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Old 05-13-2010, 12:20 AM
 
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I like John Grisham, Mitch Albom, Paulo Coelho, Rick Warren, Johanna Lindsey, Amy Tan, JK Rowling. I've heard about Patterson and Koontz, but haven't read their books yet.
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Old 05-18-2010, 02:44 PM
 
Location: UK
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I like many authors but amongst my favourite you can find:

Jane Austen

Thomas Hardy

Tony Parsons

Isabel Allende

Tracy Chevalier

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Hermann Hesse


These are the first that jump to my mind. I will probably add a few more later.
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Old 05-19-2010, 10:24 PM
 
Location: Austin, Texas
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Eric Jerome Dickey
Connie Briscoe
J.K. Rowling
Stephen King
Alice Walker
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Old 05-21-2010, 05:22 AM
 
Location: South Carolina
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I have to add elizabeth berg to my list i just discovered her and love her writing .
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Old 05-21-2010, 09:26 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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I love King, Tolkien, and sometimes I do like reading Koontz too.

I have nearly all of Stephen King's books -- I never tire of reading his novels. He goes from gory to a huge adventure (Dark Tower series). To me, his storytelling is so great that each scene perfectly unfolds in my mind as my eyes read the words. It's crazy.

Tolkien did that too of course but I only read the LOTR series as well as the Silmarillion.
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Old 06-12-2010, 04:37 PM
 
Location: Between Heaven And Hell.
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Douglas Adams, all his stuff is good, or rather, was good.
Stephen Fry, he doesn’t seem to have a fixed genre, but most of his stuff is good, it’s quirky and has lots of twists in the plots.
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Old 06-12-2010, 08:18 PM
 
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Stephen King, Bill Bryson and Grisham. One lesser known Fiction write I enjoy is Stephen Leather.
I LOVE Bill Bryson. There's nothing like spontaneously laughing out loud, over and over. That man is nothing short of hilarious.
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Old 06-14-2010, 05:42 PM
 
Location: Holly Springs, NC USA
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Roger Zelazny - He died back in 1995 but I had corresponded with him for some time and he was nice enough to send me some autographed first editions and some non-published materials.

Orson Scott Card
Bernard Cornwell
Rick Reilly
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Old 06-14-2010, 06:13 PM
 
Location: Minnesota
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Dostoevsky, Kafka, Koontz, Sartre and De Lint
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Old 06-14-2010, 07:12 PM
 
Location: Katonah, NY
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Jane Austen
All of the Bronte sisters
Haruki Murakami
Ayn Rand
George Eliot
Kurt Vonnegut
Isabel Allende
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Banana Yoshimoto
Harper Lee
Elizabeth Gaskell
JK Rowling
Kahlil Girban
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