It's a thousand pages/ Give or take a few/ I'll be writing more/ In a week or two.

Bill Bryson.
Truman Capote.
Patricia Cornwell.
Roald Dahl.
Amitav Ghosh.
Guy de Maupassant.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Graham Greene.
Carl Hiaasen.
Helen Fielding.
Elmore Leonard.
Steve Martin.
Haruki Murakami.
Salman Rushdie.
Carl Sagan.
Paul Theroux.
(And Stephen King stays.)