your favourite authors

[Phteven]

Who are your top 10 favourite authors?

Mine are (in no particular order)

• Jane Austen
• Bill Bryson
• Leo Tolstoy
• Charles ****ens
• Saki
• JK Rowling
• Tariq Ali
• Fatima Mernissi
• Ruth Rendell
• Philippa Gregory

[sushee]

I can't believe it censored ****ens! Lol!

In no particular order:

Karin Slaughter
James Patterson
Mo Hayder
Val McDermid
Thomas Harris
Alex Kava
Patricia Cornwell
Tess Gerritson
Richard Laymon
Jeffrey Deaver

There is a very definite pattern.

[Phteven]

I even tried to put a space between the "D" and the "I" to beat the auto-censor and it still censcored it lol.

[MantaRay]

Ok, let me see if I can come up with 10 without checking my bookshelf:

Ann Tyler
Maeve Binchy
Jodie Piccoult
Marian Keyes
Cathy Kelly
JRR Tolkein
Audrey Niffenegger
Dan Brown
Ken Follet
Joy Fielding

I am sure there are others I have missed out though...

[Bathsheba]

oooh what a challenge (not checking my bookshelf!)

C.S Lewis
J.R.R Tolkien
J.K Rowling
Dean Koontz
Steven King
Oscar Wilde
Frank Peretti
Katherine Mansfield
Lynne Reid Banks
Hector McDonald

I'm sure I have forgotten heaps....

[Pandora]

Bill Bryson
Raymond E Feist
David Eddings
Ian Irvine
Elizabeth Jolley
C.S.Lewis
Tim Flannery
Michael Moore
Tom Clancy
John Grisham

[krisp]

I love
Raymond Feist
Jeffery Deaver
Michael Connelly

[Astrolady]

can i have a top 2 lol

virginia Andrews / V.C Andrews (even though another author since she died)
Jodi Picoult

Love

[Junglemum]

Jodi Picoult here too!

[Alipralli]

Stephen King
Richard Layman
Dean Koontz
JK Rowling

I just read all of them over and over again - I think I am onto my 3rd copy of some Stephen King books

And I've never read anything else by Harper Lee, but "To Kill a Mockingbird" is, I think, my all-time favourite book ever. My copy is very battered, and pages have come unglued, but I still love it!

[Bathsheba]

Oooh Ali! I like your style I gave my youngest the middle name "Atticus" because i love "To Kill A Mockingbird" so much! I also love King and Koontz... makes me want to check out Layman with taste like that

[Alipralli]

Layman is fantastic! So nice and gory! If you decide to give him a go start with "One rainy night" - one of his best. So sad that he has passed away now, and therefore, no more books...woe is me...

[Mum0809]

Virginia Andrews and John Grisham

[Bathsheba]

LOL but I'm not 'into' gore overly. My favourite Steven King book is Insomnia, one of his least gorey. I like the spiritual theme. Same reason i love Koontz, even though he is scary/gorey I like his exploration of otherworldliness.

[sushee]

Bath, Layman is pretty dark, in that his characters are pretty twisted. But if you want a great 'opener' book of his, look for one called 'The Stake'. It was the first one I'd read of his and the best of his books, IMO.

[Bathsheba]

Oooh sush I'm a bit too scared now I find as I get older I have more 'empathy' for characters and scary books scare me more! (but i'll check Layman out next time at a bookstore anyhow.... just to satiate my curiosity )

[sushee]

Bath you'll find The Stake the least gorey of his books, if my memories serves me correctly. It was more humourous and subtle, not an out and out splatter fest.

[Ambah]

Isobelle Carmody
David Eddings
Raymond Feist
Bryce Courtenay
Haruki Murakami
JK Rowling

Hmmm, I'm sure there are others, but off the top of my head I can't remember...