100th Post - 100 Authors I Recommend

I didn't have the energy to contemplate a "100 Things About Me" post, so instead, I will give you a list of 100 authors I have read and would recommend. I'm sure I will look back and wonder at someone I obviously neglected to include. I'm sure that this list will continue to grow as the years go by. I have broken them down into two categories: authors of books for adults and authors of books for children. If I have only read one outstanding book by the author, I have added that title - they may have written more, but I've only read the one.

Here are the authors of books for adults:

1. Mitch Albom
2. Jeffrey Archer (I've only read his short stories)
3. Maeve Binchy
4. Dr. Paul Brand
5. Emily Bronte
6. Bill Bryson
7. Pearl S. Buck
8. Frederick Buechner
9. G.K. Chesterton
10. Ted Dekker
11. Christopher de Vinck
12. Charles Dickens
13. Annie Dillard
14. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
15. Theodore Dreiser
16. Daphne DuMaurier
17. Kim Edwards (The Memory Keeper's Daughter)
18. T.S. Eliot
19. Elisabeth Elliot
20. Leif Enger (Peace Like a River)
21. Joseph F. Girzone
22. John Grisham
23. Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime)
24. Tim Hansel
25. Thomas Hardy
26. Torey Hayden
27. Nick Hornby
28. Khaled Housseni
29. Victor Hugo
30. Karen Kingsbury
31. Sophie Kinsella
32. Anne Lamott
33. C.S. Lewis
34. Brendan Manning
35. Catherine Marshall
36. James Michener
37. Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind)
38. Frank Peretti
39. Jodi Picoult
40. Edgar Allen Poe
41. Francine Rivers
42. Anita Shreve
43. Nicholas Sparks
44. Alexander McCall Smith
45. John Steinbeck
46. J.R.R. Tolkien
47. A.W. Tozer
48. William Trevor (The Story of Lucy Gault)
49. Mark Twain
50. Edith Wharton
51. Philip Yancy

Here are the authors of books for children:

1. Nicholas Allen (A Pig's Book of Manners)
2. Tedd Arnold
3. Natalie Babbitt (Tuck Everlasting)
4. Blue Balliett
5. Philip Beard (Dear Zoe)
6. Judy Blume
7. John Boyne (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas)
8. Betsy Byars
9. Frances Hodgson Burnett
10. Gus Clarke
11. Beverly Cleary
12. Andrew Clements
13. Roald Dahl
14. Kate DiCamillo
15. John R. Erickson
16. Eleanor Estes (The Hundred Dresses)
17. John D. Fitzgerald
18. Louise Fitzhugh
19. Jean Craighead George (My Side of the Mountain)
20. Deborah Guarino (Is Your Mama a Llama?)
21. Carl Hiaasen
22. Jeff Kinney
23. Kate Klise
24. Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
25. Madeleine L'Engle
26. Astrid Lindgren
27. Lois Lowery
28. Mercer Mayer
29. Katherine Paterson
30. Richard Peck
31. H.A. Rey
32. Cynthia Rylant
33. J.K. Rowling
34. Louis Sachar
35. Graham Salisbury
36. Dr. Seuss
37. David Shannon
38. Shel Silverstein
39. Donald Sobol
40. Eileen Spinelli
41. Chris Van Allsburg
42. Wendelin Van Draanen
43. Bernard Waber
44. Michael P. Waite (The Building Christian Character Series)
45. Gloria Whelan (Listening for Lions)
46. E.B. White
47. Laura Ingalls Wilder
48. Debbie Wiles
49. Gene Zion

One of the most gratifying aspects to this little exercise was the response of my ES. I began by perusing all the books on my bookshelves and then looked at the books on ES, MS and YS's shelves. When I was looking over ES's books, I told him what I was doing and he asked if I was putting my name on the list. I explained that I don't have a book published yet. He then mentioned the title of one of my children's picture books and also gave the plot-line to one of my young adult novels. He ACTUALLY knows and remembers what I have written, and HE considers me an AUTHOR!

I do still have hope for him. He received two books by Jeff Kinney for his birthday from his younger siblings. At first, he felt that they were books and began to grumble. But, when he opened them, he was actually thrilled! Yah for good books and double yah for good authors!