Who's your favourite authour?

Question

Mine are Thomas Hardy for the classics, Dean Koontz for the thrillers, Clive Barker for the bizarre and James Ellroy for the gritty. Of course every book becomes a favourite if it grips you so every thing changes again!

Answer 1

If you like reading non-fiction, about what goes on nowadays - I recommend these two -

1) "Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader"
written by Bradley K. Martin

2) "Rogue Regime"
written by Jasper Becker

These two well-written books give an insight about the North Korean Government.

Fiction?

Try all the books written by Clive Cussler (mystery/adventure/drama type). I would suggest you start the books from the first; some of the story lines tend to follow into subsequent novels.

The hero is Dirk Pitt, with his sidekick Al Giordino. These fiction books by Clive Cussler are well-written.

Answer 2

Well, I lean towards classics (mostly) but I'm also not free from the influence of modern, popular stuff.

Currently my five favorites are (in some semblance of order) J.R.R. Tolkien, Jane Austen, Harper Lee, J.K. Rowling, and Ray Bradbury, all for totally different reasons. Other favorites are Poe, Doyle, Scott, Thoreau, Frank, and with respect to current/modern authors, Libba Bray ('A Great and Terrible Beauty'), Yann Martel ('Life of Pi') and Markus Zusak ('The Book Thief').

But this is probably going to change very soon. Or at least the list will be added to. I've just started 'Jane Eyre' and I love it, so Charlotte Bronte will probably be on it soon. :)

Answer 3

I cannot believe that nobody has said Haruki Murakami.

He is this Japanese author who's big over there and as far as I know, its only relatively recently that he has been translated into English.

His stories are definitely surreal, and his writing style is refreshingly uncondascending and he may throw in the occasional time-travel, animals talking or parallel universes into his modern stories and they are totally believable!

'The Elephant Vanishes' is a collection of short stories and I'd recommend that you read that first to see if you like his work, but trust me, you definitely will.

I have read so far 'The Wind Up Bird Chronicle', 'Kafka on the Shore' and 'Dance Dance Dance' as well as Elephant Vanishes and all have been absolutely superb.

I also like Hardy, Koontz and Barker so I'm confident you'll enjoy Murakami.

There is another Murakami also being translated into English but I've not read his work and its not supposed to be as good.

Answer 4

I like Robert MacFarlane for his book 'The Wild Places' about his explorations of the wilder parts of the British Countryside;the book is also an appreciation of the connections deep in all our inner souls with nature and natural beauty and how these connections sustain our lives.
I like the American novelist Stephen Beachy for his road novel 'The Whistling Song' which is satirical, surreal and sexual. I love the long dead children's author Malcolm Saville
whose exciting thrillers written 40 to 50 years ago, set in real parts of the English countryside excited and thrilled me and helped instigate my great love of the Shropshire landscape.
I applaude the actor Rupert Everett for his autobiography 'Red Carpets and other Banana Skins' that is so moving, amusing and evocative. I adore the novels of Peter Cameron such as 'Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You' and 'The City of Your Final Destination' that chronicle the pain of loving and losing and passion and relating, so amusingly and realistically. And I'm always so very entertained by the detective fiction of Robert B. Parker whose heros far from being knights in white armour are as flawed and in as much pain as the rest of us.

Answer 5

Kate DiCamillo and Cornelia Funke. I really like alot of Gail Carson Levine. (Yes, I am a grown woman, and I read the big grown up authors too, but I just love to escape into a youth fantasy novel)

... and Alexander Dumas. He is amazing.

Or for a more contemporary read, Chaim Potok.

Answer 6

I like Clive Barker too! Also, Oscar Wilde, W.E. Johns, and Michael Palin.

Answer 7

My absolute favourite is W. Somerseth Maugham, his novels like "On Human Bondage" and "The Moon And The Sixpence" are masterpieces and such a joy to read. But I like him even more for his short-stories, my favourite being "Before The Party". No one writes like that anymore.

I also like Evelyn Waugh "Brideshead Revisited" and "A Handful Of Dust" are recommended books.

Answer 8

I really enjoy James Patterson - Mary Higgins Clark - and Janet Evanovich. Can't get enough of their works.

I've read some Dean Koontz, too. He is exciting.

Answer 9

Jane Austin, James Joyce,

Answer 10

I looove Dean Koontz. His books scare the crap out of me sometimes.
I also really liked the "Left Behind" series, though I don't know who wrote them. I'm not really religious and those books just gripped me. I couldn't put them down.