fav authors

[butterflylover]

What's your favorite authors?Minea are James Patterson, Lisa Gardner,Lisa Jackson,L.J. Smith,Nora Roberts,Cassandra Clare,Heather Graham.

 

[jassilem]

Nora Roberts and Alison Tyler are two of my faves.

 

[Springsteen]

Stephen King, Richard Laymon, Herman Wouk, Harlan Coben, Ian Rankin, Charles Dickens, Tom Rob Smith, Dean Koontz and John Grisham.

 

[freakofnature]

J.R.R. Tolkien
C.S. Lewis
Ted Dekker
Anne McCaffrey
Terry Goodkind
Frank Peretti

 

[Kakapo Dundee]

Ian Fleming.

 

[Merciless]

Stephen King, John Grisham and Dean Koontz are my top favorite authors....

 

[dancingpotato]

Marian Keyes, Sophie Kinsella, among others

 

[Darrell]

H.P. Lovrcraft, Ian Fleming, Edgar Allen Poe, Jim Butcher, etc.

 

[Leah Love]

Jim Butcher
Stephen King
David Eddings
George R. R. Martin
Anne McCaffrey
Tatiana de Rosnay
Kim Harrison
Margaret Atwood
Tanya Huff

... and so on and so forth...

 

[Kyle B]

John Grisham, John Steinbeck, Hemingway, George Orwell.....

I honestly can't think of any others right now lol

 

[AnitaBeer]

Stephen King, Dean Koontz, James Patterson, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephanie Meyers, and I'm really enjoying some Sherrilyn Kenyon lately.

 

[End Of All]

Jack London, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, and good old Shakespeare.

I guess you could say that I dig the classics.

 

[pandandesign]

My favorite authors are Sarah Dessen, Elizabeth Scott, and Robin Jones Gunn. They are all Young Adult authors who write Contemporary and Romance novels.

 

[MyDigitalpoint]

Oh, my list of favorite authors include only old-fashioned names; Jules Verne, Lewis Carrol, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker

And when it comes to modern authors, I mostly like esoteric and metaphysical readings so I could only name authors such as Vernon Howard, Al G. Manning, Joseph Murphy, Sybil Leek and more.

 

[Kotro]

I definitely have my own personal pantheon of literary luminaries, but it's hard to rank one above the other, especially since styles often differ. Among the classics I really love Eça de Queirós, Italo Calvino, Dostoyevsky.
For a good laugh I feel comfortable turning to the likes of Tom Sharpe (the first couple of books in the Wilt series and Porterhouse Blue are among my top comedy novels). If I want to tone down on the slapstick and go for a bit of sarcasm, David Lodge is also a safe pick. Max Barry also has interesting, humourous views on the modern world.
If I want something light, the action-filled historical novels of Valerio Massimo Manfredi or Ket Follet usually scratch that itch.
When it comes to top tier literature, something to challenge me a bit more while still accessible, Umberto Eco and José Saramago are my favourites. Been getting a lot into Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel and Jonathan Franzen lately.
Umberto Eco is also among my favourites for non-fiction, along with Simon Schama and Jared Diamond.
Also, if you count comics as literature, then Alan Moore, Brian K. Vaughan and Lewis Trondheim reign supreme.