What modern author have you read the most of?

[Vie]

Hum, probably Terry Pratchet - read most of his books after all (Strata is wonderful.)

Have also read all of Douglas Adams' writing as well, including the original radio shows (Fantastic by the way.)

Also read the majority of David Webber's books, all of the Honorverse ones bar the last one or two I believe.

 

[Quaxar]

Terry Pratchett is my most read "modern author", have nearly everything from the discworld and some additionals at home and read them once in a while.

 

[Thaius]

Definitely Ted Dekker. The man writes brilliant thrillers, and his fantasy trilogy is some of the best stuff I have ever read. EVER.

 

[LongAndShort]

John Le Carre if that counts is what I've read the most recently. Cormac Mccarthy is an Author I really enjoy (probably not the right word to use).

 

[Meggiepants]

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Christopher Moore, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix, Philip Pullman, Orson Scott Card, Clive Barker, Philip K Dick, oh I better stop... but I like so many!!!

 

[dark-amon]

A lot of Voltaire, Poe and Twain. A lot of thinking going on.

Although I admire your choices of authors I don't think they qualify for 'modern writers', still it's impressive. I haven't read anything from Voltaire, just about him.
On track however I would have to go for Richard Dawkings, Douglas Adams or R. A. Salvatore. Anything that could be banned by the church I guess.

 

[Baneat]

Just quoting to get your attention

Define "modern"? like Orwell is modern? or people like Stephen King and J.K Rowling

 

[diamondwolf]

Isac Asimov

 

[Kiefer13]

Terry Pratchett. There are only a handful of his books that I haven't yet read at least once. He also happens to be my favourite author.

 

[Johnnyallstar]

Really depends on what you mean by "modern". I've read nearly every Heinlein book, but he's been dead for 2 decades, so I wasn't thinking of him as being modern per se.

But I've read Terry Pratchett, Terry Goodkind, George R. R. Martin, Glen Cook, and a few others. I *LOVE* Martin's Song of Fire and Ice saga and Goodkind's WFR series. But will read Pratchett's discworld and Cook's Garrett files when I want something lighter, and more fun.

 

[A random person]

J.K Rowling since I've read the Harry Potter series. Unfortunately I don't read as much as I should.

 

[CuddlyCombine]

Although I admire your choices of authors I don't think they qualify for 'modern writers', still it's impressive. I haven't read anything from Voltaire, just about him.
On track however I would have to go for Richard Dawkings, Douglas Adams or R. A. Salvatore. Anything that could be banned by the church I guess.

I'd classify anything after the industrial revolution as modern. If we're talking contemporary, everything you've said.

 

[arsenicCatnip]

Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Laurell K. Hamilton and Jacqueline Carey all tie. I've read nearly everything each of them has written, but I prefer King and Carey's prose to Koontz and Hamilton.

 

[gorfias]

My bad, I should have been much more specific. I just didn't want replys of Shakespeare and Homer. If you've read the Illiad or the Odyssy, you've read a lot!

I'll put it at anything after 1930.

 

[CouchCommando]

Peter F Hamilton

 

[liveslowdiefast]

stephen king

 

[Lazarus Long]

For me, Robert A. Heinlein probably tops the list. For the longest time, "Time Enough for Love" was my all time favorite book, probably because I was in my teen years, and the main character gets lucky... a lot.

Yeah, Time Enough for Love was alright. I can't for the life of me remember that character's name, though...

Heinlein was, to use a technical term, the bomb-diggitty. I'm fairly certain I've read about 80% of Harlan Ellison's stuff, and that's no small amount of words. I've missed one of William Gibson's novels, I think. I'll have to look into that.

 

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

John Grisham, my favorite is The Pelican brief.

 

[Jark212]

Clive Cussler, Specifically his Oregon Files books...

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Eoin Colfer.

Despite being nearly 20, I really enjoy the Artemis Fowl books.