Assorted Fiction
- Brandon Sanderson. From reading The Stormlight Archives.
- Patrick Rothfuss. From reading The Kingkiller Chronicles.
- John Hudspith. From reading Kimi’s Secret.
- Iain M Banks. From reading the Culture series [not including Consider Phlebas, sorry! But the rest I enjoyed].
- Jean M. Auel. From reading Earth’s Children series, many moons ago.
- Ayn Rand. From reading Atlas Shrugged. Not that I agree with its principles on capitalism; they don’t work in the real world. Good read though.
- Isaac Asimov. Foundation, ’nuff said.
- Joe Abercrombie. Probably just because San Dan Glokta.
- Daniel Keyes. Flowers for Algernon.
- Peter V. Brett. The Painted Man is basically the coolest dude ever.
- Robin Hobb. Farseer Trilogy.
Outside of Fiction
- Richard Dawkins.
- Christopher Hitchens.
- Daniel Dennett.
- Steven Pinker.
- Mortimer J Adler.
- Charles Darwin.
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