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[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Depends on how you define "best". Most well known? Most read? Most highly awarded? Wrote the most? "Best" is such a vague and useless term here. I'll give it a go though.

Someone already mentioned Ursula K. Le Guin. So I'll add a few more along with their likely most well known book

  • Mary Shelly (Frankenstein)
  • Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express)
  • Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights)
  • Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
  • Harper Lee (To kill a mockingbird)
  • Margaret Atwood (Handmaid's Tale)
  • Laura Ingals Wilder (Little House on the Prairie)
  • Beatrix Potter (The tale of Peter rabbit)
  • Ann Frank (her diary)
  • Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind)
  • Anne McCaffrey (Dragonriders of Pern)
  • Octavia Butler (parable of the sower)

And just to spice it up a bit:

  • Hiromu Arakawa (Full metal alchemist)

I think that's a good start. I'll end it here or I'll be here all day