Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s topic is a freebie and so I’ve chosen:

Top 10 favourite authors I read before I was a blogger:

I read a lot of books before I started blogging, in fact it makes me dizzy thinking of the number of books I must have read but the ten authors below were, and still are, firm favourites.  I couldn’t fit everyone on the list but here are the first 10:

Donna Tartt – The Secret History

Daphne DuMaurier – Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel,  Jamaica Inn Frenchman’s Creek, The Birds

JRRTolkien – The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion

Arthur Conan Doyle – the Sherlock Holmes stories

Scott Lynch – The Lies of Locke Lamora

Patrick Rothfuss – Name of the Wind

Diana Gabaldon – The Outlander series

Philip Pullman – His Dark Materials series

Joanne Harris – Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Holy Fools, Sleep Pale Sister, Coastliners, The Evil Seed

Holly Black – Tithe, Valiant, Ironside