Calling all voracious readers-need author tips

[Fish_Whisperer]

Some more, from my most recent reads:

"Like A Charm," Karin Slaughter
"The Time Traveler's Wife," Audrey Niffeneggar (sp?)
"The Summer Of Ordinary Ways," Nicole Helget
"Atlantis Found," Clive Cussler
"Waiting For Willa," Dorothy Eden
"The Essential Rumi" tr. from Persian by Coleman Barks
"The Little Prince" and "Wind, Sand, & Stars," by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Moby Dick," Herman Melville
"The Monsters Of Gramercy Park," Danny Leigh
"Veronika Decides To Die," and "The Alchemist," Paulo Coelho
"Musashi" Eiji Yoshikawa
"Taiko" Eiji Yoshikawa
"Illusions" Richard Bach
"The Contortionist's Handbook" Craig Clevenger
"The Prophet" Kahlil Gibran
"Hard-Boiled Wonderland & The End Of The World," "A Wild Sheep Chase," "Norwegian Wood," "Dance, Dance, Dance!," "Sputnik Sweetheart," "Pinball 1974," & "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles," Haruki Murakami
"Remains Of The Day," "The Unconsoled," and "Never Let Me Go," Kazuo Ishiguro
"The Shadow Of The Wind," Carlos Ruiz Zafon

 

[TSandM]

Oh, but The Little Prince is SOOOO sad!

 

[Green_Manelishi]

Clive Cussler
Peter Straub
John Saul
Lincoln Child and/or Douglas Preston


However I see that you also read Peretti which is a "completely different" genre.
In that case try Larry Burkett.

 

[Otter]

another great (and little known) sci-fi-ish author to read is Philip K. Dick. "Do Androids Dream of Electric SHeep?" got made into the movie Blade Runner, and he's written a lot

...snip...

I believe he also wrote "Postman" which was not done near enough justice by the movie (although I still enjoyed it).

Another 'little known' author is Jack L. Chalker. His most famous was the "Well World" series which won both Hugo and Nebula awards. I pretty much have read all the he wrote before his passing a couple of years ago.

 

[jimisparks]

Neal Stephenson: System of the world is a three part series. It will keep you reading for awhile. Cryptonomicon is also good.

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

Snowcrash, too!

 

[F106A]

Goshawk Squadron – Derek Robinson - WW1 Aviation, Humor, Sarcasm
Piece of Cake - Derek Robinson - Battle of Britain, Humor, Sarcasm
Centennial - Michener (any of Michener after machete-ing through the first 100 pages)
Space - Michener
South Pacific short stories - Michener
Mutiny on the Bounty - Nordhoff & Hall
The Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut
Venus on the Half-Shell - Kilgore Trout (Vonnegut?)
The Stand SF - King
Swan Song SF - McCammon
The Talisman SF - Straub & King
Once An Eagle - Honor & duty – Anton Myrer

 

[plsander]

• 1632 series - Eric Flint (and others) - West Virginia coal mining town (circa 2000) transported to 1632 Germany. Much social and technical upheaval follows
• Discworld - Terry Prachett -
• Honor Harrington series (On Basklisk Station, etc) - David Weber - sorta Horatio Hornblower in space, if he were female, and had a telepathic six legged cat.

 

[TSandM]

Thanks, Spencer, for starting this thread! I've gotten a bunch of ideas for this summer's reading from it already.

 

[Green_Manelishi]

Clive Cussler
Peter Straub
John Saul
Lincoln Child and/or Douglas Preston

However I see that you also read Peretti which is a "completely different" genre.
In that case try Larry Burkett.

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Jack Higgins
Alistair MacLean