Who are your favourite authors?

[kobacat1981]

What genre of books do you enjoy and do you have any good book recommendations? I'm running low on books and looking to get outside of my comfort zone when it comes to books because I always tend to stick to authors I know

Jasper Fforde for a bit of quirky
Dick Francis (reliving my youth)
Kate Atkinson
Ann Cleeves

I love Elizabeth Bowen’s novels, particularly the pre war ones. She must have been a formidably intelligent woman.
Of more recent novels, I love those by Donna Tartt and Zoe Heller, but there’s always a long gap between each book so I’ll be reading their future novels on a celestial kindle.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Margaret Atwood
Ian McEwan
Donna Taart
Jean Paul Sartre
Albert Camus
Kazuo Ishiguro
Elena Ferrante
Yuval Noah Harari
Khalid Hosseini

John Steinbeck
Amy Tan
Liane Moriarty

Madeline Miller
Susannah Clarke
Jose Saramago
Barbara Kingsolver
Margaret Atwood
Richard Brautigan
Tove Jansson

I love historical fiction, particularly medieval/Tudor. I really enjoy books like Elizabeth Chadwick, Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir.

I also really enjoy the classics written by the Bronte's and Jane Austen.

And still obsessed with Harry Potter and love JKR ❤️

Angela Marsons - police thrillers

Mike Gayle - been around a long time interesting how he has progressed from Romcom types to more social issues such as loneliness and inequality.

Daphne du Maurier
Elena Ferrante
Emily St John Mantel
Jasper Fforde
Graeme Macrae Burnet

Neil Gaiman
Linwood Barclay

Milly Johnson, Lisa Jewell, Dorothy Koomson.

Ben Aaronovich - rivers of london series
Isabel Allende
Robert Galbraith aka JK Rowling
Christina Sweeney Baird - The end of men is a cracking read.

Robert Harris
Ian McEwan
Ian Fleming (Bond, not Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
Patricia Highsmith
Kate Atkinson
Ben MacIntyre

Willy Vlautin
John Steinbeck
Richard Yates
Huruki Murakami
Jessie Burton
Anne Tyler
Philip Roth
Ottessa Moshfegh

Nalini Singh, Thea Harrison…

Anne Cleeves
Peter May
Jo Nesbo
Rachel Caine
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Daphne du Maurier
Philppa Gregory
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Still Larsson

Elizabeth Strout
Sebastian Faulks
Maggie O'Farrell
David Mitchell
Ian McEwan
Ali Smith
Kent Haruf
Recently read a couple of Nevil Shute's and liked them a lot. Very old fashioned (lots of "isms") but great reads.

Kate Morton
Linda Castillo
Liane moriarty
Jodi Taylor
Shari Lapena
Kate Atkinson
Lisa Jewell
Jill mansell
Katie afforded
Clare Mackintosh
Stacey Halls
Lucinda Riley
Jane Harper
Kate Moses
Philippa Gregory

Kate Mosse*

And Katie Fforde*. Stupid auto correct

Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov.

Ernest Hemingway
Neil Gaiman
Roddy Doyle
Lionel Shriver

Rudyard Kipling
Neville Chute
Terry Pratchet
Neil Gaiman

I forgot Khaled Hosseini

Lindwood Barcley for a crime thriller with twists
Karen Rose for detective, crime, bit of romance
Nancy Revells Shipyard girls series set in world war 2
Jill Mansell for light reading

Alice Munro
Hilary Mantel
Stephen Saylor