I'm reading a Michael Connelly book right now and am in heaven. He has two of my favorite characters from two different series working together in this book. It's great!
Who are some of your favorite authors and why?
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@mediagirl: I love Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller too! Are those the two characters?
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Some of my favorites:
Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy, Songbook)
Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Wonder Boys, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union)
Dashiell Hammett (The Thin Man, Red Harvest, The Dain Curse)
Phillip Pullman (His Dark Materials, Once Upon a Time in the North)
I like them all because their novels are witty, smart and well written. I have endless patience for bad TV but no patience for bad literature! ;-p
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Trudi Canavan, Piers Anthony (I haven't read any Xanth, though,) George R. R. Martin (though I skim about half the chapters - three pages to say "he climbed the wall with great difficulty"? I don't have the time,) Tamora Pierce, Douglas Adams, Ray Bradbury, Gregory Maguire, Jonathan Swift, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Robert Louis Stevenson... Alfred Bester had some awesome short stories. Currently on a HUGE Hunger Games kick. I'm actually re-reading the series the same month I started them the first time.
ETA: Oh yeah, why I like them. Canavan, Stevenson, and Shakespeare just weave compelling stories. Swift, Shakespeare, Maguire, Bester, and Bradbury possess such command of language, I love to read their writing. Canavan, Anthony, Martin, and Austen build worlds I can get lost in. Canavan, Austen, and Pierce write characters that I like as people (though after a while, Pierce kind of stopped coming up with NEW characters, and the new ones blend together. And while there ARE some Martin characters I adore, I want over half of them just cut from the story, because they add nothing.) Adams and Swift are really funny. I love the Hunger Games because I can get lost in the story, the world AND the characters, which is a rare trifecta - and the writing is a bit tighter than Canavan's.
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Jasper Fforde immediately springs to mind. His novels are like...
Douglas Adams meets Month Python meets James Bond. The plots are really hard to properly describe, but if there's any one author that I'd recommend to anyone, it's him, particularly his Thursday Next series. -
My all time favorite is Jodi Picoult. I love that she writes about really sensitive topics. I also really like Kristin Hannah, Ellen Hopkins, and Lisa Scottoline.
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I like James Patterson (love murder mystery books), Jodi Picoult, Kristin Hannah, & Lauren Oliver.
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