Writers you may never have heard of

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HollyGolightly

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Heart of the South
David Axton, Brian Coffey, Deanna Dwyer (gothic romance), K.R.Dwyer (his initials backwards), Anthony North, the rest of these are porno books-Jan Cheaux, Hector Lamar, Ann Griffin, Richard Young, Linda Mitchell, Henry Panzer, Bob Warner, Gracie Amber, Daniel Webster. There are others but I don't have my list with me now. Good luck!
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asoul

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If you are completely fluent in German, I highly recommend Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "Justiz", if not, the translation is supposed to be good:
"Justice"
I like his "Die Panne". It won the 1956 Blind War Veterans’ Prize for best radio play and the literary award of the newspaper Tribune de Lausanne.
 

asoul

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Joseph Skibell "A blessing on the Moon". "Part Holocaust memoir, part ghost story, part Hebrew folklore, part surrealistic road epic." (The Bloomsbury Review.)
The journey of Chaim Skibelski,who has just been shot dead, and his Rabbi, who is now a crow, as they wander through Poland searching for an afterlife. For me this story is more horror than SK's Pet Sematary+Salem's Lot.
 

Lily Sawyer

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The funniest book i ever read is Jerome K. Jeromes book Three Men in a Boat written in 1889. About three men that decides that they need a vacation and goes a trip down the Thames. Just the description on how they are packing their bags always make me laugh out laud.
I LOVE this book! *Very* funny, given that it was written so long ago when humor was different.
 

Owenk

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One writer I've been trying to catch up on is Graham Joyce. His stories are difficult to categorize but dark fantasy is probably the closest. He had a real knack for mixing the horrific with the domestic. He'd been diagnosed with cancer about a year ago and passed away in early September. I highly recommend his work.

I would thoroughly endorse this - I loved The Year of the Ladybird and Some Kind of Fairy Tale. Year of the Ladybird is really evocative of the era and area in which it is set.

The only really odd thing about him for a British writer (and I should put on a tin hat here given where most people seem to be based) is that he drops into his books U.S. words/phrases that jar and which a British person would never use like "trash can." As I say this wouldn't jar in a book set in the US but stick out really vividly in one set in the UK. Still don;t let my little moan put anyone off he was a terrific writer.
 

krwhiting

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I remember Markus Zuzaks novel The Bookthief some years back. Somewhere beginning of 2000. That was good. Haven't heard from him since. A very good Sf-novel is Kate Wilhelms Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang. Probably written in late 70-ties or early 80-ties. The funniest book i ever read is Jerome K. Jeromes book Three Men in a Boat written in 1889. About three men that decides that they need a vacation and goes a trip down the Thames. Just the description on how they are packing their bags always make me laugh out laud. If you like Mystery novels set in a historical setting Steven Saylor series about the Roman citizen Gordianus living in rome alongside Caesar, Cicero, Sullla, Pompejus and other real persons solves crimes in a mild manner and don't wan't to get mixed up in politics. The series start with Roman Blood and continues with Arms of Nemesis, Catilina's Riddle and The Venus Throw. real good, both as a mystery and in capturing a sense of the place that was Rome.

Three Men in a Boat is hysterical. I laughed out loud reading it. That and An Inkeeper's Diary by Fothergill. A couple I've stumbled onto that I think are not common but are worth the time and money to get and read: Russell Kirk's 2 volumes of ghost stories titled "Off the Sand Road" and "What Shadows We Pursue"; Simon Bestwick's "A Hazy Shade of Winter"; Melville Davisson Post's "Uncle Abner: The Devil's Tools"; and for another laugh "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce.

Kelly
 

Chelle71

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When I worked in a bookstore, I loved finding something on the bargain table from someone I'd never heard of and giving them a try. Even if I didn't like it, at least I'd stepped out of my box for a minute.

Who are some authors you've read that we've probably never heard of?

One I can recommend is Dave King's The Ha-ha. Bought on a whim, I really loved it. And oddly, soon after I read it, I meant a man with same condition the main character in this novel struggles with. Ka? I think so.

Sadly, Dave King hasn't got any others published that I know of.
The best job I ever had was working in a bookshop :)
 

blunthead

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George MacDonald, called the Father of Modern Fantasy and mentor to Tolkien, CSLewis, Peter S Beagle, and other fantasy authors. Read Phantastes and Lilith.

Sherwood Anderson, mentor to Hemingway, JDSalinger and others.