North American Fiction - Modern Authors
- Pearl Abraham
- Paco Ahlgren
- Julia Alvarez
- Donald Antrim
- Paul Auster
- Richard Bach
- Ann Beattie
- Joel ben Izzy
- Anne Bernays
- Peter Blauner
- Lawrence Block
- Stephen L. Carter
- Diane Chamberlain
- Jennifer Chiaverini
- Jeffrey Cohen
- Jackie Collins
- Eden Collinsworth
- Pat Conroy
- Joseph Cowley
- Robert Crais
- Elizabeth Cunningham
- Lydia Davis
- Samuel R. Delany
- Pete Dexter
- Harriet Doerr
- John Gregory Dunne
- David Eddings
- Deborah Eisenberg
- James Ellroy
- Louise Erdrich
- Linda Fairstein
- Jack Finney
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Jonathan Franzen
- Neil Gaiman
- Elizabeth George
- Mary Gordon
- Richard Grayson
- John Green
- Martha Grimes
- Joyce Hackett
- Oscar Hijuelos
- Robin Hobb
- A. M. Homes
- Lindy S. Hudis
- Christopher Isherwood
- Kate Jacobs
- Joyce Johnson
- Robert Jordan
- Dave King
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Joyce Reiser Kornblatt
- Nicole Krauss
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- David Leavitt
- Min Jin Lee
- Lyn LeJeune
- Jonathan Lethem
- Beverly Lewis
- Alison Lurie
- D. R. MacDonald
- Irene Marcuse
- Steve Martin
- Daniel Mason
- Alice Mattison
- Armistead Maupin
- Ami McKay
- Brian D. McLaren
- Susan Minot
- Madeleine Monette
- Mary Morris
- Brian Morton
- Walter Mosely
- Kate Moses
- Sigrid Nunez
- Mary Pope Osborne
- Cynthia Ozick
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Grace Paley
- Ellen Pall
- Robert B. Parker
- Louise Penny
- Lewis Perdue
- Elizabeth Peters
- Emily Prager
- Douglas Preston
- Reynolds Price
- E. Annie Proulx
- Cornelia Read
- Kathy Reichs
- Sheri Reynolds
- Nora Roberts
- Spider Robinson
- James Rollins
- Mary Doria Russell
- Richard Russo
- John Sandford
- Glenn Savan
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- Anna Shapiro
- June Shaw
- Mona Simpson
- Deborah Smith
- Martin Cruz Smith
- William Styron
- Marly Swick
- Anne Tyler
- M.G. Vassanji
- Larry Watson
- Janice Weber
- Edward Whittemore
- Tad Williams
- Hilma Wolitzer
- Herman Wouk
- Lee Zacharias