Of course, we don’t want to avoid the great novels like To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee or The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald. These are some of the most respected books in history. But these and many other books, like Moby-Dick and Gone With The Wind, can be found on almost every novel blog. Here you broaden your horizons with a selection of ten authors who are also very influential in modern literature.

Joseph O’Neill

The O’Neill family moved a lot during Joseph’s youth. He’s half Irish and half Assyrian, so his parents couldn’t offer him everything in one place. Although not a New Yorker, he has lived in New York City since 1998 and therefore writes like the native American. Joseph didn’t publish many novels. His work is very minimal but with a lot of passion. He has four novels, namely “This Is The Life”, “The Breezes”, “Netherland” and “The Dog”. Arguably the most outstanding novel is Netherlands as it was on the cover of the New York Times Book Review and it is also a Pen/Faulkner Award winner. The Dog is his latest novel, published in 2014. It’s a book,

Steve Erickson

Often writers urgently need to write something else and stop focusing on the novels. Steve has been one of those authors since he wrote two books on American Politics and Pop Culture . Of course, his novels are more than two. Steve’s latest novel is These Dreams of You which was published in 2012. His previous books include Days Between Stations, Rubicon Beach, Black Clock Tours, Arc d’X, Amnesiascope, The Sea Came in at Midnight, Our Ecstatic Days and Zeroville. Romance critics rarely compare anything to The Great Gatsby, but Erickson’s latest creation has been compared to Head to Head to Fitzgerald’s novel. It offers true and painful sincerity and a humble acknowledgment of human error. But also a reason to hope for the best and to experience positive changes.

Jennifer Egan

When it comes to Jennifer, it’s no good to avoid reading her Pulitzer Prize-winning play called A Visit From The Goon Squad. A novel that presented American life past and present. You can read about their interaction with the culture and everything else that surrounds them. Egan’s work has been recognized with many awards. Her audience has greatly appreciated the novels such as Emerald City, The Invisible Circus, Look at Me and The Keep. The Chicago-born writer has everything that novel lovers can look forward to. Each of her books features an excellent cast of characters that you simply cannot leave the book with. Experience a different perspective with numerous exciting fictional names. It’s a nice breath of fresh air.

Peter Matthiessen

Here is an itinerant author and a naturalist who is the pinnacle of this list. Peter’s novels are filled with everything that life can bring to a person. He is one of the few post-WWII writers who inspired many young people to fall in love with writing. Matthiessen passed away at the age of 86 but with a full heart to explore and share the wilds of the world. The list of his novels is long. Each book title has delivered a true passion and lyrical tradition. Peter’s last novel was In Paradise. It is presented with a group of people who are at the site of the former Nazi death camp. The group is seeking peace at camp with a meditative retreat as Peter has been influenced by meditation and Zen practice.

Karen Tei Yamashita

Karen is a Japanese-American writer who also teaches creative writing and Asian-American literature. She is an acclaimed writer as her work is imbued with magical realism, multicultural communities and the need for polyglots. Some of Tei Yamashita’s novels are I Hotel , Circle K Cycles , and Tropic of Orange . I hotelportrays life in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1960s. She wasn’t afraid to write her thoughts on the civil rights movement, which had to do with art, plays, and the beauty of a multicultural society. But that’s not all of Karen. In addition to writing, she is also interested in plays and has written Hannah Kusoh, Noh Bozos and O-Men. Immerse yourself in Tei’s magical words and experience a different kind of storytelling.

Louise Erdrich

Exploring the subject of Native Americans is an intriguing subject that Louise writes about. She loves writing about both sides of her heritage. One of her most impressive novels is The Round House, published in 2012. It is impressive because it won the 2012 National Book Prize and it is dedicated to modern day racism, Native American life and family. Louise’s ability to write poetry is another topic of discussion. The collections such as Jacklight , Baptism of Desire , and Original Fire: New and Selected Poemsare always mentioned when it comes to their quality writing. However, her writing boundaries are not only marked by novels and poems. Erdrich also likes to write books for children. Some of these books are Grandmother’s Dove , The Silent Game , and The Year of the Porcupine .

Dennis Johnson

The American writer is known for many of his book publications, but Tree of Smoke is considered his greatest play. It was the reason Johnson won the National Book Prize , even though he is considered good at writing plays, poetry and non-fiction. This particular novel is literal and philosophical in tone, as it offered a historical subject, a semi-mythical cultural institution, and an unreasonable length. The Tree of Smoke was released in 2007, but its first story was The Son of Jesus , released in 1992. Later in 1999, the same story was adapted into a film that made the top ten list of the year.

Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne doesn’t have a large list of novels, but she is appreciated for the few she has. Gilead and Housekeeping are the book titles you should definitely know. Housekeeping was published in the 1980s and is still one of the most treasured novels in America. The book Gilead was published in 2004 and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction the next year . It is an amazing autobiography that is the favorite of many celebrities. Even President Obama mentioned it on his official Facebook profile. Robinson knows what novel lovers need. Not only can she write about the beauties and sorrows of everyday life, but she can also write about a decent amount of religion.

Benjamin Percy

National public radio even loves Benjamin, however, he has only written three novels and a few books of short stories. Percy writes about America’s relationship to its own vanishing wilderness. You can also find out what happens to people after the war ends and similar topics. His first novel was The Wilding , published in 2007. He went on to write Red Moon in 2013 and The Dead Lands There is no doubt he was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts prize for the novels entitled, The Whiting Writers’ Award, the Plimpton Prize and many others.

Colum McCann

Colum is our last suggestion in this list of novelists. A professor of contemporary literature at EGS is a great writer of amazing novels. He was born in Dublin but lives in New York. The novel Let The Great World Spin earned him a National Book Award in 2009. The list of his other works consists of titles such as Songdogs , The Bright Side , Fishing in the Sloe-Black River , Zoli , and The Unfired World. The National Book Award-winning novel took on the complex subject of 9/11 that many love to read about. McCann’s books are rich in stories and amazing research. He spends many hours at the New York Public Library preparing his next masterpiece.