Who is your all time favorite author? I have always been drawn to....

Thomas Jefferson

Charles Bukowski. You won't regret it.

Gene Wolfe

Ayn Rand . Other than that I like TV and Movies .

Chuck Palahniuk
Guy Corneau
Robert Bly

Tom Robbins
Feodor Dostoevsky
David Sedaris
John Kennedy Toole
Tim Dorsey
Michael Creighton
Tom Wolfe
John Updike
Kurt Vonnegtut

Jim Thompson’s stuff is pretty good. What about Joe Biden? Did he write a book? He did! The Patriot Act. Let’s go Bran-don!

Sorry - duplicate because I was trying to fix auto-correct spelling.

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I forgot to include Paul Beatty's The Sellout, which won the Mann Booker prize in 2016. It is the story of a black man whose father is killed by the police, a biting satire on race relations in a style like Confederacy of Dunces or anything by Tom Robbins on steroids. It's a hugely relevant and comical book hated by BLM supporters and those with limited vocabularies and/or too stupid to understand satire.

I picked it up at a bookstore in New Zealand and found myself laughing so hard that I was snorting and falling out of my chair, which was kind of embarrassing at the airport.

Edgar Allen Poe and Dean Koontz

Probably my top 10...

Isaac Asimov
Mark Twain
Philip K. Dick
Arthur C. Clarke
Ray Bradbury
Dean Koontz
Anne McCaffrey
Robert Heinlein
Kurt Vonnegut
Charles Dickens

Tom Clancy

J.R.R.Tolkien
Franz Kafka
Piers Anthony
Anne Mc Cafferey

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Larry Flynt.

Zane Grey
Algernon Blackwood
Agatha Christie
Louis L’Amour

Clive Cussler until he started going off on new characters that I never really got into.

BRANDON SANDERSON X10000!

G.K. Chesterton, Wendell Berry, Walt Whitman...

and a novelist I just discovered this year that is perfect for "spooky season" is Riley Sager. (Home Before Dark)

I love Bukowski! Very cynical... also a realist.

It's hard to pick one...maybe I could select the best of a genre.

For Renaissance fiction. It's got to be Shakespeare.
For Philosophy.... John Locke
For American tenacity.... Benjamin Franklin
For reality.... Anyone's journal or diary
For humor.... Will Rogers
Of the Romanticists.... William Blake
Of the Confessionists.... Sylvia Plath
Of the Victorian literature... TIE: Thomas Hardy, George Eliot
Of the Beats.... Jack Kerouac
20th century.... John Gardner

H.G. Wells.

James Joyce
Thomas Pynchon
Aleister Crowley
Hunter Thompson

Yes I heard those articles are good.

Gonna have to agree with the Hodor guy

Blake, Whitman, Robert Anton Wilson, Vonnegut, Robert Augustus Masters, Jim Carroll, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Heinlein and Terry Southern off the top of my head.

Too long a list depending on genre, and at best each category could maybe be reduced to ten ..
I'm not six OP. I generally don't think in terms of favorites
But here are a few in no particular order


Voltaire
John Kennedy Toole
Philip Dick
Kurt Vonnegut
Heinlein
Orwell
Huxley
Hume
Locke
Schopenhauer
Plato
Lao Tzu
Dr Suess
Cormic McCarthy
Beagle
Milne
Tolkien
David Eddings
Robert Jordan
Tad Williams
Poe
Antler
Ken Nordene
Richard Adams
Douglas Adams
Gogol
Dostoevsky
Max Weber
Kafka
Lewis Carroll
T.S White
Robert Ludlum
Le Carre
Dave Eggers

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And on and on

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Big fan of The Executioners Song and The Gospel According to the Son, by Norman Mailer.

OK, gonna have to read that one now.

Sait Faik Abasiyanik and Aziz Nesin. They are Turkish; however they are brilliant minds and have written great books. I'd especially recommend the first one.

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Ernest Hemingway
Anne Rice Witch books.
William Carlos Williams
Charles Bukowski

To my horror, my daughter in her tweens hated to read. I tried everything... until she was given one of Anne McCafferey's books, and she was hooked. Her books were a gateway drug for her to discover other fantasy writers like Tolkien, CS Lewis, and so many others. To this day she's an avid reader. I just didn't put the right books in her hands to start.

I'm fond of Kafka's ability to describe a scene in such a vivid way that you would be totally convinced he had been there. Not only that but the characters get into the biggest fixes and most outlandish situations, and it's totally believable.

Great set of reads, Fossy!