Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme over at The Broke and the Bookish. Today’s topic is
TOP TEN AUTHORS WHO DESERVE MORE RECOGNITION.
10. Annie Dillard | The Writing Life will blow your mind. The Maytrees is incredible.
9. Luci Shaw | I deeply appreciate Shaw’s ability to write about Christianity without succumbing to over-sentimentality. Her poems are like truth: good, hard-hitting.
8. Patrick Ness | After reading A Monster Calls (and sobbing like a baby) and then his Chaos Walking trilogy, I am convinced Ness is a different breed of YA author. I love his depth.
7. Rainbow Rowell | She is definitely becoming more of a household name after the great success of Eleanor and Park— she deserves it!
6. Peter Beagle | I cannot say just how much I love The Last Unicorn, but I try to.
5. Erin Morgenstern | Morgenstern only has one book out so far– The Night Circus— but the book is so utterly masterful that I want the world to know about her!
4. Leif Enger | Peace Like a River is sheer brilliance.
3. Yann Martel | With the new Life of Pi movie out, Martel is becoming more well-known. But I am actually more intrigued by his other work: his novel Beatrice and Virgil and his short story “The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios.”
2. Jandy Nelson | Again, Nelson only has one book out so far– The Sky is Everywhere— but it’s gorgeous and has landed her on my auto-buy list.
1. Melina Marchetta | I have an evangelical zeal for spreading the name of this Aussie author. She is my favorite, and I won’t be satisfied until she has ALLTHERECOGNITION. There are a lot of reasons you NEED to read Marchetta’s work.
Your turn! Which authors do you think deserve more recognition?
JACKIE LEA SOMMERS 
LOVE us some Patrick Ness.
TODD HEWITT.
Hahaha! YES! I listened to the audio books, so I can toooootally hear Aaron’s voice booming that TOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDD HEWWWWWWIIIIIIIIIITTTTTT!
Hahaha I’m glad we agree on Marchetta. I am 100% behind this movement 😉
Thanks for stopping by!
Nicole @ The Quiet Concert
I just bought The Night Circus – now I’m even more excited to read it!
If I could promote just ONE author, it would be Kathleen Norris. A poet who turned back to her Christian roots in middle age, lived with Benedictine monks and is a Presbyterian. Love, love, love her.
I hope you love it, Anna!
One of my friends also loves Kathleen Norris … I really need to check her out!!
I recognize Erin Morgenstern and sort of Peter Beagle (I recognized the Last Unicorn). The others are all new to me 😉
Here was my Top Ten.
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