2015 Book Challenge discussion

Do some digging on the internet and find an author that shares your initials.

Wikipedia has some short lists, but the more comprehensive lists are on the Internet Book Database.
e.g. http://www.ibookdb.net/authorlist/C

Put in the letter for your own last name and it'll bring up a huge list of authors with your last name. Then you can look for authors with the same first initial.

There's an easy way to do it with Excel; if anyone gets stuck and wants the Excel instructions or a list of authors with their initials let me know and I can post that.

I'm trying to decide between Robin Cook and Richard Castle. I feel like I should put him in quotes!

This is kind of a nightmare for me since my initials are LBU, I've found a couple of LB's and LU's, but that's it :c

Mine are MP, so I'm considering reading M Pierce's Night Owl.

I had to get my librarian's help for this. She found an author when I couldn't so now I just need it to come in.

Looking for an author with JF initials, any ideas?

Any ideas for SR initials. I haven't found anything.

Jo wrote: "Looking for an author with JF initials, any ideas?"

Here are some that I have either read or they are on my TBR list:

Jamie Ford - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet
Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
John Fante - The Brotherhood of the Grape
Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close or Everything is Illuminated
John Fowles - The Magus or The French Lieutenant's Woman
Janet Frame - Faces in the Water

Sarah wrote: "Any ideas for SR initials. I haven't found anything."

Here are a few authors - I haven't read anything by them yet, but I do have some of their works on my TBR list:

Suzanne Rindell
Sharon Huss Roat
Salman Rushdie
Simon Raven

Mary Sue wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Any ideas for SR initials. I haven't found anything."

Here are a few authors - I haven't read anything by them yet, but I do have some of their works on my TBR list:

Suzanne Rindell..."

thanks!

Being someone with a double first name and therefore initials (MSS), I was originally going to look for an author whose initials were just MS. However, then I came across Muriel Spark, whose middle name was Sarah, so I found an author with the initials MSS. I read for this task.