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
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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
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. :)
I even tried to put a space between the "D" and the "I" to beat the auto-censor and it still censcored it lol.
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...
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....
Bill Bryson
Raymond E Feist
David Eddings
Ian Irvine
Elizabeth Jolley
C.S.Lewis
Tim Flannery
Michael Moore
Tom Clancy
John Grisham
I love
Raymond Feist
Jeffery Deaver
Michael Connelly
can i have a top 2 lol
virginia Andrews / V.C Andrews (even though another author since she died)
Jodi Picoult
Love
Jodi Picoult here too!
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!
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 ;)
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...
Virginia Andrews and John Grisham
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.
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. :)
Oooh sush I'm a bit too scared now :lol: 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 ;) )
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.
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...
- Kate Forsyth
- Terry Pratchett
- Neil Gaiman
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Anne McCaffrey
- Storm Constantine
- Douglas Adams
- Ben Elton
sophie kinsella
marion keyes
lousie bagshawe
Starfish you're my kind of reader!!
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
H. G. Wells
Haruki Murakami
Arthur Golden (even though he only wrote one book)
Iain (M.) Banks
J. R. R. Tolkien
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell
Edgar Allan Poe
John Steinbeck
I cheated, that's 11.
No women... I wonder why?
Bx
Jodi Picoult (The Pact is the best)
Marian Keyes
Virginia Andrews
Robin Hobb - Fantasy
Micheal connely - Crime
Christian Jacq - Egyptian Fantasy
Jules Watson - an Australian lady :)
Steven King - Speaks for itself :P
Patricia Cornwall - " "
Oh oh Cant forget Kathy Reitch! She is brilliant!!
And Hoobley, it looks like you share my taste as well. Love Pratchett, love the Culture. Add in JK Rowling - Deathly Hallows was awesome...:
Oh Hoobley you reminded me of a few more! especially Douglas Adams! I went back and added an 11th as well. I'd better check out Pratchett too then.
Cecilia Ahern
JK Rowling
John Marsden
Hi all, im a self confessed bookaholic so its typical of me to find this thread as soon as i join (do it everywhere lol)
Ok so my 10 fav authors are (and this is going to be hard):
Traci Harding (wonderfully talented Australian sci-fi writer and a lovely down to earth person)
Sara Douglass (another Aussie)
Barbara Erskine
Diana Gabaldon
Sara Donati
Kathy Reichs
Anne Bishop
Jeffery Deaver
Steve Berry
Jk Rowling
I'm there with Starfish, Hoobley and Schmickers!
- Neil Gaiman
- Iain M Banks
- Douglas Adams
- Haruki Murakami
- Neal Stephenson
- Jasper Fforde
- JK Rowling
- Umberto Eco (although I've only read one of his so far)
- Terry Pratchett
- George Orwell
- and then there's Herman Hesse, Will Self, William Gibson, Jeff Noon, Truman Capote, Hunter S, Peter Carey, Chuck Palahniuk, um, I'm really cheating now, aren't I, and could still go on for about a page!!
Karin Slaughter
Kathy Reichs
Jillian Hoffman
James Patterson
Charlaine Harris
Tami Hoag
Tess Gerritsen
Sue Grafton
JD Robb
Sophie Kinsella
Janet Evanovich
Just to name a select few!!! I LOVE THE LIBRARY!!!
Suse, I'm so impressed that you read a Umberto Eco book. I cannot read him, I find him sooo dry. I tried "Focaults Pendulum" and had to 86 it - couldn't stand it.
Fave authors for me...
Robin Hobb - but dont like her new Forrest Mage series
Raymond E Fiest - LOVE the Servant of the Empire series (extension of Magician)
Dave Duncan - Seventh Swordman series is my MOST FAVE fantasy series
Graham Greene - like both his spy stuff and his more humanistic stuff like A Burnt Out Case
George Orwell - the end of 1984 is haunting
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange - his invented language is marvellous
Iain Banks (same guy but without the M for his non sci fi stuff) - The Wasp Factory is a masterpeice
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War is both a great sci fi book and also an allegory to the Vietnam war
Fredrik Pohl - Gateway and the Heechee stuff keeps you thinking, also he is one of the early masters of sci fi
Thomas Hardy / George Eliot - Tess of the Durberville & The Mill on the Floss - same sort of story, same sort of era, both very, very good.
I know I'm already over...but can I just add the Bronte sisters?? They are great, especially Anne Bronte's The Tenent of Wildfell Hall.
Great topic!
Hee hee - I was pretty impressed with myself too for battling through Focault's Pendulum - it's not easy reading, that's for sure. I did feel rewarded at the end, but I'm still not sure because it was such a revelationary conclusion or because I'd actually made it through. A friend of mine jokes that he always has to read Eco's work with a dictionary and a packet of panadol on hand!:
I have a confession though - I've never been able to get through Lord of the Rings - I've tried to read The Hobbit about five times now and give up about half way through...! It's my inner shame - I was soooo glad when the movies were made!
Katharine Kerr The Deverry Series. I've read them since I was 15 and have re-read quite a few times since.
Suse...you're not alone! I read the Hobbit, but cannot, cannot read the LOTR no matter how many times I try..I get to the forrest where the trees sing and I'm over it! I too was happy for the movies!
I have a mate who we always give books as gifts and he gave me Focaults Pendulum a couple of years ago. When I had to confess that I couldn't read it, he confessed that he was using me as a guinea pig anyway to see if he should read it! :)
Dr. Seuss
Agatha Christie
Lori Wick (my Christian romance weakness :redface:)
Graeme Base
Max Lucado
Phillip Yancey
C.S. Lewis
I'm sure there are more...but I didn't want to put 10 just for the sake of it. :) I'll probably be back!
Jodi Picoult
Kathy Reichs
Minette Walters
JK Rowling
Nick Hornby
Jonathon Kellerman
Anne Rice
and... Jane Austen!
Jodi Picoult is the BEST author! The Pact is one of my fave books by her.
My all time favourite auther is Richard Brautigan... I would be so freaking excited if anybody here had even ever heard of him!!
Other than him I have favourite books more than authors although I haven't read a Bill Bryson book I didn't like so I guess I'd have to count him too.
I'm half-way through The Pact atm. My fave so far is My Sisters Keeper, although 19 minutes, Second Glance and Mercy are all great too. They all leave you thinking don't they? Other authors you read and then forget, but all Picoults I've read have left an impact.
In no particular order:
Margaret Mitchell
Sigrid Undset
Phillipa Gregory
Colleen McCullough
Margaret Atwood (didn't agree with everything in "The Handmaid's Tale", but her style is amazing)
LM Montgomery
:heartbeat:Leo Tolstoy:heartbeat:
:cryinglaugh:Oscar Wilde:cryinglaugh:
:crying:Hunter S Thompson:crying: (such a loss)
Noam Chomsky (the fact machine!)
Steven Hawking
Richard Dawkins
;)Anais Nin;)
Victor Kelleher
Isacc Asimov