Top Ten Tuesday #13

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.  This week's topic is the top ten authors you have on your "auto-buy" list.

This topic turned out to be kind of depressing for me, because apparently a lot of my favorite authors died during the last few years - Madeleine L'Engle, Anne McCaffrey, Brian Jacques, Dianna Wynne Jones, and Ray Bradbury.  I think there's someone else I'm forgetting, but you get the point.  So I had to rethink my list of authors, and here's what I came up with:

The Top Ten Authors on My "Auto-Buy" List

• John Green because...
• The Fault in Our Stars
• Hazel & Augustus
• Paper Towns
• An Abundance of Katherines
• The vlogbrothers and nerdfighters
• Rick Riordan because...
• The Percy Jackson series
• The Kane Chronicles
• Percy & Annabeth
• Robin McKinley because...
• Beauty
• Spindle's End
• Rose Daughter
• Chalice
• Terry Pratchett because...
• The Discworld series
• The Wee Free Men
• Death
• Patricia C. Wrede because...
• The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
• Mairelon the Magician
• Dragons!
• Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman because...
• The Dragonlance Chronicles
• The Dragonlance Legends
• The Raistlin Chronicles
• More dragons!
• Suzanne Collins because...
• The Hunger Games
• Peeta
• Caragh M. O'Brien because...
• Birthmarked
• Prized
• Leon
• Veronica Roth because...
• Divergent
• Tris & Tobias
• Kaitlin Bevis because...
• The Daughters of Zeus series
• Hades & Persephone retelling
• Crazy cliffhangers!

And I know technically he shouldn't be included because he falls under the "Authors I Love But are Dead" category, but I'm including him anyway because his son keeps publishing his works posthumously.

• J.R.R. Tolkien because...
• The Lord of the Rings... enough said.