There aren’t too many authors floating around out there that I will read a book by just because they wrote it. The authors below have written multiple books that I absolutely adore (even if they occasionally write a dud). First and fore most Shakespeare, I mean that’s just good stuff but since he’s not going to be putting out anything new in the near millennium I’ll leave it at that. For the record the authors are in no particular order but the books are listed in order from most favorite to least favorite.
Chuck Palahniuk-oh yeah the Fight Club guy is what your probably saying. While that is true (and it is for sure an awesome book) I encourage you to go beyond that and check out some of his other books as they are all unique and disturbing in their own special way.
· Invisible Monsters (one of my top five favorite books of all time)
· Fight Club
· Lullaby
· Choke
· Survivor
· Diary
· Rant
· Haunted
· Pygmy
· Tell All
· Snuff
Non -Fiction
· Fugitives and Refugees
· Stranger than Fiction
Christopher Moore – This man is responsible for my discovery that books can in fact make you laugh out loud…even though doing so will most certainly get you odd looks while commuting or worse reading while at the gym I assure you it is totally worth it. As an added bonus he manages to weave his characters from one book to another in the most casual way so that when you recognize one of them it feels like you are getting a high five from the author for being cool enough to catch the reference. All of his books are beyond clever and very very very funny (3 funnys is serious praise). These are read at the beach books or relaxing – no brainer – guaranteed to make you smile books and really can we ever read enough of those?
· A Dirty Job
· The Stupidest Little Angel
· Bite Me
· B is for Beer
· Fool
· Lamb
· Fluke
· You Suck
· The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
· Island of the Sequined Love Nun
· Blood Sucking Fiends
· Coyote Blue
· Practical Demonkeeping
Tom Robbins – Oh so strange in such a good way. If you’ve never read anything by Tom Robbins I urge you to start with Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas. His books are strange, funny, endearing and you (well at least I certainly have to) read each one a few times in order to pick up everything he’s putting down if you know what I mean.
· Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
· Still Life with Woodpecker
· Jitterbug Perfume
· Villa Incognito
· Fierce Invalids From Hot Climates
· Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
· B is for Beer (okay this isn’t a novel it’s a very funny story written like a children’s book but very much so not appropriate from Children)
· Another Roadside Attraction
· Skinny Legs and All
· Wild Ducks Flying Backwards
Jen Lancaster – if Christopher Moore taught me to laugh out loud then Jenn Lancaster taught me to embrace my inner crazy and my inner biotch. Her memoirs are tales from a loud, obnoxious and (dare I say) robust lady who doesn’t take crap from anyone. Her books somehow make you feel like you’ve know her your whole life and you can easily picture her in her pastel polo shirt and pearls having one too many glasses of chardonnay at your next party.
· Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
· Bright Lights Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl’s Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They Live Next Door to Me?
· Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist’s Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer
· My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict’s Attempt to Discover if Not Being a Dumb Ass is the New Black; Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto
· Pretty in Plaid: A Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomanaical, Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase
· If You Were Here: a novel
