Who are Your Favourite Authors?

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This can be as intensely detailed as you like or as simple as you want! I just want to know who everyone loves. There are so many authors to choose from, so let loose! Any genre, any style, any age!

Specifically, though, I want to know if and how they inspired you as a writer, or a reader!

Personally, my favourite authors are:

  • Derek Landy (Skullduggery Pleasant)
  • Kelley Armstrong (Women of the Otherworld)
  • J.R.R Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)
  • J.K Rowling (Harry Potter)
  • Neil Gaiman (the Graveyard Book/American Gods)
  • H.P Lovecraft (the Call of Cthulhu)
  • Darren Shan (The Demonata)

There are tons more but these are the authors I’ve consistently liked since I was very young. I can’t wait to hear everyone else’s favourites!

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Lol I read a lot but I’ll keep this short, these are some amazing authors who I gotta read books from this year.

Kiera Cass - The Selection Series
Ally Carter - The Embassy Row series, The Gallagher Girls Series’ (I really like her books, they’re action books but with some romance)
Melody Carlson - Carter House Girls; The Runaway
Nicola Yoon - Everything, Everything and the sun is also a star
Jennifer Lynn Barnes - The Naturals Series

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Oooh awesome! I do like action with romance sprinkled in there so that might be a good look for me!

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Try out the natural series, it’s mystery also :joy:

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Yo are you psychic or sommat. Do you just know what I like or have you read all the series I mentioned and know that most of them have mystery, action and romance at some point xD

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I sat J.K. Rowling with a slight hint of disdain because she betrayed my trust by ruining McGonagall’s age!

But I share most of the same ones as the OP.

I haven’t read a lot of Neil Gaiman, but I think that his work is amazing and I love the stuff he’s done that got adapted :stuck_out_tongue: He’s on my list of authors to read!

Apart from that, I’d have to say

  • Stephen Fry (I love his books on poetry and mythology)
  • Ursula LeGuin
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Edgar Allen Poe
  • George R.R. Martin (I love his stories even though I don’t think his writing style is that good)
  • C.S. Lewis
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Charles Dickens
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No I’m guessing :joy::joy::joy: I haven’t read any of those books listed above except the first book of Harry Potter

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Ooh hopefully this can be a little give and take! We can all try out new things :eyes::eyes:

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Did they write the lion, the witch and the wardrobe?

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Of course! C.S.Lewis and Dickens! I love Phantasmagoria!

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I forgot to put in Karl Marx and George Orwell because :eyes: I’m a communist spy (well, part spy. Orwell was banned in the mother Russia)

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Yes! The Narnia series :smiley:

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My current favorites:

  • Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games series)
  • Kiera Cass (The Selection series)
  • Soman Chainani (The School for Good and Evil series)
  • Nicola Yoon (Everything, Everything)

Authors I loved when I was younger:

  • Wendy Mass (Willow Falls series)
  • Lauren Myracle (The Winnie Years series)
  • Alex Morgan (The Kicks series)

There are more, but I can’t remember them at the moment. :sweat_smile:

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Too many to choose :joy::orange_heart:

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Tell me bout it :joy:

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Maxon or Aspen? :triumph:

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Maxon

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…
I will always love Aspen but I agree :relieved::facepunch:

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I love the selection series as well :heart_eyes::heart_eyes: team Maxon all the way!

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Roald Dahl for sure.

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