January 1, 1919

J.D. Salinger

Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories

 

January 2, 1920

Isaac Asimov

Fantastic Voyage, Foundation Series

 

January 3, 1892

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit

 

January 6, 1931

E.L. Doctorow

Ragtime, World’s Fair

 

January 7, 1903

Zora Neale Hurston

They’re Eyes Were Watching God, Jonah’s Gourd Vine

 

January 8, 1944

Terry Brooks

The Shannara Series

 

January 12, 1876

Jack London

Call of the Wild, White Fang

 

January 12, 1952

Walter Mosley

Devil in a Blue Dress, Easy Rawlins’ Mystery Series

 

January 12, 1949

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore, 1Q84

 

January 15, 1933

Ernest Gaines

A Gathering of Old Men, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

 

January 18, 1882

A.A. Milne

Winnie the Pooh Series

 

January 19, 1809

Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, Short Stories

 

January 19, 1921

Patricia Highsmith

The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Price of Salt (aka Carol)

 

January 19, 1946

Julian Barnes

Atonement, Saturday, The Sense of An Ending

 

January 24, 1862

Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome

 

January 25, 1874

Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage

 

January 25, 1882

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse

 

January 29, 1860

Anton Chekhov

Three Sisters, The Seagull, Short Stories

 

January 27, 1832

Lewis Carroll

Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass

 

January 31, 1872

Zane Grey

The Westerners, Riders of the Purple Sage