Top Ten Tuesday! Thankful for Authors!

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted at The Broke and the Bookish featuring her love of all things, lists!

Since I’m also a fan of lists, especially top tens I thought I’d play along!

If you like lists you should play too!

Today’s topic:

November 20: Top Ten Books/Authors I’m Thankful For

1. Jean M. Auel: It’s no secret that I loved her a long time ago and she got me through some very dark years! I’m still so glad that she was an author that I found at such a young age. Ayla has been my favorite heroine since I was twelve and that will probably never change.
2. Terry Pratchett: THE author of authors. This guy can put a smile on my face on even the dreariest of days!
3. Stephen King: Maybe everyone out there loves him but I really have spent hours upon hours reading his stuff. It’s just damn good!
4. Anne Rice: She re-immortalized vampires. Her writing can be a bit wordy but she made vampires sexy. She also introduced me to my first erotica!
5. Clive Barker: Before I read Stephen King, there was Clive Barker. A man who introduced me to blood, and lots of it! I still love gore in books!
6. Nora Roberts: The first author I read for romance. I never knew I would enjoy it as much as I do!
7. Sherrilyn Kenyon: I mean Paranormal AND romance!!!? Does it get any better? I think not!
8. Lillian Jackson Brawn: The Cat Who books are books I haven’t picked up in a while! And it’s a really sad thing too because these are amazing!
9. Carolyn Keene: Before Lillian Jackson Brawn, there was Nancy Drew! The best mysteries ever written. I had NEARLY every book. I spent years collecting them and I loved every one. I may have to go back and reread this series and see if it still does what it used to for me. 😀
10. And last but certainly not least, all of the fabulous authors that have allowed me to review their books and even better when I can do an author interview with them. Yes this is cheating but it’s my blog and I’ll do what I want to! 😉

What top 10 authors are you thankful for?

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November 20: Top Ten Books/Authors I’m Thankful For
November 27: Top Ten Most Anticipated Books For 2013
December 4: Top Ten Books I Wouldn’t Mind Santa Bringing Me
December 11: Top Ten Favorite New-To-Me Authors I Read In 2012
December 18: Top Ten Books I Read In 2012
December 25: Top Ten Tuesday Freebie (so that those too busy celebrating won’t miss a topic)
January 1, 2013: Top Ten Books I Resolve To Read In 2013
January 8: Top Ten Bookish Goals For 2013
January 15: Top Ten 2013 Debuts I’m Looking Forward To
January 22: Top Ten Settings I’d Like To See More Of (Or At All) — (maybe you want read more books set in space or books set in Alaska or the beach)
January 29: Top Ten Most Frustrating Characters Ever
February 5: Top Ten Best Bookish Memories (waiting in line for a new release, meeting an author, or some sort of great experience with a particular book that was unlike others)
February 12: Top Ten Favorite Romances
February 19: Top Ten Favorite Characters In X Genre
February 26:  Top Ten Authors That I’d Put On My Auto-Buy List (basically an auto-buy list is no questions asked..you love this author so much that no matter what they wrote next you’d buy regardless of genre or subject matter)
March 5: Top Ten Series I’d Like To Start But Haven’t Yet
March 12: Top Ten Books On My Spring 2013 TBR list!
March 19: Top Ten Books I HAD To Buy…But Are Still Sitting On My Shelf Unread
March 26: Top Ten  Books I Recommend The Most
April 2:  Top Ten Characters I Would Crush On If I Were Also A Fictional Character (I know how y’all love your book boyfriends 😛 )
April 9: Top Ten Favorite Books I Read Before I Was A Blogger
April 16: Top Ten Tuesday REWIND — pick a past topic you missed or one you want to revisit!
April 23: Top Ten Books I Thought I’d Like MORE/LESS Than I Did
April 30: Top Ten Words/Topics That Instantly Make Me Buy/Pick Up A Book (thanks to Karin at My Life In Books for this topic & graciously letting us use it)