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?

Pat Barker and Muriel Spark

Terry Pratchett

Laurie Graham

Oh I've just posted Laurie Graham ! I absolutely agree.

Tana French's back catalogue got me through a difficult time recently.

Patrick Gale - I think I've read almost everything he's written. Fascinating to see how his work has changed.

Liane Moriarty.

Joanna Trollope - will always read her new ones.

Bit of an odd selection but
Barbara Kingsolver
Daphne Du Maurier
Sarah Moss
Margaret Atwood
Tana French
Grace McCleen (only 3😭)
Laura Purcell
Alice Hoffman
Mo Hayder (though traumatising!)
Graham Joyce
Jodi Picoult (hit and miss but some are rather great)

And because I enjoy a bit of romance, all the Jilly Coopers and Jill Mansells I can get my hands on.

Cara Hunter

Jon Scalzi for sci fi - not his main series about wars in space, but almost everything else. Locked in, The Kaiju Preservation Project, a murders series, and one about being a professional Villain 👌

Alex Marwood. I absolutely love her books, they are so clever but easy to read.

Sue Grafton the alphabet series......was recommended to me on mumsnet.

Absolutely fantastic....seemingly an easy, entertaining read but there are so many brilliant descriptions where she sums something up in a couple of pithy sentences....the 'heroine' kinsey is superbly drawn, and each book builds on the last one to create a very rich world.

In no particular order:
Donna Tart
Edward St Aubyn
Virginia Wolf
Daphne du Maurier
Pearl Buck
Fitzgerald
Hemingway
Balzac
Stendhal
Zola
Dumas
All the Brontë
Lionel Shriver
Jilly Cooper
Zoé Oldenburg
Lauren Child!
Cannot read a Dickens for the life of me.

P.G. Wodehouse

Wilkie Collins

@Vicliz24 Yay another fan! I just love her books but loads of people I recommend her to just don't get it. Which one is your favourite? I'm not sure I can choose!

@falifornia I'm torn between Mr Starlight and Gone with the Windsors but even those two it's only by a whisker because I love them all 😊

Most recently William Boyd and Dorothy Koomson.

I Second Patrick Gale.
Also Jane Casey, M W Craven, William Boyd, John Boyne, Susan Hill

I've only read one Patrick Gale - Take Nothing With You - but it's my favourite book at the moment. I will investigate some of his others.

Never been able to read any classics. If I'm not into a book by the 3rd chapter, I give up. I've never got beyond that stage with any classics.

I've just finished How Not To Have An Arranged Marriage by Dr Amir Khan and it was so good. Went looking for his other books but it's the only non fiction book he's written.

Nina Stibbe- hence the username!
Armstead Maupin
Daphne Du Maurier
Maggie O’Farrell
Rose Tremain
(the last two I find a bit more hit & miss).

That should have said it's the only fiction he's written 🤦🏼‍♀️

Aldous Huxley
P. G. Wodehouse
Anita Brookner
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If I had the time, I’d read the collected works of Jane Austen, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Burgess, Hilary Mantel and Dickens,

John Wyndham

Jane Casey
Tana French
Sharon Bolton

And agree with Dorothy Koomson above