So who's eveyone's fave author? Mine's Martin Amis. Gritty realism at it's best. Highly recommended..

I would probably have to agree, i love Martin Amis' work hehe if i culd write well that is how i would like to write. In a similar vein, i'm a big fan of Iain M Banks, so very imaginative and so very well written

Terry Prachett
Philip Pullman ((his trilogy :) ))

SE Hinton

Anne McCaffrey :D

J.K. Rowling and C.S. Lewis, two great authors! I AM SORRY, I COULD NOT PICK!

J.K Rowling is a good auther if u like her stuff read Philip Pullmanz Trilogy :)

I'd have to say Douglas Adams, Larry Niven, or Roger Zelazny. I couldn't pick either...

Ann McCaffrey, Ellis Peters, Lee Child, Ruth Rendall probably..........

but since I have so many books it changes as I read and reread them.

EDGAR ALLEN POE!!!!!!! Always and forever my favourite author.

Robert A. Heinlein, J.R.R. Tolkien, David Gemmell

All excellent.

Tanya Huff, Not well known, but damn good.

Diana Wynne Jones. "Howl's Moving Castle" is her best work.

F. Scott Fitzgerald. (The Great Gatsby) Douglas Adams.(yeah) James Stoddard. (The Hight House) and Charles Dickens. Also Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

HMMMM......... I know he's only written two books, so far but,

Frank McCourt. (Angela's Ashes, 'Tis)
JK Rowling (Harry Potter)
JRR Tolkien (Lord of the Rings)
Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
Lousia May Alcott (Little Women)
JD Salinger (Catcher in the Rye)

Whoo...there's a tough question...*scans her bookshelves* I guess I'd have to say Thomas Harris. He writes with such grace, which is something you see very little of these days. Unfortunately, he's written only four books in 20-something years, but they're all amazing. (Black Sunday, Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, and his masterpiece, Hannibal. I can't believe what Ridley Scott did to that movie....arghh....)

janet frame is one (sang daphne
from the dead room,

sang daphne
to the dead

in the room).

My fave Author would have to be Patricia Cornwell. She's great.

Piers Anothny, Terry Brooks, Stephen King, Ann Rice, Michael Crichtion, and Shakespear. I just cant pick one out of these six, i love all their work!

Ooh, yes, Stephen King...I absolutely love his Dark Tower series. And Shakespeare too, of course. Harlan Ellison and Kurt Vonnegut, too, love em both.

I love Tim O'Brien! He writes about the Vietnam War; he brings it to life and makes it so personal, not just for him as a veteran, but his work allows the reader to understand what the history books don't tell you about Vietnam. The Things They Carried is an excellent read :)

Well I'd have to say {even tho they are comic book authors} Joe Madureira and Kia Asamya

I'm going to add a bit more insight into the first post I made...

My most favorite author is Anne McCaffrey, though I've only read her Dragonriders of Pern series. (And I mean the WHOLE series of like 17-18 books or so) There are a few other authors I like (Mary Weis, Tracy Hickman, RA Salvatore, Richard Preston, Anne Rice, Robert T Bakker, JRR Tolkien and so on) but recently, I've found a new one that captures me as strong as Anne McCaffrey did: Mercades Lacky. I'm in LOVE with The Black Gryphon at the moment.

Franz Kafka. The first, and as of now only, author I have ever been able to identiy with on a level other than "hey, this is a good book." He's a wonderful short story writer and his novels are amazing too. I also like Edgar Allan Poe and JD Salinger. Best of all, however, is Kafka.

I thought Joe Mad only did pencils? As for comic books.. Joe Kelly rocks.

Philip Pullman and C.S. Lewis are both very good...Oh and for all of you Stephen King lovers out there...read something from Dean Koontz. I personally think he's a hundred times better, if you're into those types of books(Just to warn you though, alot of his stuff is rather grisly).

Edgar Allan Poe's short stories have always fascinated me... and i love Dean Koontz.


"and he burped like a man!!!"--- "so?"---"whadda mean, so? he's 7 months old! it was funny!"

Terry Brooks
J.R.R Tolkien

and much more. I love books.

Anne McCaffrey (I love "Black Horses for the King", which is a King Arthur tale, almost as much as I love the Dragonrider series, and her books about telephathy, etc. like in "To Ride Pegasus")
Tamora Pierce. Lots of magic included, but also books just about courage, all set in the time of the Knights.
Tim LaHaye's "Left Behind" series was also very well written.
J.R.R. Tolkien, of course. Who could not enjoy "The Lord of the Rings"?

I'm sure there are more, but these are the few who come to mind right away.

*gasps* ANOTHER MCCAFFREY FAN!!! LOL Don't mind me, I'm crazy about the Dragonriders of Pern... I'm like a Pernese Encyclopedia. lol

I'm adding to my bit of favorite authors, I've fallen in love with Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenhiet 451, The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Mercedies Lackey (those Elf books ROCK!!!)
Anne McCaffrey
Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
J.R.R. Tolkien (The Silmarillion was great, not just the Lord of the Rings series, that's just his most Popular)
Robert Jordan (Eye of the World)
Brian Jaques (Don't know the correct spelling of his name, but he wrote the Redwall Series. MARTIN THE WARRIOR IS THE BEST!!!!)

I like V.C. Andrews!! Her series books are the traavest!!! :innocent:

Mine is Nora Roberts... and its because she uses a mystical down to earth perception of love, and of other traditions and whatnot... she completely holds my attentions... and so shes my favorite.

Silent Rain

I think J.K. Rowling and J.R.R. Tolkien are two of the best authers cause the way their stories can take you to somewhere that you never could believe exsists is just magical!

i read so many books by so many authors its very hard to have a fav....

Robert Jordan
David Eddings
Piers Anthony
Stephen King
Dean Koontz
H.P. Lovecraft
Edgar Allen Poe




These are my influences.. and somehow I wound up a dark gothic guy with a sword collection and a penchant for the occult.. go figure.

Lovecraft kind of explains the dark and gothic bit, and Robert Jordan explains the swords.

I'm adding Brian Jaques (how could I have forgotten him???) and Susan Cooper to my constantly growing list...Susan Cooper wrote The Dark Is Rising series, which are marvelous books...they involve magic, but they're very down to earth and involve normal people. She also wrote King of Shadows, which is a Shakespeare tale placed in a theatre setting...love that book...

Agatha Christie
Maya Angelou
Jack London

and many more. I'm a voracious reader

I like classical poets such as:
e.b. browning
shakespeare
h.w. longfellow

and others..

Carl Sandburg, Eugene O' Neil, Sandra Cisneros, Tennessee Williams

I like Shakespeare and Dickenson for poetry.

dan simmons

stephen king

daniel silva

dan brown

john sandford

Jack London
Thomas Hardy
Robert Jordan
Stephen King
Gene Stratton Porter
Charle de Lint
Kate Chopin
Jane Austen
Willa Cather
William Makepeace Thackeray
Oscar Wilde
Rudyard Kipling
Leo Tolstoy
Charlotte Bronte
Louisa May Alcott
J.R.R. Tolkien

i could go on....i'm such a nerd all i do is read.

Dean Koontz is my absolute favorite author! I love the way a lot of characters have supernatural powers that they put to good use (for the most part).
~Davidf

W Somerset Maugham. I have all three volumes of his short stories.

Just to list few:

J.R.R. Tolkien
James Clevell
William Wharton
William Shakespeare
T.S. Eliot
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Graves
Henryk Sienkiewicz

And the list goes on and on and on. I read whatever I can find :) Incurable nerd

Thalion,
I noticed you mentioned Edgar Allan Poe. I like his poetry a lot, but most of his short stories sicken my stomach.
~Davidf

My favorite writer would probably be Gellu Naum (best surrealist poet from my country, Romania, and more and more appreciated lately). I still haven't read many writings of the avant-garde, but Gellu Naum's poems are definitely among the most consistent. Another writer that I like more and more is Ilarie Voronca (who published numerous poetry books in both Romanian and French).


Edit: There would be a few more like Stephan Roll, Virgil Teodorescu (mostly his early poems), Ion Vinea, the postmodern writer Mircea Cărtărescu (which used to be by far my favourite writer, liked him so much that I read most of his books in 2 or 3 months). But, like I said, I've still got to reach more stuff of the avantgarde, although they're very rare... and I would probably mention Tristan Tzara too if I could read his writings from the dada/surreal period (which is hard because I am a total failure at French), but nobody bothers to translate more of his writings, which is outrageous!
By the way, I recommend from Gellu Naum the books "Zenobia" and, if your stomach is prepared, "My Tired Father". I assume you can find them easily on Amazon if you're interested...