Favorite Authors...

[Marky Lazer]

But! No, SFF authors... Which ones are yours... Because it's my thread I can decide on a top whatever. So, I decided to stick with my own idea, and a Top 4 (in no particular order) is what we're doing...

My list is:

Aimee Bender
Mark Richard
Chuck Palahniuk
Amy Hempel

 

[williemeikle]

Raymond Chandler
Elmore Leonard
James Ellroy
Ian Rankin

 

[Mark Robson]

In no particular order ...

Robert Ludlum
Desmond Bagley
Wilbur Smith (though I haven't read any for quite a while now)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon

 

[Envoy]

John Connolly
Michael Connolly
Harlan Coben
Walter Mosley

 

[GOLLUM]

I thought it was non SFF?

 

[Envoy]

Doh !! ....changed....

 

[GOLLUM]

OK, not really a top 4 non-SFF, too many to choose from but here's four of my favs:

Graham Greene
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Robert Louis Stevenson (slighlty marginal but plenty of non SFF there too).

 

[Joel007]

I've just realized i dont read much non sff
Adrian Plass
Max Lucado
Philip Yancey
CS Lewis

 

[iansales]

Only 4? Damn...

Lawrence Durrell
Anthony Burgess
David Lodge
Georgette Heyer -))

 

[Trey Greyjoy]

John Fowles
JD Salinger
Bob Woodward
Homer

 

[ScottSF]

interesting lists. I think I've had an insatiable appetite for SFF for like a year now but maybe it's time to balance things out.

Jack Kerouac
Haruki Murakami
Eiji Yoshikawa
Toni Morrison

 

[nixie]

Dennis Wheatly

Robert Louis Stevenson

Charles Dickens

Agatha Christie

 

[BookStop]

Here are my four non-SFF, I assume you mean non-horror as well, since it's a genre that has so many crossovers into the other two.


Patricia Sprinkle
Tess Gerritsen
Alice Hoffman
James Patterson

Although, I would like to give honorable mentions to Jane Austen and Anita Shreve.

 

[red_temple]

Homer

Simpson?

My list:

Hunter S. Thompson
Bill Bryson
Jack London
Dr. Seuss

This was really hard, BTW. I tried to make the list comprehensive - all time favorites, current, and past. This is as good as I can do with only 4 spots to choose from.

 

[Trey Greyjoy]

Originally Posted by Trey Greyjoy
Homer

Simpson?

I was taking bets on who would be the first.

 

[carrie221]

Jane Austen
Ann Rule
Laura Ingells Wilder
C.S. Lewis

 

[littlemissattitude]

Hmmm...

Faye Kellerman
James Ellroy
Kathy Reichs

and after that several others that I can't narrow down to another choice or two.

 

[Mark Robson]

Dennis Wheatly

Robert Louis Stevenson

Charles Dickens

Agatha Christie

Ha! I was going to put Dennis Wheatley until I remembered that aside from the horror novels, he also wrote fantasy ... and that my favourite book of his was the fantasy 'They Found Atlantis'.

 

[Nesacat]

At the moment they are:

Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Umberto Eco
Orhan Pamuk
Italo Calvino

 

[Crisspin]

Daniel Silva
John Sanford
Jonathan Kellerman
Michael Connely

Looking at the responses, it seems there are two groups of non-SFF lists .. those that have contemporary popular writers and those that have classics.