Because I've read so few books by most of these authors, their 4 books on this list are often also their 4 most highly-rated books on Goodreads. So you might get double use from this list by choosing future reads from their entry. See below.
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'4 out of 4' authors:
H.P. Lovecraft, Haruki Murakami, Iris Murdoch, Isaac Asimov, Isabel Allende, J.G. Ballard, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jesmyn Ward, Jhumpa Lahiri, John Barth, John Cheever, John Fowles, John Updike, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Safran Foer, José Saramago, Julia Alvarez, Knut Hamsun, Lawrence Durrell, Louise Erdrich, Mario Vargas Llosa, Melina Marchetta, Michael Chabon, Naguib Mahfouz, Neil Simon, Norman Mailer
'4 out of 5' authors:
Helen Garner, Henry Green, Honoré De Balzac, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Joan Didion, John Dos Passos, Kate Grenville, Louisa May Alcott, Luigi Pirandello, Machado De Assis, Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, Martin Amis, Nadine Gordimer