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This week's Top Ten Tuesday asks readers to share 10 authors who they wish would write more books. Here are mine, in no particular order:

1. Jane Austen. Surprise, surprise. She's my favorite author of all time, yet she only completed six novels in her lifetime. Dear Jane, couldn't you have lived about 40 more years and written a ton more books? Or at least finished The Watsons?

2. Robin McKinley. Another of my all-time favorite authors, she hasn't come out with any new books in a few years. I still have Pegasus sitting on my shelves, unread, because apparently it's part one of a two-part story -- but part two won't be published until 2014, alas!

3. Jasper Fforde. I would really love another installment of Thursday Next, please!

4. Georgette Heyer. Sadly, I have read all her magnificent Regency romances...and no one else is as good as her!

5. Juliet Marillier. This one's a bit unfair, as I know she came out with another Sevenwaters book not long ago. But I'd really like to see a book to follow Wildwood Dancing and Cybele's Secret, or at least another standalone from her.

6. Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.  Just because I loved The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society so much!

7. Eva Ibbotson. I absolutely love her YA romances, but, sadly, I believe she has passed away.

8. Kate Ross. I still have two of her Julian Kestrel mysteries left to read, but I'm already putting them off for as long as possible, because after that I won't have any left!

9. Rachel Aaron. Yes, her final two books in the Legend of Eli Monpress series are coming out this year (thank goodness!), but I sure hope she's planning a new series as well, because she's pretty fantastic.

10. Stephanie Perkins. Okay, this one is really unfair, because Isla and the Happily Ever After is coming out sometime this fall. But I want it NOW!

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[info]booksrevisited wrote:
Jan. 11th, 2012 09:21 am (UTC)
They never said they have to be fair! Most of mine picks aren't.
[info]christina_reads wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2012 03:30 am (UTC)
Haha, true! All's fair in book world, says I.
[info]shogunsquirrel wrote:
Jan. 11th, 2012 01:53 pm (UTC)
A day late
[info]christina_reads wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2012 03:33 am (UTC)
Re: A day late
Ooh, nice list! Your comment about the Adams/Pratchett/Gaiman field trip made me laugh. I totally agree re Robin McKinley, obviously, and I'd certainly love to read a sequel to Sunshine!

Also, I quite enjoyed Marissa Doyle's Bewitching Season and Betraying Season. Along similar lines, have you ever read Sorcery and Cecelia by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer? It's also a fun YA fantasy romp set in the Regency era.
[info]aurillia wrote:
Jan. 11th, 2012 10:14 pm (UTC)
Even worse: I heard that Perkins' next book has been pushed back to 2013!

So true about Heyer. I nearly put her on my list but thought, hey she's written like a hundred books, surely I should give her a break!! ;)

I haven't heard of #8 and #9, but I love your choices!
[info]christina_reads wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2012 03:34 am (UTC)
2013? Stephanie Perkins' publisher, are you trying to kill me?!

Haha, good point about Heyer; she's certainly earned a rest. :)
[info]birdgirl_1107 wrote:
Jan. 13th, 2012 03:17 pm (UTC)
YES, YES, YES!!! More Jane and Georgette, please! No one else quite measures up.
[info]christina_reads wrote:
Jan. 14th, 2012 01:25 am (UTC)
Alas, so true!
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