I read stuff!

Instructions: Take this list of authors, remove those whose efforts do not grace your shelves, and bring the list up to ten by adding some more that do. New paragraph indicates newly-added authors.

William Shakespeare
Neil Gaiman
William Gibson
Neal Stephenson
Harlan Ellison
H.P. Lovecraft

Paul Auster
Kathy Acker
Armistead Maupin
Douglas Coupland

(snarfed from