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In reply to the discussion: List your 10 current favorite authors.. [View all]FSogol
(45,481 posts)6. Here's mine (in no particular order)
Sherman Alexie
Colson Whitehead
Paul Murray
Joshua Ferris
Brock Clarke
Steven Hockensmith (not for his horror work)
Michael Chabon
Jonathan Safran Foer
Terry Pratchett
I defined current as living and currently working.
On deceased authors, I've currently been reading everything by John Irving (vastly underrated in Amer. Lit. and PG Wodehouse. I've read 36 of Wodehouse's 99 novels and 8 of Irving's 18.
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