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. Last updated September 21, 2024.
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
- 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
- Mary Beard
- Robert A. Caro
- Atul Gawande
- David Grann
- Tom Holland
- Steven Johnson
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Naomi Klein
- Erik Larson
- C. S. Lewis
- Candice Millard
- David McCullough
- Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Hugh Nibley
- Mary Roach
- Katherine Rundell
- Oliver Sacks
- Isabel Wilkerson
- Simon Winchester
- Bob Woodward
- Andrea Wulf
- Ed Yong