Who Are Your Favorite Authors?

[Volfan1000]

I like to read Pat Conroy and John Grisham and I enjoy legal thrillers and medical books.

What is VolNation currently reading?

 

[Go aeiou]

I like to read Pat Conroy and John Grisham and I enjoy legal thrillers and medical books.

What is VolNation currently reading?

Harlan Coben
Myron Bolitar series and other. Private investigator and his friend, Win.

Ken Follet:
Pillars of the earth series. "The small boys came early to the hanging"

 

[VolFaninFla]

Nelson DeMille
I read The Gold Coast in 1991 and started to read it again over the weekend

 

[VolNExile]

Kim Stanley Robinson (sci-fi, heavy on the sci)

Scan noir crime novels

Barbara Kingsolver

(mostly I read textbooks these days: biology, chemistry, geology, music theory- finals coming up!)

 

[bignewt]

Cormac McCarthy
Irvine Welsh
Bret Easton Ellis
Don Delillo
John Irving
John Updike
James McMurtry

B.H. Newton

 

[Majors]

Vince Flynn..Kyle Mills has done a good job of carrying on the Mitch Rapp series.

 

[chatsworth_vol]

Louis L'Amour
Clive Cussler
Tom Clancy
W.E.B. Griffin
Hampton Sides

These are my favorites, but I read almost anything. Both fiction and non fiction.

 

[turbovol]

Graham Greene
Iris Murdoch
Dostoevsky
Dickens
Balzac
Zola
Somerset Maughm
Amore Towles
William Boyd

 

[volinbham]

Been too long since I read a book but

As all around authors:

Charles Bukowski
John Steinbeck
P.G. Wodehouse
Jim Thompson
Stephen King


For specific works:

George RR Martin
Roger Zelasny
Thomas Berger

 

[LouderVol]

Robert Jordan.
Isaac Asimov.
Jules Verne.

Sci-fi/fantasy.

 

[JCHateSteve]

Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
Frank Herbert
Brandon Sanderson
Scott Lynch
James S.A. Corey

 

[JustFunnN'Orange]

Clive Cussler...God Rest His Soul

 

[utchs81]

I'm enjoying CJ Box, the Joe Pickett series and David Rosenfelt, Andy Carpenter series. right now. Both are pretty much the same plot over and over but are entertaining none the less.

 

[Danl]

1) Mark Twain >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Everybody else, i.e. Douglas Adams, Asimov, Frank Herbert, Steven King. I enjoyed the Robert Jordan/Sanderson Wheel Of Time series and the C.J. Box series. Currently reading Shantaram by Gregory Davis Roberts.

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

Rudyard Kipling

 

[Noni]

Jean Auel
Ken Follett
David McCullough
Doris Kerns Goodwin
Jane Austen
Anne Rice

 

[pismonque]

Rudyard Kipling

 

[GVF]

Scott Adams
Sergio Argones
Tom Batuik
Berkley Breathed
VT Hamilton
Johnny Hart
Charles M Shultz
Matt Walker
Art & Chip Sansom

 

[EasternVol]

Scott Adams
Sergio Argones
Tom Batuik
Berkley Breathed
VT Hamilton
Johnny Hart
Charles M Shultz
Matt Walker
Art & Chip Sansom

Some good ones. I'd add Walt Kelly and Al Capp.

 

[Woodrow Call]

Novelists: Larry McMurtry, Tolstoy, Vonnegut, Cormac
Short stories: Chekov
Essayists: Gary Snyder, Edward Abbey, Tolstoy
Poets: Gary Snyder, Robinson Jeffers, Sylvia Plath, Keats, Lew Welch
Philosophy: Arne Naess, Voltaire, Rousseau, Aquinas
Historians: Richard Evans, Timothy Snyder, Eric Foner, Hampton Sides

 

[Tin Man]

Ursula K. Le Guin
Dashiell Hammett
Kurt Vonnegut
Raymond Carver
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Kennedy Toole
William Preston Robertson
Molly Ivins
… so many more…

 

[PEPPERJAX]

Isaac Asimov
Stephen King
William Gibson
Chuck Palahniuk

 

[bignewt]

Ursula K. Le Guin
Dashiell Hammett
Kurt Vonnegut
Raymond Carver
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Kennedy Toole
William Preston Robertson
Molly Ivins
… so many more…

i would have listed Toole but for my list you have to have written more than one novel, even if that one was pure genius.

 

[vollygirl]

I like to read Pat Conroy and John Grisham and I enjoy legal thrillers and medical books.

What is VolNation currently reading?

You need to check out Robin Cook if you haven't. I worked on the insurance and on the healthcare provider side both, and his books are fantastic!

 

[Volfan1000]

You need to check out Robin Cook if you haven't. I worked on the insurance and on the healthcare provider side both, and his books are fantastic!

Cook's books are very good.