Who is your favorite author?

Too many to count, but here are my favorites!
Dean Koontz is my all-time favorite.
Bentley Little (will scare you silly)
James Patterson
Terri Blackstock
Robin Cook
Patricia Cornwell
Diana Diamond
Janet Evanovich (sooo funny)
Joy Fielding
Lisa Gardner
Dorothea Benton Frank
Tess Gerritsen (The Bone Garden is her best!)
Sue Grafton
Kristen Hannah
Linda Howard
J.A.Jance
Lisa Jackson
Fern Michaels
Eugenia Price
Karen Robards
Lisa Scottoline
Wendy Corsi Staub
Nicholas Sparks
Mariah Stewart
Douglas Preston / Lincoln Child (the Aloysius Pendergast mysteries)
Sorry about the long list, but I am an avid reader!

Margaret Atwood
Neil Gaiman
J.K. Rowling
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jim Butcher
Stephen Fry

Simon Beckett
Joe McGinniss
Jack Olsen
Dr. Bill Bass (Founder of the Body Farm)
George Orwell
Edgar Allen Poe

In order (more or less):

1. Anne Tyler
2. Maeve Binchy
3. John Irving (especially A Prayer for Owen Meany)
4. Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine
5. P.D. James
6. James Connelly
7. Ken Bruen
8. David Lodge
9. A.N. Wilson
10. Lisa Scottoline
11. Lawrence Block
12. Linda Barnes
13. Janet Evanovich (especially Stephanie Plum, the other Jersey 'girl')
14. Sue Grafton
15. Patricia Cornwell
16. Cecelia Ahern

And to make my lit teachers/professors proud:

1. Thomas Hardy
2. George Eliot
3. Albert Camus

I know I'm different from most people here, but I don't really choose favorite authors :P

At this moment, S. J. Rozan, I love her Bill Smith and Lydia Chin series! (But, I am also pretty crazy about Lisa Lutz and her Spellman Files series too.) :)

Most of my favs have already been mentioned here but one I found just recently is Lisa See. I started out with Shanghai Girls and have now worked my through 4 more of her books.

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Originally Posted by Photobabe

Most of my favs have already been mentioned here but one I found just recently is Lisa See. I started out with Shanghai Girls and have now worked my through 4 more of her books.

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I just heard about her for the first time this week. I think one of her books is on our new list for our book club.

Colin Cotterill
Harlan Coben

Are the two I never miss and will always look for first, but there is a very long list of others whose work I like or will buy if I see