Task #2: Read one of your favorite author’s favorite books.

[Jason]

Reading Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison as recommended by Stephen King.

[Ron]

Going with Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future which was both on Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren's list.

[Evilblacksheep]

Found here : https://onegrandbooks.com/shop/curato... (great ressource for other author's favourite too) that Neil Gaiman has Susannah Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in his top 5 so I'll go with this one. It's been taking dust on my shelf for way too many years.

[Heather]

My favorite contemporary YA fantasy author is Maggie Stiefvater and she posted a lot to social media last year about how much she loved Susanna Clarke's Piranessi, so that's my pick!

[Tricia]

Ron wrote: "Going with Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future which was both on Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren's list."

I read this last year and thought it was excellent!

[Tricia]

Heather wrote: "My favorite contemporary YA fantasy author is Maggie Stiefvater and she posted a lot to social media last year about how much she loved Susanna Clarke's Piranessi, so that's my pick!"

This was in my top 5 of books for last year. Great choice! :)

[Ron]

Tricia wrote: I read this last year and thought it was excellent!

Awesome. I've had it on my TBR for a long while, since I got the book years ago, but just never got to it.

[Henriette]

I'll be reading "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" recommended by Neil Gaiman.

[Eleonora]

I just finished "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel" for this task, as one of Neil Gaiman's favorite books.
I have to be honest: I didn't like it.
The world building was awesome, the use of 19th century language and style intriguing, some parts were engaging.
But overall it seemed to go nowhere for me and it became a chore just to finish it to read something else
Reviews are divided in this book, some people adore it, others he hated it.
As I see many people wanting to read it for this task, I am curious to know your opinions.

[Bonnie G.]

Eleonora wrote: "I just finished "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel" for this task, as one of Neil Gaiman's favorite books.
I have to be honest: I didn't like it.
The world building was awesome, the use of 19th century..."

I tried reading Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrel when it came out and abandoned it about 200 pages in. I later tried reading another Susanna Clarke book, and did not make it nearly that far. She is very well regarded, just not the writer for me.

[Sherri]

I read The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion. In the back of the book there is an interview given by Pat Conroy & Fannie Flagg. In it he called this book magnificent & said he read all her books.

[Stina]

Evilblacksheep wrote: "Found here : https://onegrandbooks.com/shop/curato... (great ressource for other author's favourite too) that Neil Gaiman has Susannah Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in ..."

Gaiman and Schwab both have that on their favorites lists, so that is definitely a contender for me.

[Melissa]

NancyJ wrote: "Melissa wrote: "I adore Ann Patchett and she has loads of lists online of her favorite books that Google just turned up. This one in particular lists 75 of the best books of the last 75 years - som..."
I ended up reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane a few weeks ago for this prompt. What a lovely little book. So glad this prompt turned me on to it.

[Ron]

Okay, finally found one:

Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

-Susan Cain had a review of the book on the back of the cover.

[Ketutar]

I read The Exploits of Moominpappa for Terry Pratchett :-) It's one of my favorite books as well :-D

[JP]

Ketutar wrote: "I read The Exploits of Moominpappa for Terry Pratchett :-) It's one of my favorite books as well :-D"

Thanks for this! I'm a big fan of Pratchett's and am curious to check it out. Did you see the article by his daughter: "My family and other Moomins: Rhianna Pratchett on her father's love for Tove Jansson"? It's on the Guardian website, dated 12 March 2018.

[Briana]

I really like the By the Book series that was mentioned in this thread. I found one of my new favorite authors' (Beverly Jenkins) article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/bo...

My fave authors are romance authors, so I took another idea from this thread and snooped their Goodreads which didn't help me a ton but I'll have to take some time to snoop their websites.

[Tammy]

In case no one has mentioned this: If President Obama could be considered one of your favorite authors, he has a lot of great book recommendations! I searched the Goodreads lists for "Barack Obama reading lists" and found that was the best way to see them (as opposed to just searching online).

[Briana]

I just stumbled upon this list of some of Talia Hibbert's faves, and I will definitely be choosing one from here, but I can't decide which!

https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1...

Written in the Stars was already on my tbr, but I Think I Might Love You and Grand Theft N.Y.E. (okay ALL sound fun!).

I'm trying to read through the Romance Writing Greats and Nalini Singh is an author I haven't read on that list so Slave to Sensation could cross two things off at once. I've heard it recommended in quite a few places by quite a few people but every time I read the description I think eh. For some reason, the paranormal thing doesn't super appeal to me but I don't wanna knock it before I try it.

[Nid]

Read Lovelight Farms by B.K
Borison because it is one of Chloe Liese's favourite books

[Russell]

I hunted everywhere to find out what Laurie R. King favorites are and I couldn't find a list or her talking about that anywhere. All I could find where some of her 5 star reviewed books on here. I decided to go with Anne Rice instead and one of her favorites is The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

I wont say any spoilers but this book has shook me and rung me out emotionally and I am only halfway through. I can't decide if I like the emotional reactions it is causing or not. I will say that it makes me VERY glad to be a queer person living in the present and not in the 1940's.

[Mandie]

I read Station Eleven for this prompt as it is a favorite of Deborah Harkness and George R. R. Martin.