Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Authors I Want More Books From

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish.  Each week a new Top Ten list topic is posted and book bloggers fill in their own choices.  I'm a list girl (as in, I don't function without them), so I thought this would be a good choice for me!  This week's topic is "Top Ten Authors I Wish Would Write Another Book".  I tweaked it, because there are a few who on my list that have works-in-progress or books coming out, and I wanted to include them.  Sooo, here is my list...

Top Ten Authors I Want More Books From

1.  Harper Lee~ I don't know if ya'll know this, but the epic To Kill a Mockingbird was the ONLY book Harper Lee ever wrote.  To me that is insanity given how amazingly written and profound a novel it was.  I wish she had written more.

2.  Margaret Mitchell~ Gone With the Wind is my all-time favorite book.  I have read it at least five or six times, and will undoubtedly read it again before I die.  It totally sucks that she died young and never got to grace us with another epic tale like it.

3.  George Orwell~ I call him The Father of Dystopian Fiction because he wrote the ground-breaking, and for me, life-changing, books 1984 and Animal Farm, WAY before the genre was even a genre.  I have to wonder what he would think about this world we live in if he were alive today.

4.  Emily Bronte~ Wuthering Heights was a favorite of mine in high school, and is still such a timeless classic.  I would have loved to read more by Emily.  It's such a shame that she died so young.

5.  J.K. Rowling~ Everyone loves Harry Potter, but does she have anything else?  Or will she go down in history like Harper Lee, known for ever telling just one story?

6.  Carrie Ryan~ I know it seems strange to have a newish author on the same list with the above people, but I just can't get enough of her writing.  Honestly, I devour her books as fast as she writes them.  I know she has a couple of things in the works, but I need them to be published, like, NOW.

7.  Neal Shusterman~ Another author that has things in the works, but that I can't get enough of.  Thank God we have a release date for Unwholly, the sequel to the mind-bending Unwind (September 25th, 2012), but he needs to keep writing, because one book per year is just not enough!

8.  Libba Bray~ I know that The Diviners comes out in November, but that's a year and a half between books!  I need more Libba than that!  She is a genius.  The woman can write anything, and has proven it, but her comedic ventures are my favorite.  Seriously though, I would read a cereal box if she wrote it!

9.  John Corey Whaley~ A 2011 debut author that I am expecting HUGE things from in the future.  His debut, Where Things Come Back, was such an amazing blend of sad, witty, thought-provoking, and funny.  I can't wait to see what he has in store for us next because I think he may be the next John Green (and I ADORE John Green's books!).

10.  Stephenie Meyer~ Yes.  I admit it.  I like her books.  So what if the Twilight series was a little sappy and lame.  I still couldn't stop reading them.  And I have to say, I REALLY liked The Host.  It was like it wasn't even written by the same person.  I would like to see which author she really is; the one that wrote Twilight or the one that wrote The Host.  Disclaimer: Just to be clear, I do NOT believe that she is even in the same league with the nine authors listed above, but I am curious.

So, there are my top ten.  There are probably loads more, but I just put down the first ten that came to mind.  Can't wait to read all of your lists to see who I missed!