(Note: all of this is from the last few reading years. It’s not like I haven’t read Austen and the Brontes, just not since I started keeping track. Settle down.)

A few of my favorite novelists:

• Kurt Vonnegut
• Robert Crais
• Dennis Lehane
• Michael Chabon
• Richard Russo
• Dave Eggers
• Ann Patchett
• Vladimir Nabokov, particularly Pale Fire, I haven’t been able to stomach Lolita yet
• David Mitchell
• John Irving
• Douglas Adams
• Kazuo Ishiguro
• Haruki Murakami (maybe)
• T.C. Boyle
• Jonathan Ames
• P.G. Wodehouse

Series I am Reading:

• Elvis Cole/Joe Pike detective novels, by Robert Crais
• Kinsey Millhone detective novels, by Sue Grafton
• Discworld series, by Terry Pratchett
• Harry Potter, of course, by J.K. Rowling
• A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket
• Alex Deleware mysteries, by Jonathan Kellerman
• Aubrey/Maturin series, by Patrick O’Brian
• No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith
• Erast Fandorin detective novels, by Boris Akunin
• Temeraire series, by Naomi Novik

A few of my favorite short story writers:

• Michael Martone
• Haruki Murakami
• Rick Moody
• Sam Shaw
• Jhumpa Lahiri

A few of my favorite books:

• Dry, by Augusten Burroughs
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
• No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarty
• Hey Nostradamus!, by Douglas Coupland
• Wake Up, Sir!, by Jonathan Ames
• Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
• Peace Like a River, by Leif Enger
• Carter Beats the Devil, by Glen David Gold
• The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides

A few authors I mysteriously do not like:

• J.M. Coetze
• Jose Saramago
• Jonathan Lethem
• Susanna Clarke
• Zadie Smith (I KNOW!)
• Jonathan Franzen

A few authors I have love/hate relationships with:

• Margaret Atwood