If You Could Re-Discover 5 Authors For the First Time...

I would have this almost exact same list! Are you on goodreads? I HAVE to follow you now lol

So many good authors mentioned here! It's hard to pick 5, but today's list would be:

Mariana Zapata
Michelle Reid
Jo Goodman
Linda Howard
Julie Garwood (historicals)

Nora Roberts (her early series)
Julie Garwood
Lisa Kleypas
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Amy Harmon

Hmm, if I base it on the authors who's back list I keep & never weed:

JAKrentz in all her versions
Elizabeth Lowell/Ann Maxwell and all her versions
Nora Roberts/JD Robb
Georgette Heyer
Stephanie Laurens

But that leaves out Jennifer Ashley & I love all her versions; Maya Banks, erotic, historial & current; Chelsea Sinclair, Tymber Dalton, early Christine Feehan, Mary Balogh and too many to tell! Nope, can't do it! It's like asking me my favorite movie, and I can't do that even by genre! Stagecoach (John Wayne version) for Western; Star Wars (original & still champion) for SciFi...Lord of the Rings (all 3 combined for fantasy...except that blocks... and so on! Impossible!

Thanks, Fangfan, I love yours as well, even tho' I can't sit sideways in a chair anymore. The cats clustered around was typical of when I was stitching & still had the fellas; always had to check the completed pieces for cat fur before framing or gifting!

I tried to think if I could do the 5 by genre; historical, paranormal, erotic, modern...but don't think that works either! Some of them (JAK, J. Ashley, etc) hit a variety of genres, so no help!

So many to choose from..

Georgette Heyer .. These old Shades
Mary Stewart
Julie Garwood.. Historicals only
Lisa Kleypas.. Evie and Sebastian , Sarah and Derek
Jennifer Ashley.. The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
Thea Harrison.. Dragos !