Top Ten Tuesday--Authors on My Auto-Buy List

This week on Top Ten Tuesday we're looking at authors on our auto-buy list.  I'm going to attempt to think outside of the box and come up with non-obvious choices...because you already know I'd be ALL OVER a lost Hemingway or Steinbeck or Fitzgerald or Faulkner manuscript...Plus I'm really trying to make an effort to get into contemporary work as well.  I like thrillers, biographies, and bookish books, which is primarily what I stuck with on this list.

1.  Harper Lee.  If she ever wrote anything else, I would totally buy it.  I know she has not published in 1961, but she is still living, so it's possible.

2.  Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  Absolutely!  His writing is so wonderful that I want to consume everything he's written.  Even though many think that Memories of My Melancholy Whores will be his last work, I am still holding out hope.

3.  Donna Tartt.  I really enjoyed The Secret History.  I haven't yet read her other novel, The Little Friend, but I really want to.  I think I heard from somewhere (probably Twitter) that she's coming out with a new book in the near future, which is really exciting!

4.  Gillian Flynn.  I loved Gone Girl!  I think that she weaves together a really interesting plot with lots of twists and turns, which I recently discovered I like.  I know she has two other books out, so I will definitely be getting to them in the very near future, plus anything else she produces.

5.  David McCullough.  What?  I have an MA in history, so I like history books.  Whatever.  I think he writes a really good biography that is easily accessible for the regular reader, which is really important when you're writing history outside of academia.  I think he picks really interesting topics to write about and I want to read more.

6.  Ashley Judd.  I don't know if she'll write more or not.  But as she gravitates away from acting, I really hope she does.  I loved reading her first memoir and I think she could make great additions to non-fiction work as her non-Hollywood career takes off.

7.  Paula McCain.  I am loving The Paris Wife so far.  She also has two other books out that I really want to get to soon.  I hope that they're as engaging as this novel is.

8.  Rebecca Wells.  Her Ya-Ya Sisterhood books are pretty much a yearly reread for me.  I love her characters.  I love her style.  I love her ability to write in several voices.  I read her non-Ya-Ya novel and loved it too.  I hope she writes more.

9.  Carlene Bauer.  Frances and Bernard was just beautiful.  I think this is another author who can masterfully navigate multiple voices, not that I necessarily think she should do another epistolary novel, but I think she can do great things.

I'm tapped at nine.  I can totally accept that most of the authors I like to read are dead and aren't really producing much more at this point.  But I am trying to broaden my horizons and like contemporary work, even branching out into a genre I never would have expected to like.