Top Ten Tuesdays is a weekly feature created at The Broke and The Bookish.
I've realised that a lot of my top authors are not authors who haven't put out books that I didn't like. Some of them have done that, and are still among my favourites. I think I'm the sort of reader who it would be unrealistic to expect that I love everything from any given author, even if they are a favourite generally. Anyway, have a selection of my many favourite authors, in no particular order.
1. Maggie Stiefvater: She's a strange case for me, in that I haven't actually read all of (or actually that much of) her work. I just haven't been able to get through the Shiver trilogy. I've loved everything else, though.
2. Holly Black: I've been on a bit of a Holly Black kick recently. There's something very sensory about her writing sometimes, and I really like the gothic edge.
3. Kenneth Oppel: I adore Airborn and the rest of that trilogy, and I vividly member reading the Silverwing trilogy on a couch in the summer a year or so before I started high school.
4. Marie Rutkoski: I'll admit that I've only read two of her novels, but I've really enjoyed them.
5. Rick Riordan: His writing has cooled for me in the past year or so, but I loved Percy Jackson and the Olympians and I also quite liked The Kane Chronicles.
6. Sarah Rees Brennan: The Lynburn Legacy was a lot of fun to read, and I loved her Gothic Tuesdays (if you haven't read those posts yet, have a look).
7. J. R. R. Tolkien: If you told me last year that he would be here, I would look at you in suspicion. I've always really liked Lord of the Rings, and The Hobbit was one of the books read aloud to me when I was little, but this year I read The Silmarillion, and I'm really coming to appreciate the world Tolkien created.
8. Eoin Colfer: My love of his Artemis Fowl series is eternal. The Supernaturalist was a delight as well.
9. Marissa Meyer: I'm finding The Lunar Chronicles really enjoyable so far.
10. J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter was a series I grew up with, and a major contributor to me being the voracious reader I now am. (Here's a few others.)
Brilliant choices!
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MAGGIE MAGGIE MAGGIE. I love seeing her on so many lists. She's my #1, forever and ever. I love that woman.
ReplyDeleteRick Riordan, Rowling, and Kenneth Oppel were all contenders for me. Have you read his Frankenstein series yet? BEAUTIFUL. <3
My TTT: http://yearningtoread.blogspot.com/2015/04/top-ten-tuesday-all-time-favorite.html
The Scorpio Races is one of my favourite books ever.
DeleteI actually started Kenneth Oppel's Frankenstein series, but for whatever reason I ended up returning it to the library before I finished it. I've loved a lot of his other work, though, so I'll probably give it another try at some point.
Maggie Stiefvater is on my list too, as is JK Rowling and Rick Riordan.
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Maggie Stiefvater seems to be a popular choice (judging from the comments...) I've really liked a lot of her work. I haven't liked Rick Riordan's more recent releases quite as much but I really enjoyed PJO.
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