The write stuff: An author’s favorite books and authors

​As a writer or author, one of the first questions people ask you is, "Who are your favorite authors?"

I always struggle to answer this question off the top of my head, because my reading interests are varied and I can never remember the names of the authors on my Kindle.
 
Today, however, I was preparing for the San Francisco Writers Conference, which I’ll be attending in February (so psyched!). In anticipation of many conversations on this topic with writers, authors, agents and publishers—I sat down and thought about my favorite books and authors.
 
Here’s the ol’ round up:
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Humor

Tina Fey
Bossypants
 
Mindy Kaling
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Why Not Me?
 
Amy Schumer
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
 
Raquel D'Apice
Welcome to the Club: 100 Parenting Milestones You Never Saw Coming
 
Kate Siegel
Mother, Can You Not?
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Fiction

Paula Hawkins
The Girl on The Train
 
Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
Flight Behavior
 
Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
 
Ruth Ware
In a Dark, Dark Wood
The Woman in Cabin 10
 
Emma Donoghue
Room
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Nonfiction

Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild
Into Thin Air
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
 
Erik Larson
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America
 
Katherine Boo
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
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Young Adult

John Green
The Fault in our Stars
Looking for Alaska
Paper Towns
An Abundance of Katherines
 
Stephenie Meyer
The Twilight series
 
Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games series
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Classics

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
 
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
 
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
 
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment
 
Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
 
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
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Books on my reading list for 2017

Jon Krakauer
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
 
Paul Kalanithi
When Breath Becomes Air
 
Liane Moriarty
Big Little Lies
 
Paula Hawkins
Into the Water

What about you?

I’m always looking for my next book to fall in love with. Who are your favorite authors? What books have you read without putting down? Share in the blog comments. ​