Aaah, books. One of my favorite pastimes. I was supposed to go to Barnes & Nobles today, but got snowed in.
Some of my favorite authors are:
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Gary Paulsen (Woodsong is my favorite)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan series)
Sinclair Lewis
Ayn Rand
LaVyrle Spencer
L.M. Montgomery (Emily of New Moon and Anne of Green Gables series, but "The Blue Castle" most)
John Grisham
Karen Cushman (Catherine, Called Birdy)
Harper Lee
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Scott O'Dell (Island of the Blue Dolphin,lots of others)
Leo Tolstoy (his short stories-haven't read anything else)
Terry McMillan
Toni Morrison
Stephen King
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (A Midwife's Tale:The Life of Martha Ballard)
Virginia Woolf
Mark Twain
Louis Lamour
Madeline L'Engle
Rebecca Wells (Little Altars Everywhere, Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood)
Zena Jeter Naslund (Ahab's Wife)
Jack London (White Fang)
Anita Diamant (The Red Tent)
Rod McKuen (Suspension Bridge-especially the poems "Lillian at Fifty" and "Sacrament")
And I just picked up a book of Annie Dillard's stories that looks interesting, but haven't started reading it yet.