Reader's Paradise discussion

List out your favorite authors here so that others may be introduced to your favorite authors

My Favorite Authoers till date:
1.Paulo Coelho
2.Arundati Roy
3.Susanna Tamaro
4.Khaled Hosseini
5.J.K.Rowling

1. J.K. Rowling
2. Jane Austen
3. Suzanne Collins
4. Walt Whitman
5. Charlaine Harris

Jenny wrote: "My Favorite Authoers till date:
1.Paulo Coelho
2.Arundati Roy
3.Susanna Tamaro
4.Khaled Hosseini"

What about the fifth one ?

Georgie wrote: "1. J.K. Rowling
2. Jane Austen
3. Suzanne Collins
4. Walt Whitman
5. Charlaine Harris"

wow !! that is a great list :)

My top five authors would be :

1.Nicholas Sparks
2.Erich Segal
3.Khaled Hosseini
4.Robin Cook
5.J.K Rowling

Annette wrote: "Jenny wrote: "My Favorite Authoers till date:
1.Paulo Coelho
2.Arundati Roy
3.Susanna Tamaro
4.Khaled Hosseini"

What about the fifth one ?"

Oh..I'll just edit,da..

My favourite Authors are
1.J K Rowling
2.Chetan bagat
3.Amish Tripathi
4.Charles Bukowski
5.Nicholas Sparks

Hello everyone, since I enjoy so many genres so I thought that I would try to list down five of my favourite authors of some of my favourite genres. Hope that's ok! Thanks :-)

GOLDEN-AGE MYSTERY:
1) Agatha Christie
2) Ngaio Marsh
3) Dorothy L. Sayers etc
4) Georgette Heyer

COZY MYSTERY:
1) Julie Hyzy
2) Carolyn G. Hart
3) Jill Churchill
4) Krista Davis
5) Leslie Caine

HISTORICAL ROMANCE:
1) Georgette Heyer
2) Judith McNaught
3) Julia Quinn,
4) Sarah MacLean
5) Lisa Kleypas

CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE:
1) Judith McNaught
2) Julie James
3) Kristan Higgins
4) Robin Bielman
5) Sophie Kinsella

CHILD/JUVENILE:
1) Enid Blyton
2) J.K. Rowling.
3) L.M Montgomery
4) Louisa May Alcott
5) Susan Coolidge

CLASSICS:
1) Jane Austen
2) P.G. Wodehouse

Annette wrote: "List out your favorite authors here so that others may be introduced to your favorite authors"

01. Jeffrey Archer - his forte is to allow his good characters opportunity to get back at the villains, in a satisfying way. This he used in Be Careful What you Wish For, Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less, and Kane And Abel.

02. Kate Collins - Her cozy mystery series are unambitious but very fresh despite having sprouted 16 books.

That's it for me. All the other authors I've liked (J.K. Rowling, Jim Butcher, David Baldacci, Kevin Hearne, Jessica Beck, Charles Todd, J.A. Konrath, Agatha Christie, Sydney Sheldon, M.C. Beaton) have stopped producing books that appeal to me, for some reason.

Luffy wrote: "02. Kate Collins - Her cozy mystery series are unambitious but very fresh despite having sprouted 16 books."

Yes, I was trying to restrict myself to naming only five of my favourite authors for each genre but actually The Flower Shop Mystery Series by Kate Collins is also among my favourites :-)

< biggrin! >

Jane Green
Deborah Bladon
Catherine Bybee
Whitney Garcia Williams
Natasha Anders

George R. R. Martin
J. K. Rowling
Agatha Christie
Brian Freeman
Fernando Pessoa

1. Haruki Murakami
2. Ayn Rand
3. V. S. Naipul
4. Jerom K. Jerom
5. Franz Kafka

Sohel, recommend me some good books by Murakami please! :)

1. 1Q84 2. Sputnik Sweetheart 3. Norwegian Wood

Dear Jenny,

Tell me just one thing, do you like long boring talk over and over on the same subject ?


If not, then how can you find Paulo Coelho interesting or inspiring ?

Have you read After Dark?

That is the only book I have read by that author, and I really liked it, so I wanted to read more :)
Thanks for the recs :)

Sohel wrote: "

Dear Jenny,

Tell me just one thing, do you like long boring talk over and over on the same subject ?


If not, then how can you find Paulo Coelho interesting or inspiring ?"

I'm interested in the matter he writes about,Sohel. And Alchemist changed my life(In a small way- I started studying more).You don't notice repetitiveness when its about the field/idea you love to read about so much. It's like studying a new thing.Repetitiveness hammers the major idea of the book into your brain.

I would have to say my top 5 are,

1. Veronica Blade
2. Jennifer L. Armentrout
3. R.L. Mathewson
4. Quinn Loftis
5. Richelle Mead

1. Victor Hugo
2. Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. Michelle Zink
4. J.R.R. Tolkien
5. Ron Chernow

1 L M Montgomery
2 Louise Penny
3 Agatha Christie
4 Daphne Du Maurier
5 Kate Morton

1)Meg Cabot
2)Richelle Mead
3)P.C.cast
4)Stephanie Meyer
5)Veronica Roth
sorry,i just can'y say top five authors,i'll say top ten(at least ).....thank u .

6)suzanne collins
7)cassandra claire
8)Kiera Cass
9Charlaine Harris
10)Lisa.J.Smith

1. Julie Kagawa
2. Cassandra Clare
3. Marie Lu
4. Tahereh Mafi
5. Victoria Aveyard

1. Cassandra Clare
2. Wendy Higgins
3. Gena Showalter
4. Jennifer L. Armentrout
5. Tahereh Mafi

1. V. S. Khandekar
2. V. P. Kale
3. Nicholas Sparks
4. Colleen Hoover
5. Sarah Dessens

Top five authors. That is a difficult question. An author may have written a brilliant book, then disappointed for the rest of his or her authorship. Some authors has written a lot of good books, but never really got that one brilliant novel that stands out. So how do you choose?

Well, this is my hesitant list.

1) Haruki Murakami
2) Kent Haruf
3) Tore Renberg
4) John Irving
5) Patrick Rothfuss (Why not?)