favorite authors?
I like thrillers by Matthew Reilly, Jack DuBrul, Paul Christopher.
Mysteries by James Doss, John Dunning, Stuart Woods and Ms. J.A.Jance.
Sci-fi/fantasy by everbody, but especially David Weber, Michelle Sagara and Jim Butcher(not the Dresden Files, his fantasy series set in Alera).
How about you?
2007-10-04 02:54:38 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
All of the answers are great. Keep them coming, I am always interested in both new and old authors I have not yet tried.
2007-10-04 03:59:01 · update #1
I'll wait a couple of more hours then give one of you extraordinary people the 10 pts. There are many authors mentioned that I have read and some I still read and some I have never read but will keep in mind in the future. Thanks all*****
2007-10-04 09:32:35 · update #2
All fantasy books, Tanya Huff, Jim Butcher, Shannon Drake, Susan Krinard.
2007-10-04 07:24:44 · answer #1 · answered by Redd. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love spirituality materials and explorations into the inner world by Authors such as Louise Hay, Sylvia Browne and Echo Bodine.
"Everything Happens For A Reason" by Mira Kirshenbaum was especially enlightening as was Mitch Albom's "For One More Day". I'm still working on Albom's "Tuesdays With Morrie".
"As A Man Thinketh" by James Allen is a classic treatise on positive thinking way before modernists like Wayne Dyer came along.
In recent years I've also enjoyed classic novels set in the old south. "The Color Purple", "To Kill A MockingBird", "Cold Sassy Tree", just finished "The Secret Life of Bees".
Am currently into several books at a time . . . "Their Eyes Were Watching God", and 2 Nicholas Sparks books that sound awfully good, "Bend In The Road" and "True Believer".
2007-10-04 06:32:11 · answer #2 · answered by autumlovr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
History
especially books by David McCullough
I just finished "Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America", by Erik Larson
Fiction with a historical setting:
Anything by Morgan Llywelyn, "Lion of Ireland", "Red Branch", "1916"
Most of James Michener's books
"The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco
"The Cider House Rules" by John Irving
Books by David Weber, like 1633 (could be called SciFi)
Books by Colleen McCullough, like "Ceaser"
Jane Austen
Sci-Fi
Asimov
Clarke
Spider Robinson
Greg Bear
Frank Herbert
Ray Bradbury
Some Fantasy
JRR Tolkien
Terry Goodkind
Terry Brooks
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Arthurian based books
Neil Gaiman
Some Thrillers:
Carl Hiaasen
Tom Clancy (especially his early novels)
Stepen King
Confections: sweet or perhaps Girly books
The Miford Series by Jan Karon
Rebecca Wells (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood)
English translation of "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel
2007-10-04 04:31:33 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have always been an avid reader. I used to go to the library and get an armfull of books, read them in about a week and then go back and get more.
I enloy the following authors:
Dave Balducci
Steve Martini
Perri O'Shaughnessy
Tom Clancy
John Grisham
Mike Palmer
James Patterson
Steven King
Ann Parker
Kim Edwards
Michael Connelly
Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child
Mitch Albom
2007-10-04 09:27:57 · answer #4 · answered by Moe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My favourite genre is historical murder mysteries. Now at first glance that might seem fairly limiting.
In fact there are literally dozens of authors who write their novels in settings from ancient Egypt,Rome,Ireland, China, Japan, Britain, the Inca and Aztec lands and Mesopotamia to medieval and Victorian times and during the time of Britain's empire and so on and so on. You name it and I bet I can find one.
Some are single novels and others are a series centred around a particular character. My fave is Meren a judge in Pharaohs court and each of his cases form the basis for a book. You get a murder mystery and a history lesson all in one.
At the other end of the scale I love sci-fi alto I haven't read much lately. Edgar Rice Burroughs (wrote Tarzan) has a martian series which is mind blowing when you consider when it was written. Ask at your library for it and read it in sequence.
2007-10-04 04:04:29 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I love old classics and Henry James is my very favorite of all time author (can't beat him for describing in minute detail the inner workings of the minds of his characters.) As far as contemporary author, I really like a guy named Don J. Snyder. He wrote a book entitled, Cliff Walk, and another work of fiction about the game of golf (can't remember the name, but, boy, what a great read.) There are others but I can't call them to mind at the moment.
2007-10-04 04:19:30 · answer #6 · answered by yoga guy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
James Patterson, Edna Buchanan, Jimmy Buffet, Alice Seborn, Mary Jane Clark, Mary Higgins Clark..and any good murder mystery or humorous family life type writer. Ferrol Sams and many others write not only southern but country style family books with humor and skeletons in the closet. There isn't much I wouldn't read.
2007-10-04 04:23:10 · answer #7 · answered by Southern Comfort 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have way too many favorite authors to name them all, but some are: Harold Robbins, John D. MacDonald, Robin Cook, Michael Palmer, Sandra Brown, Nora Roberts, Janet Evanovich, Patricia Cornwall. I have a tendency to like murder mysteries, medical thrillers and historical romance.
2007-10-04 03:19:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was never a mystery reader until somebody gave me a copy of John Grisham's The Brotherhood, then I was hooked. I've read just about all of his books and love his writing. Also like Janet Evanovich. One tough gal!
Recently I've been reading all I can on Alaska, ever since I read Michener's book on Alaska. There is a mystery writer who writes crime stories located in Alaska, but I can't remember her name. Great books. Tony Hillerman is very good too, mystery writings about crimes on Indian reservations. Two have been made into movies with Wes Studi. Very, very good!
2007-10-04 06:21:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tom Clancy rates high with me. Any of his stories that features the "Jack Ryan" character is very appealing, (currently reading "Executive Orders."
I also like Sci FI and have read everything from Issac Asimov. Harry Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" series is also very entertaining.
2007-10-04 10:07:35 · answer #10 · answered by NMB 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋