance. Her books include the Never After and Defying the Stars series.
Emily Raymond
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Emily Raymond is a novelist and writing collaborator whose books include fiction written with James Patterson.
Emily Snyder
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Emily Snyder is the author of We Were Supposed to Find This. Her young-adult novel connects a sapphic romance with time travel, family history and a small-town mystery.
Emily St. James
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Writer and cultural critic whose journalism and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, Vox and The A.V. Club. She is the author of Woodworking and has written for television, including Yellowjackets.
Emily Thiede
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Emily Thiede is a former teacher and author of This Vicious Grace and This Cursed Light. She also mentors writers and serves the Virginia writing nonprofit WriterHouse.
Emma Devlin
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Emma Devlin is the author of Little Necromancers, a young-adult fantasy mystery. Its psychic narrator investigates a powerful family whose household depends on necromancy and the labor of ghosts.
Emma Donoghue
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Irish-born novelist and screenwriter whose books include Room, The Wonder and The Paris Express. Blaze is a post-apocalyptic novel.
Emma E. Murray
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Emma E. Murray writes horror and dark speculative fiction. Her work includes When the Devil and stories published in Vastarien.
Emma Lord
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Emma Lord writes contemporary romance for young adults and adults. Her novels include Tweet Cute, Begin Again and The Break-Up Pact; Unroyally Yours opens a royal bodyguard duology.
Erin E. Adams
1 book in the 2027 guide
Erin E. Adams is a Haitian American writer and theatre artist. Her debut novel, Jackal, was a finalist for the Edgar, Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson awards.
Erin Hànyù Lynch
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Erin Hànyù Lynch is the author of Fleet of Wonders, a young-adult fantasy about two thieves in an imperial naval competition.
Evan Calder Williams
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Writer, filmmaker, translator and associate professor at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies. He has published books of scholarship and theory; The Losing Team is his first novel.
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Fabian Nicieza
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Fabian Nicieza is a comics writer, co-creator of Deadpool and an Edgar Award finalist. His fiction includes crime novels, and The Memory Catcher brings speculative technology into psychological suspense.
Falon Ballard
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Falon Ballard writes romantic comedies and the Idle Reputations romantic-fantasy series. She also co-hosts Happy to Meet Cute, a podcast about romance and its stories.
Fiona Davis
1 book in the 2027 guide
Fiona Davis writes historical fiction set around New York City landmarks. Her novels include The Address, The Magnolia Palace and The Stolen Queen.
Flavia Z. Drago
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Flavia Z. Drago writes and illustrates children’s books, including The Door and Vlad, the Fabulous Vampire.
Flynn Berry
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Flynn Berry is the author of Under the Harrow and Northern Spy. She writes suspense centered on private relationships and the pressures of political violence.
Forrest Brazeal
1 book in the 2027 guide
Writer and former Google employee whose short fiction has appeared in Daily Science Fiction and Abyss & Apex. Paradox Inc. is his first novel.
Francesca Mirabella
1 book in the 2027 guide
Francesca Mirabella is a New York–born writer and director based between Los Angeles and New York. She holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; Goodboy is her debut novel.
Frank Smiley
1 book in the 2027 guide
Frank Smiley is a longtime television producer and writer who worked with Conan O’Brien for more than thirty years and has also worked on other major late-night and comedy programs.
Freida McFadden
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Freida McFadden is a physician and novelist who writes psychological thrillers. Her books include The Housemaid.
Frimet Goldberger
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Frimet Goldberger is a journalist whose reporting on family, marriage and culture has appeared in The New York Times, CNN and other outlets.
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Garrett Ryan
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Historian with a PhD in Greek and Roman history from the University of Michigan. After teaching at several universities, he created the Told in Stone ancient-history channel and has written four books about the classical world.
Gary Phillips
1 book in the 2027 guide
Gary Phillips is a Los Angeles crime and noir writer whose books include the Ivan Monk mysteries and other fiction rooted in the city’s politics, neighborhoods and criminal worlds.
Genki Ferguson
1 book in the 2027 guide
Genki Ferguson is a Canadian-Japanese writer and filmmaker and the author of Satellite Love. Research with ama divers in Japan informed The Love an Abalone Feels for the Sea.
George M. Johnson
1 book in the 2027 guide
Award-winning writer and author of the memoir All Boys Aren’t Blue. Their work spans young-adult nonfiction, cultural commentary and stories about Black queer life.
George W. Bush
1 book in the 2027 guide
George W. Bush served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and previously as governor of Texas. His books include Decision Points, 41, and Portraits of Courage.
Gerald Seymour
1 book in the 2027 guide
British novelist known for politically grounded thrillers and the Jonas Merrick series.
Gillian McAllister
1 book in the 2027 guide
Gillian McAllister is a British thriller novelist. Her books include Wrong Place Wrong Time, Just Another Missing Person and Famous Last Words.
Grady Hendrix
1 book in the 2027 guide
Grady Hendrix writes horror, including The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires and How to Sell a Haunted House.
Grant Blackwood
1 book in the 2027 guide
Grant Blackwood is a novelist and US Navy veteran. His work includes the Briggs Tanner thrillers and collaborations with Steve Berry, Clive Cussler, James Rollins and Tom Clancy.
Greer Rivers
1 book in the 2027 guide
Greer Rivers writes dark romance and retellings, including the Tatterverse books. Nocturnus opens her Faded Ink series.
Greg Melville
1 book in the 2027 guide
Greg Melville is a journalist and US Navy veteran whose books include Greasy Rider and Over My Dead Body. His reporting often connects travel, history and the environment.
Gus Moreno
1 book in the 2027 guide
Gus Moreno is the author of This Thing Between Us and co-creator of the comic series When I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee. His fiction draws on horror and the tensions of contemporary life.
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Hache Pueyo
1 book in the 2027 guide
Fantasy and horror writer whose earlier work includes But Not Too Bold. Tyrant in the Cracks is her first full-length novel.
Hadley Vlahos
1 book in the 2027 guide
Hadley Vlahos is a hospice nurse and the author of The In-Between. She writes about care, loss and personal experience.
Hannah Bonam-Young
1 book in the 2027 guide
Hannah Bonam-Young writes contemporary romance, including Out on a Limb, Out of the Woods and People Watching. Her books include disabled, marginalized and LGBTQIA+ characters alongside everyday family and relationship challenges.
Hannah Grace
1 book in the 2027 guide
Hannah Grace is an English contemporary romance writer whose books include Icebreaker, Wildfire and Daydream.
Hattie Williams
1 book in the 2027 guide
Hattie Williams is the author of Bitter Sweet and Light Years. Before publishing fiction, she worked as a musician and in book publishing, including producing the Iceland Noir literary festival.
Heather Fawcett
1 book in the 2027 guide
Heather Fawcett writes adult fantasy and books for younger readers. Her work includes the Emily Wilde series and Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter.
Heba Al-Wasity
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Heba Al-Wasity is a novelist and doctor whose experiences as an Iraqi refugee inform her writing. Her gothic fantasy romance trilogy begins with Weavingshaw.
Helen Tworkov
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Helen Tworkov founded Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and wrote Zen in America and Lotus Girl. She has collaborated with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche on books connecting Buddhist teaching and contemporary life.
Hemant Nayak
1 book in the 2027 guide
Hemant Nayak is the author of A Magic Fierce & Bright and the Tools of the Ghost series. He also works as an emergency physician.
Henrik Ekelund
1 book in the 2027 guide
Founder and chairman of BTS, a global consulting firm, and an investor and adviser to growth companies. He holds a master’s degree in business and economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.
Honor Jones
1 book in the 2027 guide
Honor Jones is a senior editor at The Atlantic and previously worked at The New York Times. Sanctuary is her first novel.
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Ian McEwan
1 book in the 2027 guide
Ian McEwan is a British novelist and essayist whose books include Amsterdam, Atonement, Saturday, On Chesil Beach and What We Can Know. Amsterdam won the Booker Prize.
Isabelle Taylor
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Isabelle Taylor is a New Zealand-based fantasy romance novelist with postgraduate study in creative writing.
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J. Courtney Sullivan
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J. Courtney Sullivan is the author of Maine, The Engagements, Saints for All Occasions, Friends and Strangers and The Cliffs. Her fiction explores families, communities and the effects of class and money.
J. D. Barker
1 book in the 2027 guide
J. D. Barker writes suspense and horror, including The Fourth Monkey and collaborations with James Patterson. He also coauthored Dracul with Dacre Stoker.
J. D. Robb
1 book in the 2027 guide
J. D. Robb is the pen name Nora Roberts uses for the In Death crime novels, featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas.
Jack Carr
1 book in the 2027 guide
Jack Carr is a former U.S. Navy SEAL and the author of the Terminal List novels. He also hosts the Danger Close podcast.
Jack Stewart
1 book in the 2027 guide
Jack Stewart is a retired US Navy fighter pilot and novelist whose books include Silent Horizons and the Battle Born series.
James Bennett
1 book in the 2027 guide
James Bennett is a British fantasy and horror writer. His work includes Chasing Embers and the Ben Garston novels.
James Patterson
7 books in the 2027 guide
James Patterson is a bestselling novelist and co-creator of series including Alex Cross and the Women’s Murder Club, with a career spanning crime, thriller and books for younger readers.
James Riley
1 book in the 2027 guide
James Riley writes middle-grade fantasy, including the Story Thieves and Dragon's Apprentice series.
Jamie Loftus
1 book in the 2027 guide
American comedian, podcast creator and author of Raw Dog. The Tower is her new novel.
Janice Okoh
1 book in the 2027 guide
British playwright and radio dramatist. Girl Number 8 is her debut novel, a detective story set in Nigeria.
Jared Bland
1 book in the 2027 guide
Jared Bland is a writer, editor and consultant based in Canada. A former publisher at McClelland & Stewart, he is a credited collaborator on A World of Difference.
Jared Henderson
1 book in the 2027 guide
Jared Henderson is a writer and philosopher who earned his doctorate at the University of Connecticut. His work includes Commonplace Philosophy and The Work of Philosophy.
Jedediah Berry
1 book in the 2027 guide
Jedediah Berry writes speculative fiction, including The Naming Song and The Barbaric Ledgers. Devouring Gods continues his adventures of the barbarian Gotchimus with a magical prison heist.
Jeff Rake
1 book in the 2027 guide
Jeff Rake created the television series Manifest. He co-writes the Detour novels with Rob Hart, beginning with a space mission that returns its crew to an unfamiliar Earth.
Jeff Stein
1 book in the 2027 guide
Jeff Stein is a journalist covering politics and economics who previously served as chief economics correspondent at The Washington Post.
Jeff VanderMeer
1 book in the 2027 guide
American novelist and nonfiction writer best known for the Southern Reach and Borne books. Annihilation won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson awards, and his work frequently engages with ecology and the nonhuman world.
Jeffery Deaver
1 book in the 2027 guide
Jeffery Deaver writes suspense fiction, including the Lincoln Rhyme and Colter Shaw series. His work has been adapted for film and television, including The Bone Collector and Tracker.
Jeneva Rose
1 book in the 2027 guide
Jeneva Rose writes suspense, including The Perfect Marriage, One of Us Is Dead and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here.
Jennifer Dugan
1 book in the 2027 guide
Jennifer Dugan is the author of young-adult novels and graphic novels including Hot Dog Girl, Some Girls Do and Melt With You, with work spanning contemporary romance and queer coming-of-age stories.
Jo Nesbø
1 book in the 2027 guide
Norwegian novelist best known for the Harry Hole series. His books have sold internationally and have been translated into more than fifty languages.
Jo Segura
1 book in the 2027 guide
Jo Segura writes romance and practices law in the Pacific Northwest. Her fiction draws on her Mexican heritage and interest in archaeology, combining relationships with adventure.
Joan Higginbotham
1 book in the 2027 guide
Joan Higginbotham is an electrical engineer and former NASA astronaut. She flew on Discovery in 2006 after years of work supporting space shuttle launches.
Johanna van Veen
1 book in the 2027 guide
Johanna van Veen is a Dutch fantasy and gothic-fiction writer whose books include My Darling Dreadful Thing.
Johannes Lichtman
1 book in the 2027 guide
Johannes Lichtman is the author of Calling Ukraine and Such Good Work. The National Book Foundation selected him as a 5 Under 35 honoree for Such Good Work.
John Sandford
1 book in the 2027 guide
John Sandford is the pen name of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He writes the Prey, Virgil Flowers and Kidd novels, alongside other fiction for adults and younger readers.
Jojo Moyes
1 book in the 2027 guide
Jojo Moyes is a British novelist whose books include Me Before You, The Giver of Stars and Someone Else’s Shoes.
Jonathan Kellerman
1 book in the 2027 guide
Jonathan Kellerman is a psychologist and crime novelist best known for the Alex Delaware books. His fiction pairs psychological investigation with the work of Los Angeles homicide detective Milo Sturgis.
Jordan Rose
1 book in the 2027 guide
Jordan Rose is the author of The Library of Stars, a romantic fantasy about a traveling magical library.
Joshua Cohen
1 book in the 2027 guide
Joshua Cohen writes novels, stories and nonfiction. His novel The Netanyahus won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award. His other work includes Book of Numbers.
Joss Richard
1 book in the 2027 guide
Joss Richard is the author of It’s Different This Time. Her fiction includes contemporary romance shaped by creative work and relationships.
Julia Guilardi
1 book in the 2027 guide
Julia Guilardi writes contemporary romance. Originally from New Jersey and based in Boston, she makes her novel debut with Let’s Take It from the Top, a film-industry story inspired by Persuasion.
Julia Kornberg
1 book in the 2027 guide
Julia Kornberg is a Buenos Aires–born writer based in New York whose work has appeared in literary and cultural publications. She has pursued doctoral study at Princeton University.
Julie Buxbaum
1 book in the 2027 guide
Novelist for adults and younger readers whose books include The Opposite of Love, After You and Tell Me Three Things.
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K. L. Speer
1 book in the 2027 guide
K. L. Speer is a novelist and artist whose novels include Bones and Fangs.
Kalie Cassidy
1 book in the 2027 guide
Kalie Cassidy is a fantasy writer and former professional theater actor and acting teacher. She grew up in Southern California and now lives in the Midwest.
Karen M. McManus
1 book in the 2027 guide
Bestselling suspense writer and author of the One of Us Is Lying series and several standalone young-adult thrillers. Dying to Be Us is her first novel for adults.
Kate Alice Marshall
1 book in the 2027 guide
Kate Alice Marshall writes suspense and fiction for adults and young readers. Her adult novels include What Lies in the Woods.
Kate Clayborn
1 book in the 2027 guide
Kate Clayborn writes contemporary romance including Georgie, All Along and The Other Side of Disappearing.
Kate Dramis
1 book in the 2027 guide
Kate Dramis writes fantasy and contemporary romance, including The Curse of Saints series and The Odds of You. Based in Atlanta, she worked in copywriting and marketing before writing fiction full time.
Kate Elliott
1 book in the 2027 guide
Fantasy and science-fiction author whose novels include The Witch Roads and The Nameless Land. The Flower Court is a new palace-intrigue fantasy.
Katherine May
1 book in the 2027 guide
Katherine May is the author of Wintering and Enchantment. She writes fiction, memoir and essays and lives in Whitstable, England.
Katrina Kwan
1 book in the 2027 guide
Katrina Kwan writes fantasy and romance, including The Last Dragon of the East and The Nine Tailed Fox. Ambrosia follows a widow investigating alchemical murder inside a university.
Kazuo Ishiguro
1 book in the 2027 guide
Kazuo Ishiguro is the Nobel Prize-winning novelist behind The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun.
Kellie Carter Jackson
1 book in the 2027 guide
Kellie Carter Jackson is a historian of African American history and the author of Force and Freedom and We Refuse.
Ken Follett
1 book in the 2027 guide
British author of historical epics and thrillers, including The Pillars of the Earth and Eye of the Needle.
Kevin Baker
1 book in the 2027 guide
Kevin Baker is a novelist, historian and journalist whose earlier books include The New York Game.
Kevin Maurer
1 book in the 2027 guide
Kevin Maurer is the author of Code Name Dagger, a biography of Jerry Sage. The book follows an intelligence operative's wartime missions, imprisonment and repeated efforts to escape.
Konrad Putzier
1 book in the 2027 guide
Konrad Putzier is a Wall Street Journal reporter covering the U.S. economy who previously reported on commercial real estate and changing downtowns. Big Rent is his first book.
Kristen Perrin
1 book in the 2027 guide
Kristen Perrin is the author of the Castle Knoll Murder Mystery series, beginning with How to Solve Your Own Murder. Her fiction follows Annie Adams and the legacy of her great-aunt Frances.
Kristen Simmons
1 book in the 2027 guide
Kristen Simmons is a novelist whose work spans speculative, historical and young-adult fiction. Before writing full time, she worked as a mental-health therapist.
Kristi Charish
1 book in the 2027 guide
Scientist and science-fiction/fantasy writer whose series include Kincaid Strange and The Adventures of Owl. She holds graduate degrees in molecular biology and biochemistry and a PhD in zoology; Persephone is her first science-fiction novel.
Kristin Hannah
1 book in the 2027 guide
American novelist whose books include The Nightingale, The Great Alone, The Four Winds and The Women. Her work frequently combines family stories with large social and historical pressures.
Kristina Forest
1 book in the 2027 guide
Kristina Forest writes romance for teenagers and adults. She studied creative writing at The New School and continues her Heart Beach setting with Last Chance Summer.
Kyle Lukoff
1 book in the 2027 guide
Kyle Lukoff writes books for young readers. Too Bright to See received a Newbery Honor and a Stonewall award; he previously worked as a bookseller and school librarian.
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Laura Steven
1 book in the 2027 guide
Laura Steven writes young-adult fiction, including Our Infinite Fates and The Only Immortals. She also publishes adult fantasy under the name L.K. Steven, including the Silvercloak trilogy.
Lauren Asher
1 book in the 2027 guide
Lauren Asher writes contemporary romance, including the Dreamland Billionaires and Dirty Air series.
Lauren Ling Brown
1 book in the 2027 guide
Lauren Ling Brown is the author of Society of Lies. She studied English at Princeton and film production at the University of Southern California, with a focus on screenwriting.
Lauren Palphreyman
1 book in the 2027 guide
Lauren Palphreyman writes fantasy and romance, including The Wolf King trilogy and Cupid's Match.
Laurie Gelman
1 book in the 2027 guide
Laurie Gelman is the author of the Class Mom novels. Kit Caruso Swipes Right introduces a new protagonist, a sixty-year-old mother and empty nester navigating app-based dating in San Diego.
Leah Johnson
1 book in the 2027 guide
Author of award-winning books for children and young adults, including You Should See Me in a Crown and Ellie Engle Saves Herself. Her work frequently centers friendship, identity and queer joy.
Lee Child
1 book in the 2027 guide
British-born thriller writer best known for the Jack Reacher novels. Zero Margin begins a spin-off series centered on Frances Neagley.
Leigh Cowart
1 book in the 2027 guide
Leigh Cowart is a researcher and journalist and the author of Hurts So Good. Their work has appeared in outlets including The Washington Post, New York Magazine and BuzzFeed.
Leonard Pitts Jr.
1 book in the 2027 guide
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, novelist and educator whose four-decade career included a long tenure as a syndicated Miami Herald columnist. He has published six novels and teaches at Morgan State University.
Leslie Jamison
1 book in the 2027 guide
Essayist and novelist whose books include The Empathy Exams, The Recovering, Splinters and The Gin Closet.
Lillian Fishman
1 book in the 2027 guide
Lillian Fishman is the author of Acts of Service and has published fiction and criticism in The New Yorker and The Washington Post.
Lilly Lu
1 book in the 2027 guide
Lilly Lu is an educator, scholar and novelist with a doctorate in literature. Their teaching includes the history of the novel and Gothic fiction. Death Wish is their debut novel.
Lincoln Child
1 book in the 2027 guide
Lincoln Child is a novelist and former editor whose work includes Deep Storm and Chrysalis. His collaborations with Douglas Preston include the Pendergast and Nora Kelly series.
Linda Castillo
1 book in the 2027 guide
Linda Castillo writes the Kate Burkholder mysteries, following a police chief investigating crimes in and around Ohio’s Amish community. Her work has received the Edgar Award.
Ling Ling Huang
1 book in the 2027 guide
Ling Ling Huang is a novelist and violinist. She is the author of Natural Beauty and Immaculate Conception and performs with several orchestral ensembles.
Lisa Damour
1 book in the 2027 guide
Lisa Damour is a clinical psychologist and author of Untangled, Under Pressure and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers. She also hosts the Ask Lisa podcast.
Lisa Jackson
1 book in the 2027 guide
Lisa Jackson is a bestselling author of suspense novels and series, including Shiver and You Will Pay.
Lisa Unger
1 book in the 2027 guide
Lisa Unger writes psychological suspense, including Confessions on the 7:45 and Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.
Liz Ireland
1 book in the 2027 guide
Liz Ireland writes cozy mysteries, including the Mrs. Claus novels and Murder at the Lonely Gnome Bookshop. She grew up in Texas and lives in Oregon.
Liza Tully
1 book in the 2027 guide
Liza Tully is a pen name of Elisabeth Brink, who also writes as Elisabeth Elo and Elisabeth Panttaja Brink. Her work includes mystery, suspense and literary fiction.
Lucy Score
1 book in the 2027 guide
Lucy Score is a Pennsylvania-based contemporary romance novelist with a journalism background. Her books include Things We Never Got Over and the Story Lake series.
Lynn Painter
2 books in the 2027 guide
Lynn Painter writes romantic comedies for adults and younger readers. Her books include Better Than the Movies and Mr. Wrong Number.
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M. R. Carey
1 book in the 2027 guide
M. R. Carey writes speculative fiction, including The Girl with All the Gifts, the Rampart trilogy and Infinity Gate.
M.O. Walsh
1 book in the 2027 guide
Louisiana novelist and author of My Sunshine Away and The Big Door Prize. He directs the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans.
Malinda Lo
1 book in the 2027 guide
Malinda Lo is the author of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, winner of the National Book Award, and A Scatter of Light. Born in China, she immigrated to the United States as a child.
Maren Chase
1 book in the 2027 guide
Maren Chase is a writer and bookseller from Pittsburgh who studied history in the United Kingdom.
Margaret Rogerson
1 book in the 2027 guide
Margaret Rogerson writes fantasy for young adults and is the author of An Enchantment of Ravens, Sorcery of Thorns and Vespertine.
Marie Lu
1 book in the 2027 guide
Marie Lu writes fantasy and science fiction. Her books include Legend and the adult fantasy Red City.
Marilyn Medlock
1 book in the 2027 guide
Marilyn Medlock is a writer of Southern gothic and mystery fiction.
Marisa Kashino
1 book in the 2027 guide
Marisa Kashino is the author of Best Offer Wins. Before writing novels, she worked as a journalist for publications including The Washington Post and Washingtonian.
Marisa Walz
1 book in the 2027 guide
Suspense novelist whose books include Good Intentions and A Stunning Debut.
Marisha Pessl
1 book in the 2027 guide
American novelist and author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics and Night Film. Her fiction spans adult and young-adult mystery and suspense.
Marissa Meyer
1 book in the 2027 guide
Marissa Meyer writes books for young readers, including the Lunar Chronicles and Renegades series. She coauthors the Escape Room Murders books with Tamara Moss.
Mark Greaney
1 book in the 2027 guide
Mark Greaney is the author of the Gray Man thrillers and several Tom Clancy novels. His first Gray Man book was adapted as a film starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans.
Mark Hyman
1 book in the 2027 guide
Mark Hyman is a physician and nonfiction author whose books include The Blood Sugar Solution and Eat Fat, Get Thin.
Mark Kurlansky
1 book in the 2027 guide
Mark Kurlansky writes food and cultural history, including Cod, Salt and The Big Oyster. His work also includes fiction and writing about fishing.
Mark Oshiro
1 book in the 2027 guide
Mark Oshiro writes fiction for younger readers and adults. Their books include Anger Is a Gift and Each of Us a Desert, and they co-authored The Sun and the Star with Rick Riordan.
Martyn Rady
1 book in the 2027 guide
Martyn Rady is a historian and the author of The Habsburgs and The Middle Kingdoms. His work examines Central and Eastern European history.
Mateo Askaripour
1 book in the 2027 guide
Mateo Askaripour is the author of Black Buck and This Great Hemisphere. His fiction examines ambition, race and institutions through satire and speculative storytelling.
Matt Eversmann
1 book in the 2027 guide
Matt Eversmann is a retired US Army serviceman and author. His collaborations with James Patterson include Walk in My Combat Boots, American Heroes and Animal Doctors.
Matt Goldman
1 book in the 2027 guide
Matt Goldman is a novelist, playwright and television writer whose credits include Seinfeld. His crime fiction includes the Nils Shapiro books and Liar’s Creek.
Maureen O’Leary
1 book in the 2027 guide
Maureen O'Leary writes fiction, poetry and essays. Her work has appeared in literary magazines and anthologies, including Sacramento Noir; The Ones Who Loved You is her debut novel.
Max Doty
1 book in the 2027 guide
American writer and screenwriter and author of The House That Eats the Dead. His fiction combines supernatural horror with family and psychological tension.
Megan Jauregui Eccles
1 book in the 2027 guide
Megan Jauregui Eccles studied music and fiction and previously sang as a soprano. Her Opera Magique novels connect performance with magic, ambition and the demands of power.
Megan Lally
1 book in the 2027 guide
Megan Lally is the author of To Death, We Dance, a young-adult gothic horror novel. The story follows a disgraced teenager investigating a powerful family's ritual celebrations.
Michael Connelly
1 book in the 2027 guide
Michael Connelly is a crime novelist and former newspaper reporter. His fiction includes the Harry Bosch, Lincoln Lawyer and Renée Ballard books.
Michael David Lukas
1 book in the 2027 guide
Michael David Lukas is the author of The Oracle of Stamboul and The Last Watchman of Old Cairo. His work has received the Sami Rohr Prize and the National Jewish Book Award.
Michael Lauer
1 book in the 2027 guide
Michael Lauer is a physician, researcher and former senior National Institutes of Health administrator whose work has focused on biomedical research funding, evidence and research policy.
Michael Weinreb
1 book in the 2027 guide
Michael Weinreb is a journalist whose books include Season of Saturdays and Game of Kings. He has reported on sports for outlets including ESPN and The New York Times.
Michelle Zauner
1 book in the 2027 guide
Michelle Zauner is the author of Crying in H Mart and the musician behind Japanese Breakfast. Her memoir writing explores family, grief and Korean American identity alongside her life in music.
Mike Gallagher
1 book in the 2027 guide
Mike Gallagher is a former U.S. congressman and Marine Corps officer with a doctorate in international relations from Georgetown University. His public work has focused on defense and U.S.–China relations.
Mike Lupica
2 books in the 2027 guide
Mike Lupica is a sports columnist, novelist and longtime journalist whose books include fiction for adults and younger readers as well as collaborations in established crime series.
Mira Sethi
1 book in the 2027 guide
Mira Sethi is a Pakistani actor and writer who has worked as a books editor and contributed essays to newspapers. Her work includes Are You Enjoying?
Molly Harper
1 book in the 2027 guide
Molly Harper writes paranormal and contemporary romance, including more than forty published titles.
Molly X. Chang
1 book in the 2027 guide
Molly X. Chang is the author of To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods and The Nightblood Prince. She was born in Harbin, China.
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Natasha Ngan
1 book in the 2027 guide
Natasha Ngan wrote the young-adult fantasy trilogy beginning with Girls of Paper and Fire and grew up between Malaysia and the UK.
Natashia Deón
1 book in the 2027 guide
Natashia Deón is a novelist, criminal attorney and college professor. Her fiction includes Grace, The Perishing and Birds of War, which explores a Black woman's experience of World War II.
Nathan Ballingrud
1 book in the 2027 guide
American speculative-fiction writer and author of The Strange, Wounds and North American Lake Monsters. His work has won Shirley Jackson Awards and has been shortlisted for World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker and Locus awards.
Nicholas Binge
1 book in the 2027 guide
British writer of speculative and horror fiction whose books include Ascension and Extremity. His work frequently combines scientific or technological settings with existential horror.
Nick Hornby
1 book in the 2027 guide
Nick Hornby is the British author of High Fidelity, About a Boy and Fever Pitch. He also writes nonfiction and screenplays.
Nicola Yoon
1 book in the 2027 guide
Young-adult novelist and author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star. Always One More Time marks her return to young-adult romance.
Nilima Rao
1 book in the 2027 guide
Australian writer of the Sergeant Akal Singh historical mystery series, set in early twentieth-century Fiji.
Nita Prose
1 book in the 2027 guide
Nita Prose is a novelist whose books include The Maid, The Mystery Guest and The Mistletoe Mystery.
Nora Roberts
1 book in the 2027 guide
Bestselling American novelist whose work spans romance, suspense and fantasy. The Missing is scheduled for 2027.
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Oliver Burkeman
1 book in the 2027 guide
Oliver Burkeman writes about time, limits and everyday life. His books include Four Thousand Weeks and Meditations for Mortals.
Olivia Belle
1 book in the 2027 guide
Olivia Belle is the author of On Thin Ice. She writes contemporary romance and has a background in English literature.
Olivie Blake
1 book in the 2027 guide
American speculative-fiction writer and author of The Atlas Six and other fantasy and science-fiction novels. Her work often combines genre frameworks with satire, relationships and institutional power.
Orson Scott Card
1 book in the 2027 guide
Orson Scott Card is a science-fiction and fantasy author best known for Ender’s Game and the Tales of Alvin Maker.
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P. C. Cast
1 book in the 2027 guide
P. C. Cast is a fantasy author and former teacher who served in the US Air Force. By Breath introduces a young-adult story drawing on Scottish kelpie lore.
P. Djèlí Clark
1 book in the 2027 guide
P. Djèlí Clark is an award-winning writer of fantasy and speculative fiction whose books include A Master of Djinn, Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums, and the Abeni’s Song series.
P. J. Vernon
1 book in the 2027 guide
P. J. Vernon writes psychological suspense, including Bath Haus. Open Flame continues his interest in queer relationships, secrecy and dangerous observation.
Paddy Steinfort
1 book in the 2027 guide
Paddy Steinfort is a performance adviser with postgraduate training in applied psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked with professional sports teams, emergency responders, military leaders and business executives.
Paige Shelton
1 book in the 2027 guide
Paige Shelton is a mystery novelist whose work includes the Scottish Bookshop and Alaska Wild series. Not Dead Yet introduces retired assassin Sophie Swisher.
Paolo Bacigalupi
1 book in the 2027 guide
Paolo Bacigalupi is an award-winning science-fiction and fantasy writer whose books include The Windup Girl, The Water Knife, Ship Breaker and Navola.
Patrice McDonough
1 book in the 2027 guide
Patrice McDonough writes historical mysteries featuring Victorian doctor Julia Lewis. Her fiction draws on an interest in nineteenth-century medicine, policing and women’s lives.
Paul Cornell
1 book in the 2027 guide
Paul Cornell writes novels, comics and television. His fiction includes the Shadow Police and Witches of Lychford series.
Percival Everett
1 book in the 2027 guide
Percival Everett is the author of James, The Trees and Erasure. His work ranges across literary forms, and he teaches English at the University of Southern California.
Peter Heller
1 book in the 2027 guide
Peter Heller is the author of The Dog Stars, The River and The Guide. He also writes nonfiction about outdoor experience and adventure.
Peter Sarris
1 book in the 2027 guide
Peter Sarris is Professor of Late Antique, Medieval and Byzantine Studies at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity College. His books include Justinian and Empires of Faith.
Peter Sokolowski
1 book in the 2027 guide
Peter Sokolowski is a lexicographer and Merriam-Webster editor. In By Definition he follows the history of the English dictionary and the cultural choices contained in definitions.
Peter Zeihan
1 book in the 2027 guide
Geopolitical strategist and bestselling nonfiction author. Acceptable Range is his first work of fiction.
Pico Iyer
1 book in the 2027 guide
Essayist and author of fifteen books whose work explores travel, culture and contemplation. He has written for Time, The New York Times, Harper’s and many other publications.
Priyanka Taslim
1 book in the 2027 guide
Priyanka Taslim is a writer and educator from New Jersey whose fiction centers Bengali characters, family, community, and romance. Her earlier books include The Love Match and Always Be My Bibi; From Mumbai, with Love is her first adult novel.
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R. M. Romero
1 book in the 2027 guide
Author of fantasy and historical-fantasy books for young readers, often drawing on folklore, memory and twentieth-century European history.
Rachel Gillig
1 book in the 2027 guide
Rachel Gillig writes fantasy, including One Dark Window and The Knight and the Moth.
Rachel Griffin
1 book in the 2027 guide
Novelist whose atmospheric fiction for teenagers and adults draws on the natural world and the Pacific Northwest.
Rae Smyth
1 book in the 2027 guide
Rae Smyth is a romance writer with a fine arts background who lives in Western North Carolina. Scene Partner is her debut novel, centered on an unconventional romantic encounter.
Raven Leilani
1 book in the 2027 guide
Raven Leilani is the author of Luster and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. Her fiction and essays have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, Granta, and n+1.
Rebecca Boggs Roberts
1 book in the 2027 guide
Award-winning writer and educator and author of Untold Power, a biography of First Lady Edith Wilson. She is deputy director of events at the Library of Congress.
Rebecca Erbelding
1 book in the 2027 guide
Rebecca Erbelding is a historian of American responses to the Holocaust, an educator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the author of Rescue Board, which received a National Jewish Book Award.
Rebecca Ross
1 book in the 2027 guide
Rebecca Ross writes fantasy novels, including Divine Rivals and Ruthless Vows. Her fiction often combines magic and romantic relationships.
Rebekah Faubion
1 book in the 2027 guide
Rebekah Faubion writes queer romance and suspense fiction, including Lost Girls of Hollow Lake.
Rich Eisen
1 book in the 2027 guide
Rich Eisen is a sports broadcaster and host of The Rich Eisen Show. His long experience covering the NFL Draft informs Draft Days, written with Michael Weinreb.
Rick Riordan
1 book in the 2027 guide
Rick Riordan writes the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books and other mythology-based series for young readers. He cocreated and executive-produced the Percy Jackson television adaptation.
Rob Hart
1 book in the 2027 guide
Rob Hart is the author of The Warehouse and Assassins Anonymous. He also co-writes the Detour series with television writer and producer Jeff Rake.
Rob Lowe
1 book in the 2027 guide
Rob Lowe is an actor known for The West Wing and Parks and Recreation. He is also the author of Stories I Only Tell My Friends.
Robert Lanza
1 book in the 2027 guide
Robert Lanza is a physician and author whose work includes books on biocentrism. What Survives combines his scientific interests with reflections on personal loss.
Roland Martin
1 book in the 2027 guide
Roland Martin is a journalist and host of Roland Martin Unfiltered. In Black Forward he examines the role of Black institutions in building civic power and sustaining collective action.
Ronald H. Balson
1 book in the 2027 guide
Ronald H. Balson is an attorney and historical novelist whose books include Once We Were Brothers and The Girl from Berlin, which received a National Jewish Book Award.
Ronald Lee Robertson
1 book in the 2027 guide
New Orleans-based writer. Goliath is his first novel.
Roseanne A. Brown
1 book in the 2027 guide
Roseanne A. Brown is the author of A Song of Wraiths and Ruin and other fantasy for young readers. By Divine Rage begins her first adult series.
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Sally Hepworth
1 book in the 2027 guide
Sally Hepworth is an Australian novelist known for domestic suspense and family-centered thrillers, including The Good Sister, The Soulmate and Darling Girls.
Samantha Shannon
1 book in the 2027 guide
Samantha Shannon is a fantasy novelist known for The Bone Season series and The Priory of the Orange Tree.
Sanaë Lemoine
1 book in the 2027 guide
Sanaë Lemoine is the author of The Margot Affair. Born in Paris and raised in France and Australia, she studied fiction at Columbia University and has written for literary and arts publications.
Sandra Brown
1 book in the 2027 guide
Sandra Brown writes suspense novels that often combine a criminal investigation with a developing romance. Her work includes Mean Streak, Blind Tiger, Overkill and Cold Comfort.
Sara Holland
1 book in the 2027 guide
Sara Holland writes fantasy for young adults. Strike Down the Sun concludes her Break Wide the Sea duology, following Annie and Silas through a war involving humans and finfolk.
Sarah Adams
1 book in the 2027 guide
Sarah Adams writes contemporary romance, including When in Rome, Practice Makes Perfect and the Rome, Kentucky series.
Sarah Beth Durst
1 book in the 2027 guide
Sarah Beth Durst writes fantasy for adults and children. Her books include The Spellshop and The Enchanted Greenhouse.
Sarah J. Maas
1 book in the 2027 guide
Sarah J. Maas is the author of the A Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass and Crescent City fantasy series.
Sarah MacLean
1 book in the 2027 guide
Sarah MacLean is a novelist and co-host of the romance podcast Fated Mates. Her contemporary fiction includes These Summer Storms and Honeytrap, alongside her work in romance.
Sarah Pekkanen
1 book in the 2027 guide
Sarah Pekkanen is a bestselling suspense novelist whose work includes solo and co-authored novels.
Sarah Penner
1 book in the 2027 guide
Sarah Penner is the author of The Lost Apothecary, The London Séance Society and The Amalfi Curse. The Lost Elixir returns to characters and the London setting of her debut.
Sebastien de Castell
1 book in the 2027 guide
Fantasy novelist and author of The Greatcoats and the young-adult Spellslinger series. His debut Traitor’s Blade was shortlisted for several fantasy and debut awards, and his work has been translated internationally.
Shreya Ila Anasuya
1 book in the 2027 guide
Shreya Ila Anasuya is an Indian fiction writer whose work has received the Otherwise Fellowship and the Toto Award for Creative Writing.
Sophie Jo
1 book in the 2027 guide
British writer on relationships and social issues who has worked with Women’s Aid and contributed to outlets including The Sunday Times, Cosmopolitan and BBC Woman’s Hour. Red Flags is her debut novel.
Stefano Mancuso
1 book in the 2027 guide
Professor at the University of Florence and a leading researcher in plant neurobiology and plant signaling. He has published more than 250 scientific papers and several books about plant intelligence and behavior.
Stephanie Kallos
1 book in the 2027 guide
Novelist whose earlier books include Broken for You, Sing Them Home and Language Arts. Monarch's Row is a historical novel.
Stephen Graham Jones
1 book in the 2027 guide
Stephen Graham Jones writes horror fiction, including The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.
Steve Berry
1 book in the 2027 guide
Steve Berry writes historical thrillers, including the Cotton Malone novels and Luke Daniels adventures. He co-founded History Matters, an organization supporting the preservation of historic places.
Susan Mallery
1 book in the 2027 guide
Susan Mallery writes novels about friendship, family and romance, including The Bookstore Diaries. Friend Request follows three former best friends attempting to repair the rupture that separated them.
Suzanne Nelson
1 book in the 2027 guide
Suzanne Nelson writes middle-grade and young-adult fiction, including Serendipity’s Footsteps and the Cake Pop Crush series. She previously worked as a children’s book editor.
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T. D. Jakes
1 book in the 2027 guide
T. D. Jakes is a pastor, speaker and author who founded The Potter's House. His books explore faith and leadership, including Crushing, Instinct and Anchored.
T. Kingfisher
2 books in the 2027 guide
Fantasy and horror writer known for books including Nettle & Bone, What Moves the Dead and A Sorceress Comes to Call. Her fiction often combines unsettling premises with humor and warmth.
T. M. Luhrmann
1 book in the 2027 guide
T. M. Luhrmann is an anthropologist at Stanford University. Her books include When God Talks Back and How God Becomes Real, exploring the relationships between culture, religious practice and experiences of the mind.
Tamara Moss
1 book in the 2027 guide
Tamara Moss grew up in Perth, Western Australia, and taught primary school before writing the Lintang adventures and YA mysteries. She also publishes adult crime fiction as Tamara M. Bailey.
Tamsyn Muir
1 book in the 2027 guide
New Zealand fantasy and science-fiction writer best known for the Locked Tomb series. Her work is noted for dark humor, horror elements and formally inventive fantasy.
Tara O’Sullivan
1 book in the 2027 guide
Tara O’Sullivan is a novelist, freelance editor and proofreader. Raised mainly in Cornwall, she studied creative writing at the University of Exeter and was longlisted for the Discoveries Prize. The Quiet Ones is her debut.
Tara Westover
1 book in the 2027 guide
American memoirist and historian whose first book, Educated, examined her upbringing and pursuit of an education. Brothers and Sisters returns to family memory and the aftermath of telling her story.
Tasha Solomons
1 book in the 2027 guide
Tasha Solomons is a novelist, screenwriter and playwright who has published multiple internationally bestselling novels under the name Natasha Solomons.
Tasha Suri
1 book in the 2027 guide
Tasha Suri is a fantasy novelist whose books include the Burning Kingdoms trilogy and The Isle in the Silver Sea. She has won a World Fantasy Award.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
1 book in the 2027 guide
Taylor Jenkins Reid writes novels including Atmosphere, Daisy Jones & The Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. She lives in Los Angeles.
Te-Ping Chen
1 book in the 2027 guide
Te-Ping Chen is a journalist and the author of the story collection Land of Big Numbers. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta and Tin House.
Tessonja Odette
1 book in the 2027 guide
Tessonja Odette writes fantasy romance and fairy-tale retellings. Her work ranges from lighter fae romances to darker fantasy, including the Songs for the Sinless books.
Thomas Mallon
1 book in the 2027 guide
Thomas Mallon is a historical novelist whose books include Fellow Travelers and Watergate. He also contributes to The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review.
Thomas Page McBee
1 book in the 2027 guide
Thomas Page McBee is a journalist and nonfiction author. His books include Man Alive and Amateur.
Tigest Girma
1 book in the 2027 guide
Tigest Girma is an Ethiopian writer and teacher based in Melbourne. The Immortal Dark trilogy brings her interest in East African characters and myths into vampire fantasy.
Timnit Gebru
1 book in the 2027 guide
AI researcher and founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. Her work focuses on the social consequences and institutional choices surrounding artificial intelligence.
TJ Klune
1 book in the 2027 guide
TJ Klune writes fantasy for adults and young readers. His books include The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door and the Green Creek series.
Toby Wilkinson
1 book in the 2027 guide
Toby Wilkinson is an Egyptologist and historian and a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. His books include The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt, A World Beneath the Sands and Tutankhamun’s Trumpet.
Tom Reiss
1 book in the 2027 guide
Tom Reiss is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Black Count and the author of The Orientalist. His journalism has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Travis Baldree
1 book in the 2027 guide
Travis Baldree is a fantasy novelist and audiobook narrator. He is the author of Legends & Lattes and Bookshops & Bonedust.
Tria Wen
1 book in the 2027 guide
Tria Wen is a California-based Asian American writer whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Rumpus and Narratively. All of Us Wildflowers examines family, art and caregiving.
Tyler Hooper
1 book in the 2027 guide
Tyler Hooper is the author of Beneath Waves and Shadows. His reconstruction of the Valencia shipwreck combines archival research, survivor testimony and exploration of the Vancouver Island coast.
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Usman T. Malik
1 book in the 2027 guide
Pakistani-American writer and doctor whose collection Midnight Doorways won a World Fantasy Award. He has also received Bram Stoker, Crawford and British Fantasy awards; A Dark and Narrow House is his first novel.
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Vale James
1 book in the 2027 guide
Vale James writes female-centered horror and works as an editor of commercial fiction in London. She studied creative writing at Lincoln University. Rot Girl Summer is her debut novel.
Veronica Roth
1 book in the 2027 guide
Veronica Roth is the author of Divergent and other speculative fiction. Her adult work includes the Burning Empire series, beginning with Seek the Traitor’s Son.
Vicky Ward
1 book in the 2027 guide
Vicky Ward is an investigative journalist and nonfiction author. Her books include The Liar’s Ball and Kushner, Inc.
Victor Konara
1 book in the 2027 guide
Fiction writer and co-author with Yudhanjaya Wijeratne of A Sorcerer's Tail.
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Walter Isaacson
1 book in the 2027 guide
Walter Isaacson is a biographer and professor of history at Tulane University whose books include biographies of Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, Jennifer Doudna, and Elon Musk. He previously led the Aspen Institute, CNN, and Time.
Ward Larsen
1 book in the 2027 guide
New York Times bestselling thriller writer and author of the David Slaton novels. A former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, he has also worked in federal law enforcement, as an airline captain and as an aircraft-accident investigator.
Wayétu Moore
1 book in the 2027 guide
Wayétu Moore is the author of She Would Be King and the memoir The Dragons, the Giant, the Women. Her writing crosses family history and imaginative fiction.
Weike Wang
1 book in the 2027 guide
Weike Wang is the author of Chemistry, Joan Is Okay and Rental House. Her fiction has received the PEN/Hemingway Award and a Whiting Award.
Will Parker
1 book in the 2027 guide
Will Parker is a Wall Street Journal reporter covering real estate and the economy. He previously worked at The Real Deal and has reported on the intersection of housing, finance, and politics.
Will Wight
1 book in the 2027 guide
Will Wight is the author of the Cradle series and other fantasy adventures. Overworld is a new project with Tor rather than a reissue of a Cradle volume.
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Xochitl Gonzalez
1 book in the 2027 guide
Xochitl Gonzalez is a novelist, columnist and Pulitzer Prize finalist whose books include Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs Last.
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Yael Eckstein
1 book in the 2027 guide
Yael Eckstein leads the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Her writing in Hineini: Here I Am connects Jewish teaching with experiences of humanitarian service and personal responsibility.
Yasmin Angoe
1 book in the 2027 guide
Thriller and suspense writer whose books include Her Name Is Knight. She co-writes Zero Margin with Lee Child.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
1 book in the 2027 guide
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a Buddhist meditation teacher and founder of Tergar International. His books include The Joy of Living and A World of Difference.
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
1 book in the 2027 guide
Sri Lankan science-fiction and fantasy writer whose work includes The Salvage Crew and Numbercaste. He also works across technology, data and speculative research.
Yume Kitasei
1 book in the 2027 guide
Science-fiction novelist and author of The Deep Sky, The Stardust Grail and Saltcrop. Her fiction often combines speculative systems with questions of identity, family and survival.
Yuval Noah Harari
1 book in the 2027 guide
Yuval Noah Harari is a historian and the author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Nexus. His work examines large-scale historical change, institutions, technology, and human societies.
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Zachary Karabell
1 book in the 2027 guide
Zachary Karabell is a historian and author of The Last Campaign and The Leading Indicators. He has also worked in finance and founded the Progress Network.