Who is your favorite author and what is their genre of writing?
Who is your favorite author and what is their genre of writing?
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Who is your favorite author and what is their genre of writing?
Anne Rice. But I’ve been holding on to her lastest book and haven’t read it because once you read a book of hers the next ten of others you read come up short.
Stephen King, horror.
My favorite as well.
Jim Butcher. Fantasy
Polka will never die!
I loved his works…?
Nicholas Sansbury Smith. Apocalyptic
Sherrilyn Kenyon. Paranormal romance
One of my favorite authors is Rick Riordan. He writes Fantasy.
Annie Murray
She writes war time fiction
Heather graham paranormal romance
Neil Gaiman: fantasy
Ray Bradbury: errr…people still saying it’s sci-fi, but it’s much compleceted…
Douglas Adams: sci-fi
Terry Pratchett: fantasy
J. R. R. Tolkien: fantasy
C. S. Lewis: fantasy and sci-fi
Orwell: well…not just in one genre.
R. A. Salvatore: fantasy
Anthony Ryan: fantasy
Dan Simmons: sci-fi
Philip. K. Dick: sci-fi
Agatha Christie: criminal
Charlie N. Holmberg: YA fantasy
Patrick Rothfuss: fantasy
On Sai: sci-fi, fantasy
Love Deaver! This was a great read.
It is!!!! Love this guy! & u NVR see the end coming
It’s hard for me to answer that question. I have multiple favorites each in different genres.
JD Robb. Mystery.
Stephen king: horror
Maisey Yates romance
Author T. Styles
Kristin Hannah-women’s fiction and Lisa Scottoline- suspence/thriller
David Morrell – Various
Jaxson Kidman – MC, NA, Contemporary
Neil Gaiman, while he has a lot of fantasy he really writes everything. From comics to non-fiction. He started out as a journalist too.
Kathi daley, Kylie Logan, krista Davis, cleo Coyle, leslie Meier, Maggie Sefton, maia chance, Janet evanovich, Kelly lane, Vickie fee, Rebecca Adler, Karen rose Smith, meg macy and many more all mysteries
Any writer that makes me want more.
Terry Pratchett. Satirical Fantasy Fiction.
Pat Conroy Novels/Memoirs and a Cookbook
John Green; YA Contemporary Fiction
J.K Rowling; YA/Adult Contemporary Fiction
Suzanne Collins; YA Contemporary Fiction
Veronica Roth; YA Contemporary Fiction
David Walliams; Children Contemporary Fiction
Stephen King. He is placed into the horror genre, but his books are so much more than that, and many aren’t horrific at all.
@Michael (Romance)
I like Debbie Macomber and Elizabeth Berg..both fiction writers…but I love the way they develop their characters..Elizabeth Berg also puts some of her actual life stories and ‘incidents’ if you will into her books…
Sandra Owens. She writes romantic suspense. She has a few historical’s from the beginning of her career. And she’s about to start a small town series. I adore her writing.
Thomas Hardy – bleak classics
You can’t see that chart, but if you Google it you can zoom in. It’s great.
Lincoln and Childs
Lee Smith and Flannery O’Connor.
Marcia Lynn McClure romance
Lori Foster: Romance
Stephen King: Horror
James Patterson: Thrillers
Nora Roberts,
Danielle steel,
Barbara Bradford Taylor
Robyn Karr
Judith mcnaught
All romance
Thomas Hardy.
Stephen King for Horror, Ibsen, Chekov, Vonnegut, psychological insight(?), Twain, well, it’s Mark Twain he’s awesome, Shaw, compelling… I guess it depends on what I’m in the mood to read on any given day
@Anna romance
James Patterson Mystery, Mary Higgins Clark Mystery
Stephen King, don’t consider him horror, more an everyman storyteller, and he is amazing.
I don’t consider him horror either. ?
Thomas Hardy-19th century liter9
John Steinbeck. Eric Larson, Edward Rutherford, Alice Hoffman,Kristin Hannah , and Margaret Mitchell
Cassandra Clare and gothic fiction, fiction and fantasy, & mystery and suspense.
It’s very hard as each genre I classify favourites differently.
Thrillers would be @Mel
Paranormal thrillers are Linda Prather
Fantasy is Mercedes Lackey
Whoop, thank you for the mention, Sean. I loved be Linda Prather’s paranoramal mysteries also.
Thank you for the mention, Sean. 🙂
@Mel And you know I love yours. Keep getting better all the time. Book 3, please!
Aww… Thank you, Linda Prather. Xx
VC Andrews(not the posthumoneous ghostwriter) – Gothic Horror
Chris Carter – crime/thriller 🙂
Stephen King – Horror (but his stories touch on all kinds of fear)
VC Andrews- Gothic Horror
Susan Wiggs chick lit/romance
I have a few but all to do with erotic romance, gay or lesbian, cant seen to get into other books as I’ve tried many
That’s a hard one, but I have today Stephen King Horror… Clive Barker Horrot
Jodi picoult fiction
Same
Philippa Gregory, she writes Historical fiction, very well researched.
James Patterson murder/mystery and Janet Evanovich
Brett Battles and Blair Howard. Mystery and Detective.
Kristan Hannah. Lisa Wingate, Barbara Novak
Too many just to pick out one but genre thriller/murder/detective – authors include Michael Connelly. John Grisham, Jeffrey Archer, Jeffrey Deaver, Peter Robinson, Ian Rankin , Agatha Christie, Daphne du Maurier.
My new fav. Author is Chelsea Cain
Suspense
Mine varies depending on where I am in a given moment.
So many!
Fiction .guy de maupassant
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Jodi Picoult- fiction
Victoria Danann, Melanie Nowak, I.T. Lucas – paranormal romance
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J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer
@Author, Romance/Drama/Contempery (is that NA?)
I have lots of favorites… but they’re all fantasy writers! ?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Several covering crime/thriller/mystery /horror and some psychological but definitely Janet Evanovich, her books are hilarious ?
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Deborah Harkness: Historical fantasy, fiction. Magical!
Any romance writer but Nora Roberts especially
Rock star romance. So far I have liked all of them. Just read mr.Rockstar it was most awesome
Phillip Roth because he wrote like Phillip Roth.
J R. Ward and she writes paranormal romance
She’s great have you tried
Sorry there was no name or title
Christian feehan
Yes I have read every book she has ever written. I love her books
Me to I love the shadow Rider books
Oh yea they are amazing
Robert A Heinlein, SF.
CM Owen-Romance, Paranormal, Science Fiction
Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine
Award-Winning Mystery and Psychological Suspense Thriller author
Joel Shepherd. Epic fantasy and scifi.
Anne Rice. Horror Fiction.
Steven Erikson fantasy mostly and Adrian Selby also fantasy oh oh Seth Skorkowsky think Supernatural the tv series only for grownups
Victoria Danann (PNR, contemporary), and Neil Gaiman (fantasy)
@Victoria PNR, S. S.J. West ya, pnr
Stephen King. He is classified mostly horror. His work is way beyond that though.
Stuart Mcbride Scottish crime
I have a lot of favorite authors, but these are my top ones: Pam Jenoff, Karen White, Kate White, Beatriz Williams, Barbara Davis, Kate Morton, etc.
All 3 fiction ~ Stephan King, Anne Rice and Sherrilyn Kennyon
Rafael Sabatini – historical adventure fiction, particularly swashbucklers. His works include “Captain Blood,” “Scaramouche,” “The Black Swan,” and “The Sea-Hawk.” He very much inspired my debut novel.
I’m also a big fan of H. Rider Haggard’s work, particularly his Allan Quatermain series, which kicked off with “King Solomon’s Mines.” His lost civilization adventure stories have, along with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Lost World,” have inspired tons of adventure fiction.
Guy de maupassant short story
Anne Rice – horror, Stephanie Hudson & Bella Forrest – romantic / supernatural and Sarah Addison-Allen – magical
I love crime, but have too many faves.