Cerebus said:

Neil Gaiman - every damn word he's ever made public

JRR Tolkien

JK Rowling

Orson Scott Card - the first five Ender's books, before he started changing things, opened a new hole in my melon

Isaac Asimov - specifically all the Foundation books)

Stephen King

Naomi Novik - so hoping Peter Jackson really makes these into a movie(s)

John Scalzi

Robert Asprin - The Myth books

Christopher Stasheff - The rhyming wizard books

David Eddings

Terry Brooks

Piers Anthony (a lot of it, but not all of it)

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - pretty much every word they've ever written, but the core Dragonlance books are still my favorites of theirs

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head. I could probably name twice that for comic book writers.

And a TON of Star Trek authors, these are just a few...

Michael Jan Friedman

William Leisner

Greg Cox

David Mack

JM Dillard

Diane Duane

Diane Carey

Keith RA DeCandido

Olivia Woods

Christopher L Bennett

Michael A Martin

Andy Mangels

Dayton Ward

Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (the books they've written with Shatner's name on the cover make him look like a literary genius )

And Peter David, who I used to think was the absolute best ST writer ever! But then I got into a war or words with him over the Marmaduke movie and now I think he's a tasteless douche and a tool of the machine.

terry brooks..the first three sword of shannarah books were great

BlackAdder7 said:

Cerebus said:

Neil Gaiman - every damn word he's ever made public

JRR Tolkien

JK Rowling

Orson Scott Card - the first five Ender's books, before he started changing things, opened a new hole in my melon

Isaac Asimov - specifically all the Foundation books)

Stephen King

Naomi Novik - so hoping Peter Jackson really makes these into a movie(s)

John Scalzi

Robert Asprin - The Myth books

Christopher Stasheff - The rhyming wizard books

David Eddings

Terry Brooks

Piers Anthony (a lot of it, but not all of it)

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - pretty much every word they've ever written, but the core Dragonlance books are still my favorites of theirs

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head. I could probably name twice that for comic book writers.

And a TON of Star Trek authors, these are just a few...

Michael Jan Friedman

William Leisner

Greg Cox

David Mack

JM Dillard

Diane Duane

Diane Carey

Keith RA DeCandido

Olivia Woods

Christopher L Bennett

Michael A Martin

Andy Mangels

Dayton Ward

Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens (the books they've written with Shatner's name on the cover make him look like a literary genius )

And Peter David, who I used to think was the absolute best ST writer ever! But then I got into a war or words with him over the Marmaduke movie and now I think he's a tasteless douche and a tool of the machine.

terry brooks..the first three sword of shannarah books were great

I loved the Genesis of Shannarah series. One time I had him confused with Terry Goodkind whose books are awful.

I love Marion Zimmer Bradley's Avalon series too. So many books, so little time.

StonedImmaculate said:

The Dune Chronicles:

Dune

Dune Messiah

Children of Dune

God Emperor of Dune

Heretics of Dune

Chapterhouse: Dune

Frank Herbert was a genius.

Frank Herbert was fucking high!!

Which is why I LOVED his books!!

I'm not really into books or writers. But I do love the book To Kill a Mockingbird and I went through an Anne Rice phase in highschool.

BlackAdder7 said:

Alexandre Dumas (per)

Dorothy Dunnett

Walter Mosely

Lee Child

CJ Box

Robert Parker (r.i.p)

Elmore Leonard

Lawrence Block

James Patterson

Robert Crais

not big on Koons...a poor man's stephen king...

we have several favorites in common. i'm a huge fan of crais. love the elvis cole series. and the joe pike books.

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If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times...

ISHMAEL by Daniel Quinn... brilliance on pages.

RenHoek said:

StonedImmaculate said:

The Dune Chronicles:

Dune

Dune Messiah

Children of Dune

God Emperor of Dune

Heretics of Dune

Chapterhouse: Dune

Frank Herbert was a genius.

Frank Herbert was fucking high!!

Which is why I LOVED his books!!

Yeah he was on the good shit.

So high he was creating his own drugs: spice melange, semuta, hypnobongs...

RodeoSchro said:

I like Dean Koontz and Stephen Frey. Although, Koontz' last couple books haven't been all that great. He needs to quit writing about magical dogs. He loves dogs, I get it already. I got it 11 books ago.

I used to enjoy some of his stuff, but felt like there were too many recurring themes. The ones I read were

From the Corner of His Eye

Velocity

Seize the Night

False Memory (most of it anyway)

and a couple others, which I can't remember.

A stranger on a plane recently gave me one of his books titled...Strangers.

Andrew Vaachs...deep stuff but addicting

Harlen Coben

Chris Grabenstein

I've heard that Coons doesn't take criticism of his writing very well, btw.

Sedaris!!!!

I crack up every time!

off the top of my head...

Stephan King

Tom Robbins

Tolkein

C.S. Lewis

T.C. Boyle

Barbara Kingsolver

Carl Hiaasen

Milan Kundera

Shakespeare is not my favorite writer, but you can't NOT mention him!

Phillip Pullman's books are some of my favorite of recent years.

NDRU said:

off the top of my head...

Stephan King

Tom Robbins

Tolkein

C.S. Lewis

T.C. Boyle

Barbara Kingsolver

Carl Hiaasen

Milan Kundera

Shakespeare is not my favorite writer, but you can't NOT mention him!

Gah! I forgot Tom Robbins AND C.S. Lewis! Love some Shakespeare as well - just recently re-read "The Taming of the Shrew" again (for like, the 50th time).

Cerebus said:

NDRU said:

off the top of my head...

Stephan King

Tom Robbins

Tolkein

C.S. Lewis

T.C. Boyle

Barbara Kingsolver

Carl Hiaasen

Milan Kundera

Shakespeare is not my favorite writer, but you can't NOT mention him!

Gah! I forgot Tom Robbins AND C.S. Lewis! Love some Shakespeare as well - just recently re-read "The Taming of the Shrew" again (for like, the 50th time).

Quite honestly, I admit Shakespeare is a little difficult for me to read, but still I am as familiar with as many of his stories as any other writer's.

NDRU said:

Cerebus said:

Gah! I forgot Tom Robbins AND C.S. Lewis! Love some Shakespeare as well - just recently re-read "The Taming of the Shrew" again (for like, the 50th time).

Quite honestly, I admit Shakespeare is a little difficult for me to read, but still I am as familiar with as many of his stories as any other writer's.

I really love Shakespeare but I don't think he's something you can force on people. And honestly, once I'd read everything once there was a lot of stuff I never felt the need to re-read. But my favorites, the ones that really clicked and made sense, I can re-read those anytime I don't have a new book and enjoy them every time.

jane austen

charles dickens

mark twain

edgar allen poe

robert louis stevenson

alexandre dumas

voltaire

louisa may alcott

hans christian andersen

edgar rice burroughs

lewis carroll

c.s. lewis

lloyd alexander

arthur conan doyle

grimm brothers

walt whitman

jules verne

h.g. wells

robert heinlien

isaac asimov

mary shelley

william shakespeare

this is too hard. there are too many to list

douglas preston lincoln child

stephen king

robert crais

mary stewart

dorothy dunnett

phyllis whitney

catherine coulter

sue grafton

sara paretsky

and a bunch more but i have to get back to work because lunch is over....

I love books about utopias. My fave authors are John Grisham, William Faulkner, V.C. Andrews, and Stephen King. Nora Roberts is pretty cool too. Shakespeare is amazing. I read alot of the Harlequin series' too. And I LOVE history books. I am an avid read and have close to 800-1,000 books in my house! I read alot as a teen, both for school and for pleasure. Some of my all time fave books are The Giver, A Handmaiden's Tale, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Pelican Brief, and Twilight. I am big fan of series! I have the entire SVH series from when I was a teen.

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XxAxX said:

jane austen

charles dickens

mark twain

edgar allen poe

robert louis stevenson

alexandre dumas

voltaire

louisa may alcott

hans christian andersen

edgar rice burroughs

lewis carroll

c.s. lewis

lloyd alexander

arthur conan doyle

grimm brothers

walt whitman

jules verne

h.g. wells

robert heinlien

isaac asimov

mary shelley

william shakespeare

this is too hard. there are too many to list

douglas preston lincoln child

stephen king

robert crais

mary stewart

dorothy dunnett

phyllis whitney

catherine coulter

sue grafton

sara paretsky

and a bunch more but i have to get back to work because lunch is over....

all hacks...what have they written lately, dear?

The last author that made me a fan was Carlos Ruiz Zafón. I read The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game and enjoyed those novels very much. I am now starting with The Prince of Mist.

recently read a book called Blindness by Jose Saramago

It's the only book of his that I have read, but it was amazing. The story, the style, perfect! Horrible, but perfect.

BlackAdder7 said:

XxAxX said:

jane austen

charles dickens

mark twain

edgar allen poe

robert louis stevenson

alexandre dumas

voltaire

louisa may alcott

hans christian andersen

edgar rice burroughs

lewis carroll

c.s. lewis

lloyd alexander

arthur conan doyle

grimm brothers

walt whitman

jules verne

h.g. wells

robert heinlien

isaac asimov

mary shelley

william shakespeare

this is too hard. there are too many to list

douglas preston lincoln child

stephen king

robert crais

mary stewart

dorothy dunnett

phyllis whitney

catherine coulter

sue grafton

sara paretsky

and a bunch more but i have to get back to work because lunch is over....

all hacks...what have they written lately, dear?

jeffrey deaver

dan brown

agatha christie

j.k. rowling

louis l'amour

j.r.r. tolkien

j. grisham

michael crichton

ian fleming

brb

arthur clarke

bronte sisters

dashiell hammett

diana gabaldon

philip dick

harlan ellison

poul anderson

piers anthony

ray bradbury

marion zimmer bradley

terry brooks

jack chalker

f scott fitzgerald

alan dean foster

gabriel garcia marquez

elizabeth george

william golding

ernest hemingway

robert asprin

herman hesse

douglas adams

l. sprague decamp

robert frost

patricia cornwell

i can't possibly list them all.

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DaphneLovesPR1NCE said:

I love books about utopias. My fave authors are John Grisham, William Faulkner, V.C. Andrews, and Stephen King. Nora Roberts is pretty cool too. Shakespeare is amazing. I read alot of the Harlequin series' too. And I LOVE history books. I am an avid read and have close to 800-1,000 books in my house! I read alot as a teen, both for school and for pleasure. Some of my all time fave books are The Giver, A Handmaiden's Tale, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Pelican Brief, and Twilight. I am big fan of series! I have the entire SVH series from when I was a teen.

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The books about utopias I really loved are Walden I and Walden II.

So, no fans of Dostojevski on this forum?

XxAxX said:

Anonymous

erica jong

anonymous

dick biggum

Clint Taurus

P. Niss

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Aren't those porno authors dear?

Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove series was an incredible read

Ed McBain is just good fun

Janet Evanovich, same good fun

Bernard Cornwell the arthur saga, the archer series, the saxon series, all historical fiction set in england and France..

Bernard Cornwell, the Sharpe series..

George Pelecanos...writes beautifully, and also writes about the music of the times the stories are set in, usually around washington d.c. and baltimore..

Michael Connelly..the Lincoln Lawyer Series, and the H. Bosch series..awesome..

John Sanford..the Prey Series, and the Virgil Flowers series ("that fucking Virgil Flowers")

Lisa Scottoline...great writer..

Dennis Lehane...he wrote Gone Baby Gone, Mystic River, and Shutter Island, among others...great writer

I am a horror and sci-fi book fan. I used to read all Stephen King's work, but he became boring after I became a Clive Barker fan. Barker's work is mind-blowing and different. Not talking about some of his gorier movie adaptations like Midnight Meat Train which was just stupid, for lack of a better word.

Imajica, Galilee, Cabal, and The Damnation Game are some of his best. Koontz was okay in the beginning but I think movies of the week spoiled his vision. I like John Saul better.

I love Edgar Allen Poe also. I have many of his books. Poppy Z. Brite is not for the faint of heart. Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Exquisite Corpse are amazing and chilling.

Other I like are...

George Orwell

Peter Straub

Toni Morrison

Anthony Burgess

Vonnegut

Robert Heinlein, A.C. Clarke, Asimov, Herbert, Dahl, Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, and Bradbury

Bronte (Wuthering Heights particularly)

Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my fave books of all time.

Thomas Tryon

edited because I left out Bram Stoker, Dumas, Anne Rice (read ALL her books), Sagan (Contact), Tom Harris (Silence of the Lambs), Shirley Jackson (The Haunting of Hill House), Carmilla
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Billy by Whitley Strieber.

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BlackAdder7 said:

XxAxX said:

Anonymous

erica jong

anonymous

dick biggum

Clint Taurus

P. Niss

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don't forget I. P. Freeley

right you are!

'E never had much time for makars. Time for wenching and drinking a'plenty, aye. But of makars I ken only the one: Henryson, and his Morall Fabillis