Favorite Authors

[Lisa G]

Who are your favorite authors?

I have been reading a lot of James Patterson as of recent times. His books are easy to read with short chapters and can be entertaining. I also like Nicholas Sparks and of course CS Lewis.

[RevZeek]

CS Lewis, Tolkien, Clive Cussler, Patrick Robinson, D. Shane Burton...ad nauseum

There are far too many to begin listing! :D

[Sharon]

Dean Koontz, Nora Roberts, Jude Devereaux, Tami Hoag, Iris Johansen, Hank Henegraff, Frank Peretti, etc etc

[The Unknown Gomer]

Another Dean Koontz fan here (just finished his latest, with the golden retrievers, not too long ago). And John Saul, Stephen King (although that Lisey's Story is very slow to get started. :( ) James Patterson is good too, I like his Alex Cross books.

[RevZeek]

I also have to chime in with some children's books as the resident children's librarian of the boards! :D

I really like Robert Munsch, Keiko Kasza, Elisa Carbone, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Wilson Rawls, and Avi.

[Jason]

CS Lewis, Max Lucado, JRR Tolkien, Arthur C. Clarke, D. Shane Burton, Jason Mitchener ...

[sandyandporter]

CS Lewis, Max Lucado, JRR Tolkien, Arthur C. Clarke, D. Shane Burton, Jason Mitchener ...

Shameless plug Jason, shameless... ***leaves thread to go re-read "Just Passing Through: Notes from a Fellow Traveler"***

[danbos]

JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Terry Brooks, Robert Whitlow, Brian Jaques, Christopher Paolini, JK Rowling

[Jason]

Shameless plug Jason, shameless... ***leaves thread to go re-read "Just Passing Through: Notes from a Fellow Traveler"***

So he's one of your favorites too, huh? ;)

[Salome]

Diana Gabaldon, Daphne du Maurier, Khaled Hosseini, Amy Tan, Diane Ackerman, Jane Austen, Tom Clancy, Madeleine L'Engle

[catman]

I don't read a lot, but I enjoy Stephen King, CS Lewis, Tolkein, Mitch Albom and LeHaye and Jenkins.

[lilmikey]

Jack Higgins, Ted Dekker, Brian Jacques, Lewis and Tolkein, Eric Wilson, Lincoln Child and Dougles Preston(together and seperate)

my fave out of these is Higgins the only downside is after 60+ novels(I have read most of them) they start sounding the same. My faves are the Sean Dillon series.

His books got me interested in the Troubles and if you truely want to know I am sympathetic with the Irish side of things anyway............out of curiosity has anyone ever read any of the Dillon novels

I have to warn you though that after about the 5th or 6th one they kind of got tireing (there is 16 in all) they are still great fun to read though.

[Howlin' Wolf]

Clive Staples Lewis
John Owen

[mercyGurl]

I'm a really big fan of Jerry Bridges. I also love everything Lewis did (except Screwtape Letters). I also like my pastor in Columbia, Sinclair Ferguson. I also enjoy reading Spurgeon's sermons.

[Howlin' Wolf]

I'm a really big fan of Jerry Bridges. I also love everything Lewis did (except Screwtape Letters). I also like my pastor in Columbia, Sinclair Ferguson. I also enjoy reading Spurgeon's sermons.

Jerry Bridges is the MAN!!!!

[Jason]

Jerry Bridges is the MAN!!!!

After Spurgeon.

[mercyGurl]

His books have been exceedingly pivotal in my life. I read "The Discipline of Grace" this past semester and it changed my personal walk with God more than any other book.

[Howlin' Wolf]

After Spurgeon.

of course! Charles Spurgeon is like the Shaquille O'Neal of authors!

I like Piper too. He's been instrumental in my walk.

[Jason]

of course! Charles Spurgeon is like the Shaquille O'Neal of authors!



Great comparison.

I need to read more Spurgeon and Wesley. Sorry, I got to be balanced. ;)

[Howlin' Wolf]

Great comparison.

I need to read more Spurgeon and Wesley. Sorry, I got to be balanced. ;)

i'll give you a pass although i would reccommend you read more Spurgeon, Owen, Luther, Edwards, and Piper.

i just of an author that i really really love....Thomas A'Kempis

[Genna14]

Hmmm I would always have said Frank Perreti, but lately I've been reading the classics. Jane Austen is lovely. I loved Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I also have to plug Gaston Leroux. Believe it or not, Andrew Lloyd Weber did not write The Phantom of the Opera. ;)

[Jason]

i'll give you a pass although i would reccommend you read more Spurgeon, Owen, Luther, Edwards, and Piper.

i just of an author that i really really love....Thomas A'Kempis

I think I'll do Spurgeon, Wesley, Edwards, and Menno.

[Howlin' Wolf]

read a'kempis. you can get his stuff for a few bucks. he was a catholic monk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_%C3%A0_Kempis

[Jason]

read a'kempis. you can get his stuff for a few bucks. he was a catholic monk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_%C3%A0_Kempis

I have Imitation of Christ. Good stuff. In fact, I have a lot of the classic authors.

[Howlin' Wolf]

I have Imitation of Christ. Good stuff. In fact, I have a lot of the classic authors.

then my work is done here

[Jason]

then my work is done here

:D But mine is just starting if you haven't read Wesley.

[Beachcomber]

Max Lucado!!!!!!!!!!! Hi Miss G!!!!!!!!!!:D

[Howlin' Wolf]

:D But mine is just starting if you haven't read Wesley.

touche'

[sandyandporter]

read a'kempis. you can get his stuff for a few bucks. he was a catholic monk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_%C3%A0_Kempis

YOU CAN READ???? :eek: ;)

[ConsumingWhoIAm]

last night, i cracked into 'Redeeming Love' by Francine Rivers and it's great so far. She's probaly one of my new favorite authors. after i get done with 'RL' i'm going to check out 'The Last Sin Eater.'

[mercyGurl]

Oh good call. Redeeming Love is one of my favorite books of all time. She is one of the best Christian fiction writers alive today. Make sure to read "The Atonement Child", an excellent book on abortion.

Also check out Dee Henderson for some other good writing--her O'Malley Series is really good. And Lisa Samson's "The Church Ladies" is one of my favorite Christian fiction books I've ever read.

[lilmikey]

I don't read a lot, but I enjoy Stephen King, CS Lewis, Tolkein, Mitch Albom and LeHaye and Jenkins.

I dont like his other trash but I REALLY REALLY like the Babylon Rising series.

[ConsumingWhoIAm]

Oh good call. Redeeming Love is one of my favorite books of all time. She is one of the best Christian fiction writers alive today. Make sure to read "The Atonement Child", an excellent book on abortion.

Also check out Dee Henderson for some other good writing--her O'Malley Series is really good. And Lisa Samson's "The Church Ladies" is one of my favorite Christian fiction books I've ever read.


thanks. i'll look into them. :)

[mindyhere]

Patricia Cornwell (can't believe no one has listed her yet :eek:)

James Patterson and Tami Hoag are also good.

[SusyQ]

Francine Rivers is awesome!

[WeaselInYerFoot]

I'm reading "Wisdom Hunter" from Randall Arthur and he's quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. It's uncommon for me to say this about a fiction writer, but Arthur does an unbelievable job touching on the subject of legalism and hypocrisy within the church. My impression is probably magnified ten fold right now because I've dealt with the subject closer than what I ever expected to for the past few weeks. I have to say, Randall Arthur's life and experience and how he transfers that into a story is transcendental. And it couldn't have come at a more precise time in my life.

[AtlBraves]

I love Tolkein and C.S. Lewis. I also love Brian Jacques. He is an amazing writer. I also really enjoy Dickens and the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Aurther Conan Doyle

[lilmikey]

Sherlock Holmes rocks man!!!

[mcgreen311]

My favorite is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (in English), but I have CS Lewis on my list along with Tolkien, and some others. No Thomas a Kempis, but I'm reading Aquinas. Does that count?;)

[thesmartguy]

Donald Miller

[mercyGurl]

I love Tolkein and C.S. Lewis. I also love Brian Jacques. He is an amazing writer. I also really enjoy Dickens and the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Aurther Conan Doyle
Have to agree. I love reading the Sherlock Holmes stories. I also enjoy the Miss Marple books by Agatha Christie.

[mcgreen311]

Have to agree. I love reading the Sherlock Holmes stories. I also enjoy the Miss Marple books by Agatha Christie.

That just made me think of Poe's mystery stories with Daupin.

[lilmikey]

I failed to mention that I like James Rollins. I have read only two of his novels and both of them were great.

I also like the Star Wars expanded universe. For those of you that doesn't know that "nerd" lingo it refers to the novels and books of Star Wars adventures

A lot of people rave about Timothy Zahns Thrawn trilogy and I confess that I have not read them myself. But I have to say that(as of now and has been) Kevin J Andersen is my favorite SW EU author.

He is the one that wrote the Ypung Jedi Knights series and the Jedi Search Trilogy(the stories when Luke Skywalker founded the Jedi temple on Yavin and he ressurects the Jedi Knight order.