Favorite Authors?

[CVBrassil]

Very simple thread. Favorite authors? You can include their books too.

My two favorite authors are...
1. Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park, The Lost World (both very different from the movies), Congo
2. Bryce Courtenay: The Power of One, Tandia, and I just got Brother Fish, hearing it was good.

An honorable mention to John Steinbeck, I enjoyed of Mice and Men and East of Eden.

 

[borrofburi]

Eric Nylund (for his "A signal to noise" sci fi series)
John Green.... I don't like his books that much, but I do like his youtube channel, so he's a favorite author, just not for his books...

I don't really read any other authors, by which I mean I read everything nylund and green write (for varied reasons), but everything else I read is isolated books, influenced perhaps by who is the author, but not read solely because of the author behind it.

 

[Arcturus]

Off the top of my head.

English/American
Isaac Asimov
Jane Austen
Tracy Chevalier
Agatha Christie
Tom Clancy
Richard Dawkins, for his biology-oriented books
Robert A. Heinlein
Elizabeth Moon, loved the Vatta's War series

French
Bernard Werber, in particular the trilogy Les Fourmis

 

[DeathAwaitsUsAll]

Dean Koontz - he does suspenseful sci-fi like nobody's business
John Grisham - he does insightful crooked corporation lawyer stuff (though he's done a couple sports books too)
Laurell Hamilton - she does some wonderfully sick and twisted vampire, necromancer, lycanthrope stuff
Karen Marie Moning - she does celtic fae and highlander stuff
Father Andrew M. Greeley - a priest who writes books about a chic who doesn't believe in god and uses the word "fuck" a lot (what more could you ask for from a priest, huh?)

And um, I guess that's it - for fiction.

 

[scalyblue]

Robert Jordan
Brandon Sanderson
Stephen King
Tracy HIckman
JRR Tolkein
Jane Yolen
Jacqueline Caery

 

[Netheralian]

Douglas Adams
David Gemmel
Peter F Hamilton - anything with the exception of the confederation universe
Alistair Reynolds
Robyn Hobb
Robert Jordan (its just the way the WOT series has been drawn out that pisses me off)
Ian M Banks
Terry Goodkind
J.V. Jones
+ plenty more that I can't think of at the moment.

And really off my usual genre, Bill Bryson

 

[xman]

William Shakespeare

 

[Joebert]

George R R Martin
Stephen King
Oscar Wilde
JK Rowling

That's about all of the authors that particularly stood/stand out to me.

 

[creamcheese]

Douglass Adams FTW!

Asimov
Heinlein
Clarke

In that order.

 

[Jorick]

One of these threads, eh? Here are some of my favorites, listed vaguely in order of best to simply good. I read fantasy almost exclusively, so that's what it all is.

George R R Martin - definitely my #1 favorite
Brandon Sanderson
Terry Pratchett
Jacqueline Carey
Neil Gaiman
Robert Jordan
C S Friedman
Terry Brooks
Terry Goodkind

 

[nasher168]

Douglas Adams
JRR Tolkein
Philip Pullman
JK Rowling
Arthur C Clarke

 

[TheFearmonger]

H.G. Wells
Douglas Adams
jules Vernes
Currently reading Richard dawkins
michael Crichton
Stephen King
Brian Jaques
H.p lovecraft

 

[5810Singer]

Terry Pratchett
Conan Doyle
Micheal Moorcock
Isaac Asimov

 

[Andiferous]

Reading a bit of fundamentalism with large helpings of crazy lately have helped me realise why I've always had a thing for Samuel Becket's Watt. The book is ridiculous to get through if you're actually trying to make sense of it at the same time. It's essentially a contradictory narrative from the head of a madman about another madman that made me quite giggly. It seems it should be "profound" literature, but therein lies the joke. The entire thing seems a bit ridiculous in the end when you realise that both men are in an asylum, and it eventually becomes clear that the one transcribing the story is deaf, hearing the story through a mute. At that point you either want to throw the book against the wall or laugh hysterically. Or that's just me.

edit: Oh look, there's a sticky for suggested reading at the top of the page.

 

[Lurking_Logic]

For me
David Gemmell
David Weber
David Eddings
David Feintuch (Yes lots of Davids)
John Ringo
Elizabeth Moon
Raymond. E. Feist
Robert Jordan
Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens
Terry Pratchett

 

[Lallapalalable]

Micheal Crichton, mainly for eaters of the dead
Isaac Asimov (need I explain?)
Jeff Grubb
Loren Coleman
Ha Jin

 

[PatrickTheScienceGuy]

Douglas Adams
JRR Tolkein
Isaac Asimov
Kevin J Anderson
Terry Pratchett

 

[dasha08]

My favorite authors are Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pasternak, Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, Kafka and Garcia Marquez.

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

Let me see if I can make a list while I'm bored here:

Sun Tzu
Stephen King
H.P. Lovecraft
Konstantinos
JRR Tolken
Charles Dickens
Voltaire
Montesque
John Locke
Aristotle
Plato
Marry Higgens Clark
Richard Dawkins
H.G. Wells
Douglas Adams
Joules Verne
JK Rowling
Kurt Vonnegut
Ray Bradbury
Walt Whitman
William Faulkner
Sir Authur Cannon Doyle

amoungst many others that I don't have time to list at the moment.

 

[Zoten001]

I'm not going to post a list of authors, just my all time favorite one.

Anne McCaffery for the Dragonriders of Pern series. I have never been so drawn into a story as to have a headache from being brought back to reality.... And yeah, that really did happen...