read the books mentioned above ^-^

alright I'll see if I can finish those.

Ah yes, I enjoyed reading Diary of Anne Frank.

I like Kei Oishi's 'Ju On'.

Holly Black, she does a lot of goth themed books

Koji Suzuki, he is the one who wrote the Ring series and the book is 100x better than the movies

i have many fav authors. one of my most favorite one is: R.L. Stine. he made the goosebump books and the fear street ones. i read both so u no... there really good. there was a vamp book i got done reading, it was good. christopher moore made it. im going go find some other books by him.

As far as normal book authors, I would definitely say that Emily Rodda is my first fave (she wrote the Deltora Quest series--awesome series, plus Rowan of Rin--also cool, and the Faerie Realm--more of a girl series, I think). Next would be Christopher Paolini, who wrote Eragon, Eldest, and is coming out with the 3rd book really soon! Can't wait! :D

Stephen King
He scares and puts you in suspense...I love that!! :rheart:

Oh yes, who could forget Edgar Allen Poe....On of my personal favorites......And i was going to ask about Paolini, but it seems to me like someone got to that already...lol...

ANybody into Homer? Not the dd from the Simpsons :rolleyes: He wrote he Illiad and the Odysse

Kurt Vonnegut
Dean Koontz
Stephen King

Chuck Palahniuk for novelists.
Hunter S. Thompson though is my fav. writer.

LJ Smith for me.

My favourite authors are Terry Pratchett and Robert Jordan. I have yet to find a book they wrote, that I didn't like :D

Gabriel García Márquez, Charles Dickens, Marian Keyes.

Amanda Ashley......? I should check her out......I LOVE ROMANCE NOVELS!

Holly Black
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Stephen King is my hero. Seriously, he's got to be the more amazing writer ever.

The runner-up is totally Jodi Picoult. Alot of her books are centered around law and legal stuff, but it's more interesting than it sounds. "My Sister's Keeper" broke my heart into a million little bits.

And when it comes to manga, I LOVE Tsugumi Ohba and Hiromu Arakawa.
Also, I agree with the others when they say JK Rowling is a great writer too. I admit, i've got so much Potter Pride, it's almost unhealthy. And don't get me started on JRR Tolkiens works.....
Ah darn, i've got too many authors to list..

Laura Joh Rowland. She writes so well. All of her books revolve around a detective in the Edo period. I have just discovered Sujita Massey aswell, she writes some great books too.

I never could read much books....They are very expensive around here.:(

But my few favorite authors are:

Sidney Sheldon
Nietzche(He was not a nazist,for God's sake!)
Edgar Allan Poe
Stephen King

I like him too. :D A little bit extreme but he's right most of the time.

Exactly!i'm glad someone agrees with me.:vsign: It depends of the reader,if you interpret him well,you can learn many things.:D

my favourite author is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry...
im sure you wont know him by name, but he wrote the best philosophic book ever, the little prince. if you dont know it, READ it, can tell its geniality here...

Gabriel García Márquez is my favorite author, as well as my grandmother's. She gave me her copy of Cien años se soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) for my birthday last year and I keep it with me all the time. My grandma highlighted passages and made notes on the sides of the pages, which I go back and read.

I'd have to say Haruki Murakami :D his novels are amazing.

J. D. Salinger
Anne Rice
Stephen King
Alexandre Dumas

I usually don't read by authors, but I couldn't help but become addicted to Ellen Hopkins' writing style (wrote Crank, Glass, Burned, Impulse, and Identical) :vsign:

Anne Rice
Stephen King
Catherine Coulter
Cassie Edwards
Michael Barnette (who is a friend of mine)

:rheart: Tony Hillerman is my top fave!!! :rheart:

Followed by (in no particular order):
Much of Stephen King
Much of Anne McCaffrey
Gustave Flaubert
Stuart Woods
Kurt Vonnegut
Some of Tom Stoppard
Some of Richard Adams
Much of C.S. Lewis
J.R. Tolkien (when I have enough brain power to read prose that dense)
F. Paul Wilson (Go Repairman Jack!!!)
Colleen McCullough
Jean Craighead George
Elliot Roosevelt
Very Little of Dean Koontz (Go Odd Thomas!!!)

Many more but all I can think of right off the bat. I can think of more I don't care for than do... ;)

Neil Gaiman, and Philip Roth. Simple as that. And a couple of others whose names I've forgotten.

J.K. Rowling
Stephenie Meyer
Elie Wiesel
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen

Haruki Murakami
Audrey Niffneger
Joanne Harris
Jane Austen
Harper Lee
Charles Dickens
H.G Wells
Orwell.
Phillipa Gregory
jack London.

I'm a fan of romances and the classics [inc 20thCentury classics]

Hmm...the last really good book I read was After Dark byHaruki Murakami

Read Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami if you haven't read it yet. It's like my favorite book ever.

Edgar Allan Poe.

Stephenie Meyer is definitely my favorite author... for fantasy-related matters. For something more realistic I'm really liking Jodi Picoult.
~C ya
:D

Everyone seems to be loving Twilight nowadays. I'll admit I'm a fan too, I just don't really get obsessive about it.

BukowskI

I start to write a story inspired in one of his poems...
and I really like all his stories... THE BEST!!! :D