George R.R. Martin

Bernard Cornwell (oddly enough I'm not much into his Sharpe books but I'll buy anything else he writes and he does write a lot)

Robert Harris (easy enough since he writes a new novel only every three years or so)

John Keegan

Wow until I got to the second page I couldn't believe no one mentioned George R.R. Martin, Maybe because his books come out only about what feels like once a decade my other must buys are

Neil Gaiman
Eric Garcia
Elmore Lenord
Stephen J Canell (Produced the A-Team and Greatest American Hero) his books are quick fun reads

Wow, at first I thought this must have been my post. Both Palahniuk and Bantock came through town on tour last year. If only they'd have gotten Coupland on his "Hey Nostradamus!" tour to complete the trifecta...

Michael Connelly
Ridley Pearson
Jan Burke
Gar Anthony Haywood (aka Ray Shannon)
Nick Hornby
David Corbett
George P. Pelecanos
JM Coetzee


I would buy a grocery list written by any of these folks.

Neil Gaiman
Connie Willis
Walter John Williams
Nick Hornby almost, but I haven't read that soccer book.
Elmore Leonard
Orson Scott Card (only his SF, though, not the religious ones)
Stephen King
Clive Barker
Peter Straub
Tom Clancy (but lately I wait for the paperback).

Chuck Palahnuik
Neil Gaiman

Bill Bryson
Dorothy Gilman (especially her Mrs. Pollifax novels)
Elizabeth Peters (EXCEPT for her Amelia Peobody novels, I just can't get into them)
Max Lucado
Aaron Elkins
Jill Churchill
Valerie Wolzien
Tony Horwitz

Huh, that's not as many as I would've expected... too many authors out there are one-hit-wonders, or I like the one topic but not the others they write, or... :)

Michael Crichton is actually my only one. And gotta go hardcover for books.

Chuck Palahniuk

Lee Child
Stephen Hunter
Robert McCammon
Wilbur Smith
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (also solo works)
Stephen King lately with Dark Tower series

My only auto-buys are the Harry Potter series and Chuck Palahnuik books

Nick Hornby
Neil Labute
David Mamet
Steve Martin

Pat Conroy. Maybe Michael Chabon... no, just Pat Conroy.

Stephen King
Michael Crichton

Stuart Woods
John Grisham
Dan Brown (At least for now)
J.K. Rowling

Phillip Roth is the only one I can think of off-hand that I will auto-buy.

Michael Connelly
John Sandford
Chuck Palahnuik
Steven Ambrose