Every great book starts with a great mind behind it. Here you’ll find the authors who fuel our Side Quest Book Club Podcast adventures—masters of fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and beyond.
Stephen King (Photo: Shane Leonard)
Chuck Palahniuk (Photo: Allan Amato)
Brandon Sanderson
William Blatty
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
M.R. Carey (Photo: Luigi Novi)
Patrick Rothfuss
Will Wight
Robert McCammon
Ursula K. Le Guin (Photo: Marian Wood Kolisch)
Philip K. Dick
Micheal Crichton (Photo: michaelcrichton.com)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Scott Lynch (Photo: Sharona Jacobs)
Andy Weir (Photo: By Gage Skidmore)
R.F. Kuang (Photo: The British Library)
Manel Loureiro
Drew Karpyshyn (Photo: Niccolò Caranti)
H. P. Lovecraft
China Miéville
CS Lewis
Ray Bradbury (Photo: Library of Congress)
Orson Scott Card
Dean Koontz
Peter Benchley
Robert Jackson Bennett
Octavia Butler (Photo: Nikolas Coukouma)
Jay Anson
Cormac McCarthy
John Grisham (Photo: Blake Grady)
W.W. Jacobs
Pual Tremblay (Photo: Larry D. Moore)
Anthony Burgess (Photo: AP/REX/Shutterstock)
Nicholas Casbarro
Callie Sioux
Stay tuned for more side quests. While you wait suggest more authors for us to read.
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Would you like more people to learn about your book?
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We look forward to side questing into your exciting worlds.