Here's mine.. 1. Graham Greene 2. JRR Tolkien 3. Iain Banks 4. Dostoevsky 5. Robert Harris Ian McEwan would be up there too but "Amsterdam" was a letdown.. special mention also to Louis de BerniƩres..
Thomas Berger Friedrich Nietzsche Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro "House of the Fortunate Budas" - about a female sexual libertine
thomas thompson alphabet zooland http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000690034/Alphabet-Zoo.aspx
J.J.R. Tolkien Captain W.E. Johns Stephen E. Ambrose C.S. Lewis Stargate novel authors (Theres a few to name)