Which author is for me? (LONG list...)?

Question

I need to do a project. I have a bunch of authors to work with, but I'm not sure which one is right for me.

There is a huge list, sorry, but if you see one that I may like, please let me know.

I like horror, comedy, and modern books (modern, meaning the setting is in the present...) I hate mystery books, and books that have anything to do with the past, like, historical books. I love plot twists, and twisted endings, if that helps...

Edward Abbey
Chinua Achebe
James Agee
Isabel Allende
Margaret Atwood
Jane Austen
James Baldwin
Amiri Baraka
Samuel Beckett
Saul Bellow
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Albert Camus
Willa Cather
Anton Checkhov
Kate Chopin
Joseph Conrad
Pat Conroy
Charles Dickens
Annie Dillard
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Arthur Conan Doyle
George Eliot
Ralph Ellison
Louise Erdrich
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
E.M. Forster
Charles Frazier
Jonathon Franzen
William Golding
Lorraine Hansberry
Thomas Hardy
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
Herman Hesse
Zora Neale Hurston
Henrik Ibsen
John Irving
Kazuo Ishiguro
James Joyce
Jamaica Kincaid
Barbara Kingsolver
Maxine Hong Kingston
Joy Kogowa
Margaret Laurence
Ursula K. Le Guin
Katherine Mansfield
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Norman Mailer
Bobbie Ann Mason
Ian McEwan
Larry McMurtry
Herman Melville
Arthur Miller
N. Scott Momaday
Toni Morrison
Joyce Carol Oates
Tillie Olson
George Orwell
Sylvia Plath
Katherine Ann Porter
Erich Maria Remarque
Adrienne Rich
Arundhati Roy
Salman Rushdie
J.D. Salinger
Mary Shelley
Leslie Marmon Silko
John Steinbeck
Bram Stoker
Jonathan Swift
Amy Tan
Lewis Thomas
Henry David Thoreau
Leo Tolsoy
Mark Twain
Luisa Valenzuela
Kurt Vonnegut
Alice Walker
Eudora Welty
Edith Wharton
Oscar Wilde
Tennessee Williams
Terry Tempest Williams
Virginia Woolf
Richard Wright

Thanks...

Answer 1

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Almost all of these are in the long ago past, but Joyce Oats is a thrilling writer. Most of what I've read is based in or near the 50's, but it's good stuff. I enjoy her suspense, reflections on race and class, and especially the sudden shift towards an ending I'd never guess was coming. My fave short story of hers is "Where are you going, whre have you been?".

Answer 2

The overwhelming majority of these authors' books are set in the past.

If you're really that hung up about that, you should just go to the supermarket and buy a bestseller. No offense.

On that list: Doestoyevsky and Dickens are THE BEST.

Answer 3

F. Scott Fitzergald, Charles Dickens, and Jonathan Swift are all great authors. John Irving is OK...