Your Top 10 Authors!

[Carillon]

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

[Titus Groan]

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. 

 

[Loretta]

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

[hasan459]

i have not a big list
my top three authors

1) Lj smith

2) stephen king

3) robin hob

[Freedy]

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
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[France]

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

 

[Talya]

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.

[Mostonian]

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!

[adma]

  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

[jbob40919]

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

 

[jbob40919]

Non Fiction

Sigmund Freud

Lloyd Graham

Graham Farmelo

Bill Bryson

Jonah Goldberg

Charles Darwin

Steven Wineberg

Christopher Clark

Douglas Murphy

Brenton Russel 

[LoneSoul]

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.

[JosephRoland]

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

 

 

 

[Draco_V_Ecliptic]

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

[Draco_V_Ecliptic]

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

[J-Conrad]

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

[Vilandra]

Thomas Hardy

Charles Dickens

Arturo Perez Reverte

Sergei Lukyanenko

James Ellroy

Donna Tartt

John Boyne

Sarah Winman

Natalie Jenner

John Bellairs

[Socratist2000]

Here are mine:

1. Stephen R. Covey
2. Tony Robbins
3. Hadi Sarmasti
4. Brian Tracy
5. Jim Rohn
6. Robin Sharma
7. Louise Hay
8. Dale Carnegie
9. John C. Maxwell
10. Brené Brown

[tzkay]

John Le Carre - before he became formulaic and predictable .

John Lawton

Nikos Kazantzakis

Philip Kerr

Alan Furst

Saul Bellow

Ivan Turgenev

Nicholas Berdyaev(sp)

 

 

 

[briber]

Coming late on parade, again but will put in my two penn'orth,

1. WEB Griffin.

His series,  'The Corps' 10 volumes brings to life the Marine corps from before Pearl Harbour to the end of the Korean War. His series 'The Brotherhood' details the life of the US army from the second world war to  the Vietnam War and his series of 'Badge of Honour', 10volumes details the US police.

 

2. R F Delderfield. His 'Horseman Riding By' 3 volumes or 'The Dreaming Suburb, 2 volumes have me going back to them again and again.

 

3. James Clavell. 'Shogun', 'Taipan', and 'Noble House' Huge books, great stories.

 

4. C. S Forester, His 'Hornblower series have not been bettered. Cornwall set out with his Sharpe series to imitate Hornblower on land and did a credible job, but not quite.

 

5. Michael Connelly. His Bosch character holds my attention. I'm not usually a fan of 'Who Dun its' but Connelly does better than most.

 

6. Minnette Walters. I like the fact that her books are all different, characters, and theme.

 

7. A. J. Cronin. He casts a critical eye on the  abuses of various walks of life in his, 'The Citadel' 'The Stars Look Down' and 'The Keys Of The Kingdom'. 

 

8. Ian Rankin.I find  his ' jaundiced' Rebus compelling, similar to but different to Bosch. ( Now there's an oxymoron for you)

 

9. Mikhail Sholokhov. His 'Don' books show that human nature and humour are not so very different in diverse countries.

 

10. James A Michener. His books are huge, and his signature is to start in the mists of time. 'Hawaii', 'The Source'

'The Covenant' 'Texas' 'Chesapeake' the list goes on. and in amongst these blockbusters, a little book, 'Sayonara'

a charming little love story totally different to any of his others.

 

That's my lot, for now.

 

briber

 

 

[Peter Ruma]

On 7/2/2015 at 2:27 PM, emelee said:

Franz Kafka

Tom Sharpe

Leif GW Persson

Jane Austen

Agatha Christie

Albert Camus

Bo Baldersson

Astrid Lindgren

George Orwell

William Shakespeare

This is a really great list!