If you don't know Sax Rohmer, you may know Fu Manchu. I know now it is the most politically incorrect series of books ever. It was sexist, racist, and pulp fiction at its worst. And I loved every darn one of the series. I don't know why. They couldn't have been worst for an impressionable female. If you don't know Isak Dinesen, think Meryl Streep in "Out of Africa" and then go to your library and check out her short stories. You'll be surprised. If you don't know Patricia Highsmith, think "Strangers on a Train" (Hitchcock version) and "The Amazing Mr. Riply." You see, you know them but you didn't know you knew them. Ruth Rendell is a suspense/mystery author. Her detective is Inspector Wexford. But how could I forget Jospehine Tey and Jane Austen and Emily Dickensen? (I didn't like poetry but I liked Emily) Bad on me. But there are more. I'm sure there are more, all tucked away on the dusty shelves of my memory. Never liked Heinlein but I did read Isaac Isimov. Ray Bradbury, to me, was never about science fiction. He was all about how prose could be lyrical. He made me believe even a tone deaf person like me might have songs to sing. Read him outloud. Music in words.