Top 10 Fiction Authors

I know LT already has a feature to show the most popular books by title and author, but those lists represent the most common titles or authors, whereas the purpose of this group is to create lists of our favorites. Hopefully, the LT programming wizards will later find a way to mine the data and compile a single list for each category.

Top 10 20th century authors I enjoy reading, in no particular order...

1. John Irving
2. Kurt Vonnegut
3. Larry McMurtry
4. Edward P. Jones
5. James Michener
6. Thomas Berger
7. James Crumley
8. Tim O'Brien
9. John Steinbeck
10. Clyde Edgerton

My favorite author is Lurlene McDaniel. I love her books. And just so u know, it's the twenty-first century

John Steinbeck, Denis Lehane, George McDonald Frazer (his Flashman books) Sergeanne Golon, P.G. Woodhouse (Jeeves only) Joyce Holms (the Fizz and Buchanan series) Margaret Mitchell Damon Runyon.

John Steinbeck, Pearl S. Buck, Larry Brown

I don't like to say "in no particular order" but even if I'm quite positive about who are my #1 to #4 after that...

well:
1.Fiodor Dostoievski
2.Virginia Woolf
3.E.M. Forster
4.John Steinbeck
5.Franz Kafka
6.Emile Zola
7.Marcel Proust
8.Kurt Vonnegut
9.Thomas Pynchon
10.Margaret Atwood

This is a little easier to attempt in order...

1 Virginia Woolf
2 Gertrude Stein
3 Jeanette Winterson
4 Edith Wharton
5 E.M. Forster
6 Jane Austen
7 Iris Murdoch
8 F Scott Fitzgerald
9 George Eliot
10 Albert Camus

A playwright or two would have made my list, but perhaps they require a topic of their own...

Much like my top ten fiction list, I kept uncovering names in my mind. So, here ten of my top authors (yeah, yeah, no order, we know):

Thomas Hardy
Henry James
Margaret Atwood
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Yukio Mishima
Umberto Eco
Salman Rushdie
Vladmir Nabokov
Marcel Proust
Nathaniel Hawthorne

i think the subject is the 10 authors you would have to read on a desert island. to-wit:

1. John Dann MacDonald.
2. John Irving.
3. Ernest Hemingway.
4. Mark Twain.
5. Stephen King.
6. Dean Koontz.
7. John Steinbeck,
8. Ray Bradbury.
9. Robert Heinlein.
10. Harry Crews.

I'd try to sneak some William Shakespeare, the Beowulf, and a King James Version in the package if at all possible.

Hmmm... I'll have to go for "re-readability," a certain minimum number of titles (no telling how long till we return from our three-hour cruise), and some authors whom I've liked but who have written numerous books that I haven't read yet:

1. Gene Wolfe
2. Guy Gavriel Kay
3. Ursula K. LeGuin
4. Michael Connelly
5. Italo Calvino
6. Elmore Leonard
7. Peter Taylor
8. Don DeLillo
9. Salman Rushdie
10. Jane Austen