DauntlessTribute Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 I'm not that well-read, but I'll give you the authors that have caught my attention already: 1. J.K Rowling - because genius 2. Jandy Nelson - because "I'll Give You The Sun" is literally everything 3. Harper Lee - no explanation needed 4. Veronica Roth - a young supertalented author who wrote my favorite YA-serie 5. Sara Bergmark Elfgren - a Swedish author who has written "The Circle"-triology together with Mats Strandberg. Very charismatic and clever. 6. Tahereh Mafi - the Shatter Me series is beautifully written 7. Joyce Carol Oates 8. Suzanne Collins 9. Becca Fitzpatrick 10. Astrid Lindgren - even if I'm no longer reading her books I will always bear her stories with me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyM Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Whittling down the list to only 10 is very hard but here goes:- Kazuo Ishiguro Jane Austen Georgina Harding Jo Baker Kate Atkinson Tracy Chevalier Helen Dunmore Thomas Hardy Tim Winton George Orwell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sazza Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Wow this could be difficult. In no particular order; Jane Austen JK Rowling Jane Green Katie Flynn Milly Johnson Khaled Hosseini Penny Vincenzi CS Lewis Katie Fforde Jodi Picoult Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted June 1, 2016 Author Share Posted June 1, 2016 You're the first person here at least since a couple of years, who also likes Penny Vicenzi! I quite like her books too . I've read most of them, except Sheer Abandon, Almost a Crime and her The Spoils of Time trilogy. Nice to 'meet' another fan . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sazza Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 You're the first person here at least since a couple of years, who also likes Penny Vicenzi! I quite like her books too . I've read most of them, except Sheer Abandon, Almost a Crime and her The Spoils of Time trilogy. Nice to 'meet' another fan . I'm the same. They are all sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be read. She knows how to draw you in. Her books are huge though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtrpath27 Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 (edited) This was actually quite a tough one. It was difficult for me to separate someone who wrote a book that I've liked from someone whose writing is really my favorite. As such, my list didn't make it to ten, but it's a solid list of authors whose work I am pretty much guaranteed to like. Jasper Fforde Alan Bradley Higashino Keigo Masha Hamilton Margaret Atwood Louisa May Alcott M.R. Carey (coming to be...it's 2 for 2 with him so far, so it's a bit early to tell, but there's definitely promise.) Edited June 1, 2016 by dtrpath27 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracy18 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 JK Rowling Stephen King Harper Lee Dan Brown Khaled Hosseneni Paulo Coelho Haruki Murakami George RR Martin Enid Blyton Agatha Christie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bibliophagus Beagle Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 Very tough. Terry Pratchett George Orwell Stephen King Mark Twain Rudyard Kipling RA Salvatore (Drizzt books are a guilty pleasure - like Jack Reacher books) Richard Dawkins Alexandre Dumas Charles Dickens Neil Gaiman Just missing out: Shakespeare (he'll do fine without my adoration, I'm sure) Lee Child (love Jack Reacher, who is not Tom Cruise!) George RR Martin Joe Abercrombie Robin Hobb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onion Budgie Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 Here's my Top 10: William S. Burroughs Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Truman Capote Helene Hanff Michael Carson Agatha Christie Joe Orton Neil Bartlett E.M. Forster John Rechy I haven't read many of Forster's novels yet, but I was running out of favourites by the end of the list! John Rechy's writing is rather like that little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead. (When he is good, he is very very good, but when he is bad he is horrid.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lau_Lou Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 This is a hard question to answer because I haven't read enough authors to be able to name 10. The following authors I have read more than one book and enjoyed them. These are not in order and may change 1) Arthur Conan Doyle 2) Sophie Kinsella 3) Charles Dickens 4) Cecelia Ahern 5) Jaqueline Wilson (haven't read any of her recent books but was a huge fan as a teenager) 6) Stephen King 7) Helen fielding 8) Philippa Gregory I am also adding Emily Bronte and Mary Shelley as I have only read one novel from each and they are amongst my all time favourite books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 (edited) This was harder than my top 10 books! Pearl S.. Buck Stephen King Ken Follett Lee Child Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn John Steinbeck Elie Wiesel Phillip K. Dick Allison Weir Anne Applebaum Mine have changed! I keep Pearl S Buck Alison Wier Philip K Dick Elie Wiesel Stephen King Lee Child John Steinbeck And add: Philippa Gregory Jodi Picoult Margaret Attwood Missing is Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver Edited October 12, 2016 by Anna Begins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 I need to revise my choices too: Sebastian Faulks (although I have only loved two of his books, I loved them a lot!!) Kristin Hannah Carlos Ruiz Zafon Jojo Moyes Markus Zusak Audrey Niffenegger Charlaine Harris Thomas Harris Victoria Hislop Daphne Du Maurier New to add: Vanessa Diffenbaugh (she would now top the list) Anna Hope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achanius Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 1. Joe Abercrombie 2. John Green 3. Jay Asher 4. George R. R. Martin 5. Homer 6. Terry Pratchett 7. J. R. R. Tolkien 8. Anne Rice 9. William Shakespeare 10. Max Frisch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnajYelrebmik Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Sophie Hannah Tess Gerritsen Martina Cole Denise Grover Sfiddle Jojo Moyes Lucy Diamond Mary Kubica Liane Moriarty Mark Edwards Helen Fitzgerald Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MsBooberella Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 (edited) My top 10 right now (in no particular order) 1. Pepper Winters 2. Karen Marie Moning 3. C.L. Wilson 4. Tiffany Reisz 5. Kristen Ashley 6. Jennifer L. Armentrout 7. Suzanne Collins 8. Lora Leigh 9. Stephanie Laurens 10. J.K. Rowling Edited October 30, 2016 by MsBooberella Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted October 30, 2016 Author Share Posted October 30, 2016 I don't know Lora Leigh, but you mentioned her twice. So you have room for one more author . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MsBooberella Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 I don't know Lora Leigh, but you mentioned her twice. So you have room for one more author . Hahaha thank you for telling me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sargasso Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 This list isn't in any kind of order and is subject to change at short notice. Jorge Luis Borges Kazuo Ishiguro John le Carre Anton Chekhov Vladimir Nabokov George Orwell Patricia Highsmith Robert Aickman M R James Shirley Jackson Bubbling under - Grahame Greene Walter de la Mare John Fowles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vodkafan Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 Mine is not too hard, and my top two choices will probably surprise nobody! Jack Vance George Gissing Frank Herbert Jane Austen Bill Bryson Samuel R Delaney Richard Dawkins Marcus Chown Ali Smith Neil Gaiman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEV67 Posted April 21, 2017 Share Posted April 21, 2017 George MacDonald Fraser David Lodge Larry McMurtry George Orwell J.R.R. Tolkein Robert Graves Nick Hornby James Herriot Patrick O'Brien Anthony Powell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inver Posted May 5, 2017 Share Posted May 5, 2017 So let me think.....(there will be others I have missed no doubt) Joanne Harris Diane Chamberlain Sue Monk Kidd Linda Gillard Rosie Thomas Mitch Albom Carol Drinkwater Vanessa Diffenbaugh JK Rowling Enid Blyton (for all the great childhood reads that got me loving books) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bel-ami Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Today it is.... HE Bates Guy de Maupassant JRR Tolkein Thomas Hardy George Eliot Kate Atkinson Balzac Victor Hugo Emile Zola Robert Harris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lau_Lou Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 I have seen a few people say JoJo Moyes. I am adding her too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilliputian Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Hmmmm... Donna Tartt Lyndsay Clarke Howard Fast AS Byatt George Orwell Tanith Lee Robert Holstock Hilary Mantel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvr moorthy Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 1.Charles Dickens 2. Fyodor Dostoevsky 3.Guy de Maupassant 4. Munshi Premchand 5.Marcel Proust 6.William Shakespeare 7.Robert Browning 8.Tennessee Williams 9.Ivan Turgenev 10.Theodore Dreiser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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