THE BEST:
Louisa May Alcott
Sherman Alexie
Judy Blume
Chris Bohjalian
Pearl S. Buck
Charles Bukowski
Truman Capote
Stephen Chbosky (based on his one book)
Beverly Cleary
Paulo Coelho
Barbara Park
Roald Dahl
Janice Deaner (based on her one book)
Charles Dickens
Roddy Doyle
Louise Erdrich
Jeffery Eugenides
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jonathan Safon Foer
Kaye Gibbons
Arthur Golden (based on his one book)
Pete Hamill
Ernest Hemingway
Khaled Hosseini
Mary Karr
Daniel Keyes
Barbara Kingsolver
Maxine Hong Kingston
Jhumpa Lahiri
Wally Lamb
Harper Lee (based on her one book)
Lois Lowry
Adeline Yen Mah
W. Somerset Maugham
Frank McCourt
Carson McCullers
Larry McMurtry
Margaret Mitchell
J.R. Moehringer
Walter Dean Myers
Mei Ng (based on her one book)
Edna O'Brien
Tim O'Brien
Stewart O'Nan
Julia Otsuka
Chaim Potok
Ayn Rand
Wilson Rawls
Cynthia Rylant
J.D. Salinger (based on his one novel)
Shel Silverstein
Betty Smith
John Steinbeck
Kathryn Stockett (based on her one novel)
Amy Tan
Gail Tsukiyama
Jeanette Walls
Elie Wiesel
Richard Wright
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
THE WORST:
Edward Albee
Richard Bach
Richard Brautigan
Ray Bradbury
Candice Bushnell
Albert Camus
Geoffrey Chaucer
James Fenimore Cooper
Catherine Coulter
Emily Dickinson
Sarah Dunant
Lois Duncan
Kim Edwards
William Faulkner
Gillian Flynn
Robert Fulghum
Edith Hamilton
Hermann Hesse
E.L. James
Sophie Kinsella
Lurlene McDaniel (the Danielle Steel of young-adult novels)
Ian McEwan
George Orwell
Tom Perrotta
Jodie Picoult
Nora Roberts
Alice Sebold
David Sedaris
Shakespeare
Nicholas Sparks
Danielle Steel
Cecily von Ziegesar (the Candice Bushnell of YA novels)
Tennessee Williams
