Favourite author(s)

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Garth Nix - Read a necromancy series written by him, really liked it. Need to see if my local library has anything else by him as I had to google his name to remember it. Really liked that series though.

You're the only other person on this site I know of that have read those books. Every time there's a "Recommend Me Some Books" thread on here I always bring them up.

OT: I second Garth Nix because The Abhorsen Chronicles are extremely good books and my favourite books ever.

Also Terry Pratchett because he's just awesome.

 

[Random berk]

My taste in books has become far too narrow of late, so I don't have many to add, but I will say that Clive Cussler and Conn Iggulden are two of my current favourites.

 

[malestrithe]

Book rating thread made me think about the stuff I generally read...

So, simple question: who's your favourite author(s)?

William Hope Hodgson, Edith Nesbit, George Griffith, Joe R. Landsdale, Jack Schaefer.

Additional question: do you enjoy pre-20th century literature much?

In general, I prefer it. Pre-20th century British Lit was my specialization college. I prefer late Victorian over anything close to modern. I can also read Shakespeare's English with no problem.

 

[Little2Raph]

In no particular order: J.R.R. Tolkien, William Gibson, Alastair Reynolds, Peter F. Hamilton, Ian Fleming, H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams.

As for pre-20th century I don't mind a bit of Alexandre Dumas (I read Three Musketeers when I first started fencing, plus I'm currently plowing through Count of Monte Cristo), and for something even older I love Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey, as well as Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'En.

 

[Blunderboy]

David Gemmell - I have read all his books and not one of them was bad.

Very true.

on occasion Mr King (mostly Dark Tower)

You say true, I say Thankee-sai. I love that series so much. I'm definitely a Tower Junkie.

I do also love Terry Pratchett, Tom Holt, David (& Leigh) Eddings, Bernard Cornwall and Simon Scarrow.

 

[Ambitiousmould]

dmitri gluk..glukhovsky? still can't remeber how to spell it, for metro 2033. what depresses me is the there is no english translation of the sequel, metro 2034.

and david eddings for the belgariad the malorian serieses (seriesi?. i wasn't crazy about the ilinium or whatever it's called with sparhawk in it, it was good at bits but i didn't warm to it like i did with the other two.

 

[Belaam]

In no particular order as I look around the office:

Living Fiction Authors:
Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Kirin Desai, Haruki Murakami, Harper Lee, Steven Brust, Kim Robinson, Raymond Feist, Alan Dean Foster, Melanie Rawn, David Brin, Tom Robbins, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes, Orson Scott Card, Tom Stoppard, Barbara Hambley, Harry Harrison, Charles de Lint, Philip Pullman, Margaret Weiss, Tracy Hickman, R.A. Salvatore, Frank Chin, Margaret Atwood

Living Non-Fiction Authors:
Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Michael Sherman, Maria Tatar, Chris Chabris & Daniel Simons, Stephen Greenblatt, Howard Gardner, Desmond Morris, Judith Butler

Young Adult Authors I Am Sometimes Reticent To Reveal I Like As I Am 36:
Suzanne Collins, John Flanagan, Jay Asher, Sherman Alexie, Laurie Anderson

Deceased Fiction Authors:
Douglas Adams, Joel Rosenberg (NOT Joel C. Rosenberg), David Eddings, Robert Jordan, Anne McCaffery, Fred Saberhagen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lloyd Alexander, Alexander Dumas, Victor Hugo, Geoffery Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Kurt Vonnegut, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fritz Leiber, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allen Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Anais Nin, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Shelly, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Pauline Reage, Voltaire, Roger Zelazney, C.S. Lewis, Richard Adams

Deceased Non-Fiction Authors:
Charles Darwin, Christopher Hitchens, Michel Foucault, Ferdinand de Saussure, Simone de Beauvoir, Jaques Derrida

Authors I liked enough to go see speak somewhere and got them to sign a book afterwards:
Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Sherman Alexie, Jared Diamond

Additional Answer: Yes

 

[bernardblack]

Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Suzanne Collins, and Douglas Adams are some recent favorites. I'll have to read more Heinlein and Asimov to decide how I feel about them.

 

[Krantos]

Brandon Sanderson is my favorite contemporary author.

Alexandre Dumas (sr.) is my favorite historical, and I consider Count of Monte Cristo to be the greatest book ever written.

Which I suppose also answers your second question.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

James Clavell, I picked up Shogun at age 12 and loved his books since.

 

[Amaror]

1.
Terry Pratchet
2.
Sergej Lukianekow,
3.
Dmitry Glukovsky

sreiuously those russian authors know how to write.

 

[Mariakko]

The authors that I'll read anything written by them would be George R.R Martin, Odo Hirsch, Ben Jeapes. To be honest though, Since I've started university I haven't much time to read novels.

Additional question: do you enjoy pre-20th century literature much?

I do a bit. I love the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dracula by Bram Stoker. I find the different use of language difficult to wrap my head around sometimes though.