The Next Best Book Club discussion

Let's see how this goes. The way to play is this:
One person picks a genre, say Science Fiction and gives a Science Fiction author whose name begins with A, ex. Isaac Asimov. The next person has to give a Science Fiction author whose last name begins with B, third person gives a Science Fiction author whose last name begins with C, and so on all the way to Z. The person who gives the Z name then picks another genre and we keep going. I know there's a limited amount of different genres, so repeats of genres are ok, but let's try not to repeat the authors already given.

Also, feel free to add any short comments about your author, like why you picked him or her, have you read a really good book by this author, etc.

I'll start us with Mystery authors and my A is:
Susan Wittig Albert is a really good author of several mystery series. She just started a new series with The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree, a mystery that takes place in the time of the Depression and is solved by a group of gardening Jessica Fletchers/Miss Marples.

Next person gives a Mystery author whose last name begins with B and so on.

I'll play.

Gerry Boyle

I have only read one mystery by him and that is Pretty Dead

Mary Higgins Clark -

Barbara Delinsky

Janet Evanovich

Linda Fairstein

Christine Goff author of the Birdwatcher mysteries.

Sue Henry who writes a number of mystery series set in Alaska

Susan Isaacs author of Long Time No See

J.A. Jance author of Birds of Prey

Stuart M. Kaminsky author of People Who Walk In Darkness

Gail Lukasik author of Death's Door

Henning Mankell author of Faceless Killers and other scandanavian mysteries

Jan Hurst-Nicholson - Leon Chameleon P.I. and the case of the kidnapped mouse

Gregg Olsen, author of A Wicked Snow

Sara Paretsky - V.I. for Short

Ellery Queen - Dutch Shoe Mystery

Christopher Rice author of
A Density of Souls

Sharon Sala - Out of the Dark

Scott Turow - Presumed Innocent

Arthur Upfield

Fred Vargas - The Chalk Circle Man

Betty Webb, author of The Anteater of Death

I hearby declare that we shall skip X

Scott Young(1918-2005) author of Murder in a Cold Climate

Mark Richard Zubro, who shall now need to go on my "to-read" list

Ooooh ... and I get to pick a new genre. Let's move to Science Fiction, and I shall start us with Douglas Adams, who is one of my all-time favorite authors.

Good call, Mark! I don't read enough science fiction, hopefully will get some good suggestions here

Ray Bradbury

Orson Scott Card author of Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon

Samuel R. Delany, author of The Jewels of Aptor

Harlan Ellison

Michael Jan Friedman

Nicola Griffith

The classic Robert Heinlein

Kazuo Ishiguro

Robert Jordan - Crossroads of Twilight

July Klass - wrote in the original Star Trek novel series.

Fritz Leiber

Anne McCaffrey

Larry Niven

P.J. O'Rourke

Jerry Pournelle

(Got some help from Wikipedia for this one)-
W.T. Quick - author of Dreams of Flesh and Sand, among others; he also co-authored the Quest for Tomorrow series with William Shatner.

All ready now for someone to pick it up with the next author for the Science Fiction genre - someone whose last name begins with 'R'...

Mike Resnick

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

William Tuning

Again, with the help of Wikipedia:
Steven Utley -sounds like an interesting author - he has a book of stories entitled The 400-Million-Year Itch coming out in July 2012.

John Varley

Science fiction author, last name starting with 'W' - who else but...

H.G. Wells

Invoking precedent (see above) we are skipping X.


Jane Yolen

Timothy Zahn

That was a Z, so let move to HISTORICAL FICTION

Laura Adams Armer