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Old 08-20-2010, 06:10 PM   #290
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Most of my favorite page turners are already mentioned but here are most of the suggestions to this post:

Please give a writer harder to put down than Dan Brown

Thomas Harris of 'Silence of the Lambs' fame.
The Day After Tomorrow by Allan Folsom
W. E. B. Griffin is an author who's books are hard to put down
Stephen King?
James Patterson.
Patricia Highsmith
Andrea Camilleri.
Company Man by Joseph Finder
Velocity by Dean Koontz
James Rollins "Amazonia" "Deep Fathom" The Doomsday Key and Subterranean
J. K. Rowling
Discworld' by Terry Pratchett
James M Cain The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity
Mildred Pierce
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars Series
H. Rider Haggard's African Stories
Iain Banks' The Business or Whit
Ken FolletD
Daniel Silva.
Clive Cussler
Len Deighton
Alistair MacLean
Jim Butcher
Dan Abnett
Christopher Golden
Robert Ludlum
Robert Harris
"Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stephenson
Ian Fleming
Alexander Klein Author of Counterfeit Traitor
The Ark by Boyd Morrison
Katherine Kurtz, "The Adept" series
"The List" by J.A. Konrath
John Buchan’s Greenmantle, The 39 Steps
Harlen Coben
Brad Thor
David Baldacci
John Grisham
Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon
Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy
Sam Bourne a pseudonym for Jonathan Freedland
Umberto Eco
Arthur Hailey
Michael Crichton
Barry Eisler's John Rain serie
Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp series
Robert Rankin
Joe Abercrombie. Best served Cold
‘Stieg Larssons 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo', and 'The Girl who Played with Fire'
John Levitt
George R.R. Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire series
Jeffrey Deaver
The Alchemist' by Michael Scott
James Lee Burke
Randy Wayne White
Steve Hamilton
Michael Koryta
James Lee Burke
Randy Wayne White
Jeffery Deaver
Michael Koryta
Preston Child
Steinbeck's Tortilla Flats
Kelly Link
Christopher Reich
Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich
Steve Jordan
Tom Clancy
Patricia Cornwell
Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse series
Steve Berry
Robert Harris (The Ghost, Pompeii, Imperium)
C J Sansom (the Matthew Shardlake series)
Lee Child (Jack Reacher series)
Robert Crais (Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series)
Harold Coyle 1st 3-4 books were great
Dale Brown's Flight of the Old Dog
Carol O'Connell
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
Ian Rankin - especially the Rebus novels
Jeffrey Archer
Iain Banks The Wasp Factory
Christopher Brookmyre comedic dark thrillers
1 Michaels, Barbara Witch
2 Preston & Child Relic - 1
3 Grafton, Sue Kinsey Millhone A+B+C
4 Francis Dick Straight
5 Smith, Wilbur The Seventh Scroll
6 Rollins, James Map Of Bones
7 Twining, James The Double Eagle
8 Brown, Dan Angels and Demons
9 Berry, Steve The Templar Legacy
10 Sussman, Paul The Lost Army of Cambyses
11 Rowling, J K Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
12 Robinson, Jeremy The Didymus contingency
13 Reilly, Matthew Temple
14 John Twelve Hawks The Traveller
John le Carré
David Gemmel
Len Deighton
Anthony Price
Kit Fielding series
Jeremy Robinson: The Didymus contingency
Frederick Forsyth's "Devil's Alternative
Connie Willis : To say nothing of the dog, Doomsday book
Jack Vance : Planet of Adventure
Vernor Vinge : Rainbows End
Douglas Adams : The Hitchhicker's guide to the galaxy
Orson Scott Card : Ender's Saga (Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon)
Robin Hobb: Farseer: Assassin's apprentice
Robert Charles Wilson : Spin
Ben Bova : Moonrise (then moonwar)
Dorothy Dunnett
Paul F. Wilson and his Repairman Jack Series
Daralyse Lyons. (The Lost Daughter)
Dan Simmons
Matthew Reilly
Tim Dorsey
C.J. Box
Jin Yong
John Twelve Hawks
Jan Guillou
Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent
Jim Butcher's Dresden series
Simon Green's Nightside Series
Barry Eisler's Rain series
Trevanian's Shibumi and The Eiger Sanction
James Clavell's books, particularly Noble House, Tai-Pan and King Rat. Shogun
Thomas Perry's books, particularly his Jane Whitebread books
Spider Robinson's Callahan series
Timothy Hallinan's Poke Rafferty series
Robert B. Parker's Spenser
Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series
Stuart Woods’ Stone Barrington
Harold Robbins
Jackie Collins.
Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry


Matthew Reilly

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