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Favorite Authors

I am a lover of books. Book stores – especially used book stores; pre-read is pre-loved – are among my limited “happy places.” I am rarely without a pile of “am reading” books and am NEVER without a stack — I have a whole bookshelf and then some, actually — of “to be read” books.

There are, though, some books I gravitate to more than others.

And that has everything to do with the authors.

I don’t just have *a* favorite author though. (Does anyone?)

I have favorites.

A few of mine are:

Shall I go on? *laugh*

I suppose I could divide authors into genres…

And sub-genres…

Especially in fiction.

And then of course, I would have to think about my non-fiction ‘favorites’ list.

And children’s lit.

Poetry. (Some of the best poets are/were musicians. Rest in peace, Len Cohen.)

Erotica writers. Humorists. Essayists.

Oh! And then there’s short-form writing. And authors of blogs. (And authors of blogs who became authors of books.)

IT NEVER ENDS.

*laugh*

But I think, for the purposes of this post, this is where I’ll end. 😉

Do you have [a] favorite author{s}?

How long is YOUR list?

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35 thoughts on “Authors”

        1. Mrs Fever Post author

          I like Poirot better than Marple, but I prefer some of her other books — ones without either of those characters – better. The Man In The Brown Suit and The Secret Adversary are both really good and my favorite Christie books are And Then There Were None and Endless Night are amazing twisty mysteries; none of those four have a “detective” present.

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    1. Mrs Fever Post author

      I have a Margaret Atwood on my TBR shelf. 🙂

      And I love that you describe them as “old friends” — it’s what our favorites feel like, isn’t it?

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  4. ktz2

    She was the last to join my list, although it’s been many years. Discovered her by checking short story anthologies from the public library in my way-younger years, when on a mission to discover someone new to me that I’d want to explore further.

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  5. Deborah Weber

    I share your love of books and reading, and I’m in that delicious place of dilemma – how do I winnow down my huge to-be-read pile when there are always other books begging to be experienced as well? I usually play in a number of book challenges each year, which often lead me to new authors and new genres, but one of my favorite challenges is an A-to-Z one where you read through the alphabet. I just finished an X titled book, and I’m patting myself on the back. Xs are always so tricky, aren’t they? Looking forward to catching the rest of your posts Mrs. Fever.
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  6. Marie Rebelle

    My favorite authors are Robin Cook, Patricia Cornwell, John Grisham, Lee Child, David Baldacci, and those are the only ones I can remember now. I have read all of their books, but nowadays am discovering new authors as I listen to random books. I am ‘reading’ more now than I have done in years!
    ~ Marie xox

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  7. barbara

    Your love of books sounds a lot like myself. So many books, and I’m always reading something.
    My favorite author is Poppy Z. Brite (Lost Souls). This novel is what I base my fan fiction stories on.
    Torey Hayden (special education teacher memoirs)
    Cathy Glass (foster carer memoirs)
    Sophie Kinsella (fiction – Shopaholic series & others)
    Looking forward to your posts! 🙂

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  8. Tasha

    Good morning, what a great start to the AtoZ. I love second hand book shops too, although it seems it has been ages since I have been in one. I remember spending hours in them as a teenager (there was an awesome one where we used to go on holiday in the summer – still have so many of the books I picked up there).
    I am something of a picky reader, I have go to comfort authors that I return to again and again, but I very rarely like all their books, Stephen King, Frank Herbert, Laurel K. Hamilton, David Eddings to name a few. And of course it is always exciting to find new authors to love.
    Best wishes,
    Tasha
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    1. Mrs Fever Post author

      I like that term — “comfort authors” — I have those too.

      Finding and exploring the offerings of different used book stores is one of my favorite things to do while traveling, so I can relate to your “on holiday” experience!

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  9. Windy

    I read a ton of Amanda Quick back in the day…. and JAK, too. I loved Linda Howard! My favorite of all time in the romance genre both contemporary and historical is Judith McNaught. Some of Sandra Brown’s contemporaries are in my top favorites as well…… The Switch and Play Dirty.

    How about narrators? Are you saving that for N?

    Fun post!
    Hugs,
    Windy

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    1. Mrs Fever Post author

      I hadn’t thought about narrators… Though unreliable narrators are often used in the mystery genre.

      I’m always amused when Jayne Ann Krentz is categorized in Romance. Romantic Suspense I can see — similar to Linda Howard — but her books are nearly all wrapped up in solving a mystery of some sort. So I think of her as a mystery writer. (Oddly, I consider Sandra Brown a romance writer… But she’s typically shelved in the mystery section at the book stores I frequent.)

      I have read Judith McNaught. If you like her style and enjoy historical romances, you might like Hannah Howell.

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      1. windy

        I hear you on the mystery versus romances and the mixing of the two!

        Ohhh, thank you so much for the Hannah Howell recommendation. I will check her out!

        I got to meet Judith McNaught twice years ago……. really awesome.

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        1. Mrs Fever Post author

          Oh, that’s so cool!

          When my husband and I were first married, we lived across the street from an indie bookstore and would sometimes go when they had author events. I never met anyone famous or even anyone whose books I liked. *laugh* HE did, though, and we have a dedicated autograph from Goldie Hawn in the front cover of her memoir as a result. 🙂

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  11. Molly

    I love books and I love reading. I have a large TBR pile which is more like 3 or 4 shelves of books waiting for me to read them. I buy 90% of my books from charity shops so most of them cost me £3.00 at most. I always struggle with the favourite author thing because I read so widely but recent great books I have read include, Femlandia, Hamnet, Milk Fed, The Little Paris Book Shop (I totally fell in love with this book) Small Island, The Mermaid of Black Conch and The Lamplighters. I have read 23 books so far this year!

    Molly

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    1. Mrs Fever Post author

      Small Island is on my TBR shelf (I literally have bookshelves – plural – filled with not-yet-cracked spines), so I’m glad to know you enjoyed it.

      I, too, buy many books second hand. Twice read is double loved! 🙂

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  13. Mary Wood

    I like your list of authors and interests accordingly.
    My entire huge shelf with books fits in one gadget. For some time now I have stopped buying books in their paper version. I like to think that in this way I save paper and contribute to the conservation of forests. Although not everything is so simple in this world.

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    1. Mrs Fever Post author

      A lot of people have switched to reading books in digital format. Personally, screen-reading does not work for me. But reading is reading, so if it works for you, that’s great!

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