Who's Your Favorite Author?

[Katarina]

Some of my favourites:

J.R.R. Tolkien
Jack London
James Herriot
Gerald Durrell

[Katarina]

Oh, how could I forgot E.M. Remarque!!!

[KateM]

My favourites are Patricia Cornwell and Sandi Toksvig... Patricia is just a superb writer and Sandi tells wonderful stories with humour that I just love....

[lovethesuspense]

Terry Brooks
Stephen King
Ken Follett

[Stepho]

Don't get me wrong, I am not a Lord of The Rings "freak", said with respect.

But I truly do think that J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the best authors ever.
The descriptions he uses in his books are fantastic and it makes me feel as if I'm right there.

[Stepho]

I think Paulo Coelho is a fantastic author!

The little life lessons he portrays in his books are profound, and most of them are things that we all know, but he just reinforces what we know and it makes you believe in that even more.

[forosure]

James Patterson! I love how he writes. I really enjoy his books that are with other authors they really get me going! I read alot of different authors like King and Evanovich but Patterson is my fav. Love the short chapters. They truly keep me reading even MORE!

[twiedenfeld]

I'd have to go with James Jones.

Few people can make 1000+ page books seem short.

[Kathy B]

It changes but right now I'm reading everything I can find by Anne Lamott and Daniel Pinkwater. I also love John Irving and Pat Conroy - especially thier earlier work.

[Ender]

I try to not limit my books to authors. I've seen authors i liked write horrible books, and vice versa. But, some of my favorite books are written by:

Orson Scott Card
J.K. Rowling
Paul S. Kemp
Richard Lee Byers
Christopher Paolini
Stephanie Meyers

It's all fiction, but I think they're good.

[Read4Life]

Sarah Dessen
Jerry Spinelli
Ned Vizzini
i have many others too

[illbethesky]

Wally Lamb is brilliant.

[page turner]

John Marsden
Monica McInerney
Matthew Reilly
Jasper Fforde

[blueangel]

i have favorite authors in different genres, here they are:

paulo coelho-spiritual/inspirational

dan brown-conspiracy novels

mitch albom-inspirational too

robin cook-medical thrillers

j.k. rowling-fantasy/adventure

michael crichton-sci-fi

[baconpatroller]

I don't know if I consider these my favourites, but these are the authors that you'd see best represented on my bookshelf:

Fiction:

• Stephen King
  Michael Crichton
  John Wyndham
  Douglas Adams
  John Grisham
  HG Wells

Non-fiction:

• Jon Krakauer
  Simon Singh
  John Keegan