Who are your favorite authors that don't get enough credit?

There are so many genre writers who have disappeared off the shelf and aren't even mentioned on wikipedia, because they came and went before it existed. I once bought a two foot stack of books from my local library, discarded for lack of interest and admittedly, many of them showed only a handful of readers since I'd read them twenty years before.

I'll skip them, as you won't find them even in the second hand bins anymore.

H.Beam Piper, a scifi author credited by some with inventing "alternative history" is still one of my favorites.

Then there is Roger Zelazny, who outside of his Amber series has disappeared into obscurity.

Fyodor Dosoyevsky

Edna Ferber; Richmal Crompton (her novels, not the 'William' books); Marcia Davenport; Ann Bridge.

If you ever feel like reading fantasy, a great author is James A. Owen. His writing is reminiscent of greats like JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, HG Wells, and James Barrie.

Charles Finch - mystery,

John D MacDonald - mystery

Donald Hamilton - spy novels

Gregg Taylor who writes the Red Panda Adventures and Black Jack Justice audio dramas and books

https://decoderringtheatre.com/books/ https://decoderringtheatre.com/shows/ If you do start the audio dramas, start on season 1 since the stories progress.

Terry Pratchett is well know for his fantasy but he wrote some historical fiction too. I really liked his book "Dodger"

I admit most of my favorite living author were on podiobooks but I generally don't listen to nor read much historical fiction especially none steampunk none superhero historical.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Antonin Artaud

John Barth

Jorge Luis Borges

Raymond Carver

Don DeLillo

John Fante

Günter Grass

Karl Ove Knausgård

Malcolm Lowry

Dorothy Parker

Nathaniel Philbrick

Will Self

William T. Vollmann

Evelyn Waugh

Dennis Wheatley

The gamblers by Shaw Todds. Great true story.

The Detective by Ivor Klue. A wry look at Scotland Yard

Puddle in the road by G G Dunnit

Making money go round by Lowes Turner. A poverty guide

Low fat meals by Amelia Cook, Modern cook book

Hope you enjoy these.