People have already covered the major authors so I’m going to give a shout out to Torkil Lauesen.
He had a good interview on RevLeft Radio and an okay one on The Deprogram if you want to get a feel for what he’s like.
Professor Roland Boer, he is afaik the only non-Chinese professor of Marxism in all of China and studies marxism, Chinese socialism, and religious belief and spirituality from a marxist perspective. These are my recommendations for books, with the first one being my all time suggestion for people:
- Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners
- Red Theology: On the Christian Communist Tradition
- Criticism of Heaven
Most of his books are free on his website or around the internet
Do scripts for movies count? If so, Simon Pegg.
Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton
Of what I’ve read so far, gotta be Parenti.