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## Lists by genre

* Bestsellers
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* Children's literature
* Christian fiction
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* Drama
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## Lists by language (non-English)

* Ancient Greek
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* Dutch
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* Persian
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* Swedish
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* Turkish
* Ukrainian
* Urdu
* Welsh
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## Lists by ethnicity or nationality

* African writers
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* Albanian writers
* Algerian writers
* American writers
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* Armenian authors
* Asian-American writers
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* Australian authors
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* Spanish writers
* South African writers
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* Taiwanese authors
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* Trinidad and Tobago writers
* Ukrainian writers
* Ugandan writers
* Uruguayan authors
* Venezuelan writers
* Zimbabwean writers
General
* Exophonic writers
* LGBT writers
* Non-binary writers
* Military writers
* Novelists by nationality
* Playwrights by nationality and date of birth
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## Lists of women writers and works

Main list
* Women writers: (A-L), (M-Z)
By country
* Albanian women writers
* Algerian women writers
* Argentine women writers
* Austrian women writers
* Azerbaijani women writers
* Bangladeshi women writers
* Belgian women writers
* Bolivian women writers
* Bosnia and Herzegovina women writers
* Brazilian women writers
* Bulgarian women writers
* Chilean women writers
* Chinese women writers
* Colombian women writers
* Croatian women writers
* Cuban women writers
* Czech women writers
* Danish women writers
* Dutch women writers
* Ecuadorian women writers
* Egyptian women writers
* Estonian women writers
* Faroese women writers
* Filipino women writers
* Finnish women writers
* French women writers
* German women writers
* Ghanaian women writers
* Greek women writers
* Guatemalan women writers
* Guyanese women writers
* Hungarian women writers
* Icelandic women writers
* Indian women writers
* Indonesian women writers
* Iranian women writers
* Irish women writers
* Italian women writers
* Ivorian women writers
* Japanese women writers
* Jamaican women writers
* Kenyan women writers
* Korean women writers
* Latvian women writers
* Lebanese women writers
* Lithuanian women writers
* Luxembourg women writers
* Macedonian women writers
* Malaysian women writers
* Mexican women writers
* Moroccan women writers
* New Zealand women writers
* Nicaraguan women writers
* Nigerian women writers
* Norwegian women writers
* Pakistani women writers
* Panamanian women writers
* Paraguayan women writers
* Peruvian women writers
* Polish women writers
* Portuguese women writers
* Puerto Rican women writers
* Romanian women writers
* Russian women writers
* Senegalese women writers
* Serbian women writers
* Slovak women writers
* Slovenian women writers
* South African women writers
* Spanish women writers
* Swedish women writers
* Swiss women writers
* Trinidad and Tobago women writers
* Tunisian women writers
* Turkish women writers
* Ugandan women writers
* Ukrainian women writers
* Uruguayan women writers
* Welsh women writers
* Zimbabwean women writers
Other lists of women writers
* Women comics creators
* Women cookbook writers
* Early-modern British women novelists
* Early-modern British women playwrights
* Early-modern British women poets
* Women electronic writers
* Women experimental writers
* Women detective/mystery writers
* Women Nobel laureates
* Women poets
* Modernist women writers
* Women printers/publishers before 1800
* Women rhetoricians
* Women science fiction authors
* Biographical dictionaries of women writers in English
* Norton Anthology of Literature by Women
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## Lists by publisher

* List of Alfred A. Knopf authors
* List of Minerva Press authors
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