Favourite Authors

[snuffer]

Somewhere on the grapevine,can't remember where, I read a thread concerning the growing of unusual vegetables. Among those listed was the exploding cucumber. Now I know that there is a vine which bares a fruit which when ripe ejects its seeds by exploding when touched but I remember reading about a deadly form of exploding cucumber in a book entitled 'The Fourth Bear' by Jasper Fforde.

That got me wondering, we all share a love of growing fruit and veg but do we have similar taste in other things; such as literature.

My favourite authors are, in no particular order:
Jasper Fforde
Christopher Brookmyre
Carl Hiaasen
Stephen Fry
Mark Gattiss
Ian Banks
Kate Atkinson
and Ian McEwan, especially his earlier work

What are yours?

[kirsty b]

Terry Pratchett
James Patterson
Wilbur Smith
John Grisham
Jill Mansell
Katie Fforde
Alan Titchmarsh
Jilly Cooper

thats some of them, the ones I will always re-read time and again. I will read anything and everything!!

[Mrs Dobby]

Frank Herbert
Manda Scott
Douglas Adams
Terry Pratchett
Robin Artisson
JK Rowling
Philip Pullman
Bernard Cornwell
Teresa Moorey
EE 'Doc' Smith
Tolkien

and a few more besides!

[Polly Fouracre]

Arthur Ransome.
K.M.Peyton.
Libby Purves.
Dick Francis.
Barbara Erskine.
and many more!

[seasprout]

Books i like.

Terry Pratchett
J.K.Rowling
Stephen King
Terry Pratchett
Robert Rankin
Jeffery Deaver
Dean Koontz
Terry Pratchett

Not including all the one off books, such as Peter Key, Terry Walton, Victor Osbourne among others.

[Arachne]

Iain Banks
Sarah Waters
John Wyndham
Steve Aylett
Martin Millar
Tom Robbins
Margaret Atwood
Poppy Z. Brite
...
the list could go on, but at the moment, they're probably the top few.

[Alison C]

Terry Pratchett
J.K.Rowling
Philip Pullman
Isaac Asimov
Michael Crichton
Neil Gaiman
Christopher Paolini
Robert Rankin
Terry Brooks
Trudi Canavan
Michael Cordy
Enid Blighton (read all the adventure series as a kid about 10 times each)
J.R.R. Tolkien

[piskieinboots]

Grow Your Own
Garden News
MCN

wot

[muckdiva]

Helen Dunmore
Sebastian Faulks
Bill Bryson
J K Rowling

[percy charlie]

i like the following:-
Mary Higgins clark better than anything agather cristie ever wrote real good murder mistries and very good endings too, have lots of the books just trated my self to 5 of the for my hols.
also like patrica scanlan
shiela oflanagan
i just find american and irish writers cater for more my taste and imagination
trouble is with these 3 authors once i open one of there books i become incommunable till its finished.

[Polly Fouracre]

Helen Dunmore
Sebastian Faulks
Bill Bryson
J K Rowling

Bill Bryson's books make me laugh out loud!

[HeyWayne]

Love Jasper Fforde, wasn't that keen on The Fourth Bear, or The Big Over Easy, but hey.

Others I like:

Tom Holt
David Mitchell
Stanley Pottinger
Early James Herbert
Stephen King (although recent books have been hit and miss)


Can't think of any others at the moment.

[zazen999]

Vladimir Nabokov
Nicola Barker
Jonathan Swift
Salman Rushdie
Donna Tartt
Yukio Mushima
Susanna Clarke
David Mitchell

Just getting into Angela Carter at the moment.

Did English Degree a few years back, so I could add another 50 authors that i like, but the above - I love.

[janeyo]

I did English Lit for Alevel then French Lit at uni and kind of wore myself out reading heavy stuff... Now I tend to only read Chick Lit! I love it as it's so brain off.
Faves would have to include Jilly Cooper, Marion Keyes and such like.

janeyo

I do like James Herbert too.

[Novice Gardener]

My faves are James Herbert, Dick Francis, James Patterson & John Grisham, though I must confess that Enid Blyton from my childhood is probably my all time favourite - I recently bought my daughter the full set of "Twins at Mallery Towers" books and have re-read them - took me back 30 years!!!