GIVEAWAY CLOSED
Up for grabs: Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Orange Connection: Short List, 2006
Your activity: If you had to make a list of top five authors (male or female, alive or dead), who would make your list? Let’s see your list in the comments below!
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Jul 22, 2012 @ 18:50:42
Jane Austen, Harper Lee, Daphne du Maurier, Ian McEwan, and Ann Patchett.
Jul 22, 2012 @ 19:06:05
This is the easiest question
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1. Jeanette Winterson 2. Paulo Coelho 3. Anais Nin 4. Haruki Murakami 5. F.S. Fitzgerald (although there is always a fight for the 5th spot, depending on my recent readings
Jul 22, 2012 @ 20:31:18
Love
Sándor Márai
Isabel Allende
Haruki Murakami
William Boyd and
Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda
Jul 23, 2012 @ 09:04:17
Congratulations, Ifi! You are today’s winner! Please email me your mailing address: mrstreme@gmail.com.
Jul 22, 2012 @ 21:06:00
Hi5 to Ally!
1. Jeannette Winterson
2. Margaret Atwood
3. Catherynne Valente
4. David Mitchell
5. Madeline L’Engle
Jul 23, 2012 @ 00:06:08
It’s always great to discover other Winterson fans!
(although my list is quite eclectic 
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Jul 22, 2012 @ 23:18:59
Zora Neal Hurston, Chinua Achebe, Henry David Thoreau, Sue Monk Kidd, John Steinbeck, and a sixth — can’t leave out Hemingway.
Jul 22, 2012 @ 23:41:19
Jeanette Winterson
Haruki Murakami
Cormac McCarthy
Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda
Alice Munro
Jul 22, 2012 @ 23:47:28
So hard, but here are mine!
Haruki Murakami
Daphne Du Maurier
William Shakespeare
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jane Austen
Jul 23, 2012 @ 00:09:32
George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie and Ruth Rendell
Jul 23, 2012 @ 01:22:57
That’s a tough one. Today I’ll say Zadie Smith, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, JD Salinger and Dickens. (Tomorrow I’ll deny it all and name a completely different crowd.)
Jul 23, 2012 @ 05:26:32
This is really hard. Today, I’m saying Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, William Faulkner, Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, and Rose Tremain.
Please don’t include me in the *Beyond Black* drawing, Jill.
Jul 23, 2012 @ 05:55:35
My top five are: Chuck Palahniuk, John Irving, Mary Doria Russell, TC Boyle, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Jul 23, 2012 @ 08:16:17
Difficult. As Patricia says above, today it is this list, next week it could be another list! But my fave five for today are: Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Isabel Allende, Stephen King and perhaps Doris Lessing.
Jul 23, 2012 @ 08:57:51
Paul Scott
T.S. Eliot
Agatha Christie
Erich Maria Remarque
Babu Devki Nandan Khatri
Thanks.