Name 3 of your favorite authors

17 years ago

Does anybody else here just love reading Patricia Cornwells books.?

1. Patricia Cornwell

2. James Patterson

3. Josh Brazell (Beat The Reaper)

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monica_pa Grieves
17 years ago
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stephanie_in_ga
17 years ago
Just three? ;o) These are 3 of my favorites, but I have a hard time choosing.

1. one classic- John Steinbeck
2. one contemporary- Marianne Wiggins
3. one for the humor- Carl Hiaasen
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Marilyn Sue
17 years ago
There are so many I like, but here goes...

1. Beverly Lewis

2. Mary Higgins Clark

3. Nora Roberts

Sue
nodakgal
17 years ago
1.Nora Roberts
2.Sue Grafton
3.Fern Michaels
azzalea
17 years ago
1. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
2. Susan Wilson
3. Jason Wright
casey_nfld
17 years ago
Amy Tan
Stephen King
Anne Tyler
liz
17 years ago
Nora Roberts writing as JD Robb and Nora
James Patterson
Patricia Cornwell
Sue Grafton
JA Jance
JA Konrath

Can you tell I love to read?
marlingardener
17 years ago
1. Shelby Foote--his three book series on the Civil War is a must read, and his novel Shiloh is great, also.

2. Douglas Southall Freeman--his biography of Robert E. Lee is a classic.

3. Agatha Christie--the woman could write!

Okay, so I'm an unreconstructed Southerner who enjoys mysteries . . . .
Jodi_SoCal
17 years ago
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Armistead Maupin
- Tracy Chevalier

Jodi-
Tally
17 years ago
JK Rowling
Stephen King
Mark Twain
jannie
17 years ago
Only one-Elizabeth Berg
barbara3
17 years ago
1. Reginald Hill - the Dalziel & Pascoe mystery series

2. Kris Radish - women's issues written with humour and empathy

3. Elizabeth Berg, Gail Bowen, Isla Dewar, Cassandra King, Margaret Maron, Sharyn McCrumb, Jodi Picoult, Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, Anita Shreve, Marcia Willett -- among hundreds of others!

Another voracious reader here!
stargazzer
17 years ago
Fern Michaels
Jean Auel
Diana Gabaldon
mylab123
17 years ago
I don't know that I have actual "favorites" - it's more that I have a favorite at this moment *LOL* When I "discover" an author, I want to read everything they wrote.

I am a huge Agatha Christie fan too, but only her Miss Marple series, in the pre WWII area are my favorites but all of them after that period were great. I grew up reading them, my parents loved her novels. I need to check out Shelby Foote, obviously, I'm a deep southern girl who was transplanted 16 years ago and tend to get homesick at times.

I'm a blank right now, I've read some of these authors and loved them. I did like Anne Rice's "The Witching hour" and the ones that followed that very much, as I did some of her best vampire novels, starting with "Interview". But, some of them were pretty much terrible, too.

I also love some of the classics and go back to them like comfort food.
beth_in_ia
17 years ago
J. A. Jance
John Sanford
Jonathon Kellerman
James Patterson
Lee Child
Iris Johansen
Nora Roberts, and on and on and on.

I could open my own library - between DH and myself. Love to read!
samkaren
17 years ago
VC Andrews
Stephen King

can't remember the author but the books are titled" Chances" and "Lucky"
neesie
17 years ago
Amy Tan
Larry McMurtry
John Irving

But I must admit a few of my favorite books were written by authors who never wrote another book; Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind) Olivia Burns (Cold Sassy Tree) Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
FlamingO in AR
17 years ago
Vince Flynn
Diana Gabaldon
Mary Alice Monroe
Jasdip
17 years ago
SamKaren.....Chances and Lucky are written by Jackie Collins!!

Oh, just 3????
I love love Sidney Sheldon. He was riveting.
Robert P. Parker....so witty...
Patricia Cornwell, Sue Grafton, Stuart Woods, James Patterson,
so many.....
gemini40
17 years ago
1. Maeve Binchy.
2. Harlan Cobin
3. Ann Rule
User
17 years ago
1) Linwood Barclay

2) Patricia MacDonald

3) Anita Shreve
rosebudms
17 years ago
John Grisham

Tony Kellerman

Dorothy Gilman
sable_ca
17 years ago
1. Simone de Beauvoir
2. Wallace Stegner
3. Fyodor Dostoevsky

And for easy fun and just relaxing:
1. Kate Wilhelm (Barbara Holloway)
2. J.A. Rance (Joanna Brady)
3. Ann Rule
carol_in_california
17 years ago
James Lee Burke
Barbara Kingsolver
Nevada Barr
I also love James Michener.
nan_nc
17 years ago
I got tired of Patricia Cornwell. The early books were SO good.

I will read anything by Jeffrey Deavor

John Sandford is a favorite

Nevada Barr and J A Jance are a must-read when a new one comes out in paperback

I have everything Dick Francis ever wrote..his descriptions are spot on (I even found one plagiarized, word for word, in a Robert Parker novel)

Iris Johanssen pleases me

Sometimes Maria Stewart

I will read a book a day if I allow myself to do so. Literally hundreds of books are donated yearly to the library, or Habitat, or whoever will take them.
Jasdip
17 years ago
I notice no one has said Danielle Steel.
I read her years ago, and her early books were by far the best. I haven't been able to stomach her for about the last 6 years.
wanda_va
17 years ago
James Patterson
Kathy Reichs
Stuart Woods
David Baldacci
Michael Palmer
Robin Cook

If you like Patricia Cornwell, you will love Kathy Reichs.

Samkaren: Jackie Collins wrote sequels to "Chances" and "Lucky". (Lady Boss, Vendetta, Dangerous Kiss)
nan_nc
17 years ago
Yes, I forgot Kathy Reichs! Just discovered her a couple of years ago, and haven't seen anything new lately.
Lee
17 years ago
1. Frederick Forsyth

2. Daniel Silver: the 'Gabriel Allon' series; best read in order written

3. Janet Evanovich: Stephanie Plum series
momrox4
17 years ago
Richard Russo;
Wally Lamb;
John Steinbeck
User
17 years ago
Anne Tyler, Jodi Picoult and Harlan Cobin. James Paterson used to be a favorite but his last one was a dud. I could have written it better.
jel48
17 years ago
John Grisham
Nora Roberts
Anne Rice

and many others....
wildchild
17 years ago
John Steinbeck
James Patterson
Carl Hiaasen
Thomas Perry

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