Favorite Authors

[Marla]

Attempts will be made to limit the size of this list, but...well, here are a few.

J.D. Salinger
Vladimir Nabokov
Sergei Dovlatov
Franz Kafka
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Sylvia Plath
Dorothy Parker
Voltaire
Milan Kundera
Oscar Wilde
Gustav Flaubert
Ilf and Petrov
Leo Tolstoy

Sometime later today I will be absolutely crippled by the realization that I forgot to mention someone important, but as of now the list stands.

 

[Harp]

Sometime later today I will be absolutely crippled by the realization that I forgot to mention someone important...

Boris Pasternak? :faint:

 

[djd]

A few of mine:

Agatha Christie
Margery Allingham
Conan Doyle
William Gibson
Dashiell Hammett
PG Wodehouse
Larry Niven
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Robert E Howard
Leslie Charteris

 

[Marla]

Boris Pasternak? :faint:

Yes, and Guy de Maupassant.

 

[Pompidou]

Umberto Eco for Baudolino and The Name of the Rose. I couldn't really get too interested in his others, though I have them all - well, the fiction anyway.

Thomas Mallory for Le Morte d'Arthur.

Whoever wrote Beowulf.

 

[Harp]

Attempts will be made to limit the size of this list...

Vladimir Nabokov

Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran is a wonderful Nabokov dovetail.

 

[davidraphael]

Haruki Murakami
Papa Hem'
Milan Kundera
Kazuo Ishiguro
Paul Auster
Ian McEwan
Charles Bukowski
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Raymond Carver
Hermann Hesse
George Orwell
John Fante
Richard Brautigan
Mikhail Bulgakov
Knut Hamsun

I was surprised and appalled that no women writers appeared on my list.
I hope to remedy that.
Next on my reading list: Margaret Atwood.

EDIT: I loved Enid Blyton as a kid: I was obsessed with The Faraway Tree series, The Adventure Series, The Wishing Chair Series and The Famous Five

 

[MisterCairo]

Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
Anthony Trollope
Alexandre Dumas
Ian Rankin
Bernard Cornwell

Ooops, that's six....

 

[Benzadmiral]

Keeping it to 5:

Ellery Queen
Rex Stout
Larry Niven
Robert A. Heinlein
Lawrence Block

 

[Gray Ghost]

Paul and his letters to the 7 Churches in the Holy Bible.

Jan Karon author of "The Mitford Series". Takes place in a fictional town of Mitford, NC. Based loosely on Blowing Rock, NC.

WEB Griffin and his Men at War series dealing with the OSS during WWII.

 

[DNO]

Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
Anthony Trollope
Alexandre Dumas
Ian Rankin
Bernard Cornwell

Ooops, that's six....

If you like Cornwell, you might like C. C. Humphries' "Jack Absolute" trilogy.

 

[Rathdown]

Hmm.

Katherine Kurtz (esp. The Adept series)
Philip K. Dick (esp. The Man In The High Tower)
Glendon Swarthout (except, possibly, Luck & Pluck)
Clair Huffaker (esp. The Cowboy and the Cossack)
Sax Rohmer (everything)

 

[Mr Vim]

Ray Bradbury hands down...

But also Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Mark Twain, Harper Lee (all the only one book, Mockingbird says enough for a lifetime.)

 

[Chasseur]

For classical literature: Emile Zola, Joseph Conrad, Guy de Maupassant, Mikhail Bulgakov, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway (short stories), Raymond Chandler, Leo Tolstoy (short stories), must read more classical literature...

Cotemporary fiction: Michael Moorecock, Alan Furst, James Ellroy, must be some others here... do not read much contemporary fiction...

Philosophy, strategy, non-fiction etc: Raymond Aron, Carl von Clausewitz, Niccolo Machiavelli, Charles de Gaulle, Raoul Castex, Andre Beaufre, Ramachandra Guha, Robert Jervis, Thomas Schelling, Richard Betts, Lawrence Freedman, Rajesh Bashrur, Amartya Sen, Stephen Walt, Daniel Drezner, Stephen van Evera, and too many others...

 

[Flipped Lid]

P.G. Wodehouse, John Steinbeck, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, J.D. Salinger, Pat Conroy, John Feinstein, Ken Follett.

Guilty pleasures are Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn, David Baldacci, and Jimmy Buffett.

 

[The Private Eye]

Somerset Maugham
Stuart Kaminsky
Ian Fleming

 

[Nanny Ogg]

They are so many, but I will mention three of them Jerome Salinger, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett.
Nice Room!Reading Room.

 

[Taz-man]

My favorite author is Stephen Hunter, even though he is modern. The series based on the "Shooter"'s father is based in the 1940s and 1950s. I like to ready his books.

 

[Dan'l]

I'm going to limit my list to just two, or else the list could keep going...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Edgar Allen Poe

I feel like I'm "there" in the stories as I read them.

 

[AmateisGal]

Daniel Silva
Ken Follett
Kate Furnivall
Agatha Christie
(the list could go on and on...)