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Boy, a tough one, because my private measure of "favourite" is not just an author whose next book I want to read, but an author whose books I want to read again - and again. And have done. Which means some of my favourite authors are represented by just one book.
Dickens: Great Expectations. Read it many times.
Terry Pratchett
Dick Francis
Bill Bryson
Agatha Christie
Carl Hiassen
Arthur C Clarke, preferably early ones: Earthlight, Sands of Mars, Childhoods End, City and the Stars etc.
Asimov: fiction and non-fiction
Heinlein, but selectively: Moon is a Harsh Mistress; Green Hills of Earth, a few others
Various early Crime and Detective writers such as John Dickson Carr, Dashiell Hammett, Ray Chandler, Edgar Wallace's better ones, Sherlock of course - the master of the short story.
Arthur W Upfield
A motley crew, really.
Tomorrow the list might be different, but not a lot.
Oh - some schoolday stuff still lingers: Treasure Island, King Solomon's Mines, and like adventure stories.
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