For me it depends what you want from each author. Some are best at making you cry, some at making you think, some at making you love…etc. We’re so so lucky that there could be a best author for us personally from one aspect but a stranger can recommend something else to you and BOOM!!!!
Helen fielding bridget Jones diary
@Amy I loved them, too: hilarious with each reread!
I like Sharon M. Draper, Rick Riordon, A. J Steele
Maeve Binchy
What is the criteria?
who wrote the book u liked
Yes but that doesn’t really say best author
ok who you think is the best author ?ever
H.P Lovecraft
John Green.
P. G. Wodehouse and Wilbur Smith …..
Rosie Goodwin. Dilly Court x
Nora Roberts ?
No way to choose ONE!!!! So many good ones!!
So many
My feelings- great ones in every genre too!
Garth Nix
Penny Vincenzi
A few that I cannot do without are:
Ursula K. Leguin
Hermann Hesse
Neil Gaiman
Robert E. Howard
E.T.A Hofmann
Larry Mcmurtry
James A Michner
Bryce Courtnay
John Irving
Sebastian Barry
John Steinbeck
John Boyne
Could go on and on
All of them!!!!!
Henry James, the Master.
Richelle Mead/JK Rowling
Emily Bronte
Can we pick more than one??? ???
Leo Tolstoy .
@Giorgi Absolutely♥️
John Steinbeck
Ken Follett? Elizabeth Strout? JM Coetzee? Paul Auster?
Dr Seuss
Love John Irving.
Victoria/V.E. Schwab
Sir Terry Pratchett!
Robert McCammon/Stephen King
Janes Joyce.
Stephen King
Neil Gaiman, of course.
Stephen King
Dan Brown.
all of them to someone.
Toni Morrison
Dickens
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – not many authors have their works so popular for this long and counting
Terry Brooks
@Jane
Agatha @Christie
Shirley Jackson
DH Lawrence
Rick Riordan
Ann Patchett
J K Rowling
Enid Blyton
Kelly Armstrong
Cannot pick just one.
jd robb,william kent krueger
Kathleen Woodiwiss
Only one? Too hard to pick from.
Somerset Maugham
Stephen King
John Steinbeck
john irving
@Shakespeare
E. B. White
Hemingway
Jack @London
Stephen King. Dean Koontz. So many more.
Terry Pratchett – what a wonderful crazy world he created……….I sometimes wish I could just live there!
Kelly Corrigan
Agatha Christie
Harlan Coben
Brandon Sanderson.
Milton
Jodi Picoult and Fredrik Bachman!!
Sidney Sheldon
James Patterson
Chitra Banerjee Devakaruni
Jack Ketchum
Katie F Forde
Jeffery Deaver
Fyodor Dostoevski
Jessica Shirvington
For me it depends what you want from each author. Some are best at making you cry, some at making you think, some at making you love…etc. We’re so so lucky that there could be a best author for us personally from one aspect but a stranger can recommend something else to you and BOOM!!!!
But also…arthur c clarke, orson scott card, harper lee
lol
John Steinbeck
Too many
Maeve Binchy Louise Penny . . .
Steven King
Jane Austen
&
Sidney Sheldon
And also Agatha Christie
Jude deveraux or Bertrice Small
M M Kaye
I can’t pick the best ever. But my favorite has been Elizabeth Adler.
Terry Pratchett or Conn Iggulden
J K Rowling, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Anne Rice ?
Margaret atwood
Jodi Picoult, Pat Conroy
I agree too many, but I like JD Robb, Stephen King, and James Patterson to name a few. All kinds of books, romance, or who did it, don’t matter.
Emily Bronte
Jane Austen, J K Rowling, Cassandra Clare ❤❤
I agree, but will add Sarah J Maas as well 😉 <3
Jane Austen, I love her