Good Books from Great Writers..! A List of Unputdownable Authors...!

To aid and assist reading good fiction writers and good fiction, a good compilation of the same has been brought out exclusively for my students.



Robert Ludlum , the author of twenty-one novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. He is the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Jason Bourne series--The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum--among others.



Every spring, lawyer-turned-novelist John Grisham dominates the publishing world with a new bestseller. Nicknamed "Hurricane Grisham" by journalists, he has taken Hollywood by storm as well: Grisham's made-for-adaptation legal thrillers have spawned the blockbusters The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, and A Time to Kill, inspiring Film Comment to concede that he may be one of cinema's new auteurs.



Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. (born April 12, 1947), better known as Tom Clancy, is a US author of bestselling political thrillers, best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science storylines. The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, and The Sum of All Fears have been turned into commercially successful films.

All but two of Clancy's novels feature Jack Ryan and/or John Clark.



Scottish writer who became known for his well crafted adventure thrillers, The sea or the icy north was Alistair MacLean's favorite setting, from H.M.S. Ulysses , and Ice Station Zebra to his late collection of short stories, The Lonely Sea. A number of MacLean's books gained a huge success as films, among them Where Eagles Dare, starring Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton, The Guns of Navarone, starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn, Ice Station Zebra, and Breakheart Pass, starring Charles Bronson. He also used the pen name Ian Stuart.



James Hadley Chase wrote most of his books using a dictionary of American slang, detailed maps, encyclopedias and reference books on the American underworld. Most of the books were based on events occurring in the United States. Best known for his crime stories, Many of them having been made into films, most notably No Orchids for Miss Blandish, which was filmed twice where it was titled The Grissom Gang . He was wildly popular in Asia and Africa. He also enjoyed success in France and Italy where more than twenty of his books were made into movies.



Jeffrey Archer's writing career has spanned almost 30 years. His bestselling novels, which range from Not a Penny More>, Not a Penny Less to Kane and Abel and The Eleventh Commandment, have sold over 120 million copies throughout the world. In August 2001, he was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury. During that time he wrote three highly praised and bestselling works of non-fiction entitled Prison Diaries. He was released in July 2003. He is simply unputdownable.!



Frederick Forsythis probably best known as the best-selling author of The Day Of The Jackal, the film version of which is currently one of the top grossing movies in the American charts. This, together with The Odessa File quickly established his innovative style. Some of his other popular fiction include The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The Fourth Protocol, The Negotiator, The Deceiver, The Fist of God, Icon and Avenger, etc.,



PG Wodehouse the greatest comic writer ever, Ian Fleming, who created the character of James Bond, debuting in the 1952 novel Casino Royale, Paulo Coelho who has sold over 86 million books in over 150 countries worldwide and translated into 66 languages are some of the other unputdownables.

PS: This list is not exhaustive.