What Books Are You Reading & Favorite Authors?

[Bones_92]

Just about to being reading 'The Communist Manifesto' by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Nearly finished Bob Dylan's 'Chronicles' - Very different from what I expected, totally different set out of biography. Would expand more but not got time atm, someone at the door....

 

[wdoall]

My favorite authors are Jack Higgins and Clive Cussler. Cant go wrong with either, Even Cussler's non-fiction.

 

[feller469]

Fahrenheit 451 is definitely not sci-fi. I'd call it dystopian fiction. It's more about the dumbing down of society than anything else, really. It's amazing how that book has such long connections to the evolution of our society today. It's also a quick read....you can get through it in a day, easy.

The sad thing about Bradbury and Orwell's books is it seems to have been a blueprint for the powers-that-be to use to manipulate the masses as opposed to a warning for the masses as to what can happen.

 

[Patrick_S]

I pretty much only read horror. Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, John Ajvide Lindqvist and Stephen King are among my favourites.

 

[tarzanya]

Dan Brown and Paolo Coelho are my favorites. And also J.R.R. Tolkien is the best

 

[Frame313]

Anthony Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential is awesome and I never even worked in a restaurant. I read it in one sitting on a flight to Barcelona and then read it again on the flight home. Loved every page of it. I highly recommend it.

If you want more foodie books, I'd recommend Michael Ruhlmans "The Making of a Chef" & "The Soul of a Chef" - he's buddies with Bourdain, but has a different writing style. Also, Bill Bufords book "Heat" is excellent, as well.

 

[feller469]

Maggie Green[/URL][/B], post: 7900620, member: 346743"]I can't remember her name but the woman who wrote Gone Girl has become one of my favorites. I used to read so much more than I do now, I miss it.

Gillian Flynn

 

[JasonCook78]

I'm surprised nobody has said J.K. Rowling yet.

 

[georges]

I read mostly Harlan Coben because of his hero Myron Bolitar, he has written several great novels like Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, the Final Detail, the Darkest Fear, Promise me, Long Lost, Live Wire

Tom Clancy because he is a well known military and strategy novelist but also because he has written very well documented books about the US military.

James Ellroy because of his gritty and dark style known for the Black Dhalia, LA Confidential, Crime Wave and Destination Morgue

Lee Child with the Jack Reacher series of novels

Stephen King known for its horror and very dark novels like IT, Christine, the Shining, Insomnia, From a Buick 8,the Dark Half, Carrie, etc

 

[Mariahxxx]

Ive read some Harlan Coben but I cant get into his style. I used to like Stephen King but the character study is just never ending. I loved "It" about the clown that lived in the sewers. I can't get into the fantasy books like the Hobbit and Harry potter and all that. I get bored too easily with that stuff.

 

[luis1972]

Umberto Eco
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jose Saramago

 

[Funboy88]

I read all the time. all time favs are:
Edgar Allan Poe
Howard Phillip Lovecraft
Stephen King
Thomas Harris
Clive Barker
James O'Barr

 

[BigSwede]

I am deep into history and musicology.
My favourite authors are Herman Lindqvist, Christopher O´Regan, Beth Hennings and H.C. Robbins-Landon.
I am currently reading The Fatal Friendship by Stanley Loomis and History of Sweden vol.2 by Herman Lindqvist.

 

[Austin Morgan]

My favorite authors are Jack Higgins and Clive Cussler. Cant go wrong with either, Even Cussler's non-fiction.

I second Clive Cussler based on the type of reading you like. His newer stuff with co-authors is not my favorite but still good. I would also suggest Patricia Cornwell and James Patterson. For "easy" reading Sue Grafton's A is for Alibi series is good but kind of predictable. I like it for by the pool or when I am just looking to read something before falling asleep. One of my favorite authors is Elizabeth Peters and her Amelia Peabody series but it might be a little out there for you. She is an archaeologist in the early 1900's solving murder/mystery in Egypt. I love it because I am fascinated with the pyramids and Egyptian history and it is very well written.
Happy Reading!

 

[abejarano12]

Favorite reads are anything by Dan Brown, Tom Clancy, Lee Child, Michael Shaara, Frank Miller, Larry McMurtry and Jane Austen. Currently reading "Case Closed" by Gerald Posner about the JFK assassination.

 

[georges]

I can't get into the fantasy books like the Hobbit and Harry potter and all that. I get bored too easily with that stuff.

JRR Tolkien is fine by me but I hate JK Rowling and the Harry Potter series. Harlan Coben is a very dark and gritty style but not for everyone. The darker, the grittier and the bloodier the atmosphere of the novel is, the more I like.

 

[georges]

Also Danielle Steele isn't so bad as is John Kobler

 

[Mariahxxx]

georges you would LOVE John Sandford's books. http://www.johnsandford.org/ the "Prey" series is awesome. great characters and serial killers being hunted by a cop who has no problem killing them himself very gritty and you can't put them down.

 

[FreeOnes_Anders]

Just picked up Anathem by Neal Stephenson.

He just keeps getting better for every book he writes.

Just checked the wikipage for this book....

Anathem is a speculative fiction novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 2008. Major themes include the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the philosophical debate between Platonic realism and formalism.

Seems somewhat pretentious.... regardless, its a damn good book.

 

[Mariahxxx]

jesus just the description gave me a headache