Automatic Authors: Which ones do you automatically read or buy?

[@nohelanikh6788]

Love this video! Thinking about it, most of the authors who have written some of my favorite series aren’t actually automatic buy authors unless they publish a book in the series I like. I think my only automatic buy author is Katherine Arden. She doesn’t publish too quickly so she’s easy to keep up with and I love her writing!

[@NerdyKathi]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'll have to look into Arden, thank you.

[@grat2010]

I'm with you regarding GRRM no longer being an automatic buy, for the exact same reasons you mentioned.

[@NerdyKathi]

If he finished the series I can see myself going back and buying more of his books.

[@monaangelavargas1241]

"Hello I'm Kathi, I'm a book-buying addict." Relate! 😁 my automatic authors are maeve binchy, roald dahl and stephen king.

[@NerdyKathi]

😊I read a few Binchy books years ago but haven't read Dahl. I have to remedy that.

[@DAGDRUM53]

All my favorite favorites have gone to their reward but really fine new ones are born everyday. I buy every Mark Greaney book with Gray Man whose Russian spy girlfriend Zoya has joined a CIA-contracted merc team, if for no other reason than to keep the ongoing storyline gripping. New books in Dan Brown's Robert Langdon series are an automatic buy too although it's been over six years since his last one, but George RR Martin presides undefeated by more than twice that on the throne of the Kingdom of Late.

[@sherreads1081]

Miss Read was an auto buy author for me.

[@NerdyKathi]

I've never heard of her. I can see the appeal though.

[@ttowntrekker5174]

What a great idea! I've never considered this because my reading tends to drift around depending on my mood. And I love discovering authors I've never read before that become some of my favorites.

[@NerdyKathi]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. There's nothing better than finding a new author you fall in love with.

[@ashleyoliver]

Hi Kathi! New subscriber here. Love your channel! I would say my auto buy author is Fredrik Backman. Everything I’ve read from him has been so outstanding.

[@NerdyKathi]

Hi Ashley, welcome! Thank you so much for commenting. I'll have to look into Backman now, thank you.

[@Eliss73957]

My autobuy authors are Juliet Marillier, Robin Hobb, Becky Chambers, Sarah Waters and Amor Towles. Thank you Kathi, this was fun to think about!

[@NerdyKathi]

So glad you enjoyed it. I haven't heard of Becky Chambers so must try her. I have several Marillier books which I haven't read but I adore Daughter of the Forest.

[@joyceredman2136]

I like Ann Patchett. I really haven't found too many current authors as I'm reading Classics this year

[@NerdyKathi]

I hope you enjoy the classics.

[@Matt..S]

David Mitchell is an automatic buy for me ever since Cloud Atlas. Such a sprawling and interesting universe of different genres and interlinked characters and references. I am actually really mad that I wont live to see the release of his final novel, since it is set to release in a hundred years or so haha (although as GRRM fan, that is something I got used to already). Both Cloud Atlas or Ghostwritten would be great novels to get into his universe and then the Bone Clocks with its odd and unique fantasy aspects

[@NerdyKathi]

I didn't like the film but I have heard the book is better. I might have to look into it. Thank you!

[@Matt..S]

@@NerdyKathi Hm if you didn't like the film, I don't think you would enjoy the book either, because the only change was in its structure, where the book was set up into like a pyramid scheme starting with the earliest time period and stopping in the middle of its story, continuing with the next, and so on until the last story, then going back and finishing the other stories; while the film intercut all the stories and let them move parrallel to each other to highlight the connections even more. It was a very faithful adaptation, sometimes even verbatim and keeping with the individual narrative styles

[@kunalkksachdev]

This is one of the most wholesome channel on KZbin!!

[@NerdyKathi]

Thank you very much.

[@gabrielaspaull6238]

Hi Kathi, thank you for another great video. Very interesting! I automatically buy Stephen King and Louise Penny. You mention a few authors that I would really like to try. Thank you!!!

[@NerdyKathi]

I'm glad you enjoyed it Great choices for automatic buys.

[@gabrielaspaull6238]

@@NerdyKathi Thank you Kathi ❤️

[@Madam_Vader_Reads]

Some of my current auto buy/read: Craig Johnson, T Kingfisher, Pierce Brown, SJ Tilly, Carissa Broadbent, Janet Evanovich (Stephanie Plum series), Juliette Cross, and Brom.

[@NerdyKathi]

We share some! 😂

[@theresas709]

Louise Penny is also mine along with Susanna Kearsley and Kristin Hannah. Mary Stewart use to be but I have read almost all of hers. I wish she had more.

[@NerdyKathi]

I love Kearsley and have a few of hers. I haven't read her in a while though. I've read some Mary Stewart many years ago.

[@mtnshelby7059]

I used to automatically buy everything from Anita Brookner but she died in 2016. I actually buy very few contemporary writers but I am eager to read Salman Rushdie's forthcoming memoir. I really like his nonfiction. Great video, thank you.

[@NerdyKathi]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Interesting choices of authors.

[@lorimiller854]

Book buying is my drug of choice, for sure!

[@NerdyKathi]

I love that! 😂

[@laurenmando1583]

Agatha Christie, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and George Orwell are a few of my auto-buys, but recently TJ Klune, Cassandra Claire, and Travis Baldree are authors that recently got onto my list

[@NerdyKathi]

Such a mixed bag. Klune is someone I need to try soon.

[@Kite562reviews]

Automatic buys for me new Junji Ito manga releases or any Stephen King novel I haven't read yet. I've heard of the authors you read, however, I haven't read them myself.

[@NerdyKathi]

I never got into manga myself. Of course I'm prejudiced but I think my list of authors are worth reading.

[@StingyGeek]

You're not putting Raymond E Feist on the list? That's a surprise. An oversight or deliberate?

[@NerdyKathi]

It was deliberate. Whilst I love Feist, in the past I got tired of his world. I have around 10 or more to read and if I find myself loving them as much as his earlier ones I'll probably obtain more.

[@Paromita_M]

Nice video. Very few automatic buy authors for me - Donna Tartt, Gail Honeyman, Benjamin Labatut (all literary fiction) Genre there's nobody really: perhaps Susanna Clarke, perhaps Patrick Rothfuss. Happy reading 👋

[@NerdyKathi]

Always interesting what people like to buy, particularly with books. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@DaveShaves44]

Love your videos Kathi! Can you PLEASE do a bookshelf tour!!! Would love to see every book you have

[@NerdyKathi]

Thank you so much but I have far too many books, close to 2000. Still keep an eye out for some bookshelf tours in the near future.

[@envoymadness4594]

Brandon Sanderson. That guy could take a dump on the page and fingerpaint it and id buy it right away

[@NerdyKathi]

I felt like that about Robert Jordan.

[@alisonhaggart8584]

Charles de lint. Kim Wilkins. Sara Douglass. Kate Morton. Margaret George

[@NerdyKathi]

There's a few authors you mentioned that I have to try. Thank you!

[@gerridauer9092]

Automatic buys for me are many of the Furrowed Middlebrow authors plus Elizabeth Cadell, Georgette Heyer, Agatha Christie and Patricia Wentworth. For newer authors: Elizabeth George and Martha Grimes. But thanks to library book sales and used bookstores etc., I have almost completed my collection.

[@NerdyKathi]

It's the best feeling completing a collection. I have yet to try Heyer's mysteries. I keep meaning to.

[@gerridauer9092]

@@NerdyKathi I’ve read Envious Casca and have Detection Unlimited to finish. That one reminds me of Christie. But so far, I prefer her Regency romances to the mysteries. Yes, it’s fun completing a series, but I had started to enjoy the hunt so much, I think I will miss it when everything is completed. It’s getting more difficult to find my remaining titles used too. It does give me joy to look at my bookcase and see so many of my Stevenson, Heyer, Miss Read and Cadell. And I love the covers; I keep several face out.

[@NerdyKathi]

I love the hunt as well and when you find a bargain, it's the best feeling. Maybe you'll start collecting someone new in the future. 😊

[@michaelibk418]

Hi Kathi, this was a very interesting video and Topic. Me too King is a non brainer immediate buy. Fred Vargas, french writer, Colin Cotterill Dr Siri Books, Wolf Haas, Austrian Writer, Donna Leon and her Brunetti Books which are all set in Venice which I love to go on occasion, its just a day trip and its so fun to walk through the city with the books in my head:-) I stopped buying Murakami Books just bought the new Audiobook and was so disappointed. Thank you for mentioning Scott Turow never came across that name online or in my bookshop, did the research and there tons of his books available in german translation. Now Im curious and have to decide with wich book I start. Also ordered Richard Osmond which is allowed because I read something I own before I am allowed to buy one new book:-))

[@NerdyKathi]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it Michael. I would love to read more authors from around the world in the fantasy genre but they aren't always easy to find in English translations. Perhaps something I will look into in the future. I got this wonderful visual of you walking in Venice thinking of books. 😊 If you enjoy legal thrillers I think you will love Turow. Start with Presumed Innocent. Personally I like to read in order of publication. Oh my. 😂 I think that's a great attitude to buying books but I would probably have to wait a year or two ... or three.

[@michaelibk418]

@@NerdyKathi Hi Kathi I will start Turow then in order of publication. AND I am reading my first Richard Osmond Book and what can I say I am delighted. The writing is so good, the characters,, the setting its a perfect book for me!

[@NerdyKathi]

I'm so glad you are enjoying Richard Osman. 😊

[@michaelibk418]

Hi Kathi, I finished Osman and i liked the book. For my taste there were to many twists at the end but I will continue:-) Then I started my first Louise Penny book. Wow this book is on an other level than Osman, the writing is so much better. Gamache reminds me of another detective. Jean Baptiste Adamsberg from Fred Vargas. Well I haven't finished the book but i can imagine that Penny read some Adamsberg Stories:-)) If I remember correctly you finished the Gamche Series so if you like to read a similar character I hardly recommend Fred Vargas to you even the books are hard to find in Australia, don't know if Hardcover is available at all but the paperbacks are, so I would be very curios by the end of the year what you think of Vargas, I bet that's a new series for yom sorry for my long comment but I just had to tell you how much I enjoyed two books which you have mentioned so many times on your chanel🙂@@NerdyKathi

[@NerdyKathi]

Osman is very accessible and fun but you are right that Penny is a better writer. I have about 4 Penny books to go as I'm trying to space it out but I will finish them soon. I will have to try Vargas, thank you for the recommendation. I will most likely start with an ebook. Please4 don't apologise for commenting. I love talking books with my subscribers. 😊

[@barbaralin3053]

Thanks for another great review. Timothy Zahn has so many series, would you tell me which is the most interesting to start reading? I am a mystery series lover, and my favorite are Sebastian St Cyr mystery by C. S. Harris and The Cat Who mystery by Jackson Braun. I love their prose and characters. The first series that brought me to the series world is Elena Ferante, but i don't buy her later books.

[@NerdyKathi]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it Barbara. I would recommend starting with Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy, the first book is Heir to the Empire. I'll have to add those authors you mentioned to my list to try. Thank you!

[@Grimm44]

I don't really follow author's as much I usually buy a book if I like the story my recent purchase was the Dragonbone Chair trilogy by Tad Williams

[@NerdyKathi]

I've read half of the trilogy years ago and want to start it again this year.

[@kimsmith8219]

Barbara Kingsolver, Harlan Coben . Alice Walker

[@NerdyKathi]

I've been meaning to try Alice Walker and have several Coben books on my shelves too.

[@astroboy3002]

Clive Barkers got a lot of good books. Stephen King on Writing is interesting because the prose of his life in the first half of the book reads just like as if it were a novel of his.

[@NerdyKathi]

I don't think I've read Barker unless it was many years ago. I bought one recently and will try it. Perhaps I should read King on Writing. Thank you for the suggestion.

[@sherrirabinowitz4618]

I liked your automatic choices but I am not a horror fan. (I respect Stephen King but I have never read any of his books :) ) My favorite two are Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher books and Dan Brown's Robert Langdon series. And I buy books automatically of new to me authors from long ago, like EC Lorac and Josephine Tey. Also a brand new to me author I just discovered is DE Stevenson.

[@NerdyKathi]

Horror is not for everyone, and I have been wanting to try Kerry Greenwood for ages. Thank you for sharing Sherri. ❤

[@sherrirabinowitz4618]

@nerdykathi I love the TV series with Essie Davis and Nathan Page, and I love the books, they are very different from each other. I love the books and eat them up. My trick is I borrow the first book of series from the library to see if I like them. That saves me lots of money. It lets you check it out without costing you anything. For the Phryne Fisher books, I prefer the Australian and UK book covers, I love Essie Davis who is on all the US covers but I prefer the artwork on your covers😊

[@NerdyKathi]

I often borrow a first book, or buy it as I like to support authors before I buy more as you never know whether you'll like it. I'll have to look for the Aus or UK covers as I don't like artwork from shows on book covers.

[@sherrirabinowitz4618]

@athi It depends, for Miss Fisher I bought it because I interviewed Kerry Greenwood and really liked her and wanted to support her. . But other books I borrow because they are new and expensive and I rather know if I am going to like it before I purchase, especially if it is a new author. The first four books in the series that I have of Miss Fisher have Essie Davis on the cover the rest have the gorgeous 1920's style artwork. Beautiful.

[@Matt..S]

My problem with GRRM is now it seems to be less clear as to how much is written by him (or ideas and plots by him) or actually written by Elio Garcia, who runs the forum and, from my personal experience with interactions with him, sees himself a bit too much as the voice of ASOIAF, when he really is just a fan like anyone else and has the same information as anyone else, yet sells his own fanfiction as fact through the approval of GRRM. And while the Fire and Blood book was enjoyable and an interesting, typical GRRM approach of unreliable authors telling his story, it is too detached from the main story and also already covered enough in the snippets from the main series. The Dunk and Egg book was a very nice, although beautifully predictable story to go along the main story and might serve as a great first book to get into the universe without being spoiled for younger readers or in general new readers, or those who just watched the show and are too scared of the thousand page books to see if they like his style.

[@NerdyKathi]

I wasn't aware someone else might be writing some of the next book by GRRM. Nevertheless I'm not feeling inclined to read anything of his right now. Though that could change. Thank you for sharing.

[@Matt..S]

@@NerdyKathi It started with "World of Ice and Fire" that only had his name slapped onto it, despite the actual authors being Elio and his wife. And yeah, the biggest fear is that they "pick up the handwritten notes" of GRRM and turn it into Winds of Winter and Dream of Spring once he is gone. Or Neil Gaiman was in the talks, for whatever reason.