Top Ten Auto Buy Authors

This Top Ten Tuesday topic ties in quite nicely with last weeks topic that I wanted to do and missed; the top ten authors you've read the most from, so without much further ado, in no particular order here are the ten authors on my auto-buy list.

Scarlett Thomas - you're shocked, right? Scarlett is pretty much the only author whose books I must buy on the day that they come out. I recently attended a signing for her newest book, The Seed Collectors and am still in the middle of her book about writing, Monkeys with Typewriters, which is super inspiring. I will read anything she writes, mostly because all of her books are totally different and amazing.

Neil Gaiman - Obviously. Everything that I've read it immense and amazing and although I may not read them all immediately like I do with Scarlett Thomas, I do buy them pretty much straight away and have a big collection on my keeper shelf.

Joanne Harris - I've loved Joanne Harris for a long time. The Chocolat books (Chocolat, The Lollipop Shoes, Peaches for Monsieur le Cure) are my favourites but I have read most of what she's written and although I haven't bought one of her books for a while they do automatically go onto my wishlist, which is pretty much the same thing in this year of the book buying ban!

Rainbow Rowell - Do I really need to explain this? I'm well on my way to having read all of Rainbow's books more than once and they are all so amazing that I just want to fill my house with related merchandise so I can think about them all the time. She is the best at writing love stories that don't make me feel sick.

Sarah J. Maas - A recent addition, but after reading Throne of Glass, Crown of Midnight and Heir of Fire in very quick succession a couple of months ago how could she not be on this list? Everyone else in the world has read A Court of Thorns and Roses and I really want to! I'm hoping somebody will take pity on me for Christmas because I obviously can't buy it myself!

Terry Pratchett - this makes me sad because obviously there is only one more of his books for me to auto buy but oh I definitely will be. For years the latest Pratchett was my go-to Christmas present for my dad - after this year I'm going to have to actually be creative. His death earlier this year was a massive loss for the world.

J. Courtney Sullivan - although I didn't like The Engagements as much as I did Maine and Commencement I'd still put her on this list. Maybe even more so since I reread Maine during the first Re-Readathon and it was still as amazing as I remembered!

Kirsty Logan - a recent addition, but after The Gracekeepers I will read all the things she ever publishes. What a beautiful novel.

Elizabeth Peters - Ah Elizabeth Peters. I love the Amelia Peabody series, which my mum introduced me to years ago. What's not to love about detective fiction, hilarity and Egyptology? Amazing books, and her other series aren't bad either!

Bill Willingham - Mr. Fables himself. After having loved Fables for so long now there's no chance I'm not reading everything else Willingham has ever touched. Amazing stuff.

Top Ten Books of 2015 So Far...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

I've been trying to take part in Top Ten Tuesday more regularly and now that I'm actually keeping track of my reading it's much easier to take part on weeks like this! When I looked back over my spreadsheet to decide on the final ten I was surprised - I seem to have read a lot of great graphic novels and nonfiction in 2015! Maybe I'll have to change it up a bit for the second half!

Drown by Junot Diaz was one of the first books I read this year and fantastic, as I'd expected. Diaz is pretty much the master of short stories in my opinion, all of his work is worth a read!

The Winter of Our Disconnect by Susan Maushart I got during the Nonfiction November swap I organised last year and I really enjoyed it. It's nonfiction about a family who disconnected all of their electronic devices for three months and it makes for really intriguing reading. 

The Artful Parent by Jean Van't Hul. I keep going on about this, but if you have kids and are at all creatively inclined then this one's for you.

Blankets by Craig Thompson has been on my TBR for years and I finally got around to reading it this year and it was fantastic. Another great addition to the 'graphic memoirs I love' collection.

The Diviners by Libba Bray. I wrote about how I wasn't expecting this to be that great and then it really was. I'm excited to read the sequel later in the year!

Every Day by David Levithan. Again I didn't expect anything from this. I pretty much only got it out because I kept seeing it in the library and because I really enjoyed Will Grayson, Will Grayson and it was spectacular. Seriously. 

Saga by Bryan K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples was absolutely as incredible as everybody told me it was, I immediately requested my library buy the second volume which they did and now I'm biding my time until a reasonable gap has passed and I can request them buying the third volume... 

The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin has been a big inspirational force over the last couple of months. I also read Happier at Home and have been listening to her podcast, Happier and they've all been very motivating and I would say have improved my (already mostly pretty good) life. 

The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton was really surprising. I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked it up and I could easily have hated it because the style is very contrived but I just thought it was so clever. Really worth a read, particularly if you're interested in The Luminaries but terrified of its size (like me). 

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas is technically a bit of a cheat as I'm obviously including the three books in this. I hate it when everybody is right about things but they were so, so right about this series! Thanks to a Ninja Swap slip up I ended up buying these for someone else who then ended up with a parcel and I got to keep them so I'm excited about that and thanks to Hanna for encouraging me to read them on several occasions. Vaguely annoyed its not a trilogy as I'd first thought though, but only because I have to wait for the next book!


So that's my top ten, so far it's looking like there will be some competition when it gets to the end of the year! Bring it on, 2015, I'm ready!