Five favourite authors

[catfish]

Who are your favourite scribes? Mine are:

1. Joe R. Lansdale
2. John Steinbeck
3. Richard Stark
4. James Crumley
5. Andrew Vachss

 

[dougdeep]

Dickens.
Chaucer.
Shakespeare.
Douglas Adams.
Spike Milligan.

 

[Beach Hut]

Evelyn Waugh
William Boyd
Bill Bryson
Charles Dickens

Can't think of a 5th

 

[Acker79]

JK Rowling
Roald Dahl
Jeffrey Deaver
John Grisham
JRR Tolkien

Honourable mention for Dan Brown, Rick Riordan, Stieg Larsson

 

[Poyetry In Motion]

Douglas Adams
JRR Tolkien
David Nobbs
David Renwick
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 

[Icy Gull]

Philistine here

Conn Iggulden
C J Sansom
Wilbur Smith
Craig Russell
Robert Ruark

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

JRR Tolkien
Robert Jordan
R.A Salvatore
Terry Brooks

 

[tinycowboy]

Dickens
Hardy
Garcia Marquez
Woolf
Waugh

 

[El Sid]

Tom Sharpe
George Macdonald-Fraser
Douglas Adams
John Irving
Spike Milligan

 

[wallyback]

Jonathan Wilson
Malcolm Gladwell
Michael Simkins
John O'Farrell
George Orwell

 

[skipper734]

Lee Child
Bill Bryson
Bernard Cornwell
Patrick O'Brian
Graham Green

 

[Guinness Boy]

Louis De Bernieres
Paul Theroux
Peter Carey
Iain Banks (RIP)
William Dalrymple

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Iain Banks
Ian McEwan
JG Ballard
Douglas Coupland
Martin Amis

 

[The Merry Prankster]

Conan Doyle
Wodehouse
Hammett
Chandler
Runyon

Near misses Perelman and Menken

 

[Brightonfan1983]

If you liked The Wire, you can't go wrong with George Pelecanos (screenwriter, now sometime producer);

I've just started Game of Thrones and it's surprisingly very un-Hobbity and a great yarn. So George R. Martin;

Elmore Leonard is worth a shot if you haven't already - Get Shorty is terrific fun;

Barry Hines, if only for Kes;

I loved the short series of Frost books by RD Wingfield - darker and more engrossing than the latter part of the tv series;

Brett Easton Ellis, only up to and including American Psycho.


Not my favourite 5 but ones to, if you're so inclined, try?

 

[SeagullinExile]

James Herbert
Rob Grant/Doug Naylor (Grant Naylor)
Dean Koontz
Stephen King
Tom Clancy

My favourite books by them -

Fluke (Short but sweet. Although I've never been able to put any of his books down once I pick them up!)
Red Dwarf - Better than Life (So much better than the series.The audio book read by Chris Barrie was a hoot!)
The Bad Place (A Koontz classic in my book)
The Stand (Very long but an addictive read)
Red Storm Rising (A cold war/ III world war classic, always thought it would make a good blockbuster, with modern CGI technology would be much easier to make now)

 

[Superphil]

Brett Easton Ellis, only up to and including American Psycho.

I've only read up to American Psycho, what's wrong with any later stuff?

Edit, just relaised Glamorama was after Psycho, I thought that was alright.

 

[seagull_special]

CJ Samson
Harper Lee
Paul Theroux
VS Naipaul
Ryszard Kapuściński

 

[seagull_special]

Louis De Bernieres
Paul Theroux
Peter Carey
Iain Banks (RIP)
William Dalrymple

A very decent selection!

 

[JCL - the new kid in town]

Audrey kurkov - if you like a bit surreal then I'd suggest either "death and the penguin" about a man living with a penguin he acquired and "a matter of death and life" - about a man who wants to end his life so hires a hit man to do it

Harlan coben
Jeffrey deaver
Terry pratchett
Tom sharpe