Favorite author(s)?

Mine is H.P. Lovecraft. He's not for everyone, but it seems like everyone who does like his stories LOVES his stories. My husband happens to like him too and one day last fall we made a 2 hour trip to Providence, RI to visit his grave (pic in gallery).

My very close second is Edgar Allan Poe. I love his poetry as well as his short stories. I have a spot picked out on my arm for a tattoo of his signature... it's going right under my tattoo that says (in French) "black heart". When we move back to Massachusetts from Texas in the spring we are going to stop in Baltimore so we can visit his grave as well.

Rounding out my top five- Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Tom Robbins.

Oh I love to read! My favorite author would have to be Nicholas Sparks. I've read practically everyone of his books.

In no particular order - Louis L'Amour, Sue Grafton, JD Robb/Nora Roberts, Piers Anthony, Jim Butcher, Lawrence Block, Robert Parker, Bill Pronzini.....

I could go on and on. :D

Piers Anthony when I was a kid. LOVED the Xanth series. Went through a short phase of Anne Rice (oh shush), and JK Rowling. Now I'm on a Timothy Zahn kick.

Man is brilliant and I love his books <3

Augustin Burroughs. The movie "Running with Scissors" is based off of his life growing up. I have read all of his books,  they are excellent!

I still like Piers Anthony, too! I picked up the first Xanth book a few months ago for a re-read and was surprised at how misogynist it is!

I just read a good book by Cormac McCarthy (the dude who wrote No Country For Old Men) called The Road. It's a post-apocalypse story about a father and son, pretty good and a fast read.

Right now I'm read a Drangonlance book, haha. I still read them every so often.

John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany especially

have to say Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird being my favorite novel of all time

W. B. Yeats - especially When You Are Old

Clyde Edgerton - love them all, but Killer Diller made me laugh out loud

Larry Brown - for Joe and also Fay - was really blown away by those

Hmmm, Jodie Picoult is brilliant, but my favourite has to be Neil Gaiman - absolute brilliant author! And for anyone who doesn't know, he wrote the book Stardust which the film is based on. The book was amzing and, I'm sure, ten times better than the film. Books normally are!

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John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany especially

have to say Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird being my favorite novel of all time

W. B. Yeats - especially When You Are Old

Clyde Edgerton - love them all, but Killer Diller made me laugh out loud

Larry Brown - for Joe and also Fay - was really blown away by those

Love it. I've read quite a few of his books since my dad had them all laying around. The World According to Garp, Cider House Rules, and The Hotel New Hampshire were pretty good too.

Ever notice his books all have almost the same themes? Bears, wrestling, and incest!

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I still like Piers Anthony, too! I picked up the first Xanth book a few months ago for a re-read and was surprised at how misogynist it is

yeah you don't really realize that when you're 9 haha

Isabel Allende, Barbara Kingsolver, Jane Smiley, Louise Erdrich, Willa Cather, Edward Abbey, Jim Harrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Iain Pears, John McPhee, Wallace Stegner, Orhan Pamuk (just for starters)  I'm kind of a book slut, I'll read just about anything. 

Dave Barry, Terry Pratchett, Glen Cook, Jim Butcher

I think my very favorite is James Clavell (Shogun, Tai pan etc). Went through Piers Antony and most of the other scifi/fantasy authors, Anne Rice (though her new religeous book did not do a whole lot for me), Hemmingway, Ludlum, Morrell, Heinlein. Love to read.

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Original Post by nomoreexcuses:

John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany especially

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Love it. I've read quite a few of his books since my dad had them all laying around. The World According to Garp, Cider House Rules, and The Hotel New Hampshire were pretty good too.

Ever notice his books all have almost the same themes? Bears, wrestling, and incest!

It IS noticeable after a few isn't it?

Same kinda way that after a couple of Tom Wolfe novels you can almost predict the biting criticism and ridicule that's to come...  :)

Frank Perritti, Ted Dekker, Tracie Peterson, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Donita K. Paul, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne......... So many more!!! :-D

John Irving ("older" books like Hotel New Hampshire), Zadie Smith, Anne Tyler, Anna Quindlen, Ian McEwan, Wally Lamb, David Sedaris, Don Chaon, Augusten Burroughs and I agree with Cormac McCarthy The Road - an AMAZING book (I also loved No Country for Old Men and some of his others but The Road blew me away).

Oh and I've got tons more of authors that I love... Nick Hornby is one of my all time tops too.

Tolkien, R. A. Salvatore, Brian Jacques, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sam Shepard.

edit; Dang, add C.S. Lewis, thanks for reminding me baker. 

TED DEKKER!!!!!!

He just came out with 2 more books (A MONTH EARLY!) that I'm DYING to get!!

I love the books by Janet Evanovich, Rick Hanson, JD Robb (Nora Roberts), JK Rowling, and J.A. Konrath.

poe. salinger. bronte sisters.

While I do respect Sir Doyle, I have to admit I like Larry Millet's tales of Sherlock Holmes better.

Other than that, the only other author I recall really reading were a few James Patterson books, but I hated the Alex Cross series.

I'm more of an informational reader than a story reader these days.  Now book subjects, I could go on about book subjects I enjoy.