Do you have a write Top 10? (remember not more than 10 but less is ok)...

Post yours here and also the reason why if you like...

1. J.R.R Tolkien
2. Terry Brooks
3. Neil Simon
4. George Orwell
5. Rumiko Takahashi

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head!!! and they are in no particular order exept for Tolkien at number one!!

1. J.K. Rowling.... I love Harry Potter.
2. Phillip Pullman... His Dark Material is brill.
3. Wendy Mass... All her books are so original!!!
4. Louis Lowry... I love her portrayals of the future in The Giver and Gathering Blue.
5. Phyllis Reynold Naylor... I love the Alice series.
6. Meg Cabot... The Princess Diaries and 1-800-Where-R-You are great.
7. Cecily von Ziegesar... Gossip Girl is so cool!!
8. Judy Blume... She is just a great author.
9. Shel Silverstein... Awesome poetry!!!
10. Jerry Spinelli... StarGirl was a great book.

not in any peticular order:
ursula k. legwin, stephen king, and others, but i can't htink of any. I HATE ROWLING SHE IS A MONEY HOG!

10.Whoever wrote the manga "Initial D"[can't remember the name^^;]
9.Emily Dickinson
8.Anne McCaffrey
7.Nathaniel Hawthorne
6.Robert Frost
5.Edgar Allan Poe
4.JRR Tolkein
3.Naoko Taekuchi
2.CLAMP
1.George Orwell

Yeah, hakushi! CLAMP rocks!!

1. between JRRT and JKR- some of you might take offense to that (purists I know you're out there), but I just can't choose.
2. CLAMP- total geniuses behind Chobbits, Wish, and CCS!!
3. Yu Watasi- Fushigi Yugi and Ceres are soooo good.
4. Jane Austen- see a trend yet? I love romance also, she's responsible for the sweet, caring, and sexy creature called Col. Brandon!
5. Edgar Allan Poe- I'm attached to The Raven. Idk y, but it reminds me of a Snape. The whole tortured soul-thing. Also Telltale Heart.
6. Naoko Taekuchi- the woman responsible for my love for anime. Thank you for giving me a lifetime obssession and hobby!
7. Shakespeare- his plays ROCK...once you translate and understand it.
8. Ted Dekker- his characters always have a supernatural "flaw"
9. Alexandre Dumas- Count of Monte Cristo was a thrilling adventure... the ending!
I don't have a tenth since their was a tie for first and I didn't want to shift the others down.