Favourite writers?

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Mine are:

Amor Towles
Ann Patchett
Daphne Du Maurier
Sarah Perry
Mary Stewart

Who are yours?

I've become so picky in recent years but I used to love a good Jill Mansell.

Colin Dexter

Victoria Hislop
David Patterson
Molly Doyle
Stephen King
Dean Koontz

Also like Daphne du Maurier and Mary Stewart and some of Stephen KIng.

Also:

David Mitchell
Scarlett Thomas
Cormac McCarthy
Jane Austen
Terry Pratchet
Barbara Kingsolver
Douglas Adams
George R. R. Martin
Caitlin Moran
Robin Hobb
MR Carey
MM Kaye
John Wyndham
Sara Pascoe

I like Scarlett Thomas too. Although some of The End of Mr Y went over my head 🤣

I also loved Demon Copperhead. Which of Barbara Kingsolver's should I try next?

Robert Galbraith
S J Bennett
Alexander McCall Smith
Jacqueline Winspear
Elly Griffiths
Vaseem Khan
Susanna Gregory

I also loved Demon Copperhead. Which of Barbara Kingsolver's should I try next?

My favourite is The Poisonwood Bible, but you have probably read it

I’d suggest Prodigal Summer, or her very first novel The Bean Trees and its sequel Pigs in Heaven.

Elizabeth Bowen
Marguerite Duras
George Eliot
Anne Enright
Laurie Colwin
Flann O’Brien
Alice Munro
Annie Ernaux
Kate O’Brien
Henry James
Mavis Gallant
Hilary Mantel
Karen Blixen

Aldous Huxley
Bertrand Russell (try his popular essays – warm, witty and wise)
Virginia Woolf
P. G. Wodehouse
Oscar Wilde
Bill Bryson
Anita Brookner
Edward St Aubyn
Robert Graves
Patrick Leigh Fermor

Sharon Penman
Winston Graham
Anne Tyler
Bill Bryson
Lee Child
PG Wodehouse

Kate Atkinson
Elizabeth Strout
Bill Bryson
Patrick Gale
Ann Patchett
Anne Tyler
Curtis Sittenfield

It depends what I'm in the mood for.

Best trashy detective novels: In Death series by J D Robb
Best urban Fantasy: Harry Dresden series by Jim Butcher
Best Young Adult: Diana Wynne Jones, especially Fire and Hemlock
Best horror: This is a tie between Phil Rickman and Stephen King
Best High Fantasy: Guy Gavriel Kay - Fionavar Tapestry
Best overall: Terry Pratchett

Louis de Bernieres
Jorge Amado
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Jane Austen
Elif Shafak

Louis de Bernieres and Jane Austen are the only two where I have read everything that I have been able to obtain that they have written.

Deborah Harkness