Now is always the perfect time to chill out with a good book.
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
— Groucho Marx
“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
— Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”
— Walt Disney
Best Sci-Fi Authors
01 Isaac Asimov
02 Arthur C Clarke
03 John Wyndham
04 John Christopher
05 Ray Bradbury
06 H.G. Wells
07 Fritz Leiber
08 Orson Scott Card
09 Brian Aldiss
10 Jack Chalker
11 Theodore Cogswell
12 Theodore Sturgeon
13 Harry Harrison
14 Jack Williamson
15 William Nolan
16 Harlan Ellison
17 Larry Niven
18 Jack Vance
19 Margaret Atwood
20 Bob Shaw
Best Fantasy Authors
01 J.R.R. Tolkien
02 Terry Brooks
03 Steven Erikson
04 Philip Jose Farmer
05 George R.R. Martin
06 Ursula K. Le Guin
07 Robin Hobb
08 Roger Zelazny
09 Terry Pratchett
10 David Eddings
11 Frank Herbert
12 Raymond E. Feist
13 T.H. White
14 Robert Jordan
15 David Gemmell
16 Stephen R. Lawhead
17 Mervyn Peake
18 Jack Vance
19 H.P Lovecraft
20 George Clayton Johnson
Best Comedy Authors
01 P.G. Wodehouse
02 Bill Bryson
03 Harry Harrison
04 Terry Pratchett
05 Jerome K. Jerome
06 Kingsley Amis
07 Tony Hawks
08 Stella Gibbons
09 Evelyn Waugh
10 Douglas Adams
11 Joseph Heller
12 James Herriott
13 Isaac Bashevis Singer
14 Malcolm Bradbury
15 Grant Naylor
16 Bob Shaw
17 J.K. Rowling
18 Spike Milligan
19 Sue Townsend
20 Gerald Durrell
Best Crime Authors
01 Arthur Conan Doyle
02 Agatha Christie
03 Stieg Larsson
04 Raymond Chandler
05 Dashiell Hammett
06 Ruth Rendell
07 Henning Mankell
08 P.D. James
09 Dorothy L Sayers
10 Patricia Cornwell
11 James Patterson
12 Colin Dexter
13 Ellis Peters
14 Patricia Highsmith
15 Ed McBain
16 Harlan Coben
17 Ian Rankin
18 Ann Cleeves
19 Barbara Vine
20 Josephine Tey
Best Horror Authors
01 M.R. James
02 Stephen King
03 Bram Stoker
04 Mary Shelley
05 Jack Williamson
06 Richard Matheson
07 Edgar Allan Poe
08 H.P. Lovecraft
09 Ray Bradbury
10 Clive Barker
11 Robert Bloch
12 Algernon Blackwood
13 Ambrose Bierce
14 Dean Koontz
15 Clarke Aston Smith
16 James Herbert
17 Anne Rice
18 Peter Ackroyd
19 Charles Beaumont
20 Ira Levin
Best Modern Playwrights
01 Tom Stoppard
02 Arthur Miller
03 Brian Friel
04 Samuel Beckett
05 Bertolt Brecht
06 Caryl Churchill
07 Harold Pinter
08 George Bernard Shaw
09 Willy Russell
10 David Williamson
11 T.S. Eliot
12 David Mamet
13 Ariel Dorfman
14 Stephen Sondheim
15 Lucy Prebble
16 Wole Soyinka
17 Alan Bennett
18 Alan Ayckbourn
19 J. B. Priestley
20 Terence Rattigan
Best Graphic Novels
01 Charlie’s War
02 Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
03 V For Vendetta
04 Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm
05 Persepolis
06 Space 1999: To Everything That Was
07 Nausicaä
08 Thorgal
09 Galaxy Express 999
10 Dan Dare
11 Watchmen
12 Maus
13 Storm (Don Lawrence)
14 The Freedom Collective
15 2001 Nights of Space
16 Wulf, The Briton
17 The Vagabond of Limbo
18 Citizen of the Galaxy
19 Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth
20 Strontium Dog
London (1940)
Links
The Big Read
The 100 Best Novels
Libraries that look like Alien Spaceships
Who killed Literature?
Ursula K. Le Guin Names the Books She Likes and Wants You to Read
