Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

Day 13: Your favorite writer

-Wilkie Collins

Who wants to play!

Tough question, several authors come to mind, but Larry McMurtry is a true favorite, with books like Lonesome Dove,The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, and others his books are great reads.

I agree, tough question. My all time favorite has to be Ernest Hemingway but I am a huge fan of Nelson DeMille and Khaled Hosseini when it comes to more modern stuff.

Stefano Benni is my favourite writer at the moment, but regarding all time literature, I've always loved Charles Dickens and William Faulkner. Not truly original, I'm afraid....

Maggie O'Farrell is my favourite at the moment. She has written six books and I love all of them except one.

Anne McCaffrey

Definitely can't stick to one - Jane Austen Charles Dickens Rosemary Sutcliff Susan Hill

Isak Dinesen- utterly beautiful writing!

Mo wrote: "Isak Dinesen- utterly beautiful writing!"

Yes, I have got to read some of her's again.

Isaac Asimov for sure.

Charles Dickens -- He can really make a gnarly character!

I've got four, all tied for first:

Toni Morrison
Cormac McCarthy
Sarah Waters
William Faulkner

I think these are my top favorites: Homer, Catherine Coulter, Mercedes Lackey, Bernard Cornwell, Jayne Ann Krantz, Mary Balogh, George RR Martin.

Tie between J.D. Robb and Jennifer CrusieI love the "In Death" Series by J.D. Robb, and anytime I want a laugh I pick up Jennifer Cruise

Stephen King. Read most of his work.

Jane Austen - I almost never reread books, but have read all of hers more than once - some of them several times

Jane Austen, the Bronte Sisters, Louis Bayard.

Thomas Hardy

May 13:

Oh a tough one!! I wouldn't say I have a singular favorite author but admire the writing style of JK Rowling and I wish Margaret Mitchell had written more than one novel. I also like Hosseini, Khaled and enjoyed L.M. Montgomery books in my younger years. My favorite "classics" author to date is Dickens Charles.

May 13th Entry:

This is a very tough question as there are so many amazing writers. Some writers are very poetic, while others are very imaginative and create an entire world.

My choices are JK Rowling, Jane Austen, and Ernest Hemingway

Hard to narrow down but would to say Pat Conroy, Ann Patchett, Anthony Trollope and George Elliot.

David Sedaris

J.K. Rowling
Tess Gerritsen
Karen Rose
Jillian Hoffman
Jo Nesbo

George Orwell

John Green Markus Zusak

William Faulkner. His style mesmerizes me.
Runners-up:
Annie Proulx
Joseph Conrad
Jane Smiley
Charles Dickens

Anya Seton...one of many.

I think I have to say Mika Waltari, even though I haven't even read his most famous books, yet. But I rarely read many books by the same author (not counting Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle because they are sort of similar). So because the question was about the author, I think I have to pick one from whom I have read more than one book.

I also hope that Margaret Mitchell had written more books.

A couple of my favourite authors are Gerald Durrell, Diana Gabaldon, and Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens - I simply love him
Anthony Trollope
Thomas Hardy
Wilkie Collins

Dorothy Gilman

Professor Tolkien
Honorable mention to Charles Dickens

J.R.R.Tolkien
J.K.Rowling
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Umberto Eco
Albert Camus
Willa Cather
Emily Dickinson
Robert Burns

John Steinbeck
Charles Dickens

My favorites include:

Emily Brontë
Jane Austen
William Shakespeare
Anne Brontë
Edgar Allan Poe
Louisa May Alcott
Oscar Wilde
Leo Tolstoy
Nikolai Gogol
Alexander Pushkin
Willa Cather
Robert B. Parker

:)

Dickens Charles
Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
J.R.R. Tolkien
George Eliot

How do you pick?!

At the moment, Umberto Eco.

Khaled Hosseini
Kate Furnivall
Kathleen O'Neal Gear & W. Michael Gear
Amy Tan
James Clemens
Diana Gabaldon
Brian Jacques
Kate Morton
Jodi Picoult
Lucia St. Clair Robson
Walter Farley
Lawrence Hill

Orson Scott Card
Arthur Conan Doyle
Lois McMaster Bujold
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Richard P. Feynman

Stephen King has been my favorite since I was a teen.

Jane Austen

Virginia Woolf, although Clarice Lispector is an increasingly strong competitor based on sheer number of absolute favorites.

siriusedward wrote: "J.R.R.Tolkien
J.K.Rowling
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Umberto Eco
Albert Camus
Willa Cather
Emily Dickinson
Robert Burns"

So happy to see someone with Willa Cather on the list!

Flannery O'Connor
Leo Tolstoy
Sigrid Undset
Alan Paton
Willa Cather
Fyodor Dostoyvesky
C.S. Lewis
Wendell Berry
A.W. Tozer
Charlotte Mason

Herman Melville. Favorite living writers are Richard Russo, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Annie Proulx.

Wendell Berry, Wallace Stegner, Shakespeare, Maggie O'Farrell, Daphne du Maurier.

This is very tough, but I can't resist thinking about it. If it had to be one, I'd say Toni Morrison. But if I could add just a few more: Pablo Neruda, William Saroyan, Shirley Jackson and Margaret Atwood. (I'm glad at least Margaret is still alive!)

Jane Austen
Isaac Asimov
J.K. Rowling
Ray Bradbury
Oscar Wilde
Dorothy L Sayers
Agatha Christie

A lot of us seem to have been born in the wrong century!