Name up to five authors for whom you will drop everything to read their new book.
Julie Peterson
J. K. Rowling
Janet Evanovich
Michael Connelly
Jonathan Kellerman
Lorna Landvik
Maureen
Jodi Picoult, Khaled Hosseini, Philippa Gregory, and Lisa See.
Gin
Pat Conroy
Nelson DeMille
Kurt Vonnegut
Becky Thomas
Stephen King
Thomas Harris
J. K. Rowling
Ginny Lazar
Michael Connelly
Janet Evanovich
Maeve Binchy
Kathy Reichs
Tamy Hoag
Julie Glavin
John Sandford, Janet Evanovich, Michael Connelly
Cam
Jodi Picoult
P. D. James
Elizabeth George
Chris Bohjalian
JC
Mary Higgins Clark
Stuart Woods
Janet Evanovich
Robert B. Parker
Carla Neggers
Gloria Buchanan
James Patterson
Janet Evanovich
Robert B. Parker
Lisa Gardner
Nora Roberts
Susan
Anita Shreve
Anita Brookner
Elizabeth George
Martha Grimes
Alexander McCall Smith
Sylvie Nickel
P. J. Tracy
K. J. Erickson
Julia Spencer-Fleming
Kerry Greenwood
Jacqueline Winspear
Monica
Julie Garwood
Khaled Hosseini
Lisa See
Linda Greenlaw
Rosalie
Maeve Binchy, Rosamunde Pilcher, Belva Plain, Anne Rivers Siddons, Dorothea Benton Frank.
Sue L
James Patterson
Jonathan Kellerman
Patricia Cornwell
Tami Hoag
Karin Slaughter
Carol
Anita Shreve, Jodi Picoult, Harlan Coben, T. Jefferson Parker, Anne Tyler
Sarah Thorn
Larry McMurtry
Jodi Picoult
Tracy Chevalier
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Pat Conroy
Freda
Nelson DeMIlle, Peter Abrahams, Steven Womack, Michael Connelly, and David Lindsey.
Linda M. Johnson
1. J. K. Rowling
2. Carol O'Connell
3. John Dunning
4. Janet Evanovich
5. Khaled Hosseini
Michelle Miller
Stephen King
Anne Rice
J. K. Rowling
Gail Bowman
Jack Kerley, Jeffery Deaver, Clive Cussler, Michele Martinez, and Richard Montanari
Jerry Johnson
Clive Cussler
James Patterson
Stuart Woods
Janet Evanovich
Chastity Jackson
Dean Koontz
Stephen King
Janet Evanovich
Jim Butcher
Kelley Armstrong
Richard Bartels
I wish I could read another novel by Noel Barber, but unfortunately, he has passed away!
Tessa Bartels
Sandra Dallas, Alexander McCall Smith, Janet Evanovich, Jodi Picoult, Sue Monk Kidd
Dorothy Cowling
Laurie King
Margaret Duffy
Jodi Picoult
Tim Downs
Jacqueline Winspear
Marcia
James Lee Burke
Amy Tan
Margaret Maron
John Sandford
Nevada Barr (The Anna Pigeon series is a secret passion)
Nancy Van de Motter
Jasper Fforde
Sara Gruen
Khaled Hosseini
Mike Patt
Elizabeth Berg
Robert Crais
Jeffery Deaver
David Baldacci
Janet Evanovich
And at least 10 more...
Kathleen Nitsch
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Jennifer Crusie
Peggy Kincaid
Steve Berry, John Sandford, Michael Connelly, Lincoln Child with Douglas Preston, David Baldacci
Darby Lohrding
John Sandford
Michael Connelly
Mary Higgins Clark
Lisa Gardner
Dianne
Sue Monk Kidd, Lois Lowry, Chris Van Allsburg
Wendy
Russell Banks
Joyce Carol Oates
Jane Smiley
Lisa See
Tom Wolfe
Marie
Joseph Finder
Eric Jerome Dickey
Armistead Maupin
Janet Evanovich (The Stephanie Plum series)
Anita Shreve
Becky McAndrews
Elizabeth Berg, Jan Karon, Nora Ephron
Peggy Carlin
Janet Evanovich
Lee Child
Barbara Parker
Steve Berry
Christine Kling
Tamara
Jennifer Weiner
Emily Giffin
David Sedaris
Richard Ford
Ayelet Waldman
Sierra
Jeffery Deaver
Michael Connelly
John Connolly
Nelson DeMille
Greg Iles
Janet Evanovich
Sharlynda Dehnel
The five authors that I would absolutely drop everything to read are the following --- not necessarily in the order listed:
1. J. K. Rowling
2. Michael Connelly
3. Janet Evanovich
4. Tess Gerritsen
5. P. J. Parrish
Sierra
Daniel Silva
Steve Berry
Deborah Ford
Gaye Metcalf
Cassandra King
Michael
J. K. Rowling
Diana Gabaldon
Coral Harrison
J. A. Jance
Dick Francis
Tony Hillerman
Marcia Muller
Earlene Fowler
Jodi Picoult
Rebecca Scully
J. K. Rowling
Clive Cussler
Dan Brown
John Grisham
Mary Kay Andrews
Diane
J. K. Rowling
Nelson DeMIlle
Susan
Chris Bojhalian,Jodi Picoult, Lisa See, Diane Setterfield, Sara Gruen
Renee Lepley
James Patterson
Nora Roberts
Carleen Thompson
Diane Chamberlain
Nancy Schaaf
Janet Evanovich, Richard North Patterson, James Patterson, Kathy Reichs, Lee Child, John Sandford
Noreen Brown
James Patterson, the Kellermans, Dan Brown, and Tony Hillerman
JH Peterson
Barbara Kingsolver
Zainab Salbi
Julia Alverez
Annie Proulx
Alexander McCall Smith
Susan Vreeland
Amy Tan
Carol Pirtle
Ann Rule
Ann Rivers Siddons
Anita Shreve
Annette Branigan
James Patterson
J. D. Robb
Janet Evanovich
Khaled Hosseini
Mary Higgins Clark
Eileen
Alexander McCall Smith
Janet Evanovtch
Lilian Jackson Braun
Rita Mae Brown
Sue Henry
Scott Schneider
John Connolly, David Hewson, Ken Bruen, Barry Eisler, Cormac Mccarthy
Whit
Lee Child and Carl Hiaasen, primarily, but also J. A. Konrath, Patricia Cornwell and P. J. Tracy.
Julia L. Rule
Charlaine Harris, Sarah Graves, Janet Evanovich, MaryJanice Davidson, and Laurell K. Hamilton
Lea Watts
I will gladly drop everything to read new books by the following authors:
James Patterson
Janet Evanovich
Jeffery Deaver
Nicholas Sparks
Mitch Albom
Suzanne in Ohio
Barbara Delinsky
Debbie Macomber
Nicholas Sparks
Sandra Brown
James Patterson
Jean Kruse
Maeve Binchy
Elizabeth George
Ann Tyler
Nicholas Sparks
Anita Shreve
Kenny from Albuquerque
I have and would drop everything to read new books by:
Lee Child
Andrew Vachss
Michael Connelly
Robert Crais
Harlan Coben
I am sure there are a bunch more:
John Sanford
The Cross series by James Patterson
Steve Hamilton
Ridley Pearson
Reed Farrel Coleman
Lawrence Block
J. Duncan
John Grisham, Anita Shreve, Jodi Picoult, James Patterson, Harper Lee
Irene Yeates
Kathy Reichs, David Adams Richards, Ursula Hegi, Robert Goddard, Alice Sebold, Ann Patchett, Carol Goodman, and I'll absolutely ignore the phone, the doorbell, the husband, etc., for P. D. James!!!
Dianne
John Sandford
David Sedaris
Carl Hiaasen
Augusten Burroughs
J. K. Rowling :)
Norma
Susan Fletcher (EVE GREEN)
David Mitchell (BLACK SWAN GREEN)
Anne Tyler
William Trevor
David Sedaris
Martha Ann Henry
Michael Connelly
David Rosenfelt
Robert Crais
Randy Wayne White
John Lutz
Harlan Coben
Lisa Jackson
Lisa Gardner
Cathy Doyle
James Rollins, Jeffery Deaver, Dean Koontz, Steve Berry, Clive Cussler
Sandi Lewis
Diana Gabaldon
J. K. Rowling
Deborah Crombie
Susan Meyers
Anita Shreve
Jodi Picoult
Anne Rivers Siddons
J. K. Rowling
Sandra Smith
John Sandford
Jeffery Deaver
Janet Evanovich
James Patterson
Lee Smith
Patty Blackwell
James Patterson
Patricia Cornwell
Richard Mitchell
John Connolly
Robert Crais
Michael Connelly
Daniel Silva
Christopher Moore
Lee Child
Vince Flynn
George Pelecanos
Ken Bruen
Ray Palen
Stephen King
Michael Crichton
Dennis Lehane
Donna Leon
Steve Hamilton
Veewall
Harlan Coben
Adriana Trigiani
Eileen Goudge
Kathryn Andrews
Frances Mayes
Susan Vreeland
Khaled Hosseni
Elizabeth Hickey
José Saramago
Steve Berry
Amy Tan
Joan G.
My top 5 favourites are:
1. Mary Alice Monroe
2. Patti Callahan Henry
3. Elin Hilderbrand
4. Greg Iles
5. Tess Gerristen
Kristy
James Lee Burke
Lee Child
Pat Conroy
Dorthea Benton Frank
Harlan Coben
Sharon Bannon
Grisham
Patterson
J. Kellerman
Brenda Broadway
Dean Koontz, Jeffery Deaver, James Rollins, Tess Gerritsen, Ann Rule
Bernice Spier
Dean Koontz, Ruth Rendell (Barbara Vine), Stephen King, Maeve Binchey, Karin Slaughter
Marianne
Harlan Coben
Ann Packer
Ann Patchett
Pat Conroy
Linda Vielhauer
Catherine Coulter
Jude Deveraux
Nora Roberts
Iris Johansen
Deb Ayres
Jodi Picoult
Anna Quindlen
Anne LaMott
Stephen King
Susan Soiferman
Janet Evanovich
Robert B. Parker
Diane Mott Davidson
Lisa Scottoline
Michael Connolly
Donna
J. K. Rowling
James Patterson
Wanda Gobbell
Pat Conroy
Cassandra King
Dorothea Benton Frank
Mary Kay Andrews/ Kathy Trochek
Jeanne Marek
Cathrine Coulter
James Rollins
Nora Roberts
Jayne Anne Krentz
David Baldacci
Teri
Harlen Coben
Vince Flynn
Michael Prescott
Michele
Patrick O'Brian (sadly no longer writing)
P. C. Hodgell
Charlaine Harris
Lois McMaster Bujold
Jim Butcher
Peggy
Janet Evanovich
Jodi Picoult
Adriana Trigiani
Elin Hildebrand
Jon Katz
Jane
John Grisham, Nancy Pickard, David Rosenfelt, Marcia Muller, Sue Grafton
Lucia Chase
Elizabeth Berg
Val McDermid
Jodi Picoult
Anne Rivers Siddons
Judith R. Hendricks
Rosalie Sambuco
Dean Koontz, Phillipa Gregory, Lisa See, Harlan Coben, Khaled Hosseini
Mary Buss
Margaret Atwood
Barry Unsworth
Tim O'Brien
Isabel Allende
Jacqueline Winspear
Lareeta
Beverly Jenkins, Brenda Jackson, Francis Ray, Rochelle Alers and J. California Cooper
Judy Ross
1. Janet Evanovich
2. Lilian Jackson Braun
3. Carolyn Hart
4. Nora Roberts
5. Luanne Rice
Rita Carter
Jack Higgins, Jeffery Deaver, Nevada Barr, Clive Cussler, Kay Hooper
Mary Quackenbush
Sue Miller
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Amanda Eyre Ward
Ann Packer
Elizabeth Berg
Lori Schultz
Janet Evanovich
James Patterson
J.K.Rowling
Steven King (usually)
John Sanford (the Prey books)
Syd Brown
Pete Hamill
Alexander MacCall Smith
Donna Leon
Ivan Doig
Michael Chabon
Suzanne Novoselac
Catherine Coulter, Debbie Macomber, Nora Roberts, and Clive Cussler
Mary Blitz
Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark, J. K. Rowling
Gail Cornell
James Patterson
Harlen Coben
Michael Connelly
Jeffery Deaver
Karin Slaughter
Juli Jer
Leslie Meier
Tess Gerritsen
Joanne Fluke
Erica Spindler
F. Paul Wilson (Repairman Jack series)
Mary Davis
My 5 are:
Stephen White
Greg Iles
Lee Child
Harlan Coben
Joseph Finder
Melodie
Robert Crais
Charlaine Harris (The Sookie Stackhouse books only)
Kris Nelscott
Stephen King
Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum books only)
Diane in Boxford
Lee Child
Joseph Delaney
Lisa Scottoline
Marcia
Alice Hoffman and Anita Shreve.
Some new books excite me more than others, but even the ones I'm less enthusiastic about are reading experiences par excellence. My list used to be longer, but repeat disappointments have whittled the list members down to a trusted two.
Sharon Weber
John Sandford
Daniel Silva
Maeve Binchey
Jonathan Kellerman
Eileen Goudge
Sheral Koszuta
James Rollins, Steve Berry, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Dean Koontz
Jacki Rozman
Tim Dorsey
Nora Roberts
Steve Berry
Dan Brown
Susan Wiggs
Ellen Whitney
James Lee Burke; Dennis Lehane (where has he gone???), and Michael Connelly
Cynthia Scott
Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Joseph Finder, Robert Crais, and Stephen White
Karin
J. K. Rowling
Lisa See
David McCullough
Terry Brooks
Khaled Hosseini
Kristi Hartshorn
John Irving
Ron Rash
Adriana Trigiani
J. K. Rowling
Shawn S.
Sherrilyn Kenyon and Kinley MacGregor
Janet Evanovich
Julianne MacLean
Kay Hooper
Gaelen Foley
Kathy Vieira
I'd have to say Jodi Picoult, Anita Shreve, Barbara Kingsolver, Chris Bohjalian, and Elizabeth Berg. I could keep going.....
Linda M.
Lee Child, Harlan Coben, Michael Connelly, John Sanford, and Robert Crais
Lori Diehl
Lee Child
Val McDermid
J. K. Rowling
Tom Piccirilli
Donald Harstad
Sharron
Jodi Picoult, Elizabeth Berg, Harlan Coben, Janet Evanovitch, John Grisham
Eileen
Lisa Scottoline
Janet Evanovich
Robert B. Parker
Jonathan Kellerman
Connie J. Tritt
Grisham, Baldacci, DeMille, Berry, Fielding --- it's hard to name just 5!
Melissa Jordan
Sandra Brown, Karin Slaughter, Tess Gerritsen, Harlan Coben, and Linda Howard
Bob Coghill
Larry McMurtry
Stanley Lombardo
Charlaine Harris
MaryJanice Davidson
Jane Smiley
Teresa Steinert
Jodi Picoult
Janet Evanovich
J. K. Rowling
Khaled Hosseini
Dawn
Maeve Binchy
Linda Troftgruben
J. K. Rowling
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Janet Evanovich
Jodi Picoult
Irish Helen
1. James Patterson
2. Maeve Binchy
3. Mary Higgins Clark
4. Nicholas Sparks
5. Danielle Steel
Beth Cummings
Amy Tan
Barbara Kingsolver - usually
Vinita Thonen
Fern Michaels, Nora Roberts, Debbie Macomber, Lori Foster, and Janet Evanovich
Jen Lalley
Laurell K. Hamilton, Brenda Joyce, J. K. Rowling, Charlaine Harris, and MaryJanice Davidson
Linda Koser
Janet Evanovich
Karen Robards
Dean Koontz
Nelson DeMille
Nora Roberts
Micki
1- Nicholas Sparks
2- Mitch Albom
3- Richard Paul Evans
4- J. K. Rowling
5- Danielle Steel
Lynn
Jennifer Weiner, Jennifer Crusie, Jane Green, Anna Maxted, and Carly Phillips
Lynn
Alice Sebold, James Frey, Chelsea Handler, Sarah Dessen, and Lisa Jewell
Rose Caster
Jeffery Deaver
James Lee Burke
Janet Evanovich
Khaled Hosseni
Debbie
Harlan Coben
James Paterson
Mary Higgins Clark
Linda Howard
Michelle
Janet Evanovich, Sandra Dallas, Fannie Flagg, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and Sophie Kinsella.
Rita Bueter
Jodi Picoult
Faye Kellerman
Elizabeth Peters
J. K. Rowling
J. R. Monahan
Jodi Picoult
Susan Vreeland
John Grisham
Maeve Binchy
Harlan Coben
Trez
J. K. Rowling
Dorothea Benton Frank
Faye Kellerman
Michael Crichton
Jean M. Aul
Farhan
Stephen King
Donald E. Westlake
Thomas Harris
Thomas H. Cook
Robert Charles Wilson
Debbie
Robert B. Parker (the Spenser series), P. D. James, Rosamunde Pilcher, John Lescroat, Rick Bragg
Regina
Cindy Gerard
Kylie Brant
Regan Taylor
Lucy Monroe
Cherry Adair
Becky Wreyford
Jodi Picoult, Tony Hillerman, Michael McGarrity, Nicholas Evans, C. J. Box
Brenda Smith
Mary Higgins Clark
Nicolas Sparks
James Patterson
James Lee Burke
Greg Iles
Gisele C.
Maeve Binchy
Pamela Morsi
Patti Berg
Curtiss Ann Matlock
Dorothy Boyum
Janet Evanovich
Anita Diamant
Nicholas Sparks
Jodi Picoult
Mary Higgins Clark
Mary
Elizabeth George
Deborah Crombie
Stephen White
Chris Bohjalian
Ann Heath
John LeCarré
Anne Perry
J. K. Rowling
Alan Furst
Alexander McCall Smith
Zena Schulman
John Grisham
Gina
Susan Howatch
Julia Spencer Fleming
Dick Francis
Elizabeth George
Lisa Unger
Ann Bowen
Nora Roberts
John Grisham
Kathy Reichs
Kris Radish
Dorothea Benton Frank
Lu
Jodi Picoult
Robin
Debbie Macomber
Carole Kilmer
Anita Shreve
Barbara Delinsky
Andrea West
Only two authors come to mind --- Ann Patchett, because I love everything she has written, and J. K. Rowling, because if I don't read it right away, someone will tell me what happens and ruin the book.
Francine
Laurie R. King
Elizabeth George
J. K. Rowling
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Robert E Brown, Sr.
Stephen King, James Patterson, Nelson DeMille, Robin Cook and Michael Crichton
susan
Greg Iles
Jeffery Deaver
Janet Evanovich
Michael Connelly
Dennis Lehane
Sharon Eckhaus
James Paterson
Russell Sands
Janet Evanovich
Elie Wiesel
Sue Grafton
Jeanie
Lisa See, Sandra Kring, Nelson DeMille, Charles Martin
C.Simar
Sue Monk Kidd
Cormac McCarthy
Larry McMurtry
Tom Clancy
Lisa Tucker
Gale Schexnayder Moch
Robert Crais
Michael Connelly
Janet Evanovich
Charlaine Harris
Cynthia Eisler
Kent Haruf, Claire Messud, Irene Nemirovsky, J. K. Rowling
Larry Kilmer
Nelson DeMille
John Grisham
Nicholas Sparks
Vince Flynn
Patrick Robinson
They all write "page flippers", and I finish the book in a day or two.
Brenda Taylor
James Patterson
Greg Iles
Mary Higgins Clark
Nicholas Sparks
Sandra Brown
Nana
Patricia Cornwell
Barbara Delinsky
Anita Shreve
Nora Roberts
Jennifer Chiaverini
Bobbie Cloud
Janet Evanovich
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Lee Child
Daniel Silva
Brad Meltzer
Kimberly Lane
Liz Carlyle
Melanie Thomas
Christina Dodd
Eloisa James
Jayne Ann Krentz
Natasha
Barbara Kingsolver
J. K. Rowling
Elizabeth Gilbert
Marcia Beer
Nelson DeMille, Michael Connelly, James Grippando, Suzanne Brockmann, J. D. Robb
Joan Hoffman
Stuart Kaminsky
Mercedes Lackey
Carl Hiaasen
Earlene Fowler
Kim Harrison
Harriet Stay
Michael Connelly
Carol O'Connell
Peter Robinson
Michael Robotham
David Ellis
Beth
Harlan Coben
Jodi Picoult
Nelson DeMille
Vince Flynn
Brad Thor
Rosslyn Powers
Karen Robards
Sandra Brown
Nora Roberts
Iris Johansen
Jude Devereaux
Bontie
Janet Evanovich
Jean M. Auel
David Baldacci
Barack Obama
Nora Roberts
Ginny Pokoj
Nora Roberts
Vince Flynn
Kathy Crouch
Nora Roberts, Johanna Lindsey, Nora Roberts as J. D. Robb, Keri Arthur, Shana Abe, and Mary Higgins Clark
Peter White
Lindsey Davies
Terry Pratchett
Alison Buck
Steven Schwindt
Dan Brown
J. K. Rowling
David Baldacci
Atul Gawande
William Langewiesche
Maryellen Goodwin
Laura Esquival
James Patterson
Arthur Phillips
Karen Armstrong
Michelle Lovric
Sandi
The only author who will make me drop everything to run out and read the most current book is James Patterson. I love Alex Cross, and the books that feature him are my favorites. It's hard to read them during the school year, so summer is when I catch up --- I just finished JUDGE AND JURY.
Kellie
Michael Connelly, Khaled Hosseini, Janet Evanovich, Elizabeth George, and Dennis Lehane.
Judy Goldsmith
Jonathan Kellerman
Jodi Picoult
Alexander McCall Smith
J. K. Rowling
Lisa
Carl Hiaasen
Khaled Hosseini
Martha Grimes
Gillian Flynn
Marcus Zusak
Bonnie Waliezer
J. A.Jance
Douglas Preston
Lincoln Child
Harlan Coben
Karen Rose
Freda
Michael Connelly, Nelson DeMille, Steven Womack, James Lee Burke, David Rosenfelt
Maureen
Jodie Picoult, Khaled Hosseini, Philippa Gregory
Marge Martin
Robert B. Parker
James Patterson
Jennifer Chiaverini
Nelson DeMille
Perri O'Shaughnessy
Tanya Brown
Jane Hamilton
Jean M. Auel
Adriana Trigiani
Jodi Picoult
LaVyrle Spencer (if she ever writes another book I will be first in line)
Amado Nunez
1. Michael Connelly
2. Colin Harrison
3. James Carlos Blake
4. Kevin J. Anderson 5. Karin Slaughter
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Perri O'Shaughnessy
Stephen Frey
Vince Flynn
David Baldacci
Barry Eisler
Kathy
Both of the Kellermans
JA Jance
John J. Nance
Janet Evanovich
Perri O'Shaughnessy
Susan C. Dawson
Janet Evanovich, Walter Mosley, James Grippando, and Ben Stein
B. Machemer
Douglas Preston
Lincoln Child
Mia
Janet Evanovich, Anne Tyler
Ann Otto
Michael Chabon
Ann Patchett
Elizabeth Berg
Audrey Niffenegger
Anne Lamott
Joan Gay
Susan Kandel
William G. Tapply
Karen MacInerney
Alice Kimberly
Seth (Gregory Gallant)
Jackie Wisherd
Brad Meltzer and Twist Phelan
Anna Robinson
Jodi Picoult, Maeve Binchy, Marcia Willett, Anna Quindlen, and Anita Shreve.
Betsy Binnig
Greg Iles
Ridley Pearson
Carl Hiaasen
Jennifer Crusie
Robert Crais
Edie
Suzanne Brockmann
Nora Roberts
J.D. Robb
Diana Gabaldon
Marsha Canham
Charlene Amos
Jodi Picoult
Elizabeth Berg
Joy Fielding
Robert Crais
Joshilyn Jackson
To name a few....
Rita Powell
Jeffery Deaver, Ann Rule, Stuart Woods, James Grippando
Meaghan Reckis
Jodi Picoult
James Patterson
Harlen Coben
William G. Tapply
Kate Pepper
Evelyn Piechocki
Jodi Picoult, John Grisham, Nora Roberts, Karen Robards, James Patterson, Nicholas Sparks
Linda Miller
John Sanford, Michael Connelly, Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman, and Patrica Cornwell
Susan
Richard Russo
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Thrity Umrigar
Ken Follett
S. Mundy
Randy Wayne White
Lindsey Davis
Caroline Lawrence (juvenile historical mysteries)
Jacqueline Winspear
Janet Evanovich (on unabridged audio)
Pam Logan
John Grisham
Lisa See
Tom Bodett
Cesar Millan
Alan Sarapa
1. Jodi Picoult
2. Curtis Sittenfeld
3. Lisa Tucker
4. Anita Shreve
5. Emily Griffin
Lee
J. K. Rowling!
Jan Karon
Mary Carnaggio
Jane Green, Sophie Kinsella, Marian Keyes, Linda Berdoll, Rosalind Mills
Merrilee
Michael Connelly
Laurell K. Hamilton
Lee Child
Debbie Maskus
Elizabeth George, Stuart Woods, Carol Goodman, Charles Todd, and James Patterson
Emily
Augusten Burroughs
David Sedaris
J. K. Rowling
Jonathan Safran Foer
Linda Bass
Lisa Jackson
J. J. Massa
Bridget Midway
Desiree Holt
Jane Beckenham
Theresa Holm
Dennis Lehane
Michael Connelly
John Connolly
T. Jefferson Parker
Robert Crais
Vin Costanzo
John Grisham
David Baldacci
Nelson DeMille
John Feinstein
Michael Crichton
Vin Costanzo
John Grisham
David Baldacci
Nelson DeMille
John Feinstein
Michael Crichton
Tiffany Penner
Lilian Jackson Braun
Terry Goodkind
Jack McDevitt
James Rollins
Katie MacAlister
Libby Kessman
Alexander McCall Smith
Sujata Massey
Anita Brookner
Anthony Doerr
Kathy Vieira
Jodi Picoult
Anita Shreve
Pat Conroy
Philip Roth
John Irving
Patricia Cantrell
Stephen King, John Saul, Dean Koontz, J. K. Rowling, and James Patterson
Melanie
Colin Harrison
Dennis Lehane
Janet Evanovich
John Sanford
Harlan Coben
Ruthann
James Patterson
John Sandford
J. K. Rowling
Lynn Ketelsen
Lorna Landvik
J.K. Rowling
Lillian Jackson Braun
Jennifer Peltier
1. Stephen King
2. Ian McEwan
3. Frank McCourt
4. J. K. Rowling (only one more time)
5. Amy Tan
Marilyn Ward
Joanna Trollope
Maeve Binchey
Phil Rickman
Elizabeth Berg
Bill Bryson
Judy
Jodi Picoult
Dorothea Benton Frank
Harlen Coben
John Grisham
Kathy Kasten
Jasper Fford
Philippa Gregory
Dean Koontz
Stephen King
Valerie
Khaled Hosseini
Mitch Albom
Sara Gruen
Jodi Picoult
Tracy Chevalier
Susan
One - J. K. Rowling
Art Shutt III
Bodie and Brock Thoene, Lauraine Snelling, Frank Peretti, Lois Lowry, and Ann Rinaldi
Art Shutt III
Harold Coyle, Louis L'Amour, Pearl S. Buck, Mary Higgins Clark, and G. Clifton Wisler
Kitty
Janet Evanovich
Stuart Woods
Harlan Coben
Mary Higgins Clark
Anne Frasier
Julie Cribb
Mary Higgins Clark
Alice Sebold
Lilian Jackson Braun
Peggy Soler
Owen Parry, Dean Koontz, James Patterson, David Morrell, Bentley Little.
Tom Josepj
Nelson DeMille
Richard North Patterson
James Sanford
Lee Child
Robert B. Parker
Lynn Ketelsen
Jan Karon
Dolores L. Garnica
J. K. Rowling
Elizabeth Moon
Connie Willis
Deborah Crombie
Lee Child
Tony
Wilson Crawford
John Grisham
Nicholas Sparks
Pat Conroy
E. Sepnafski
Janet Evanovich
Jeffery Deaver
Kathy Reichs
Nevada Barr
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Julia
Harlan Coben
Elizabeth George
Dean Koontz
Sue Grafton
Julia
Harlan Coben
Elizabeth George
Dean Koontz
Sue Grafton
Debbie Teixeira
J. R. Ward
J. K. Rowling
Christine Feehan
Lori Foster
Elizabeth Peters
Donna
Stuart Woods
John Grisham
J. K. Rowling
Michelle Stein
Diana Gabaldon,
J. D. Robb (Nora Roberts)
Sherrilyn Kenyon,
Elizabeth Lowell
J. K. Rowling
Julie
I don't drop everything to read a book when it comes out, but there are some authors whose books I always buy when they come out, because I know I will want to read them eventually: Ian McEwan, Jim Crace, Wally Lamb, and Gretchen Moran Laskas (never heard of her? Try her!).
Carly Bohach
Alice Hoffman, Isabel Allende, Chuck Palahniuk, J. K. Rowling, Alisa Libby
Tammy O
Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark, Michael Palmer, Claire Cook, Jodi Picoult
Dave Montague
Michael Crichton
John Grisham
J. K. Rowling
Stephen King
