What are some of your favorite authors?

i really like:

Chuck Palahniuk
JD Salinger

I don't usually read multiple books by one author but I do really enjoy the writings of:

Garrison Keillor
A.J. Jacobs
Beverly Cleary
Jonathan Safran Foer

edit: omg I know this was forever ago.. but I can't believe I didn't include Kurt Vonnegut Jr.!! or Sherman Alexie!!

Here are a few of my favorites: =)

Markus Zusak
Jonathan Safran Foer
V.C. Andrews
J.K. Rowling
Patrick Rothfuss

I'm all about C.S. Lewis, and I'm in love with Andrew Schwab! Mark Twain and Charles Dickens are some of my other favs. I also enjoy the way the author of History of Love writes.

Caiti, After taking a miserable (because I worked my butt off and only got a B) course on Mark Twain last semester, I don't think I'll be able to read him again for a long time. It started dawning on me at the end of the semester that maybe I don't understand his sense of humor because a lot of his stuff didn't seem funny to me and the professor was about to bust a gut laughing.

I think Harper Lee, Margaret Mitchell, and Joseph Heller are my favorite authors. I'm also kind of liking Sylvia Plath, having started her journals. (Eek!)

I love the wide range of favorite authors we all have.

Has anyone ever read anything from Paulo Coelho? I like a lot of his books. Especially Eleven Minutes: A Novel.

I love Mark Twain, too! But I haven't read enough.

Others:
Richard Yates
James Baldwin
Sinclair Lewis
Ian McEwan
Kazuo Ishiguro
William Trevor
Brontes

I'm a bit of a dilettante. I tend not to read a lot by a single author. I want to sample a little of everyone.

Lauren..I bought The Alchemist not too long ago. haven't gotten to it yet..but that will be my first book by him.

mine are JD Salinger, Jonathan Safran Foer, Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac..and more recently..Mark Zusak!

I don't really have any favorite authors. I just read whatever but I will say, I ALWAYS read Nicholas Sparks. He is my all time favorite.

Laurie Notaro
Neil Gaiman
jonathon safran foer
Douglas Coupland
Haruki Murakami
Tom Robbins
Wally Lamb

Justine, have you read Pinball, 1973?

I work in the interlibrary loan dept. of a library, and this is the one book we can never seem to keep on our shelves. It is constantly being requested by other institutions. As soon as I get it back, I'm sending out again.

What is it about this particular book?!

I haven't. I've never even heard of it. But now my mission is to find it and read it. I'll get back to you.

Okay, here's the deal Emily. It's out of print. You can buy it, but it's all upwards of 300$ on amazon. My experience is that if you read one of his books and get hooked you are instantly a die-hard fan and I think that's why you can't ever hold on to it.

Well, then, that explains it. I guess my library's pretty privileged to own it, huh?

favorite authors?

Meg Cabot
J.K. Rowling
Charlotte Bronte
Steve Berry
and a few more...

some of my faves:

Jennifer Weiner
Markus Zusak
C.S. Lewis

Oh Katerina- I love Jennifer Weiner! She is so great!! I haven't read a lot of her books but I have read a couple and they were awesome!

Some of my favourite authors are:

J.R.R. Tolkien
Jane Austen
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Paulo Coelho
Steve Berry

:)

It seems like my favorite are constantly changing but off the top of my head:
Tom Robbins
John Irving
John Steinbeck
Philippa Gregory
Joanne Harris
Anthony Bourdain

Hmm, favourite authors...

Isaac Asimov
Ian McEwan
Jane Austen
Bertrand Russell
William Shakespeare
Toni Morrison
Richard Dawkins
Iain M. Banks
Stephen King
Terry Pratchett

Beverly Cleary
Mark Twain
Meg Cabot
Jane Yolen
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Amy Tan
J. K. Rowling
Maud Hart Lovelace
Barbra Kingsolver
Michael Crichton

I've heard alot of people love Barbara Kingsolver..I just bought 2 of her books so I'm excited to see what she's all about.


To bring this thread back up..

what are some of your favorite authors?

I absolutely love Timothy Findley!!! He is a Canadian Author!!! I highly recommend him. I am also a fan of famous murder mystery writer Agatha Christie and Khalled Hosseini.

I like Hemingway. I really do. His stories appeal to the me of the alternate universe that does the things his characters do.

I really love Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. :)

I have never read Hemingway...I am a bit imtimitated too :P I should really give it a try.

Silvia, There are several different challenge categories that he would work for...

Alice Hoffman
J.K. Rowling
H.G. Wells
Kelley Armstrong
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Beverly Cleary