Are there any authors you find particularily good? Who should I add to this list to read?

Question

I am looking for more classical or Gothic Era writers, although if there happens to be a spectacular book published in the last few years, I'd be willing to investigate.

PLEASE, don't repeat anything on this list or tell me Stephanie Meyer/Christopher Paolini/etc. I've read the Twilight books, anyways. They were eh *shrugs*.

Here's my list so far:

Goethe
Blake
Poe
Marlow
Tennyson
Lord Byron
Anais Nin
Wilde
Keats
Morliere
Hawthorne
Dickenson
Brontee
A. Rice
Bram Stoker
Mary Shelley
Melissa Marr
Storm Constantine
Ellen Schreiber
Chaucer
Falkner

Any names or specific books you can add would be spectacular! =)

Answer 1

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

If your looking for classics I'd have to recommend Animal Farm and 1984 both by George Orwell. Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a good one too. Ernest Hemiway is pretty good but not everyone likes him.
Mark Twain (aka Samual Clements) is good, I especially like his short stories.
Mythology is always kind of fun to read.
Banned books are usually a good choice especially because the reasons they're generally banned are pretty bogus. Check out the site below for a list of banned books, most of which are now considered classics.
If you're looking for more updated authors I would suggest Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game/Ender's Shadow series.

Source(s):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ban…

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Asker's Comment:

I never thought to look up banned books; it makes me think to read The Lottery. And thanks for the recommendations on Orwell and mythology, those are definitly areas I'll nose through.

=)

Answer 2

All the jacqueline wilson books are good nd karen mccombie-her ally's world series is good nd jean ure. xxx

Answer 3

Sophie Kinsella - Shes BRILLIANT

Answer 4

C.S. Lewis. He has written lots of things besides the "Narnia" books. Try "Till We Have Faces". He also wrote short stories and poems.

Answer 5

Try some H.P. Lovecraft. "Waking up Screaming" is a delicious read.

Answer 6

J.K rowling
Alice Hoffman

and when i was younger
Jerry Spinelli
and
R.L Stine :p

Answer 7

not sure if this is the era you are looking for, but perhaps voltaire? and i've heard that rudyard kiplings "the jungle book" is an interesting read

Answer 8

Edward Leah

The Quangle Wangles Hat

Answer 9

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman - She's not a classical or gothic author but the books by her are amazing you should definately read them!!!

Answer 10

well I agree with you on the twilight series I read the first one and part of the second one and then stopped...
as for The Inheritance Trilogy(Christopher paolini) I love those...
but let's see
Janette Oke - The Love Comes Softly series

Beverly Cleary - Jean and Johnny, Fifteen, The Luckiest Girl, Sister of the Bride. (I haven't read them but my older sister really liked fifteen.... and I think she may have read a couple of the other ones, but from what I have read by her, she writes really well...)

hope this helps!

Answer 11

Ray Bradbury
Peter S. Beagle

Answer 12

Susan Vreeland - I really liked "The Passion of Artemisia"

Robin Maxwell - "The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn" and "Virgin"

Tracy Chevalier - I really like "Girl With A Pearl Earring" & "The Lady and The Unicorn"

Jane Austen - I think my favorite was "Emma"

Answer 13

If you haven't read Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," I highly recommend it. I believe it was America's first psychological novel, and I couldn't read it fast enough! Of course, Mary Shelley's "Franksenstein" is a must read. I think you might like Oscar Wilde's "The Portrait of Dorian Gray," though it's not exactly gothic. At any rate, it was a fantastic piece of literature and I found myself in love with Wilde's work. Also, as a huge fan of all things Poe, I recommend reading Edgar Allen Poe's short stories and poems. My favorites include "The Tale-Tell Heart," "A City By The Sea," and "Anabelle Lee." I also recommend James Hogg's "The Private Confessions and Memoirs of a Justified Sinner," as well as Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."

Happy reading!

Answer 14

Jack London's The Call of the Wild. Beloved by Toni Morrison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dante Alighieri's Purgatorio, and my personal favorite is The count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. I love Faulkner too.

Answer 15

I found the Percy Jackson series (rick ridoran) really good.
But he's not gothic era. =]

Answer 16

Crikey! You're in for a gloomy time. Here's some more....

Matthew Lewis "The Monk"
Horace Walpole "Castle of Otranto"
Ann Radcliffe "Mysteries of Udolpho"
de Sade "Misfortunes of Virtue"
Maturin "Melmoth the Wanderer"

Edgar Allan Poe? RL Stevenson?

Answer 17

Joseph Conrad
James Joyce
Robert Louis Stevenson
William Butler Yeats
Beowolf
Ambrose Bierce
Bronte Sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, not just Emily)
Ernest Hemingway
Jack London
Sir Thomas Malory
Mark Twain

HG Wells
Michael Crichton
Douglas Adams
George Orwell
Ray Bradbury
Flannery O'Connor
Joseph Kesselring
Arthur Miller

Diana Wynne Jones
Tamora Pierce
Robin McKinley
Patrica Briggs
Rachel Caine
Maria V Snyder

Answer 18

well i read often and its not often that i ever find a book that its good enough to enter my top five, but i found a series that mad no one and even though there completely different and shouldn't really be compared... it might just beat harry potter!!
you could have already read them because there quite famous and being made into a film this year (with one of the best looking casts ever!!).
Its the twilight series by Stephenie Meyer, they're the dogs and you'd have to try hard to find something so recent, of all ages (mostly women though) that everybody can enjoy. once you've read the first one you fall uncontrollably in love with all the characters!! (((Must Read)))