Author Lists.........

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Rosemunde Pilcher

Belva Plain

begin classic romance

If you like  Classic Romance try...

Alice Adams
Jeffrey Archer
Maeve Binchy
Jacqueline Briskin
Anita Brookner
Diane Chamberlain
Joy Fielding
Cynthia Freeman
Marilyn French
Eileen Goudge
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Susan Isaacs
Rona Jaffe
Judith Michael
Edna O’Brien
Anne Rivers Siddons
Mary Stewart
Nancy Thayer
Joanna Trollope
Anne Tyler
Barbara Wood

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Danielle Steel

begin contemporary mainstream romance

If you like Contemporary Mainstream Romance, try...

Sally Beauman
Sandra Brown
Virginia Coffman
Janet Dailey
Jude Deveraux
Cynthia Freeman
Judith Krantz
Judith McNaught
Judith Michael
Fern Michaels
Linda Lael Miller
Nora Roberts
Sidney Sheldon
LaVyrle Spencer
Katherine Stone
Rosie Thomas
Judith Wall

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Sue Grafton

begin female sleuths

If you like Female Sleuths, try...

Nevada Barr
Linda Barnes 
K. K. Beck
Eleanor Bland
Jan Burke
Barbara D' Amato
Janet Dawson
Susan Dunlap
Janet Evanovich
Linda A. Fairstein
Karen Kijewski
Laura Lippman
Margaret Maron
Marcia Muller
Lillian O'Donnell
Sara Paretsky
Julie Smith
Michelle Spring
Dana Stabenow
Valerie Wolzien

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Grace Livingson Hill

Miss Read

begin gentle reads

If you like Gentle Reads, try...

Louisa May Alcott
June Masters Bacher
T. Davis Bunn
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Elizabeth Cadell
Taylor Caldwell
Catherine Cookson
Jon Hassler
B. J. Hoff
Jan Karon
Madeline L’Engle
Beverly LaHaye
Emilie Baker Loring
Janette Oke
Judith Pella
Michael R. Phillips
Francine Rivers
D. E. Stevenson
Gene Stratton-Porter
Elswyth Thane
Phyliss A. Whitney

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Mary Stewart

begin historical suspense

 

If you like Historical Suspense, try...

Joan Aiken
Madeleine Brent
Virginia Coffman
Dorothy Eden
Catherine Gaskin
Isabelle Holland
Caroline Llewellyn
Ann Maybury
Barbara Michaels
Anne Stevenson
Phyllis Whitney
Daoma Winston
Anne Worboys

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Stephen King

begin horror

If you like Horror, try...

Clive Barker
Robert Bloch
Ramsey Campbell
Daphne Du Maurier
John Farris
Thomas Harris
Dean R. Koontz
Ira Levin
Bentley Little
H. P. Lovecraft
Edgar Allan Poe
Anne Rice
John Saul
Bram Stoker
Peter Straub
Whitley Strieber
Thomas Tessier
Thomas Tryon
Andrew Vachss
T. M. Wright
F. Paul Wilson

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Janette Oke

begin faith-based inspiration

If you like faith-based Inspiration, try...

Bess Streeter Aldrich
Faith Baldwin
Gwen Bristow
Elizabeth Cadell
Dorothy Eden
Anna Gilbert
Janice Holt Giles
Joseph Girzone
Ruth Glover
Elizabeth Goudge
Grace Livingston Hill
Marjorie Holmes
M. M. Kaye
Beverly Lewis
Catherine Marshall
Gilbert Morris
Jane Peart
Brock Thoene
Brodie Thoene
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Helen Van Slyke
Lori Wick

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John Grisham

begin legal thrillers

If you like Legal Thrillers, try...

David G. Baldacci
William Bernhardt
Jay Brandon
William J. Coughlin
Michael Eberhardt
James Grippando
John T. Lescroart
Paul J. Levine
Phillip Margolin
John S. Martel
Steve Martini
Brad Meltzer
Perri O’Shaughnessy
Barbara Parker
Richard North Patterson
Ridley Pearson
Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
Lisa Scottoline
Robert K. Tanenbaum
Scott Turow
Kate Wilhelm

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Ellis Peters

begin medieval mysteries

If you like Medieval Mysteries (400-1499 A.D.), try...

Simon Beaufort
Alys Clare
P. C. Doherty
Umberto Eco
Margaret Frazer
Roberta Gellis
Alan R. Gordon
C. L. Grace
Edward Marston
Sharan Newman
Sharon Kay Penman
Mary Reed
Candace Robb
Kate Sedley
Josephine Tey
Peter Tremayne
Barry Unsworth

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Jack Higgins

begin modern military & naval adventure

If you like Modern Military & Naval Adventure, try...

Edward L. Beach
Tom Clancy
Jon Cleary
W. E. B. Griffin
Richard Hough
Alistair MacLean
John Masters
Douglas Reeman
Ray Rosenbaum
Leonard B. Scott
Craig Thomas
David Westheimer
Herman Wouk

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Ed McBain

begin police procedurals

If you like Police Procedurals, try...

William Bayer
Stephen J. Cannell
William J. Caunitz
Michael Connelly
K. C. Constantine
Thomas H. Cook
Bill Crider
Barbara D’Amato
Linda A. Fairstein
Leslie Glass
Donald Harstad
J. A. Jance
Stuart M. Kaminsky
Andrew Klavan
David L. Lindsey
Dan Mahoney
Ruth Rendell
John Sandford
Stephen Solomita
Peter Turnbull
Minette Walters
Donald E. Westlake
David Wiltse
Stuart Woods
Margaret Yorke

 

Frederick Forsyth

Robert Ludlum

begin political intrigue & espionage

If you like Political Intrigue & Espionage, try...

Jeffrey Archer
Larry Bond
Dale Brown
Stephen Coonts
Clive Cussler
Nelson DeMille
Ken Follett
Allan Folsom
John LeCarre
Helen MacInnes
Richard North Patterson
Ralph Peters
Philip Shelby
James Stuart Thayer
Ross Thomas
David Wiltse

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Jean Auel

begin prehistoric epics

If you like Prehistoric Epics, try...

Gillian Bradshaw
Joseph Bruchac
Robert J. Conley
Michael C. Ford
W. Michael Gear
Kathleen O’Neal Gear
Cecelia Holland
Sue Harrison
Christian Jacq
Gary Jennings
Bjorn Kurten
Morgan Llywelyn
Mary Mackey
Rosalind Miles
Diana Paxson
William Sarabande
Linda Lay Shuler
Wilbur Smith
Rosemary Sutcliff
Judith Tarr
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Joan Wolf

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Jonathan Kellerman

begin psychological thrillers

If you like Psychological Thrillers, try...

Peter Abrahams
Charlotte Armstrong
Mary Higgins Clark
Patricia Cornwell
Robin Cook
Thomas H. Cook
Jeffery Deaver
Joy Fielding
Lisa Gardner
Elizabeth George
Patricia Highsmith
Tami Hoag
Greg Iles
James Patterson
Thomas Perry
Kathleen J. Reichs
Erica Spindler
Andrew H. Vachss
Stephen Walsh White
Mary Willis Walker

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Catherine
Cookson

begin saga & historical romance

 

If you like Saga & Historical Romance, try...

Charlotte Vale Allen
Maeve Binchy
Catherine Coulter
R. F. Delderfield
Emma Drummond
Cynthia Freeman
Rumer Godden
Elizabeth Goudge 
Iris Gower
Winston Graham 
Jane Aiken Hodge
Audrey Howard
Susan Howatch
Sara Hylton
Jean Marsh
Coleen McCullough
Malcolm MacDonald
Mary Emily Pearce
Jessica Stirling
Jean Stubbs
Janet Tanner

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Agatha Christie

begin senior sleuths

If you like Senior Sleuths, try...

Jonathon Gash
Elizabeth George
Martha Grimes
P. D. James
Emma Lathen
Elizabeth Lemarchand
Ngaio Marsh
Anne Morice
Ruth Rendell
Dorothy Sayers
Barbara Vine
Patricia Wentworth
Sara Wood

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Mary Higgins Clark

begin suspense

If you like Suspense, try...

Michael Allegretto
Jessica Auerbach
Veronica Black
Robyn Carr
Chris Crutcher
Robert Daley
Marjorie Dorner
Joy Fielding
Catherine Gaskin
Beth Gutcheon
M. R. Henderson
John Katzenbach
Jonathon Kellerman
Judith Kelman
Mary Kittredge
Patricia J. MacDonald
Judith Michael
Barbara Michaels
Marlys Millhiser
Gloria Murphy
Meg O’Brien
Nancy Price
Neil Ravin
Carlene Thompson
Phyllis A. Whitney
Stuart Woods

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Tom Clancy

begin techno-thrillers

If you like Techno-Thrillers, try...

Mark Berent
Larry Bond
Dale Brown
Scott Carpenter
James H. Cobb
Stephen Coonts
Harold Coyle
Payne Harrison
Richard Herman, Jr.
Dean Ing
Franklin Allen Leib
Robert Mason
Bob Mayer
J. C. Pollock
David Poyer
Patrick Robinson
Chris Stewart
Joe Weber
Robin A. White

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Diana Gabaldon

begin time travel and fantasy romance

If you like Time Travel & Fantasy Romance, try...

Allen Appel
Nancy Bond 
Rebecca Brandewyne
Marsha Canham
Jayne Castle
Jasmine Cresswell
Kathryn Lynn Davis 
Sara Donati
P. N. Elrod
Barbara Erskine
Jack Finney
Christine Feehan
Lynn Kurland
Katherine Kurtz
Mercedes Lackey
Mary Luke
Richard Matheson
Anya Seton Heyer
Eugenia Riley
J. D. Robb
Maggie Shayne
Flora M. Speer

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