Tuesday Top Ten: UK Authors

For today's Tuesday Top Ten, I'm sharing my favourite UK authors (in no particular order).

1) Hilary Mantel (1952-)
2) Jane Austen (1775-1817)
3) Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
4) Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)
5) Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)
6) John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
7) James Joyce (1882-1941)
8) Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
9) JRR Tolkien (1892-1973)
10) Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)