Top 5 authors?

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  1. Irminsul

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    Also H.P Lovecraft
     
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    OK - so I'm going to limit myself to writers of fiction here, or the list would run well over 5. Even getting it down to 5 novelists isn't that easy, but here's provisional list which might well be different on a different day.

    Jonathan Swift
    Leo Tolstoy
    Norman Mailer
    Gore Vidal
    Fyodor Dostoevsky


    Could easily think of many more.................
     
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    Top 5 sci-fi authors:

    Frank Herbert
    Michael Moorcock
    Ursula K.LeGuin
    Philip K.Dick
    Jules Verne

    You could infer from this list that you'd have a higher chance of being in my top 5 if 'K' is you middle initial. :book:
     
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    John Grisham
    Stephen King
    Dan Brown
    Dean Koontz
    James Patterson
    There's too many to list....
     
  6. hotwater

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    C.S. Lewis, O’ Henry, Katherine Mansfield, Sherwood Anderson, Virginia Wolfe, Hans Christian Anderson, Andre Gide, Somerset Maugham, Sinclair Lewis, Oscar Wilde, Dashiell Hammett, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Emanuel Swedenborg, L Frank Baum, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Dunsany, Cabell, William Saroyan
     
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    Favourite literary authors....

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Rabindranath Tagore

    Mark Twain

    Ruskin Bond

    Paulo Coelho
     
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    First one is my number 1. author... :book:
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    John Steinbeck- great use of metaphors in minimalistic prose
    Charles Dickens- great dramatic characters
    Isaac Asimov- could explain anything and make you think
    Mark Twain- still the epitome of American humor
    John Varley- sometimes called the greatest author in America today, he's got it all from brains to style to imagination and finesse and writes whatever he damned well wants.
     
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    Jules Verne
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Stephen King
    William Shakespeare
    Francis Dipietro

    Of course there are many more but I'm not one of those people to post 10 when it's a top 5 even though those second 5 are just as good
     
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  11. YouFreeMe

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    I don't know that I have a favorite author, as much as favorite books. Lately I've been enjoying: William Faulkner, Stephen King & Toni Morrison.
     
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    When the Wizard of Oz first came out it was considered decadent, and Ban-the-Baum movement was formed.

    It didn’t last long however, popular opinion overcame the critics and the wizard of oz was hugely popular.
     
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  14. Prose5

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    I've got a top 4

    Charles Bukowski
    Hunter S Thompson
    Stephen King
    Hermann Hesse
     
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    Stephen King
    Dana Fuller Ross
    Dickens
    Margaret Mitchell
    and, yes,
    The Collection known as Erin Hunter
     
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    William Shakespeare
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Leo Tolstoy
    James Joyce
    J.R.R. Tolkien
     
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    Lisa Ladew One true Mate Series
     
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    New author I recently discovered - Colleen Hoover
     
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    Mary Doria Russell
    Stephen King
    Craig Johnson
    Marko Kloos
    Lee Child
     
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    Stephen King
    Chuck Palahniuk
    Bret Easton Ellis
    George Orwell

    Edgar Allan Poe
     

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