The Jezebel Book Network discussion

Who are your favorite authors?

I'm a huge F. Scott Fitzgerald fan and have enjoyed the books I've read by Kurt Vonnegut. I'm looking forward to reading more books by Michael Chabon and Jonathan Franzen (franzenfeud!!).

Murakami for me and Donna Tartt. Zadie Smith to a lesser degree.

Katie wrote: "Murakami for me and Donna Tartt. Zadie Smith to a lesser degree."

I read Donna Tartt's secret history but wasn't sure if I should pick up The Little Friend or not.

Nicole wrote: "Katie wrote: "Murakami for me and Donna Tartt. Zadie Smith to a lesser degree."

I read Donna Tartt's secret history but wasn't sure if I should pick up The Little Friend or not."

I liked The Little Friend far far more than the Secret History. I would say give it a shot.

There are quite a few, I'll put it into two categories.
Classic: Jane Austen, John Steinbeck, and W. Somerset Maugham.

Contemporary: Jonathan Tropper, John Irving, Jennifer Weiner, and Alice Hoffman.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is great. I also love Mark Twain, Raymond Carver, J.D. Salinger, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Truman Capote, and Shirley Jackson.

I like William Gibson a lot, Neil Gaiman, and I have recently discovered Melissa Fay Greene.

Bill Bryson

Lynn Sharon Schwartz, who wrote "Disturbances in the Field." It's my all-time most loved book. I've probably read it 30 or 40 times. It's about a woman's life, from an idyllic summer at the beach when she was a child, to making a group of friends at college who become her lifelong friends, and then the book suddenly stops, and Part II begins with a horrific tragedy happening to her, and how she goes on with her life after it.