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Who are your favorite authors?

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  It's funny that my favorite authors don't write for my favorite genre (necessarily!):
  
  
  
  Jane Austen
  
  Michael Ondaatje
  
  Jo-Anne Beard
  
  Anne LaMott
  
  Jane Smiley
  
  Ann Tyler
  
  Richard Russo
  
  Mary Balogh
  
  John Irving
  
  Milan Kundera
  
  
  
  This list is by NO means inclusive!

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by Jen Creer on 17th August 2007
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  For some reason, questions about my favorite ANYTHING always make me freeze up - it's not that I have no opinions, I just can't come up with any answers when I'm on the spot, I guess. So I've thought about the authors whose books nearly always end up on my TBR stack - this is probably not going to end up as an all-time-faves list, and I'm sure I'll forget some.
  
  
  
  Michael Chabon
  
  Anne Tyler
  
  Barbara Kingsolver
  
  Jane Hamilton
  
  Jodi Picoult
  
  Christopher Moore
  
  Jane Smiley
  
  J.K. Rowling (even if she never writes anything else ever again!)
  
  Sue Miller
  
  
  
  I may be back with another post once I'm home and can look over my bookshelves .

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by Florinda Pendley Vasquez on 17th August 2007
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  Gabriel Garcia Marquez in first, second and third place
  
  followed by a few others, like Allende and Kundera, but no one comes close - I've had a love affair with Marquez since I was really young - too bad he doesn't know it

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by Nataly on 19th August 2007
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  I'm seeing that some of mine are repeats. I love them no less, and I am excited to check out some new authors on Shelfari! Yeah!
  
  
  
  Anyway, here is my list:
  
  
  
  Harper Lee
  
  Ann Patchett
  
  Sarah Vowell
  
  Laurie Notaro
  
  Christopher Moore
  
  Harlan Coben
  
  Anne Lamott
  
  
  
  For all sorts of reasons. Kind of like food - I crave different books on different days.

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by Erica (crummy_cupcake) on 21st August 2007
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  Jane Austen
  
  Robertson Davies
  
  Constance Beresford-Howe
  
  Maeve Binchy
  
  Bill Bryson
  
  Anne Tyler
  
  Carol Shields
  
  
  
  Oh, I know there are more, but can I think of them right this minute? Course not...

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by MaryP on 22nd August 2007
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  I need to read Lamb by Christopher Moore. I have it (well, my husband has it, so I have it LOL), and have had it recommended so many times.
  
  
  
  This forum is convincing me.
  
  
  
  Ahhhh, Anne Tyler and Carol Shield, Bill Bryson, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott... You guys are my people!
  
  
  
  Florinda, I had a fiction workshop with Jane Smiley when I was an undergrad (so long ago...) and I hadn't read her yet... so I sort of blew it off... Then I read A Thousand Acres. And kicked myself a thousand times.

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by Jen Creer on 22nd August 2007
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  Margaret Mitchell
  
  Pat Conroy
  
  Barbara Kingsolver
  
  John Irving
  
  JK Rowling
  
  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  
  Maeve Binchy
  
  Nora Roberts
  
  Amy Tan
  
  Judy Blume
  
  Beverly Cleary
  
  
  
  I run the gamut don't I?

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by amanda on 23rd August 2007
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  Jen,
  
  
  
  You absolutely do need to read Lamb. And then, around holiday time, read The Stupidest Angel. I hooked my husband on Christopher Moore and he's now read more of his books than I have.
  
  
  
  A fiction workshop with Jane Smiley?! Wow. A friend of mine had a couple of retreats/writing workshops with Madeleine L'Engle, whom I've been a fan of since my teens, and boy, did I envy her. I have yet to have such close encounters with greatness.

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by Florinda Pendley Vasquez on 23rd August 2007
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  I loved Lamb but my fave C. Moore book of all time is Practical Demon Keeping
  
  
  
  Authors not listed that I've enjoyed:
  
  Ami McKay
  
  Sparkle Hayter
  
  Margaret Atwood
  
  Jeffrey Archer
  
  Dean Koontz (in small doses)
  
  Gail Anderson-Dargatz
  
  
  
  there are many more I"m sure.

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by Trudi Evans on 29th August 2007
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  Amanda, you have many of my favorites on your list!
  
  
  
  And Florinda, OMG! Madeleine L'Engle! So much better than Jane Smiley!

  Flag as inappropriate Posted by Jen Creer on 29th August 2007