Who's your favorite author?

[Britt]

ok so i searched through and didn't see this thread anywhere..

so who is your fav author?!?!

jane austen, has always been one of my favorites...

[bashveank]

Currently it's probably Eric Nylund, he writes mostly action/sci-fi.
Though my favorite writer of all time is probably a tie between C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien.

[SawyerandClaire]

Dan Brown
Nancy Mckenzie
J.R.R. Tolkien

All three are AMAZING.

[AbsolutelyCurtains]

I'm a Clive Barker fanatic. I've read nearly all of his books and fully enjoyed them. His books remind me of Ray Bradbury a little, only less Sci-fi, way more horror/fantasy.

[stunnedtina]

Currently it's Ralph Compton (a western writer)

But lets see
JRR Tolkien
Anne Rice
JK Rowling :w00t:
Nora Roberts (some of her stuff is good)

[HeartsAndMinds]

Nicholas Sparks
JK Rowling
Bill Bryson

and a few others...I tend to read based on title/summary basis.

[nightskiesfading]

John Grisham, JRR Tolkein, and Robert Cook

[Deadman]

Terry Goodkind
Orson Scott Card
George R. R. Martin
Piers Anthony

[wastrel]

Terry Pratchett
Terry Goodkind
Douglas Adams
Hermann Hess
Dave Eggers
Chuck Palahniuk
Gregory Maguire
C.S. Lewis (minus the propaganda)
J.R.R. Tolkien (obligatory fantasy author)
Dan Brown (Angels and Demons, not so much DaVinci Code)

I'm sure there's more...

[you think?]

Stephen King (His books disturb me:o )
J.K. Rowling (For obvious reasons;) )
J.R.R. Tolkein (LOVE Lord of the Rings!:w00t: )

[@ctu@lLy L0$T]

Robert Ludlum
JK Rowling
Agatha Christie
Jeffrey Archer
Dean Koontz
J.R.R Tolkien
Tom Clancy
John Grisham
Dan Brown

[ShadedSkies]

I used to read a lot. But i don't anymore. Shame on me! :o

I like french psychology author Françoise Dolto, and also Mary Higgins Clark's books.

[bookworm]

general fic -
steinbeck:ahoy:
tolstoy:plotting:
atwood:eh:
kingsolver;)


scifi/fantasy -
bradbury(illustrated man, fahrenheit), :bowdown:
tolkien(hobbit and fellowship), :bounce:
anne rice (expecially witching hour and lestat):crazy:

[Deadman]

Terry Goodkind

What have you read of his?

[Broken_Dreamer]

J.R.R. Tolkien.
William Shakespeare.
:nod:

[VetteAMJ]

Dean R Knootz
John Saul
Stephen King

[thefilmchick]

Dividing it into rough categories and trying to keep it as modern as possible, minus a few important exceptions:

Favorite: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Also:

Fiction:
Hermann Hesse
Jerzy Kosinski
Chinua Achebe
Saul Bellow
Kurt Vonnegut
Flannery O'Connor
Liam O'Flaherty
Edna O'Brien
Salman Rushdie
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Italo Calvino
Joseph Heller
Gustav Hasford
Ramsey Campbell
Murasaki
Lewis Carroll
W. Somerset Maugham
Ursula K. LeGuin
Harlan Ellison
Joseph Conrad
Carl Hiaasen

Nonfiction:
Bobby Sands
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Kahlil Gibran
Thich Nhat Hanh
Carl Sagan
St. Ignatius Loyola
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
Mulla Sadra
Baruch Spinoza
Maimonides
Benjamin Cardozo
Thurgood Marshall

Drama:
August Strindberg
Wole Soyinka
Bertoldt Brecht
Harold Pinter
Ben Jonson

Poetry:
Philip Larkin
Wilfred Owen
Andrew Marvell
John Keats
Thomas Hardy (as a poet, not a fiction writer)

Miscellanea:
Dorothy Parker
Jonathan Swift
Ambrose Bierce
Mark Twain
G.K. Chesterton

[*Roxy*]

Fiction, romance, drama novels:

Nicholas Sparks
Lorraine Heath

Stand-alone book: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.

:)

[Hοelli]

Charles Dickens
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Joseph Conrad
C.S. Lewis
G.K. Chesterton
Malgorzata Musierowicz
Jan Twardowski
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Patricia MacLachlan

... ^^

[Arzt]

JRR Tolkien
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Michael Crichton
Aldous Huxley
Jane Austen
Robin Cook

[Cinderella85]

Jo Rowling
Lesley Pearse
Belinda Alexandra
Paullina Simons

All really really fantastic :heart:

[UndrTheSpotlight]

J.K Rowling
Judy Bloom
Emily Giffin
Dorothy Benton Frank
Marian Keyes

[Darkbear]

Stephen King
Amy Tan
Trudi Canavan
Terry Pratchet
Patricia Cornwell
David Gemmell
Dean Koontz
Jilly Cooper
Annie Proulx
Roald Dahl

[beauty_is_truth]

(In no particular order, obviously)

Emily Bronte
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oscar Wilde
Vladimir Nabokov
Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare
J.D Salinger
Sophocles
Arthur Miller

Plus more...

[thefilmchick]

You asked for it! (OK, you didn't really.)


Emily Bronte :tiphat:

Fyodor Dostoevsky :bowdown:

Oscar Wilde :lotsalove :letsparty

Vladimir Nabokov :shifty: :cool:

Charles Dickens :blahblah:

William Shakespeare :coolguy:

J.D Salinger :blank:

Sophocles :bawl:

Arthur Miller :blahblah:


Now you must rate mine with smilies. :plotting:

[Raven O'Reilly]

Personally I think Oscar Wilde should have gotten the :ahoy: smilie. ;)

[Audrine]

Mine are:

Henning Mankell (Swedish author)
Rimbaud + Baudelaire + Nelligan in the poetry section
Laclos (because Dangerous Liaisons is my favorite book of all time)
Love Amélie Nothomb too
Micheal Connelly

I'm thinking about reading in english this summer and I would like to have some suggestions of classic english books (I thought about Dickens, Shakespeare and Jame Austen)... What are the big big classics? (I don't like adventure novels a la Lord of the Rings or Narnia so not those)

[beauty_is_truth]

Now you must rate mine with smilies. :plotting:
I'm afraid I can't do that, I fear that you are quite the seasoned reader and I am just young and ignorant :rolleyes:

But, of the authors I HAVE actually read:

Fiction:
Hermann Hesse :tiphat:
Kurt Vonnegut :clap: :cloud9:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez :coolguy:
Lewis Carroll :cool:
Joseph Conrad :bowdown:

Nonfiction:
St. Ignatius Loyola :love: :bowdown:
Thurgood Marshall :eh:

Drama:
Bertoldt Brecht :lotsalove :bounce:
Harold Pinter :crazy:

Poetry:
John Keats :cloud9: :heart:
Thomas Hardy (as a poet, not a fiction writer) :cool:

Miscellanea:
Jonathan Swift :) :ahoy:
Mark Twain :hat:

Heh... that was fun. :D

[Britt]

Harper Lee & JRR Tolkien also my favorite authors..

[SnakesOnAPlane]

How fun!

Some repeats but they deserve to be repeated...I'll even make recommendations on their best books imo

Vladimir Nabokov (tie Lolita and Pale Fire)
Paul Bowles (The Sheltering Sky)
Tom Robbins (Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates)
Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)
Truman Capote (Music for Chameleons)
Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild)
Ian McEwan (The Cement Garden-- this book makes Boone and Shannon's incest look like a walk in the park)
Robert Graves (I, Claudius)
William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner)
Kurt Vonnegut (Cat's Cradle)

[ashhead]

Mine are all sci-fi /fantasy writers.
L.E. Modesitt
Robin Hobb
Terry Brooks
David Eddings
Tamora Pierce
Sherri Tepper

[selena]

Stephen King
Bret Easton Ellis
J.K Rowling
John Fowles
Dean Koontz
C.S Lewis
Jerome K. Jerome

[EvangelineLilly]

J.K.Rowling!:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

[Whit]

Louis Bromfield

[CoffeeCreams]

J.K. Rowling
And Nicholas Sparks
:bowdown:

[MissJones]

A Danish author named Lene Kaaberbøl and J.K. Rowling :w00t:

[Sarah Jane]

V.C. Andrews and Lurlene McDaniel are my favorite favorites.
Then it branches off to Caroline B. Cooney, Diane Hoh, Carol Ellis, Christopher Pike, R.L. Stine and a few others. =P

[Morgan Celestine]

I have way to many faves but i'll list a few

j.k.rowling (Harry potter :D :bowdown: legend!)
cate tietnan (wicca/sweep series)
anthony horowitz (power of five, alex rider books)
jrr tolkien (the hobbit, lotr)
meg cabot (mediator series, avalon high)

[Locke815]

My fave authors are,

Stephen King
James Herbert
Dean Koontz
Shaun Hutson
Alexander Kent

and last but not least, the superb J.R.R Tolkien. :D

[Vaporized]

Stephen King
Michael Crichton
Tom Clancy (well, some books anyways)

[BattleRoyale]

Stephen King, J.K.Rowling, and I would have more but school has kept me away from recreational reading.:o

[amidala]

Boris Vian...

[PsychodelicS]

Hi everybody,

I did a search and went trough all the pages of the thread, but I couldn't find this.. wich I think is weird..

Anyway,
I recently have a favourite writer .. :w00t:

Mike Gayle

I read his books in dutch, but they are originaly in English

He wrote:

My Legendary Girlfriend (Dutch: Mijn legendarische ex)
Mr. Commitment (Dutch: Mr. Commitment: trouwen of niet trouwen, dat is de vraag)
Turning Thirty (Dutch: Dertig!)Dinner for Two (Dutch: Diner For Two / Diner voor twee )
His 'n' Hers (Dutch: His 'n' hers)
Brand New Friend (Dutch: Brand New Friend)


So, what I want to know:

Who is your favourite writer? (could be more then one)

[Ems]

this is hard question,becouse there are so many diferent people from diferent countrys on this forum,and diferent countrys mean diferent cultures.For exemple,I`m from Bosnia,and my favourite writers are from Bosnia,so you probably never heard of them.
I also really like G.G.Marquez.he is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ctu@lLy L0$T]

Robert Ludlum...so many good books

Dan brown

[PsychodelicS]

this is hard question,becouse there are so many diferent people from diferent countrys on this forum,and diferent countrys mean diferent cultures.For exemple,I`m from Bosnia,and my favourite writers are from Bosnia,so you probably never heard of them.
I also really like G.G.Marquez.he is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well then just tell us a bit about them and we will have a better idea of who they are :)

[Ems]

Well then just tell us a bit about them and we will have a better idea of who they are :)


OK!
Two of the most famous bosnain writers are Mesa Selimovic and Ivo Andric.
"The Bridge On The Drina" is a masterpiece of literature. Bosnian Ivo Andrić received the Nobel Prize for Literature for this "novel" in 1961. He leads you through the thunderstorms that have been circling over the Balkans for centuries.

Mesa Selimovic is one of my favorite writers!¨His influance on other bosnian writer is huge! His masterpiece is "Death and the Dervish" , I highly recomend it!

[PsychodelicS]

Cool :)

We're learning about the balkanwars in history class at the moment :p lol

[HeartsAndMinds]

I like a few people:

Sidney Sheldon
Patricia Cornwell
Nelson DeMille
and like a lot of people on this forum I've read all the Harry Potter books
but my absolute favorite writer is Nicholas Sparks.

An alert to all other Nicholas Sparks fans (those who may not know) - his new novel is called "Dear John" and it's due out October 2006

[Demon]

Mercedes Lackey
R.A. Salvatore

Both of the Fantasy Genre. Lackey has amazing books, while Salvatore has awesome characters. *nod*

[lilfreakypixie]

A Few of My Faves are-
Dan Brown
Christopher Paolini
Anne Rice
Philip Pullman
Melvin Burgess
J.R.R Tolkien
Trudi Canavan
Eoin Colfer
Aidan Chambers
David Gemmel
Bill Bryson

[Vaporized]

Michael Crichton
Dan Brown
Tom Clancy
Stephen King

And I like Shakespeare too...

[WithTheDawn]

Whats with all the Dan Brown love? Meh...whatever.

Favorite author at the moment would be George RR Martin, author of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series. Check it out, awesome stuff.

[luminous]

Isabel Allende (My all time favourite)
Michael Cunningham (The Hours owns my soul)

don't realy remember any others... I mean, there are many authors whose books I love, they're just not favourites...

[ashhead]

Robin Hobb- my all time favourite
Tamora Pierce
Sheri S. Tepper
David Eddings
Terry Brooks
L. E. Modesitt
Diana Wynne Jones
Kate Elliott

[James Rieper]

Thomas Mann is currently at the top of my list. A lot of credit for that has to go to the new translations by John E. Woods.

Vladimir Nabokov is a charming, but I need to make time for more of his work. I really enjoyed "Pale Fire." And I learned from him that one should NEVER BORROW LOLITA FROM A PUBLIC LIBRARY. I read the whole thing and was kind of indifferent. Then a few years later I read an excerpt in a New York Times article and was like "I don't remember this part at all." So I went back to the library and found in small print on the title page: "Expurgated Version." I suppose the dust jacket would have said "sanitized for your protection" or something, but that had long since gone missing.

Ralph Ellison is cool, but he really only has one novel.

Richard Pevear and Laura Volokhonsky are putting out some really good Russian translations lately. I've liked almost everything except for their gloss on Dead Souls. Basically I've been putting off reading War and Peace until they finish working on it.

[Arzt]

Michael Crichton
Carl Sagan (I enjoyed Cosmos and Contact)
Charles Dickens
Eric Wilson
Margaret Atwood
JRR Tolkien
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Aldous Huxley
Ray Bradbury (short stories are great)
Dan Brown (Angels & Demons and Deception Point are awesome)

[RemieVandeross]

Orson Scott Card (of the Ender's Game series, and others) writes some really great fiction. The storylines themselves aren't necessarily that deep, but the conflicts he gives his characters are. Most of the time they relate to a higher idea, and I totally dig that.

I love a good Agatha Christie for a light, silly read. Especially in the bathtub. The perfect bathing books.

Harlan Coben is a fun new writer. It's all trash fiction, and all his characters are basically the same character (they have all the same attributes like witty, scathing, ironic, soforth), but they're still fun to read.

For the rest, I don't like particular authors as much as I like particular books. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Phillip K. Dick is a great read. "Twinkle, Twinkle 'Killer' Kane" by William Peter Blatty is insanely awesome (and Mr. Pibb and Red Vines = Crazy Delicious). I like a lot of classic children's literature like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, anything by Roald Dahl (and his short stories for adults are always worth it), and of course the Harry Potter series is a great summer read.

[BattleRoyale]

Stephen King, J. K. Rowling, Takami

[2tired2think]

JV Jones is an excellent female fantasy writer. It's kinda hit and miss with her. THe first book i read was "cavern of grey ice"...omg, she writes in such details and follows several characters, but not so many you become confused. unfortunatly, this book was a first in a triology, adn the second was a huge disappointment. haven't read the third. the Barbed Coil (a single book) is ok and the trilogy that starts with "the Baker's boy" holds your intrest and gets better as it goes along.

Tolkein, marion zimmer bradley, kaheil gibran, JK Rowling, Shakespeare, John Stewart, Noam Chomsky, .....

[IamLOST922]

As a great lover of books, it's so hard to pick a favorite author. There may be some books that are in my favorites list but it's the only one I've read by the author so I don't know if I should add them to my list or not! I'll just list my favorites that I have read more than one piece of work for:

Michael Crichton
JRR Tolkien
JK Rowling
Stephan King
Orsen Scott Card
Shakespeare

[RemieVandeross]

As a great lover of books, it's so hard to pick a favorite author. There may be some books that are in my favorites list but it's the only one I've read by the author so I don't know if I should add them to my list or not! I'll just list my favorites that I have read more than one piece of work for:

Michael Crichton
JRR Tolkien
JK Rowling
Stephan King
Orsen Scott Card
Shakespeare

^5 for Orson :) and Rowling.

[AbsolutelyCurtains]

Clive Barker is my favorite author. I can't get enough of his writing. And of course, Michael Crichton is incredible. I read Jurassic Park when I was sixteen and fell absolutely in love with the character of Ian Malcolm. :blank: Prey was also a very suspenseful book that kept me up all night turning page after page 'cause I couldn't wait to read what happened next.

[GandalfBot]

Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game was amazing) and JRR Tolkien!

[The Czar]

Tolkien, I love every single writing from him. From Farmer Giles to The Silmarillion.
Some people have said Nicholas Sparks, I can't stand him, his books are too quickly written and blah. I like deep stuff. Dostoyevsky is good too.

I LOVE Orson Scott Card. Speaker for the dead...yumm

[lykeomgzlol25]

Ray Bradbury (short stories are great)
Everything he wrote was my favorite from English this year (Fahrenheit 451, All Summer in a Day, There Will Come Soft Rains)

So my list is
- Ray Bradbury
- JK Rowling
- JD Salinger (I loved Catcher in the Rye)

[Cerasi]

Robin Hobb (The Faarseer trilogy is just amazing!)
J.R.R.Tolkien (He was an excellent author)
C.S.Lewis (I love Narnia, but the "Ransom trilogy" is pretty fascinating too)
Ray Bradbury (I really like his style)
Douglas Adams (Well..I just like his books..)

[Moony]

Tolkien, Rowling, Austen, Gabldon - that's for me:cool:

[crow]

J.K.Rowling- Harry Potter
Stephanie Meyer- Twilight <3<3<3<3<3

You MUST read that Book!!!!! Vampires....and romance of course but its amazing!! may even be a movie, plus a sequal and a third book are coming!! : )

[time froze]

the only author i can think of that i've loved everything i've read by them is probably Sylvia Plath (I love her writing and the way her words expresses things. The Bell Jar, her poems, and Ocean 1212-W from Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams)
and maybe Brian Caswell, esp for the ending of Double Exposure

i also like

Jostein Gaarder for Maya
JRR Tolkien for LOTR
Michael Gerard Bauer for The Running Man
Matthew Reilly for Ice Station and Hover Car Racer
Elizabeth Marek for Beyond the Waves
Dan Brown for Deception Point and Digital Fortress
Nicholas Sparks for The Rescue, and maybe Message in a Bottle
Tom Stoppard for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Jin Yong/Gum Yong (Louis Cha) for The Return of the Condor Heroes, i can't read chinese, so i've never actually read the book, but there's been many tv serials adapted from it. there's an unofficial translated english version at http://wuxiapedia.com/novels/jin_yong/divine_eagle_gallant_knight

[Locke For Mayor]

It's great to see all the love for Tolkien, I am a big fan of his (but I must admit, the LOTR movies spurred me into it).

I also really like John Steinbeck, East Of Eden is my favourite book of all time. It's incredible deep and profound while at the same time being very exciting (despite the fact that it was in Oprah's book club) Grapes Of Wrath is great too.

I would recommend that anyone who likes weird fiction check out Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

My favourite sci fi writer is James Alan Gardner. He's a fellow Canadian who is from the area where my wife came from, so I have to love him :) Commitment Hour is a great one from him.

[The Killers]

Frank E. Peretti is the best if your looking to be creeped out.

[Niniel]

JRR Tolkien. My absolute favorite.
Paulo Coelho
Douglas Adams
JK Rowling
Edgar Allan Poe

[Comet]

Anthony Horowitz.

I like other books by other people but I don't have any other favourites.

[Marie]

Jostein Gaarder

Sophie's world is such a fantastic book. And so is Through a glass, darkly He also have a book named The Christmas Mystery which I recommend to everyone whos interested in philosophy, the bible and history.

[Rex-the-hamster]

Jasper Fforde

His books are very clever and funny and based very heavily in the literary world. He had a series featuring a character named Thursday Next, which were great, but his latest series are just fabulous.

The first is called "The Big Over Easy" which is a very clever murder mystery about who killed Humpty Dumpty, and the latest one is "The Fourth Bear" where the lead detective Jack Spratt (who eats no fat he he) endeavours to find out what happened to Goldilocks and why the bears' 3 bowls of porridge are at such disparate temperatures when they were all poured at the same time...

Funny books for smart people is how one reviewer labelled them

[jonestown1408]

Jaun Rulfo is the absolute bees knees. he only wrote one book, Pedro Paramo, written in 1955. Search it out and buy it, you really won't be disappointed.
It begins with: i came to Comala because i had been told my father, a man named Pedro Paramo lived there. It was my mother who told me. and i promised her that after she died i would go see him.

[Anique]

J.R.R Tolkien
Marion Zimmer Bradley

I just love their work :love:

[*~Poosk~*]

J.R.R Tolkien
J.K Rowling
Anne Robillard (she's a french author :))

[Pauli27]

Tim Winton
and
John Steinbeck

[time froze]

Jostein Gaarder

Sophie's world is such a fantastic book. And so is Through a glass, darkly He also have a book named The Christmas Mystery which I recommend to everyone whos interested in philosophy, the bible and history.

yes, i thought the Christmas Mystery was fun but Sophie's World was too deep for me, though i liked the ending, i've seen the norwegian tv series of it, it's great
Maya's my favourite, it's beautiful

Tim Winton
i had to read Cloudstreet for eng and the 1st time i read it, i thought it was confusing and draggy, but then when i learnt about it in class, and read it again, i loved it. v. touching

[Boarhunter]

H.G. Wells
Tom Clancy
Whitley Strieber
S.M. Stirling

[DarkRockGirl990]

Hmmm...I'll narrow it down to five lol

Stephen King
Anne Rice (her OLD books)
Richard Bach (anyone read his books?)
Terry Goodkind
Robert Jordan (can't BELIEVE that he's dieing NOW)

[sawyers_lovrgrl]

Frank E. Peretti is the best if your looking to be creeped out.


I am going to read "This Present Darkness" soon. Which books of his have you read?

My favourite writers:

Nicholas Sparks
The Bronte sisters
Alexandre Dumas
Louisa May Alcott
Dee Henderson!
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Browning......

And MANY MANY more.

[Cowboykisses]

Sarra Manning Gutair Gil that book changed my life and my outlook on life and the way i talk :P

[VetteAMJ]

Dean R. Knootz and John Saul..

all time favorite childhood author is R. L. Stine
dang how i miss his books... i LOVED Fear Street.

[vands88]

Christopher Pike
:w00t: Another fan! I'm loving Christopher Pike at the moment. :D Also love J.K.Rowling of course and the other usuals, then I've also got some less-popular (but still brilliant) authors like Jacqueline Rayner on my list too. :D

[kingDOM815]

Patrick O'Brian (even though he is dead)
J.R.R. Tolkien (even though he is dead too)
Tamora Pierce

[Holli7555]

David Sedaris is a hero of mine. I also like Truman Capote and Stephen King.

[rya86n]

I know he writes for teens (well I'm still in that category for one more month), but his stuff has always interested me... All John Marsden's stuff is great!

[yoghurt-vicky]

Jodi Picoult has such a unique style - I enjoy all of her books from start to finish.

[Boarhunter]

J.R.R. Tolkien. I liked his short story "Farmer Giles of Ham"

[Fantasysci5]

J.R.R. Tolkien, without a doubt. The level of detail he made, like the history and the landscape and the languages just blow my mind away. He can describe a scene perfectly, and his characterization is wonderful. I love him to death.:w00t:

[Mystical]

Tolkien is a great author, Jane Austen's books are great, and I love JK Rowling's humour, but my favourite author is probably Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird is simply a masterpiece.

[Morgan Celestine]

J.R.R.Tolkien
JK Rowling
Stephenie Meyer
Meg Cabot
Cate Tietnan

I think that's it :D

[Hatsumomo]

Definitely JK Rowling :love:

I also love JRR Tolkien, Phillip Pullman, Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Agatha Christie, and Antonia Fraser. :love:

There are many, many more, but I can't think of them all :p

[you think?]

Stephen King:nod:

[amybrenneman]

Absolutely Stephenie Meyer !

thou i also love Meg Cabot and Ilkka Remes

[Rosie xx]

5. Ann Brashares
4. Mitch Albom
3. Jodi Picoult
2. Stephen King

... and at number one ... drum roll please ...

J.K. Rowling :D like, no duh ;)

[Haiwan]

J.R.R.Tolkien
JK Rowling
Stephen King

[WithTheDawn]

George RR Martin. Brilliant author, just brilliant. Check out his "A Song of Ice and Fire" series if you haven't already.

[Emily34]

Nicholas Sparks...cause I'm a hopeless romantic :giggle:
Stephanie Meyer...(see above)
Stephen King...because The Stand is one of my favorites
Shakespeare...nuff said

[Talosian Dave]

Clive Barker, JK Rowling, Stephen Donaldson, Steven King

:D

[Locke815]

J.R.R.Tolkien, Stephen King,Richard Laymon and Raymond E Fiest.

[Prince_Rajani]

Stephanie Meyer
Tara D.
J.R.R. Tolkein
Nicholas Sparks
Christine-Morton-Shaw
And my brother, Dustin :D He's brilliant.

And of course, JK Rowling.

[night_sky_dream]

Diana Gabaldon (Just for creating Jamie Fraser :p)

And Charlotte Bronte.

[matthew2]

Patricia Cornwell
James Patterson
Kathy Reichs

[Arctic Fox]

Darren Shan! :cool:

[Lose Control]

Jane Austen ;)

[badrobot!4]

J.k Rowling

[Martha_]

Agatha Christie!

[Picobello]

Tommy Jaud

[Line]

Karin Slaughter and John Katzenbach!

[luminous]

Isabel Allende (My all time favourite)
Michael Cunningham (The Hours owns my soul)

don't realy remember any others... I mean, there are many authors whose books I love, they're just not favourites...
Just adding a couple of names to my list:

- Sveva Casati Modignani (great, great italian novelist. her writing is simply brilliant!)
- Laura Esquivel (Like Water to Chocolate is one of my all time favourites)
- Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Firebrand got me through the worst period of my life, so far, and The Mists of Avalon were my biggest influence in my teenage years.)

Hum. I guess I have a thing for female writers writing female characters. Except for Michael Cunningham (who writes about women too, by the way!), it's a girly list. :)

[Starred]

My favorite author will always be Roald Dahl. :love:

[you think?]

Stephen King!

[Joshys_Girl]

I love the books from Joy Fielding. Karin Slaughter ist great, too.

[LadyIrina]

John Connolly.
Closely followed by James Lee Burke, Neil Gaiman, and Val McDermid.

[Amy88]

Georgette Heyer, JK Rowling, Jane Austen, Marion Keyes and Tolkien

[doc&freckles]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I know I have missed some accents but I don't know how to put them!:p)

[Locke815]

J R R Tolkien
Stephen King
Charles Dickens

[yggdrasill]

Piers Anthony
J.K. Rowling
J.R.R. Tolkien

[Exie]

What? I havent posted in this thread? :shock:

My all-time favorite writer is Stephen King. My next two favorites are Patricia Cornwell (crime novels) and Melanie Rawn (fantasy novels). I also like James Patterson.

[Iselin89]

My favourite writeris Tolkien. His books are breathtakingly beautiful.

Rowling of course, cuz.. ya know: Harry Potter is awesome.

Also I've started reading books by John Steinbeck. Of Mice And Men and The Pearl are both amazing books. So yeh: love him 2.

[rosegeorge]

Janet Fitch. Two words: "White Oleander"

Special mention to JK Rowling as well.

[irene520]

Robert McCammon (I only read 1 book by him and that was swan song, but that book was enough to call him my favorite author, read it, its amazing!)

Stephen king

[xXxDreamalityxXx]

I love a truckload of authors, but my favourites are Hemingway, Jodie Picoult, Roald Dahl, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Emily Bronte, Nicholas Sparks, Stephanie Meyer, Tolstoy and Charles Dickens.

But my ALL-TIME favourite has to be Danielle Steel. HRH was an amazing book, as was No Greater Love and Echoes.

[demented drummer]

Charles Dickens
John Steinbeck
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
George Orwell
Stephen King
Victor Hugo
J.R.R Tolkein
William Golding
C.S Lewis
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
James Joyce
J.D Salinger
Harper Lee

If i had to pick my absolute favourite, it would be Roald Dahl. :love:

[Fall of Reach]

Absolute Favorite is:

Chuck Palahniuk

I also enjoy, Pierre Boulle, Frank Herbert, William S. Burroughs and Phillip K. Dick.

[Caroo]

John Steinbeck is my absolute favourite, followed by Jane Austen. Oh and of course Shakespeare.

[liz815]

John Steinbeck is my absolute favourite, followed by Jane Austen. Oh and of course Shakespeare.

Mine is exactly the same.:D

[MikeySSC]

H.p Lovecraft.

closely followed by Lafcadio Hearn.

[InspiredByAKiss*]

I love so many. :blank:

JK Rowling is my # 1 I think. I've reread the HP series more than any other book I own.

Other than that, I love Suzanne Brockmann (Troubleshooters) and Tara Janzen in the action/romance genre; Robert Jordan and George RR Martin in the fantasy world, Sarah Dessen, Scott Westerfeld, Jodi Picoult, Meg Cabot and LJ Smith. Oh, and Joseph Finder.

I've tried reading Jane Austen, but her books bore me to sleep. -runs and hides-

And when I was a kid, I loved the Animorphs books.

[L'Étrange]

I adore J.D. Salinger :) And I also like Orwell, Rowling, and various others.

[gypsea]

I worship Haruki Murakami.

[Thglance]

Gotta be Stephen King....one of the best in my opinion

[aldebaran]

Let's see... um... not J.K. Rowling. :p

Madeline L'Engle is def. near the top of my list. I also love Connie Willis, although it often feels as if no one else has heard of her (which is sad, since she's amazing). And I'll throw my obligatory chip in for Jane Austen, as well.

[Cowboykisses]

Sebastian Faulks (Totally fell in love with Stephen and Weir in Birdsong which is book you must read)
Margaret Atwood (Once again love her characters, Offred is love, and her unique narrative is amazing)
Posey Greame Evans (Wrote my all time favourite book, The Beloved, just an amazing author)

Someone said Larkin was thier favourite poet, may i ask why?