Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

For what author(s) will you read anything they publish?

Elif Shafak, Jacqueline Winspear, Louise Penny, Moshin Hamid

Ruth Ware, Riley Sager. Lucy Foley. Mona Awad, Grady Hendrix

Seanan McGuire and Ilona Andrews are the only 2 I can say I would read ANYTHING that they wrote. I have other authors that I follow, but if they put out a book with a plot synopsis that I thought sounded bad, I'd skip it.

Stephen King, Sarah J. Maas, Alice Walker

Amor Towles

Louise Penny, Andy Weir, Michael J. Sullivan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Dorothy Dunnett, C.S. Harris

Becky Chambers and Madeline Miller are the two I can think of for sure,

Kate Morton

Tad Williams, Susan Dennard, Brandon Sanderson

I second Tad Williams, and I may add Tanya Huff. I used to read everything Anne McCaffrey, but she is no longer with us to publish more books.

Neil Gaiman and NK Jemisin

Kate Quinn, Angie Thomas, Mindy McGinnis, P. Djèlí Clark, R.F. Kuang, Craig Schaefer

Diana Palmer, Kouko Shirakawa

Mona Awad is probably my only auto-buy author. I'll read anything she publishes. I don't even need to know what it's about, I'll buy it.

There are other authors who I would read most of what they publish. People like Grady Hendrix, Brandon Sanderson, Seanan McGuire, TJ Klune, and Nghi Vo.

I'd say my go-to authors are:
Barbara Kingsolver
Amor Towles
Fredrik Backman
Abraham Verghese
Neal Shusterman
J. Ryan Stradal and
Erin Morgenstern.

A few that may become go-to authors for me, once I have a bit more experience with them, are:
Becky Chambers
Laurie Frankel
R.F. Kuang
Ruth Ozeki
Richard Powers and
Blake Crouch

Isabel Allende
Luis Alberto Urrea

Nonfiction:
Joan Didion (RIP)
Christopher Hitchens (RIP)
Bill Bryson

Fiction:
Elizabeth Strout
Lisa See
Jumpa Lahiri

Classics:
Jane Austen
Louisa May Alcott

William Kent Krueger
Alice Hoffman

I only really have two that I'll read anything they write - Terry Pratchett and V.E. Schwab.

I've got a few go to series, but they're by authors whose other books I'm not so interested in.

K.J. Charles is my most major one. The only auto-buy author I have anymore, tbh.

I also have big soft spots for Cat Sebastian, Talia Hibbert, Alessandra Hazard and Garrett Leigh. They're not quite auto-buys, but I generally like them enough that I'm willing to give most things they write a go.

Tana French is mine, though I wasn't crazy about the most recent one The Searcher, and it looks like her next one out next year The Hunter is a sequel to it, so my expectations are tempered.

Until recently Emily Henry was also in this category (I don't consider myself a romance reader, but I liked the publishing/writer humor), but I couldn't finish the most recent one Happy Place, probably due to reliance on too many romance tropes which I don't enjoy. I'll check out her next one, but it's no longer an auto-read for me unless the blurb looks interesting.

I wish I had more auto-buy authors. I guess I tend to read more widely, but less deeply.

Brandon Sanderson and Robin Hobb

Connie Willis, Jasper Fforde, Carlo Rovelli

I second Bill Bryson. Such a pity he has 'retired'!

Greer Hendricks, Ruth Ware, Emile Henry and Christina Lauren,

Paul Auster , Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Susan Hill, Neil Gaiman

Anne Patchett
Amor Towles

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and Maya Angelou