Top 10 Authors

[Stitchybubbles]

What's yours?
Here's my favs

(Not in any particular order)

J K Rowling
Agatha Christie
Jean Plaidy
Elizabeth Chadwick
Philippa Gregory
Alison Weir
Lilian Jackson Braun
Barbara Erskine
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Marion Zimmer Bradley

[klj]

Not sure about favourites, but my 'read everything they write' authors are:

Douglas Kennedy
Mark Billingham
Janet Evanovich
Kelley Armstrong
Sophie Hannah
Lolly Winston
Julliane Hoffman
Nick Stone
Denise Hamilton
and Nicci French

off the top of my head.

[JerseyDevil]

Only 10????

Tim Powers
Philip Jose Farmer
Dan Simmons
Phillip K. Dick
Thomas Hardy
David Liss
Umberto Eco
Milorad Pavich
Dean Koontz
C.J. Cherryh

[meebo1]

Elizabeth Peters
John Creasey
Maggie Sefton
Monica Ferris
HRF Keating
James Krüss
Kasey Michaels
Wolfgang Ecke
good old Agatha Christie
Victoria Holt

these are in no particular order

[bykimbo]

This changes all the time, but right now off the top of my head I'd go with...

1. Dorothy L Sayers
2. Terry Pratchett
3. Dick Francis
4. Jane Austen
5. Agatha Christie
6. Patricia Wentworth
7. Reginald Hill
8. Patrick O'Brian
9. Lilian Jackson Braun
10. Nigel Slater (I love a good cook book!)

Not necessarily in that order

[sapientpearwood]

Are:
1. Terry Pratchett
2. P G Wodehouse
3. Ellis Peters
4. Giovanni Guareschi
5. Terry Brooks
6. Dorothy L Sayers
7. Agatha Christie
8. Ngaio Marsh
9. Fred Astaire - his biography "Steps in Time"
10. Edgar Wallace

[meebo1]

Are:
1. Terry Pratchett
2. P G Wodehouse
3. Ellis Peters
4. Giovanni Guareschi
5. Terry Brooks
6. Dorothy L Sayers
7. Agatha Christie
8. Ngaio Marsh
9. Fred Astaire - his biography "Steps in Time"
10. Edgar Wallace

I had forgotten about Giovanni Guareschi. I still have a big Don Camillo volume, which I know I haven't finished reading (must do so)

[hopeful2]

My favorites sometimes depends on who I'm reading at the time.. here they are
Jonathan Kellerman
Faye Kellerman
Dean Kootz
Stephen King
Robin Cook
Patricia Cornwell
Stephenie Meyer
Nora Roberts
Dana Fuller Ross
John Jakes

[crochetdoilies]

1. Ann Rule
2. Stephen King
3. Nicholas Sparks
4. Dan Brown
5. Jean-Paul Sartre
6. Marcel Pagnol
7. Dante
8. Molière
9. Jules Verne
10. Alain Fournier

[jacobbaby]

Just 10 of my many favorites!

James Patterson
Jeffery Deaver
Dean Kootz
Robin Cook
Patricia Cornwell
Janet Evanovich
John Grisham
Greg Iles
Cornelia Funke
Stephen King