Okay here is a list (it combines authors with specific titles because some you will totally want to read all of what the person wrote)

Jane Austen

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

A Separate Peace - John Knowles

Dispatches - Michael Herr

Faulkner

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson

Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

Why I Live at the PO - Eudora Welty (a short story)

Flannery O'Connor

Gospel Hour - T.R. Pearson

Dorothy Sayers

Agatha Christie