SusanAR Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Yet another fiction question:). I have a lot of favorite classics, but I'm curious- who is your favorite contemporary author, and what is your favorite book?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apmom Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 That's hard to choose just one.... One of my absolute favorites is Barbara Kingsolver. I loved The Poisonwood Bible. That is up there with one of my all time favorite books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikeBookBread Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Not high literature, but very smart and well written: I LOVE the Tuesday Next series by Jasper Fford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 is my favorite so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SusanAR Posted March 30, 2010 Author Share Posted March 30, 2010 Not high literature, but very smart and well written: I LOVE the Tuesday Next series by Jasper Fford. Wondering if there are two series. Is it Tuesday Next or Thursday Next? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikeBookBread Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Wondering if there are two series. Is it Tuesday Next or Thursday Next? Oh geez, it's Thursday.... but TODAY is Tuesday :001_huh: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 I read very little fiction but my favorite author (no apologies) is Stephen King and my favorite book is The Stand. If I was stranded somewhere with only one fiction book, I would hope it was this one. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 I am entirely smitten with three British women writers: Jill Paton Walsh (Lapsing), Penelope Lively (Heat Wave), and Helen Simonson (Major Pettigrew's Last Stand). I think I probably know them each by heart after so many readings. By the way, Penelope Lively was educated by a British correspondence course, by her nanny, in colonial Egypt. As a take on homeschooling in another time and place, it is really fascinating; she discusses it in her memoir entitled Oleander, Jacaranda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 I read very little fiction but my favorite author (no apologies) is Stephen King and my favorite book is The Stand. If I was stranded somewhere with only one fiction book, I would hope it was this one. :001_smile: I agree with this, but if I had to choose another author it would be Orson Scott Card. I love his books. Faithe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in WI Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 I don't usually read contemporary fiction, but I enjoyed The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 S.M. Stirling, and his Novels of the Change, which starts with Dies the Fire, and the Island in the Seas of Eternity trilogy. I am, however, thoroughly enjoying Under the Dome by Stephen King right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Diana Gabaldon and her Outlander series. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splungeman Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. That is a writer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liza Q Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Doomsday Book is my favorite contemporary book though I don't know if I would say that Connie Willis is my favorite contemporary author...she is pretty awesome, though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 It's a tie between Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimon. And of course, Good Omens gives the best of both ;) A Hat Full of Sky is our current family read-a-loud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybear Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Diana Gabaldon and her Outlander series. :) :iagree: And second to that, maybe Sara Donati or Phillipa Gregory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehogs4 Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 My current favorite is The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barberry...? is that her name? can't think of how to spell her last name off the top at the moment, but close enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 (edited) It's a tie between Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimon. And of course, Good Omens gives the best of both ;) A Hat Full of Sky is our current family read-a-loud. I agree. Terry Pratchett is one of my faves (and now my dc are hooked too; we just finished A Hat Full of Sky). Loved Good Omens. Pratchett is a fantastic author. Terry Pratchett Walter Moers Kurt Vonnegut I also have two books I've read that I love, but haven't read other things by the authors: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides P.S. Thumbs up on Jasper Fforde too. I saw him already mentioned also. Edited March 31, 2010 by Stacia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiegirl Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Oh, I have a long list of both my favourite books and authors but I will try to whittle it down. My favourite book is Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. Favourite authors are Yann Martel and Alan Bradley(Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibbygirl Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 My favorite fiction novel is Bram Stoker's Dracula. It's the one book that I love to read over and over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Yet another fiction question:). I have a lot of favorite classics, but I'm curious- who is your favorite contemporary author, and what is your favorite book?? The Middle Ground by Margaret Drabble (who used to married to "Richard" in Keeping Up Appearances). But, I haven't read very much contemporary fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slartibartfast Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Kurt Vonnegut or Neil Gaiman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicksMama-Zack's Mama Too Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 I read very little fiction but my favorite author (no apologies) is Stephen King and my favorite book is The Stand. If I was stranded somewhere with only one fiction book, I would hope it was this one. :001_smile: Same here. I hope SWB will forgive me.;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 I read a lot of SF/Fantasy- I love Mercedes Lackey, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, Phillip Pullman, and about a thousand others- but my favorite "mainstream" author at the moment is Margaret Atwood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elise1mds Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Conn Iggulden or Sarah Dunant, off the top of my head :) I love lots of authors these days. My guilty pleasure is Tom Clancy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 I'm not a big fiction fan either but I really enjoyed Life of Pi by Yann Martel Favorite fiction author? Well, I like the OLD stuff; Dickens, Hemingway, Austen, Bronte, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen A Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Crossing to Safety and Angle of Repose are two of my favorites by Wallace Stegner. I've bookmarked this thread to try out some new authors--NOT Stephen King though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokotg Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 I loved Life of Pi as well. I'm a big fan of Anne Tyler; I think she's usually very good and sometimes great (Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, Accidental Tourist). I love Bobbie Ann Mason and Peter Taylor for short stories (Mason has a couple of novels, too). Snow Falling on Cedars is great and Middlesex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiobrain Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Italo Calvino & Neal Stephenson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyDay Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Well, my fiction tastes are not very "high brow". I like the redemption series by Karen Kingsbury. Pretense by Lori Wick is an old favorite. The dragon rider series by Anne McCaffrey. Some of the older books by Jeffery Archer were good, especially First Among Equals. Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series was very captivating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara in AZ Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 That's hard to choose just one.... One of my absolute favorites is Barbara Kingsolver. I loved The Poisonwood Bible. That is up there with one of my all time favorite books. Me, too! I also loved her book Animal, Vegetable, Mineral on the non-fiction side of things... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WishboneDawn Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance and it was my absolute favourite LONG before Oprah picked it for her book club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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