Yesterday, posts at both Romancing the Blog and Smart Bitches touched on the subject of autobuy authors. At RTB Maili talked about autobuy authors who end up being voted off the list after churning out several disappointing reads, while Candy discussed those authors who remain on her autobuy list despite a stinker or two. Both are interesting reads and I highly recommend you take a look at them.

I think I am somewhat of an oddity when it comes to the autobuy list. It wasn't until the past couple of years that I even started to put one together. I had authors that were must reads the minute their books hit the shelf, but I always depended on my local library for those books. Now that I work at a library however, I find myself buying more and more books. Is that crazy? Definitely. But that's the way it is.

My autobuy author list has really grown over the past year. If I were being honest I would have to say that I am maintaining two autobuy lists (I don't believe in doing things half-assed). List A consists of autobuy authors that I will purchase anything that has their name on it regardless of whether it's mystery, young adult, horror, anthology, romance, etc. I see the author's name and that's all I need to know. The book is going home with me. List B consists of autobuy authors that I only buy a portion of their books (i.e. certain series, genres, subgenres, etc.). List B is very long, so I won't bore you with those details, but here are the authors that make List A (which I am limiting to adult authors only for space purposes):

Meg Cabot
Beth Ciotta
Jennifer Crusie
MaryJanice Davidson
Lori Foster
Kim Harrison
Emma Holly
Alison Kent
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Marjorie M. Liu
Katie MacAlister
Kinley MacGregor
Lucy Monroe
Mary Stella

I like these authors so much, I would buy their books even if Oprah recommended them. I can't give an author a higher compliment than that. :-)

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