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

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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?

Louise O' Neill.

Patricia Wentworth. Her Miss Silver books and also the stand alones. shed I love Cynthia Harrod Eagles Bill Slider books, keep meaning to check out her other ones.

Have binge-read Loretta Chase. I was always a bit snooty about "bodice rippers", but her books are a lot of fun. I do go back to Georgette Heyer a lot, I have read them over and over.

Lisa Jewell, but I didn't go right the way back as the genre was different back then!

Susan Hill
Robert Goddard
Simon Brett

All crime, but rather different types

Laurie Graham but I'd say her books are marmite.
Some of them are based on historical events through the eyes of a fictional character eg JFK's nursemaid, a fictional companion to one of George III's daughters etc. Others are pure fiction.
You will either love them or hate them! For me, they are the ultimate comfort read and a her complete works would be joining me on any Desert Island I end up on

Wow, you're not kidding they're rare! I found two in Open Library, my go-to for free reading. Must investigate them.
Btw I found an out of print contemporary Georgette Heyer novel about a sexless marriage on Open Library - talk about back catalogue!

I second Georgette Heyer.

I read Rebecca very late, so am working through Daphne Du Maurier.
Ann Cleeves
Ken Follett

Wonder Lucinda Riley
Santa Montefiore

Wonderful Lucinda Riley. Can't edit!

Lisa Jewell and Daphne di Maurier

am reading my cousin Rachel at the moment and am seriously liking it!

Mick Herron

Andrew Raymond

Oooh, I was going to say Patricia Wentworth and Georgette Heyer!

Lois McMaster Bujold
Agatha Christie Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence
T Kingfisher
Hailey Edwards
The Cadfael books (and all the rest of Ellis Peters’ works)
Robert Galbraith
Mary Stewart

Me too. A friend recommended her books and I've since bought them all and read them several times, apart from one,

John Steinbeck, think I've read almost all of his now. Only one I didn't like - The Winter of our Discontent.

Oh yes, so many books, so little time! Will investigate these suggestions.

With Georgette Heyer I re read These Old Shades etc in order, the rest at random.

Dorothy L Sayers I start at Whose Body and read them all in order.

Lois McMaster Bujold is a tricky one because Shards of Honour and the Warrior's Apprentice came out together and I read (devoured) them at the same time. When Barrayar came out a few years later I read it knowing the outcomes from the previous books and actually I loved seeing the younger versions of much loved characters.

Some more crime!

Reginald Hill
Ian Rankin
John Harvey

I second Laurie Graham - she captures different authorial voices very wittily.
Also Monica Dickens - not much read nowadays but worth finding.
And for those who've just discovered Georgette Heyer, there are some great podcasts here: https://heyertoday.libsyn.com/

Mary Stewart
Susanna Kearsley

Dorothy Whipple
Angela Thirkell

Anne Tyler

Elizabeth Strout

Thanks for this thread. I have made a list and have downloaded a Taylor Jenkins Reid book from the library. I like Lesley Pearse.

I haven't read a bad TJR yet.

Tony Hillerman.

Dorothy L Sayers.

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