And your favourite author is?

[Analog6]

I couldn't choose one. I have over 2000 novels alone plus about 1000 non fiction. No way I could isolate one.

[Kaktus]

I googled this to see if it was a series on embroidery.

Totally understandable with a title like 'Cross Stitch', this was the first book in the series which in the U.S. was called The Outlander. No idea why the title was changed for Australia.

It is actually called 'The Outlander Series' with 7 books so far, the 8th is supposed to come out early 2013. Long time waiting since the last book, but it will be totally worth it.

[bushbikie]

Anne McCaffrey, and specifically, the DragonRiders of Pern series.

[Geoff Port]

John le Carre

" The Mission Song"
"The Constant Gardner"
"Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy"
"The Little Drummer Girl"
"The Russia House"
to name but a few favorites.
And this thread reminds me, I must start a re read.

[Darkwinter]

Jack Kerouac

[ving]

just to be the first....

Doctor Seuss.

[ameerat42]

just to be the first....

Doctor Seuss.

That's all we thneed!

[ApolloLXII]

J.R.R. Tolkien for his sheer scope of imagination in writing a book (The Lord Of The Rings) that is an absolute fantasy classic.

[outstar79]

The only person for true adventure - Clive Cussler

[Mary Anne]

Sherryl Woods.

[sunny6teen]

Dr. Seuss....but I keep Dostoyevsky nearby to impress the chicks.
Say what you may but The Brothers Karamazov will never steady a wobbly darkroom bench as well as Green Eggs and Ham.

[Mark L]

We all have photography as a common interest. Your choice of reading is wonderful. It shows how people with a common interest can have such varied tastes. Thanks for contributing.
Odille, go on, name three then. And the rest of you need to start reading John Irving.
Aren't you lucky the question wasn't "who's you favourite Australian author."

[rossco]

nelson de mille

[MattNQ]

Another vote for Tolkein. After not having read Lord of the Rings for over 15 years, I made the mistake of reading them again just before watching the movies... then spent half the movies bemoaning all the bits they left out. WHERE WAS TOM BOMBADIL in the movie??? (still loved the movies though )

Honorable mentions;
Isaac Asimov- Another master of weaving incredibly complex worlds and stories across space & time
Douglas Adams - what can I say?
Dr Seuss was one author I never got tired of reading to my kids when they were small - I reckon he must have been on some wild drugs though.

And the latent bogan in me loves Jeremy Clarkson...even though his books are basically all identical and sound just like he just wrote down what he was thinking on a napkin during a Top Gear episode.

Anyway, I'll shut up now. So long & thanks for all the Fish

[SirLozalot]

I'm like Odille. No one favourite. Large book collection.
My fiction books are mainly sci-fi/fantasy with recent preference for "space opera" sci-fi. Latest book just finished was "Caliban's war" by James Corey.
Currently reading an autobiography "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson.

[Mark L]

............
Anyway, I'll shut up now. So long & thanks for all the Fish

Was confused be this 'til I read it out aloud and that thing someone put in my ear interpreted it's meaning for my. Now I'm not so depressed.

[Diverdan]

Edgar Rice Burroughs. A lot of his stuff is very dated and certainly not PC, but first read Tarzan at school, then the John Carter books. Loved them all and still have copies.

[cupic]

There is a list but one that comes to mind Eric Van Lastbader

cheers

[enigmatic]

Got a few... Considering I'm relatively young... these are the few that I have read a lot of at any one time.

Stephen Lawhead
Tolkien
George RR Martin

Yep, fantasy books for me!

[Sammi]

After recently reading the trilogy of The Hunger Games I have to say that Suzanne Collins has to be my fav writer atm... it took me a week to read book 1 (due to kids), 2 days to read book 2 and 10hrs to read the last book... Books where wayyyyyyy better than the movie. although it was the movie that inticed me to read the books...