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What authors are on your auto-buy list?Earlier this week, sassymonkey posted a blog in the Books section of BlogHer: “Who is on your auto-buy list?” I had such a good time thinking about it and looking up some of her readers’ favorites (which you can find here) that I thought I’d ask you the same question. First, an explanation, also from sassymonkey. An “auto-buy” is an author whose books you’ve read and loved. You may have read a version that was borrowed or checked out from the library, but you were so taken with it that you had to own it. Auto-buy often overlaps with “auto-read” books, but the sense of urgency is different. For example, when Madeline L’Engle was alive, I bought everything she wrote without even reading the book jacket first. She was most prolific back when we had to actually go into bookstores to see what was new. Nothing delighted me more than to find a brand new L’Engle title — or a new version of an old one.
Lesbian author May Sarton, who died in 1995, was also on my list. I discovered Sarton after I came out, so had a lot of catching up to do. And some her books weren’t easy to find. But the way she could turn a phrase makes reading her one of the great pleasures of life — and something I do frequently.
The other authors on my auto-buy list are, fortunately, still alive and writing. J.K. Rowling, who tops StuntDouble’s list, is the perfect example of auto-buy for me. I borrowed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and ended up buying another copy for the friend who loaned it to me because I couldn’t bear to part with it.
My only other auto-buy — also shared with Stunt — is Strangers in Paradise author/creator Terry Moore. His current medium is the graphic novel, but he will write a prose novel or two eventually. I might as well order them now.
Dorothy Snarker and Stunt Double share a must-buy: David Sedaris. Ms. Snarker adds Amy Sedaris as well. I do love the Sedaris siblings, although they fall into my auto-read category. Some I buy, some I don’t. But they always make me laugh.
I would be remiss not to mention one person who should be on everyone’s auto-buy list. She has only one published book — and it hasn’t come out yet. Her name is Malinda Lo. Yes, this is a plug for an AfterEllen.com writer, but only because she’s good. I can’t wait to read Ash, and I’m not even getting a kickback for mentioning it. But enough about us. Do you have an auto-buy list? What authors do you love so much that you have to own everything they write? Has your list changed over the years? Submitted by on August 14, 2009 - 10:00am. |
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I have a couple
Anything and everything by Nicci French, Tess Gerritsen and Karin Slaughter
The Way The Cookie Crumbles
No Borders Allowedone or two
Trudi Canavan
J K Rowling
David and Leigh Eddings (both sadly no longer with us)
I have a love of the fantasy genre.
I do have all the books written by Jane Austin as well
I enjoy them all even though they are very light reading
Aw, thanks!
You are so nice! Madeleine L'Engle is also on my auto-buy list for sure. I love all her stuff. Others on my list are: Robin McKinley, Sarah Waters, and Elizabeth Peters. Yes, I love my historical Egyptological mysteries, geek that I am. :)
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Books!!!
How much time do you have? I adore books more than anything else in the world and if I won the lottery a lot of my money would be spent on a wall-to-wall bookshelf, filled with the following authors:
Sarah Waters (LOVE HER! Have autographed copy of The Night Watch)
JK Rowling
Fannie Flagg
Patricia Cornwell
Anita Shreve
Stella Duffy
Jeanette Winterson
Jeffrey Deaver
Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum, anyone?)
Jeffrey Eugenides
Lots more, let's not get carried away.
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Arizona: But I like the girl who has the sandwiches.
jeffrey deaver is amazing.
jeffrey deaver is amazing. how about james patterson?
Thanks, I'm looking forward to expanding my reading list
sara paretsky, donna leon, walter jon williams, richard k. morgan, grant morrison, chris hedges, roger zelazny (rip).
My list is never ending....
...as I add a new author on a weekly basis.
I'll ready anything by:
Terry Moore (SIP rules and Halo is turning out to be a page turner)
Neil Gaiman
China Mieville
Nicola Griffith
Alan Bennett
Will Self
Jennifer Johnston
Michel Faber (Some Rain Must Fall is the best book of short stories I've ever read)
Margaret Atwood
Emma Donoghue
Christopher Moore (Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Friend is hysterical)
Guy Gavriel Kay
Shamim Sarif
Bill Bryson
Philip K Dick
Augusten Burroughs
William Gibson
Pat Barker
Ian McEwan...
Ok I'll stop now. ;o) I guess it is obvious I love to read. Looking forward to checking out Malinda's book too.
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Ditto
Bill Bryson is awesome, I read The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and I thought it was brilliant!
So I decided to buy In a sunburn country and gave it to a dear friend who was going to visit Australia... She read it gladly during the (VERY long) flight from Italy to Sidney!
Guy Gavriel Kay is
My only autobuy is David
I love all books
My newest author on my "auto-buy" list is Neil Gaiman. Everything he has ever written is amazing and even more so if you listen to him read it aloud.
My old standard is of course Stephen King. He is amazing and I especially love his last like 10 books.
My must buy lesbian writer is Michelle Tea, a local star who I beleive is going on tour again with her spoken word tour Sister spit soon, hopefully. I've seen it a few times and those girls are all amazing writers and speakers.
Only three
Great thread!
A couple on my auto buy list (and these are so much auto buys, I'll spring for the hardcovers!):
Jeannette Winterson
Toni Morrison
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Ann Patchett
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Alison Bechdel
Dorothy Allison
Jewelle Gomez
Margaret Maron (though I wait for the paperbacks on hers -- mysteries)
(I'm probably forgetting a few who are less prolific, so they're not there to buy more often!)
And to the person who mentioned JanetEvanovich, she's on my auto read list. Yes, I love Stephanie Plum! I have fantasies of someone revisioning her and the two men in her life as a femme and two butches, with the same humor, sauciness, and sharpness in the current books. Anyone? :)
Stephanie Plum and the butches!
Hell yeah, I could so see that! I love the way Stephanie and co speak, when they use "probably" as the first word in the sentence. Eg: Probably I'll go to the movies tomorrow. It kills me every time. And I love how much she loves her hamster:)
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Callie: You don't even like sandwiches!
Arizona: But I like the girl who has the sandwiches.
i love the way they talk to.
i love the way they talk to. i really love lula when she says "f***ing A". she is so hilarious. and rex must be like a million years old in hampster years lol.
janet evanovich is def. on my auto buy list. ive got all of my friends reading her now.
Waiting impatiently...
Yes! I love Nick Hornby.
Jhumpa Lahiri! Definitely
Jhumpa Lahiri!
Definitely waiting!
I ddin't like the "Namesake" as much, though, for me, her forte still lies in the short story.But I'm really excited to see how she develops as a writer:-)
I have quite a few
J.K. Rowling
Patricia Cornwell
Christopher Moore
Terry Goodkind
Eoin Colfer (I'm a sucker for the Artemis Fowl series, even if they are intended for a younger audience)
And even though she's not writing anymore (because she's dead), I will read anything Charlotte Bronte wrote. I adore her writing style.
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Terry GoodKind is also a
My mom picked it up at the library
At first I thought it was gonna be dumb because the cover was a little ostentatious (it was the one where Richard's on Scarlet and there's a huge freakin' palace in the background), but then I finished it in two days and put it on my birthday list. Go Mom.
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Yea I have to say I avoided
definitely...
1. J. K. Rowling
2. Tess Gerritsen
3. Patricia Cornwell
4. J. R. R. Tolkien
5. Haruki Murakami
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- Lyrics from Cannonball - Damien Rice
Jodi Picoult Nick Hornby
Jodi Picoult
Nick Hornby
Tom Perrotta
Jeffrey Eugenides
J.K. Rowling, of course
And, when I was younger: Judy Blume, Meg Cabot, and so many others whose names I forget!
Totally with you on the Jodi
Totally with you on the Jodi Picoult front...
Also when I was younger I had a vast collection of books by those authors and so many more lol
Awesome choices =P
auto buys
In addition to the previously mentioned David Sedaris, Fannie Flagg, JK Rowling & Malinda Lo (I am so looking forward to "Ash") I would add Rebecca Wells (Ya Ya Sisterhood and other books) and Glenn Greenwald.
When I was much younger, Stephen King was a must buy (but only in paperback) for escapist beach reading, but now, Meh.
Rebecca Wells FTW! Glad
always
this isn't just limited to books soley by these authors; i will buy an entire anthology or lit journal or magazine if any of their work is published in it. it goes that deep.
mary gaitskill
a.m. homes
jonathan safran foer
lydia davis - <3 her so hard
jessica valenti
kate clinton
michelle tea
jeffery toobin
comics & poems
I don't auto-buy novels, but I will auto-buy comics by Neil Gaiman (Sandman), Brian K. Vaughn (Y: The Last Man), Bill Willingham (Fables), and Greg Rucka (Gotham Central, Batwoman). Yuki Urushibara's manga (Mu Shi Shi) is lovely, though I'm even more of a sucker for the anime. And, Ted Kooser (Delights & Shadows) is a poet I recently started collecting. It rather amuses me that my nightstand reading is a mix of comics and poetry.
There's a kind of poetry to comic books, the truly briliant ones, where a panel is a line in the verse of the page.
I love Mushishi! Have you
Ken Follett Toni
Ken Follett
Toni Morrison
Kim Harrison
Patricia Briggs
Zora Neal Hurston
Lillith Saintcrow
Rachel Vincent
Yasmine Galenorn
Ali Vali
Gerri Hill
Auto-Buys
I love buying books without reading the blurb in the jacket. It's how I found out about Jasper Fforde. Amazing man.
Jasper Fforde
Gregory Maguire
Tracy Chevalier
Chuck Palahniuk
Christopher Moore
Bill Willingham
Any Joss-related series: Angel After the Fall, Season 8, Fray, Serenity...
And I'm slowly finishing my Daphne duMaurier collection.
jasper ffjord!
oh how i long to be a member of jurisfiction! and the first release in his new series will, at long last, come out in January. at least i hope so, i think Shades of Grey has been catalogued at least one other time.
Malinda and Staceyann
This blog is a great reminder as I just went on Amazon and purchased Malinda's and Staceyann Chin's books - both qualified for free shipping and the total was only $27.53.
My auto-buys would have to be Janet Fitch and Shamim Sarif.
I have loads of authors
I have loads of authors whose books I generally always buy as I love to read including
Val McDermid
Patricia Cornwell
Kathy Reichs
Gerri Hill
Peggy J Herring
Frankie J Jones
Karin Kallmaker
Radclyffe
Jackie Calhoun
Linda Hill
Stephen King
Jane Francis
Gun Brooke
Vicki Stevenson
Katherine V Forrest (although not read the sci-fi books of hers yet)
Megan Carter
Kenna White
Jeff Mariotte (CSI Books)
Max Allen Collins
Laurel Mills
Ingrid Diaz
Helen MacPherson
Greg Cox (CSI)
Jerome Preisler (CSI)
Sarah Waters
Lynn Galli
Definitely on my auto-buy
Definitely on my auto-buy list
I Only Have One Auto-Buy
Great Post
I love reading and I love books, so actually most of the books I read are bought to go in my ever growing book collection.
Auto-buys? I will buy anything from my favourite authors without even checking what the books are about. These include:
Nicola Griffith
Caitlin R. Kiernan
Neil Gaiman
Daniel Hecht
Karin Slaughter
Poppy Z. Brite
Martina Cole
And yes, of course I've already pre-ordered Malinda Lo's book.
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eurOut for all your European queer needsHell yeah on the Nicola
Hell yeah on the Nicola Griffith! Her books are few and far between, but they span multiple genres and contain kick-ass characters.
Also, Sir Terry Pratchett. The first one of his I read was "Lords and Ladies," which was awesome.
Shamim Sarif!
I don't usually read books, but there's one author whose books I've all bought, coz I really LOVED them, and that's Shamim Sarif! She's such a talented woman, love both her books and movies (and ceirtainly will love her upcoming TV series! ok, digressed, just like she does in her blogs lol)
Beside Shamim, another author I like is JK Rowling, she's in my "auto-read list", but not in "auto-buy", I've borrowed most of the books of HP series from friends, though I own the first and last book =)
auto-buy...
Tess Gerritsen - Detective Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isle series'
Mo Hayder - Detective Inspector Jack Caffery series
Richard Montanari - Kevin Byrne & Jessica Balzano series
Claire McNabb - Detectives Carol Ashton; Denise Cleever; Kylie Kendall series
Ellen Hart - P.I. Jane Lawless series
Katherine V. Forrest - Detective Kate Delafield series
Val McDermid - P.I. Lindsay Gordon series
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Hay tantísimas fronteras .. que dividen a la gente .. pero por cada frontera .. existe tambien un puente
Auto-buys
Joss Whedon
Sarah Waters
Neil Gaiman
Frank Miller
Jhonen Vasquez
Very occasionally, if you pay attention, life doesn't suck.
-Joss Whedon
Pretty much a fantasy Geek.
Terry Pratchett
Every time at Barnes and Noble or Borders, I tell myself that I need to get more of his books. I have Guards! Guards! from the Discworld series, and the first time I read it, I had to put it down sometimes because I would be laughing too hard to actually pay attention to the story.
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I have so many favourite
There are...
So many Neil Gaiman fans on here! He's definitely one of my autobuys as well.
Other autobuys would include the also-mentioned David Sedaris, and my favorite Canadian fantasy writer, Charles de Lint.
And of course JK Rowling...I can't wait for her to start a new series! I grew up on Harry Potter, and I think it would be really cool if Rowling started writing books for adults!
A fellow Charles de Lint
A fellow Charles de Lint fan!
I've never met one before. :)
I've only read Ivory and the Horn, Dreams Underfoot, and Moonlight and Vines.
I'm working on The Blue Girl, and seriously plan on finishing the entire Newford Series.
Likewise!
It seems like hardly anyone reads his books, and I don't know why; they're so good!
I first read The Onion Girl when I was in 6th grade, and it's still one of my favorite books. Sometimes I wish I lived in Newford. :)
Agreed, I could definitely