My favorite authors are

Sherilyn Kenyon
Kresley Cole
Yasmin Galenorn
David Weber (I am somewhat addicted to his Honor Harrington series)
Jean Johnson
Jacqueline Carey
Mercedes Lackey
L.E. Modesitt (The Imager Series)

I know there are a few more but those are the one's I remember at the moment.

My favorite author is Ann Aguirre. :3
The best I have read in a long time and it seems like nothing compares.

Wow. I've heard of only a few authors in the last three posts, and I'm sure most of them are fairly common knowledge anyway. (I still have that Mercedes Lackey book on my eReader to look through).

I've started to read Steven Erikson based on Suzerain's recommendation and I find I'm really liking the writing so far. It's not fast moving, but then I'm not reading it all that fast either, but I find I like the writing enough that I'm not in a hurry to get anywhere. I need to remind myself to a dictionary handy though. I'm beginning to suspect this might be in part where Suze gets his rather extensive vocabulary. -.-

Egregious?

My top favorites are probably Douglas Adams, J.K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, and Lewis Carroll.

I have some pretty childish tastes in reading, for an English major, apparently.

Started reading Gaiman's Anansi Boys. Only read the first chapter or prologue, not sure what it was. Didn't read further than that but I remember what I read quite well. It's still on my shelf in the pile of books that I've read a little of before other things grabbed my attention.

I never really found Erikson's vocabulary to be troubling. I don't remember having to look much up whilst reading him... likely because I came to him off of a complete read of the Thomas Covenant Chronicles. Donladson has such a ridiculous vocabulary that there's actually a site called Stephen R. Donaldson Ate My Dictionary that defines all of his obscure words. :p

Heh. Haven't hit that problem yet but then I'm only a far as the car crash and Lord Foul's little "no point" speech.

I did say somewhere that I was a fickle reader. ;)

The author of my favorite books is Naomi Novik so I guess she deserves a place on top . <3
Although I had to get used to her writing a little . I've read so many books in English now but she uses it in a really strange way which makes it hard to read at the beginning xD

However one of my very favorite writers ever , the one who can always makes me laugh whatever he writes , is Terry Pratchett . If I could just get a glimpse at where he gets his inspiration and his fantastic way with words ... :D

I've heard a lot abotu Pratchett. He does the Discworld novels, yeah? I've never read any of his stuff myself, but I see the books around in stores all the time.

I'm assuming English isn't your first language then, Darjeeling. What language do you normally speak, or read?

Pullman actually reminded me a little of J. K. Rowling, along with a friend of mine who's drafts i've been reading. Makes me wonder if it's something to do with British writing.

You've seen his books but you haven't read them ? You should , Quiet Man :)
I promise you , you'll be hooked in no time ;D

My home language is Dutch , though as for culture , it's one of the most horrible languages . Acting in Dutch seems to be impossible , it's just not credible . Subtitles in Dutch are very funny but usually are hard to take seriously . Songs in Dutch ... well , far to grave too tell . Books in Dutch are just 5% of the fun . I think I haven't read a Dutch book in about ... 2-3 years ? I only speak it because I have to . xD