2006-10-09 23:51:00 · 19 answers · asked by Riddick 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Clive Cussler
Wilbur Smith
John Steinbeck
William Shakespeare
Dan Brown
2006-10-10 01:22:19 · answer #1 · answered by Sioux 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is very subjective! I think everyone will have a different answer! Can I just clarify though, Shakespeare wasn't an 'author', he was a playwright - there is a distinction, so he shouldn't be included in any top 5, as he didn't write narrative fiction.
My favourite top 5 would be: Angela Carter, George Elliot, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Hardy and James Joyce.
Authors that have been important to fiction include are Samuel Richardson, John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe and Charles Dickens.
2006-10-10 04:41:41 · answer #2 · answered by Maureen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. JK Rowling (Harry Potter series)
2. Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises, the Nick Adams stories)
3. JD Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories)
4. John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath)
5. Stephen King (The Stand, The Long Walk)
2006-10-10 05:19:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bryce Courtenay
William Shakespear
Chinua Achebe
John Grisham
Dean Koontz
2006-10-10 01:01:43 · answer #4 · answered by Cinderella 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agatha Christie
Dick Francis
Miss Read
John Patterson
Ruth Rendell
2006-10-10 01:03:19 · answer #5 · answered by k 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shakespeare, Nick Hornby, John Harding, JK Rowling, Edward Canfor-Dumas
2006-10-10 01:58:43 · answer #6 · answered by - surabaya - 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dean Koontz
Tom Sharpe
JRR Tolkein
James Ellroy
Robert Ludlum
2006-10-10 11:08:36 · answer #7 · answered by onetruekev 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shakespeare, Marlowe, Joyce, Steinbeck, Poe
2006-10-11 05:11:07 · answer #8 · answered by fizzy_wolf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess this is personal choice depending on what sort of books you read, but my top 5 would be:
1) Martina Cole
2) Robert Lewis Stevenson
3) CS Lewis
4) Stephen king
5) Virginia Andrews
2006-10-09 23:53:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will depend on the genre
Horror: Koontz and King
Action: Mathew Reilly, Rollins
Vampire stuff: Anne Rice
Suspense: Preston and Child
Fantasy: JRR Tolkein
2006-10-10 02:44:49 · answer #10 · answered by Mohammed R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋