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Authors you've discovered and then worked your way through their back catalogues

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Floofydawg · 19/12/2023 22:21

I may be late to the party with these two but: Taylor Jenkins Reid and Colleen Hoover. Love them both. I like easy reading but well written. Looking for inspiration for 2024 reading - share your favourite authors please?

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 19/12/2023 22:22

Nora Roberts, and her alter ego, JD Robb.

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Floofydawg · 20/12/2023 08:24

Thanks, any more?

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AnnoyingPopUp · 20/12/2023 08:27

Georgette Heyer
Philip Kerr

ChanelNo19EDT · 20/12/2023 08:32

Claire Douglas

VeronicaBeccabunga · 20/12/2023 08:38

Barbara Pym

KnittedPond · 20/12/2023 08:49

Hilary Mantel. I picked up Fludd in a friend’s house in about 2000 and immediately read all she’d written to that point, though her best novels were yet to come.

PiggieWig · 20/12/2023 08:52

Sarah Waters. I started with Fingersmith and was so gripped I’ve since read everything else she’s written.

Also:
CL Taylor
Liane Moriarty
Gillian McAllister

booktokbear · 20/12/2023 08:58

Rachel Abbott
Tana French
Robert Bryndza

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Floofydawg · 20/12/2023 09:05

Thanks - keep em coming! (Some of these are on my read list already but I have downloaded some new authors thanks to this post)

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SpeculatingRooks · 20/12/2023 09:08

Anne Tyler

SheilaFentiman · 20/12/2023 09:14

Tana French is amazing. Liane Moriarty too convoluted for me.

Lucy Clarke and Diana Chamberlain have both inspired obsessive reading jags 😀

Lisa Jewell is reliable.

PixiePirate · 20/12/2023 09:14

Diane Chamberlain.

ThePoshUns · 20/12/2023 09:36

Kate Atkinson
Margaret Atwood
Rose Tremain

Middlefadiddle · 20/12/2023 09:37

Mary Lawson

Bawdrip · 20/12/2023 09:41

I did all Anita Shreves in a row.
Currently Anita Brookner. Weirdly just realised they are both Anita.
Also Liane Moriarty and Joanne Harris.
Tried to do Jodi Picoult but realised she's not that good

Dogmatix34 · 20/12/2023 09:42

Liane Moriaty and Anne Tyler for me

Darkenergy · 20/12/2023 09:42

Elizabeth Taylor (author)

Lalalanding · 20/12/2023 09:43

Claire Keegan her brevity suits my attention span.

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 20/12/2023 09:45

Another vote for Rose Tremain.

Ilovemyshed · 20/12/2023 09:45

Cynthia Harrod Eagles for rattling good historical sagas and also detective books.

ageingdisgracefully · 20/12/2023 09:48

Penelope Lively

CeciledeVolangesdeNouveau · 20/12/2023 09:51

Very old one, but I discovered Dick Francis at the age of ten and devoured his back catalogue. Excellent reads, he’s done his research and you get through one book in an afternoon.

Lunatone · 20/12/2023 09:53

Alice and Claude Askew; romantic mysteries from the Edwardian period. Hard to find, though...

Middlefadiddle · 20/12/2023 09:56

Dorothy Sayers

KeeefBurtain · 20/12/2023 09:56

Mo Hayder

Ive been reading a lot of Stephen King lately after really enjoying Rose Madder, which I found left on a bench at the bus stop with a note to pass it on when finished.