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Subject: Your top 5 favorite authors

Posted by: callie_ross
Date: May 30 07

I love to read, so I was just curious as to what your top 5 favorite authors are! Here are mine:
1.Stephen King
2.Dean Koontz
3.Velda Johnston
4.Ann Rule
5.Patricia Cornwell

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1.Leo Tolstoy
2.George Orwell
3.Jack London
4.Sinclair Lewis
5.Nathenial Hawthorne

Reply #121. Feb 24 11, 12:04 PM
MrHulot_
William Faulkner
Virginia Woolf
Franz Kafka
Jorge Luis Borges
Douglas Adams


Reply #122. Mar 06 11, 3:30 PM
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1 James Lee Burke
2 Stephen King
3 Patricia Cornwell
4 James Patterson
5 David Baldacci

Reply #123. Mar 06 11, 4:33 PM
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Lawrence Durrell
Barbara Kingsolver
Charles Dickens
The guy who wrote the Kite Runner
5. Gotta sleep on it. Jack London? T.S. Eliot.

Reply #124. Mar 08 11, 11:47 PM
naerulinnupesa
Jules Verne
Charlotte Brontë
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Louisa May Alcott
Eleanor H. Porter

Reply #125. Mar 16 11, 11:52 AM
HannahConner88
I've already given my list, but I've discovered a new favorite recently. French author Albert Camus; his writings are striking, philosophical, visual masterpieces. If you're interested, start with his book The Stranger.

Reply #126. May 16 11, 6:52 AM
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Stephen King
W. E. B. Griffin
Dan Brown
Tom Clancy
Stieg Larsson

Reply #127. May 23 11, 4:42 PM
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Nelson DeMIlle
John Irving
Barbara Kingsolver
William Boyd
Ken Follett

Reply #128. Jul 22 11, 4:22 PM
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1. J.K. Rowling
2. Jeff Kinney
3. Lemony Snicket
4. Louisa May Alcott
5. Brandon Mull

Reply #129. Jul 28 11, 7:48 PM
braindead19
well now, top 5 harder than the quizzes.
1 James lee Burke
2 Eric van Lustbader
3 Robert b Parker
4 Robert Ludlum ( not books written after his death )
5 Harlan Coben
hmm maybe i should put top 50 :)

Reply #130. Aug 27 11, 7:54 PM
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Robert B Parker
Ed McBain
Alice Hoffman
Michael Connely
Nelson DeMille
Peter Robinson
Robert Crais
Lee Child
Pete Hamill
David Lindsey
George Pelecanos
Daniel Silva
Arthur Conan Doyle
Harlan Coban
Peter Blauner
Ridley Pearson
Jeffrey Deaver
Jon Hassler
T Jefferson Parker
Herman Wouk

sorry I got carried away-could name 20 more

Reply #131. Sep 08 11, 7:16 PM
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1. Stephen King
2. Agatha Christie
3. Dan Brown
4. George Orwell
5. Jack London

Reply #132. Sep 08 11, 8:59 PM
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1. Dale Brown
2. Stephen Coontz
3. Larry Bond
4. Richard Hermann
5. name withheld

Reply #133. Sep 11 11, 10:54 AM
Lorvanwa
5. Micheal Crichton
4. Raymond Feist
3. J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Rabbi Daniel Matt
1. Rabbi Shim'on bar Yohai



Reply #134. Nov 19 11, 9:56 AM
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A couple of additions to my previous list:
Di Morrissey
Liz Byrski


Reply #135. Jan 02 12, 12:11 AM
Mariamir
1. J.R.R. Tolkien
2. John Buchan
3. C.S. Lewis
4. Alexandre Dumas Pere
5. Shakespeare

Reply #136. Jan 02 12, 10:23 PM
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1. William Shakespeare
2. Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Thomas Pynchon
4. James Joyce
5. Lawrence Durrell

Reply #137. Jan 06 12, 9:57 AM
BOB501
Wilber Smith
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lee childs
Dan Brown
James Patterson
Micheal Crichton

Reply #138. Jan 06 12, 10:34 AM
luddy2
1. Dan Brown
2. Stephen King
3. Dean Koontz
4. Susan Howatch
5. Charles Dickens

Reply #139. Jan 07 12, 6:33 PM
regandavey
1. J.K Rowling
2. Hilary Bell
3. Christopher Paolini
4. Roald Dahl
5. John Marsden

Reply #140. Jan 10 12, 12:51 AM


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