Question 6 - Favourite Authors

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I can't think of any authors that I have read every book of, but the ones that come close were some I read back in my younger years :
Phyllis Whitney and Victoria Holt. I probably read almost all of their books .
I read tons of Nancy Drew when I was younger than that,so I'll include those .
I guess another more recent one would be Maeve Binchy. I've read quite a few of hers, but not all the newer ones . I guess I should read the rest, shouldn't I ?

[Happy]

Faye wrote: "Are there authors that you love so much that you would (and do) seek out and read absolutely everything they've ever written? Authors whose voices speak to you more deeply than others, and you just..."

Orson Scott Card was this for me, but he crashed off his pedestal so hard with his hardline against gay rights that now I won't touch anything he's written. And since then, I've found that I don't really care to read everything by any author. I absolutely adore Kameron Hurley as an essayist, but couldn't get into her fiction. I don't have any interest in Jane Austen's Juvenilia. Stephen King has good books and bad. John Scalzi has good books and mediocre.

I understand the impulse towards sticking with familiar authors (which is my husband's preference). But unless I'm having a spell where I'm too brain tired to experiment, I want new new new.

[Tina]

My favorites are Nora Roberts, John Grisham and Nicholas Sparks.

[Michael]

Richard Paul Evans
Debbie Macomber
Meave Binchy
Robert James Waller

[Marina]

Elias Canetti
Franz Kafka
Andrea Camilleri
Edgar Allan Poe
H.P. Lovecraft
Conan Doyle, Arthur

Also, as a teenager I read everything by Agatha Christie, although now I'm not such a big fan anymore.

[Deborah]

the Bronte sisters
Neville Shute
Susan Howatch
Jan Guillou
JK Rowling
Edith Pargeter
Manda Scott
Pauline Gedge
Harper Lee
C.S. Lewis
Richard Llewellyn
Sharon Penman
Elizabeth George
Margaret George
Dorothy Sayers
Josephine Tey
Oscar Wilde
George Bernard Shaw
Fannie Flagg
Stephanie Dray
John Shors
Michelle Moran
Kate Quinn
Robert Graves
Stephanie Thornton
Sophie Perinot - whose debut adult novel surprised me by it's quality!

[Charon]

Scott Westerfeld, Sara Raasch, Victoria Scott, Micheal Ende, Sara J Maas, Carrie Ryan, Dan Wells, Ilsa J Bick, Marissa Meyer, Taherah Mafi, Victoria Aveyard, Maggie Stefvater, Marie Lu, V E Schwab, Sabaa Tahir, Susan Ee, Lauren Oliver, Danielle Paige, James Dashner, Meredith Moore & Anthony Horowitz.

I believe that's all of them (So far I'm bound to find more favorites so I can add them later)

[Mirliz]

My long-time favorites are J.R.R. Tolkien, David Eddings and J.K. Rowling. Recently I discovered Brandon Sanderson, Maeve Binchy, Maria Ernestam, Gayle Forman, and James Patterson.

[beth]

Rick Riordan 100% and also Cassandra Clare and Sarah J Maas