Since joining this group I see so many more authors and books. They start leaping off the shelf at me.

It's pretty dangerous.

Books by Martina Cole seem to follow me about, work, when I'm on the bus and when I go book shopping. I've never tried any of her books, but have be told by so many people that I should.

The book I see most often on the subway (apart from Eat, Pray, Love) is The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, but oddly just that Murakami (typically).

I'm starting to see Charlaine Harris everywhere..

Twilight too!

I see Harry Potter everywhere, in hands of people of all ages and sex.

I see a lot of the romance books being read in the office. I'm not into those so I'll big time pass.

Nora Roberts also writes a strong sci-fi series as J. D. Robb. I'm afraid I have an automatic reflex to shy away from something 'everyone else' is reading, so I can't remember any of the titles. I didn't even watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer until three years after it ended, only because a man whose opinion I respected told me about it.

A bunch of Girls at work read Nora Roberts. I've never read her work/but I looked her up and I wouldn't she writes romance novels

The british novelist Zadie Smith.

Zadie Smith

Hahaha, ok, I see what you mean now, Amanda :)

Andrea,

I think it's more acceptable for a book that's hard to understand or has a lot of symbolism in it. Buying more than one copy of the Twilight books, though? A little excessive, haha.

As everyone mentioned, Stephanie Meyer is impossible to avoid these days. Margaret Atwood also seems to be stalking me. Some sort of Atwood resurgence amoung the students at my uni.

I also used to do that, Amanda, every time my finances allowed it. I used to buy the cheapest paperback edition I could find, for highlightning and scribbling, and a good, pretty edition just for reading :P

I would say Jodi Picoult, but I only see people reading My Sister's Keeper.

At school, definately Stephanie Meyer. I have two girls that sit by me at lunch that are OBSESSED.
I know somebody who has bought two copies of every book so she could use one for highlighting.

Paulo Coelho and Dan Brown. Everywhere. Lots. And P. Coelho continues. He was anounced here with a new one, "Brida". It seems that is a neverending flow. Why?!

I am so glad to hear that I'm not alone on the Paul Coelho thing. It seems like it's always the person who interrupts my reading to get in a pitch of what they've read and it's always The Alchemist or Secret Life of Bees, another book I didn't care for and am tired of hearing about.

nora roberts

Ummm... what about Khaled Hosseini??? It seems to me that his books are everywhere!

Logan, I am with you on that one. I saw the author on Oprah and just kept thinking I so don't care about this person and her visit to an ashram.

I second Paulo Coelho... and it's been going on for years! **barf**

Paulo Coelho, Paulo Coelho, Paulo Coelho! I already hate the guy *lol*

And a few years back, Dan Brown and his "DaVinci Code"

Ken Follett and definitely Jodi Picoult. Also more David Sedaris.

I don't think I could choose which part I liked most, I liked them all but for different reasons.

I really liked the Eat part. Italian food sounds great right now.

I didn't really hear much about it but I saw the author on Oprah and it reminded me I had it on my shelf to be read. I really liked Eat, Pray, Love.

Ugh, me too, Logan!

Melanie, that's one of those books that I've seen so many places and had so recommended to me so many times that I'm just not even interested in reading it anymore. I'm just over-saturated with it.

I see Eat, Pray, Love everywhere.

When The Lovely Bones first came out, I saw people reading it on the Metro every single day coming AND going for an entire two weeks. I also overheard several conversations about that book.

hehe..Jodi Picoult is the new John Grisham.

I see a fair amount of Emily Giffin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Paulo Coelho, Nicholas Sparks and the usual James Patterson, Mary Higgins Clark, et al.

Jodi Picoult's books sell everywhere in the airports (they have at least 10 of her books on display at any given time).

And, Ann, I think you're off--Patterson puts out a new book Once a Month, not every other month!

I would have to say Dannielle Steele, too. I'm at the beach right now and every woman on the beach over 40 has one of her novels.

Around me this week, it's the Stephanie Plum novels by Janet Evanovich, but that's b/c all my in-laws are at different points in the series--I started them on these.

Jodi Picoult and Stephanie meyer.I see all over lately.

James Patterson is another. He seems to put one out every other month.

Are there any authors that you always see someone reading one of their books. I've noticed that in the past few months I have seen tons of people reading books by Jodi Picoult when I'm on the train. One day I was reading a book by her, and I looked across from me and someone else was reading a different one of hers, and a lady standing near the door was reading another one of hers.

So one my list would be:
Jodi Picoult
Scott Westerfeld (mainly only in school though because of the Uglies series...which I refused to read up until last week, but now I'm like loving it)
J.K. Rowling (of course)
Stephanie Meyer
Stephen King
And some otheres