Who is your favourite author?

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Mine has to be Kate Atkinson. I've just started Case Histories. Have read a few others of hers. Her writing is just incredible.
I also really like Maggie O Farrell
The hand that first held mine is her best book. Sarah Waters is fab too. Sorry I was greedy and picked 3!

Virginia Woolf

Margaret Atwood, Anne Tyler, Ann Patchett, Barbara Kingsolver. Also having a little love affair with Dickens

I’ve only discovered Anne Tyler and Kate Atkinson in the last couple of years. I’m rationing myself as I love the books so much.

All three Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie novels were excellent. I also love Lionel Shriver, Emma Donoghue, Alice Hoffman, Anne Tyler, Ann Patchett, Rhidian Brook, Donal Ryan, Carol Shields, Willy Vlautin, Denis Lehane and John Connolly.

Charles Dickens, David Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King

Matt Haig, Iain Banks, Jo Nesbo.

I just finished Anne Tyler's ladder of years where that is basically what the lead character does!

Ladder of Years is one of my favorite books of all time.

Gail Godwin is another of my favorite contemporary American writers.

From the mystery genre, PD James and Ruth Rendell are unparalleled.

And Ian Rankin. I do love a bit of Tartan Noir.

I love Kate Morton. Especially The Forgotten Garden.
Bill Bryson. I like knowing things and he makes it easy to read.
Dickens has been mentioned but I also love Austen.
And am working my way through the Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard and have bought another set of hers from The Book People, really enjoy her style.

JK Rowling
David Mitchell
Claire North
Jim Crace
Donna Tartt

Maggie O'Farrell and Hannah Kent.

i love jill mansell! i am currently reading her last book and im gutted! dont no what to read next.

Haruki Murakami
Neal Stephenson
David Mitchell
Alastair Reynolds
Neil Gaiman
Catherine O'Flynn
Tad Williams
Doug Coupland
William Gibson
Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen

I love The Stand too- it's a masterpiece.

PD James and Ruth Rendell
Patrick Gale
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Kate Atkinson
Helen Dunmore
Matt Haig
Liane Moriarty - just reading one of hers and it is really good

George Gissing
Patrick Hamilton
Somerset Maugham
Margaret Atwood
Emile Zola

Marian Keyes, MJ Arlidge, Tim Weaver, Sharon Bolton and CL Taylor. Yet to read a book I dislike by these authors!

In order-

Enid Blyton ( made my childhood )
Mike Gayle
Sophie Kinsella
Milly Johnson
Carole Matthews

I love books. I could read for 24 hours a day if I could

Lionel Shriver, Anne Patchett, Dave Eggers, Kate Atkinson & Stephen King.

Just one? Impossible!
For starters I would say Terry Pratchett, Jane Austen, Sue Grafton, Lindsey Davis, Ben Aaronovitch, Caitlin Moran.
There are more

The mighty Sara Maitland.

George Orwell.

I also enjoy Robert Harris’s meticulously researched historical thrillers. They’re a handy way for the non-historian to learn about important stuff without having to actually read history books....

I have been enjoying Ali Smith lately, very understated and easy to read writing. The stories feel so huma.

Alexandre Dumas
James Hadley Chase
J. K. Rowling
Agatha Christie

David Mitchell
Barbara Kingsolver
Kate Atkinson
Jane Austen
Sarah Walters
Alice Munroe
Margaret Atwood
Angela Carter/Gabriel Garcia Marquez for a bit of mad occasionally :-)

Come on, you didn't really expect anyone to just choose one did you?!

I don't think I've ever read a Stephen King, but will aim to change that soon!

@PerspicaciaTick - Sarah Maitland's Home Truths is one of my favourites. It's a regular reread of mine.