Do you have authors where you'd buy anything they write?

[Nathan]

Joe Abercrombie
Pat Rofless

[Jenny (Reading Envy)]

David Mitchell
Margaret Atwood
Jeanette Winterson

[[deleted user]]

I've liked everything by China Mieville that I've read so far and plan to work my way through his whole catalog. Same goes for Paolo Bacigalupi. I would have said Joe Abercrombie, but I didn't love Half a King and I'm honestly not sure if I'll read future installments of that series.

Other than those, there is no author I can think of that I would automatically read without knowing anything about the book.

[Eric]

Terry Brooks
R.A. Salvatore
Patricia Briggs
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
Christine Golden

Just to name a few.

[AndrewP]

No. Every author seems to put out a duff one now and again. So many books to read that I wait until reviews are in before buying anything.

[Markt5660]

Not sure about every book they publish, but Neal Stephenson and Charles Stross come pretty close.

[Joshua]

Brandon Sanderson
Mira Grant
Joe Abercrombie
Kameron Hurley

[Clyde]

No, none that I can think of. Every author, even some I really like, sometimes writes stories I don't care for. The writer who came closest was Patrick O'Brian and he is gone now.

[Ruth (tilltab) Ashworth]

If an author I like writes a book in a different genre to his or her norm, then, yes, that certainly would not put me off reading it. On the contrary, I would probably be curious to see how that author tackles something different.

However, I don't tend to follow authors too closely when reading, so, while a desire to try X, Y or Z authors might get me to read one book/ series, it seldom gets me seeking more - my reading list is too long, and I'm more interested in discovering new things. I often notice similar themes etc within the few authors I have read a number of books by, and while this is nothing bad (we all have certain ideas that stick with us, and will show up again and again) it can occasionally lead to a kind of paint by numbers reading. An example of this is probably the only author whose work I have read almost entirely, David Eddings, who I read a lot as a teenager. I didn't mind too much the ease with which I could draw lines between characters in the Belgariad/Malorian and Elanium/Tamuli but once I got to The Redemption of Althalus I was bored of it. I did read a book of his that was not the usual fantasy, called Regina's Song and that was terrible, but I'm not sure if that was because he did not write that genre so well, or because the quality of his writing, on a whole, had decreased (or so it seemed to me).

[Lonnie]

Hmmmm,
I definitely THINK this way, even if I don't always put it into practice. I sort my interest in my head by author. Here are a few I think I would buy anything from, (though in most cases, I haven't yet)

Isaac Asimov(LOVE how his books feel, everytime, so interesting!)

LE Modesitt Jr (no one can make mundane things interesting like this guy, I just keep picking him up)

Robert Jordan (ugh, its probably dishonest to put him on here, as I really don't have interest in his other stuff, but WOT ... sigh...)

Brandon Sanderson (how well he finished WOT, and his Mistborn impressed me so much)

JRR Tolkein (I am still buying the random stuff his estate and son put out! Children of Hurin FTW)

CS Lewis(love, love, love how his man's head worked)

[[deleted user]]

I'd say a qualified yes for Tolkien. Anything put out by a major publisher I'll buy. Beowulf and the Critics or Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode were both fine. I do find the linguistic studies published in Parma Eldalamberon such as Parma Eldalamberon 12 Qenyaqesta The Qenya Phonology and Lexicon beyond my understanding.