I need some names of some good authors please..Ive been picking books at random lately and none of them are very good..(Ive read all the books from the authors i like..Dean Koontz, John Grisham,JK Rowling,Mary Higgins Clark, Sandra Brown) So now I'm kinda stuck..
so who is really good that is worth reading most of or all of their books?? otherwise can u tell me the names of good books if not the authors..thanks!!
2007-09-05 03:02:55 · 11 answers · asked by chasergorgeous 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
oh and im reading some james patterson stuff also..so i know about his stuff..:)
2007-09-05 03:04:13 · update #1
Well, if you haven't read Patricia Cornwell, you have to! She's my fave! Be sure and start with the first one, Post Mortem and go in order.
I've been reading Jan Burke recently and they are great too, same character throughout each book, very good mystery, crime scene books.
2007-09-05 03:12:31 · answer #1 · answered by chickadee_ajm 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only author typically on the best seller list that I will even look at is Nelson Demille, and even his latest, "Wild Fire" wasn't too hot.
Some of his earlier ones are great, including "Plum Island", "Nightfall", "The General's Daughter" and "The Charm School"
You could read Raymond Chandler, one of the all time greats.
His books include
The Big Sleep
The Long Goodbye
The Lady in the Lake
The Little Sister
For funny contemporary try Carl Hiaasen
Double Whammy
Tourist Season
Lucky You
Striptease
I found anything by John Steinbeck or Herman Hesse to be pretty enjoyable
That Old Ace in the Hole and The Shipping News by Annie Proulx are good
Lawrence Sanders "The Tomorrow File" and most everything else he wrote are good enjoyable reads.
There, that should keep u busy
2007-09-05 11:24:53 · answer #2 · answered by andyg77 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ann Tatlock, Richard Paul Evans, Dorothy Gilman,Liz Curtis Higgs, Peter Mayle, John Steinbeck, Penelope Stokes, Anne Dayton, andDebbie Macomber.
2007-09-05 14:27:42 · answer #3 · answered by Puff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephenie Meyer
Mary Hoffman
Philip Pullman
Pierre Bottero
Licia Troisi
Anne Rice
2007-09-05 16:14:38 · answer #4 · answered by Sarita 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I highly reccomend all of the following authors: (they provide a wide variety of good and exciting reading)
Harlan Coben, Jeffrey Deaver, Greg Iles, Lawrence Block, Stephen King, Robert Ludlum, Chuck Pahlaniuk, Jody Piccoult, Dan Brown, and Janet Evanovich.
THose authors represent over 150 books put together so that will definately keep you busy for awhile. And I can promise you, you won't be bored with any of them!
2007-09-05 10:33:42 · answer #5 · answered by Cheese 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
read some other genres....try a beat poet, Jack Kerouac, Wolfe, Allen ginsberg, William Burroughs...The Beat Generation was a group of American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s...their literature was banned in bookstores....a very different type of literature. there are also authors like Douglas Coupland, a sort of pop culture author....then there are the classics. my favorite is Rudyard Kipling...read his short stories (he wrote the jungle book) he was a british author living who wrote about India...the myths and legends. try new stuff!!!there are so many books in the world.
2007-09-05 10:19:04 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mark Z Danielewski
2007-09-05 10:53:29 · answer #7 · answered by James C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any book by Nicholas Sparks. I've read them all. Mitch Album is great too.
2007-09-05 14:04:53 · answer #8 · answered by twisty 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen King will keep you busy for awhile.
2007-09-05 10:18:41 · answer #9 · answered by Oz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
michael crichton and susan elizabeth phillips. very different genres but both have gripping story lines
2007-09-05 10:54:56 · answer #10 · answered by Jean Anderson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋