Apr 02 2009
25 Favorite Authors
This has been floating around the bloggersphere for a while now. Since I love to read so much and always have since I was very young I thought it the perfect thing to do. I am including some authors that are from my childhood as well as more recent favorites. This list for me isn’t about the best technical writing or the most popular even, instead it is about authors that write books that take you there and make you unable to put the book down and just can’t wait for the next installment to come out already. The list is in no particular order just in case you were wondering. I hope you enjoy my list and maybe find a new author to try on for size.
- A.A. Milne
- Robert Jordan
- R.A. Salvatore
- C.S. Lewis
- Tracy & Laura Hickman
- Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
- Anne Rice
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- James Howe (Bunnicula trilogy)
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Tove Jansson (Moomin series)
- Mary O’Hara (My Friend Flicka trilogy)
- Ed Greenwood
- Dean Koontz
- Rosalind Miles
- Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden)
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Ernest Hemingway
- Beverly Cleary
- Mary Shelley
- V.C. Andrews
- James Herriot
- J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter series)
- Christopher Paolini (Eragon series)
- Dr. Seuss
Feel free to share your favorite or most influential authors too!
What did you think about the Eragon series? I have thought about picking that one up when I finish the 18 books I have to read at home.
I am not a big reader, but I just found a college friend of mine is writing a sci-fi fantasy type book. He has some publishers interested. He said he is going to send it to me read!
I am a big reader of popular fiction. My current favorites are
Rhys Bowen, Laura Lippman, Sue Henry and Dana Stabenow (Alaska writers), and more others. I read daily: sometimes a lot, sometimes a little.
I don’t see LM Montgomery on there. She was a BIG part of my teen years. I LOVED her! Actually, still do. ;>)
I’ll have to go with #25 - DR.Seuss :-PP Alot of these are my fav’s too…cheers~~
I also like several of those. And I like Rick Bragg and Janet Evanovich.
I like many of the same ones you listed.
Edgar Allen Poe must have been an interesting person to know in real life - his stories and poems were always so dark and mysterious. The one story about the person walled up inside a staircase (I think) was pretty scary. My brother, who isn’t big into reading, actually read an entire compilation of Edgar Allen Poe. 