#10Authors5BooksEach - the ones I recommend who may not be known to all my followers:
Iain M. Banks
Heinrich Böll
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Jenny Erpenbeck
Ursula K. LeGuin
Marge Piercy
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Christa Wolf
Banana Yoshimoto
@vicgrinberg#10Authors5BooksEach
Agatha Christie
Anne McCaffrey
Catharine Asaro
Colleen McCullough
JK Rowling
Jodi Taylor
Martha Wells
Mary Renault
Seanan McGuire
Ursula LeGuin
@vicgrinberg mine:
Katherine Kerr
Robin Hobb
Julian May
Dan Simmons
Anne McCaffrey
Kurt Vonnegut
I'll also join the Iain Banks booster club - bloody good author.
@TacticalGrace_ oh wow! I only come around to his books pretty late, after his death. But they have somehow become true comfort reads when the worlds becomes too much (I know, I am strange like that ...).
@vicgrinberg I don't think that's strange at all. I feel the exact same way. I've got a nice hardback copy of Matter that Iain gifted to me, and then signed for me, when I met up with him in Glasgow back in 2009. He was a great man, a wonderful author, and there's a lot of him in his work. Outside of the Culture novels, I can also recommend, if you haven't read them yet, Feersum Endjinn, and most of his regular fiction work, too.
@TacticalGrace_ I've read Feersum Endjinn - which I loved a lot! Haven't read his mainsteam novels yet, also because I've been told they are less of a comfort ... But I definitely have them on my to read list!
@vicgrinberg I'm glad you've read that, it is genuinely one of my favourites. I would recommend caution when it comes to his regular fiction work, particularly The Wasp Factory, as that has some incredibly dark themes to it.
I bought a copy to read on the flight back to Bavaria from the UK, and finished it in about 3 hours. I'd only consider reading that on a nice bright sunny day, and when you're in a happy head space, or it could be quite unpleasant.
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