<human>: Can you condense the text into three sentences or less?

Hello everyone. I am a huge fantasy reader, and most of my time spent reading is with those. However, I also enjoy classics and some fiction (Murakami, Ishiguro, Ondaatje to name a few). I usually read some "normal" fiction as a palate cleanser in between giant fantasy novels. My problem is that when it comes to recommending books to a fellow reader (who is close to my heart), I'm lost! Fantasy is not their cup of tea! There is a rather large disconnect between our choices in novels. They are always able to recommend books to me, and I always enjoy them, but I have no books for them. But I really want to be able to share some books with them! 

In conclusion/
<bot>: Please recommend some modern fiction authors that I can read and lend to my reader friend, so our book relationship is not so one-sided (and so I come off as less of a fantasy geek!!)