What author(s) works do you read?

[Beautifull]

so you have a favorite author,right?
but what about the others you read?
hopefully you don't only read one author's books!

here are a few i read

1.Stephenie Meyer
2.Stephenie Laurens
3.Catherine Coulter
4.Nora Roberts
5.Lynn Kurland

and that's only the first five!

what's yours?

[johann cruyff]

I think this belongs to General Literature...:)

Anyway,obviously,it's wrong to limit yourself to one,or even five authors.That's why most of the people around here will tell you that there are just far too many authors to list.I can give you the list of,let's say,10 writers whose works I've been reading in the last couple of months:

Bulgakov
Bertrand Russell
Shakespeare
Tolstoy
Andrić
Eugenio Montale
De Nerval
Schiller
Singer
Borges

[khall12807]

so you have a favorite author,right?
but what about the others you read?
hopefully you don't only read one author's books!

here are a few i read

1.Stephenie Meyer
2.Stephenie Laurens
3.Catherine Coulter
4.Nora Roberts
5.Lynn Kurland

and that's only the first five!

what's yours?

I love Nora Roberts ;)

[Beautifull]

isn't she awesome?

[armenian]

well these are the authors that seem 'safe' to me (from other works from the author I feel comfortable enough that the book wont be a bust)

-dostoevsky
-camus
-saroyan

[Trystan]

Dostoevsky
Franz Kafka
Charles Bukowski
Albert Camus
Kurt Vonnegut
Haruki Murakami
Kobo Abe

Vonnegut was, at one time, my favorite. He's not anymore, as I've read a lot of other authors since (but I still love his books as much as ever).

[Saladin]

Nice list, Trystan.

Mine is like this:

Dostoevsky
Kafka
Murakami
Ibsen
Hamsun
Albert Camus
John Irving
Daniel Quinn

[cipherdecoy]

Gabriel García Márquez
Charles Dickens
Shakespeare
George Orwell...

[Honestgabe]

It is a shame that I feel the best two authors of the last one hundred years wrote in Sapnish. Being Cuban American I know there are many Spanish idioms that simply dont translate into English well, much more so than French. I think the shame is, I read for pleasure and for growth in English. (My only three serviceable languages)

Gabriel Garcia Marques
Borges
Dostoevsky
Peter Singer
Jacques Derrida
Camus
Kafka
Achebe
Vonnugut (I once read a critique of Vonnugut somewhere say that he is a great read for five year olds, that he is simply a conduit to the literary world. That being said, I think most critics are insanely jelous of Vonnugut's humor and success. You can not be taught humor, you can not practice it, and you can not hone it. It just is. And in those very rare cases, someones humor translates perfectly into their writing. Thus we have Vonnugut.)
Bukowski
and finally Hemingway, the guy who got me into literature as an art and not as a philosophical exercise.

[jgweed]

I am surprised no one has yet mentioned Thomas Mann.

[Janine]

Marcel Proust
Gustave Flaubert
Thomas Mann
Jose Saramago
William Trevor
Edna O'Brien
Anton Chekhov
Count Leo Tolstoy
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Italo Svevo
Italo Calvino
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
D.H. Lawrence
P.G. Wodehouse
Evelyn Waugh
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
Toni Morrison
Eudora Welty
Flannery O'Conner
William Faulkner

Antiquarian, no Shakespeare or Jane Austen or Brontes or Henry James? Some of those are the books with adaptations/period films you view so avidly. Was talking to my good friend last night, on the phone and guess what? She loves William Trevor, also. I must check out his writing soon.
I have to take the time to formulate my own list on this thread.

[JBI]

This thread is a little silly, it would take too long to list all the names of authors I have read, and do read. If you are looking for recommendations just ask.

[Bakiryu]

Here's my list, although t I do not limit myself to these authors.

Stephenie Meyer
Shakespeare
Plath
Hesse
N.Gaiman
T.Pratchett
O. Scott Card
Anne Rice
S.Westerfield
A. Rand
R.Bradbury
Tolkien
D.Adams
Nietzche
Libba Bray
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Kishimoto
and the list goes on.........

[LadyWentworth]

Well, I have a great many works of many different writers, but I suppose that my list will consist of the names of the people whom I have read majority, if not all, of their stories (and some of them I have read more than once):

Jane Austen
E.M. Forster
Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Brontes
Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde
C.S. Lewis
Charles Dickens
Evelyn Waugh
Louisa May Alcott
Wilkie Collins
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Elizabeth Gaskell
Edgar Allan Poe
P.G. Wodehouse

among others :)

[Statistic]

Here's a short list of the unconventional authors I enjoy:

1 Walter Moers
2 Daniel M. Pinkwater
3 Hunter S. Thompson
4 John Moore
5 Stephan Zielinski

You'd be hard-pressed to find a more original author than Walter Moers. That said, some of his stuff is parody so you'll notice intentional (satiric) theft, especially in The City of Dreaming Books.

If Walter Moers had lived a few hundred years ago, his works would now be considered classics. But nowadays it's hard to make a classic, so he'll probably be forgotten by 2050.

[_Shannon_]

There are a few authors who I have read exhaustively-(as in I've read everything they've written)
Hemingway
Fitzgerald
LM Montgomery


There are others who I have read some-but hope to read until I've read it all someday-
Dickens
Richard Russo
Trollope
John Dos Passos
Faulkner
Dostoyevsky
Twain
Dreiser
John O'Hara

And many, many others for whom I've read one or two novels, plays, short stories--and would like to read more--or those I haven't yeat read--like Proust and ANthony POwell who I know I'll adore.

[Eulalia]

Honestgabe, thanks for bringing up Borges! Such a major genius could not be left behind!

[Beautifull]

This thread is a little silly, it would take too long to list all the names of authors I have read, and do read. If you are looking for recommendations just ask.

i'm not, i'm just finding somewhere to share the kind of authors i read.
you should just try it, it's not as though you had to come to this thread:rolleyes:

Dean Koontz...i think that's how you spell his name!:lol:

Bakiryu, i absolutely love your author's list!

[Tournesol]

Well, everybody mentioned so many great authors already.
Some of mine are, of course:

Jane Austen
Thomas Hardy
Shakespeare
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway

And there are others who are lesser known, but who I love just as much:

Samuel Selvon
Joan G. Robinson
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Jack Schaeffer
Merle Hodge


And here are some of my most recent author favs:

Mitch Albom
Frank McCourt
Maliha Masood

[Joreads]

Jane Austen
George Orwell
The Bronte Girls
Clive Cussler
J K Rowling
Tom Clancy
Ann Rice
Kathy Reich

I have just starting reading C S Lewis also
Any anyone else that takes my fancy really

[Aiculík]

In last two months:

Iris Murdoch
Kingsley Amis
David Lodge
Irvine Welsh
Truman Capote
Arthur Miller
Flannery O'Connor
Thomas Pynchon
H. G. Wells (though I really had to force myself into this one)
William Trevor
G. Stein
Twain, Bierce, Harte, Howells, H. James - but only few short stories from each of them
+ approx. 10 authors from Slovakia

in other words, all authors I needed for my final exams that I haven't read before. :D (so now it's done and I can officially teach English and Slovak language and literature :D and it also means I have time to read what I want! So... I think I'm going to visit the Book Club :D)

[Aiculík]

In last two months:

Iris Murdoch
Kingsley Amis
David Lodge
Irvine Welsh
Truman Capote
Arthur Miller
Flannery O'Connor
Thomas Pynchon
H. G. Wells (though I really had to force myself into this one)
William Trevor
G. Stein
Twain, Bierce, Harte, Howells, H. James - but only few short stories from each of them
+ approx. 10 authors from Slovakia

in other words, all authors I needed for my final exams that I haven't read before. :D (so now it's done and I can officially teach English and Slovak language and literature :D and it also means I have time to read what I want! So... I think I'm going to visit the Book Club :D)

[slobone]

If you're asking about favorite novelists, my partial list would include:

Evelyn Waugh
Nancy Mitford
Angela Thirkell
Simon Raven
Barbara Pym
Muriel Spark
Kingsley Amis
Philip Roth
E. F. Benson
P. G. Wodehouse
Trollope
Dickens
Jane Austen
D.H. Lawrence
James Joyce
Edith Wharton
Henry James
Colette
James Gould Cozzens
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
E. M. Forster
Henry Green
Grahame Greene
John LeCarré
Len Deighton
Alan Furst
Dashiell Hammett
Raymond Chandler
James Cain
Jim Thompson
Elmore Leonard
Ross Macdonald
Walter Mosley
Dennis Lehane
Scott Turow
Rex Stout
Margery Allingham
John Dickson Carr
Dawn Powell
Gore Vidal

That's including only the ones I've read at least 2 books by.

[Beautifull]

thats a long list...

hmm...has anyone heard of Kat Martin?

[slobone]

thats a long list...

hmm...has anyone heard of Kat Martin?
Well, maybe I'm just easy to please. :D A lot of them are writers of whodunnits or comic novels, although I find that I'm less interested in whodunnits than I used to be.

Never heard of Kat Martin -- tell us more.

[Niamh]

Jane Austen
Elizabeth Gaskell
William Shakespeare
Anton Checkov
Bertolt Brecht
J.M.Synge
W.B.Yeats
Mary Stewart
Terry Brooks
Eoin Colfer
Cecilia Dart Thornton
Trudi Canavan
Herbie Brennan
Gulliermo Martinez
Raymond E. Fiest
Lloyd Alexander
Neil Gaiman
Alexander MaCall Smith


humm... its amazing how i cant think of authors even though i'm right beside my mini library. although there are loads of authors where i have only read one of their books. I'll edit this when i remember more.

[slobone]

Sometimes when I don't want to think too much, I'll read a well written whodunnit. I like the Aurelio Zen mysteries by Michael Dibdin and I love the Precious Ramatswe series by Alexander McCall Smith.

For comic novels, though, I pretty much stick to P.G. Wodehouse. :)
Well, if I wanted to think, I'd study math which is what I should be doing anyway...

[Beautifull]

Well, maybe I'm just easy to please. :D A lot of them are writers of whodunnits or comic novels, although I find that I'm less interested in whodunnits than I used to be.

Never heard of Kat Martin -- tell us more.

she's just a really good author i love to read.

[Anza]

*spazzes* ooh ooh! Stephanie Meyer, Holly Black, Libba Bray...

[Beautifull]

STEPHENIE MEYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just made a new thread named after her!

[Ahmed Senjarah]

that's great mate !

[Beautifull]

*spazzes* ooh ooh! Stephanie Meyer, Holly Black, Libba Bray...

hey anza! check out my new thread on stephenie meyer!it is called Stephenie Meyer

[AARONDISNEY]

I read and re-read Dickens. I love the atmosphere, the comedy, the emphasis on relationship really mattering and those that live for possessions and prestige coming to utter ruin, while those that possess much and are generous far outshine the shady characters.

I also love to read the Lord of the Rings trilogy..... a wonderful journey to destroy evil at any cost for the sake of the future.

I'm also a Bible reader, but that is because it is the most important thing that I can read. It's God's special message to each in his creation.

Occasionally I read Thomas Hardy too.

I like classics.

[Beautifull]

hmmm....i have to say this again..i can never say ithe name too much...Stephenie Meyer...her latest book, The Host was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good!