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

Ann Patchett
William Trevor
Miranda Heller
Kate Chopin

Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kitteridge)
Anne Patchett (Commonwealth)
Lionel Shriver (Kevin, Post Birthday World & So Much for that)
Nora Ephron (Heartburn)
Emily St John Mandell (Station 11)
Donna Tartt (Secret History, Goldfinch)
Matt Haig (How to Stop Time)
Stephen King

Zora Neale Hurston.

And JK Rowling.

Iain Banks especially his stuff under Iain M Banks (which is the Sci fi... but I love all of his)
Ciaran McMenamin - brilliant historical fiction although his new one will be set in current times
He narrates his own audiobooks and they are awesome
David Mitchell
Emma Donoghoe - wow her historical fiction is amazing,

I tend to sci-fi and fantasy, so

John Wyndham
Isaac Asimov
Ben Aaronovitch (Rivers of London)
Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files)

Modern writers:
Jodi Taylor
C J Sansom
Michael Connelly
Kathy Reichs
Rory Clements
Peter James
Steve Cavanagh
Angela Marsons

I do like quite a few of the masters too, both British and American.

Oh and I like Shari Low for some very light entertainment.

Laura Purcell
Carol Shields
Amy Tan
Marian Keyes
Albert Camus
Elizabeth Haynes
Caroline Kepnes

Sarah Waters
Sue Townsend
Michel Faber
W. Somerset Maugham
Charles Dickens
John Steinbeck
Emma Donahue

Many of the above
Barbara Pym, 20thC but period pieces now
Ditto Elizabeth Taylor
Anita Brookner

Another long gone author,
E. F. Benson, esp. the Mapp and Lucia series and Paying Guests. Some of my go-to comfort reads (re-reads)

I am obsessed with the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordon. I have read it five times. It's a 14 book series and each book averages 700 hundred pages. So that could keep you going for a while.
I am currently reading the second book in a trilogy called the Kingkillers trilogy by Patrick Rothfuss. Tis enjoyable.

Neil Gaiman
Terry Pratchett
Madeleine Miller
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Maggie O'Farrel
Margaret Atwood
Kazuo Ishiguro
Tracey Chevalier

Miss Read
Agatha Christie
Robert Nye

Some of my favourites already listed, but I like a thriller with a historical look back. I wish I had more time to read, as I tend to just read on holiday.
Dan Brown - read all of them
Rebecca De Maurier - couldn't put Jamaica Inn down, so keen to read more of hers.
Kate Mosse, read Winter Ghosts on a atmospheric beach, and again, keen to read more.
Michael Sierton, he is little know as a novelist but was a highly respected film set designer, so his style is visual. Couldn't put Boy in a Red Boat down.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the first couple of Sherlock Holmes.
I've never actually read JK Rowling, but will still list her as she taught my children not to be afraid of picking up a novel, when school were still giving them Biff and Chip! My DC have quite a library now of different books which I love rummaging through. Thats where I got Jamaica in and Sherlock Holmes from.
For short a short story collection, I am reading Murder in Midwinter, which has short stories by crime writer such as Ruth Rendell, ACD etc.

@ANameChangeAgain Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurer 😊

Karin Slaughter
Val McDermid
Agatha Christie
Elly Griffiths
Angela Mason
Jodi Taylor
Terry Prachett

Terry Pratchett
Harlen Coben

Guy Gavriel Kay
Dean Koontz
David Gemmell
Armistead Maupin
Terry Brooks
Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman
R R Haywood
And so many more

Maeve Binchy, love all her books, I'm so sad when they are finished and I was so sad when she died and wouldn't be writing any more.

I loved reading Maeve Binchy.

TL Swan
Megan Quinn
Max Monroe
Lainey Davis
Donna Alam

Barbara Erskine
Stan Barstow
Susannah Gregory
Phillipa Gregory
Kate Moreton
Maeve Binchey
C J Samson
Helen Durrant

Sarah Harrison
Sadie Jones
Alexander McCall Smith
Eve Chase
Joanne Harris

Jessie Burton
Michel Faber
Alison Weir
Ali Smith
Margaret Atwood
Zadie Smith
Curtis Sittenfeld
Andy Weir
EM Delafield