Stephen King: (1947 – ) American crime, thriller, horror, supernatural, fantasy, science-fiction, and suspense novelist from Maine. King’s favorite book of his is Lisey’s Story. The 2006 book was written as inspiration after King’s 1999 accident. It is King’s favorite book of his because it related to his experience where his wife Tabitha took care of him, cleaned his office, and King constantly thought about if he had passed away instead.
James Patterson: (1947 – ) American author and storyteller from Newburgh, NY. Patterson’s favorite books are One Hundred Years of Solitude and Ulysses because he has said that books can be an adventure.
James Baldwin: (1924 – 1987) African American novelist and poet from Harlem, NY. One of Baldwin’s well-known books is Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) to which incorporates biblical references to the life of a young man named John Grimes.
Toni Morrison: (1931 – 2019) An American novelist and professor from Ohio. One of Morrison’s well-known books is The Bluest Eye (1970) to which discusses the brutal effects of racism especially in a young black girl named Pecola who wishes to have blue eyes more than anything because she believes she is ugly.
Elizabeth Acevedo: (1988) An Afro-Dominican author slash poet. Acevedo’s well-known book is is Clap When You Land (2020) because it describes the theme of coming to realization with a new reality after death and starting anew.
Agatha Christie: (1890 – 1976) murder mystery author who has written over sixty- two detective books. One of Christie’s well-known books is Murder On the Orient Express (1934), which is one of my personal favorites as it includes a murder mystery to solve and it’s up to Detective Hercule Poirot to solve! Also, there’s a 2017 movie version with actor Johnny Depp!
Gillian Flynn: (1971 – ) A thriller author from Kansas City. One of Flynn’s well- known books is Gone Girl (2012), which also stars Ben Affleck in a film adaptation, playing a husband who has realized that his famous wife has faked her disappearance and has framed him as her suspected murder.
Patricia Cornwell: (1956 – ) A crime writer from Miami, Florida. One of Cornwell’s well-known books is Postmortem (1990) which explains a chief medical examiner who is attempting to find a serial killer without realizing the killer is onto her trail.
Laura Lippman: (1959 – ) A detective fiction author from Georgia. One of Lippman’s well-known books is What the Dead Know (2007) which tells the story of investigating a woman who has been missing for more than thirty years.
Paula Hawkins: (1972 – ) A British psychological thriller author. One of Hawkins’ most well-known books is The Girl on the Train (2015) which is also of my ultimate favorite go-to books because it deals with the theme of thriller, alcoholism, infidelity, a secret killer under the reader’s nose, and the unlikeable protagonist becoming the true hero.
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