Authors I like

Listed alphabetically by last name. Same disclaimer as above: it hopefully goes without saying, but liking an author doesn’t mean I approve of or agree with everything in the books they write.

Fiction

• Ben Aaronovitch
• Joe Abercrombie
• Katherine Addison
• Leigh Bardugo
• Beth Brower
• Lois McMaster Bujold
• Jim Butcher
• Shannon Chakraborty
• G. K. Chesterton
• Ted Chiang
• Susannah Clarke
• Susan Cooper
• Steven Erikson
• Tana French
• Victoria Goddard
• Alix E. Harrow
• Kazuo Ishiguro
• Benedict Jacka
• Diana Wynne Jones
• R. F. Kuang
• C. S. Lewis
• Emily St. John Mandel
• Arkady Martine
• Seanan McGuire
• Tamsyn Muir
• Claire North
• K. J. Parker
• Terry Pratchett
• Robert V. S. Redick
• Robin Sloan
• Neal Stephenson
• Adrian Tchaikovsky
• M. L. Wang
• Martha Wells
• Connie Willis

Nonfiction

• Robert A. Caro
• Atul Gawande
• David Grann
• Steven Johnson
• Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Naomi Klein
• Erik Larson
• C. S. Lewis
• Candice Millard
• David McCullough
• Hugh Nibley
• Mary Roach
• Oliver Sacks
• Isabel Wilkerson
• Simon Winchester
• Bob Woodward
• Andrea Wulf
• Ed Yong