[Best Author Competition - Round 2]

As my first love are the Victorian classics, quite a few of these were very straightforward.  I was surprised, though, how many I'd never even heard of, let alone read!

Margaret Atwood --vs-- George Orwell --vs-- Daphne Du Maurier

Vladimir Nabokov --vs-- John Banville

Samantha Hayes --vs-- Stephen King

Edward Rutherford --vs-- L.E. Modesitt

Sophie McKenzie --vs-- Leo Tolstoy

Peter F Hamilton --vs-- Chris Manby

Franz Kafka --vs-- Bernard Cornwell

Hilary Mantel --vs-- Terry Pratchett

Charles Dickens --vs-- Salman Rushdie

Robert Jordan --vs-- Edgar Allan Poe

Donna Leon --vs-- Paul Auster

Elizabeth George --vs-- E M Forster

Tash Aw --vs-- Oscar Wilde

Maggie O'Farrell --vs-- George Eliot

Virginia Woolf --vs-- JRR Tolkien

Fyodor Dostoyevsky --vs-- Edith Wharton

Conn Iggulden --vs-- Jane Austen

Neil Gaiman --vs-- Sophie Kinsella

Gabriel Garcia Márquez --vs-- William Faulkner

Paulo Coelho --vs-- Rebecca Gable

[What are your top three classics?]

Just discovered this - I have been browsing a lot, now for my first post!  As I love the classics the most, it seems right to start here.

 

Like many others, I'm a lover of all things Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, so they have both got to feature.  I think my favourite by Jane is probably Emma, but that may be because it was the first I read.  For Charles Dickens, it's currently Bleak House, just in front of David Copperfield. 

 

Really stuck in trying to choose a third - there's just so many - but I think I will have to go with one of the great originals: The Canterbury Tales.  I've never read it in the original, but the modern version I've read is brilliant - the stories are so full of life, and I love the rhythm of the poetry.