Too many good ones to choose just one...Jodi Picoult, Barbara Kingsolver, Pat Conroy, Kathryn Stockett, Jeannette Walls, John Irving...etc.

If you haven't read it yet, The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls is really amazing.  I'd love to hear your thoughts about it.  My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult is an enlightening read for anyone dealing with illness or trying to parent ill children.  Lots to think about.  Enjoy!  

So, what type books do you guys like? Book club types, espionage, thrillers, mysteries? Just curious. I like them all...except for book club books.

Some of my favorite authors (along the lines of espionage thrillers):

David Morrell
Barry Eisler
Lee Child

I had posted on the old line a new author John Hart and he has written 3 books..the last one entitled ...The Last Child is the best book I have ever read..
this past week I read Kristin Hannah new book  Night Road and if you do read this..have a full box of kleenex handy
I do agree with Deb in regard to my favorite kind of books and I also like Lee Child
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I like stuff with a scifi bent especially when real science is mixed in. My favorite is The Black Cloud by Sir Hoyle(a real life astrophysicist) but when my brain is tired I go for fantasy scifi like Anne Mccaffery's Christal Singers series which I found to be a refreshing change from her usual dragon stuff and she also wrote the Freedom series which I highly recommend. It's been a while since I read those so I may do it all over, on a sad note she just died last week.  I'm trying to remember a couple other really good books one was about a human literally reborn as a flying whale like alien, it's a really out there book but well written and I found it because I was going to the library so much that one of the librarians who also likes out there scifi got to know my taste and would recommend stuff, can't beat a good relationship with your librarian :p