Hmmm, well I guess first I'd say that not all of most authors output is "must read" (for example the latest Pat Conroy I think is awful! but love much of his other work) and certainly my list changes over time. For now, in semi-sortof-maybe order...
John Irving
E.L. Doctorow
Cormac McCarthy
Ray Bradury
Margaret Atwood
Samuel R Delany
Isaac Asimov
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Ernest Hemingway
Charles Dickens
John Steinbeck
William Faulkner
Edgar Allen Poe
Robert Heinlein
Arthur C Clark
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