What aspects of the authors’ previous works captivated your enjoyment? Personally, my three chosen authors are Nicholas Sparks, as we all crave romance in our lives; Rick Riordan, whose books rekindle the youthful enthusiasm within me; and lastly, Fredrik Backman, whom I consider the finest realistic fiction author.
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– Bill Bryson because I love the humour
– JRR Tolkien because I love LOTR and I get a lot out of his books in general
– Prof. Alice Roberts because I love learning and she keeps writing books about things I’m interested in
Juno Dawson: Her Majesty’s Royal Coven is one of the best reads of the year for me and her writing style is so fun and unique.
Dolly Alderton: quintessential girl’s girl with her writing but not in a grating way. It feels like you’ve been seen and what she writes feels poignant. I’ve gifted Everything I Know About Love to every friend who has gone through a major break up.
Katee Roberts: top quality smut.
Dostoevskij, Pynchon, Hugo
Currently I’d say:
-Terry Pratchett
-Kurt Vonnegut
-Charles Dickens
Tolkien, Dickens, Dostoevsky
Honorable mention to Cormac McCarthy
Stephen King – for the sheer volume.
John Steinbeck – for the beauty of the prose (to re-read East of Eden for the rest of my days doesn´t sound too bad).
Terry Pratchett – the volume, the humour, the characters, the themes, all of it.
Murakami, Pynchon, Chabon
Elmore Leonard – the man wrote books for like 50 years and they have some of the best dialogue in literature
Joe Abocrombie – great fantasy author with like 13 books out and still writing so that’s nice
Can I throw in a comic book writer? If so Tom king has written some great superhero comics but also great stuff like the sheriff of Babylon
James Rollins, Matthew Reilly and Clive Cussler
* Terry Pratchett
* Roger Zelazny
* Arkady+Boris Strugatsky
Consistently imaginative, quirky, clever and thought-provoking. Good on re-reads, too.
Robert Drewe for the accuracy, James Michener for the volume, Robert Musil for the language
Taylor Jenkins Reid
JKR (but only Harry Potter)
Kristin Hannah
Terry Goodkind – Excellent fantasy world building and great characters.
C. S. Lewis – The knowledge and wisdom that I’ve gleaned from only reading a small selection of his books indicates that I could spend a lifetime reading them.
John Owen – A Puritan writer who sees the human condition so clearly and is such an encouraging read. Also, because of the way that Puritans wrote, it would continually help me to gain a better vocabulary, speak better, and think more Biblically.
Cormac McCarthy because it would take me the rest of my life to read and digest his books, not that I’m complaining.
Andy Weir, Frank Herbert, CS Lewis
Oh boy, good question. I would need a lot of books and re-readability. Thomas Pynchon for sure. Maybe William T. Vollman or Virginia Woolf? And probably James Joyce, mainly because I don’t think you could finish Finnegan’s Wake. I’m sure I’m forgetting some authors. I want big old dense books that are near impossible to understand in one read through.
Right off the top.of my head?
– Ann Patchett
– Barbra Kingsolver
– Taylor Jenkins Reid
Terry Pratchett: 41 novels, a handful of short stories and some of the best comedy ever how can I go wrong? Discworld is my favorite series.
Neil Gaiman: I love his stories, and how much it’s influenced by faerie stories.
Stephen King: because I’ll probably always have a new book to look forward to, he also has an impressive body of work and I love the way he writes towns that feel alive.
If we’re assuming that the authors would write enough books for me to read throughout my life and they’d stay in the same style:
Dolly Alderton because Everything I Know About Love absolutely changed me and I really like her style of fiction – 2 in 1 of helpful nonfiction and sad 20 something fiction.
Philip Pullman because the HDM trilogy was my favourite as a kid and I already reread them every year, and it would be nice to have fantasy in there.
Then probably Jane Austen so I had some sort of classics to read.
If we’re only going off the books they’ve already written then I’d probably choose someone like Nora Roberts or James Patterson because there would be enough books to keep me going even if I live til 100!
Agatha Christie
Eloisa James
Charles Dickens
Shirley Jackson
Toni Morrison
Kurt Vonnegut
They’re three really excellent writers who do a insanely impressive job of mixing serious subject matter with dark humor.
Stephen King, JK Rowling, Sarah J Maas. I am not spending the rest of my life reading dense literary fiction and classics.
1. Seconding Fredrick Backman. His writing is so good!
2. Kazuo Ishiguro. I love the way his stories suck you in.
3. Patrick Ness: Writer of my favorite book series.
Dostoevsky, Orwell and Matt haig(specially for “midnight library”)
Toni Morrison, because I think she’s the greatest living author. Maybe best ever.
Brandon Sanderson, because he cranks out entertaining books and won’t leave any series dangling.
William Gibson, because his visions of future dystopia ring true to me.
P G Wodehouse.
He wrote for 70+ years, so there are a TON of his works available, and they are all immensely re-readable!
Patrick Rothfuss.
He is probably the finest writer of prose in the world of fantasy. I will read everything he releases in the future. And re-read all of his work anytime.
Stephen King.
Because sometimes, you just want a good story without needing to overthink everything, ya know?
Terry Pratchett (quality plus content)
Stephen King (he has a fiction addiction)
Stephen Hawking (weird one, I know, but he was a great writer and if you ever need something to read over and over again to understand, he’s your guy)
JRR Tolkien- I would die without Lord of the Rings.
Mary Roach- I love her style and she has a fair amount of books published so far.
Terry Pratchett- I haven’t read all of his works but I would like to.
Erich Maria Remarque, because every once in a while I return to his books and always find something new in them.
Dmitry Glukhovsky, because he still releases new books and I am hyped for every single one of them.
Terry Pratchett, because I have so far read only few of his books, but loved them. And there are just so many of them that I’d have something to read for the rest of my life.
Terry Pratchett, Isaac Asimov and Jules Verne.