Using LINQ to remove elements from a List

Question

Say that I have LINQ query such as:

var authors = from x in authorsList
              where x.firstname == \"Bob\"
              select x;

Answer 1

This is a very old question, but I found a really simple way to do this:

authorsList = authorsList.Except(authors).ToList();

Note that since the return variable authorsList is a List, the IEnumerable returned by Except() must be converted to a List.