@Vunessuh OH NO YOU DIDN’T!! Take Jane off that list right this second! :P It’s OK Mr. Darcy, she didn’t mean it!
Ahem. Sorry.
My list would include many who’ve already been mentioned. Recent Stephen King, Stephanie Meyer, Nicholas Sparks, Dan Brown.
A current popular writer I can’t stand is Jodi Picoult. I read “My Sister’s Keeper” and felt cheated by the easy out at the end. I started to read another book of hers and just couldn’t get into it at all.
There are some classics I tried to read and couldn’t like. The Grapes of Wrath, Red Badge of Courage, the Lord of the Rings books, Moby Dick, and others I had to read in school that were supposed to be wonderful works of literature. I can appreciate literature as much as the next person (it’s OK Jane Austen, don’t cry, Vannesuh didn’t mean it!) and read so, so much of it as a writing major in college. I even still read it today, but some of it is such dry, dull stuff. Not like that hot English biscuit Mr. Darcy.