Favorite authors other than King?

[Bobbykyte]

Thanks for the recommendations!

 

[CYRUS]

Jack London
Cornell Woolrich
Sir Arthur Conan Doyal
Clark Ashton Smith
James Branch Cabell
Dashell Hammet
Raymond Chandler
William Hope Hodgson
Robert E Howard
Dalton Trumbo
James Rollins


Lots more.

 

[ServantThirteen]

My favorite authors


Stephen King
Dean Koontz whenever he's not writing novels involving golden labradors or whatever.

Danielle Steele. Don't judge me, man lol

Lol.....Ditto on the Dean Koontz statement....

And I have a don't judge me author as well..... I read Nicholas Sparks for the first time a few months back and was hooked. His genre may be different than King, but his writing style is amazingly similar. I read Dear John and was drawn in as if it was written by King himself. Great story and character development.

 

[opeth]

Lauren Oliver, Gayle Forman, L.J. Smith, Emily Giffin, Sophie Kinsella

 

[prufrock21]

I don't usually mention other authors on this site, except for Clive Barker, Hart Crane and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

 

[Grace82]

As for Horror...I've always liked Clive Barker and Anne Rice. I especially like Barker, as like King, the artwork for his books adds to the atmosphere of the story.

 

[Tery]

Carl Hiaasen
Edgar Allen Poe
J.K. Rowling

 

[Connor B]

Edgar Allen Poe
HP Lovecraft
Robert Ludlum
Thomas Harris
Harlan Ellison
Phillip K. Dick
Bret Easton Ellis
Bram Stoker
Jim Thompson
Raymond Chandler
David Morrell

 

[recitador]

dean koontz
james rollins
nelson demille
jeffrey deaver
john sandford
f paul wilson
lee child
vince flynn
patricia cornwell
kathy reichs
brad thor
david baldacci
andy mcdermott
michael connelly
robert k tannenbaum
tess gerritsen
jonathan kellerman
robert ludlum
douglas preston/lincoln child (they seem to work together a lot)
robin cook
jk rowling (basically for HP)
john saul
only read one by joe hill but i can tell he's gonna fit right in
there are others, but those are the majors

of those, i immediately by new paperbacks by koontz, deaver, lee child, baldacci, tannenbaum, mcdermott, sandford and rollins (and king of course). the others are more hit or miss depending on mood.

 

[Zone D Dad]

James Ellroy - It sounds strange to even type this, but the man's writing is total badassery. If you can handle the extreme violence, American Tabloid should be read by everyone before they die. If you like that, then you go back to The Black Dahlia and read the first 3 of the L.A. Quartet (Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential). I think you can skip White Jazz.

 

[Steve in WI]

Larry McMurtry and David Foster Wallace.

It's probably a little weird that those two plus King are my three favorite authors, but despite their wildly different styles, subject matter, and setting, I do see a couple common threads in their work. One is that all three of them have written famously long books/stories that nonetheless I wish were even longer; I can't think of much higher praise than to say that after reading a thousand-page book, I wish there'd been more of it. The other is that in very different ways, they write characters that are complex and lifelike and that's the quickest way to make me appreciate a story.

 

[mal]

I read very little contemporary novels and go for the old stuff mostly. Some I like are:
- Graham Greene
- Italo Calvino
- Charles Dickens
- Carlos Castaneda (Read then all up until the Eagles Gift then stopped)
- Kitty Kelley (just kidding)
- Mordecai Richler
- Robertson Davies
- Michael Ondaatje
That's just a few. Like a lot of you I've been reading all my life. What originally wet my whistle and got me started reading seriously were the Hitchcock Anthologies in my local library when I was about 10 circa 1972. Makes sense that I would find Stephen King after a while.

 

[Kurben]

Depends on genre and time.... Nowadays horror I prefer Robert McCammon, Joe Hill and Dan Simmons and i like Jonathan Maberrys Zombiethrillers. Nowadays crime: Tana French, Peter Robinson and Linwood Barclay. When it comes to SF i often prefer the old classic authors but i like Harry Turtledoves alternate history novels. "Ordinary" literature (I dislike really these classifications because they are often misleading) i like Joyce carol Oates, Margaret Atwood. I like Samuel Shellabargers Historical novels, the same with Ken Follett, Hilary Mantel, Robert Graves and Robert Harris. When it comes to comical novels noone can surpass P.G. Woodhouse but the funniest book ever written is Three Men In A Boat (1889, written 6 months after Jack The Ripper terrorized London) by Jerome K. Jerome. I like Herman Wouk and James Clavell. SF-authors i love are Ursula K. LeGuin, Jack Vance, John Wyndham and Robert Heinlein.

 

[JMR]

I like a lot of different books and Authors. Here a few.

Charlaine Harris
John Saul
Robert W. Chambers
Jim Butcher

Many more. Plus the ones that make the mangas. But those I will leave off.

 

[becca69]

Favorites other than King: Christopher Moore, George RR Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, Ernest Cline, Anne Rice, Karen Marie Moning, Justin Cronin, Tim Powers, Robert McCammon, Peter V. Brett, Margaret Atwood, Hugh Howey, Patricia Briggs, Chuck Palahniuk, Joe Hill, JK Rowling, Diana Gabaldon, Emily St. John Mandel, Josiah Bancroft, Ali Shaw, Sebastien De Castell, Robin Hobb, Neil Gaiman, JR Ward, Yann Martell, Gregory Maguire, Holly Black, Joe Abercrombie, Tolkien, Rebecca Levene, Peter S Beagle, Gris Grimly, Brom, Peter Straub, Jeff Lindsay, Blake Crouch, Pierce Brown, and quite a few more.