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Originally Posted by HarryT
The placement of “Outlander” seems weird to me. Leaving to one side the literary merits of the series, is Gabaldon really that popular an author? I’ve always regarded her as a rather obscure SF/fantasy author. It surprises me that the casual reader would have ever heard of her, let alone place her in second place in a contest of this nature. She’s the only one on that list who’s not a (to me, at least) “famous” author (or famous book).
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"Famous"/popular enough that she's usually on the bestseller lists, but likely more known by causal folks due to the Showtime series based on her main series of books.