And what do you read? Gacked from friend Digitsiren's LJ....

[silverthorne]

Instructions: Take this list of authors, remove those whose efforts do not grace your shelves, and bring the list up to ten by adding some more that do. New paragraph indicates newly-added authors.

Dean Koontz
Anne Rice
Stephen King
Robert McCammon
Terry Goodkind

Mercedes Lackey
JK Rowling
JRR Tolkien
Yukio Mishima
Clive Barker

(There's tons more, but those are the ones I currently can think of off the top of my head. We have like ten bookcases FULL of books....)