I've read a couple of Harry Turtledove's books - my sister likes him, but I've never really managed to get into him. I liked the first book in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but only for Golem, after that I kind of lost intrest. Now I mostly read Karin Slaughter, Jim Butcher, Lilith Saintcrow, John Connolly, Kim Harrison, and Kelley Armstrong. And, on the rare occasion that they put out new books, PN Elrod and Rita Mae Brown (but only the ones "cowritten" by her cat Sneaky Pie )