It’s Tuesday again, and you know what that means! Another edition of Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl)! Today we’re going to talk about Auto-Buy authors. You know, the authors that are so good they could write about the alphabet and you’d buy it. You’d die for a chance just to buy a copy of their grocery lists. To be honest, I actually only have two 100% auto-buy authors. But there are other authors that I adore that, when I hear they have a new book coming out, my ears perk up. So I’m going to include some of my favorites on this list too.
Let’s get started!
Marie Lu
So this one shouldn’t be a surprise at all if you read this blog regularly. Like my other auto-buy author, I own all of her books in English (except for her Middle Grade book, although I’ve read it), multiple books in Spanish, and one book in German. I’ve also written multiple fanfiction works for both my auto-buy authors.
And I have two of her upcoming books pre-ordered at the moment. My husband thinks I’m weird because I have Rebel pre-ordered both on the Kindle and a signed hardback ordered. I started ordering her books on Kindle because I don’t really want to wait to start reading her books. And Kindle books download at midnight Eastern time, which means 10 PM in my time zone.
Veronica Roth
Veronica Roth is my other auto-buy author. I own Divergent in four languages. Of course I’ve also pre-ordered The End and Other Beginnings, which happens to come out on the same day as Rebel. Curse you publishers!
I felt so bad because earlier this year, Ms. Roth came to Denver and I found out about it about three weeks ahead of time… and all the tickets were sold out. I got on the waiting list but wasn’t high enough on the list. Now I check the Tattered Cover’s web site regularly, just so I make sure I’m not missing anybody.
I don’t own all her short stories, but I’ll probably have to start working on that one. I don’t have The Chosen Ones (out May 4, 2020) pre-ordered yet because right now only the Kindle one is available for pre-order and I want the hardback edition.
Cassandra Clare
I don’t own all of Cassandra Clare’s books, and probably won’t buy them all. She’s pretty prolific. I did buy all of the core Shadowhunter books (although not all in hardback), but I don’t own any of her books in a foreign language.
At some point I probably will read all or most of her books, but I’ll probably get some of them from the library.
Oh, and Chain of Gold is currently scheduled to come out on the same day as Marie Lu’s Kingdom of Back, both of which I’ve pre-ordered. Again, what gives, publishers?
Leigh Bardugo
I don’t own the Grisha Verse books and don’t own King of Scars (yet), nor do I own The Language of Thorns or any of the Grisha Verse novellas. But I have pre-ordered Ninth House, which happens to come out on… October first, the same day as Rebel and The End and Other Beginnings. It’s going to take me over a week to read just the books coming out that one day.
Sabaa Tahir
The only books I’ve read by Sabaa Tahir so far are the An Ember in the Ashes books, but I’ll definitely buy Ember 4 as soon as it comes out. I’ll have to wait until she publishes something else until I can truly say whether I’m ready to hand over the private keys to my Bitcoin account and just say “please, take my money! Just keep writing!”
Renée Ahdieh
I haven’t read everything that Ms. Ahdieh has written (still trying to get around to reading The Rose and the Dagger) but I’ve enjoyed everything that she’s written so far. I wasn’t sure whether I was going to read The Beautiful or not (when I heard it was a book about vampires I was like “meh”) but I got to read the beginning of that book and I thought it was really good.
Holly Black
Ms. Black is another author that I haven’t read everything she’s ever written (I haven’t even read The Lost Sisters) but I jumped at the chance to pre-order The Queen of Nothing as soon as I could. I’ll probably end up reading more of her backlist at some point as well.
Joel C. Rosenberg
I haven’t read everything by Joel C. Rosenberg either, but I’ve liked everything that I’ve read that he’s written. I haven’t read any of his nonfiction books, but I have read two of his completed series as well as one of his books from another series. Eventually I’ll have to read some of the books that I’ve been missing. Not many of my blogger friends write about his books, so I don’t hear as much about them.
Brad Meltzer
To be honest, there are a lot of Brad Meltzer books I haven’t read. Some I have no interest in reading (like his superhero books and books for kids). But I do like a lot of his books, and I’ve liked all of the thrillers that he’s written so far. So, while not quite an auto-buy author, an author I enjoy reading a lot.
Glenn Beck
You can tell that some of these photos (which I got from Goodreads) are old, because right now Glenn Beck looks like he’s auditioning to be the next Colonel Sanders. Anyway, I’ve read most of Glenn Beck’s books and I really like them.
He’s written several different kinds of books, from political nonfiction books to thrillers to Christmas books. His nonfiction books of short stories like Miracles and Massacres and Dreamers and Deceivers are pretty informative.
So there’s my two auto-buy authors and eight more authors that I usually enjoy reading. I didn’t think I was going to make it to ten today! Next week, we’re going to do a summer activity (kind of) and talk about bookish settings I’d like to see more of. See you then!