Ok, please don't kill me for saying this, but I love the Harry Potter series and J.K. Rowling is definately one of my favorite authors. I also like Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (they wrote the Left Behind series, which is my favorite book series EVER!). Lillian Jackson Braun (she writes murder mysteries), Ted Dekker, John Steinbeck, and Upton Sinclair are really good authors as well. Frank Peretti is good too, and I love his Hangmans Curse movie (it was based on one of his books)!