"I think this book was written by Heinlein, or maybe Scalzi"

[conuly]

Yes, well, those certainly are two sci-fi writers who could have written a sci-fi book!

On a related note, it may be a little snippy, but anytime somebody posts saying "This book is by Whoever Whatshisface" I just link to their booklist on their website. Because, honestly, why are you posting at /r/whatsthatbook without doing that first if you're so sure you know who wrote it? And if you went to their website and you didn't find the book that's probably because they didn't write the book after all.

(The one exception I've ever made to this rule was when the person was looking for a book by Asimov, because goodness he's prolific! But that's the standard. Whoever it is has to have a longer booklist than Isaac Asimov, and it is astonishing how many well-known writers have not written nearly as many books and short stories as he did.)

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[redbird]

There are also George Simenon (more than 400 books, half of them under pseudonyms) and the many-pseudonym'd Lionel Fanthorpe, but I suspect you don't get a lot of people trying to track down Fanthorpes.

[conuly]

It's evenly torn between kidlit and YA or romance. And other stuff, but those are the big two.