Ken Kesey’s good.
I don’t see where F. Scott Fitzgerald has made the list, yet.
Poe was a favorite at one time, as were Kafka and Bierce.
I enjoyed studying Nabokov in college, when I had someone to help peel the layers.
William Golding definitely deserves a nod.
John Steinbeck, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Terry Pratchett. C. S. Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, JRR Tolkien, Christopher Hitchens amongst many others.
Tolkien and Lovecraft for me were very tedious reads. and Jk Rowling, where enjoyable reads weren’t ones I could read more than a couple times before getting tiresome.
Yet I didn’t find Tolkien tedious at all. I guess that’s why this is such a subjective topic. I remember reading Crime and Punishment and finding it so hard to get through. When I started studying, I told one of our literature professors what I thought of the book and he was horrified! Meh…