Who is your favourite author?

Allie_71
Allie_71 Posts: 1,063 Member
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Is there an author you particularly enjoy? What do you like about their writing?

I would love any suggestions. I tend to stick to who I know and I'd welcome any ideas on new authors. Genre is really not important to me. I'm pretty open minded.

Thank you! :heart:
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  • Nikki31104
    Nikki31104 Posts: 816 Member
    Currently it is J R Ward. She just knows how to bring a story to life. I have read about 15 of her books and I actually miss the characters. I have been thinking of reading them again. I have only met one person that did not enjoy her books but that lady only reads Danielle Steel.
  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
    "Office Girl" by Joe Meno is funny...in a messed up sad sort of way.
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,733 Member
    Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke immediately spring to mind.
  • Ashley_Panda
    Ashley_Panda Posts: 1,404 Member
    Jodi Picoult
  • mummyzena
    mummyzena Posts: 259 Member
    Sebastian faulks, ian mcewan and phillipa gregory
  • Tuala42
    Tuala42 Posts: 274 Member
    Juliet Marillier
  • SANDRA_F26
    SANDRA_F26 Posts: 180
    I really like Nora Roberts, Daniell Steel, James Patterson, Diane Palmer, j.r rowling, j.r.r.tolken hope spelled that right.
  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
    Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke immediately spring to mind.

    Heinlein is awesome. I just bought a collection of his stories so that my oldest son could give them a try.

    Harlan Ellison has always been a favorite of mine.
  • crazytreelady
    crazytreelady Posts: 752 Member
    Fav is Robert R. McCammon

    Mostly horrors
  • gfedex
    gfedex Posts: 226 Member
    I've enjoyed several of Malcolm Gladwell's works, as well as Bill Bryson's.
  • dfurton83
    dfurton83 Posts: 36 Member
    JD Robb I love her 'In Death' Series they take place in the near future and are very entertaining. I can't put her books down.
  • wikitbikit
    wikitbikit Posts: 518 Member
    For writing style alone, Andrew Vachss and Gillian Flynn.
  • DownsizingDiva81
    DownsizingDiva81 Posts: 1 Member
    My favorite author is John Grisham. I love novels about law and I love the way he leaves me spellbound until the last page :)
  • flatbellybella
    flatbellybella Posts: 303 Member
    Althea Romig
    ;)
  • Spartan_Maker
    Spartan_Maker Posts: 683 Member
    I could read Mark Twain all day, every day, and over and over again.

    Wit and satire, of course.
  • queenbear5
    queenbear5 Posts: 76 Member
    Stephen King. My favorite book of his so far is 11/22/63. The worlds he creates are entrancing in their authenticity.
  • gbbhey
    gbbhey Posts: 188
    Chuck Pahlaniuk and Kurt Vonnegut for a good laugh yet serious gut check sometimes.

    Stephen King's older stuff was incredible (There's gonna be a Shining Sequel!)

    Orwell, of course.

    And Max Brooks for World War Z! (Just remembered Walking Dead is on tonight, I better get to the gym soon).

    George Carlin's books are great too. That dude can write.
  • christabel6
    christabel6 Posts: 173 Member
    I read a lot of 'book-u-mentary' style books, just for interest as they are often well written and tell a fascinating human story that's as good as a novel. Brunelleschi's Dome is fab, it's the story of how they put the dome on top of the Duomo in Florence, which was designed without them knowing how they'd complete it. There's very little architecture and a lot of politics and egos :-)

    Ross King has written a number of books in that style. Dava Sobel ('Galileo's daughter') has also produced some fascinating work.
  • sgrubby
    sgrubby Posts: 103 Member
    Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke immediately spring to mind.

    Heinlein is awesome. I just bought a collection of his stories so that my oldest son could give them a try.

    Harlan Ellison has always been a favorite of mine.
    I like Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury alot
  • heatherloveslifting
    heatherloveslifting Posts: 1,428 Member
    Favorite newer author: Lois Lowry :heart:
  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
    Robert Crais Two Minute Rule was banging, I could read it over and over again
  • keith0373
    keith0373 Posts: 2,154 Member
    Robert Jordan, Brandon Sandersone, Joe Abercrombie, George RR Martin, Robin Hobb, Jim Butcher. All good Fantasy stuff, but big long books with big long series, I find the Jordan stuff to be the best because of writing style and character development, but he, combined with Sanderson(after Jordan died) had a lot of pages to develop characters.
  • andyisandy
    andyisandy Posts: 433 Member
    Terry Goodkind! The sword of truth series is my favorite and i have read wizard first rule a thousand times
  • TheLuSir
    TheLuSir Posts: 1,674 Member
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Wordy but brilliant!
  • LMT2012
    LMT2012 Posts: 697 Member
    Malcolm Gladwell for non-fiction interest. Oscar Wilde and Larry McMurtry for humor and nuanced story telling.
  • TrishLG
    TrishLG Posts: 173 Member
    Sandra Brown
  • sally_jeffswife
    sally_jeffswife Posts: 766 Member
    I really Love all the Vanessa Davis Griggs Books, I also like the Beverly Jenkins books. I like John Grisham books, Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear books,Katherine Valentine,Dr Gregory Boyd, and Norman Geisler and Frank Turek, and Ravi Zacharias.
  • _Pseudonymous_
    _Pseudonymous_ Posts: 1,671 Member
    I am currently a big fan of Chris Cleave. He has a fantastic and poetic writing style. His books are more serious and dark but.its beautiful. Little Bee is one of my favorite books.

    Jane Green is my favorite guilty pleasure chick books.

    Scj-if/fantasy my favorite easy reading are Anne Bishop and Laurel K. Hamilton.

    Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson, and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguru.

    Also, if you want some very entertaining reading check out Christopher Moore.

    Classic, Vonnegut. You can never go wrong with Kurt Vonnegut.
  • timpicks
    timpicks Posts: 151 Member
    I'm currently on a Faulkner kick and am re-reading "Absalom, Absalom"--it's intense but worth it. Some more accessible recommendations: The Known World by Edward P Jones; The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht; A Fairly Good Time by Mavis Gallant; Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler; Arabian Sands by William Thesiger; Iberia by James Michener. And anything by Charles Portis.
  • benol1
    benol1 Posts: 867 Member
    Cormac McCarthy: I discovered his writings half-way through last year and have read about four or five of his novels to date. McCarthy is one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century.
    Also, John Le Carre is legendary.
    Right now, I am reading some histories of this island state so my fiction reading is on hold for the time being.
    kind regards,

    Ben

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