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Jane Eyre
Who is the author?
Charlotte Brontë
Do you have another to read author?
Too many to list.

- Who is the author? Andrus Kivirähk - he is beloved Estonian author and this book was his first novel.
- Do you have another "to read author"? Many. :) For example: Zafon Carlos Ruiz, Jo Nesbø, and so on. :)


Who is the author?
The very famous, JK Rowling. I can see why now, finally!
Do you have another "to read author"?
Oh My Goodness...so many...
Michael Connelly
Lee Child
Tom Wood
Harlan Coben
Steig Larsson
Tana French
Gillian Flynn
George RR Martin
Agatha Christie
Patricia Cornwell
Jeffrey Deaver
John Grisham
It's quite embarrassing, really!

- What are you reading this week?
Portnoy's Complaint
- Who is the author?
Philip Roth
- Do you have another "to read author"?
LOTS and lots.. first one that comes to mind is Erich Segal. I just looked at my to-read list and here are the ones just whose last names begin with A: Jussi Adler-Olsen, James Agee, Cecilia Ahern, and Margaret Atwood!! I'm not going to count them now, but if A is any indication, I probably have at least 40 more!!
Update: Portnoy's Complaint was not for me, so I am reading Goodbye, Columbus... liking it alot more so far.
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The Secret History. I've heard so many good things about this book and that it's a must-read, so I figured this was a good time to pick it up. I had originally chosen Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng for this week (another book I heard a lot of buzz about) but decided to switch that to my book for Week 49 - A book with a great opening first line.
Who is the author?
Donna Tartt. I was torn between this book and The Goldfinch but I decided to start with one of her older works.
Do you have another "to read author"? So many! There are quite a few 'classic' authors that I've always passed on or hadn't finished, so those are good places to start. I think this may be the year I finally read a Jane Austen book.

The Secret History. I've heard so many good things about this book and that it's a must-read, so I figured this was a good time to pick it up. I had originally chosen..."
Good choice

Who is the author? Salman Rushdie
Do you have another "to read author"? I have managed to knock off quite a few of my to-read authors over the last few years, but I still have a huge list! My main ones would be Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, William Faulkner, Henry James & Albert Camus. I think I have books by all but Henry James planned for this year - yay!

I'm a bit slow this week as I'm listening to the audio of Their Eyes Were Watching God and haven't had as much time in the car as I expected.
Who is the author?
Zora Neale Hurston
Do you have another "to read author"? There are so many - I considered Maya Angelou, Richard Russo, Ian McEwan, Rohinton Mistry, but I really do have a bookshelf full of authors I'd like to and will get to read.

I read Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas.
- Who is the author?
Sarah J. Maas
- Do you have another "to read author"?
I have MANY. One that comes to mind is J.R.R. Tolkien. I really need to read The Lord of the Rings series...

Jessica
-Who is the author?
Bryce Courtenay
-Do you have another "to read author"?
Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and two I'll be reading in my 52 books this year, Stephen King and D.H. Lawrence.

The Handmaid's Tale
Who is the author?
Margaret Atwood
Do you have another "to read author"?
I am sure that there are a few authors that I should have read by now but off of the top of my head I can't think of any. I have lots a favorite authors that I like to read and tend to stick to them for the most part. If I come across a book that looks and sounds interesting I will add it to my TBR pill, most likely without checking out who the author is first.

A: Go Set a Watchman
Q: Who is the author?
A: Harper Lee
Q: Do you have another "to read author"?
I should read Agatha Christie, but I don't like mystery books, so I will postpone her one more time.


- Who is the author?H.P. Lovecraft
- Do you have another "to read author"? too many to list but one of them is
J.R.R. Tolkien


- What are you reading this week?
"Jane Eyre", another classic and a great one.
- Who is the author?
Charlotte Brontë
- Do you have another "to read author"?
Too many, but I suppose Aldous Huxley and "Brave New World" is one I keep kicking myself over not reading. Hence it is on my list later.

- Who is the author?Andy Weir
- Do you have another "to read author"? I am sure I do, but I can't think of any at the moment.
I was originally not going to read this for awhile but the digital library told me it was my turn.

- Who is the author? Rainbow Rowell
- Do you have another "to read author"? Karen Maitland, Victoria Schwab, Christopher Paolini, Robert Galbraith (not sure if this one counts as I've read J K Rowling), Steig Larsson, Pierce Brown................

The Trial (Der Process)
Who is the author?
Franz Kafka
Do you have another "to read author"?
Quite a lot. I tend to be the type of reader who sticks to authors that they've read and liked. But I did make it a point to put a good number of new authors on my list. So far this year, I've read Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Dickens for the first time and I have P. G. Wodehouse, Dan Simmons, Oscar Wilde, Nick Hornby, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Kazuo Ishiguro, and most expectantly: Octavia Butler.

A: Go Set a Watchman (In Portuguese Vá, Coloque um Vigia)
Q: Who is the author?
A: Harper Lee
Q: Do you have another "to read author"?
A: I must give a chance to Agatha Christie as soon as possible, but I don't like mystery too much.

- Who is the author? Khaled Hosseini
- Do you have another "to read author"? plenty

Last night I finished reading "War and Peace", edition in Spanish, 1904 pages.
- Who is the author?
Lev Tolstoi.
- Do you have another "to read author"?
Yes, plenty of them. I have to read (next year I suppose), "Crime and Punishment" from Fíodor Dostoyevsky.

Interview with the Vampire
Who is the author?
Anne Rice
Do you have another "to read author"?
Several!

Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut, I have had so many people recommend this author but I have never gotten around to reading any of his work. So glad that I finally did!
Do I have another "to read" author?
Um, all of them! lol

Big Little LiesOne Hundred Years of Solitude
(I abandoned One Hundred Years of Solitude after 59 pages. I just couldn't read this classic at this time. Maybe later? Maybe never?)
- Who is the author?
Liane Moriarty
- Do you have another "to read author"?
Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf for classic authors. More contemporary novelists: Elizabeth George, Gillian Flynn!, Adriana Trigiani and many more. Thanks to this group for all the new ideas.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

- Who is the author?
Charlotte Brontë
- Do you have another "to read author"?
So many! Sarah J. Maas, Lauren DeStefano and many more.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

- Who is the author?
Charlotte Brontë
- Do you have ano..."
I LOVE THIS BOOK!

Who is the author? Lee Child
Do you have another "to read author"? I have dozens!

And Then There Were None
Who is the author?
Agatha Christie
Do you have another "to read author"?
Yes, too many to name!

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
I've seen the movie so many times that I thought I had already read it until I actually picked it up. Very enjoyable.
There are so many classics I would like to read especially more of the Bronte sisters.
What are you reading this week?
Fahrenheit 451
Who is the author?
Ray Bradbury
Do you have another "to read author"?
I tend to not like classics so there are a ton of authors that I "should have" read but I've learned to accept that I probably never will. I also strongly considered the Harry Potter series since it's closer to my tastes.
Fahrenheit 451
Who is the author?
Ray Bradbury
Do you have another "to read author"?
I tend to not like classics so there are a ton of authors that I "should have" read but I've learned to accept that I probably never will. I also strongly considered the Harry Potter series since it's closer to my tastes.

The Green Road by Anne Enright
Who is the author?
Anne Enright is a renowned Irish author and I should definitely have read some of her fiction by now.
Do you have another "to read author"?
Paul Murray's Skippy dies is another book I should have read by now.

The Princess Bride
Who is the author?
William Goldman
Do you have another "to read author"?
Not really, I like to read books that interest me and I don't really go by the author or potential author.

Jane Eyre
Who is the author?
Charlotte Bronte
Do you have another "to read author"?
Yes, many classic authors, such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens

The Handmaid's Tale
- Who is the author?
Margaret Atwood
- Do you have another "to read author"?
So many! Mark Twain, Janet Evanovich, Thomas Hardy, the Bröntes, George R. R. Martin to name a few

The Black Tulip
Who is the author?
Alexandre Dumas
Do you have another "to read author"?
Mark Twain, Henry James, Flannery O'Connor, Pearl Buck, Anne Bronte, and a whole lot more.

The Nightingale
- Who is the author?
Kristin Hannah - Many of my friends love her books, but I've never read anything by her before now.
- Do you have another "to read author"?
Many of them!

- Who is the author? Douglas Adams
- Do you have another "to read author"? Too many to name

- What are you reading this week? Ghost Story
- Who is the author? Peter Straub
- Do you have another "to read author"? Lots of "to read" authors!, but first I have to get through some of the series I've started by authors I've read!

Reading The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
Who is the author?
H.P. Lovecraft. I've read a couple of other books from him, but I really feel I should have read more by now.
Do you have another "to read author"?
There are a few other authors I need to get around to, but no one really notable.

Bombproof by Michael Robotham
- Who is the author?
Michael Robotham is an Australian author of crime novels
- Do you have another "to read author"?
Many!

Let It Snow
Who is the author?
There were 3, but the one I really should have read by now is John Green and this was the only book my library had in that I didn't have to wait for.
Do you have another "to read author"?
Probably. Mostly I have authors that I love so much that all of their books are immediate "to-reads!"

Who is the author? Richard Wright
Do you have another "to-read" author? Too many to list, but I'm glad I read some of them during this challenge.


- Who is the author?
Rick Riordan
- Do you have another "to read author"?
Yes, I acually planned to read something from Stephen King for this week. Otherwise I have plenty of authors I want to read and haven't yet, Neil Gaiman, Jennifer L. Armentrout, ...

I just finished reading The Lover's Dictionary
Who is the author?
David Levithan
Do you have another "to read author"?
Honestly, I had a really hard time coming up with a book for this prompt. Most of the authors that I felt I should have read, I'd already read at least one book. I also considered Gillian Flynn, but this book seemed more interesting.


Who is the author?
Debbie Macomber
Do you have another "to-read author"?<?b>
Jo Nesbø, Donna Andrews, Edith Wharton, Anthony Trollope, Leo Tolstoy, and probably many more.

- Who is the author? Stephen King
- Do you have another "to read author"?
Not really. I read books I like not too fussed about authors. I will read authors recommended to me, but I don't like classics and that seems to be where I'm lacking in authors but not willing to put myself through that again.

Ghostwritten
- Who is the author?
David Mitchell. A few years ago I read almost exactly half of "Cloud Atlas", but as a non-native speaker/reader the post-apocalyptic part featuring the superstitious, oral culture presented itself as a litte bit too hard to discern / wade through although I loved the preceeding stories. After watching the film I knew I had to restart reading David Mitchell at some point.
- Do you have another "to read author"?
Bram Stoker. And others.

- Who is the author?Terry Pratchett
- Do you have another "to read author"? Probably many, but I can think now on John Grisham and Michael Crichton.
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The Little Stranger
- Who is the author?
Sarah Waters
- Do you have another "to read author"?
Not really. This was a hard category for me to find a book for.