List your 10 favorite fiction writers & 10 favorite non-fiction authors.?

Fiction:

* Tom Robbins

* Orson Scott Card

* John Irving

* Michael Chabon (specifically for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay)

* Gabriel Garcia-Marquez

* Robertson Davies

* Roald Dahl

* Anne Rice

* Isaac Asimov

* Marion Zimmer Bradley

Non-fiction (much harder....I generally have favorite books in this category, but not really favorite authors):

* Elie Wiesel

* Betty Jean Lifton

* Susan Griffin

* Jean Paul Sartre

* Dava Sobel

* Laura Hillenbrand

* Susan Orlean

* Carl Sagan

*Augusten Burroughs

* Wendy Wasserstein

Fiction:

J. K. Rowling

L. M. Montgomery

Stephenie Meyer

Laurie Halse Anderson

Jane Austen

Shannon Hale

Agatha Christie

Lilian Jackson Braun

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Diana Wynne Jones

Non-Fiction:

Robert K. Massie

Hmmm... I don't read much non-fiction at all.

Fav fiction authors (in no particular order):

Anne McCaffrey

Marion Zimmer Bradley

J.R.R. Tolkien

David Eddings

Terry Brooks

Piers Anthony

Jean M Auel

L.E. Modesitt

Margaret Weis/Tracy Hickman

V.C. Andrews

Fav Non Fiction authors (in no particular order):

Fiction

Dick francis

Nora Roberts

Johanna Lindsey

Sandra Brown

John Grisham

Amanda Quick

Danielle Steel

Jannette Oke

Nicholas Sparks

Donna Hemans

I don't read too much non-fiction

Spencer Johnson

Stephen Convey

Stormie Omartian

Fiction:

A. S. Byatt

Margaret Atwood

Iris Murdock

John Updike

Philip Roth

Issac Assimov

James Baldwin

Kurt Vonnegut

Walker Percy

William Carlos Williams

Summerset Maugham

Joyce Carol Oates

I couldn't narrow it down any further!

fiction:

Ayn Rand

CS Lewis

Tom Savage

John Sanford

Mary Higgins Clark

Agatha Christie

AN Roquelaure ;-)

Jennifer Weiner

Charles Dickens

Clive Cussler

Non Fiction:

Max Lucado

Beth Moore

Joyce Meyers

Joel Osteen

Fiction

S.M.Stirling

Dick Francis

Ann McCaffrey

Elizabeth Moon

Lois McMaster Bujold

Mark Twain

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Fiction-

1-Nora Roberts

2-George Orwell

3-Stephen King

4-John Grisham

5-Janet Evanovitch

6-Susan Elizabeth Phillips

7-James patterson

8-Oscar Wilde

9-Steve Kluger

10-J.K. Rowling

Non-Fiction

1-Dave Barry

2-Arthur Golden

3-Augusten Burroughs

4-Ann Coulter

5-

i dunno. i don't read that much non fiction