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So, who is/are your favorite author/s, regardless of whether it's based on who you think was actually great or how many of their works you've read (ie maybe they're lightweights, but you enjoy their novels/plays/whatever anyway)? And which of their works do you like best?

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Dan Brown for the Robert Langdon series and Edgar Allan Poe. I have a 4 volume set of his complete works its like 103 years old.

 

Dan Brown for the Robert Langdon series and Edgar Allan Poe.

 

Dan Brown for the Robert Langdon series

 

Dan Brown

 

Let the fireworks ensue.

 

My personal favorite authors are still unknown. Much reading has yet to be done, and it's been a while since I've found a book that was truly enjoyable. *waits to steal recommendations from this thread*

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I don't read much fiction anymore, but other than the more obvious ones (Tolkein, Puzo, etc) I would probably say George MacDonald Fraser (particularly the Flashman Papers) is one of my favourite authors, with perhaps Alan Mallinson (author of the Matthew Hervey series, sort of like Sharpe on a horse) a close second.

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George Orwell, for 1984 and the highly-underrated COMING UP FOR AIR

Fyodor Dostoevsky, for CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Philip Roth for AMERICAN PASTORAL

Ayn Rand, for ATLAS SHRUGGED, though I'm not much of a fan of her politics

Betty Friedan, for THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE

Jeff Sharlet, for THE FAMILY

Anton Chekhov, for WARD NUMBER SIX, THE DUEL, and THE LADY WITH A DOG

A.I. Solzhenitsyn, for ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH

Lois Lowry, for THE GIVER

Karen Cushman, for CATHERINE, CALLED BIRDY

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I don't really maintain favourite writers as such, but off the top of my head:

 

Haruki Murakami

Kurt Vonnegut

G.K. Chesteron (though haven't read beyond The Man Who Was Thursday)

 

I also happen to be a fan of Oscar Wilde's wit. o_Q

 

And yes, I am a hopeless, outdated postmodernist.

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H. P. Lovecraft, for his Dream sequence

Garth Nix, for Sabriel

Niel Gaiman, for The Sandman series

Dostoyevski, for Notes from Underground

Albert Camus, for The Fall

Robin McKinley, for The Hero And The Crown (I've read it many times)

James Joyce, for Ulysses

C. S. Lewis, for Till We Have Faces

Wittgenstein, for On Certainty

Orson Scott Card, for Ender's Game

Herman Hesse, for Demian

Soren Kierkegaard, for Fear and Trembling

Lewis Carroll, for Alice in Wonderland

Paul Feyerabend, for Against Method

Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

David Brin, for Earth

G. K. Chesterton, for pretty much anything (ty Sabre)

Nikolai Gogol, for The Nose

J. R. R. Tolkien, for LotR and The Silmarillion / The Children of Hurin

Frank Herbert, for Dune and Soul Catcher

 

I'm sure there are more. These are just the ones I like best and can remember most easily.

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Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations and The Pickwick Papers

Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- I love the Pardoner. So much so that I have him on a t-shirt >_>

John Milton, Paradise Lost -- the only word for it is sublime; Satan walking across Chaos and standing on the Sun stand out.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

William Golding, Lord of the Flies

Beowulf-poet, Beowulf

 

You may notice a slight bias towards literature of a certain language here >_>.

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Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow and their respective series

Ayn Rand - Anthem

Robert Ludlum - Bourne Series, The Icarus Agenda

Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

 

Usually I don't really bother much who wrote the book, as long as its good.

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