Top Ten Tuesday: Books/Authors I'm Thankful For

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

This week's topic discusses what Ten Books/Authors I'm Thankful For. 

 Authors I'm thankful for:

1. Ann M Martin - for the Baby Sitters Club series that fed my reading as a young girl.

2. Michael Ende - for writing my favourite book The Neverending Story

3. Stephen King - for all the great books I read through my teenage years.

4. Anne Rice - for the introduction to vampires and witches

5. Patricia Cornwall - keeping me entertained with her Scarpetta crime series during my twenties 

6. JK Rowling - for the Harry Potter series that got me back into reading

7. JK Tolkien - for The Hobbit and introducing me to the fantasy world

8. David Eddings - for his fantasy creations

9. Sophie Kinsella - for her humourous books that always cheer me up

10. Suzanne Collins - for The Hunger Games and introducing the YA world to me

And for a bonus:

To my mum for encouraging and sharing my love of reading.

To my Uncle for introducing the Harry Potter series to me - he was laughing when he told us what he was reading on the train to work each day and sent me The Order of Phoenix which started me onto the series. He laughed about it because he was around 50 years old when he started reading them. 

And, my husband for putting up with my excessive books and need for peace to read them. =)

 What is your top ten this week? Leave me a comment so I can visit yours. =) 

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