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To differentiate this from Favorite books, a favorite author is someone who could write a book, many books, any books, and I would read them. I mean, pretty much anything they wrote, I'd add it to my to-read list sight unseen. There's a lot of books in the world but not so much time, so I'm not saying I have read every book by a particular writer. I'm just saying that, if I were left alone in a room full of books, I would start looking for books by these writers first. Under each name, books I particularly like or entries I've written about them are listed. As always, this is a page in progress.

Louisa May Alcott

• Little Women
• Eight Cousins
• Rose in Bloom
• Behind a Mask, or, A Woman's Power

E.M. Forster

• Howards End
• A Room with a View

Antonia Fraser

• Marie Antoinette: The Journey
• The Warrior Queens

Neil Gaiman

• Stardust

Philippa Gregory

Look, I'm not proud, okay? A girl needs her guilty-pleasure reading.

• The Other Boleyn Girl
• The Queen's Fool

Madeleine L'Engle

• A Ring of Endless Light
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet
• Her death, September 7th, 2007: "If I'm reading the book, I hear the song; if I hear the song, I think of the book, and that light, white afternoon I finished it in my little upstairs room with the roof shaped like a barn's."

C.S. Lewis

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• The Horse and His Boy
• The Magician's Nephew

Alan Moore

• From Hell
• League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• Watchmen

Philip Pullman

• The Golden Compass
• The Ruby in the Smoke

J.K. Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Lemony Snicket

• The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5)
• The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 9)
• The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13)

J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Hobbit
• The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Silmarillion

Alison Weir

• The Life of Elizabeth I
• Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
• Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley
• Queen Isabella : Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England

See also

• Books
• Favorites