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!

Louis de Bernieres is my hands down living favourite. I've pre ordered his new book which should arrive on release day on Thurs and I cannot wait. Weirdly I had to try 3 times with Captain Corelli but once it clicked I have not looked back and read everything and been to the pub with him.

Alexandre Dumas is my favourite dead writer. I personally feel there is not one spare word in The Count of Monte Christo.

Patrick Rothfuss or Brandon Sanderson

Rose Tremain without a doubt is my favourite author. I also really like Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood.

Just bought the Handmaids Tale again after watching the programme and having read it at 14. I'm sure the series is not the same as the book!

oh and yes, Ann Tyler. Oddly I mostly like female authors!

Do like Louis des Bernieres but felt the format was a bit samey after CCM.

Always up for recommendations. I only read on holiday and so my library choice can be a bit hit and miss.

Also Fay Weldon is good.

Georgette Heyer
Matt Haig
Janny Wurts
Helen Harper
EM Forster
AS Byatt

I'm going to read for the rest of the evening now!

So hard to pick one favourite, but I love Donna Tartt

If I could only have one favourite it would be Rose Tremain who I think writes beautifully and I love most of all because her books are so different but at the same time so understanding of humanity

Do like Louis des Bernieres but felt the format was a bit samey after CCM.

There is always the stuff that he wrote before, the South American trilogy or short stories. Once I read everything there are large gaps between releases.

Stephen King for me. I read Misery when I was about 18 and was hooked from there.

We have been reading A Series if Unfortunate Events books as a family, DDs 11 & 8 love them so I vote for ‘Lemony Snicket’ too!

Susan Fletcher
Hannah Kent
Sarah Waters

Gregg Hurwitz - all his books but particularly the Orphan X series.

Vince Flynn - author of the American Assassin series. He died a couple of years ago but the series is being continued by another writer with permission from his estate. I've haven't got to those books yet so jury's still out on those.

Lee Childs - the Jack Reacher books. Tom Cruise is NOT Reacher by the way.

Katerina Diamond - crime writer with stories based in and around Exeter. Not shy of a bit of gore and incredibly readable.

Tim Weaver - just discovered him at the Theakstons Crime Festival in Harrogate and have fallen in love with David Raker.

As you can tell, there is a theme to my reading and, incidentally, these writers are very accessible on twitter (with the exception of Vince Flynn, obviously) if you want to leave them a few lines.

One?

Lisa Jewell
Maggie O'Farrell
Dorothy Koomson
Marian Keyes
Kate Morton

I love all these writers and apart from MO'F's last one (still on my Too Read pile) always preorder their books and look forward to reading them as soon as they appear on my Kindle.

Actually I'm surprised I'm the only one to mention Dorothy Koomson. Her books get better and better. I absolutely love them. Mostly set around Brighton, though some of her earlier ones were set in Leeds. Her later ones, from The Ice Cream Girls onwards, have been her best ones.

Kate Atkinson, Margaret Atwood, Kate Morton, Lucinda Riley, Sabine Durrant, Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine, Donna Tartt, Ann Cleeves, Lisa Jewell, just realised all these are female authors, so in the interests of balancing out the sexes, the following, Joseph O'Conner, Michel Faber, John Boyne, Charles Palliser have only read one book by each of these authors but all were sublime.

Arline Jasmin. Only a single book, but interested to read more from her in the future.

Ben Aaronovitch.

Impossible to say. Too many brilliant authors that I have read and hope to discover.

Anne Tyler
Sarah Waters
L M Montgomery

I can't choose between those three.

Dean koontz
Stephen king
Sylvia day!

Phillip Pullman is probably my favourite author. But the authors I'll read anything by are:
Tracey Chevalier
Jane Harris
Wilkie Collins
Phillippa Gregory
Karen Maitland
Stuart McBride
Sarah Waters
Kate Atkinson
Lisa Jewell
Elizabeth Haynes
Gillian Flynn
Robert Crais
Ken Follett
Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman
Manda Scott
Peter James
Peter Robinson
Val McDermid
Hilary Mantel
A.S Byatt
Thomas Hardy
Marian Keyes
John Boyne.

There's loads more!

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Charles Palliser! I LOVED The Quincunx. I must read that again.