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Authors starting with the letter 'J'
J. G. Ballard wrote Empire of the Sun (1984)
J. G. Ballard wrote Crash (1973)
J. K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1997)
J. K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1999)
J. K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
J. K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
J. M. Barrie wrote Peter Pan (play) (1999)
J. R. R. Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
J. R. R. Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (1955)
J. R. R. Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (1954)
Jack Davies wrote Esther, Ruth, and Jennifer (1979)
Jack Englehard wrote Indecent Proposal (1989)
Jack Finney wrote Marion's Wall (1973)
Jack Higgins wrote Prayer for the Dying (1974)
Jack London wrote White Fang (1933)
Jack London wrote The Sea Wolf (2005)
Jacquelyn Mitchard wrote The Deep End of the Ocean (1996)
Jake La Motta wrote Raging Bull (1970)
James Bradley wrote Flags of our Fathers (2000)
James Carney wrote Playboy and the Yellow Lady (1986)
James Clavell wrote Tai-Pan (1983)
James Ellroy wrote Blood on the Moon (1984)
James Ellroy wrote L.A. Confidential (1990)
James Ellroy wrote Brown's Requiem (1981)
James Ellroy wrote The Black Dahlia (1987)
James Fenimore Cooper wrote The Last of the Mohicans (2001)
James Fogle wrote Drugstore Cowboy (1990)
James Fox wrote White Mischief (1982)
James Hadley Chase wrote Try This One for Size (1980)
James Hadley Chase wrote Miss Shumway Waves a Wand (1944)
James Hadley Chase wrote My Laugh Comes Last (1977)
James Hadley Chase wrote Just Another Sucker (1960)
James Hawes wrote Rancid Aluminium (1997)
James Herbert wrote The Fluke (1978)
James Herbert wrote Haunted (1989)
James Jones wrote The Thin Red Line (1962)
James Kirkwood wrote Some Kind of Hero (1975)
James Lee Burke wrote Heaven's Prisoner (1988)
James Lloyd Carr wrote A Month in the Country (1980)
James M. Cain wrote Butterfly (1946)
James M. Cain wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934)
James M. Cain wrote The Enchanted Isle (1985)
James McLendon wrote Eddie Macon's Run (1980)
James Oliver Curwood wrote Kazan, The Wolf-Dog (1914)
James Patterson wrote Kiss the Girls (1995)
James Patterson wrote Along Came Spider (1993)
James Siegel wrote Derailed (2003)
James Vance Marshall wrote A River Ran Out of Eden (1962)
Jamie Delano wrote Hellblazer: Original Sin (comic) (1992)
Jane Austen wrote Emma (2006)
Jane Austen wrote Persuasion (2006)
Jane Austen wrote Sense and Sensibility (2003)
Jane Austen wrote Emma (2006)
Jane Austen wrote Mansfield Park (2003)
Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice (1996)
Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice (1996)
Jane Hamilton wrote A Map of the World (1994)
Jane Rule wrote Desert of the Heart (1964)
Jane Smiley wrote A Thousand Acres (1991)
Janet Fitch wrote White Oleander (1999)
Janice Elliott wrote Secret Places (1981)
Jay Anson wrote The Amityville Horror (1977)
Jay Cocks wrote Gangs of New York (story)
Jay Cronley wrote Funny Farm (1985)
Jay Cronley wrote Good Vibes (1979)
Jay Cronley wrote Quick Change (1981)
Jay Presson Allen wrote Just Tell Me What You Want (1975)
Jean Auel wrote Clan of the Cave Bear (1980)
Jean Rhys wrote Quartet (1928)
Jean Rhys wrote Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Jean Shepherd wrote In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash (1966)
Jeff Deaver wrote The Bone Collector (1997)
Jeff Shaara wrote Gods and Generals (1996)
Jeffrey Eugenides wrote The Virgin Suicides (1993)
Jenaro Prieto wrote Socio, El (1928)
Jennifer Egan wrote Invisible Circus (1995)
Jennifer Weiner wrote In Her Shoes (2002)
Jere Cunningham wrote Hunter's Blood (1977)
Jeremy Leven wrote Creator (1980)
Jerry Stahl wrote Permanent Midnight: A Memoir (1995)
Jhumpa Lahiri wrote The Namesake (2003)
Jim Carroll wrote The Basketball Diaries (1978)
Jim Davis wrote Garfield (comic)
Jim Harrison wrote Revenge (1979)
Jim Harrison wrote Farmer (1976)
Jim Lovell wrote Lost Moon (1994)
Jim Schutze wrote Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge (1997)
Jim Thompson wrote Kill-Off (1986)
Jim Thompson wrote After Dark, My Sweet (1986)
Jim Thompson wrote The Grifters (1985)
Jim Thompson wrote The Getaway (1977)
Jim Thompson wrote A Swell Looking Babe (1953)
Joanne Harris wrote Chocolat (1998)
Joe Connelly wrote Bringing Out the Dead (1998)
Joe Gores wrote Hammett (1975)
Joe Klein wrote Primary Colors (1996)
John A. Keel wrote The Mothman Prophecies (1975)
John Adam Knight wrote Carnosaur (1984)
John Bayley wrote Elegy for Iris (1999)
John Berendt wrote Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1990)
John Bryson wrote Evil Angels (1985)
John Cleland wrote Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (2002)
John D. MacDonald wrote Flash of Green (1984)
John D. MacDonald wrote Executioners (1958)
John Ehle wrote Winter People (1982)
John Ehle wrote The Journey of August King (1971)
John F. Ryan wrote Little Brothers of St. Mortimer (1991)
John Fante wrote Ask the Dust (1939)
John Fowles wrote The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
John Godey wrote The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome (1972)
John Gregory Dunne wrote True Confessions (1977)
John Griesemer wrote No One Thinks of Greenland (2001)
John Grisham wrote The Firm (1991)
John Grisham wrote Pelican Brief (1992)
John Grisham wrote The Client (1993)
John Grisham wrote The Chamber (1994)
John Grisham wrote A Time to Kill (1989)
John Grisham wrote The Rainmaker (1995)
John Grisham wrote Runaway Jury (1996)
John Grisham wrote Skipping Christmas (2001)
John H. Groberg wrote In The Eye of The Storm (1994)
John Hale wrote The Whistle Blower (1984)
John Hawkes wrote The Blood Oranges (1972)
John Irving wrote The World According to Garp (1978)
John Irving wrote Hotel New Hampshire (1981)
John Irving wrote A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
John Irving wrote The Cider House Rules (1985)
John Irving wrote Widow For One Year (1998)
John Katzenback wrote In the Heat of the Night (1982)
John Katzenback wrote Just Cause (1992)
John Katzenback wrote Hart's War (1999)
John Le Carré wrote The Little Drummer Girl (1983)
John Le Carré wrote The Russia House (1989)
John Le Carré wrote The Tailor of Panama (1996)
John Le Carré wrote The Constant Gardener (2001)
John Lutz wrote Single White Female (1990)
John Lutz wrote The Ex (1996)
John Norman wrote Outlaw of Gor (1984)
John O'Brien wrote Leaving Las Vegas (1991)
John Ridley wrote Ici Commence l'Enfer (1988)
John Russo wrote Midnight (1980)
John Russo wrote The Majorettes (1979)
John Steakley wrote Vampires (1990)
John Steinbeck wrote Cannery Row (1939)
John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men (1937)
John Treadwell Nichols wrote The Milagro Beanfield War (1974)
John Treadwell Nichols wrote The Wizard of Loneliness (1966)
John Updike wrote The Witches of Eastwick (1984)
John Wagner wrote A History of Violence (1997)
John Westermann wrote Exit Wounds (1990)
John Wyndam wrote Midwich Cuckoos (1969)
Jon Cleary wrote High Road to China (1977)
Jonathan Harr wrote A Civil Action (1995)
Jonathan Nolan wrote Memento Mori (story)
Jonathan Safran Foer wrote Everything Is Illuminated (2002)
Joni Eareckson wrote Joni (1976)
Joseph Arnold Hayes wrote The Desperate Hours (1954)
Joseph Conrad wrote Victory (1921)
Joseph Conrad wrote The Secret Agent (1921)
Joseph D. Pistone wrote Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia (1987)
Joseph F. Girzone wrote Joshua (1983)
Joseph Finder wrote High Crimes (1998)
Joseph Kanon wrote The Good German (2001)
Joseph Olshan wrote Clara's Heart (1985)
Joseph Wambaugh wrote The Black Marble (1978)
Josephine Hart wrote Damage (1991)
Josephine Humphreys wrote Rich in Love (1987)
Joyce Carol Oates wrote Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993)
Joyce Cary wrote Mister Johnson (1939)
Joyce Maynard wrote To Die For (1992)
Judith Guest wrote Ordinary People (1976)
Jules Verne wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth (1956)
Jules Verne wrote La Jangada (1984)
Jules Verne wrote Around the World in 80 Days (2005)
Julia Sweeney wrote God Said, "Ha!" (1997)
Julian Barnes wrote Metroland (1980)
Jurek Becker wrote Jakob the Liar (1975)