AreaFada2:

I liked them years ago. But looking back, they are simplistic.

My favorites are Guy de Maupassant, Gustave Flaubert, Tonie Morrison, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Bronte sisters, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, Wolfgang von Goethe, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, Jonathan Swift and Guenter Grass.

Irish writers are just too good.

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!

ImaIma1:


You really love reading. You practically mentioned my favourites too. But I'll add:

Robin Cook (known for medical thrillers)
Francine Rivers ( Redeeming love, And The Shofar Blew)
Ted Dekker (Three, Red, White, Green)

Ndipe:
Mariama Ba

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

Sirheny007:


I have all of them in e-book format (Epub to be precise)

Sirheny007:
This is akin to asking a father to choose which among his sons he loves best. A paterfamilias worth his salt will not do that.
I will list 5 of my favorite authors of all times.

1. Lawrence Block
2. James Hardley Chase (Renee Brabazon)
3. Peter Cheyney
4. Chinua Achebe
5. Dan Brown

This list can alternate anyhow and I would not mind

Ps: James Hardly Chase wrote 153 books and I have read all of them!


MODIFIED: I am surprized no one has mentioned Agatha Christie!! The most published author on the face of the earth dead or alive

maeola:

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

Sirheny007:


Send me a Pm via mail so I can give you a site.
There is no book written on the face of the earth that you cannot get there (As long as the author is recognized internationally)
Type in the name of the book (must be spelt correctly) on the search bar in the website and the available E-format would come up.
Then you download.

I always prefer the E-pub format because I have an app called supreader installed on my phone where I read with ease.

Sirheny007:


His best book remains "Crime and Punishment"
Mehn! I have thousands of authors whom I admire. Narrowing them down to a favorite is almost impossible.

I think I am the most widely read Nigerian..No, African

Tipsbet:

u mean u read 153 novels? that's wow
u must be a literature student
pls suggest the best amongst all the 153 Hardly's novel lemme start reading.
I'm not a fan of literature, suggest an intriguing one... thanks

cosmos1440:


Good morning sir,
Please can how do we get in touch ?
I need some James Hadley Chase urgently, especially the e-versions

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

Sirheny007:


Send me a pm

ajebuter:


Good list you have here but most of the authors you listed
Charles Dicken
Emile Bronte
Jonathan Swift
WB Yates etc and classic writers in Literature...As a graduate of English Language/ Literature, l read those as part of my course of study..

By the way, my favorite classic literature writer is Thomas Hardy...His ' Mayor of Casterbridge' and '. Tess of D'Urberville' are pure delight..

Gentle0wavez:


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

ajebuter:


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..

Gee64:
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.

arbass:
Same for me! Got to know major cities in the US from his books. Please remind of the title, there was a particular culprit in one of his books that got caught by leaving one his golf buttons at the crime scene .

Author: James Hadley Chase

OsuIgboIpob:

Really?

Decibel:
1.Dean Koontz . A friend who is a medical Doctor introduced me to this author
2. Tom Clancy

GabrielYulaw:


My apologies. I can't really guess ages from photos. I actually thought you were in your late twenties or early thirties. If I talked down to you it really wasn't intentional. I apologise.

When I used to go to church, our pastor banned all youths from reading James Hardley Chase books cos of the pics on the cover, so I can relate about what you said about you and your dad.

paaliaq:


Thanks man. I'll look it up.

That should be You Must Be Kidding by James Hadley Chase

Gentle0wavez:


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.

Gee64:
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.

DenreleDave:
This man.. Odunlade AdeKola

He writes script for movies

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.

Sirheny007:


If you knew what it cost me to get the website!
I paid money to a bookclub to me the site. If you want the site too, send me a pm and i'd give it to you.

madjune:
Roald Dahl.

I'd bet my weekend if anyone can tell any of his books and literary style off the bat of his/her head.

lekki1444:
my list too but i will add childhood heros too
franklin w dixon who wrote hardy boys
enid blyton for famous five and secret seven
robert arthur jr the three investigators
Nancy drew mystery author
james hadley chase
richard wright
walter mosley
james baldwin