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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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J.D.
Matthew Reilly
JRR Tolkien
JK Rowling
John Marco
Terry Brooks

all but the first one writes fantasy. Wonderful authors!

Reply #41. Aug 01 07, 2:17 PM
broomdyke
so you like horror, ever read graham masterton? give it a go and you will never look back.....

Reply #42. Aug 06 07, 4:54 AM
broomdyke
my top five/six not in order is of course everybody's favourite, stephen king, richard laymon, graham masterton, christopher pike, dean koontz and enid blyton.

Reply #43. Aug 06 07, 5:00 AM
brandiwyne77
Alice Walker
Laurell K Hamilton
Toni Morrison
Nora Roberts
Jane Austen

Reply #44. Aug 08 07, 9:35 AM
westwingitis
Connie Willis
David Brin
Jane Austen
Elizabeth Gaskell
Madeleine L'Engle

Reply #45. Aug 10 07, 1:03 AM
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Saki (H. H. Munro)
O. Henry (William Sidney Porter)
Kerry Greenwood
Charles Dickens
P. G. Wodehouse

Reply #46. Aug 10 07, 1:45 AM
nobos5is
5.Stephen King
4.Lois Lowry
3.Lois Lowry
2.Lois Lowry
1.Lois Lowry

Reply #47. Aug 10 07, 2:36 PM
LunaLovegood28
J.K. Rowling
Joan Lowery Nixon
Lemony Snicket
Carolyn Keene
Gloria D. Miklowitz

Reply #48. Aug 10 07, 2:52 PM
BG07 star
Dan Brown
Tom Clancy (Jack Ryan Novels)
Christopher Paolini (Inheritance Series)
Lemony Snicket (Series of Unfortunate Events)
Lloyd Alexander (Chronicles of Prydain)

Reply #49. Aug 10 07, 6:33 PM
luddy2

Wilbur Smith
Susan Howatch
Meg Hutchinson
John Steinbeck (currently reading)
Jean M Aeul

Reply #50. Aug 11 07, 12:59 PM
LunaLovegood28
oops sorry..i just realized I already posted.
ignore this post!

Reply #51. Aug 11 07, 1:11 PM
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JK Rowling (Harry Potter)
Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)
Mark Twain (Adventures of Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer, short stories)
Dan Brown (Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, etc.)
Chaim Potok (The Chosen & The Promise)

Reply #52. Aug 14 07, 2:01 PM
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1. Jasper Fforde.
2. J.K. Rowling.
3. William Shakespeare
4. Stephen King.
5. Faye Kellerman.

Reply #53. Sep 06 08, 11:47 AM
macabrescribe
In no particular order:

1. Stephen King
2. Agatha Christie
3. Dan Brown
4. Allison Brennan
5. James Patterson (The earlier books)

Reply #54. Sep 06 08, 12:00 PM
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1. Jane Austen
2. William Shakespeare
3. Charles Dickens
4. Thomas Hardy
5. Richard Wright

Reply #55. Sep 06 08, 6:55 PM
Valdierio
In no particular order:

Arthur Conan Doyle
Charles Dickens
Ernest Hemingway
Mark Twain
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Reply #56. Sep 22 08, 2:38 PM
Lottie1001
1. Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
2. Arthur Ransome
3. A.A. Milne
4. Susan Coolidge
5. Malcolm Saville

or, if I move away from 'children's' books

1. Elswyth Thane
2. Agatha Christie
3. Nevil Shute
4. M.M. Kaye
5. Colin Dexter

Reply #57. Sep 22 08, 3:27 PM
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Maeve Binchey
Dean Koontz
Debbie Macomber
Susan Howatch
Enid Blyton (Due to the volume of hers I've read since I was a kid I have to add her in there)


Reply #58. Sep 28 08, 5:29 AM
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Just realised I didn't put K. M. Peyton in there. She is my all time favourite. Not very well known but she makes you feel.

Reply #59. Sep 28 08, 5:32 AM
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Lisi Harrison
Louise Renninson [I forget her real last name, she writes the Angus Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging books]
Stephen King
Lauren Myracle
Meg Cabot

Reply #60. Oct 08 08, 7:38 PM


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