My list of favorite authors and their books

I recently updated my list of favorite authors, there are 22 of them that I check each time to see if they have something new out when I'm ordering books from Amazon. I'm listing one book from each one, it may be my favorite, it may just be the first or latest book I've read by them, but it's one I liked. I think I've read ever novel each of these authors has written, with a couple of exceptions (Block and Cherryh are so prolific, I have just read selected series from each). I've added a brief description of their genre, taken from Amazon's descriptions. The list is alphabetical by author.

Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block


Mystery & Thrillers / Hard-Boiled Mystery & Detective

Cyteen by C.J. Cherryh


Science Fiction and Fantasy / Fantasy

Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy


Mystery & Thrillers / Technothrillers

Black Echo by Michael Connelly


Mystery & Thrillers / Police Procedurals

Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith


Mystery & Thrillers / Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow


Science Fiction

Neuromancer by William Gibson


Science Fiction / Cyberpunk

Genius by James Gleick


Science / History of Science

The Reality Dysfunction Part 1: Emergence by Peter Hamilton


Science Fiction / Hard Sci-fi

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer


Biographies & Memoirs / Mountaineering

Hostile Witness by William Lashner


Mystery & Thrillers / Legal Thrillers

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré


Mystery & Thrillers / Spy Thrillers

Mercy by David Lindsey


Mystery & Thrillers / Psychological Thrillers

The Scar by China Miéville


Science Fiction and Fantasy / Steampunk

Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan


Science Fiction / Hard Sci-fi

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card


Science Fiction

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson


Science Fiction / Hard Sci-fi

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson


Mystery & Thrillers / Technothrillers

Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling


Science Fiction / Cyberpunk

The Burden of Proof by Scott Turow


Mystery & Thrillers / Legal Thrillers

Down in the Zero by Andrew Vachss


Mystery & Thrillers / Hard-Boiled Mystery & Detective

A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe


Literature & Fiction / Contemporary