All Writers Considered

Let's be honest, we can't be book lovers without loving authors, too. Everyone has favorite writers, those wordsmiths whose next works we stand in line for as if they were the second coming of the latest Apple gadget. Many of us have stories about writers we've met or interacted with and no place to "dine out on them." And when a beloved author passes to that great bookstore in the sky, we wish to reminisce about our first encounter with his or her work.

Writers form us with their words, be they the stuff of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or plays. As much as the works they create we are also the creations of the writers whom we read.

Now there is a place on LibraryThing for you to discuss the living and the dead authors most loved or even despised by you. Here is where you can bring your opinions about the best and worst, the most famous and obscure, the writers of every land, and one day, perhaps, those who write their books ex-Earth.

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That Time of Year -- Looking Back @ the Best & Worst of 2016		1	Limelite, December 26, 2016
2016 New-to-Me Authors Reports		21	Limelite, December 15, 2016
Who Are the 2016 NBA Winners?		6	Limelite, November 18, 2016
Who are you in love with this week?		51	Limelite, November 2016
"He Died a Poet's Death"		1	Limelite, October 2016
"Is Donald Trump a Civilized Man?" I asked Anton Chekov.		6	Limelite, September 2016
Books about books		17	Limelite, September 2016
Consider the Winners -- for Fiction		1	Limelite, September 2016
Comprehensible scientists		19	Limelite, August 2016
Prague loves Kafka		5	rocketjk, June 2016
mmignano is new here! Loves to read and write!		5	Cecrow, May 2016
I Vow to Read __________: My New Year's Author(s) Resolution		25	dianeham, April 2016
A Large Heart Has Stopped -- Pat Conroy		4	weener, March 2016
We Need More Southern African American Writers		30	TinaMcElroyAnsa, March 2016
Umberto Eco		16	Cecrow, March 2016
Have You Met a Famous Author?		24	Christofora, February 2016
Who's Your Favorite Political Writer & Book?		41	artturnerjr, February 2016
It's Black History Month! Who Will You Celebrate With?		7	Limelite, February 2016
The Emperor's New Clothes Book.		6	SpikeSix, January 2016
Politics -- Quotable Authors' Quotes We Like to Quote		2	artturnerjr, January 2016
An Affair to Remember		7	Limelite, January 2016
Best New Author (Discovered by Me) in 2015		25	SpikeSix, January 2016
Talkies -- Quotable Authors' Quotes We Like to Quote		6	Cecrow, January 2016
The "Besties" -- 2015 Fly-Over Best Authors		14	Limelite, December 2015
Tell Us about "Writers' Homes I've Visited"		30	Esta1923, December 2015
Is there still any point in collecting books?		23	Limelite, December 2015
Are you giving or getting holiday books?		21	ahef1963, December 2015
Looking for a Logo		14	geneg, December 2015
Are all writers drunks? Or just the good ones?		26	Limelite, December 2015
We Are All French/Nous Sommes Tous Français		22	geneg, December 2015
Favourite authors by genre		17	EllsieFind, November 2015
Memoirs?		42	ahef1963, November 2015
Bring back Snoopy!		8	mysterymax, November 2015
My Love/Hate Relationship with __________		8	.Monkey., November 2015
"I Was Born Under a Wand'rin' Star"		22	Lynxear, November 2015
Having the Last Word -- Authors' Famous Farewells		3	Limelite, November 2015
What qualities make for a favorite author?		36	reading_fox, November 2015
Short fiction authors		10	streamsong, November 2015
Trick 'r' Treat Tell Us Who the Best Ghost Story Teller Is		38	inkdrinker, November 2015
Authors yet to be sampled		59	t.EllisBell, October 2015
Unusual Murdering Authors		16	Cliff-Rhu-Rhubarb, October 2015
When an author's powers wane		25	Limelite, October 2015
Remembrance Day/Memorial Day		9	ahef1963, October 2015
Henning Mankell, RIP		9	Cecrow, October 2015
Who Would You Invite?		12	SomeGuyInVirginia, October 2015
Favourite authors		41	Cecrow, October 2015
Place Your Bets -- The 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature		14	Limelite, October 2015
Don't get caught dying before you read this.		16	lorax, October 2015
An author's penultimate work		15	.Monkey., October 2015