Wole Soyinka: Trials of Brother Jero

who wrote Nick Carter: killmaster ? read it as a teenager

Finn, last of the fianna, clash of the morna clan by Michael scott
house of many shadows by Barbara Michaels

James Hadley

Mike Hammer by Spillane

I also read some war stories like :
the things they carry Tim o Brien
Battle cry by Leon uris....very exciting book
Queens Mary

espionage books like

the Queen's messenger that has a guy Clive Gordon & Patterson

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

ajebuter:
Jackie Collins : Hlollywood Wives, Hollywood Husbands, The World is Full of Divorced Women, Rock Star, Lucky, Chances, Lady Boss, Lucky Vendatta, Dangerous Kiss, Hollywood Kids, Hollywood Divorce, The Stud, The World is Full of Married Men,

Sidney Sheldon : If Tomorrow Comes, Rage of an Angel, Master of the Game, Noonday Conspiracy, Naked Face, The Other Side of Midnight, Bloodline, Memories of Midnight, The Stars Shine Down, Stranger in the Mirror...

Danielle Steel: ( Daddy, Zoya, Malice, Lightning, Story of Nick,

John Grisham : The Street Lawyer, Pelican Brief, The Firm,

Jeffery Archer: Kane and Abel, The Prodigal Daughter

Other great authors are: Sandra Brown, Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Barbara Kartland, Robert Ludlum, Dan Brown,

Wow! I love reading!

I give it to you , you read sha. Jackie Colin's is late now

AfroKnight:


Because you mentioned Robert Jordan, I will check the other books listed.

Just curious. Why didn’t you mention Brandon Sanderson as well? I think he did a great job finishing the WOT series and has written superb personal works too.

There’s a new young gifted writer I was lucky to stumble upon recently: Evan Winter. He wrote “The Rage or Dragons”. The pace is unbelievable.

Other authors I like are Patrick Rothfuss, George R.R. Martin, Tad Williams, Joe Abercrombie, Michael Crichton, Nelson DeMille, Jeffery Archer, Frank Peretti, C. S. Lewis, Jim Butcher, Glen Cook, Steven Erikson, George Johnston.

For classics: Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Alexandre Dumas.

African Writers: Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, Chimamanda Adichie, Mongo Beti, Camara Laye, Peter Abrahams.

I just started reading Brandon (Mistborn), but not yet deep in it. Patrick (the name of the wind) i love that book as well, just waiting for the third part. Jeffery archer(kain and abel), i read that one but no time for the others. Michael connelly, love his books as well( timeline)..
While the rest, i gat all their novels but no time

Mario Puzo

gnykelly:
Dan Brown and David Baldacci

David Baldacci and Dan Brown mad combo.

It's hard to have a favourite author when you've read so many great books. I don't have one favourite.

skukimania:


I don't know about them. Are they horror writers too?

Yes, they are...Do check them out.

Gentle0wavez:
William Shakespeare and Professor Wole Soyinka are my best playwrights, Edgar Allan Poe is my best poet. I don't read novels much so I don't have a best novelist but The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde and the Alchemist Coelho Paulo are my best novels. My worst Novels ever are The old man and the sea by Earnest Hemingway and No longer at ease by Chinua Achebe. These books traumatized me from reading novels again, I hate them Sooooo much.

i don’t think there’s a novel that can ever be worse than “the old man and the sea”

Stephen King for sure. I love his creativity in writing horror. From IT, The Shining, Carrie, Pet Cementary, The Green Mile and many more. The guy is a legend in horror!

Mariama Ba

1. Peter Abrahams in Tell Freedom and Mine Boy
2. James Hadley Chase. I have just concluded reading a PDF version of 'There is a hippy on the highway'. Wanna start reading: The way the cookie crumbles.
3. Sidney Sheldon: A stone for Danny Fisher

Contact me on WhatsApp chat only please if you are interested in the PDF version of these books:

ZERO SEVEN ZERO EIGHT FOUR SEVEN NINE THREE ZERO SEVEN EIGHT.

It's FREE.

Dan brown and lobsang rampa

Sirheny007:


Send me a pm bro!

Done!

BankyGee:
Literature Titans!
Who is your favourite author of all time? Foriegn or Local.

For me, Rene Raymond Brabazon a.k.a James Hadley Chase is my favorite author of ALL time!

He's the crowned KING of all thriller writers!

50 of his book have been made into films!
He's a legend. He's my mentor!

Keep the comments rolling in!

Mario puzo. Or John Grisham

MaziAlaye:
David Baldacci and Dan Brown mad combo.

I love Baldacci works

Kweenpresh:
i don’t think there’s a novel that can ever be worse than “the old man and the sea”

Hahaha, lol. I swear that book off me.

babtoundey:


Guy, you studied Theatre Arts?

By the way, your best playwrights are my favorites. I will ways remember reading "Alchemist", "The Picture of Dorian Grey", Arms and the man, Tartuffe, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Father, Miss Julia, Riders to the Sea and lots of Shakespeares, Ola Rotimi, Soyinka and many more African and non-African dramatists.

No I be science student but ironically I was the best literature student in my secondary school. That arms and the man Is very good, imagine those guys wey dey stay years without bathing.

Mastakija:
they will attack u soon (dats if they havent even attacked u yet) they will say ur writeup is tribalism

Please no, it's not tribalism. I'm just being honest, no longer at ease is a drag. But IMO, although things fall apart is better than all Soyinka's works, Wole Soyinka is a far better writer than Achebe, and I'm igbo.

BluntTheApostle:


What did you mean by traumatized?

We were forced to read them in school to pass exams and it's not a memorable experience.

Frederick Forsythe,Ann Rule,Chinua Achebe.

beautyhd:


Did you read the beautiful ones are not yet born, forgotten the the name the author, the novel I know discouraged many people from reading. The book is a definition of a beautiful nonsense, no head no tail.

I love James Hadley chase, John Grisham, Robbin cook, Michael Palmer

I swear oil dey your head, how could I have forgotten to add that book in my black list

seanwilliam:
stop lying to yourself nah... as if you can read and understand original William Shakespeare works.. continue to dey lie

Lol, we did back in school. We had a teacher that explains it well line by line. And there is a series of Shakespeare's publication that translates it to modern English language at the left hand side, I have forgotten the name but I read lots and lots of Shakespeare, take it or leave it.

James Hardley Chase. A great Author

Gentle0wavez:


Lol, we did back in school. We had a teacher that explains it well line by line. And there is a series of Shakespeare's publication that translates it to modern English language at the left hand side, I have forgotten the name but I read lots and lots of Shakespeare, take it or leave it.

lol. I'm talking about picking original Williams Shakespeare work...


My literature teacher helped me out that time coupled with series of movies too

SlimChay:

Nobody asked for your worst. Keep to the theme of the thread,it shows a balanced intelligence quotient.

Thank you

Lol, it's just your opinion, intelligence is relative. Some people will see it as a way to expand the topic and make it more interesting, others will get provoked. Some of the Greats and their works that we celebrate now were not appreciated in their own time because people saw them as clowns, but now we regard them as genius. Take for example Vincent Van Gogh and the Velvet Underground.

Sheggy13:

What's traumatic about "No longer at ease"?

Have you read it If no then find out, if yes then what's interesting about it, the only funny part was when Obi used hair cream to brush his teeth, apart from that the whole book is dry.

Bornfool:

Naso bro

may the pips be with us.

dasanchez1:
may the pips be with us.

Amen

GabrielYulaw:


How old are you dear? Back then there was nothing like the internet and Nigerian parents totally didn't sit their kids down and talk to them about the birds and bees. Get my drift?

That meant that a lot of us learned about sex and love making from books. Harold Robbins' books were adult as sin and very detailed in the raunchy stuff. Jackie Collins not so much.

I learned more about birds and bees from Robbins, I guess the opposite was true for you.

I guess you have the impression I'm a kid or indomie generation the way you talk down to me...( I find your comment offensive by the way)..

And for the record, l was 46 in May..

I read my first novel (James Hardly Chase) in 1985 when l was in primary 6..Had to hide it from my dad because the rauchy picture of the model in lingerie on the cover page would make my dad think it was porn..

So, l know what I'm talking

Novels were and still are my things..

Slawormir:
Damnnnnn niggarrr
Isoright

Real niggarrrz don't do those novel, literature and story book Shit
They are for pussy asss niggarrrs
Real niggarrrz read real books that has meaning to life like maths, chemistry, statistics and dynamics, engineering mathematics, physics, machine language ( programming)

I advice u should keep this ur opinion to urself let real MEN not niggarrz do the talking here