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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Who is your favourite contemporary author?Question: Who is your favourite contemporary author!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Books about Teen Issues: A Child Called "IT" by David Pelzer (Abuse) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Rape/murder of a teen) Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Suicide) Crank and Glass (Drugs), Burned (Abuse), and Impulse (Suicide, drugs, etc!.) by Ellen Hopkins The Pact (Suicide Pact), Nineteen Minutes (Columbine-Like), and My Sister's Keeper (Being a donor for a sick sister) by Jodi Picoult Prom, Twisted, Speak (Rape), and Catalyst by Laurie Halse Anderson Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith A Separate Peace by John Knowles Historical Fiction: In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason - It's about the VietnamWar Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor - about blacks in America Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - Pilots in WWII The Book Thief by Markus Zusak - WWII Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier The Other Boleyn Girl (and others) by Philippa Gregory Romance: Anything by Sarah Dessen, Ann Brashares, Meg Cabot, Nicholas Sparks, or Ellen Giffin Books to Make You Think: The Five People You Meet in Heaven; Tuesdays With Morrie; and For One More Day by Mitch Albom Anything by Hermann Hesse Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Fantasy: Eragon and Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Brisingr in 9/2008) Dragonsong, Dragonsinger, and Dragondrums by Anne McCaffrey Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett The Sword of Shanarra Series by Terry Brooks His Dark Materials Series by Philip Pullman Mediator and 1-800 Series by Meg Cabot Maximum Ride Series by James Patterson Odd Thomas Series by Dean Koontz Anything by Tamora Pierce or Donita K!. Paul A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels and The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Wake by Lisa McMann Science Fiction: Michael Crichton, or Orson Scott Card Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and Extras by Scott Westerfeld Www@QuestionHome@Com Hi ! Haruki Murakami !. http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Haruki_Mura!.!.!. =^,,^=Www@QuestionHome@Com Carly Phillips, Katie MacAlister, Janet Evanoch, Kay Hooper, Lori Wilde, and many, many more!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Jodi Picoult or Nora Roberts Or Meg Cabot Or J!.D!. Robb or Stepahnie Meyer or Robert w!. Walker P!.S!. I sound like more of a nerd than I really am :) Www@QuestionHome@Com Zadie Smith, Lionel Shriver, Neil Gaiman!.!.!.!.the other authors I love write mostly stuff on current affairs, science and philosophy!. Can they be lumped into this category!?Www@QuestionHome@Com It's a tie between Janet Evanovich, James Patterson, and Mary Higgins Clark!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I really like Jodi Picoult!. also one my favorites is Terry Pratchet!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Jodi Picoult is a brilliant writer!.Www@QuestionHome@Com James Purdy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Eh, maybe Chuck Palahniuk!. Keeps changing!. Www@QuestionHome@Com |