Who's Your Favorite Author?
- insertbookpunhere
- Posts: 6
- Joined: 17 Jul 2018, 02:10
- Bookshelf Size: 0
Re: Who's Your Favorite Author?
- dizcopper
- Posts: 1
- Joined: 17 Jul 2018, 14:45
- Bookshelf Size: 0
- Jmar_la
- Posts: 109
- Joined: 18 May 2018, 16:37
- Currently Reading: Toxic Side Effect
- Bookshelf Size: 50
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-jmar-la.html
- Latest Review: The Warramunga's War by Greg Kater
-
- Posts: 243
- Joined: 17 May 2018, 19:29
- Currently Reading: Chip’s World: Complex #31 and The Caretaker
- Bookshelf Size: 20
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-lil-reads.html
- Latest Review: Pastoring is not what you think by Elijah Oladimeji
If I had to choose one author I really enjoy, it is Edith Wharton. She wrote about the upper class of Gilded Age New England, criticizing the social problems of the social class she was brought up in, similar to Jane Austen.
Although she is most well known for Age of Innocence or House of Mirth (she was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the former), she also wrote nonfiction, including travelogues and books on interior design.
I own 8 of his books including The Testament and The Summons. Although, my favourite book of his would be A Time to Kill. I don't have the book but we read it at school (the whole book) and it was a really good one, totally recommended for those people who love mystery and suspense.
- Sunnyroyish
- Posts: 398
- Joined: 26 Jun 2018, 11:55
- Currently Reading: Journey of a Bedroom Poet
- Bookshelf Size: 60
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-sunnyroyish.html
- Latest Review: Mythic Worlds and the One You Can Believe In by Harold Toliver
- EmeraldEyes8918
- Posts: 61
- Joined: 19 Jul 2018, 05:58
- Currently Reading: McDowell
- Bookshelf Size: 58
- Northernbird84
- Posts: 121
- Joined: 23 Jan 2018, 16:27
- Currently Reading: The Crossing
- Bookshelf Size: 31
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-northernbird84.html
- Latest Review: Fulfillment by ICA
I started reading my Dad's James Herbert books when I was 12 and I had worked my way through all the point horror books in our local library.
I remember that the Cottage was the first novel of his I ever read and I was immersed into his universe! Although I've never quite recovered from the squirrel lol!
- osman98
- Posts: 1
- Joined: 20 Jul 2018, 12:26
- Bookshelf Size: 0
- ShaunaConstant
- Posts: 2
- Joined: 17 Jul 2018, 11:47
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 0
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-shaunaconstant.html
- Latest Review: Superhighway by Alex Fayman
- cadencebowen
- Posts: 2
- Joined: 23 May 2018, 12:08
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 24
Some of my favorites are Diana Gabaldon, Sylvia Plath, Amanda Lovelace and Stephen King.
- marina ag
- Posts: 1
- Joined: 20 Jul 2018, 14:43
- Bookshelf Size: 0
- itsnipo
- Posts: 1
- Joined: 06 Jul 2018, 04:13
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 13
Jay Bell is one of my fave authors. He wrote 'Something Like Series' which was basically YA MM series. The characters are lovable. And the good thing is that it has 10 book series.
Simon James Green wrote Noah Can't Even and I should tell you, it was literally the funniest book I've read. Well, it's all about coming out so yeah, the plot is super funny and Noah is so lovable!
- Panthers56
- Posts: 1
- Joined: 21 Jul 2018, 16:12
- Bookshelf Size: 0
- ea_anthony
- Posts: 609
- Joined: 19 Jun 2018, 03:22
- Favorite Book: Praying successfully
- Currently Reading: Prisoners of Geography
- Bookshelf Size: 650
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-ea-anthony.html
- Latest Review: McDowell by William H. Coles
Then authors writing in not so popular genres - Alvin Toffler (a genius and a nostradamus in his own right), Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale.
What of African writer? Ben Okri, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Adichie or Ngugi Wa Thiongo. What of Alex haley of Roots fame?
Then for christian books, Charles Spurgeon is about the best I have come across, then Derek Prince (late) and Max Lucado have great books.
Too many authors, too many genres.
N.B
C.S Lewis
Mario Puzo
Leon Uris
James Hardley Chase
Mary Higgins Clark
Patricia Cornwell (Kay Scarpeta - my all time female fictional character)
Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum - my No. 2 all time )
Dan Brown (Please go read Digital Fortress)
Richard North Patterson (Kerry Kilcannon - my joint favourite fictional US president)
Tom Clancy (Jack Ryan - joint favourite/original favourite US fictional president)
And so much more