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Who is your favorite author and why?

251 votes, 14.2%

200 votes, 11.3%

95 votes, 5.4%

87 votes, 4.9%

Samuel Beckett

73 votes, 4.1%

JK rowling

69 votes, 3.9%

You can't make me choose. I refuse to choose a favorite anything. (write-in)

51 votes, 2.9%

Tolstoy (write-in)

39 votes, 2.2%

Haruki Murakami (write-in)

38 votes, 2.1%

stephen king (write-in)

33 votes, 1.9%

Kafka (write-in)

33 votes, 1.9%

J.R.R. Tolkien (write-in)

28 votes, 1.6%

John Steinbeck (write-in)

24 votes, 1.4%

I have too many favorite authors!

22 votes, 1.2%

fiodor dostoyevski (write-in)

21 votes, 1.2%

Rick Riordan (write-in)

21 votes, 1.2%

George Orwell (write-in)

21 votes, 1.2%

Mark Twain (write-in)

20 votes, 1.1%

Sylvia Plath (write-in)

19 votes, 1.1%

Ernest Hemingway (write-in)

19 votes, 1.1%

jane austen (write-in)

19 votes, 1.1%

Edgar Allan Poe (write-in)

19 votes, 1.1%

Neil Gaiman (write-in)

18 votes, 1.0%

Richelle Mead, J.K. Rowling, Rachel Hawkins, Micheal Grant, John Marsden, Tera Lynn Childs, Jessica Shirvington, Suzanne Collins, Suzanne Weyn, Rick Riordon, Ally Condie, Maggie Steifvater, (write-in)

18 votes, 1.0%

Vladimir Nabokov (write-in)

17 votes, 1.0%

Lemony Snicket (write-in)

14 votes, 0.8%

John Green! (write-in)

14 votes, 0.8%

oscar wilde (write-in)

14 votes, 0.8%

Terry Pratchett (write-in)

12 votes, 0.7%

Kurt Vonnegut (write-in)

12 votes, 0.7%

Enid Blyton (write-in)

11 votes, 0.6%

Albert Camus

11 votes, 0.6%

James Patterson (write-in)

10 votes, 0.6%

Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- brilliant thinker (write-in)

10 votes, 0.6%

Dostoyevski (Because he knew how to express the darknes and the good sides of humanity) (write-in)

9 votes, 0.5%

Veronica Roth (write-in)

9 votes, 0.5%

Rick Riorden (write-in)

9 votes, 0.5%

Richelle Mead, Rachel Caine, Kelley Armstrong, Julie Kagawa, Cassandra Clare, Veronica Roth, Christopher Pike, Rebecca Donovan, April Henry, Hannah Harrington, Kimberly Derting, Josephine Angelini, Carrie Jones and Chanda Hahn. (They are all loved equally because they are all so amazing!!!) (write-in)

9 votes, 0.5%

Goddammit. (write-in)

9 votes, 0.5%

Cassandra Clare (write-in)

9 votes, 0.5%

I don't have a favorite (write-in)

9 votes, 0.5%

Sarah J. Maas (write-in)

8 votes, 0.5%

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (write-in)

7 votes, 0.4%

Julio Cortázar (write-in)

7 votes, 0.4%

Charles Bukowski (write-in)

7 votes, 0.4%

Ray Bradbury (write-in)

7 votes, 0.4%

Agatha Christie

7 votes, 0.4%

Guillaume Musso; Nicholas Sparks (write-in)

6 votes, 0.3%

Ilona Andrews (write-in)

6 votes, 0.3%

Dan Brown (write-in)

6 votes, 0.3%

Milan Kundera (write-in)

6 votes, 0.3%

Paul Auster (write-in)

6 votes, 0.3%

James Joyce (write-in)

6 votes, 0.3%

Cassandra Clare and Sarah J Maas (write-in)

6 votes, 0.3%

JK Rowling (write-in)

6 votes, 0.3%

Brian Jacques (write-in)

5 votes, 0.3%

paulo coehlo (write-in)

5 votes, 0.3%

Richelle Mead (write-in)

5 votes, 0.3%

Guy de Maupassant (write-in)

5 votes, 0.3%

Maria V. Snyder (write-in)

5 votes, 0.3%

kurt v (write-in)

5 votes, 0.3%

Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson (write-in)

5 votes, 0.3%

Rainer Maria Rilke (write-in)

5 votes, 0.3%

Dostoyevsky (write-in)

5 votes, 0.3%

i cant choose (write-in)

5 votes, 0.3%

Too many (write-in)

5 votes, 0.3%

Widad Akreyi (write-in)

5 votes, 0.3%

Ken Kesey (write-in)

4 votes, 0.2%

Cheryl Strayed (write-in)

4 votes, 0.2%

Isaac Asimov (write-in)

4 votes, 0.2%

john green (write-in)

4 votes, 0.2%

Chuck Palahnuick, for the raw ache within his works. Hunter S Thompson, for his unabashed bravery & the ache of his mind. Charles Bukowski, for his haunting drunken bursts of emotion & Friedrich Nietszche for the clues to purpose (write-in)

4 votes, 0.2%

Herman Hesse (write-in)

4 votes, 0.2%

J R R Tolkien (write-in)

4 votes, 0.2%

Jacqueline Wilson (write-in)

3 votes, 0.2%

Jessica Shirvington (write-in)

3 votes, 0.2%

Kafka. This is my favourite writer because I identify with he. (write-in)

3 votes, 0.2%

John Green (write-in)

3 votes, 0.2%

Erin Hunter- Or at least, the four women who use the name "Erin Hunter" for their books. Also Jasper Fforde. (write-in)

3 votes, 0.2%

Melody Carlson (write-in)

3 votes, 0.2%

many can't think of only one but let's say : Dostoyevsky ( deep understanding ).. Hemingway (sharpness) ...Hugo (sentiment )... Brown ( plots) ...Dickens( imagination)... and many other :)

3 votes, 0.2%

Virginia Woolf and Fyodor Dostoyevsky (write-in)

3 votes, 0.2%

Julie Garwood, Jane Austen, Colleen Hoover, Lisa Kleypas, Maya Banks, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Catherine Anderson

3 votes, 0.2%

Cassandra Clare, Rick Riordan, and Alyson Noel (write-in)

3 votes, 0.2%

Donna Tartt

3 votes, 0.2%

David Levithan

3 votes, 0.2%

Diana gabledon (write-in)

3 votes, 0.2%

W. Somerset Maugham (write-in)

3 votes, 0.2%

Stephen King

3 votes, 0.2%

Linda Howard (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Sidney Sheldon (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Today it is Sherrilyn Kenyon for her Dark-Hunter series. (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Karin Slaughter (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Jamie Magee (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Jacqueline Carey (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Ved Vyas , Mahabharata.Bcos what exists here exists everywhere; that which does not exist here, does not exist anywhere. (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Patrick Ness (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Miguel Cervantes

2 votes, 0.1%

Dean Koontz, his characters are so diverse (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Markus Zusak (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

P. G. Wodehouse (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Caroline Lawrence, Lois Lowry, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Andrew Clements, Christopher Paul Curtis, Jennifer Holm, and Robert Loius Stevenson. This does not include all of the many authors whose books I enjoy reading. (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

C. S. Lewis, Oscar Wilde, James A. Owen, lots more!

2 votes, 0.1%

Dave Eggers (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Michael Crichton (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Aldous Huxley

2 votes, 0.1%

Emil Cioran (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

[private/accidental vote] (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Thomas Mann (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Edgar Allan Poe, Patrick Rothfuss, Kurt Vonnegut, Paul Auster y Jane Austen (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

William S. Burroughs (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

goethe (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

V.E. Schwab (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Dean Koontz (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Cecelia ahern (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Yukio Mishima (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Philip K Dick (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Laini Taylor (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Taylor Jenkins Reid, Sarah Waters, John Green, Lemony Snicket (write-in)

2 votes, 0.1%

Joseph Delaney (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Asa Don Brown (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Sylvia Day (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Lorrie Moore (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Robert A. Heinlein (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

celine (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Rick Riordon, Suzzane Collins, and Veronica Roth

1 vote, 0.1%

Henry Miller (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

James Dashner (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Sara Donati

1 vote, 0.1%

Ellen Hopkins (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Mika Waltari (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Nazlı Eray, Sabahattin Ali, Kazuo Ishiguro, Peyami Safa, JD Salinger (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Huntley Fitzpatrick (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Jerome K. Jerome (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Tamora Pierce (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Suneel ganguly , Md.Jafar Iqbal, Tagore, Nazrul Islam, AShaputrnadevi, Somoresh Majumder (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Maggie stiefvater (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

milan kundera (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Derek Landy (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Patricia Wentworth or Elizabeth George Speare (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Frank Herbert (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Ralph Ellison (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Italo Calvino (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Julie Kagawa (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Y.S. Lee (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Hundred years of solitude inhale me fully and violently spat me out on the end. I wanted this book to never finish. (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Oruç Aruoba (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

A. S. Byatt (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Astrid Lindgren (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Colin Meloy (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

F Scott Fitzgerald (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Mary Calmes (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

barbara kingsolver (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Nocholas Sparks (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Arundhati Roy (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Joyce Carol Oates (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Thomas Ligotti (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Patricia Briggs (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Jamie Shaw (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Anne Rice (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

J.R Ward (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Harper Lee (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Frederick Forsyth (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

James Michener (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

TERRY BROOKS!!! (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Sarah Addison Allen (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Elizabeth Gilbert (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Don Corleone (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Johanna Lindsey (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Cecelia Ahern (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

JG Ballard (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Will Eno (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Louisa May Allcott (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Marissa Meyer

1 vote, 0.1%

J.D. Salinger (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Rainbow Rowell (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Trinity Vinton (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Charlaine Harris, Norah Lofts and Stephenie Meyer (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

TJ Klune (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Adrian Tchaikovksi (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Rebecca Yarros (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Emily Henry or Jane Austen (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Karen White,Nora Roberts,Luanne Rice,Jason Wright,Richard P. Evans

0 votes, 0.0%

Jenny Moss - great historical fiction books. (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Greg Keyes (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Gregory David Roberts

0 votes, 0.0%

Eva Ibbotson

0 votes, 0.0%

Darren Shan

0 votes, 0.0%

J.R.R Tolkien, Alexander McCall Smith and J.K Rowling

0 votes, 0.0%

Charlotte Brontë (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

cecelia ahern (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Patrick Ness (Chaos Walking Series) (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Ruta Sepetys (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

gunnar ekelöf (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Emile Zola (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Douglas Adams

0 votes, 0.0%

The Rise of Ethrundson Quest of a Thousand Questions (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Trenton Lee Stewart (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

M. R. James (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

1773 total votes

Poll added by: Sara

This Poll is About

Authors:
Jean-Paul Sartre, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Woody Allen, Albert Camus

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message 1: by SA®A (new)

Jul 31, 2013 05:31PM

I don't know where I should write the reason of my choice.so i just write it down here.I like Albert Camus because of the way he sees the life in most of his works.searching for light in every darkness
.I think this famous quotation by him is enough to say:

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

tnx honey for letting me take part in voting.
:)

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message 2: by Zouagie (new)

Aug 21, 2013 09:26PM

Joseph Delaney so far. Just loved how he keeps the plots interesting and in order.

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message 3: by Míceál (new)

Oct 19, 2013 08:45AM

Ernest Hemingway- his economy of language.

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message 4: by Sierra (new)

Dec 22, 2013 07:59AM

Neil Gaiman ftw!

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message 5: by Wordy (new)

Dec 23, 2013 04:17PM

I have more favorite authors than just Jenny Moss but, Taking Off was the first book I read that I ever truly felt as though this book was made for me.

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message 6: by SaraElle (last edited Jun 01, 2014 01:21AM) (new)

Jun 01, 2014 01:20AM

Stephen King is by far, my Favorite author. I discovered his books in junior high school and I've been on a personal mission to read all of his literary works.

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message 7: by Olivia (new)

Aug 01, 2014 05:20PM

I like how this poll is formatted so that if I don't find my choice, i can add it ^^

Markus Zusak is my favorite because his writing is enthralling, his stories are easy to read yet meaningful, and he doesn't follow the patterns many YA authors tend to follow.

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message 8: by J. (new)

Aug 23, 2014 01:34AM

I wouldn't normally choose a favourite, but I've gone for George Orwell. Why? Well, he did write 1984, Animal Farm, The Road to Wigan Pier, Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, Coming Up for Air... I could go on.

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message 9: by Lindsay (last edited Jun 02, 2015 07:22AM) (new)

Dec 22, 2014 12:43PM

Oscar Wilde...witty, so very witty. He could make you laugh and cry, not only that but question social norms. His poetry, plays and Dorian Gray are all amazing, and don't forget his life was just as interesting as his writing. A true character!

(honorary mention to Edgar Allan Poe, whom I also love)

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message 10: by Ravi (new)

Jun 02, 2015 07:02AM

Where is Salman Rushdie?
Ian McEwan?
Arundhati Roy?
in this list.

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message 11: by Ravi (new)

Jun 02, 2015 07:03AM

Even Coetzee is not here!

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message 12: by Riverreed (new)

Jul 31, 2015 12:00AM

Terry Pratchett. Cuz he's just so brilliant.

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message 13: by Mohammed (new)

May 03, 2016 02:54PM

Obviously Dostoyevsky, Because he is Dostoyevsky, and I think he is the greatest living human to ever hold a pen and write.

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message 14: by Vanessa (new)

Apr 06, 2018 08:14PM

Terry Brooks . Why isn't he on the list?

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message 15: by Rachel Adiyah (last edited Sep 02, 2018 04:26PM) (new)

Sep 02, 2018 04:26PM

Philip K Dick was an amazing science-fiction author of the Classic and New Wave periods. His specialty was writing about simulated reality and repressive governments. If you've never read any of his books and you consider yourself a reader of science-fiction, you're truly missing out. Start with

Ubik.

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message 16: by Shaw (new)

May 18, 2019 11:17PM

I chose Johanna Lindsey because she doesn't have one or two books i love, she has at least a dozen of books that I love.

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message 17: by Vanessa (last edited May 20, 2019 06:07PM) (new)

May 20, 2019 09:51AM

Romance ! What is life without having a romance with something or other ? Good choice .

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message 18: by Kerrie (new)

May 20, 2019 01:23PM

Charles Dickens is my favorite author because of all the details he put in describing the setting, characters, etc. I'm a sucker for details... :P

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message 19: by Vanessa (last edited May 20, 2019 06:08PM) (new)

May 20, 2019 06:05PM

Kerrie wrote: "Charles Dickens is my favorite author because of all the details he put in describing the setting, characters, etc. I'm a sucker for details... :P"

He's a good one . I've read quite a few of his novels THE CHIMES and A CHRISTMAS CAROL being my favorites . I gotta read THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP one day .

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message 20: by Elizabeth (new)

Jun 26, 2020 12:47PM