The ones in bold are ones I've already started to explore

• Angela Carter
• C.S. Lewis
• Catherine Cookson
• Darren Shan
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Hunter S. Thompson
• Ian McEwan
• Irvine Welsh
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• James Herbert
• John Green
• Jules Verne
• Nick Hornby
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Susan Hill