your favourite authors

**Starfish** · September 17th, 2007, 11:20 PM

- Kate Forsyth
- Terry Pratchett
- Neil Gaiman
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Anne McCaffrey
- Storm Constantine
- Douglas Adams
- Ben Elton

***charmalea*** · September 18th, 2007, 08:05 AM

sophie kinsella
marion keyes
lousie bagshawe

paradise lost · September 18th, 2007, 08:25 AM

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

**Rachel** · September 20th, 2007, 09:45 PM

Jodi Picoult (The Pact is the best)
Marian Keyes
Virginia Andrews

**Kitty33** · September 20th, 2007, 09:50 PM

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!!

**Schmickers** · September 20th, 2007, 11:06 PM

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

And Hoobley, it looks like you share my taste as well. Love Pratchett, love the Culture. Add in JK Rowling - Deathly Hallows was awesome...

**Bathsheba** · September 20th, 2007, 11:17 PM

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.

**Beckibee** · September 21st, 2007, 11:16 PM

Cecilia Ahern
JK Rowling
John Marsden

LilyOfTheValley · November 17th, 2007, 07:00 PM

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

**suse** · November 17th, 2007, 07:54 PM

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!!

**Neatisme** · November 17th, 2007, 09:45 PM

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!!!

Chalalan · November 18th, 2007, 04:29 AM

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!

**suse** · November 18th, 2007, 11:08 AM

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.

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!

**tiffanny** · November 18th, 2007, 12:47 PM

Katharine Kerr The Deverry Series. I've read them since I was 15 and have re-read quite a few times since.

Chalalan · November 18th, 2007, 11:37 PM

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!