Carl Hiaasen

Lawrence Block

Alice Munro

John Sanford

Lee Child

Doug Preston

Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects)

Paula Hawkins (Girl on the Train)

Wally Lamb (I Know This Much is True, The Hour I First Believed)

Frederik Backman (A Man Called Ove, Britt-Marie, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry)

Ian McEwan (On Chesil Beach, Atonement)

Paula McClain (Paris Wife, Circling the Sun)

Chris Bohjalian (Sandcastle Girls, Skeletons at the Feast)

Louise Erdrich (The Round House)

Kathleen Grissam (The Kitchen House)

I've read almost every book these authors have put out, they're the ones I enjoy reading.

Amy Tan
Stephen King
Jodi Picoult
Wally Lamb
Elizabeth Berg
Lori Lansens
Mitch Albom
Lisa Genova
Lawrence Hill
Dan Brown
Anne Tyler
Kate Morton
Joy Fielding
Sara Gruen
Khaled Hosseini
John Case
Trudy Morgan-Cole (local author)

Margaret Atwood

Jacqueline Winspear

Ruth Rendell

P.D. James

Elizabeth George

Peter Robinson

Deborah Crombie

J. A. Jance

My all-time favourite reads are the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series by Louise Penny.

Michael Connelly

Ridley Pearson

Homer Hickam

John Lescroat

Patricia Cornwell

Linda Castillo

Liane Moriarty

Elin Hilderbrand

Mary Alice Monroe

Diana Gabaldon

Harlen Coben

Vince Flynn

Lee Child

C. J. Box

Craig Johnson

Paw, did you ever read the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, as mentioned by Flamey above?

Sidney Sheldon (all-time favorite author)

Stuart Woods

James Patterson

David Baldacci

Robin Cook (medical thrillers)

Michael Palmer (medical thrillers)

Jeffrey Archer

JA Jance

Brad Meltzer

Lee Child (Jack Reacher books)

John J. Nance (aviation thrillers)

Jackie Collins (Lucky series)

Marie Bostwick (quilt shop novels)

Ann B. Ross (Miss Julia novels)

Harlen Coben

John Grisham (legal thrillers)

Judith Krantz

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Joseph Garber (Vertical Run is one of my favorite books ever)

No I haven't read the outlander series. Is it good? Ahh, John Grisham. I love his work too.

Thanks for all the author recommendations! I love to read but hard to find a good book that keeps my attention unless its from one of the authors who's writing style I'm used to.

Time to explore!

You can go to Amazon and find her first book One For The Money and read the first chapter or a few pages free . I like to do that.

Michael Connolly (my #1 favorite)

Stephen J Cannell (also the creator of dozens of TV shows, including Rockford Files, Colombo and Baretta). Writing novels was his new occupation in retirement but he died of melanoma just has he was getting momentum. The existing body of work includes many very entertaining books)

Robert Crais

(It strikes me that these three all write about characters in the same setting, cop/crime stories in LA. But they're all different and all these books are written with with humor/irony and engrossing stories).

My favorite Authors are Maya Angelou, Mark Mathabane, and Lisa See.

Ruth Rendell (English mysteries set in present day). For escapism and guilty pleasure, Penny Vincenzi. For more literary fiction, Ann Patchett, Jennifer Haigh, Mary Lawson.

One that has not been listed is Kathy Reichs. Similar to the Cornwell books, her main character is a forensic expert. Love her books!

A lot of new names for me to check out, so I may have to print this out.

Some others that I haven't seen listed yet.

Jonathan Kellerman

Faye Kellerman

Daniel Silva

Laurie R. King

Archer Mayor

I heartily second the Archer Mayor suggestion! I love, love, love his books! I have, and have read, all 26 of his Joe Gunther books.

One of the best things about Archer Mayor's books is that they are very well written. Proper grammar and spelling!

I guess I like mysteries set in a supernatural world. I use to like Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series but after the first 6 or so they started to be only concerned with the main character's sex life which got pretty boring.

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Aloysius Xingu L Pendergast series)

Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files)

Kim Harrison (Rachel Morgan series)

Patricia Briggs (Mercedes Thompson series)

Charlaine Harris (Harper Connelly series)

Ilona Andrews (Kate Daniels series)

Terry Windling (Boarderland series)

Raven, if you like Stephanie Plum, you will love Miss Julia (by Ann B. Ross).

Confession: I am a librocubicularist!

(That means I read in bed.)

Paw....I would call the Outlander series time travel-romance-historical which takes place in Scotland. I'm sure many here have read it. There are several long books in the series.

@Lindsey_CA...I just finished Presumption of Guilt today. I like that the Tag Man was featured.

Tami Hoag for mystery/crime with some romance thrown in.

If you like American history a fascinating book is "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow. That one will keep you busy for awhile.

Also, "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry or "The Thorn Birds" by Colleen McCoullough. Those are both really long books that will give you hours of reading enjoyment.

I also love Jane Austin--timeless!

ravencajun was just going to say Janet Evanovich...we lived in Trenton and so I know all the places she writes about. Also, if you like her you should also like Sue Grafton and her alphabet series.

Some of my go to's already listed but love Robert B. Parker (so sorry he is gone) and the Spenser, Jesse Stone,Sunny Randall stories. Tom Clancy, because of my Navy and shipyard connections. Just read several John Sandford and they were good reads.

Most of my books I get from thrifts because I like hard covers and it would be too expensive for me otherwise. I can read 2 or 3 in a day if that's all I'm doing.

Jeffrey Deaver is one of our favorite authors. I have read many of the authors listed and some are favorites just not relisting. I also loved Anne George and her Southern sister's series. She has passed away so there will be no more to the series. Each book could stand alone.

I don't like most mysteries, but I do enjoy Ruth Rendell. For those of you who also like her, you might try Barbara Vines as she wrote under that name also.

John Sandford

Lee Child

Sue Grafton

Kathy Reichs

Lincoln Child

Michael Connolly

JA Jance

Peter May

Lindsey Davis

Peter Tremayne

Phillipa Gregory

Also some older/deceased Authors whose books I reread often

Georgette Heyer

Mary Stewart

Laura Ingalls Wilder

I have read & do like Tami Hoag, forgot to add her to my list.

I've never read Laura Ingalls Wilder but have seen every episode of Little House on the Prairie.

Wow, what an amazing list of authors I can look for now!

Pawprint - based solely on your user name, if you haven't read any of the Chet and Bernie Mysteries written by Spencer Quinn, they may be books you would enjoy. They are written in Chet's voice - he is a dog and Bernie is a private detective. Our dog seems to think exactly like Chet.

You might also enjoy A Dog's Purpose, written by A. Bruce Cameron. It is being made into a movie that is supposed to be out in Jan. 2017.

My favourite was The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. I loved the ending. Naturally nature will take its course but at least this book ended on a happy note. It was supposed to be made into a movie starring Patrick Dempsey but they couldn't get a director. Disney then bought the rights to the book and hired a director, but still no movie. Who knows if Patrick Dempsey would still be interested. At this point he could still play the character at the end of the book. Plus he has the "racing" credits.

Many of my favorites are mentioned here already. I love the Ann B. Ross Miss Julia series, I'd really suggest if someone were to start to begin at the beginning with Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind. OMG its soooooooo great :)

As far as dog stories go, an off beat but terrific story is Watchers by Dean Koontz, especially if you're a golden retriever fan. There is another book written from a dog's perspective that I can not remember it right now and its driving me nuts, hopefully I'll think of it!

David Baldacci

John Gisham

James Patterson

Brad Thor

Tess Gerritsen

woodie - I agree, Watchers by Dean Koontz was a terrific book. I have to say though that the TV Movie version of Watchers was awful - and had nothing to do with the book. I was very disappointed.
I do hope that if The Art of Racing in the Rain is ever made into a movie that they keep the ending as per the book - that is the greatest thing about it.

I hope that you remember the name of the other book written from a dog's perspective. Just try and not think too hard and it should come to you.

This is a great forum but I had to go through eight pages to find it! Why doesn't Houzz put it closer to the front since so many are interested?

dandy, the posts are in order of date of the most recent post, and moves automatically down the pages unless someone posts again.

I have another author who I adore. Patrick Taylor, lives on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, but was a doctor in Ireland. His books are Irish Country Doctor. Fabulous.