Favorite Authors

[P. B. Walker]

John Sanford --- major fav, have a hard time putting his books down at all.

Patricia Cornwell

Clive Clusser

Tom Clancy ---- hard to read, but love the intricate plots and storylines... but they are just so huge. Really like his new NetForce series and Powerplay series.

James Clavell

Stephen Hunter

John Maxim ----- another bigtime fav

Kyles Mills --- love his plots

Ridley Pearson

Patrick Robinson

Lisa Scottoline --- only read one of her books but I liked it.

Thomas Harris

John Grisham --- if I'm in the mood

Brendan DuBois (has an great book called Resurrection Day that has an out of this world plot... I think I read it in one day).

Michael Connelly ---- another fav... usually finish his books in a day or two... can't put them down.

 

[Andreina]

Shortlisted for mah own Booka Prize are:

Jostein Gaarder (Sophie's World, Vita Brevis, etc)
Salman Rushdie (The Satanic Verse, The Moors Last Sigh, etc)
Arturo Perez-Reverte (The Ninth Gate, The Flanders Panel, etc)
Goethe (yes, I do love "Faust") and Shakespeare are also top, as well as J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" (I do admit to that, see)

 

[scrymettet]

Robert Heinlein
J.R.R Tolkin
Anne McCaffrey
C.J.Cherryh
Terry Pratchett
Frank Herbert
Arthur C Clark
Günther Grass
Rabelais
Jules Verne
and all the others that I take from the Library

and comics
Tintin,Asérix,Isabelle,Mélusine,Le Scrameustache,Yoko Tsuno,Les Tuniques blues

 

[Ask For More]

Authors

Time for some orginal choices

Neal Stephenson
Tim Powers
Michael Marshall Smith
Arthur C Clarke
Terry Pratchett
John Steinbeck
Mark Twain

 

[KillerMuffin]

No particular order:

There:

W.E.B. Griffin
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Louis L'amour
Douglas Adams
C.J. Cherryh
Tami Hoag
John Grisham
John Douglas
Mary Oliver
Linda Howard
Col. David Hackworth
Pamela Morsi
Shel Silverstein

Here:

Dirty Old Man
Dixon Carter Lee
Whispersecret
Cockatoo
Madame Pandora
Mickie
Gaucho
Bob Peale
Crazy
Daughter

 

[Ice Cold]

No Particular order here:


Stephen King
David Eddings
Stephen Donaldson
Piers Anthony
Robert Asprin
J.K. Rowling
Peter David
Alan Dean Foster

Those are just modern day off the top of my head ... the whole list would take way to much time to write.

 

[NeoMeiouSetsuna]

Avi
Anne Rice
Robert Jordan
Susan Cooper
T. F. Jones

 

[Sassy7]

Dean Koontz
James Patterson
Stephen King
Faye Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman
Catherine Coulter
Nora Roberts

 

[macuk]

Charles Dickens
Terry pratchet
J.R.R. Tolkien

 

[LadyDarkFire]

Ok, if I listed all of my favorite authors, this post would be Way too long, so here are a few.

Tanya Huff
J R R Tolkien
J K Rowling
Charles De Lint
Jody Lynn Nye
Mercedes Lackey
Robert McCammon
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Ray Bradbury
Chaucer (who is, along with his famous works, the first technical writer in the English Language.)

If you're allowing poets:
T S Eliot
Dylan Thomas

If you allow Playwrites:
Shakespeare