Depends on how you define “best”. Most well known? Most read? Most highly awarded? Wrote the most? “Best” is such a vague and useless term here. I’ll give it a go though.
Someone already mentioned Ursula K. Le Guin. So I’ll add a few more along with their likely most well known book
Mary Shelly (Frankenstein)
Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express)
Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights)
Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
Harper Lee (To kill a mockingbird)
Margaret Atwood (Handmaid’s Tale)
Laura Ingals Wilder (Little House on the Prairie)
Beatrix Potter (The tale of Peter rabbit)
Ann Frank (her diary)
Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind)
Anne McCaffrey (Dragonriders of Pern)
Octavia Butler (parable of the sower)
And just to spice it up a bit:
Hiromu Arakawa (Full metal alchemist)
I think that’s a good start. I’ll end it here or I’ll be here all day
Depends on how you define “best”. Most well known? Most read? Most highly awarded? Wrote the most? “Best” is such a vague and useless term here. I’ll give it a go though.
Someone already mentioned Ursula K. Le Guin. So I’ll add a few more along with their likely most well known book
And just to spice it up a bit:
I think that’s a good start. I’ll end it here or I’ll be here all day