Favorite fiction writers?

Just finished Faye Kellerman's new one: "Street Dreams" and I've read all of Jonathan Kellerman's books, too.

Stephen King
Patricia Cornwell
Kathy Reichs
J.A. Jance (J.P.Beaumont and Joanna Brady)
Andrew Greeley
Scott Turow
John Grisham
James Lee Burke
Elmore Leonard
Kinky Friedman
Colleen McCullough
Karen Kijewski's "Kat" Colorado series
Rita Mae Brown's "Mrs. Murphy" books
Lillian Jackson Braun's "The Cat Who..." series
Most of Anne Rice

I read so many books, that its hard to remember them all.

Lucia, I stand corrected - of course it was Jeffrey Deaver who wrote "The Bone Collector". Oh, and I forgot Tony Hillerman - I love his Navajo Tribal Police stuff. I positively devoured Farley's "The Black Stallion" series as a kid. My 10-year-old niece has been reading them for about two years. Apparently his son continued the series.

Wow glad to see that I am not the only one that likes the horror stuff

My fave author is Stephen King, any and everything he writes is

I also like to read books by Dean Koontz, and there are a few more but those two are my absoulte favorites.

Wow, so many books, so little time. . .

In no particular order

Anne Rice
J K Rowling
Anne Perry--especially the William Monk series, he is one of the best characters in fiction, IMO
Marion Keyes--light reads, but fun
James Michener
James Clavell--loved King Rat
Jane Austen
Edith Wharton
Alice Hoffman
Helen Fielding--laughed over both Bridget Jones novels
Stephen King
Peter Tremayne--mystery novels set in Ireland in the 600s
Marcia Muller--Sharon McCone mysteries
I used to read a lot of Robin Cook's novels, but haven't lately.

Bren - did you know that Anne Perry is actually Juliet Hulme, who helped her best friend kill her mother, in Christchurch, NZ in 1954?
Just an interesting tidbit of information. Anne Perry aka Juliet Hulme

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Bren - did you know that Anne Perry is actually Juliet Hulme, who helped her best friend kill her mother, in Christchurch, NZ in 1954?
Just an interesting tidbit of information.

Anne Perry aka Juliet Hulme

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Amazingly, until that movie came out, "Heavenly Creatures", apparently very few people knew her background, since she was living in Scotland, and the crime occurred in New Zealand, I think.
She was released from reform school at 21 I think by law, and was as a requirement of the release, had to leave the country.
Sadly, not that it justified what they did, the mother whom they killed was trying to separate them by sending her daughter off to boarding school, apparently because she were afraid they were 'becoming' lesbians.This was back in the 1950's I think.

Yeah - I lived in Christchurch - it is my hometown so we know all about the parker-hulme murder.

What happened was, Juliet Hulme's father wanted to send her to England and they both wanted to go together and Pauline's mother wouldn't let her. Which is why they killed Ms Parker.

I heard that Anne Perry was one of the girls in that murder case, but wasn't sure if that was true or not. What a sad story, and I don't think the girls were allowed to contact each other as a condition of being released.

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J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter)
Gael Baudino (Strands series)
Mercedes Lackey (Valdemar series)
Barbara Hambly (Silent Tower et al)
Piers Anthony (Incarnations of Immortality series)
Marion Zimmer Bardley (Mists of Avalon, Firebrand)

and that is just off the top of my head!

I am a voracious reader, especially of fantasy. I re-read books that are favorites over and over again.

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These are some of my favs too! I also re-read everything! Mercedes Lackey is my all time fav. I alos love Anne McCaffery. I have a new author I found and they have one of the best written series I have ever read. His name is Mack Anthony (not the singer) and the series is The Last Rune. It is up to book5 now with book 6 due out next year. I can't put it down. I started book 1 3 weeks ago and I am now on book 5!

Anne Bishop is also good. Chances are if it is fantasy (or some sci-fi) I'll like it.

Stephen King; Dark Tower series, IT
Richard Matheson; I Am Legend
Anne Rice; vampire series
Laurell K. Hamilton; Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series. Although I am getting into her Faery series also.

Some erotica once in a while, like Poppy Z. Brite.

I used to be big time into Johanna Lindsey. I swear I had all her books, at least 40-50, then I moved out of my dads and he threw them away. He said there had been rats in the basement and they ate everything.

Margaret Atwood
Anne Rice
Jean Auel
Kurt Vonnegut

Have you noticed that not as many people read anymore? It's really quite sad.

-Stephen King...I'm especially fond of his short stories
-Mercedes Lackey
-Laurell K Hamilton...I plug her books alot LOL if you're into vampire fiction and like a strong female primary character Ms. Hamilton's your girl
-Dean Koontz
-JK Rowling
-smut novels, those bodice rippers are a guilty pleasure
-Clive Barker has some good stuff out there
-Thomas Harris
-LM Montgomery
-Anne McCaffery(sp) but just the Pern books
-the Bronte sisters
-I can't remember the name but the Little Women Author.

That's not all but that's quite enough lol.

In no particular order...

JK Rowling
Stephen King
William Gibson
Douglas Adams
Dave Barry
Alice Walker
Tony Hillerman
John Grisham
Al Franken
Tom Robbins
Milan Kundera
Manuel Puig

Little Women was written by Louisa May Alcott. I loved her books as a teenager.

I just brought some hardcover books to the local library, since I don't have room to keep too many in my one bedroom NYC apartment.
One was the "DaVinci Code" which I guess has gotten a lot of press.
I thought the obviously gay male librarian was going to kiss me lol.
They said there were 1000 people on the waiting list for it. (You can reserve books in the NY Public Library online.)