Roberto Bolano!

Mark Tufo by far! His books are so good it you won't even pirate em.

Frederick C. Beiser!

a Bronte? does that make me a dick for saying that?

Raymond L. Weil had recently joined a list of authors who's entire bibliography was completely read by myself, with one remaining novel in his "Forgotten Empire" series soon to be published.
He had been stricken with end stage renal disease recently but got a transplant in October and was doing well, until he suddenly died unexpectedly at the end of that month.
Surprising, as transplant recipients usually last a few years at least, but sometimes it does happen that they go into rejection and fade away quickly - as well I know having been the Medical Advocate for one for the past 16 years now.
A sad loss for the military science fiction fan universe.
R.I.P. Mr. Weil, and continue to fight the good fight wherever in the next universe you ended up.

F. Paul Wilson by a mile.

At the moment I’d say it has to be Blake Crouch. Just recently read ‘Recursion,’ ‘Dark Matter’ and the ‘Wayward Pines’ books. Absolutely incredible books.

This is an incredibly hard question to answer but I'll have to go with Naomi Novik. I loved the Temeraire series and deicded to give her next books a shot. They were in a very difference setting and I loved them!

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To be regimental and orderly I'd rather give my top 20 books ever, compiled quite recently. You'll get an idea of my top authors from that. Here goes:-

01 - Heir of Novron (The Riyria Revelations, #5-6)
02 - The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
03 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
04 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
05 - The Cazalet Chronicles: Five Novels in One Collection (Cazalet Chronicles, #1-5)
06 - As the Crow Flies
07 - Kolymsky Heights
08 - Night Fall (John Corey, #3)
09 - Death by Pantyhose (A Jaine Austen Mystery, #6)
10 - A Slice of Murder (Pizza Lovers, #1)
11 - The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)
12 - Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #17)
13 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
14 - The Egyptian Cross Mystery (Ellery Queen #5)
15 - The Greek Coffin Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective, #4)
16 - Be Careful What You Wish For (The Clifton Chronicles #4)
17 - Plum Island (John Corey, #1)
18 - The Fatal Funnel Cake (A Fresh-Baked Mystery, #8)
19 - I is for Innocent (Kinsey Millhone, #9)
20 - A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

Urgh where do I start? There are so many I will name a few of the Authors that I always go to first when they have new releases

Nora Roberts
JD Robb
Christine Feehan
Gena Showalter
KF Breene
Shannon Mayer
JR Ward
Sherrilyn McQueen (formerly Kenyon)

Definitely my boy George Orwell. Ever since i was 15 i was obsessed with 1984.

This will show my age but I discovered John D MacDonald when I purchased a paperback of his at Miami International Airport in 1988 . His Travis McGee series is the precursor to Lee Childs "Jack Reacher" series.

Today it is Robyn Peterman but that could just be coz I am currently enjoying her latest book

Terry Pratchett is still one of my all time favorites. I also love Stephen King

Bill Bryson
James Michener
Harlan Coben
Stephen King

Stephen king is my fav too. Im trying to get in to bill bryson .don't know what to read from him first