Your favorite authors?

[SandyRN]

I love, love, love to read...I just wanted to share some of my favorite authors who definately help me get through some very rough days....

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*Patricia Cornwell-- Dr. Kay Scarpetta Series

*Tami Hoag -- everything she writes

*Dean Koontz-- favorite character is Christopher Snow, but love all his books

*Sue Grafton-- A is for Alibi, B is for...etc...am up to the letter S

*Sandra Brown--love her mystery/romance novels....one of the very best authors out there

*Nicholas Sparks--great if ya want a romance with some mystery

*Pat Conroy--a wonderful story teller...wrote The Prince Of Tides, Beach Music...

*Wally Lamb--I know this much is true, Shes come undone...

Please share your favorites....reading is such a great activity for those of us who can't get out as much as we used to... :idea:

Sandy

[ICNDonna]

Mary Higgins Clark
J.A. Jance

Donna

[patricia1]

I like Nora Roberts and Danielle Steel. Nora makes good triology books

[blondie45]

I totally agree with Nicholas Sparks. Also like Danielle Steel and Sandra Brown.

[sacausa]

I like Grisham and then old ones like Edgar Allen Poe, etc...

[MarthaB]

:) I like Virginia C Andrews,

[cindysd18]

Does anyone know of any disability rights books? The case for disability rights involving Christopher Reeves was awesome. Just wondering if anyone knows of any others dealing with lobbying and legislation. It gets me motivated to impact others!!!! Waiting to get accepted into graduate school so I can eventually lobby for our rights.

[kadi]

Favorite authors off the top of my head...

Fiction: Amy Tan, Diana Gabaldon (great-lose-yourself-in-the-story historical romance), Billie Letts (quirky characters)

Christian: Max Lucado, Joel Osteen

Nonfiction: Dominique LaPierre

Mystery/Suspense: Jonathan Kellerman, Michael Crighton

Favorite genre is biographies! Anyone got any good ones to recommend?

[charmedx3]

don't remember the author but .....jamie frasier series__ :woohoo:

[kadi]

That's the Diana Gabaldon series, starting with "Outlander"!
My favorite for time travel reads=)

[charmedx3]

Thats It! Although it takes me somewhere between 6-8 months to read a book from her. But I do LOVE JAMIE FRASIER!!!!

[traceann]

Hmmm, I love books and lots of authors - here's a few:
Stephen King - the king to me!
Anne Rice
Jonathan Kellerman
James Patterson
Patricia Cornwell
J.K. Rowling
Shakespeare - yep, love MacBeth
Alice Hoffman - "Practical Magic", great story, movie good too!! ;)

[Julie B]

Nora Roberts
Andrew Greeley
Nicholas Sparks
Danielle Steele

Did you guys know you can get brand new books off of Amazon for 1c plus shipping?? We do that all the time! In fact, we sell our used books there too. Great for college text books......better return than taking them back to the bookstores.

[quiltz]

I just noticed Jonathan Kellerman and want to give equal time to his wife,
Faye Kellerman. Just make sure to start at the beginning since her books follow the same characters ..... and they develop over time.
Liz

[traceann]

Thanks for the tip Julie! How does that work????

And thanks to you too Liz! I did not realize she was related, lol. Duh. Must read her stuff now.... :)

[SandyRN]

I'd forgotten Mary Higgins Clark. Love her books...they're usually quick, easy reads, but they're always well written and fun.

Tracey, just go to Amazon.com, find a book that you like, and you'll see other ways to buy the book...usually in red I believe and it gives you alternatives to buy paperbacks or hardbacks, and sometimes collectors editions....I buy several books a month that way. It's cheaper than the used book stores around here, and easy for me since I dont get out a whole lot. I can get a brand new book for a total of 3.50 in perfect condition.

I've been doing this for months now and its wonderful!!!

[traceann]

Woo Hoo!! Thanks Sandy!!! I will definitely be checking that feature out! ;)

[Julie B]

Right, Sandy, when you go to a book's page, there is often a button in the top left that says "see all buying options" or something like that. All of a sudden the bargain racks at Borders seem expensive! :-)

[traceann]

Oh you guys are great!!!! My hubby won't think so, lol, but I do!!!! "honey, gonna need some more bookcases!" LMAO!!! ;)

[BellaTutu]

ooooooooooooo Sandy, I love Dean K. too! Saw a new book in the store the other day and picked it up to read the back - but my son kept tugging on me so I never got to finish reading what it was about. I love Stephen King too...I"m a horror movie/book addict for some reason, always have been. And JK Rowling too....yep..gotta love Harry Potter!

[SandyRN]

I have been on a Dean Koontz roll here. I seem to do that, pick an author and read 4 or 5 of their books, then move on to someone else. I just got "Face" and "Odd Thomas" in the mail, from Amazon, a couple days ago. I've got to finish the book I'm reading before I start one of those....but, I'm tempted to put the book aside and come back to it. I wanna read Odd Thomas soooooooooooo bad. For the 2 books total, it was about 8 dollars, and that includes shipping, and 2 brand new books!!!

I am DEFINATELY gonna need a new bookcase, or 2!

[traceann]

What fun what fun!!! That's a GREAT bargain!! I am all over that....lol ;)

Oh I love horror books, movies etc.... I don't know why either....