Your favourite authors?

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Forgive me if this has been done before. I'm a newbie, but I looked a ways back in this sub-forum and didn't see this topic.

Anyway, who are your favourite authors? Mine is definitely Chuck Palahniuk (y'know, the guy that wrote "Fight Club"). Any of that type of social commentary (fiction or non-fiction) really appeals to me. There are plenty others that I enjoy, but Chucky P. is the ultimate winner for me. And I'm SUCH a fan-- I have all of his books in all of the formats (hardcover, trade paper, etc), plus magazines, newspapers, videos, etc that he's been in, and most of it is signed. I also have a giant fake flower that he gave to me at one of his readings that he initialed, as well as an air freshener that is supposed to be steak-scented (yes, really) that he gave away at another reading.

Okay, your turn!

Can I pick myself?

I like much Palahniuk. Also Onix and Crane, by Margaret Atwood, The Secret History, by Donna Tartt, A Friend of the Earth, by T.C.Boyle, and Coupland's books.

1. Stephen King
2. H.P.Lovecraft
3. Truman Capote + Anne Rice ex equo

My holy trinity

I like the power of now by Eckhart Tolle! Also, I like the Secret Life of Plants by Tompkins and Bird. Josh Waitzkin is great!

Another vote for H.P. Lovecraft.

Kurt Vonnegut.

Harlan Ellison.

Thomas Hardy
Dickens
Jane Austen
Anthony Trollope

(I love this period in literature)

also Margaret Atwood
Samuel Beckett is becoming a new favourite.

I used to read a lot of sci-fi Philip K Dick, Asimov but I read mostly poetry and non-fiction at the moment, books by Hollis, Edinger, Robert Johnson;psychology and symbolism books. Also books about Greek mythology.

Unfortunately, I don't read very often; however, when I do I usually go for the classics. It seems as if thus so far, my favorites are Poe, Dante, and Milton. I do like Michael Crichton though. I love H. G. Wells too. I just don't like Hawthorne, and sorry - I highly respect Melville, but it seems that he goes on just too many tangents when he writes lol. Again, I am not a master of liturgy (being a mere cashier in the world of destiny), and if I am wrong on these opinions, please don't kill me.

Joe Craig(He writes teenage fiction)

Russians:
Gogol
Dostoesvski
French:
Flaubert
Stendhal
Boris Vian
Queneau
Celine
English:
Austen
Harold Pinter
Ishiguro
Americans:
Hawthorne
Melville
Capote
Fitzgerald
Ralph Ellison
Henry Roth
Henry James
German language:
Kafka
Kleist
Keller
Robert Walser
Italians:
Fenoglio
Morselli
D'Arzo
Hungarians:
Agotha Kristof
Kertész
Irish (?)
Beckett

If we turn from liking to loving I would say
Kleist, Kafka, Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby , Celine's Mort a credit, Beckett, Malone dies

Edgar Allan Poe, Jeff Noon, Rafik Schami, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Franz Kafka, Stanislaw Lem, Anthony Burgess, Gabriel García Márquez, H.P. Lovecraft

1.) George Orwell
2.) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.) Jack Kerouac

Charles deLint
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Maeve Binchy
Morgan Llewelyn

Neil Gaiman
Alan Moore
Jhonen Vasquez
H.P. Lovecraft
J.K. Rowling
Holly Black

I'm sure I'd love Anne Rice and Philip K. Dick but I haven't got around to reading them yet.

Another Morgan Llywelyn vote
Louis L'Amour
Isaac Asimov
H.G. Wells
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Sara Paretsky
Dorothy Gilman
Agatha Christie
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ellery Queen
Zenna Henderson
Jonas Ward
Norma Lorre Goodrich

I think I need to expand my reading list. Everyone else's looks so interesting