In February 2023, prior to putting up a monthly display for “Valentine’s Day” on the theme of Authors We Love, staff members at the Bennett Martin Public Library were asked to submit 3-5 authors they were big fans of, and that variety of authors would be rotated through that display over the course of the month. Here is a list of the authors the Bennett Martin staff offered up.
Sarah J. Maas
Leigh Bardugo
Jason Reynolds
Alexander McCall Smith
Hendrick Groen
Dana Stabenow
Kay Hooper
Heather Graham
Colson Whitehead
Becky Chambers
John Scalzi
Jane Austen
Kazuo Ishiguro
Charlotte McConaghy
J.R.R. Tolkien
Jane Austen
James Herriott
Edwidge Danticat
Jhumpa Lahiri
Elena Ferrante
Terry Pratchett
Ilona Andrews
Anne McCaffrey
Elizabeth Haydon
Anne Bishop
Lee Child
Jim Butcher
Mercedes Lackey
Sara Paretsky
Patricia Briggs
William Least-Heat Moon
Robin McKinley
Neil Gaiman
Harlan Coben
Sue Grafton
FICTION:
Stephen J. Cannell
Agatha Christie
Carolyn Hart
Tim Powers
Martha Wells
NON-FICTION:
Mark Dawidziak
Mark Kurlansky
James Lileks
Mary Roach
Neil Simon (plays)
Miranda July
Milan Kundera
William Gaddis
David Foster Wallace
Tom Perrotta
Kate Beaton
John Allison
Sylvia Plath
A.S. King
Alexander McCall Smith
Louise Erdrich
Zadie Smith
Rainbow Rowell
John Green
Jane Austen
Elmore Leonard
Larry McMurtry
Hunter S. Thompson
Raul the Third
Richard Scarry