Don Delillo David Foster Wallace Thomas Pynchon Italo Calvino Martin Amis Salman Rushdie Philip Roth Paul Auster Haruki Murakami Cormac Mccarthy Jonathan Franzen Donald Barthelme Zadie Smith William Gaddis Jorge Luis Borges Denis Johnson Michael Chabon George Saunders Jonathan Safran Foer David Mitchell Jonathan Lethem Saul Bellow John Updike Ian Mcewan Dave Eggers Raymond Carver Virginia Woolf James Joyce Steve Erickson Joseph Heller Jeanette Winterson Paul Keitel John Kennedy Toole Flannery O'Connor James Ellroy Margaret Atwood T. S. Eliot Arundhati Roy Phillip Roth Samuel Beckett David Sedaris Will Self John Cheever Michel Houellebecq Richard Powers T. Coraghessan Boyle Jose Saramago William Faulkner Alice Munro