this is my own compilation
source: http://m.ranker.com/list/best-novelists-of-all-time/ranker-books

now the list begins

1.Charles Dickens: one of the grand masters of Victoria literature.he was born on February 7th 1812 in landport,portsea England.he died in Kent on June 9 1870.his literary works include:Great expectations,A tale of two cities,oliver twist and many others

2.John Steinbeck1902-1968) winner of the Nobel prize in literature achieve prominence in 1935 when he published tortilla flat,he went on to write more than 25 more novels including the grape of wraths and the mice of men.

3.Edgar Alan Poe: author,poet,literary critic.Edgar is credited with the pioneering of short stories genre,inventing detection fiction as well as science fiction. his notable works include complete tales and poems of Edgar Alan Poe

4.Mark Twain: Mark twain(1835-1910) was an American humorist,satirist,social critic,lecturer and novelist.he is mostly remembered for his works the adventures of Huckleberry Finn,and the adventures of Tom Sawyer

5.George Orwell(1903-1950) was born in India and served with the imperial police in Burma before joining the republican army in the Spanish civil war.he was the author of six novels as well as numerous essays of non-fiction works.his notable works include 1974(signer classics),animal farm.etcetera

where are the rest of 'em...

please I'm hungry,make I chop first I go continue d compilation later and my battery is low too

If you dont include Dan Brown and J. K Rowlings,then forget your list is a joke.