My Top 10 Favorite Authors (2019)

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I'm kicking off a series where I pretty much just talk about my favorite bookish things. We're starting with... my favorite authors! At least for now :)
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Authors Mentioned:
Michael Lewis
Jessica Clare/Jessica Sims/Jill Myles
Nalini Singh
Dorothy Sayers
Graham Greene
Nora Roberts/JD Robb
C.S. Lewis
Roxane Gay
Ilona Andrews
Flannery O'Connor
Agatha Christie
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@myreadinglife8816 5 жыл бұрын

I appreciate so much that you give commercial authors like Nora Roberts and Ilona Andrews love on your channel. I don't think I follow any other Booktubers who do this. Its very refreshing and as someone who loves them both, its great to hear someone talk about them.

@bookslikewhoa 5 жыл бұрын

It's what I like to read, so I feel like it would be disingenuous to not include it as a part of my favorites. I like it all! :)

@TheHannieCorner 5 жыл бұрын

I read Agatha Christie for the first time last year and fell in love. I'm three books in so far and can't wait to devour more of her works in the future.

@bookslikewhoa 5 жыл бұрын

Hooray!!! Enjoy your deep dive - so much goodness ahead :)

@karenbird6727 5 жыл бұрын

Great list of favorite authors. Dorothy Sayers, C.S. Lewis and Agatha Christie would be included in my favorites. I love how you chose based on reading multiple works, rather than one particular work.

@InfiniteText 5 жыл бұрын

lol...who my favourite author is "A REAL MYSTERY"...love what you did there. I totally agree, favourite books rarely are by most read/favourite authors

@bookslikewhoa 5 жыл бұрын

You know I love a pun ;)

@AnLi84 5 жыл бұрын

Hello Mara! I second everything you said about Nalini Singh. I love the Psy/Changeling series a lot! :)

@antaratasmeen4765 5 жыл бұрын

I would so join for the Wimsey read-a-long! I read 'Whose Body' about two years ago and have been lazying to get to the others! Hopefully following along with you will make me get to those books! And of course Ilona Andrews is my currently writing 'urban fantasy/fantasy/paranormal etc.' favourite author too!! I think I like the use of mythology in urban settings and that the characters always feel fully formed and not half a**ed in their books! TBD on the all time favourite though unfortunately ...

@margiecrawford4429 5 жыл бұрын

I have to think about my favorite authors but Christie and Ilona Andrews are definitely up there. If you haven't gotten to it yet, Michael Lewis's The Fifth Risk is a must-read - terrific/terrifying. Great video!

@bookslikewhoa 5 жыл бұрын

That's definitely on my TBR- heard it is great!!

@lynwebster 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Of your ten authors, I've only read 5, but 4 of those would also be on my list of favourite authors. With that hit rate, I think I should definitely give your other authors a try.

@bookslikewhoa 5 жыл бұрын

Hope you find someone else's backlist to love :)

@lindaatamian1092 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Mara. Agatha Christie is my favorite author, too. Did you know that her father was an American Expat?

@sephestra. 5 жыл бұрын

I didn't know about Flannery O'Connor and am now intrigued. And due to your absolute joy in Agatha Christie I have been inspired to re-read and new-read all of her volumes...probably starting with either the stand-alones or the smaller series. These are my favorite authors (in no particular order), if I go by sheer enjoyment in conjunction with the amount of their works I have read: Jane Austen Matthew Reilly Jim Butcher Neil Gaiman Stephen King Mary Balogh HP Lovecraft Naomi Novik Garth Nix Elizabeth Peters/Barbar Mertz Honorable Mention: Patricia Cornwell...I really enjoyed her Scarpetta series until she started writing in present tense.

@bookslikewhoa 5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic list!!! I'm excited to give Naomi Novik a try on my upcoming trip

@anyaconda3155 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! So close to 5k. Congrats 🤩

@bookslikewhoa 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! It's wild to many that any cares about my nerdy book thoughts... but here we are :D

@gaildoughty6799 5 жыл бұрын

You opened with a great observation about favorite books not necessarily from favorite authors. I hadn’t thought about that one before. You’ve inspired me to read Are Women Human. There’s a fantastic bio of her by Carolyn Heilbrun who, coincidentally, wrote mysteries under a pseudonym. They’re good, especially the earlier books, and full of thoughts on feminism. Because you don’t have enough to read and I’m here to help. Favorite authors are Christie, who was truly my bridge into adult books, and Anthony Trollope on the classic side. Going beyond those two...oh dear. Too much of a jumble in my head.

@bookslikewhoa 5 жыл бұрын

Haha yes, so many books, so little time! There's several big bios of Sayers out there, so good to hear an endorsement for a specific one :)

@leonief8066 5 жыл бұрын

Georgette Heyer, Patricia Veryan, Dorothy Dunnett, Dorothy Sayers, Margery Allingham, Nora Roberts... and so many more! (And some of them male too!)

@bookslikewhoa 5 жыл бұрын

Great list! Girl power ;)

@inksplat 5 жыл бұрын

I would consider myself a newer viewer of your channel, but I totally guessed your top pick. 😂 I read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe when I was younger, but I admit there the only CS Lewis I’ve read. I really love Nora Roberts, especially the JD Robb series. She’s pretty consistent, and I know I’m going to have a good time reading her books! I’ve never read Agatha Christie. It always seemed there was something newer and more “ooh shiny” to read, and then I didn’t read at all for a few years because I was too busy knitting, and I don’t enjoy audiobooks. I love mysteries, though! Do you have any recommendations about where to start for someone who has never read Agatha Christie?

@bookslikewhoa 5 жыл бұрын

Haha, glad to know my brand comes through loud & clear! :) I've got a couple of Where to Start with videos on Christie (one for her whole oeuvre & one for Poirot). I'd probably recommend And Then There Were None or Murder on the Orient Express as the best places to start, but it all depends on your preferences for mystery

@inksplat 5 жыл бұрын

bookslikewhoa I probably should’ve searched! Thanks for answering! :) I’ll check out these videos!!

@ednaadams7360 4 жыл бұрын

If you like dragons and a kick-ass heroine, check out Marcus Alexander's Keeper of the Realms trilogy, love Nibbler!

@iansmith4023 5 жыл бұрын

Christie also tops the list for me;with C.S.Lewis' Narnia Chronicles not far behind. I am also a fan of Ian Fleming (a legacy of my teenage years);but,having read several biographies of him,he is a very difficult man to like.Much of his personal life (from the age of about 18 onward) can be accurately described as 'reprehensible'. My father was a huge fan of Dorothy L. Sayers. I keep meaning to give her a go. What was it about Five Red Herrings you disliked? (Have you done a YT video about it?)

@bookslikewhoa 5 жыл бұрын

It was the kind of mystery where most of the book is spent diving into the minutia of a timeline, and that's just not my personal preference for mystery. Definitely YMMV

@NeetuSingh-eo4iu 5 жыл бұрын

My all time favourite authors are- Wilbur Smith, Nicholas Sparks, Khaled Hosseni😀

@susprime7018 4 жыл бұрын

Favorite writer number 1 is John Updike and others in no particular order. Jonathan Franzen, Jane Smiley, Anne Tyler, Mona Simpson, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Arthur Miller and Stephen King, go figure.

@tiffanyjacksontaylor1025 5 жыл бұрын

I love your ladder bookshelves. Where did you get them if you dont mind me asking.

@bookslikewhoa 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I got them from Amazon... just search "ladder bookcase" and it should show :)

@TheGoofy1932 4 жыл бұрын

I'm so shocked by your favorite author. 😂 Here are my favorite authors : Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Ilona Andrews, Robert Crais, Kresley Cole, Nalini Singh, Anne Bishop, Suzanne Wright, Annette Marie (she's a relatively new find for me) and Penelope Sky (she's my favorite guilty pleasure dark romance read)

@thirtynine392001 5 жыл бұрын

I would have to say that Edgar Allan Poe is my all-time favorite author.

@BeautifullyBookishBethany 5 жыл бұрын

I haven't done a lot of these kinds of videos either. I'm always a little hesitant because one of my favorite authors through my teenage years and early 20's is very controversial these days, especially on booktube.

@bookslikewhoa 5 жыл бұрын

Spill the tea girl... people love a scandal ;)

@joannemccarthy2486 2 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing MZB.

@paigehelling7973 5 жыл бұрын

My favorite author is without a doubt Kresley Cole and always will be. I’m torn between Penelope Douglas and K. Webster for my favorite Indie author - they’re both amazing. I agree with you on Nalini Singh and Jessica Clare. Singh is a better writer and I connect more to her stories than Clare’s, but they’re both very good and I really enjoy their books.

@bookslikewhoa 5 жыл бұрын

Kresley Cole is great! I have to be in the mood, but her books are a lot of fun

@paigehelling7973 5 жыл бұрын

bookslikewhoa I always have a great time when I’m reading her and it’s been too long since I have. I haven’t read her since Wicked Abyss came out, but I want to do a re-read of the IAD series this year, I really love where she’s taken it in these last couple of books 😁