Your Fave Authors

The other thread about this was really old and really dead. You should list your favourite book or series of theirs along with their names.  This is actually kind of a hard thing to answer. My list would be George RRM (Ice and Fire series), Jonathan Stroud (Bartimaeus Trilogy),  J.K. Rowling (HP series), and Haruki Murakami might make that list soon.  
 
Here's a side-question though: Is the Wheel of Time a series worth beginning/reading through? Or is there any other long ass series that's better?

stephen king!

isaac asimov and douglas adams too, R.I.P. :(

These threads always remind me that I don't read nearly as much as I should.

I like Stephen King a lot.

I dont read alot, nothing new, but i like Alexander Dumas, Orwell, and H.G. Wells. I want to start the Ice and Fire series though.

Douglas Adams

Terry Pratchett

Dean Koontz

If you couldn't guess, I need some comedy in my novels.

Kurt Vonnegut

@PeasantAbuse said:

I like Stephen King a lot.

Agreed. He's really good.

I like Dan Brown a lot as well.

Neal Stephenson

Peter F. Hamilton

Robin Hobb

As far as people that are still writing now, at least. So, that's leaving off the good old standbys of Clarke, Asimov, Andre Norton, Bradbury, etc etc. There's other people who's works I enjoy such as Vinge, Ian M. Banks, etc, but those are the big 3 favorites of mine easily.

Douglas Adams for sure.

@H2Oyea said:

Is the Wheel of Time a series worth beginning/reading through? Or is there any other long ass series that's better?

Farseer trillogy and it's followup Tawney Man trillogy. Robin Hobb. Read it.

Ken Follett, mostly for Pillars of the Earth...although Jackdaws, Hornet Flight and World Without end are pretty damn awesome too

Brent Weeks and R.A. Salvatore. Haven't really came to liking many other authors except a couple of novels from certain franchises. Oh, and Christie Golden and Richard Knaak.

Dostoevsky. I really love his work. I think I've read him more than any other author.

John Grisham and Paulo Coelho . I love their books .

John Grisham's detailed and vivid description of characters and environments is appealing for me personally . He would describe a scenario so much it makes you live it somehow . I read his only non-fiction The Innocent Man twice . It's a beautiful story of a painful journey for the main character .

Paulo Coelho has some interesting insights and depth in his narratives . The Alchemist's been read like 3 times already and I discovered more about females sexuality in his Eleven Minutes that describes the life of an immigrant Brazilian prostitute .

Mostly Terry Pratchett (Discworld), Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers) and Jonathan Stroud (Bartimaeus). Love those books.

Also quite fond of Garth Nix, Christopher Paolini and Philip Pullman.

Basically, fantasy fiction is always good.

HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe.

R.A. Salvatore. Emily Dickinson.

I know I have more than that but I can't remember them and most of those authors don't have a series tied to them.

@H2Oyea said:

The other thread about this was really old and really dead. You should list your favourite book or series of theirs along with their names. This is actually kind of a hard thing to answer. My list would be George RRM (Ice and Fire series), Jonathan Stroud (Bartimaeus Trilogy), J.K. Rowling (HP series), and Haruki Murakami might make that list soon. Here's a side-question though: Is the Wheel of Time a series worth beginning/reading through? Or is there any other long ass series that's better?

I remember reading those Bartimaeus books years ago, did he ever write sequels outside the trilogy?

Dan Abnett... yeap that's it.

Eric Nylund

Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman..
 
Will remember to update this.

@H2Oyea said:

Here's a side-question though: Is the Wheel of Time a series worth beginning/reading through? Or is there any other long ass series that's better?

Robert jordan is awesome, im on book 11 of the wheel of time and it is great. thought books 7-10 are really slow paced but the first 5 books are great fiction.

Dan brown, brad metlzer, steven king, john scalzi, jim butcher

@H2Oyea said:

Here's a side-question though: Is the Wheel of Time a series worth beginning/reading through?

YES!

And some of my favorite authors: Neal Stephenson, Gene Wolfe, Jim Butcher, Neil Gaiman, Larry Correia, China Mieville, and Stieg Larsson (gone much too soon).

I'm appalled that no one has mentioned Cormac McCarthy yet.

Melanie Rawn
Julie Burchill
Stieg Larsson

Douglas Adams, H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, George Orwell, and Dr. Seuss.
 
There's a wocket in my pocket mother fucker.

Ray Bradbury

I really enjoy Jon Ronson's books. The Pyscopath test was awesome. Not a fiction writer, but still.

Cormac McCarthy. I look up to him. I think I've read The Road about four times now and I also own it on audio book.

"Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire."

Stephen King - Currently reading "Full Dark No Stars". I don't think I could pick a favorite he has so many great books. But the one that hooked me was when I read Pet Sematary as a kid.

I mostly like reading (Auto)Biographies. I throughly enjoy wrestlers books like Batista, Shawn Michaels and Goldust. My favourite ones were Chris Jericho and & Ozzy Osbourne. Never been one for fiction.

Jack Kerouac and Kurt Vonnegut

My favorite is, by far, Milan Kundera. I've read everything he has done, some more than once.

I read lot of stuff. I also like Jack Kerouac, Marcel Proust, Stendhal, Tolstoï and lot of others.

I'm reading Kafka's novels right now, and it's pretty good.

My current favorite authors are Joe Abercrombie, Jim Butcher and Alistair Reynolds.

Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy(The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged and The Last Argument of Kings), Best Served Cold and The Heroes are some of the most refreshing fantasy novels I've read in a long time. He writes really gritty and violent fantasy in the same vein as George RR Martin, but his books are generally better paced in my opinion. Definitely check him out if you're interested in modern, dark fantasy in a low-magic world.(Although it's not completely without magic or other weird stuff)

Jim Butcher is really a man who needs no introduction. He's mostly know for his Dresden Files books, which are like a noir detective novel, except the protagonist is a wizard. The books are great, very much like an action movie. The supporting characters are all pretty cool and range across all different archtypes. Definitely check these books out if you're interested in urban fantasy and a ton of supernatural combat and politics. He's also written the Codex Alera series, which is supposedly also very good, though I haven't read it yet.

Alistair Reynolds mostly writes very noir Sci-fi. They're very engaging books that you'll be unable to put down. If you're interested I suggest you start reading either Revelation Space(The first book in the Revelation Space series) or with House of Suns(A book about a woman who "shatters" herself into a thousand clones, who travel the galaxy exchanging knowledge with various cultures)

Michael Crichton

I'm a huge fan of Albert Camus, I love his novels and essays. Besides him I'd probably say George Orwell, F. Scott Fitzgerald or Joseph Conrad (just because Heart of Darkness is incredible).

Anybody who has answered Dan Brown is clearly illiterate. Insult them all you wish, because they can't read. But on topic: that's a hard question to answer, mainly because I can't think of any one specific author. Shakespeare's more of a playwright, so I can't count him. Whoever wrote Invisible Man is good, as is George Orwell and his politicized works.

Robert Ludlum, Karen Travis, John Grisham, J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Paolini, D.J. Machale, Micheal Crichton. I tried to read the wheel of time and couldn't get into it. REALLY LONG AND BORING. Ill stick with LotR

Douglas Coupland

*Pops head in* have you all read 1984 yet? No? Well then screwyouguys,I'mgoinghome *leaves*

I'm not much of a reader but my current favorite authors are George R R Martin and Douglas Adams which require no introduction. Maaaaybe Jon Lang, a french guy that writes a comedy/fantasy series that was originality an audio series called "Le Donjon de Naheulbeuk" . His audio stuff is a hell of a lot better than his written stuff but it's still hilarious.

@nintendoeats said:

*Pops head in* have you all read 1984 yet? No? Well then screwyouguys,I'mgoinghome *leaves*

That book is old!!!

Stephan King

Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead)

@Video_Game_King said:

Anybody who has answered Dan Brown is clearly illiterate. Insult them all you wish, because they can't read. But on topic: that's a hard question to answer, mainly because I can't think of any one specific author. Shakespeare's more of a playwright, so I can't count him. Whoever wrote Invisible Man is good, as is George Orwell and his politicized works.

There are books on the moon?

Chuck Palahniuk, George RR Martin, and Patrick Rothfuss are my current favs.

Philip K. Dick

China Mieville, if you haven't read his stuff it's mostly dark fantasy/steampunk/horror but with a sort of political angle to it.