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

I think you could do something like this

    authorsList = (from a in authorsList
                  where !authors.Contains(a)
                  select a).ToList();

Although I think the solutions already given solve the problem in a more readable way.