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Index
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. John Bunyan
2. Aphra Behn
3. Daniel Defoe
4. Samuel Richardson
5. Henry Fielding
6. Samuel Johnson
7. John Cleland
8. Laurence Sterne
9. Oliver Goldsmith
10. Robert Bage
11. Olaudah Equiano
12. Fanny Burney
13. Susanna Haswell
14. Mrs Radcliffe
15. James Hogg
16. Charles Brockden Brown
17. Walter Scott
18. Jane Austen
19. M. G. Lewis
20. Mrs Frances Trollope
21. Thomas De Quincey
22. James Fenimore Cooper
23. John Polidori
24. Mary Shelley
25. Mrs Catherine Gore
26. Harriet Martineau
27. The Bulwer-Lyttons: Edward and Rosina
28. Benjamin Disraeli
29. Nathaniel Hawthorne
30. Harrison Ainsworth
31. Charles (James) Lever
32. J. H. Ingraham
33. Postscript: Prentiss Ingraham
34. Edgar Allan Poe
35. Mrs Gaskell
36. Fanny Fern
37. William Makepeace Thackeray
38. Charles Dickens
39. Mrs Henry Wood
40. Anthony Trollope
41. Grace Aguilar
42. The Brontës: Patrick, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne
43. Maria Monk
44. George Eliot
45. Postscript: G. H. Lewes
46. Herman Melville
47. Mrs E. D. E. N. Southworth
48. Eliza Lynn Linton
49. Postscript: Beatrice Harraden
50. Sylvanus Cobb Jr
51. Charlotte Yonge
52. Wilkie Collins
53. R. M. Ballantyne
54. Mary J. Holmes
55. Dinah Craik
56. George Meredith
57. Mrs Oliphant
58. Horatio Alger Jr
59. George du Maurier
60. Postscript: Daphne du Maurier
61. Frank R. Stockton
62. ‘Walter’
63. Mrs Mary Braddon
64. Samuel Butler
65. Mark Twain
66. B. L. Farjeon
67. Ouida
68. Thomas Hardy
69. Ambrose Bierce
70. Lewis Wingfield
71. Henry James
72. Bram Stoker
73. Grant Allen
74. Richard Jefferies
75. Robert Louis Stevenson
76. Mrs Humphry Ward
77. Hall Caine
78. Sarah Grand
79. Marie Corelli
80. Lady Florence Dixie
81. Olive Schreiner
82. William Sharp
83. L. Frank Baum
84. H. Rider Haggard
85. Joseph Conrad
86. Ella Hepworth Dixon
87. Mary Cholmondeley
88. Arthur Conan Doyle
89. Postscript: John (Edmund) Gardner
90. Frank Danby
91. George Egerton
92. Kenneth Grahame
93. J. M. Barrie
94. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
95. Postscript: S. Weir Mitchell
96. Amanda Ros
97. Owen Wister
98. Amy Levy
99. Florence L. Barclay
100. O. Henry
101. Violet Hunt
102. Edith Wharton
103. W. J. Locke
104. Thomas Dixon
105. Israel Zangwill
106. M. P. Shiel
107. H. G. Wells
108. Arnold Bennett
109. John Oliver Hobbes
110. Norman Douglas
111. Booth Tarkington
112. Erskine Childers
113. Saki
114. B. M. Bower
115. Stephen Crane
116. Theodore Dreiser
117. Zane Grey
118. W. Somerset Maugham
119. John Buchan
120. Edgar Rice Burroughs
121. Sabatini
122. Edgar Wallace
123. Jack London
124. Rex Beach
125. Warwick Deeping
126. Jeffery Farnol
127. E. M. Forster
128. Mazo de la Roche
129. Daisy Ashford
130. Mary Webb
131. James Joyce
132. Virginia Woolf
133. Sax Rohmer
134. Edna Ferber
135. DuBose Heyward
136. D. H. Lawrence
137. H. Bedford-Jones
138. Vicki Baum
139. Raymond Chandler
140. Katherine Mansfield
141. Michael Sadleir
142. Sapper
143. Hervey Allen
144. Enid Bagnold
145. Erle Stanley Gardner
146. Agatha Christie
147. Richmal Crompton
148. Richard Aldington
149. Djuna Barnes
150. Max Brand
151. Pearl S. Buck
152. James M. Cain
153. Captain W. E. Johns
154. Phyllis Bentley
155. Dashiell Hammett
156. Postscript: Lillian Hellman
157. Aldous Huxley
158. J. B. Priestley
159. Henry Williamson
160. Louis Bromfield
161. Peter Cheyney
162. Scott (and Zelda) Fitzgerald
163. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
164. William Faulkner
165. Dennis Wheatley
166. Elizabeth Bowen
167. Vladimir Nabokov
168. Margaret Mitchell
169. Lewis Grassic Gibbon
170. Georgette Heyer
171. John Steinbeck
172. Postscript: John Hersey, John O’Hara
173. George Orwell
174. Evelyn Waugh
175. Postscript: Alec Waugh
176. Nathanael West
177. Margery Allingham
178. Graham Greene
179. Patrick Hamilton
180. Christopher Isherwood
181. Henry Green
182. Arthur Koestler
183. Anthony Powell
184. Ayn Rand
185. C. P. Snow
186. Rex Warner
187. Samuel Beckett
188. John Dickson Carr
189. Catherine Cookson
190. Robert E. Howard
191. Jim Thompson
192. Leslie Charteris
193. James A. Michener
194. John Creasey
195. Ian Fleming
196. Louis L’Amour
197. Eric Ambler
198. Chester Himes
199. Malcolm Lowry
200. Postscript: Charles R. Jackson
201. Nicholas Monsarrat
202. William Golding
203. John Cheever
204. Lawrence Durrell
205. Patrick White
206. Howard Fast
207. Saul Bellow
208. Herman Wouk
209. Harold Robbins
210. Anthony Burgess
211. Arthur C. Clarke
212. Muriel Spark
213. Mickey Spillane
214. Postscript: Carroll John Daly
215. Jacqueline Susann
216. Iris Murdoch
217. Frederik Pohl
218. J. D. Salinger
219. Charles Willeford
220. Isaac Asimov
221. Ray Bradbury
222. Charles Bukowski
223. Dick Francis
224. P. D. James
225. Paul Scott
226. Patricia Highsmith
227. Kingsley Amis
228. Alistair Maclean
229. Postscript: Robert Shaw
230. Kurt Vonnegut
231. Austin M. Wright
232. V. C. Andrews
233. Norman Mailer
234. Michael Avallone
235. James Baldwin
236. Brian Aldiss
237. Elmore Leonard
238. Flannery O’Connor
239. William Styron
240. John Berger
241. John Fowles
242. Richard Yates
243. Jennifer Dawson
244. Marilyn French
245. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
246. Dan Jacobson
247. Chinua Achebe
248. J. G. Ballard
249. John Barth
250. Harold Brodkey
251. Edna O’Brien
252. Donald Barthelme
253. Toni Morrison
254. Alice Munro
255. Trevanian
256. Beryl Bainbridge
257. Malcolm Bradbury
258. V. S. Naipaul
259. Sylvia Plath
260. John Updike
261. B. S. Johnson
262. William L. Pierce
263. Reynolds Price
264. Philip Roth
265. Wilbur Smith
266. David Storey
267. Alasdair Gray
268. J. G. Farrell
269. Postscript: George MacDonald Fraser
270. David Lodge
271. Alistair MacLeod
272. John Kennedy Toole
273. Margaret Atwood
274. Postscript: Susanna Moodie
275. Jeffrey Archer
276. J. M. Coetzee
277. Postscript: Bret Easton Ellis
278. Michael Crichton
279. Peter Carey
280. W. G. Sebald
281. Vernor Vinge
282. Julian Barnes
283. Sue Townsend
284. Paul Auster
285. Postscript: Lydia Davis and Siri Hustvedt
286. Postscript: Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt
287. Salman Rushdie
288. Stephen King
289. Robert Jordan
290. Ian McEwan
291. Martin Amis and Richard Hughes
292. Patricia Cornwell
293. Alice Sebold
294. Rana Dasgupta
Epilogue
Index
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