Carillon Posted May 22, 2018 Share Posted May 22, 2018 1) Virginia Woolf 2) Philip Pullman 3) Pierre Bottero 4) J.K Rowling 5) Stefan Zweig 6) Jane Austen 7) Robert Jordan 8) Katherine Mansfield 9) Agatha christie 10) Isaac Asimov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titus Groan Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 After very careful deliberation I have come up with this list. In order of birth. i have written the dates from memory so some may be a little wrong but I apologise for this. Emily Bronte (1818-1848) Jack London (1876-1916) Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) William Golding (1911-1992) Brian Aldiss (1925-2017) J.G. Ballard (1930-2007) Ramsey Campbell (1946-?) Octavia Butler (1947-2005) Neil Gaiman (1960-?) China Miéville (1972-?) These authors really speak to me deeply and I treasure their stories. This is based on their overall body of work. I very nearly swapped out Emily for Oscar Wilde because her output is so low but she is too talented for me to leave off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loretta Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 The first that came to mind are: Charlotte Bronté Emily Bronté Charles Dickens R.L.Stevenson Graham Greene Michael Bulgakov Alexander Dumas Daphne du Maurier John Steinbeck Oscar Wilde Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hasan459 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 i have not a big list my top three authors 1) Lj smith 2) stephen king 3) robin hob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freedy Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 (edited) Hmm.. 1.ERNEST HEMINGWAY 2.Frederic Beigbeder (Oona and Salinger - good relationship book) 3. Ray Bradbury 4. Albert Camus 5. Andrew Carnegie 6.Arthur Conan Doyle 7. Émile Zola 8. F. Scott Fitzgerald 9.Gabriel Garcia Marquez 10.George Orwell Edited January 5, 2019 by Athena Promotional link removed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
France Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 in no particular order: Kate Atkinson Anne Tyler Georgette Heyer Jasper fforde E H Benson Sharon Bolton Anne Bishop Jane Austen Jennifer Crusie Colm Toibin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talya Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 1) Ernest Hemingway. Old Man and the Sea, In Our Time. Hemingway is arguably the most talented author in American History.2) Tobias Wolff. Bullet in the Brain. Bullet in the Brain is a truly novel piece. The story, about 10 pages long, takes place during a bank robbery. It makes numerous allusions to robberies in other stories, satirizing their use of melodrama.3) Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Jabberwock, the Hunting of the Snark. Carroll was a pioneer in the art of non-sense poetry. While the merit of such writing is very subjective, it is worth a look. 4) John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men was also made into a great film, starring Gary Sinise and John Malkovich. 5) George Orwell. 1984, Animal Farm. Orwell wrote relatively short works, that were not as much novels as critiques of the world around him. Animal Farm is perhaps one of the most famous instances of modern allegory, in which Orwell portrays the rise and collapse of the Soviet Union on an animal farm. 6) Jack London. White Fang, Sea Wolf. Someone already mentioned London, and they are very right. However, I would say Sea Wolf was London's best work.7) Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find.8) Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park, Sphere, Prey. Crichton is perhaps the great sci-fi writer of our time.9) Jared Diamond. Collapse, Guns Germs and Steel. Diamond is a professor at UCLA where he teaches Anthropology and Geography. 10) JD Salinger. Catcher in the Rye. I would put Catcher in the Rye higher, but it is the only work of Salinger's I am familiar with so Salinger suffers. However, it is a true masterpiece and captures the heart of adolescences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostonian Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 I love a list. Today it would be: JRR Tolkien Scott Mariani Damien Boyd LJ Ross Alastair MacLean Jack Higgins Frederick Forsyth Ian Rankin Arthur Conan Doyle Martin Cruz Smith But it may well be totally different if you asked me tomorrow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adma Posted June 16, 2019 Share Posted June 16, 2019 Tough one! I'm not a completist so I haven't read all of their works. But I've read enough to love these authors: 1. Vladimir Nabokov 2. Jose Rizal 3. Chinua Achebe 4. Milan Kundera 5. John Steinbeck 6. Kazuo Ishiguro 7. Junot Diaz 8. John Steinbeck 9. Guy de Maupassant 10. Haruki Murakami Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbob40919 Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 Novels and fiction n William Faulkner Henry James Louis-Ferdinand Céline George Orwel Saul Bellow William Shakespeare Thomas Mann WB Yeats Percy Walker Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbob40919 Posted August 26, 2019 Share Posted August 26, 2019 Non Fiction Sigmund Freud Lloyd Graham Graham Farmelo Bill Bryson Jonah Goldberg Charles Darwin Steven Wineberg Christopher Clark Douglas Murphy Brenton Russel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneSoul Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 My favourite mystery authors are Robert A Heinlein and RL Stine. My favourite classic authors are Frank Baum and Lewis Carroll. But my favourite author of all times is myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephRoland Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 Hello everyone! Nice to be here! What a great thread, by the way.... Top 10 Authors...I've got an eclectic mix of non-fiction, literary and pulp fiction on my shelves, so here goes... Viktor Frankl Ernest Hemingway (particularly loved A Moveable Feast - made me want to live in Paris!) Victor Hugo Lee Child Michael Connelly Patricia Highsmith Shakespeare (does he count for this list or does it have to be novelists??) John Grisham Tony Hillerman Jane Austen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco_V_Ecliptic Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 1) Knut Hamsun 2) Henry Miller 3) Fyodor Dostoevsky 4) Thomas Mann 5) Thomas Hardy 6) Malcolm Lowry 7) Alasdair Gray 8) William Blake 9) John Milton 10) Carl Gustav Jung Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco_V_Ecliptic Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 1) Knut Hamsun 2) Henry Miller 3) Fyodor Dostoevsky 4) Thomas Mann 5) Thomas Hardy 6) Malcolm Lowry 7) Alasdair Gray 8) William Blake 9) John Milton 10) Joseph Conrad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Conrad Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 It’s impossible for me to choose only 10 authors. Nevertheless, I’ve enjoyed reading these a lot (in no particular order, and if you ask me another day, maybe the answer would be different.) Kazuo Ishiguro Fyodor Dostoevsky Jorge Luis Borges Ian McEwan Tom Sharpe P.G. Wodehouse Marcel Proust Joseph Conrad Javier Marías Paul Auster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vilandra Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 Thomas Hardy Charles Dickens Arturo Perez Reverte Sergei Lukyanenko James Ellroy Donna Tartt John Boyne Sarah Winman Natalie Jenner John Bellairs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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