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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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mikeeagle1
John Steinbeck
Stephen King
Dean Koontz
John Grisham
David Baldacci

Reply #141. Mar 09 12, 2:50 PM
eElliot
J.R.R. Tolkien
Jane Austen
Michael Crichton
H.G. Wells
Jasper Fforde

Reply #142. Mar 09 12, 3:50 PM
scrumpyT star


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I read a lot and like a lot of different books and authors, but these are the ones whose books I re-read..

Dorothy Sayers
Charlaine Harris
Bill Bryson
Ed McBain
Janet Evanovich


Reply #143. Apr 10 12, 2:09 PM
MalcolmCyril
No Order:
Stephen King
Graham Greene
Italo Calvino
J.R.R. Tolkien
Hunter Thompson

Reply #144. May 11 12, 8:39 PM
kysus star


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Andre Norton
Zane Grey
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Anne McCaffery
Tony Hillerman
side order of Terry Prachett
David Eddings
JRR Tolkien
Susan Wittig Albert
Ellis Peters

Reply #145. Oct 23 12, 2:19 PM
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1. James Frey
2. Ann Rule
3. Sarah Waters
4. Torey Hayden
5. Any Biography or Real Crime

Reply #146. Dec 07 12, 2:14 PM
Nammage star


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Hmmm....

1. Ethel Lynn Beers
2. John Bannister Tabb
3. Thomas Chatterton
4.. Walter Scott
5. Jane Austin

-Nam

Reply #147. Dec 17 12, 11:25 AM
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1. Robertson Davies
2. John Grisham
3. Ayn Rand
4. Robert Ludlum
5. James Patterson


Reply #148. Jun 01 13, 4:16 PM
paul4760
Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allen Poe, James Thurber, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Roald Dahl and on and on and.....

Reply #149. Jun 01 13, 5:00 PM
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Harlan Ellison
Philip K. Dick
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
W. Somerset Maugham
and the author that really started my love affair with reading:
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Reply #150. Jun 02 13, 9:16 AM
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Robert B. Parker
Lee Child
Michael Connelly
Daniel Silva
Ed McBain/Evan Hunter

Not to insult anyone's opinion, (because opinions are just that) the most over-rated author of our time is James (a book a month) Patterson. I liked his earlier stuff (10 years ago)but he's clearly writing to fulfill contracts now, not because he has a good plot in mind. Again my opinion. To those of you who like him, no disrespect, enjoy.

Reply #151. Jun 03 13, 10:59 PM
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Stieg Larsson
Nelson DeMille
Stephen King
Anthony de Mello
Thich Nhat Hanh

Reply #152. Jun 27 13, 4:46 AM
closetpoet17 star
Hm....

1. Corrie ten Boom
2. Dennis Lehane
3. J.R.R. Tolkien
4. C.S. Lewis
5. Tamora Pierce

Reply #153. Jul 22 13, 8:58 PM
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So many, but have narrowed it down to:

1. Oscar Wilde
2. Charles Dickens
3. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Stephen King
5. J D Robb (Nora Roberts)

Reply #154. Nov 22 13, 7:23 AM
tiye star


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Bernhard Schlink
Arnaldur Indridason
Mikhail Bulgakov
Iris Murdoch
Italo Calvino

Reply #155. Nov 24 13, 3:57 PM
VBookWorm


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I can't narrow down my list so here:

Agatha Christie

Alexandre Dumas

George Orwell

William Shakespeare

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Leo Tolstoy

Charles Sickens

The Bronte sisters

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



Reply #156. Jan 23 23, 12:05 PM
VBookWorm


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Does it really say Charles Sickens? I meant Charles Dickens. Stupid autocorrect.

Reply #157. Jan 23 23, 12:05 PM
southperth
Margarer Attwood
Paul Theroux
Anne Patchett

Reply #158. Dec 16 23, 9:37 PM


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