Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week a different topic is posted inviting the participants to come up with a list of ten things to do with the topic.
This week’s topic is ‘Top Ten Authors That I’d Put On My Auto-Buy List’ (basically an auto-buy list is no questions asked..you love this author so much that no matter what they wrote next you’d buy regardless of genre or subject matter). This is hard as a lot of my favourite authors are dead, but I’ll see what I can come up with.
1. J.K. Rowling – I actually enjoyed The Casual Vacancy and am looking forward to what she comes up with next.
2. Neil Gaiman - I haven’t read everything he has written, but I have liked what I have read enough to know that whatever he releases next will be on my must buy list.
3. Rob Bell – I own most of the books he has written and always enjoy the buzz that his latest book always creates. I just like his approach to things and usually find myself agreeing with most of what he writes.
4. Ken McGoogan – he is one of my favourite non-fiction authors. Ever since I read Fatal Passage I’ve tried to keep up with his latest releases.
5. Frank Viola - Pagan Christianity?, which he co-wrote with George Barna, had a huge impact on my life and the way I look at things. I try to keep up with his blog and usually eagerly await his next book release.
6. Kazuo Ishiguro – there are usually large gaps between his book releases, but they are worth the wait.
7. Scott Westerfeld – I loved his Leviathan trilogy and am catching up with most of his other stuff, but I’ll definitely buy whatever he comes up with next.
8. M.L. Stedman - her only book so far, The Light Between Oceans, was one of my favourite 2012 reads. I look forward to more from her and, hopefully, soon.
9. Stephen King – I have only recently returned to reading Stephen King again, but after reading 11/22/63 and re-reading some of his older stuff I realize that I’ve missed out on so much. He’s back on my must buy list again!
10. Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers was an awesome book, but I haven’t read his other novel, Ablutions, yet. However, I’ll definitely buy whatever he releases next.
That wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. There are probably some others I’ll think of after I’ve finished this, but that’s OK too!
Hey, I like Ishiguro, too. I’ve only read An Artist of the Floating World, but have Remains of the Day and A Pale View of Hills on my shelves waiting.
Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go is really worth reading, as is Remains of the Day. Thanks for visiting.
I just finished 11/22/63 yesterday – I’d never read King before (too afraid!) – & loved it. I would add Carl Hiaasen on my list. Great list!
I read a lot of King in my teen years – I think I wanted to be scared! For some reason I stopped reading him, but he is so much more than horror, which is why I think I went back to reading him again. Thanks for dropping by, and I’ll need to check out Carl Hiaasen (I think my daughter has read some of his YA stuff – I know she has at least got Hoot on her shelf).
Interesting, I’ll have to think about this. J.K. Rowling would definitely be at the top of my list too.
Good list! I’ve only read three of these to my knowledge. Of course, I forget author names fairly often. Definitely going to add some of these to my reading list.