Science fiction author and many time bestseller Dean Koontz earned $19 million over the past year. Koontz is most famous for his books "Demon Seed" and "Strangers." "Strangers" features a group of people with equally odd illnesses who meet up in the desert to try to figure out what's happened to them. In true science fiction fashion, aliens are involved.

Strangers, by Dean Koontz, Berkley, 704 pp.