My Auto-Buy Authors

 Hey hi hello friends, and welcome back to my blog!

I wanted to do something short and sweet for today, so I'm here to talk about some of my auto-buy authors. As you probably know, an auto-buy author is an author that you will purchase their books automatically, no synopsis required. I'm sure we all have a few that are in our carts as soon as we see a new book pop up. Unfortunately for me I have more than a few, and I also have no income with which to purchase said books. Oh, to rely on birthday and Christmas money.

Okay, without any further ado, let's talk about the authors that keep me broke, shall we?

---

Rick Riordan

Without a doubt, Uncle Rick is my number one auto-buy author. I have every single book in the Percy Jackson universe, every spinoff and companion novel, every field-guide, every coffee table book. I've spent more money on his books than any other author. 

I've been collecting his books since I first bought the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series back in 2009. I remember every year my mom would buy me the next book published while I was at school, and I would come home and immediately pick it up. With the last book in this universe coming out in October, The Tower of Nero, I'm not sure what I'll do with my life after that. I quite literally grew up with these books, they shaped me more than any other series. 

(And yes, I do have two copies of The Last Olympian. It was only in hardcover when I originally bought the series, but it bothered me that I didn't have a paperback so I bought that one a few years ago. I'm also planning on getting hardcovers of the rest of the series because as you can see in the photo, my copy of The Lightning Thief is practically falling apart, and I don't want to damage it any more than it already is.)

Victoria/V.E. Schwab

Another no-brainer, if you know me. I also own all of her books, and multiple copies of her Shades of Magic series. I only discovered her back in 2018, when my sister bought me that trilogy for Christmas, and I was instantly hooked. The only book of hers that I haven't yet read is her debut, The Near Witch. I have a copy, I just haven't gotten around to reading it because I keep getting distracted by other books. Every time a book box of hers comes out, I lament the fact that I can't afford to get one, because it's usually Illumicrate that does special edition boxes of hers and they're like, thirty bucks plus shipping, and I only ever get books at used book stores, so I can't justify spending that money that I don't have. 

You can bet that I'll be buying The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue when it comes out, though. I've been ready for this book ever since Victoria Schwab started tweeting about it. 

Maggie Stiefvater

I feel like this is different from the last two, because I don't actually own all of her books, nor am I planning on buying the older ones that I don't have. I only own The Raven Cycle and Call Down the Hawk. I did have All the Crooked Saints, but I unhauled it pretty recently. However, since these are Maggie's most recent works, I feel like it's safe to say I'll be buying all of her future works. I know I want Swamp Things, which is a graphic novel coming out later this year. And of course the next two books in the Dreamer Trilogy, whenever those are released. 

The Raven Cycle was my favorite series of 2018 and still remains a favorite today. It's also one of the few book series I have merch for, courtesy of the Call Down the Hawk OwlCrate launch box that I got for my birthday last year. 

Madeline Miller

Another favorite author, even though she's only written two novels, The Song of Achilles and Circe. It should be no surprise why I consider her an auto-buy author; she writes exclusively about Greek Mythology. And, considering my obsession with Rick Riordan, it makes sense that I would want to own all of her works as well. I have read her short story, Galatea, and loved it just as much as her full-length books, but I don't think I can actually buy a physical copy of it? I've looked and I haven't found one. I just love her prose more than anything, and I can't wait to see what she writes next. You can guarantee that I'll have it in my hands the minute it comes out.

Jaye Robin-Brown

I have two of her three books: Georgia Peaches & Other Forbidden Fruit and The Meaning of Birds. Jaye Robin-Brown writes Sapphic hard-hitting YA contemporaries and they are incredible. My review on Georgia Peaches is wild and emotional especially, because I saw so much of myself in the main character, as someone who is queer and grew up Christian. I had never felt so seen by a book before, except maybe Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, which I have a whole blog post dedicated to here. I still need to read/buy her debut, No Place to Fall, and she has another book coming out in 2021. 

---

Before I go, let's talk some honorable mentions, authors that I plan to own all of their works at some point.

Paulo Coelho

I've only read two of his works, but I think his prose is some of the best out there. His book The Alchemist is my favorite book of all time. I must have read it over twenty times by now, since I first read it back in 2015. It's absolutely phenomenal, and the book that I recommend to everyone who asks for something to read. I got my boyfriend, who has never picked up a book since graduating high school, to read this book, and he fell in love with it just as much as I have. 

The other book I've read of his is relatively new: The Spy. It's a recounting of the famous Dutch courtesan Mata Hari, who was convicted for being a spy in WWI by the Germans and sentenced to death via firing squad. Her life was fascinating, and Coelho only touches very briefly on it, but again the emotion that bleeds from the pages is worth ten times the information you can get from her Wikipedia page. 

I hope one day to get his box set, which is in my Amazon wishlist (linked under "More Media" on the sidebar, in case any of you lovelies want to send me a gift) and read all of his works. I'm most interested in The Furies, again you could probably guess why, but of course I'll be excited to read them all. 

Ruta Sepetys

Again, I only have two of her books, and I've only read one of them so far, but she got me into historical fiction. I read Salt to the Sea in January of this year and I was a mess afterward. I finished it on a plane ride, and it was one in the morning, and I was sitting in my seat trying my damndest not to make a sound because my sister was asleep next to me, but man I was bawling. The flight attendant came up and asked if I was okay and I had to explain that I was sobbing like I had just gotten news a family member died because of a book. It was so embarrassing and I never want to experience that again, but I am so ready for Ruta Sepetys to rip my heart out once more. I own the companion novel, Between Shades of Grey, and I do plan on buying her other books, Out of the Easy and The Fountains of Silence soon. 

Haruki Murakami

Okay, I haven't actually read any of his books, but I just know I'm going to love them. His writing is exactly the kind that everyone says I would really enjoy. I have a few of his more popular works queued up in my library, so I hope to experience them at least before the end of the year. 

---

Okay, that's all I have for today! I hope this gave you all a little insight into my reading tastes and who I am as a reader. 

Until next time!