Top Shelf Index

Sally Hepworth is a writer living in Australia. She has written several novels, most notably The Secrets of Midwives, published in 2015, and The Good Sister, which won the 2021 Adult crime novel Davitt Award. Hepworth and her works have been featured in media outlets that have included USA Today, The New York Times, and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Sandra Brown is the author of seventy-seven New York Times bestsellers. Writing professionally since 1981, Brown has published over eighty novels and has upwards of eighty million copies of her books in print worldwide. Her work has been translated into thirty-four languages. 

Sarah J. Maas is an American author of three bestselling fantasy series: Throne of Glass, A Court of Thorns and Roses, and Crescent City. As of 2024, she has sold almost 40 million copies translated into 38 languages. Several of her novels have made The New York Times Best Seller List.

Sherrilyn Kenyon has placed more than 80 novels on the New York Times list. Current series include: Dark-Hunter, Chronicles of Nick, Deadman’s Cross, Nevermore, and Lords of Avalon. She has written novels and nonfiction works using both her real name and the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor. 

Stephen Graham Jones is a New York Times bestselling author, NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of several awards including the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association.

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty bestselling books. His novel It was made into the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. 

Stuart Woods was the author of more than ninety novels, including the #1 New York Times bestselling Stone Barrington series. A native of Georgia and an avid sailor and pilot, he began his writing career in the advertising industry. Chiefs, his debut in 1981, won the Edgar Award. He won France's Prix de Literature Policiere for Imperfect Strangers. 

Taylor Jenkins Reid is an author, essayist, and TV writer. Her novels have been optioned for film and television. In addition to her novels, Taylor's essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, and a number of other publications.

Tess Gerritsen is an American novelist and retired physician. She is the author of the Rizzoli and Isles series, which was adapted into a television show. She has won several awards, including the Nero Wolfe Award for Vanish and the Rita Award for The Surgeon. She retired from the medical field and writes full-time. 

Timothy Zahn is a Hugo Award winner and the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, Heir to the Empire, as well as the best-selling Star Wars: Thrawn series of novels.  Zahn has written more than 50 novels, including the recent Cobra Rebellion series entries Cobra Outlaw and Cobra Traitor. He is frequently a guest at comic cons and Star Wars events.

Walter Mosley is the author of more than 43 critically acclaimed books. His first book won a John Creasy Award for best first novel, and was made into a motion picture..  He has received numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, the Carl Brandon Society Parallax Award, and PEN America's Lifetime Achievement Award.