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Speaking of Fav Authors . . .


Here are some authors i really like that i've recently read & the books they've written which i think are their best - I've broken these up into two distinct categories & two Subcategories. First i separated by gender. Then i subcategorized by Fiction & Non-Fiction



Here are some of my favorite male authors:



Fiction
  1. Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
  2. Chuck Palahniuk - Choke
  3. George R. R. Martin - A Song of Fire & Ice Series
  4. Joe Hill - Horns
  5. Stephen King - The Stand
  6. David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
  7. Robert A. Heinlein - Friday ; Starship Troopers
  8. C.S. Lewis - Screwtape Letters ; Chronicles of Narnia
  9. Mark Twain - (anything really) Huckleberry Finn
  10. Joseph Heller - Catch 22 ; Ahab's Wife



Non Fiction
  1. Chuck Klosterman - Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto 
  2. Augusten Burroughs - A Wolf At The Table 
  3. MIchael Lewis - The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine ; Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World 
  4. Malcolm Gladwell - Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking ; Outliers: The Story of Success
  5. Michael Eric Dyson - Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster ; Holler if You Hear Me ; Debating Race: with Michael Eric Dyson 
  6. John Ortberg Jr - Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People ; When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box 
  7. Timothy Keller - The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
  8. David Platt - Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream 
  9. Craig Groeschel - The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living as if He Doesn't Exist
  10. Ravi Zacharias - Has Christianity Failed You? 

Here are some of my favorite female authors:




Fiction
  1. Jaqueline Carey - Kushiel's Dart
  2. Sarah Vowell - The Wordy Shipmates
  3. Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
  4. Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat; Taltos
  5. J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets
  6. Charlaine Harris: The Sookie Stackhouse Novels
  7. Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
  8. Anne McCaffrey - Pern
  9. Phillippa Gregory - The Other Boleyn Girl
  10. Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice




Non Fiction
  1. Naomi Wolf - The End of America; Vagina
  2. Simoné de Beauvoir - The Second Sex
  3. Susan Cain - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
  4. Geneen Roth - Women, Food, and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything 
  5. Margaret Gregory - Mary Called Margaret
  6. Beth Moore - Esther: It's Tough Being a Woman
  7. Brigitte Gabriel - Because They Hate
  8. Karen Armstrong -  Through the Narrow Gate, Revised: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery ; The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions ; The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism 
  9. Saint Teresa of Avila - St. Teresa of Avila Set of Three Books (The Way of Perfection, The Interior Castle - The Mansions, and The Autobiography of St. Teresa Of Avila.)
  10. Lady Juliana of Norwich - Revelations of Divine Love
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