Athena Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 What are 10 authors that you haven't read any books of yet, but that you really want to start reading? For myself I'm only including authors who've written more than one book, that I'm interested in. I'm going to have to think about this one, a quick list on top off my head: Raymond E. Feist Robin Hobb Terry Brooks Isaac Asimov Neal Asher Jill Mansell Jenny Colgan Katie Fforde Diana Gabaldon Rick Riordan I might still change this though as undoubtedly there were authors I forgot about! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolf woolf Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 HomerDante AlighieriMiguel de CervantesMurasaki Shikibu Cao XueqinLuo GuanzhongAleksandr PushkinKnut Hamsun George EliotCharlotte Brontë Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Gabriel Garcia Marquez JG Ballard Louis Sacher Anya Seton Alexander Dumas Ian Fleming Gillian Flynn Shelby Foote Andy Weir Oscar Wilde Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 I looked no further than my TBR pile for this list, as I have a tendency to buy a lot of books by a particular author before reading even one by them. Like Athena, I've only included those for whom there are multiple books that I want to read. Even then, I had to make two lists in order to fit all of my choices! Fiction JG Ballard Wilkie Collins Philip K Dick Robert Heinlein Ursula Le Guin Stanislaw Lem Gabriel Garcia Marquez China Mieville Sarah Waters Jack Womack Non-Fiction Vincent Bugliosi Richard Dawkins Peter FitzSimons AC Grayling Christopher Hitchens Thomas Keneally HL Mencken Oliver Sacks Andrew Solomon Simon Winchester This list is a good idea, thanks Athena. I think I might link to it in my reading blog next year for when I put together my next priority reading list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted July 9, 2015 Author Share Posted July 9, 2015 This list is a good idea, thanks Athena. I think I might link to it in my reading blog next year for when I put together my next priority reading list. Thanks ! Interesting lists . You should totally read Philip K. Dick, I've read a couple of books by him now and I liked them all . I've got a few more on my TBR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 (edited) That's a really tough one - of those I'm keen to read, most I've read at least one already. Having said that, I do need to complete different lists for fiction and non-fiction. I've used the rule others have used, that I want to read more than one book, or just want to read the author with no book particularly in mind. Fiction 1. Honore de Balzac 2. Arnold Bennett 3. Ford Madox Ford 4. Edith Wharton 5. Fyodor Dostoevsky 6. Victor Hugo 7. Mario Vargas Llosa 8. Angela Carter 9. John Updike 10. Joyce Carol Oates Non-fiction 1. Fernand Braudel 2. .William Dalrymple 3. Winston Churchill 4. Edward Gibbon 5. Stephen Jay Gould 6. Samuel Pepys 7. AJP Taylor 8. Gillian Tindall 9. Amanda Vickery 10. CV Wedgewood Whilst I've read much of their fiction, I've yet to read any non-fiction by Virginia Woolf or Peter Ackroyd, so they sort of half count! Edited July 17, 2015 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Oh man, this is about authors I've read nothing by yet? This is tricky Marcel Proust Ayn Rand Simone de Beauvoir Bill Bryson H. L. Mencken Natalie Goldberg Penelope Fitzgerald Joe Abercrombie Georges Perec Mervyn Peake Alan Bradley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged over Fountainhead, trust me Or Anthem, but that's sort of cheating Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Atlas Shrugged over Fountainhead, trust me Or Anthem, but that's sort of cheating Those are the books I have. And yes, I agree that A would be cheating Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaliepud Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Willoyd, have you read anything by Joyce Carol Oates? I read The Gravedigger's Daughter some years ago and I very much like the way she writes, so detailed. I have two others of hers on my shelves, The Falls and Little Bird of Heaven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alicedrinkwater Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Hmmm, I don't think I have 10, but there are a few. 1. John Fowles 2. Umberto Eco 3. Henry James 4. E.R. Eddison 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne I do have a few authors that I have read one or two books by, and want to read everything I can get my hands on. 1. Daphne Du Maurier 2. Vladimir Nabokov 3. Neal Stephenson 4. Mary Stewart 5. Peter Straub 6. Theodore Sturgeon (he writes mostly short stories, but he has more to say about the human condition in short pieces than most authors say in a long novel) 7. Jack Vance 8. Gene Wolfe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Those are the books I have. And yes, I agree that A would be cheating Anthem is good, I liked it. I was happy to see her on your list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Anthem is good, I liked it. I was happy to see her on your list! I don't doubt that it's good, it's just the length I believe Kylie has read it and liked it, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alicedrinkwater Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Anthem is good, I liked it. I was happy to see her on your list! I don't doubt that it's good, it's just the length I believe Kylie has read it and liked it, too. I liked Anthem and Atlas Shrugged, even though that last section is a long speech, it still was interesting, and I happen to agree with a lot, but not all, of her philosophy. I couldn't get through The Fountainhead, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 I don't doubt that it's good, it's just the length I know, right? She goes from AS at nearly 1200 pages and then does less than 100 with Anthem. Proof she does know limits I couldn't get through The Fountainhead, though. That was a tough one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emelee Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 In no order: Michael Connelly Carlos Ruiz Zafon Daphne Du Maurier Richard Ford Ingrid Hedström John Le Carré Vilhelm Moberg Joseph Conrad Lev Tolstoj Joyce Carol Oates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Ker-runch!! What a good question and what great lists of authors! But at the moment I am caught entirely off guard, standing completely on the wrong foot, without a single author who comes to mind. I am just plain authored out. I would just be happy to conquer the twin peaks of TBR books on my end-table, even though I haven't the faintest ideas of who their authors are. But when I scrunch my brain, some almost forgotten pending names do fall out: Jules Romains John Dos Passos H. Rider Haggard Louis Lamour Larry McMurtry Taylor Caldwell Graham Greene Nathaniel Hawthorne Peter Matthiessen Marilynne Robinson Anita Shreve That's ten anyway, actually eleven; but those TBR's are still staring at me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lau_Lou Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 1) George Orwell 2) Anne Bronte 3) Katie Fford 4) John Steinbeck 5) Dorothy Koomson 6) Leo Tolstoy 7) Hilary Mantel 8) Oscar Wilde 9) Virginia Woolf 10) Gillian Flynn Authors I have read but want to read more of 1) Daphne Du Maurier 2) Thomas Hardy 3) Charlotte Bronte 4) William Shakespeare 5) Maureen Lee 6) Sophie Kinsella 7) Jill Mansell 8) Philippa Gregory 9) Charles Dickens 10) Stephen King Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onion Budgie Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Peering at my Goodreads TBR, it's these guys: Virginia Woolf Rex Stout Thomas Hardy Fyodor Dostoyevsky Sherwood Anderson Hilary Mantel Patrick Gale Mary Renault Harriet Rutland Shirley Jackson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lau_Lou Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Adding: Alison Weir Christina Henry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onion Budgie Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Oh gosh, I'm just looking at my list that I made back in March, and I still haven't read anything by any of those authors! I must choose one for my next read... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lau_Lou Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 I have read George Orwell and John Steinbeck! Two of my favourites. I have also read a couple of Oscar Wilde one that I really enjoyed and one I liked. Not really got much further with the others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeleine Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 (edited) I'm sure there are loads out there, but I have enough to be going on with, so the authors I have already read, but want to read more of (make sense?) are: Louise Penny Elizabeth Chadwick Kate Ellis Jasper Fforde Daphne du Maurier Jodi Taylor Anita Shreve Mary Stewart Diana Gabaldon Susanna Gregory L J Ross Phil Rickman and too many others to mention! I've taken out Barbara Erskine as I've read nearly all of hers - only one I haven't read is The Warrior's Princess, plus the new one which isn't even out yet - and replaced her with Louise Penny, as I'm way behind with her Inspector Gamache books. Edited June 1, 2018 by Madeleine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onion Budgie Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 On 3/20/2017 at 12:12 PM, Onion Budgie said: Peering at my Goodreads TBR, it's these guys: Virginia Woolf Rex Stout Thomas Hardy Fyodor Dostoyevsky Sherwood Anderson Hilary Mantel Patrick Gale Mary Renault Harriet Rutland Shirley Jackson I've managed to cross three off the list that I made last year. Woolf has become one of my favourite authors, so that was a good pick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 (edited) It's great to see you guys going through your lists and telling us how you've made progress on your lists! Onion Budgie, I'm especially happy to see that one of your TBR authors has become one of your favorite authors! Imagine that! At the same time, I'm sad to say I've not read any of the authors I've mentioned in my list! Edited June 2, 2018 by frankie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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