Favorite Author?????????????

[chick-e-chick]

One of my favourites at the moment is Cecelia Ahern, she wrote 'PS I Love You' which is now a movie. I haven't seen it but oddly enough I've rented the DVD to watch tonight, not sure how it's going to compare to the book. Her other books include 'A Place Called Here' (which I'm reading at the moment), 'If You Could See Me Now', 'Where Rainbows End' .... excellent.

Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Travellers Wife, this is my favourite book.

 

[carugoman]

One of the books that was required reading in high school was, " War and Peace" Leo Tolstoi; auth. I loved it so much,that I reread that novel every year! I also enjoy another novel of his, " Ivan Illych".

 

[Reinbeau]

I've been reading since I was four, I have so many! I started with the Nancy Drew mysteries, which lead me to Agatha Christie - I've got every one of her books.

Sci-Fi was my next theme. Ray Silverberg, Arthur C. Clarke, Issac Assimov, Robert Heinlein (My absolute favorite was Stranger in a Strange Land), and Orson Scott Card in latter years (Ender's Game and the series that follows is amazing!). Anne McCafferty and Pern - I got lost on those books for awhile!

Tolkein - fantastic, incredible imagination on him. I consider him one of, if not the, all-time favorite of mine. I did an independent study course on Tolkein in high school, I've read the whole LOR series three times and have found new things every time.

Barbara Kingsolver - that was a wonderful discovery. Prodigal Summer is another favorite of mine.

Lately I'm sticking to non-fiction, Michael Pollan and The Omnivore's Dilemma, I've got his latest, In Defense of Food, it's next to the bedstand.

I think I've just barely scratched the surface!

 

[Rosalind]

In no particular order:
Jeanette Winterson
Margaret Atwood
Chuck Palahniuk
Kurt Vonnegut
Joyce Carol Oates
Terry Pratchett
H.D. Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles Baudelaire

 

[fallenweeble]

i'm impressed by how many of us are readers! that is fantastic.

i'm working on my MA in English and i have to read a lot so in my spare time i tend to watch tv (oh, the irony!).
but i have always loved to read. my favorites tend to morph as i discover new literature. but i truely love joyce carol oates (her creepier stuff especially).
some of my favorite books of all time are:

Geek Love
Henderson the Rain King
American Psycho
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender

 

[sundance]

willowtreecreek, check out the BOTM club, all their books are $9.95 and shipping, they are all hardback, and all the new and old authors,
AlaskaAnimallover, haven't read any of her but will check on them, read One last week forgot the author but the book was The Stone Forest, sat up almost all night could not put it down.BOTM used to be Zooba books, but guess they bought Zooba out, My DD got me hooked on their club, you make out a reading list and they auto ship the next book on your list. Since they are all hardback guess thats why my libraries love me.gives them extra money to spend on other books.My GD told me the other day that when I died not to leave her anything except my library.love my books, and if they are on the shelf EVERYONE knows Hands off.

marrie

 

[shmooborp]

i love terry pratchett and julie poculte <sp?> very good books.... wee free men, hat full of sky, my sisters keeper (<goood book! more for adults>

 

[Blooming chicks]

Love reading! Just finished the new Stephanie Meyers book The Host. I loved her youg adult stuff--I saw it sitting on my daughter's desk and picked it up, now I am hooked. I will read just about anything and everything though.

 

[kbarrett]

I love to read! If I had no work or home obligations I can easily do a 330 page book per day. Unfortunately I don't get near the opportunities at free time as I would like. This past winter I read every book my local library had by
Jonathan Kellerman, I absolutely love his Alex Delaware series....excellent crime/ suspense writer.

My list of favorites is very long

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

J. R. R. Tolkien!! And its late so I'm going to excersise my right to be lazy and just say I like the Left Behind books. I don't want to go look for the authors name.