What are your top five Favorite Author's and why?

Question

You can explain by adding what books they wrote that made you select them as a great author. Mine are; Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Books, Ernest Hemingway A Clean Well Llighted Place and The Old Man and The Sea, Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, A. A. Milne The Pooh Story Book, and Ralph Waldo Emerson because he is so good everything he has written is kindof golden.

Answer 1

Anya Seton - Katherine
Diana Gabaldon - the Outlander series
Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion
L.M. Montgomery - the Anne of Green Gables series and Emily of New Moon trilogy

All of these authors write romantic tales in a very earthy and grounded way. Great characters and great insight into them and their worlds.

Answer 2

This year: 1. Sharron Kay Pennman
Here Be Dragons
Falls the Shadow
The Reckoning
Her portrayal of historical characters; the plausible motivations behind thier factual actions; and the "flavour" she created of the period about which she wrote; beguiled me out of middle aged dispondencey for a time.
Recentley: 2. Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Never read a O>S>C> book I didn't like. The Ender's series and paralel (not sequel) books are superb.
All Time: 3. LeoTolstoy 4. Anya Seton 5. Willa Cather

Answer 3

Dresden file book series by Jim Butcher.There are 8 books in the series beginning with stormfront. It narrates the story of Harry Dresden,chicago's only professional wizard who works as a detective.He stands between the general population who is ignorant about the supernatural world and the monsters -vampires,werewolves,fallen angels,fey.He is aided by Bob,a talking skull.Karrin Murphy-a police officer and Thomas-a white court vampire.The hero is simply an ordianary man who does what needs to be done-probably because nobody else cares about the victims.

Count of Montecristo by Alexander Dumas.Its about a young French sailor who was unjustly imprisoned for 14 years before he escapes and ultimately takes revenge on his enemies.The author did a great job describing the emotions of the prisoner.Disbelief,denial,self pity,madness,apathy and finally hope.

Landslide by Desmond Bagley.Bob Boyd wakes up in a hospital with no memory,the only surviver of an accident.He was burned badly all over and needed extensive plastic surgery which was payed by a mysterious sponser.He is told that he's a geology student with a very spotty past.However Bob recovers and gets on with his life.Hired by the powerful Matterson Corporation to survey land before they build a great new dam, he begins to uncover the shaky foundations of the Matterson family and becomes a fly in their ointment.His accident and the Matterson family have more in common than he thought.

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.When his best friend, a young clergyman, is killed in a mockery of a duel by an arrogant noble, just to quiet his eloquent expressions of democratic ideals, Andre-Louis Moreau vows revenge. From that point, through meteoric careers as a consummate actor and scenario writer, then as a fencing master, and finally a politician, the brilliant Moreau keeps thwarting the aims of the aristocratic Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr. However, the nobleman causes pain to Moreau as well, and the time must come when the two will meet to settle their enmity once and for all. You are not likely to guess how their confrontation finally turns out. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, this swashbuckling novel is exciting throughout, and it presents one of the most dashing heroes in fiction, a man who can fight equally well with his mind, his mouth, his pen, and his sword, a man who stirs up events wherever he goes.

Dance with the devil by Sherrilyn Kenyon.The following review is taken from Amazon

Zarek was mad, bad and more than a little insane, and now everyone wants him dead. But hey, that was nothing new to this loner. Born the bastard son of a Roman nobleman and a Greek slave, Zarek had known a lifetime of abuse, torture and humiliation.

It takes a very special woman to see past that hostility and find the lost, unloved boy inside. Happily, Astrid is such a woman (or demigoddess, actually). Her empathy, patience and unconditional love make the perfect foil for Zarek's personal demons. They truly are a match made in heaven -- or should I say Mt. Olympus?

Answer 4

1) J.D.Salinger because his book "the catcher and the rye" is a basis for teen life. And the messages it portrays are a basis of soul searching that everyone needs to realize.
2) J.K. Rowling. Because her "Harry Potter" series stretches beyond the limits of most people's mind capacity. The way she needs to remember all the spells and characters, and characters state of minds mystify me.
3) Nicholas Sparks. Because His novels touch my heart, like no other books can.
4) Jesus: His parables and teachings speak volumes, and changed the course of this world. Not only because, in this "historical" documentation, God created the world. (i mean, what else could change the world more than the creation of the world). But the readings in the Bible keep the world and its inhabitants in check. Through morals and the way things should be, what is wrong and what is right. It is The Book, of all books. Culminating in hundreds of religions coming from different points of view from the bible.
5) Louise Renninson: Simply because her books make me chuckle more than any other book every. It's one of those must read hidden book that not many people know about. It's your own little secret world. Where the people have names, and your in on the dish and gossip of school.

people determined to write are wonderful. The ambition, and the strive u need to finish a book is amazing. And my hat goes off to all authors.

Answer 5

My favourite books and authors are War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk, Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix by R. K. Rowling, The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank, Bird in The House and The Diviners both novels are by Margaret Laurence.

Answer 6

John Grisham - "The Brethren" got me hooked. i've read ALMOST all of his books and only two that i didnt care for.

Jerry Jenkins - "Left Behind", a twelve-book series about the end of the world. i read the first book in one 24-hour period without putting it down

Ken Follett - I just discovered Mr. Follett, who writes historical fiction. I read "Night Over Water" and really liked it. I bought two more of his works, but have not started them yet.

Sue Grafton - the notorious 'Alphabet' series. Her series in the detective genre is about a quirky female P.I. the first book is called "A is for Alibi" followed by "B is for Burglar", .... you get the drift. excellent stories, great writing style

Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman - for the "Dragonlance Chronicles" and "Rose of the Prophet" trilogy.

....and in the same genre, Elizabeth Moon wrote an AWESOME trilogy called "The Deed of Paksennarion"

Jean Auel - I JUST finished "Clan of the Cave Bear" (Earth's Children series) and was REALLY impressed. I plan on finishing the rest of the series. I understand she is still writing the series, and the latest book is due out soon. she has been writing the series for about 25 or 30 years (I think she wrote Clan in 1977 - not sure tho)

Answer 7

Nancy Farmer - A Girl Named Disaster and The House of the Scorpion
Nevada Barr - All her murder mysteries are great. My fav. is A Superior Death
Patrick Carman - The Land of Elyon Series
C. S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia
Bill Waterson - Calvin and Hobbes

Answer 8

I love authors like Mary Higgins Clark and Stephen King, who write suspense/scary type books..they are the best!! Ive also been reading alot more of James Patterson, Nora Roberts and Nicholas Sparks. Sparks for his romance type books, and the other 2, I have just starte reading. Pattersons books are easy reads, short chapters, but very captivating.

Answer 9

J.K. Rowling, Nicholas Sparks, Louise Renningson, Meg Cabot, Nora Roberts....All great authors with
humor/romance/adventure(ish)

Answer 10

Chekhov--his short stories are pure genius. Nabokov--he is a master puzzle maker. F.Scott Fitzgerald--The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night are masterpieces. William Faulkner--I've never read a book as ambitious and as succesful as The Sound and the Fury. Samuel Beckett--all his plays are wonderful, human and true. And P.G. Wodehouse--for pure, shameless entertainment.