Mine:

Bret Easton Ellis: Less then zero and the rest of his books

Caleb Carr: The Alienist

Carlos Ruiz Safon: The shadow of the wind

Marilyn French: All

Nick Hornby: How to be good

Peggy Orenstein: Flux

Robin Norwood: Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change

Sandor Marai: all books

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.

The Shadow of the Wind is one of my absolute favorites of the past decade. That book is brilliant.

My favorite modern writer is David Mitchell. I am so in awe of him.

Other current favorites include Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger, and Michael Chabon.

dJJ said:

Nick Hornby: How to be good

Interesting. I'm definitely a fan of his but I remember HATING that book. I was surprised I even finished it, I disliked it so much.

I much prefer his A Long Way Down. One of my top 10 favorite books of the last so many years, I'd even say.

And Neil Gaiman is probably my most favorite writer ever. I'll read anything he does and likely lap it all up. I have never been disappointed by anything of his I've read.

I've also recently gotten in touch with my inner cowboy and am going to start reading all the Louis L'Amour books I can.

Yee haw!

CarrieMpls said:

dJJ said:

Nick Hornby: How to be good

Interesting. I'm definitely a fan of his but I remember HATING that book. I was surprised I even finished it, I disliked it so much.

I much prefer his A Long Way Down. One of my top 10 favorite books of the last so many years, I'd even say.

And Neil Gaiman is probably my most favorite writer ever. I'll read anything he does and likely lap it all up. I have never been disappointed by anything of his I've read.

Really? Hating? intersting indeed if you do love A Long Way Down..

I read A Long Way Down. I liked the book, however, couldn't remember what is was about untill I read the backcover again.

Well, we seem to both love Nick Hornby

I never heard of Neil Gaiman. Seems I have to start reading. What's his best book to begin with?

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've never read a book of neither one of them.

Can you give me a selection? Say two of Dean Koontz and two Stephen Frey?

Efan said:

The Shadow of the Wind is one of my absolute favorites of the past decade. That book is brilliant.

My favorite modern writer is David Mitchell. I am so in awe of him.

Other current favorites include Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger, and Michael Chabon.

I feel as if I've been living under a rock.

Don't know David Mitchell, Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger, and Michael Chabon!

I have a lot of reading to catch up I gues..

dJJ said:

CarrieMpls said:

Interesting. I'm definitely a fan of his but I remember HATING that book. I was surprised I even finished it, I disliked it so much.

I much prefer his A Long Way Down. One of my top 10 favorite books of the last so many years, I'd even say.

And Neil Gaiman is probably my most favorite writer ever. I'll read anything he does and likely lap it all up. I have never been disappointed by anything of his I've read.

Really? Hating? intersting indeed if you do love A Long Way Down..

I read A Long Way Down. I liked the book, however, couldn't remember what is was about untill I read the backcover again.

Well, we seem to both love Nick Hornby

I never heard of Neil Gaiman. Seems I have to start reading. What's his best book to begin with?

Garsh, he has such a catalog, it's tough to say where to start.

If you want to look at the novels, I'd start with maybe American Gods. Or Neverwhere. I personally started with his old graphic novels (The Sandman series) and short stories collections, but those aren't for "everyone".

dJJ said:

Efan said:

The Shadow of the Wind is one of my absolute favorites of the past decade. That book is brilliant.

My favorite modern writer is David Mitchell. I am so in awe of him.

Other current favorites include Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger, and Michael Chabon.

I feel as if I've been living under a rock.

Don't know David Mitchell, Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger, and Michael Chabon!

I have a lot of reading to catch up I gues..

Although they're not thematically really similar, there are several books I associate with Shadow of the Wind (I think because I read them all around the same time). Two of those books are The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Both are excellent. I think if you liked Shadow of the Wind, you would really enjoy those two as well.

David Mitchell's short-story collection Ghostwritten was his debut, and I fell in love with it immediately. You might want to try it to see if you like him, or try Black Swan Gray. Very, very good.

And Michael Chabon is just a brilliant writer. Probably his most famous book is The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. For that book, it helps if you're a comics fan, but it's not at all essential.

Thanx!

I think you also would like Caleb Care (Alienist and Angel of Darkness) and I highly recommend Sandor Marai.

And Tim Krabbe, however, I don't know if his work has been translated to English....

I love Stephen King.

I've read just about all of his books...The ones that I haven't read are by Richard Bachman- his "other name". I own them, I just haven't read them yet.

I've got about 7 pages left in the last one.

dJJ said:

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've never read a book of neither one of them.

Can you give me a selection? Say two of Dean Koontz and two Stephen Frey?

Absolutely! For Dean Koontz, I recommend "The Good Guy" and "Twilight Eyes".

For Stephen Frey, start with "Forced Out" (a GREAT thriller set in the world of baseball) and "The Chairman".

<---- Anne Rice fan.

I think she also started this whole romantic vampire craze too. The book Armand was my fav!

Been reading self-help books... hate them all except for Dr. Nicholas Perricone,

he wrote The Clear Skin Prescription. Informative read, it helped me alot.

RodeoSchro said:

I've also recently gotten in touch with my inner cowboy and am going to start reading all the Louis L'Amour books I can.

Yee haw!

Joshua read all of them in middle school and really loved them

"Fledgling" - Octavia E Butler

"Carrie" - Stephen King

Richard Laymon

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...

Stephen King

JRR Tolkien

Edgar Allan Poe

JK Rowling

CS Lewis

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Poiple said:

Stephen King

JRR Tolkien

Edgar Allan Poe

I forgot Poe! Of course!

paintedlady said:

<---- Anne Rice fan.

I think she also started this whole romantic vampire craze too. The book Armand was my fav!

Been reading self-help books... hate them all except for Dr. Nicholas Perricone,

he wrote The Clear Skin Prescription. Informative read, it helped me alot.

The only Anne Rice book I've read is The Feast Of All Saints and I loved it. Very good writer.

The last self help book I read was Peace From Broken Pieces by Iyanla VanZant. I can't decide whether she's still grief stricken or has gone round the bend or both.

chocolate1 said:

Poiple said:

Stephen King

JRR Tolkien

Edgar Allan Poe

I forgot Poe! Of course!

Love Tolkein and Poe.

I've tried but I don't get Stephen King.

My list...

Charles Dickens

John Steinbeck

Walter Mosley

Barbara Kinsolver

Amy Tan

Isabel Allende

John Grisham

Alexandre Dumas

JRR Tolkein

Ken Follett

Dick Francis

John Forsyth

Robert Ludlum

James Clavell

Trevanian

Maya Angelou

To name a few...

RodeoSchro said:

dJJ said:

I've never read a book of neither one of them.

Can you give me a selection? Say two of Dean Koontz and two Stephen Frey?

Absolutely! For Dean Koontz, I recommend "The Good Guy" and "Twilight Eyes".

For Stephen Frey, start with "Forced Out" (a GREAT thriller set in the world of baseball) and "The Chairman".

My favorite Koontz is Midnight. I liked his older stuff but he got too forumulaic...Grisham is becoming the same way.

I really loved/hated Lionel Shriver's "We Need to Talk About Kevin"

The Dune Chronicles:

Dune

Dune Messiah

Children of Dune

God Emperor of Dune

Heretics of Dune

Chapterhouse: Dune

Frank Herbert was a genius.

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.

i have a fascination currently with gay sci fi/ fantasy

besides that i like

Yukio Mishima

Oscar Wilde

Kenji Miyazawa

Neil Gaiman

Lynn Flewelling

Federico garcia lorca

and others

Cerebus said:

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.

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