Graham Greene, Joseph Heller, John le Carre, Terry Pratchett and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Fiction); Bill Bryson, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Stephen Jay Gould and Simon Winchester (Non-fiction). Cheated!
Used to love Taylor Caldwell. One of my all time favorite books is Dear and Glorious Physician. It’s actually the book that brought me to Jesus. I felt God’s presence so strongly when I read that book that I started praying to meet the Jesus I felt in that book, and I did. William Murray, Madalyn Murray O’Hair’s son, also said it was the book that brought him to the Lord.
RL Stine, Judy Blume, Liane Moriarty, Cormac McCarthy, Donald Ray Pollock…
Ann Patchett, Fredrik Backman, Erik Larson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Tracy Chevalier (Tough to keep it to 5!) 🙂
Robert Olen Butler, Dean Koontz, F. Paul Wilson, Joe Hill, Harper Lee.
Nora Roberts, Danielle steel, Jude devereaux, Judith Michael Julie garwood
Fred Vargas, Neal Stephenson, Don Daglow, William Olaf Stapledon, Colin @George
John Grisham, Wally Lamb, Jodi Picoult, Greg Iles,
Anne Rice, Dean Koontz, Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman, Jodi Picoult.
Ben Aaronovitch, Doris Lessing, Carson McCullers, Roald Dahl and Erick Setiawan
Graham Greene, Joseph Heller, John le Carre, Terry Pratchett and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Fiction); Bill Bryson, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond, Stephen Jay Gould and Simon Winchester (Non-fiction). Cheated!
Alice Hoffman; Elizabeth Berg; Neil Gaiman; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Fredrik Backman
Georgette Heyer, Janny Wurts, EM Forster, David Mitchell, Matt Haig.
Agatha Christie, Megan Abbot, Jennifer McMahon, Will Lavender, Ngaio Marsh
Angela Carter, John Boyne, Karen Maitland, Joanne Harris and Sarah Addison Allen……tip of the iceberg though!
Abigail Thomas, Elizabeth Berg, Augusten Burroughs, Jane Austen, Stephen King. Boy, that looks like an eclectic assortment.?
J.R.Ward, Sharon Sala, Nora Roberts, Kristen Ashley and Kaari Utrio. And there is many others which books I like.
Ken Follett, Dan Brown, Jane Austen, Elie Wiesel, and Patricia Cornwell.
Mitch Albom, Clare Mackintosh, Jodi Picoult, Charles Dickens, Kristin Hannah
Jonathan Kellerman, Jane Smiley, Erik Larson, Lisa Genova, Doris Kearns Goodwin
Simon Toyne, Kerry Greenwood, James Corey, Alastair Reynolds, And as a child E.Nesbitt.
Elizabeth Berg, Jennifer Weiner, Sue Monk Kidd, James Patterson, and Stephen King. But there are so.many.more…
John le Carre, Keigo Higashino, Michael Connelly, Barbara Nadel, Natsuo Kirino
I can’t do just 5!
Robert Heinlein, Steve Berry, Piers Anthony, Tony Hillerman, J A Jance, James Lee Burke, Charles de Lint, JD Robb.
Oh heck, I forgot Heinlein.
I’ve read over all the posts and said the same thing 2 or 3 times on other authors. ?
My list varies from day to day?
Jane Austen, John LeCarre, Pat Mora, Anne Tyler, Charles Dickens, and Louise Dickinson Rich.
Lee Child, Sheri S. Tepper, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl. There are many more, but you asked for only five. 🙂
JR Ward, Nora Roberts, Lee Child, Lisa Gardner and Lisa Jackson.
Stephen king. Dean koontz. Stephen haughan Janet evanovich
Sara paretsky
JD Robb, JA Jance, Robert B Parker, Ngaio Marsh, Marsha Grimes, Janet Evanovich, John Sandford . Sorry. Couldn’t stop at four
Taylor Caldwell, Jeffrey Archer, Louise Penny, Dennis Lehane, Agatha Christie
Used to love Taylor Caldwell. One of my all time favorite books is Dear and Glorious Physician. It’s actually the book that brought me to Jesus. I felt God’s presence so strongly when I read that book that I started praying to meet the Jesus I felt in that book, and I did. William Murray, Madalyn Murray O’Hair’s son, also said it was the book that brought him to the Lord.
Taylor Caldwell is one of my favorites too. Rare to see someone who likes her books
@Robin my book was No One Hears but Him. I was in high school when I found it on My Grandmother’s bookshelf.
@Katherine, loved that book and The Listener, as well.
I recently found a 1948 copy of Caldwell’s Melissa in an antique store.
@Katherine I just looked up Taylor Caldwell and realized that I read The Listener when I was a kid. how funny….
Stephen King, JD Robb, Anne Rice, Michael Connelly, Tony Hillerman
Lee Child, Lee Child, Lee Child, Lee Child, and Lee Child. Oh – and Wendy Swallow, Adele Crockett, Jeffrey Eugenides, and John Berendt.
Nora Roberts, Charlaine Harris, Linda Castillo, Philippa Gregory, Fredrik Backman.
Jane Austin, Fannie Flagg, Kaye Gibbons, Barbara Kingsolver, Willy Lamb, jennifer chiaverini…it is mean to limit to 5
Lee Child, Barbara Metzger, Stephen King, Robert B. Parker, John Connelly (subject to change?)
Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, JK Rowling, Brandon Sanderson, Louise Penny
Diane Haeger
Karin Slaughter
P.J. Parrish
Joanna Hickson
Susanna Kearsley
Right now — Gwen Bristow, John Sandford, Linda Fairstein, Dean Koontz, C.S. Lewis.
Ken Follett, Elizabeth Strout, Betty Smith, Celeste Ng, Nelson DeMille, Linda Spalding, Blake Crouch
Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Robert Holden, Alan Cohen, Lloyd C.Douglas, Stephen Covey
Charles Dickens, John Irving, Robertson Davies, Edith Wharton, Bill Bryson
James Patterson, Stuart Woods, Harlan Coben, wanda Brunstetter, Shelley Shepard Gray
David Whyte, John O’Donohue, Barbara Brown Taylor, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Lawrence Kushner
So thrilled to see that someone else has found Kimmerer! And I love Whyte’s and O’Donohue’s writing.
Anne Rice, Stephen King, George R R Martin, Kurt Vonnegut, Neil Gaiman
Judy Blume, Elizabeth Berg, Sarah Addison Allen, Stephen King, and Lisa Scottoline.
Michael Connelly, John Dunning, Karen Kijewski, Erik Larson, Kate Morton. (and Barbara Erskin).
Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Georgette Heyer
John Grisham, James Patterson, Phillipa Gregory, Robyn Carr, Nora Roberts
Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, PG Wodehouse, Harper Lee, JK Rowling
Ellen Hopkins has always been my favorite!
Clive Barker, Chuck Palahniuk, Donna Tarte, George Orwell, and Colleen Hoover.
Hailey, Jeffrey Archer, John Grisham, Austen and myself
Agatha Christie, P.G. Wodehouse, Jerome K. Jerome, Barbara Pym, Mabel Esther Allan
Love Barbara Pym
@Marcia ,me too!
Yes ! Barbara Pym. I read her biography recently, now I am working my way through her novels. So English, from a past age.
Mercedes Lackey, Anne Rice, Laurel K Hamilton, J. R. Ward, Diana Gabaldon. Though I could give you plenty more if I know your tastes
Ursula K. Le Guin, Alice Hoffman, Sue Monk Kidd, Isabel Allende, Louise Erdrich
Michael Ondaatje, Fredrik Backman, Rachel Joyce, Nicole Krauss, and fifth place has a whole slew of authors!
Lee Child, Louise Penny, Sandra Brown, Lisa Scottolini, Mark Twain
Walter Mosley, Piers Anthony, Stephen King, Christopher Moore, J.K Rowling and Tolkien.
forgot Neil Gaiman.
Margaret Atwood, Andrea Barrett, Kent Haruf, Charles Dickens, Chang-Rae Lee
What a question! I’m amazed at all the people who’ve answered.
Susan Wigg, Carol E. Wyer, Kay Bratt, Steena Holmes, Robert Bryndza’s
Dan Brown
James Patterson
Agatha Chirstie
Sidney Sheldon
Khalid Hosseini
Colleen Hoover, vc andrews, Jodi Picoult, Lauren Oliver and Liane moriarty
John Green, Fred Pearce, Gary Paulson, Claire Conner, Daniel B. Botkin
we can only pick 5?? 🙂
Ellen Hopkins, Robert Cormier, S.E. Hinton, John Green, Lauren Oliver
Barbara Kingsolver, Audrey Niffenegger, Kate Atkinson, Helen Slavin, Jacqueline Wright.
JA Jance, Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller, David McCullough (NF), and Douglas Brinkley (NF)
Anton Chekhov
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Paulo coelho
PG Wodehouse
Stephen king