Who are your favorite fiction authors?

My personal favourites are Tracy Hickman and Margaret weise, whom together wrote the dragonlance saga.

The saga touched me in various ways.. made my mind live within fantasy for a long time!

Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Pullman

Have you read anything by good ole mr. Lovecraft? My favorite story is probably Pickman's model.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pickman's_Model

It's only a few pages.

I love all authors, mixture of everything... Dan Brown, V.C Andrews (even though alot of her books are strange), Joy Fielding, Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Rieches, Iris Johansen, Nora Roberts... My list is large.

my daughters got me reading jodie picoult....shes pretty fab

Philip K.Dick
Umberto Eco
Thomas Mann

Just to name a few.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacDonald_Fraser
George MacDonald Fraser
Flashman series

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Pearl by John Steinbeck

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

I've read Catch 22 4 times.

I'm a big fan of Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld series.

http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com/mSeries.htm

It's worth reading the series in the right order because each book introduces a character who features in the next book in the series.

Alina Reyes
Anais Nin
John Burdett
Morgan Llewelyn
Koji Suzuki
Miyuki Miyabe
Gregory McGuire
Lemony Snicket (as well as Daniel Handler)
Jess Row- The Train to Lo Wu
Jonathan Gash- Year of the Woman
Martin Booth- Golden Boy
Douglas Adams- The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Michael Walsh- As Time Goes By

Anne Rice- She once held #1 spot in my heart and inspired me to become an author but since she has vehemently opposed fan fiction works based on her novels, the discontinuation of the Vampire Chrnoicles and return to Catholicism- I left the church for justified reasons at 13- I have avoided her latest works. I understand that she is going through a deep depression since her husband Stan died, her diabetic coma and substantial weight loss (thru R-n-Y gastric bypass surgery) I feel that her commentary about the VC series as an act of turning her back on God unnecessary. Her son is openly homosexual and she still supports the Dems but I find her new "simpler" lifestyle in California dubious. Her legendary New orleans home (that I HOPE survived Katrina) is the personification of Anne Rice.

Patricia Cornwell- Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed. Cornwell is an oxymoron, a survivor of an ED and in a lesbian relationship yet she supports Bush and his duplicitous, insensitive and culturally backward ilk. If she wants to be selfish and avoid paying high taxes- everbody's like that! But not everyone has millions from being a forensic pathologist and a best-selling author.