Who's your favourite authors (novelists)?

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PG Wodehouse - greatest wordsmith in the English language. He doesn't get the credit he deserves because he wrote funny books. REALLY funny books. LOTS of them.

Nick Hornby - Same deal. He's not as overtly comical, but he's my kind of writer in that he writes about stuff I care about.

Alan Furst - The spy novel is my favorite genre and he's really good at it. Got a new one coming out this fall too, can't wait. Others in this genre: Graham Greene, John Le Carre, Len Deighton.

I also really like the 19th centrury French greats like Hugo, and Balzac.
 

Loads already posted that I'd agree with: Hemingway, le Carre, even Blyton have all been a source of much pleasure over the years.

Here's a few more that I've enjoyed: Conan Doyle (forget all other detectives, there can be only one....), Nevil Shute (On the Beach is a masterpiece), Sebastian Faulks, Nicholas Monserrat and the two best story tellers of all: CS Forester and Charles Dickens.

Read 'em and weep indeed
 
Hemingway (for whom the bells tolls and the old man and the sea in particular, although its all good), Steinbeck, DJ Pancake, Salinger, Flannery O'Connor (possibly the most underrated writer in the history of the written word), Pinckney Benedict, Raymond Carver, Bukowski, Vonnegut, Joeseph Heller, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Herman Hesse, George Orwell, Camus, Paulo Coelho, Burgess, John Fowles and Martin Amis (for Money and Time's Arrow if nothing else).

In genre I like Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, Philip Pullman and Ursula LeGuin.
 
neonleon said:
Hemingway (for whom the bells tolls and the old man and the sea in particular, although its all good), Steinbeck, DJ Pancake, Salinger, Flannery O'Connor (possibly the most underrated writer in the history of the written word), Pinckney Benedict, Raymond Carver, Bukowski, Vonnegut, Joeseph Heller, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Herman Hesse, George Orwell, Camus, Paulo Coelho, Burgess, John Fowles and Martin Amis (for Money and Time's Arrow if nothing else).

In genre I like Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, Philip Pullman and Ursula LeGuin.
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You're very well read.
 

johnnydawg68 said:
PG Wodehouse - greatest wordsmith in the English language. He doesn't get the credit he deserves because he wrote funny books. REALLY funny books. LOTS of them.

Nick Hornby - Same deal. He's not as overtly comical, but he's my kind of writer in that he writes about stuff I care about.

Alan Furst - The spy novel is my favorite genre and he's really good at it. Got a new one coming out this fall too, can't wait. Others in this genre: Graham Greene, John Le Carre, Len Deighton.

I also really like the 19th centrury French greats like Hugo, and Balzac.
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Can't believe I forgot to mention Douglas Adams.
 
You're a bunch of well read blues. I should have persevered with the classics but I find that my brain can only cope with adventure spy thrillers for now. I will try to seek out a few of these authors, as shamefully, I've never heard of some of them, more because I don't seek them out. When a fancy an author, I try to read all their titles to exhaustion.

Thanks guys, keep them coming.
 
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