I'm looking to discover other exciting writers and their works. I like King but I'd like to read someone else, I just don't know who.
2007-01-26 12:01:48 · 20 answers · asked by James R 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
1 - Howard P. Lovecraft
2 - Edgar Allan Poe
3 - Mark Twain
4 - Arthur Conan Doyle
5 - Walter Scott
6 - John Dickson Carr
7 - Agatha Christy
8 - Ellery Queen
9 - Jack London
10 - Jules Verne
11 - Alejandro Dumas
12 - Henry Sienckiewicz
13 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
14 - Don Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas
15 - Enrique Jardiel Ponciela
16 - SM
17 - Leon Tolstoi
18 - Anton Chejov
19 - Lewis Carrol
20 - Lewis Wallace
21 - Mika Waltari
22 - Joseph Conrad
23 - Wilkie Collins
24 - Edgar Wallace
25 - Charles Dickens
26 - Franz Kafka
27 - Franz Werfel
28 - Axel Munthe
29 - José Marti
30 - Giovanni Guareschi
31 - H.G. Wells
32 - Victor Hugo
2007-01-26 12:28:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you have a particular preference as to reading Murder Mystery, Medical mystery, Horror / Occult/Magic, Adult fantasy like Elves Fairies and gnomes, Conan the Barbarian, Detective "whodunits", Westerns? If you prefer Works like Stephen King's, you may like reading John Saul's books or Dean Koontz I find those 2 very excitibg reading. But I als Like Ludlam as the best spy novelist ever and I like Jeffery Archer's books and Federick Forsyth's books. I am now reading books by Terry Goodkind. I find all of these Authors very exciting and of course I fid reading the Old testament in the Bible very good reading and realize that most authors find in there the basic groundwork for their books.. i.e. Good Versus Evil. Good luck and good reading.
2007-01-26 20:20:05 · answer #2 · answered by Agnon L 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know if you want to stay in horror books, but if "anything goes" here are some books and recomendations: "The Doctors" by Eric Segal. The book is about the struggles and triumphs of doctors coming into practice. GOOOD read! Andrew M. Greely, a supposed former priest, has written many books that are fascinating--"Thy Brother's Wife", minus some language, is pretty good. If you haven't read "Inferno", one of three in a triology by Dante, you're missing one of the best literary classics I've ever read. Supposedly, it's a story about the author's dream of going to hell, his journey there, and the different rings--there were 9 in his dream--in which he places his friends. He has an unquelched love for a lady named Beatrice, whom, because she is so beautiful and perfect, he cannot touch in spite of the fact that she walks just a few feet above him as he looks up from hell.
2007-01-26 20:19:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Anne Rice
Dean Koontz
V.C. Andrews
Richard Bachman (which is also Stephen King)
2007-01-26 20:50:20 · answer #4 · answered by rowdyrebelgal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Dean Koontz, he is a great writer. I like Stephen King's books, but sometimes I feel he woffles on a bit.
2007-01-26 20:06:56 · answer #5 · answered by melark 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Try Bentley Little if you like King, you'll like Little. I read that he was King's favorite horror writer. He is a very good author.
2007-01-26 21:38:59 · answer #6 · answered by macybluedawn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you like Stephen King you will LOVE Dean Koontz. His thrillers have the macarbe, the bizarre and a good dash of humor to keep it going. You will love him.
2007-01-27 06:23:05 · answer #7 · answered by shredded_lettuce 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
James Patterson
John Grisham
2007-01-26 20:04:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ann Rice, Patricia Cornwell
2007-01-26 20:05:41 · answer #9 · answered by Scorpius59 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Frank Peretti
Ted Dekker
2007-01-26 20:15:02 · answer #10 · answered by sammyjo429 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋