OK, by request, here are the most popular authors as voted by you for 2008.
(They had to have at least 6 votes to make the list)
Shock of all shocks
1. Stephenie Meyer - 81 votes - 5 books
(we know what they are)
2. J.K. Rowling - 16 votes - 7 books
(one sad Harry Potter didn't make the list, but Beedle the Bard did)
2. Jane Austen - 16 votes - 5 books
Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey. Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice,
Sense and Sensibility
4. Neil Gaiman - 13 votes - 8 books
American Gods, Anansi Boys, Coraline, Fragile Things, Neverwhere, Stardust,
The Graveyard Book, The Sandman
5. Sarah Addison Allen - 12 votes - 2 books
Garden Spells, The Sugar Queen
6. Bill Bryson - 11 votes - 4 books
A Short History of Nearly Everything, In A Sunburned Country,
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, The Lost Continent: Travels in Smalltown America
6. Phillipa Gregory - 11 votes - 4 books
Earthly Joys, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Queen’s Fool, The Virgin's Lover
8. Stephen King - 10 votes - 7 books
Bag of Bones, Duma Key, Just After Sunset, Needful Things, On Writing,
The Green Mile, The Shining
9. Charlaine Harris - 9 votes - 3 books
An Ice Cold Grave, Club Dead, Dead Until Dark
9. Christopher Moore - 9 votes - 2 books
(Christopher Moore is a moderator recommended author)
A Dirty Job, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff Christ's Childhood Pal
9. Jodi Picoult - 9 votes - 6 books
19 Minutes, Change of Heart, My Sister's Keeper, Picture Perfect, Plain Truth,
The Pact
9. Khaled Hosseini - 9 votes - 2 books
A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Kite Runner
9. Nora Roberts - 9 votes - 9 books
Midnight Bayou, Rising Tides, Table for Two, Taming Natasha, Tears of the Moon,
The Hollow, The Pagan Stone, Tribute, Valley of Silence
OK ... the rest I'm not going to number because there were too many 9th places ...
~Cormac McCarthy - 8 votes - 2 books
The Road, No Country for Old Men
~Lois Lowry - 8 votes - 2 books
The Giver, Gathering Blue
~Scott Westerfield - 8 votes - 3 books
Peeps, Specials, Pretties
~Agatha Christie - 7 votes - 6 books
And Then There Were None, Come Tell Me How You Live, Crooked House,
Murder on the Orient Express, The Hollow, The Mystery of the Blue Train
~Cassandra Clare - 7 votes - 3 books
City of Ashes, City of Bones, City of Glass
~Christopher Paolini - 7 votes - 2 books
Brisingr, Eragon
~Diana Gabaldon - 7 votes - 3 books
Outlander, Drums of Autumn, Voyager
~Ian McEwan - 7 votes - 3 books
Amsterdam, Atonement, Enduring Love
~Ken Follett - 7 votes - 2 books
The Pillars of the Earth, World Without End
~Barbara Kingsolver - 6 votes - 3 books
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, The Bean Trees, The Poisonwood Bible
~David Sedaris - 6 votes - 2 books
When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Me Talk Pretty One Day
~Gregory Maguire - 6 votes - 4 books
A Lion Among Men, Lost, Son of a Witch, Wicked
~J.R. Ward - 6 votes - 3 books
Lover Awakened, Dark Lover, Lover Enshrined
~James Patterson - 6 votes - 4 books
1st to Die, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, School’s Out Forever,
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
~Jeaniene Frost - 6 votes - 2 books
Halfway to the Grave, One Foot in the Grave
~Margaret Atwood - 6 votes - 2 books
(Margaret Atwood is a moderator recommended author)
The Blind Assassin, The Handmaid's Tale
~Mark Haddon - 6 votes - 2 books
A Spot of Bother, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
~Ray Bradbury - 6 votes - 3 books
Fahrenheit 451, Now and Forever, Something Wicked This Way Comes
~Sylvia Plath - 6 votes - 2 books
(Sylvia Plath is a moderator recommended author)
Letters Home, The Bell Jar
The moderator chooses to honorably mention Irving Stone for getting a vote each for:
Lust For Life, The Agony and the Ecstasy, The Origin
(Irving Stone is a moderator recommended author)
