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Atheinne
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How many authors do you know?

Post by Atheinne »

Without searching for authors and looking at your bookshelves, list down the authors that you know of! Here's mine so far:

P.S. BEFORE CONTINUING, you might as well start listing the authors you know first so that we could compare and see the writers we know in common :D



Paulo Coelho
Patrick Ness
Mark Lawrence
Sarah J. Maas
Leigh Bardugo
Nicholas Sparks
Dan Brown
Marie Lu
Rainbow Rowell
Kiera Cass
Marissa Meyer
Stephanie Meyer
Tahereh Mafi
Ransom Riggs
Lewis Caroll
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Arthur Conan Doyle
Daniel Steele
Enid Blyton
Rick Riordan
Cassandra Claire
John Grisham
Jenny Han
Heather Demetrios
J.A. London
Jojo Moyes
Sophie Kinsella
Angie Thomas
Pseudonymous Bosh
Mark Zusak
Naomi Novik
Stephanie Perkins
Erin Morgensten
Holly Black
Neil Gaiman
Stephen King
Owen King
Rosamund Hodge
J.R.R. Tolkien
E.L. James
J.K. Rowling

Some of the authors that are mentioned above are familiar to me because of their books but I haven't read them yet while there are some that are my favourites and they've always been a part of me.
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Paulo Coelho
Nicholas Sparks
Dan Brown
Marissa Meyer
Stephanie Meyer
Lewis Caroll
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Arthur Conan Doyle
Daniel Steele
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.K. Rowling
Edgar Allen
Sonia Choquette
Ernest Hemingway
Leo Tolstoy
Vladamir Nabokov
Dawn Powell
Amy Tan
Nickoli Gogol
Elizabeth Kostova
Louise Hay
Gary Renard
Gabrielle Bernstein
Rob White
The Bronte Sisters
Emily Dickinson
Henry David Thoreau
Robert Frost
Ray Bradbury
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sarah Dressen
David Petzler

That's all I can think of at the moment.
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Post by BookHausJ »

Let me try!

Robert Kiyosaki
Tony Robbins
Norman Vincent Peale
Donald Trump
Stephen Covey
Rob White
Jody Miller
Napoleon Hill
Nick Vujicic
Jack Canfield
Gerry Robert
John Maxwell
Fred Howard
J. Hudson Mitchell
Bo Sanchez
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Mohd Zubair
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Post by Mohd Zubair »

Let me try too..

J K Rowling
David Whitehood
Chetan Bhagat
Durjoy Dutta
Anthony Horowitz
Stephnie Meyer
J R R Tolkein
Nora
E L James
Norman Whaler
Victor Rose
Anthony Jones
Ruskin Bond
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euniceanne
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Post by euniceanne »

Let me try! Here:

John Green
Lang Leav
Jenny Han
Cassandra Clare
EL James
J.R.R Tolkien
Sidney Sheldon
Paulo Coelho
Veronica Roth
James Dashner
Charles Dickens
Michelle Hodkin
Stephanie Perkins
Jodi Picoult
Stephen King
George Martin
Lauren Oliver
Leo Tolstoy
Stephanie Meyer
JK Rowling
Nicholas Sparks
Suzanne Collins
Jennifer Smith
Rainbow Rowell
Allly Carter
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Jane Austen
Ransom Riggs
Anne Bronte
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Rick Riordan
Haruki Murakami
Gayle Foreman
Stephen Chboski
Dan Brown
Jojo Moyes
Michael Faudet
Morgan Matson
William Shakespeare
Victiria Aveyard
Nicola Yoon
Sherman Alexie
Jay Asher
Lauren Kate
E. Lockhart
Tehere Mafi
Sarah Dessen
Harper Lee
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Post by fergie »

Jeez, I'm a librarian. I'd be here all day going from A-Z if I tried that. I thought you meant knew personally!
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Hahaha. O
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Oh, man, this is going to be tough since I have a terrible memory. Here I go:

Alex Fayman
Suzanne Collins
George Orwell
Lauren Kate
J.K. Rowling
Marie Lu
Veronica Roth
Diana Palmer
Megan Maxwell
Rob White
S.M. Eachern (or something like that)
John Green
Jane Austen
Lois Lowry
Emily Brönte
Alexandra Bracken
Bianca White
Stephanie Meyer
J.J. Jorgens
George R.R. Martin
J.R.R. Tolkien
C.S. Lewis
Dan Brown
Sarah Dessen
Colleen Hoover(?) I think that's how you write it
Stephen King
Edgar Allan Poe
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pablo Neruda
Rómulo Gallegos
Paulo Coelho
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SPasciuti
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John Green
Marissa Meyer
Rick Yancey
P. C. Cast
J. K. Rowling
Stephanie Meyer
Scott Westerfield
Sara J. Mass
Rainbow Rowell
Alexandra Bracken
George R. R. Martin
Michael Grant
Sarah Dessen
Deb Calletti
Stephen King
James Patterson
Cassandra Clare
Holly Black
Rob White
Jay Kristoff
Patrick Rothfuss
Jim Butcher
Carlos Ruiz Zaffon
Gail Levine
Piper Kerman
S. Jae Jones
Beth Verbail
James Dashner
Ursula Le Guin
Christopher Paolini
Anthony Horowitz
Marissa Marr
Jenny Nemmo
Lauren Oliver
Amanda Prowse
Erin Hunter
Francine Pascal
Nora Roberts
Langston Hughes
Gertrude Stein
Robert Frost
C. S. Lewis
Evangeline Denmark
A. G. Howard
Liz Braswell
Jay Asher
Veronica Roth
Jane Austin
Pablo Neruda
Suzanne Collins
Jojo Moyes
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suetropez
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Post by suetropez »

Well, I don't know them personally and some of them I have read only one of their books, but here goes.

James Patterson
John Grisham
Patricia Cromwell
Tami Hoag
Steven Fry
Harold Robbins
Nora Roberts / JD Robb
Catherine Coulter
Stephen King
Stephanie Laurens
J K Rowlings
Ernest Hemingway
Jane Austen
J R Tolkein
Ann Rice
James A Mitchener
Mario Puzo
Suzanne Collins
Maya Angelou
Carl S Lewis
Agatha Christie
Danielle Steel
Ian Fleming
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Michael Crichton
Jude Deveraux
Beverly Jenkins
Linda Howard
Margaret Mitchell
Amy Tan
William Shakespeare
Lewis Carroll
Edgar A Poe
Dan Brown
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Toni Morrison
Eoin Colfer
Douglas Adams
Terry Pratchet
Robin Hobb
Christopher Paolini
James Clavell
Dan Brown
Marissa Meyer
Lewis Caroll
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Arthur Conan Doyle
Daniel Steele
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.K. Rowling
Edgar Allen
Ernest Hemingway
Leo Tolstoy
Vladamir Nabokov
Nickoli Gogol
Emily Dickinson
Umberto Ecco
E L James
Charles Dickens
Enid Blyton
Agatha Christie
Stephen King
George Martin
Haruki Murakami
Ursula Le Guin
Walter Scott...
These are from the top of my head but there is too many to go on. I have a lot of books and I know most of their authors. If I just think what is on my shelves I can write them all down. And than there are books I don't own and authors which I know from school. So I'm giving up now :?
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Here we go:

John Saul
John Grisham
Leo Tolstoy
Emily Bronte
J.R.R. Tolkien
Penelope Douglas
Stephen King
J.R.R.R. Hardison
Rob Wyatt
Danielle Steel
Dean Koontz
Nora Roberts
Suzanne Wright
George R.R. Martin
Stephenie Meyer
Agatha Christie
Jennifer Estep
J.K. Rowling
Dan Brown
John Green
Emily Dickinson
Beryl Gilroy
E.L. James
Rachel Cohn
Ann Brashares
Audrey Niffenegger
Patricia Briggs
David Levithian
Suzanne Collins
Anne Rice
Enid Blyton
Lewis Carroll
Jojo Moyes
Dr. Seuss
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Austen

Just gonna end right there.
And in the end, we were all just humans... Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

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Post by Arrigo_Lupori »

Not that many unfortunately, I'm still growing my collection
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JodyVamp
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Hmmm, this could take a while or be pathetically short:

Christopher Moore
James Rollins
Janet Evanovich
Lincoln Child
Douglas Preston
Lee Child
Dean Kootz
Stephen King
Anne Rice
Charlaine Harris
Kim Harrison
Laurel K Hamilton
Darynda Jones
J.K. Rowling
J.R.R. Tolkien
Patricia Briggs
Iris Johansen
Steve Berry
Brad Thor
Leslie Langtry
Josie Brown
J.B. Lynn
Carl Haisen
JD Robb
Edgar Allen Poe
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apINKpanda21
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Post by apINKpanda21 »

Here's mine:

Harlan Coben
Lisa Jackson
Lisa Unger
Lisa Gardner
John Saul
John Dunning
Nancy Bush
Val McDermid
Blake Pierce
Sidney Sheldon
Rick Riordan
Cassandra Clare
Veronica Roth
Richelle Mead
Rachel Hawkins
Kiera Cass
Tahereh Mafi
Sara Shepard
W.J. May
C.J. Pinard
P.C. Cast
Kristin Cast
Kristen Middleton
Christine Pope
Holly Black
Holly Bourne
Ally Carter
Francine Pascal
Barbara Freethy
Paulo Coelho
Lang Leav
Haruki Murakami
Kevin Kwan
John Green
Neil Gaiman
Gayle Forman
Markus Zusak
Lauren Oliver
Lauren Kate
Colleen Hoover
Denise Grover Swank
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