Allen Kurzweil Martin Booth Ryszard Kapuscinski William Dalrymple John Lanchester Reza Aslan Robert Kaplan Haruki Kurasawa Eliot Pattison Nadine Gordimer Ted Simon Eric Newby Wendelin Van Draanen Sandra Cisneros Lewis Shiner Robert Pirsig Markus Zusak Robert Charles Wilson Katherine Paterson Louis Sachar Jonathan Carroll James Blaylock Evelyn Waugh Tom Holt Tim Powers Jerry Spinelli Karl May Stanislaw Lem H.G. Wells Jules Verne Tom Robbins David Eddings Neal Stephenson