Top Ten Authors Who Deserve More Recognition

Today's topic over at The Broke and the Bookish is Top Ten Authors Who Deserve More Recognition.  It took me a while to make my list - a lot of books I have read recently have been by well-known authors - so I had to go back a little.  Here's my list of lesser-known authors who deserve some attention:

• Alice Kuipers, author of Life on the Refrigerator Door - I never would have guessed a novel written in short notes could make me sob!
• Ken Grimwood, author of Replay, perhaps my favorite book of all time, sometimes ignored simply because it's classified as science fiction (it's about a guy who keeps reliving part of his life).
• Jennifer Haigh, author of Baker Towers and Mrs. Kimble and The Condition (I loved the first two and have the third on my waiting-to-be-read shelf).
• Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author of Encyclopedia of an Extraordinary Life, a very fun and funny memoir and also author of numerous wonderful essays.
• Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between Us, a novel my book group loved.
• Mark Childress, author of One Mississippi, one of my favorite novels - I'm not sure if he's written anything else.
• Catherine Glidner, author of Too Close to the Falls, a wonderful memoir.
• Jenna Blum, author of Those Who Save Us, a complex and thought-provoking WW II novel.
• Roland Merullo, author of Breakfast with Buddha, a thought-provoking novel I was just recently thinking I'd like to read again.
• Kristin Hannah, author of Firefly Lane, again I'm not sure if she's written anything else, but I loved this novel.

How about you?  Which authors do you think deserve more recognition?


(If you're interested in my Top Ten list for kid/teen books, check out Great Books for Kids and Teens).