Could you name some really good modern authors whose books are worth reading?
What I consider as good? I haven’t discovered that myself yet but 2 authors I really liked recently are Russell Andrews and Margaret Atwood.
What I consider as modern? Just something written in the last 20 years.
Any ideas are good so help!
I can only answer for the type of books I like – thriller/crime but the following five are all good and all have been writing in the last ten years
Harlan Coben
Chris Ryan
Henning Maxwell
P D James
Ruth Rendell
Cormac McCarthy, Paul Auster, Philip Roth, Junot Diaz, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Mario Vargas Llosa, Michel Houllebecq, Michael Cunningham, Hanif Kureishi, Sarah Waters, Jonathan Franzen, Thomas Pynchon, Amelie Nothomb, Slavenka Drakulic, Frederick Forsythe, Jose Saramango or Martin Cruz-Smith.
Books that really interested me are books written by Judith Krantz (I’ll Take Manhattan), JK Rowling of the Harry Potter series and Stephanie Meyer of the the Twilight fame. These writers are so good that their works have been made into movies/series. Another interesting author is Dan Brown of the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. His books are very intersting and engaging.