Favorite Books/Authors? (All genres)

[ItalianStallion00]

Who is everyone's favorite author and what are your favorite books? Curious to know everyone's opinions and likings out there!

Personally, I am a huge fan of Tolkien. Loved the Lord of The Rings trilogy, as well as all of the side books written in relation to the main ones. Those novels are filled with amazing writings, everyone should read them at some point. I didn't really like the movies at all, but books are always better than movies. The movies were good if you never read the books, but they changed so much and left out so many good scenes, even though they had to... but yah love that series!

On another note, I love Grisham novels, my favorite is probably "The Broker" and it inspired me to learn some Italian . Also love Dan Brown's books (Angels and Demons!) , as well as David Baldacci, Robin Cook, Vince Flynn, and John Stanford, just to name a few.

I love political thrillers, medical thrillers, and conspiracy books =]

 

[Maklaar13]

My favorites are Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Donald Westlake and James Redfield, I also like Haldor Laxness

 

[ByronMc]

Cormac McCarthy - THE CROSSING and
THE ROAD

Willa Cather - DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP

 

[ItalianStallion00]

Cormac McCarthy - THE CROSSING and
THE ROAD

Willa Cather - DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP

I read "My Antonia" by Willa Cather... she is a great author.

 

[muskratsally]

I'm a huge book fan,Tolkiens a literary genius, tho i really do prefer horror authors ( Richard Laymon ) bein the god of said genre, anything by that great man is good in my book also a fan of James Herbert, Shaun Hutson, Clive Barker, Stephen King ( although hes a hit and miss kinda guy along with Dean Koontz ) i do have other tastes tho besides horror Jean M Aeul's Earth Children series are master pieces closely followed by Penina Spinka and to round this off a good dose of Terry Pratchett is hard to beat!

 

[justsimon]

Margaret Atwood
Shirley Jackson
Michael Cunningham
Chuck Palahniuk
Tom Spanbauer
Chris Ware
Philip K Dick
Jeffrey Eugenides
Neil Gaiman

 

[jcojax78]

Ken Follett
Michael Crichton
Anne Rice
Stephan R. Lawhead

Just to name a few. As long as it is a good book and keeps my attention, I am happy.

 

[pacz]

E.M. Forrester

Augusten Burroughs

 

[SFLMAN]

John Grisham

James Patterson

Mary Higgins Clark

 

[alley]

Jim Butcher
Kim Harrison
Melannie Rawn
Robin Cook
Roger Zelazny
Mercedes Lackey(sometimes)
Marion Zimmer Bradley

 

[construct]

Favorite living author: Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

Favorite dead author: Samuel Beckett (Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable)

Ask me again and you might get different answers.

Right now, I'm reading Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark.

 

[cAndId]

Favourite: 'The Singularity is Near' when humans transcend biology by Ray Kurzweil

Read that book and you can see into the future.

 

[NomineDetracto]

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Bukowski
Mark Twain
Dave Eggers
Carl Sagan
Roald Dahl
J.D. Salinger

 

[hubbellgardner]

Off the top o' me head :

Harry Crews
Anne Tyler
Larry McMurtry
Margaret Atwood
William Goldman
Joan Didion