GTKY: Favorite Authors

BC&LM · November 2013

I love to read (when I actually have time), and I know some of you have mentioned a love of reading too. So I was wondering, who are some of your favorite authors, both current and from the past?

WasNotWas · November 2013

Augusten Burroughs
Dickens (love Great Expectations)
George RR Martin

BC&LM · November 2013

Current: Margaret Atwood, Jeffrey Eugenides, Joyce Carol Oates

Past: Jane Austen, Chaucer, Shakespeare, L.M. Montgomery, Edith Wharton, Henry James

I know I am forgetting some, but these are the ones that jumped out to me at first. I will add more as I think of them.

ETA: J.K. Rowling, Kurt Vonnegut, J.R.R. Tolkein, George R.R. Martin (though I only read the first two books of his series so far)

tsaman1003 · November 2013

Present: Khaled Hosseini and Yann Martel

Past: Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Flannery O'Connor

NicoleReed0324 · November 2013

Charlene Harris (Sookie Stackhouse books) Gillian Flynn, the divergent series (I'm not sure who wrote them but they are hunger gamesish)

BC&LM · November 2013

WasNotWas said:
Augusten Burroughs
Dickens (love Great Expectations)
George RR Martin

Love George RR Martin but only read the first couple of books in his series so far.

Loriimagination · November 2013

I could name a million...
Maggie Stiefvater
David Levithan
A.S. King
Lauren Oliver
John Green
Rainbow Rowell

Loriimagination · November 2013

lavonnallama said:
J.K.Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Phillip Pullman, J.R.R.Tolkein...

The Bronte Sisters if we're going past. Really like Rhode Dahl too.

I feel like a traitor because I forgot JK!

WasNotWas · November 2013

BC&LM said:

WasNotWas said:
Augusten Burroughs
Dickens (love Great Expectations)
George RR Martin
Love George RR Martin but only read the first couple of books in his series so far.

I love how he toys with your emotions and no character has plot armor

phishgirl29 · November 2013

NicoleReed0324 said:

Charlene Harris (Sookie Stackhouse books) Gillian Flynn, the divergent series (I'm not sure who wrote them but they are hunger gamesish)

Love All 3 of Gillian Flynn's books, and Veronica Roth wrote the Divergent Series. Loved those books too

dmlk413 · November 2013

Diana Gabaldon, Paullina Simons, Stephen King, Alison Weir...I could go on and on and on.

BC&LM · November 2013

Loriimagination said:

lavonnallama said:
J.K.Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Phillip Pullman, J.R.R.Tolkein...

The Bronte Sisters if we're going past. Really like Rhode Dahl too.
I feel like a traitor because I forgot JK!

OMG how did I forget Rowling and Tolkein. Add them to my list!

kh59 · November 2013

Haven Kimmel, Tom Robbins, Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Barbara Kingsolver...

phishgirl29 · November 2013

I read it @violet1183. It didn't suck but it took me 3 days to digest the ending before I liked it. I didn't hate it, but it took some time. I did eventually like it though. I'd love to discuss it with another person when you finish it!

WasNotWas · November 2013

@kdc2007 I loved Gone Girl! Is her other stuff worth checking out?

phishgirl29 · November 2013

@WasNotWas her other books are great! I loved Sharp Objects. I'd read that one next!

needanustart · November 2013

Hemingway, John Irving, Tom Wolfe, Tom Robbins. Hmm I know there are others...

numbersgirl08 · November 2013

Francine Rivers, Jane Austen, CS Lewis, Ann Patchett, Bronte sisters, so many others. I love reading.

Achae · November 2013

Terry Pratchett
Ernest Hemingway
Stephen King
Louise Erdrich
Margaret Weis

WasNotWas · November 2013

@34blondie if he's stop doing press junkets and commenting on football he would!! (I stalk his blog)

WasNotWas · November 2013

34blondie said:
@wasnotwas. Seriously. Someone needs to lock him in a room. I tried to savor A Dance with Dragons but I blew through it.

(Go Packers)

Go Bears...we were *this* close to being best friends

numbersgirl08 · November 2013

34blondie said:

WasNotWas said:

BC&LM said:

WasNotWas said:
Augusten Burroughs
Dickens (love Great Expectations)
George RR Martin
Love George RR Martin but only read the first couple of books in his series so far.
I love how he toys with your emotions and no character has plot armor

I'm just glad he told producers of the TV show who he ultimately wants on the throne at the end. Dude probably isn't going to live to finish writing the last books of the series.

I love Charlene Harris as well.

I have a love/hate relationship with Dean Koontz. Love his plots, but something about the execution/editing always annoys me

I didn't realize he told them. I'm terrified he's gonna die before the series ends. The books are so addictive.

lioness13 · November 2013

Current:
Nicholas Sparks
Jennifer Weiner
Emily Giffin
Eric Jerome Dickey
Sophie Kinsella
Maya Angelou

Lizzybizzy80 · November 2013

kdc2007 said:
My most recent favorite series is the "A Discovery of Witches" trilogy by Deborah Harkness.

I really like this series too, so much fun. The Outlander series by Gabaldon is also really good. I know there are a few others reading it as well

A few other favorites:
John Updike
DH Lawrence
David Sedaris
John Steinbeck
Chelsea Handler

dmlk413 · November 2013

@WasNotWas I just finished 'Dark Places' by Gillian Flynn and it was really good. Messed up but good.

NicoleReed0324 · November 2013

Gone girl is def the least crazy. I agree about reading sharp objects next!

I didn't read the 3rd divergent book yet. My reading time has seriously decreased since MJ.

phishgirl29 · November 2013

Read Allegiant @NicoleReed0324! I need to talk about it with someone!!!

NicoleReed0324 · November 2013

@phishgirl29 okay okay haha I have several days off over thanksgiving so maybe I can squeeze it in then!

BC&LM · November 2013

zigspective said: Well I'll have to give it up to Margaret Atwood because I currently have a signed copy of A Handmaid's Tale made out to Elowyn on my bookshelf.
I have more favourite books rather than favourite authors. I also really enjoy non-fiction.

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No way, really? Did you meet her? I love A Handmaid's Tale, but I think my favorite book of hers is The Blind Assassin. I also really like Oryx and Crake, Edible Woman, and probably some others I am forgetting.

BC&LM · November 2013

Oh, I also forgot Kurt Vonnegut!

megaroo64 · November 2013

@kh59- Haven Kimmel for "A Girl named Zippy"? Have you read her other stuff? I couldn't get in to Iodine and abandoned her as an author!

My list: JK Rowling, Jonathan Tropper, John Steinbeck , JD Salinger, I could name so many more...

Ryanswifey619 · November 2013

Rhiannon frater, Nicholas sparks, Jodi picoult, jk Rowling...I've got a few free books on my kindle that are pretty decent.

steph_pegasus · November 2013

Diana Gabaldon, JK Rowling, Iris Johansen, Philip Pullman, Michael Crichton, Linda Howard... I can't remember all their names, there are too many!!

ETA Jane Austen, the guy who wrote The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series....

Nix55 · November 2013

Sandra Cisneros- I love reading writing that is rich with figurative language.

James Patterson- I love reading his books for mind numbing entertainment. I love the short chapters. It keeps me saying, "Just one more chapter."

Harper Lee- No matter how many times I've read To Kill a Mockingbird, I still find new lines to love.

phishgirl29 · November 2013

@megstory17 I forgot about Jonathan Tropper. His books are really funny!

RissNRuss · November 2013

Jodi Picoult, John Saul, Mary Higgins Clark

And I will say this... even though it isn't FFFC time- I read VC Andrews, Lurlene McDaniel and Nicholas Sparks even though the plotlines are entirely predictable and repetitive.

I like JK Rowling and the Hunger Games author too- but I haven't read anything besides HP and HG, so I can't say if I like them in a series READ ALL THE BOOKS way, or a one-hit-series-wonder kind of way.

kh59 · November 2013

MegStory17 said:

@kh59- Haven Kimmel for "A Girl named Zippy"? Have you read her other stuff? I couldn't get in to Iodine and abandoned her as an author! My list: JK Rowling, Jonathan Tropper, John Steinbeck , JD Salinger, I could name so many more…

Iodine is an outlier in terms of style. My favorite of hers is called The Solace of Leaving Early. It's part of a loosely related trilogy, and I loved all three.

kh59 · November 2013

BC&LM said:

zigspective said:

Well I'll have to give it up to Margaret Atwood because I currently have a signed copy of A Handmaid's Tale made out to Elowyn on my bookshelf.

I have more favourite books rather than favourite authors. I also really enjoy non-fiction.

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No way, really? Did you meet her? I love A Handmaid's Tale, but I think my favorite book of hers is The Blind Assassin. I also really like Oryx and Crake, Edible Woman, and probably some others I am forgetting.

The Blind Assassin is so awesome!!!

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