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Who are your top 5 favorite authors starting with your most loved.....Mine are 1. Louise Erdrich 2.Kurt Vonnegut 3.William Faulkner 4. David Sedaris 5. Anne Tyler

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Definitely a tough contest:
Brian Greene
Carl Sagan
Richard Feynman
Roger Penrose
Stephen Hawking

IamNobody Level 8 May 24, 2018

@annedoneal too many talented people out there in the span of time

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I put them alphabetically because they're so different:

Joseph Campbell
Richard Dawkins
William Horwood
James Joyce
Steven King

brentan Level 8 May 24, 2018

@annedoneal Their books are like little babies to me. I love them, different as they are.

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Not easy... off the top of my head:
Alan Garner
Kurt Vonnegut
Mervyn Peake
A J P Taylor
Alan Sillitoe

moNOtheist Level 7 May 24, 2018
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Tough one
Adam Gopnik
Ernest Hemingway
David McCullough
James Baldwin
Joseph Campbell
These are in no special order, just listed as they came to mind.

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Great question! I read professionally, so please forgive me for splitting your question up into fiction and non-fiction, I can’t help myself. Fiction: Jasper Fforde, Christopher Moore, Carl Hiassen, Neal Stephenson, Rex Stout
Non-fiction: Mary Roach, Bill Bryson, Erik Larson, Dava Sobel, Charles Panati

PenLOP Level 7 May 24, 2018
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Zola, Orwell, Steinbeck,Graham Greene and of living authors I love Robert Harris.

Tedoi Level 4 June 8, 2018
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