Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Authors I’d Auto-Buy

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

This week, The Broke and the Bookish want to know the “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)”.

1. Neil Gaiman: my favorite author and one of my favorite humans.
2. Laurie Notaro: I must clarify: I will auto-buy any of Notaro’s memoirs. I did auto-buy her fiction book, but I didn’t enjoy it. It’s for the same reason I’m not going to read Jen Lancaster’s fiction: I know which details they’re pulling from their own lives and I prefer it from their personal voice or perspective or whatever.
3. Megan McCafferty: While I could read about Marcus and Jessica and their lives until they die of extreeeeeeemely old age, I’m probably in the minority. I can’t wait for Jessica Darling’s It-List #1. And Bumped, which was an auto-buy, but for some reason never an auto-read.
4. Gayle Forman: I didn’t love If I Stay and Where She Went, but Just One Day and today’s release of an excerpt from Just One Year…I’m sold.
5. Elizabeth Wein: I thought Code Name Verity was so strong, I will auto-buy everything else she writes. Historic fiction always throws me off, because it’s not really my thing – in my head everything before 1950 looks like the wild west.
6. Libba Bray: I love Libba’s voice. I mention historic fiction above, but historic fiction with a supernatural element? Watch out world, Libba’s done it. The Diviners? More like The DIVINE-ers. Beauty Queens is a national treasure, ya’ll. She is equally as fabulous on her twitter.
7. Stephanie Perkins: Perfection. All of her characters are so different and fully formed, I’m just amazed. Definitely auto-buying Isla and the Happily Ever After. And everything that comes after that.
8. Erin Morgenstern: Like Code Name: Verity, I thought The Night Circus was so fantastic I could scream, but I didn’t because I’m a quiet person. Instead, I will buy everything else she puts out, quiet squealing and rolling around and being extremely embarrassing.
9. Veronica Rossi: This was a battle of the Veronicas for me because I love Roth’s Divergent (erm…Four) SO MUCH, and while they are both auto-buys for me, I just want to gush about Rossi. The Under the Never Sky series (is that what we’re calling it?) blows me away. The entire world that’s been built, the amazing characters, the smoochies…
10. John Green: Green is not a consistent 5-star author for me. Actually, only The Fault in Our Stars has that distinction. The boy-wants-girl books are great, have some terrific writing (who doesn’t love the bit about the drizzle and the hurricane??), but the manic pixie dream girl thing is what holds him back for me. He gets it close enough to be an auto-buy, but I’m hoping TFiOS is the mark of an upswing.