I had many go-to authors when I was younger but as I’ve gotten older, I don’t have as many newer ones anymore.
What are everyone’s favorite go-to authors, and by that I mean authors you pick up just because you know you’ll like the read.
I’m expecting the usual suspects: Kingsolver and King – are there any not mentioned so often ?
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Atwood, Ishiguro, Pratchett
Borges or Dostoevsky.
Seth Ring, Will Wight, Naomi Novik
Andy Weir, Blake Crouch, Brandon Sanderson, James Rollins, Neal Shusterman, Chris Carter
megan abbott, courtney summers, kathleen west, emily r. austin, akwaeke emezi
Tana French and Grady Hendrix.
My old answer was Neil Gaiman, but that’s not an option for me anymore.
Louise Erdrich, Kent Meyers, Ray Bradbury, Margaret Atwood.
Peter Swanson, Lianne Moriarty, Megan Abbott, Sharon Bolton, Laura Childs (Tea Shop Mysteries only)
Robert McCammon. I loved just about every book he has written. Top favs include Gone South, The Wolfs Hour, and the entire Mathew Corbett 10 book series starting with Speaks the Nightbird. There are many more.
Andy Weir, Abby Jimenez and Mitch Albom
anne carson
Carl Hiaasen (his adult fiction)
Joan Didion, Sayaka Murata, Ottessa Moshfegh and Eliza Clark
Emma Donoghue!! With all her books, you can expect a tightly constructed immersive plot, incredible character studies and integration of historical details, and to cry at least once
kurt vonnegut
I don’t really have any for fiction. I’ll read anything that has a story that appeals to me.
But for non-fiction, Erik Larson. That man has a gift.
Anne Rice , Elizabeth George , Robert McCammon , Paolo Coello , Isabelle Allende, Tana French, Diana Gabaldon, so much more
Ann Cleeves; James D. Doss; Tony Hillerman; Richard Osborn
Abby Jimenez, RF Kuang, Emily Henry