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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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voltaire11
1. JRR Tolkien
2. Stephen King
3. Neil Gaiman
4. John Grisham
5. Isaac Asimov


Reply #81. Mar 16 09, 10:46 PM
watt07 star


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1. Tolkien
2. Edgar Rice Burroughs
3. David Eddings
4. James Patterson
5. Clive Cussler

Reply #82. Mar 20 09, 8:31 PM
benniebenbenny


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In no particular order:

- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Agatha Christie
- Colin Dexter
- Frank McCourt
- Charles Dickens

Reply #83. Mar 20 09, 8:57 PM
heypeople
1. JK Rowling
2. Walter Dean Myers
3. Sharon Creech
4. William Shakespeare
5. Lemony Snicket or Meg Cabot

The first three are in order. I don't knoe whether I like Shakespeare or Snicket more.


Reply #84. Mar 21 09, 8:03 PM
team_edward
Stephenie Meyer
Lauren Myracle
Robert Frost(poet)
Scott Westerfeld
Stephen King

Reply #85. Mar 28 09, 11:21 PM
Skyflyerjen star
Clive Barker
James Patterson
K.A. Applegate
Mary Higgins Clark
Nora Roberts
Special mention goes to Robert Kirkman for “The Walking Dead” graphic novel series.


Reply #86. Dec 28 09, 11:07 PM
Squisher star
Margaret Atwood
Kazuo Ishiguro
Neil Gaiman
Rohinton Mistry
Christian Bök

Reply #87. Dec 28 09, 11:48 PM
Gatsby91606
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Clive Cussler

Reply #88. Jan 02 10, 1:41 PM
vampiregirl8
1. Stephen King.
2. Dean Koontz.
3. Stephenie Meyer.
4. LJ Smith.
5. JK Rowling.

Reply #89. Jan 06 10, 5:24 PM
redwaldo star


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1.George Orwell
2.John Steinbeck
3.Albert Camus
4.Ernest Hemingway
5.Mary Shelley

Reply #90. Jan 06 10, 5:45 PM
C30


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1. Terry Pratchett....favourite..."Witches Abroad"
2. C.S. Forrester..... " "Hornblower & The Atropos"
3. Tom Wicker......... " "Unto This Hour"
4. Simon Hawke........ " "The Nautilus Sanction"
5. John Winton........ " "The Good Ship Venus"


Reply #91. Jan 10 10, 2:56 PM
livvycat
My top 5 favourites are:

Ken Follett
John Irving
Diana Gabaldon
Stephen King
Patricia Cornwell

Reply #92. Jan 17 10, 1:37 PM
tezza1551 star


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In no particular order:

John Wyndham
Beverley Nichols
Nevile Shute
Arthur Upfield
Liz Byrski
Jane Duncan
Agatha Christie
Ngaio Marsh
and a couple of poets:
Bruce Dawe
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)

Oh sorry, thats a few more than 5...

Reply #93. Jan 17 10, 8:52 PM
agony


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I'm always amazed to see that I'm not the only Jane Duncan fan left in the world!

Reply #94. Jan 20 10, 2:18 PM
Plodd star


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J. D. Robb
Patrick Robinson
Jeffrey Archer
Clive Cussler
Martina Cole

Reply #95. Jan 27 10, 2:05 PM
sasha67
Michelle Moran
Jean Auel
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Morgan Lleweylln
Wilber Smith

Reply #96. Jan 27 10, 4:22 PM
Kaye19 star


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Ruth Rendell; P.D.James; Sue Grafton; Val MacDiarmid; Ian Rankin.
Did you guess I like crime books?

Reply #97. Jan 31 10, 4:48 PM
truescotsman
oh a tough one this i have it down to five but all in joint place lol
1.david gemmil
2.robert jordan
3.terry brooks
4.terry pratchett
5.terry goodkind
sadly two of the best ever have passed away and well never read new words grace our minds again though watch out for brent weeks hes an author in the making

Reply #98. Feb 14 10, 10:31 AM
DR.NO star


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Saki (H. H. Munro)
O. Henry (William Sidney Porter)
H. Rider Haggard
Rudyard Kipling
P. G. Wodehouse

Reply #99. Feb 14 10, 12:54 PM
Jazmee27


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In no particular order:

Stephenie Meyer
James Patterson
Mercedes Lackey
Lois Duncan
Mary Higins Clark


Reply #100. Mar 13 10, 2:33 PM


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