Auto-Read Authors

[Phrynne]

In no particular order:
Neil Gaiman
Connie Willis
Catherine Webb
Ilona Andrews
Brandon Sanderson
Ben Aaronovitch
Jim Butcher
Joe Abercrombie
John Connolly
Kevin Hearne
Benedict Jacka

[Leonie]

AndrewP wrote: "The only one I have at the moment is Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series and those are auto buy on audible because the narrator is just so damn good!"

Ooh yes!

[Phrynne]

Leonie wrote: "AndrewP wrote: "The only one I have at the moment is Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series and those are auto buy on audible because the narrator is just so damn good!"

Ooh yes!"

Same. The guy is brilliant!

[Bobby]

I only have one true auto read author, but plenty where I'm either very close, or plan to eventually read everything they write. I think the big thing for me is that so many authors write in different genres, and tend to write series that are different from each other. So I may love every sci fi book they put out, and then just don't get into the new fantasy series they release.

My one true auto read author is Drew Hayes. He's actually mostly self published, but has one series with a publisher. I found his first book for free on Book Bub, and have since read every book he's written. He's got a completed super hero series, an ongoing urban fantasy series, an ongoing fantasy series with a real D&D style tabletop game, and a new super hero/villain series. He is one of the few authors I've come across who has entertained me completely no matter what genre he writes, because I always love the characters.

Then I have several authors whose books I absolutely love, but I haven't gotten around to finishing everything they write. I tend to read new things by them on some series, but there might be a series or two I haven't gotten to. Examples of this are:
Jim Butcher
Brandon Sanderson
R.A. Salvatore
Robin Hobb
S.M. Stirling
Naomi Novik


Then there are authors who are relatively new, or who I just discovered recently, but I plan to read as many of their books as I can.
Claire North
Fonda Lee
Pierce Brown
Ernest Cline

I'm probably forgetting a few too. Obviously I just have a giant first world problem of way too many books to read and not enough time.

[Cheryl]

Most of my auto-consider are non-fiction (Oliver Sacks) or children's Kevin Henkes. Or dead (Clifford D. Simak). So far of all mentioned the only one I agree w/ y'all on is Becky Chambers.

But my absolute auto-*buy* is Michael Perry. Philosophy, fiction, children's, memoir... it's all wonderful.

[Anna]

Wow, I had no idea this thread is so old! I thought I started it last year :D I was going to post this in the 2021 stats thread, but then I thought it's not really a statistic, so this fits better here.

I found a couple of new to me authors in 2021, who I will continue to read "everything" from:

Polly Ho-Yen - Middle grade SFF books, I read all of them in 2021! I really liked listening to these as bedtime audios, although I couldn't stop, I kept listening until the book ended and I had to find a new bedtime audio. She also has an adult dystopia that came out in 2021 called Dark Lullaby.

Hanna Alkaf - I read The Girl and the Ghost and The Weight of Our Sky. The first is a middle grade fantasy bordering on horror (for me) with excellent Malaysian mythology. And the other one is a YA historical fiction about a girl battling OCD during the 1969 race riots in Kuala Lumpur. It was one of the best books I read this year, I couldn't put it down and it broke me. The only reason I didn't rate it 5 stars is because the second half of the book felt less magnificent than the first, but I might change my rating later. The book is also a webcomic, there is a link in this edition. I started the webcomic immediately upon finishing the book, but then I hit a paywall and stopped there, because so far it seemed to be the exact same story. I cannot wait for Queen of the Tiles, and I have Once Upon an Eid on my soon-TBR.

Masha du Toit - Maybe I won't read *everything* by her, but I read the series starting with The Babylon Eye, and the new standalone scifi We Broke the Moon, and they're perfect light comfort scifi for me. I already have a couple of her fantasy books waiting on my Kindle, but I haven't tried them yet.

I'm not sure if I will be adding all three to my mental "must read" list permanently, but these are the new to me authors that most impressed me in 2021, and who I read more than one book from. I can't say someone is a must read author if I've only read one book by them!

(Want to talk about the authors you buy new and/or at full price without question? Go here: Who are your "must buy" authors?)

[G.R.]

Auto-read:
G.R.R. Martin (if he ever publishes the next Song of Ice & Fire book)
Patrick Rothfuss (if "Doors of Stone" ever comes out)
Josiah Bancroft
Joe Abercrombie

Auto-consider:
Stephen King
Dean Koontz
Scott Lynch
James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham/Ty Franck)
Andy Weir
Hugh Howey

[Michelle]

I like your "auto-consider"!

[Gabi]

Oh, nice one! I didn't know this thread.

After three years of reading waaaay too many books, my auto-read authors are:

Adrian Tchaikovsky
(with a singled out position, because he is currently the only author where I as well buy anything no matter the price)

Emma Newman
Theodore Sturgeon
Claire North
Terry Pratchett
Connie Willis
China Miéville
Jo Walton
Jeff VanderMeer
Maja Lunde
Ted Chiang

I know that this isn't very diverse. I've read so many diverse authors and I liked a lot of them, but when it comes down to going for the ones I would follow blindly it is those.

[Anna]

Unsurprisingly several from Gabi's list (Lunde, Willis, Walton, Newman, Chiang) are also on my list! ^_^ VanderMeer is probably more on the auto-consider list :)

[Charlton]

I have a short list of particular authors.
R.A. Salvatore
Raymund E. Feist
Brandon Sanderson
George R.R. Martin
Robin Hobb
Scott Lynch
Joe Abercrombie
Jim Butcher
Glen Cook

[Billy]

Sanderson
Hobb
George RR Martin
Rothfuss even though he is playing games with finishing books lately Grrrrrrr

[CBRetriever]

William Reed wrote: "Sanderson
Hobb
George RR Martin
Rothfuss even though he is playing games with finishing books lately Grrrrrrr"

Rothfuss and Martin are on the same schedule

[Ryan, Your favourite moderators favourite moderator]

AMG wrote: "Hmm, I don't think there's an author where I'll read everything by them/unquestioningly read new releases. I can think of at least one thing I'm not excited enough about to read by every author I r..."


I'm the same, AMG. I'd work my way through one authors catalogue until I grew bored of them. All the big name Thriller writers. By the time I got serious about reading sff I figured that most writers don't actually have that many unique and interesting ideas so I started jumping around a lot more. It's not an issue to stick with an author if you care more about writing style, but that's not quite my thing.

[Michelle]

CBRetriever wrote: "William Reed wrote: "Sanderson
Hobb
George RR Martin
Rothfuss even though he is playing games with finishing books lately Grrrrrrr"

Rothfuss and Martin are on the same schedule"


And Lynch seems to be on the same schedule, as well!

[Amy (Other Amy)]

Jordan wrote: "I haven't read 100% of all of these author's books, but they're ones that I will read anything new they write and that I'm slowly working my way through their older stuff."

That's my best description for what I'm doing too. My 'working on' list right now:
Caitlyn Kiernan
Marlon James
Haruki Murakami
Jeff VanderMeer
Seanan McGuire (who is also my auto buy but I'm behind on almost every series)
Nghi Vo (I haven't read The Chosen and the Beautiful yet; it's on tap for this year)

[CBRetriever]

Michelle wrote: "And Lynch seems to be on the same schedule, as well!"

add Kirstein

[Anna]

Reminder that we have a thread called You're Never Gonna Get It in this same folder, which is meant to be the space where you can go scream about GRRM, Rothfuss and Lynch! :D And of course any other authors/books, too, but those three come up all the time, so you'll have lots of company :)

[Michelle]

Anna wrote: "Reminder that we have a thread called You're Never Gonna Get It in this same folder, which is meant to be the space where you can go scream about GRRM, Rothfuss and Lynch! :D And of course any othe..."

Sorry- you're right! I had forgotten about that thread.

[Wayne]

Haruki Murakami
William Gibson
Don DeLillo

for starters.

[John Drawdy]

Mark Tufo
John O’Brien
(I mentioned in my intro I liked pulp)

I also buy everything they publish, but I have a couple others I buy that I can’t seem to get around to reading. 😆

I WOULD buy and read anything from George RR Martin and Patrick Rothfuss, but I refuse to buy/read anything else from them until they finish what they started. I’m not encouraging them to do anything other than finish.

[Tamara]

Stephen Lawhead
Juliet Marillier
Diana Wynne Jones, if she was still alive and writing.

The top two are the authors I'll always check, to see what their latest is, and wait for new works with anticipation. But there are series and books I don't like and some I haven't read - like 'Patrick' (disliked) and the 'Hood' and Skin Map series (under-impressed by) from Stephen Lawhead.

With DWJ, I keep hoping I'll find new books I didn't know about 😄, but I've exhausted hers.

Naomi Novik is becoming one - new books, not the dragon ones from the past.
Isobelle Carmody used to be one, but then she stopped writing the good serieses she was in the middle of, and started writing lots of children's books with strange bents.
Brandon Sanderson might become one, but not yet. I'm just enjoying what I'm reading so far.

I should also add Janny Wurts. She just publishes less regularly, and has been working on the one, very long, series for many years, so I forget about her.

[DivaDiane]

Ursula K LeGuin and Octavia Butler are authors whose works I am purposefully not reading through very fast, although I think I’m only one or two books always from finish UKL’s oeuvre.

Authors that are writing today:

Becky Chambers (but I still have to catch up on the novel series)
Rivers Solomon
Nicola Griffith
Robin Hobb/Megan Lindholm

And probably a few more that I can’t think of at the moment

[Charlton]

Brandon Sanderson, Scott Lynch and Joe Abercrombie.