Top Three Favorite Authors

I've always enjoyed discussing favorite authors with my close friends and since I'm all out of new friends I ask you: Who are your top three favorite authors?

For Me:

1. H.P. Lovecraft
2. Phillip K. Dick
3. Drew Karpyshyn

Please feel free to elaborate!

 

1. Patrick Rothfuss
2. Jim Butcher
3. Geoffrey Girard (Biased because he taught my English Classes in Highschool)

 

See I love doing this because I have never heard of any of those authors. Any recommendations on some books by them?

 

Name of the Wind & A Wise Mans Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
These are a must if you like Fantasy.

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
I may or may not have stolen my user-name from the books >_>

Geoffrey Girard
Just published Cains Blood (Adult) Project Cain (Teen)

Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steve Erikson (Number #4 on my list)
It's an Epic Fantasy series with 11 books I think.

 

In regards to Jim Butcher, I recommend The Dresden Files. Now, on to my favourite authors (in order):

1.) Malorie Blackman
2.) Lee Child
3.) Robert Muchamore, but only because he was the author of my childhood.

 

My list keeps changing, but as of right now, it's Saul Bellow, Ernesto Sabato, and Kafka.

 

In no particular order:

William Dale Jennings (or, rather, his book, The Ronin)
William Blake
Edgar Allan Poe

Heinlein, Tolkien, and King are in the "almost" category because some of their stuff I love, some I haven't been able to finish. Tolkien and LOTR hold a special place among the rest because that book got me into literature at 13.

 

I can respect that lol

 

1. Neil Gaiman (to the point that I'm entirely willing to buy a book completely blind as long as it's his work)
2. Terry Pratchett (because Discworld is awesome and funny and surprisingly deep)
3. Margaret Weis (because I pretty much grew up on a steady diet of Dragonlance novels with her name on them)

 

1. Douglas Adams
2. Phillip K Dick
3. Isaac Asimov

 

"Are you a fan of romance?" He asked, his voice dripping in sarcasm.

 

1) James Joyce
2) Thomas Pynchon
3) Haruki Murakami.

There are many many more than that. Just keeping a nice three of the best of the best, three choices just isn't enough. And also, I picked people who are primarily rather recent novelists. You can't make me seriously pick between favorite writers, and I just wouldn't be able to give you an answer.

 

Raymond Chandler, David Wishart, Lindsey Davis

 

1) Harlan Coben
2) Francis Scott Fitzgerald
3) Grimm brothers (their collection of stories)

 

Narrowing this down to three is unfair! I have about eight names or so floating around in my head and they're all favorites - here's today's group of three:

1) Anthony Burgess
2) John Steinbeck
3) Joseph Conrad

 

Today? Let's see: James Welch, Kage Baker, Margaret Elphinstone

Tomorrow? There will be three more. Three isn't enough...

 

Roger Zelazny
Kevin Hearne
Steven Brust

 

Charlotte Bronte, Haruki Murakami, Phillip K. Dick.

ps. And Dostoyevsky.

 

Judging from some of the other replies, I'm going to have to give Murakami a try.

 

Read 'Wind-up Bird Chronicles' first. It's sublime.

 

Trust me on this, Murakami is more than worth it.

 

Murakami is going to win the Nobel next year (after Cormac McCarthy wins it this year). So yeah, he's good.

 

In no particular order:
- William Gibson
- Neal Stephenson
- Roald Dahl/Ian Fleming (tie)

 

James Kelman
Carson McCullers
Dostoevski