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What a fun topic!
Let’s talk about my definition of the term auto-buy author. I know there are some readers out there who would buy literally anything their favourite authors write. That’s amazing, but it’s not quite how my brain works.
There are many authors whose work I generally adore but who occasionally publish books that I don’t find appealing for any number of reasons. I may skip that particular tale, but I will still remain just as excited to see what they come up with next.
I think these authors should count as auto-buy authors because of how thrilled I am to keep tabs on what they’re working on. It’s totally okay that our tastes don’t match up 100%. There are very few humans on this planet who could find that level of agreement about anything, much less something as personal as what to read.
With that being said, here are the contemporary authors whose work I am always eager to hear about:
- Margaret Atwood
- Katherine Arden
- Becky Chambers
- Rivers Solomon
- Nnedi Okorafor
- Neil Gaiman
- Sarah Waters
- Andy Weir
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Emma Donoghue
- Patrick Ness
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Tiffany D. Jackson
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Paul Offit
If all of these authors ever release books in the same month, none of you should expect to hear much from me at all until I’ve tried every last book on that list. Ha!
Thanks for stopping by… and it strikes me as interesting that as much alike we seem to be doing the blogging, I’m not familiar with most of these authors. I need to start checking them out.
If you want any specific book recommendations from any of them, let me know.
I hope you like whatever you may read. 🙂
Impressive list.
Thank you!
Completely agree on your approach to auto-buy. There are a lot of authors I like, but won’t read everything they write.
Thank you! I’m glad you get it.
I have only a few auto buy author, but I have many, mostly buy authors! Nice list.
Thank you. I’d be curious to hear who is on your lists if you want to share.
I’m with you on Margaret Atwood. I love her writing.
Thank you. She’s written so many wonderful stories.