If (author)wrote it, then I'll buy it (book) list.

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Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, J.K. Rowling and George R.R. Martin are usually all pre-ordered whenever their name on a new book pops up in the mailing lists. (I have a close friend in an Norwegian online retailer, so with those guys he just presumes I’m going to want them and pre-orders them for me as soon as he gets notice)

Recently added are Joe Abercrombie and Peter F. Hamilton. Abercrombie threw out a debut fantasy series stronger than most fantasy writers peak at. A wicked, wicked sense of black humour, great characterization and a tightly knit plot. Some ball-fumbling occasionally, but nothing that detracts from my final impression. (The First Law - Go for it! Now! Do not walk, run!)

“* . . . . Poitthon, thir?*”

A fair summary of the Peter F. Hamilton books I’ve read (Pandora’s Star & Judas Unchained) is “Plot by flow chart on a background of awesome.” Great characterization, great plot lines, great twists and a badass sense of humour. Be warned though - the books are 1000 paperback pages each. The first three hundred pages are almost all character and milieu exposition - but he pulls it off. Truly the George R.R. Martin of science fiction.

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I am pretty sure that I will buy anything by Patrick Rothfuss, although that list is rather short at this time.

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She seems to be writing novellas lately. Inside Job won a Hugo in 2006, and All Seated on the Ground has been nominated for the 2008 award.

I’ve read all of the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee novels, and will continue to buy them as long as he cranks them out, but I couldn’t include Hillerman because I haven’t read his other fiction or his non-fiction books.

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Henry Miller
Norman Mailer
Hunter Thompson
All with lots of works. All dead so I can catch up.

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Jose Saramago
Umberto Eco
Carl Hiaasen
Neal Stephenson
Christopher Moore
Tom Holt

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Terry Pratchett.

Lee Child.

Esther Friesner.

Piers Anthony.

Pretty much any anthology by Martin Greenberg.

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Tim Dorsey and Carl Haaisen. I’ve loved everything either of them have written, including Haaisen’s children’s books, *Flood * and Hoot. I used to buy the latest Stephen King as soon as it hit the shelves, but sometime around Hearts of Atlantis I stopped doing that.