Launching Today: Goodreads Q&A! Ask Your Favorite Author or Fellow Readers Questions on Goodreads!

If you could ask Margaret Atwood, Khaled Hosseini, or James Patterson anything, what would it be? Maybe you want to know their writing inspiration, what they read as a guilty pleasure, or you have a burning question about one of their bestsellers. Now's your chance because these three are among the 54 major authors who are helping us launch an exciting new program on Goodreads—Ask the Author!

Ask the Author allows readers to ask questions and get answers from their favorite authors. At Goodreads, we believe the relationship between authors and readers is very special. Authors tell stories and create worlds that spark the imaginations of their readers. Now readers can deepen that connection by asking questions about the new worlds, ideas, and people they've discovered in books.

Starting today, you can submit your questions directly to any of the 54 authors participating in the Ask the Author launch. (Full list below!) If an author answers your question you'll be notified, and every answer will be shared on the author's page so that other readers can enjoy them, too. In the coming weeks, all of the 100,000+ authors in the Goodreads Author program will be able to opt in to the feature. (To check whether an author is participating, visit his or her author profile and look for the "Ask the Author" section.)

We asked international bestselling author Dan Brown a question of our own about his thoughts on Ask the Author. His answer: "One of the most rewarding things about being an author is hearing from readers. I love engaging in dialogue with them, and I'm excited to have a brand-new way to stay truly connected with my fans. I'm looking forward to discussing writing, secret codes, ancient mysteries, and anything else that comes up with the Goodreads community. Then, of course, I will need to get back to writing because the most common reader question I get seems to be: 'When is the next book coming, Dan?'"

Reader Q&A

Of course, fellow readers are an endless source of book knowledge, too! So, we're also starting to roll out Reader Q&A over the coming weeks to provide our passionate, opinionated, and curious community with another way to connect over the love of books.

Reader Q&A for The Goldfinch


Reader Q&A for The Power of Habit


Reader Q&A for Night Film


Once Reader Q&A is activated for you, you'll find a new Reader Q&A section on every book page, just below your friends' reviews. When other readers start responding to a question, Goodreads members can click "like" on the answers they find most interesting, and the best ones will rise to the top.

To try out Reader Q&A, go to the book page for your favorite book or a book you've just read and submit a question for the Goodreads community. You can also look for questions to answer! If Reader Q&A is not yet showing for you, it will be coming shortly!

We'll be opening up Ask the Author to all Goodreads Authors in the coming weeks, but right now you can ask a question of any of the following authors:

Isabel Allende Author of The House of Spirits [image error]	Margaret Atwood Author of The Handmaid's Tale [image error]
Dan Brown Author of The Da Vinci Code [image error]	Deepak Chopra Author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success [image error]
Khaled Hosseini Author of The Kite Runner [image error]	James Patterson Author of Kiss the Girls [image error]

Michael Cunningham Author of The Hours [image error]	Kristin Hannah Author of Firefly Lane [image error]
James McBride Author of The Color of Water [image error]	Liane Moriarty Author of What Alice Forgot [image error]
Jojo Moyes Author of Me Before You [image error]	B.J. Novak Author of One More Thing [image error]
Robin Sloan Author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore [image error]	Jeff VanderMeer Author of Annihilation [image error]
Ayelet Waldman Author of Red Hook Road [image error]	Jesmyn Ward Author of Salvage the Bones [image error]

Mark Bittman Author of How to Cook Everything [image error]	Geoff Dyer Author of Another Great Day at Sea [image error]
Tim Ferriss Author of The 4-Hour Work Week [image error]	Daniel Goleman Author of Emotional Intelligence [image error]
Arianna Huffington Author of Third World America [image error]	Anne Lamott Author of Bird by Bird [image error]
Frances Mayes Author of Under the Tuscan Sun [image error]	Michael Pollan Author of The Omnivore's Dilemma [image error]
Gretchen Rubin Author of The Happiness Project [image error]

Laurie Halse Anderson Author of Speak [image error]	Holly Black Author of Tithe [image error]
Sarah Dessen Author of Just Listen [image error]	Rebecca Donovan Author of Reasons to Breathe [image error]
Susan Ee Author of Angelfall [image error]	Gayle Forman Author of If I Stay [image error]
Jeff Kinney Author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid [image error]	E. Lockhart Author of The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks [image error]

David Baldacci Author of Absolute Power [image error]	Joseph Finder Author of Paranoia [image error]
Douglas Preston Author of Relic [image error]	S.J. Watson Author of Before I Go to Sleep [image error]

Bella Andre Author of The Look of Love [image error]	Kresley Cole Author of A Hunger Like No Other [image error]
Sylvia Day Author of Reflected in You [image error]	Barbara Freethy Author of Just the Way You Are [image error]
Christina Lauren Author of Beautiful Bastard [image error]

Kevin J. Anderson Author of Jedi Search [image error]	Jim Butcher Author of Storm Front [image error]
Warren Ellis Author of Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1 [image error]	Lev Grossman Author of The Magicians [image error]
Laurell K. Hamilton Author of Guilty Pleasures [image error]	Brian Herbert Author of The Butlerian Jihad [image error]
Hugh Howey Author of Wool [image error]	Sherrilyn Kenyon Author of Styxx [image error]
Bob Mayer Author of Lost Girls [image error]	Richelle Mead Author of Vampire Academy [image error]
John Scalzi Author of Old Man's War [image error]	Michael J. Sullivan Author of Theft of Swords [image error]

Is your favorite author missing from the list above? Let us know which author you'd like to ask a question of in the comments below and we'll pass on the message!