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Top 5 favourite novelists of all time

post #1 of 84
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...classical and contemporary together, plus one book recommendation for each author. Go!

PS: Not "the top 5 novelists of all time". Your personal 5 favourite novelists.
post #2 of 84
1. John Crowley - Little, Big
2. Neil Gaiman - American Gods
3. Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
4. Neal Stephenson - Quicksilver (and the whole of the Baroque cycle)
5. Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
post #3 of 84
In no particular order,

Alistair Mclean
George Orwell
Ayn Rand
Leon Uris
Enid Blyton


Best book ever: Battle Cry - Leon Uris
Second best book ever: HMS Ulysses - Alistair Mclean
Third : Fountainhead :Ayn Rand
Fourth: Animal Farm : George Orwell
Fifth Famous Five series : Enid Blyton (amazing fun when I just started out in grade school)
post #4 of 84
In no particular order:

1. Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly
2. Phillip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass
3. Tolkien - The Lord Of The Rings
4. Neil Gaiman - American Gods
5. Scott Adams - The Dilbert Principle
and I can't not include number 6
6. John le Carré - The Constant Gardener
post #5 of 84
Hmmm....

Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park / State Of Fear (I can't decide between these two so I make a double recommendation!)

Douglas Adams -- Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

Carl Sagan -- Contact

Frank Herbert -- Dune
post #6 of 84
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Originally Posted by appophylite View Post
Hmmm....

Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park / State Of Fear (I can't decide between these two so I make a double recommendation!)

Douglas Adams -- Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

Carl Sagan -- Contact

Frank Herbert -- Dune
Mmmm glad to see another sci-fi fan here . I must agree with the last four, and add two more

Lois McMaster Bujold - The Warrior's Apprentice

Dan Simmons - The Hyperion Cantos
post #7 of 84
Orwell 1984
Tolkien LOTR
Matthew Reilly - everything?
Jeffrey Archer - lot of his work
Ludlum - the matarese circle

edit: how could I forget Dan Brown.. Angels and Demons was just too good. (so was the Da Vinci Code, but it was overrated and nowhere near AnD)
post #8 of 84
George Orwell - 1984
Saul Bellow - Humboldt's Gift
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five
William Burroughs - Cities of the Red Night

and

Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

Sorry couldn't exclude the last one.
post #9 of 84
lol 1984 is on almost everyone's list

that book was a serious life-changing experience..
post #10 of 84
This was easier when I was younger and truly loved the classics. Now my taste changes all the time, especially when it comes to "favorites". I prefer easier reading nowadays.

So right now...

Graham Greene- The End of the Affair (i've read all his books)

Vonnegut- Breakfast of Champions (ditto)

Paul Auster- Leviathan (also)

Jules Feiffer- The Man in the Ceiling

(A children's book, but an amazing one. He's mainly a cartoonist, but I still consider him one of my favorite authors.)

Brooks Hansen- The Chess Garden (this is the only book of his that I've read, so it's hard to call him a favorite author, but this one has always been on my top 3 from the moment I read it. I've bought copies for people, and I scour second had stores to make sure I always have more than one copy.)

My first three are fairly common, but I highly recommend that people look for the last two. I'll go a step further- if you read either of the two books and find that you regret your purchase, I'll buy the copies from you. It's difficult to get them here in the Philippines anyway.
post #11 of 84
Chuck Palahniuk - Survivor
Jack London - The Call of the Wild
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
J.D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
post #12 of 84
Shame on me for forgetting Kurt Vonnegut.

I highly advise Slaughterhouse 5, it's a classic of the genre.

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is great too.
post #13 of 84
dostojevskij
kafka
h c andersen
hamsun
södergran (not novellist, poet - but that doesn't matter to me)

these five came into my mind at this moment
post #14 of 84
Terry Brooks - Shannara Series.
Raymond E.Feist - Magician.
Colin Wilson - Spider World.
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting etc.
Terry Pratchett - Discworld Novels.
post #15 of 84
George Orwell - 1984
Douglas Adams - Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, trilogy of four
Charles Bukowski - Post office
Aleister Crowley - Moonchild
Aldous Huxley - Brave new world

(Two of the novelists mentioned are represented in my signature)
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