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Who is your favorite author? sm

Posted: Jan 6, 2012

I am an avid reader and especially love mysteries and thrillers but love to also try new genres. Please list some of your favorite authors so that I can look for them to download on my new Nook.

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many favorites - love thrillers and mysteries

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Stephen King, James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell, Michael Palmer, Tess Gerritsen, and Dean Koontz would say are the top.

many favorites - sm for you - nm

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I read all of those authors; in addition Lisa Jackson, Greg Iles and I just started the Hunger Games series which I loved the first book of three.

I only read nonfiction. SM - Reader

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This may not interest you because I only read nonfiction. The reason is that there is only a finite amount of time on this earth, and I want to spend it wisely. I LOATHE crass pop culture and prefer to limit my exposure to it. Hence I ONLY use the TV for watching DVDs, I don't do Facebook, Twitter, or other crap. Heck, I don't even have a cell phone.

I try to read classics and learn from the masters.

One contemporary author I have discovered recently whom I really admire and respect is Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges. He is on the opposite end of the political spectrum from me (he's a lib), but he is a very deep thinker in addition to being an erudite and moral man. Check out his 9 or 10 tomes.

Happy reading!! :)

You might like Phillipa Gregory. She takes real, interesting - history and weaves a story around it. nm

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Twain, Poe, and Koontz - nm

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Fav authors - sm

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Fannie Flagg is one of my favorites. I also used to get a lot of my reading ideas from Oprah's Book Club. But I like southern writing. Loved Loved Loved "The Help". Also my favorite all time Oprah Book Club book was “Middle Sex” by Jeffrey Eugenides. This book won a Pulitzer Prize.

Walter Mosley - The Easy Rawlins series - nm

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Carson McCullers. nm. - deenibeeni

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Janet Evanovich - Stephanie Plum Series

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Cant wait for each book to be released.

Go Team Ranger! - Jessi

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I can't wait for the movie!

I love Janet's other stuff too, Metro Girl, etc.

If you love her, have you tried Mary Janice Davidson? She is hilarious...do NOT read her in public, though...they'll seriously cart you off in the little white chuckle wagon. For real.

Phillipa Gregory. - nm

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VC Andrews - Reader

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It's sort of a series, but each book is individual. I never did figure out which book should be read fisrt, so I guess it doesn't really matter, because I enjoy each of them. They're wonderful. Flowers in the Attic was the first one I read, and have read several since then.

Ditto. Love her work! - nm

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She's been a ghostwriter since the late 80s - anonymous

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I loved the Heaven series and even the Pearl series (can't remember the actual title), but I got tired of all the incest, and the books became overly formulaic and predictable.

Anita Shreve, Phillipa Gregory, Suzanne Brockmann - mthead

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Suzanne Brockmann is my guilty pleasure. She writes romantic suspense about the lives of Navy SEALS. If you don't like steamy romances, though, you may be put off by her writing.

Cormac McCarthy - nm

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Rumer Godden, Truman Capote - nm

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Conrad Richter - sm - Bindi

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I've rediscovered Conrad Richter who writes beautifully about the Native Americans and the settlers in colonial times. Just finished The Light in the Forest and its companion piece, A Country of Strangers, both about white children captured during Indian raids, raised lovingly by their captors, and then, through circumstance (a treaty), having to return home and readjust to a white society. Really thought-provoking. I can't get either book out of my head.

Ann Patchett - ...

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Not thrillers or mystery, but a gorgeous writer. My favorites include Bel Canto, The Magician's Assistant, State of Wonder.

Margaret Atwood - love her

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Nora Roberts. - Happy MT Robin

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JD Robb - Jessi

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I love Nora, especially her fantasy trilogies, but I love the In Death books even more.

Tami Hoag, Nora Roberts, Lisa Jackson are my favs for - SM

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just curling up with a good mystery/romance novel at home or sitting by the pool in the summer.

I also like true crime, Anne Rule is one of my favorites. Also just finished a really interesting book by Maury Terry called The Ultimate Evil about Maury Terry's (a journalist) own investigation into the Son of Sam Murders and how David Berkowitz was not the sole killer and was part of some sort of cult group. Very interesting read. It was originally published in the 1980s, but he republished it in 1999 (I think) with new information he had garnered from his investigation, interviews with Berkowitz, and other witnesses to the shootings, cops that worked the cases.

Amy Tan - nm

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Fangs, fur, and fey - Urban fantasy fan

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Mainly anything with vampires, shapeshifters, or mean fairies, plus necromancers (but not ghosts--they bore me), witchs, demons, and battle royales, I will like.

Richelle Mead, Ilona Andrews, Charlaine Harris are my top authors. Try Goodreads, a social network for readers (hopefully this won't trigger a no-website-posting spanking from the moderators, but I'm sorry if it is and will remove it if it does).

I love Sookie! - Jessi

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You must read Merry Gentry and Anita Blake? Laurell K. Hamilton? I love Fangs and fur and Fey too. I recently found Kitty Norville, who is a werewolf who hosts, of all things, a radio show giving advise to other supernaturals.

And, it sounds kind of out there, but have you read the Weather Wardens?

I could go on for days about books lol Especially in this genre!

Who is your favorite author? - threedogs

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All are rated number 1...

A.A. Milne
Agatha Christie
James A.Michener

Currently Jeffrey Eugenides (sm) - LK

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I am reading his current novel The Marriage Plot, which I am really enjoying. Also LOVED Middlesex. Very good writer with interesting premises to his novels.

Stephen King...never disappoints - AnaPhylaxis

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Stephen King - Jessi

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I used to love Stephen King so much right up until The Tommyknockers...I slogged my way through that one and then hit Desperation and just couldn't stand it anymore. When he was "just a writer" he was so awesome.

But then...wonder of wonders! He wrote Bag of Bones and I could have cried I was so happy! It was like he came back!

What's your favorite King book? The Shining? I can never decide...lol

my favorites - by category

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Danielle Steel and Cathy Cash Spellman - Romance
Dean Koontz - Suspense.

There is another author that his books were so good. Looked and looked and looked for more of his books but found out he passed away. That was Day Taylor who wrote Black Swan & Moss Rose - 2 of my favorite books

Those are the only two authors I've read.

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