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JRR Tolkien
Richard K Morgan
Ben Aaronovitch
Arthur Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie
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a tip of the hat to The Dark Elf & Cosmiclawnmower for their choices...  (Eco, Hugo, Hesse, Peake, Vonnegut Jr.)  I would ramble with, also in no order:
Aldous Huxley 
Goethe
Voltaire
Casanova
Simone de Beauvoir
Vladimir Nabokov
Salman Rushdie
Milan Kundera
Ray Bradbury
John Wyndham
A.E. Van Vogt
Edgar Allan Poe
E.R. Eddison
Horace Walpole
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ann Radcliffe
Mary Shelley
Sheridan Le Fanu 
Roald Dahl
Jules Verne   
my apologies for giving four times the amount...   blissful reading everyone.  thank you.
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Off the top of my head but could be lots and lots

Doris Lessing
Hermann Hesse
Mervyn Peake
Ursula la Guin
Kurt Vonnegut Jr

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In random order: 

Thomas Hardy
Robert Louis Stevenson
Charles Dickens
Clive Barker
Ursula K. Le Guin
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In no particular order...

Umberto Eco
JRR Tolkien
Victor Hugo
James Joyce
Charles Dickens
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1. Stephen King
2. John Grisham
3. Dean Koontz
4. Robert Ludlum
5. Tom Clancy

I tend to be mostly into pop horror stories, legal dramas, sci-fi (read Star Wars) and spy novels.  Sadly, aside from required reading way back in my school days I've not really delved into the "classics", so all of my favorite authors tend to be modern pop writers.  
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Hi,

Too many to name, and I can't even get started on it.

Going back some 300 plus years, there are too many excellent ones to just list some rather "well known" folks from the 20th Century, when in my book, only 2 of them are original and creative, and the others ... no comment.

Kinda difficult to discuss, for example, if one takes the story of the vampire, going back to 1750 and Horace Walpole, all of a sudden, the vampire stories that Anne Rice did in her Erotic series (away from the pop stuff that is not half as good), makes a lot of sense and in some ways is a nice forward step in the stories of vampires, without copying a lot at all. But folks will only read one or two things of hers and have no idea what the whole thing is about.

I tend to think of Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Aldous Huxley, Doris Lessing, and many others from around the world, as very nice and valuable reading when it comes to novels.
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What are your top five novelists. Mine are.
5. Stephen King
4. Jack Kerouac
3. H. G. Wells
2. Lewis Carroll
1. Charles Bukowski
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