I've never been much for science-fiction but lots of people are. I think my problem has always been that the plots get to complicated for my feeble old mind. But my wife tells me that Robert A. Heinlein is one of the best.
major bean wrote: William Faulkner
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Edgar Allan Poe
Guy de Maupassant
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dee Brown
I love Faulkner and Dostoevsky but more obscure writers i love are Harry Crews, Stanley Elkin and Gunther Grass. -all fiction
Anything by Edward O Wilson I also will read. Yeah and Christopher Hitchens..
Dean Koontz
Spencer Quinn
Robert Frost--even if he's poet and not a novelist.
Anne McCaffrey
James Michner
Richard Bach
Paulo Coelho
James Patterson
Dan Brown--for story, not for writing ability
James McMurtry
