or this week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by the Broke and Bookish, we have Top Ten Authors I Wish Would Write Another Book.
1. Donna Tartt – She comes out with a book every 10 years (sample size: 2) so you know, ANY DAY NOW.
2. Kelly Braffet – I KNOW she’s working on something, but I don’t know what stage it’s in
3. Martha O’Connor – last I heard she was working on a book about Tinkerbell (a character I actually happen to hate). Though I wasn’t particularly interested, I’m now a bit worried that she hasn’t come out with another book. Yeah, I know it happens but…
4. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar – seriously I wish these two ladies would get together and co-write another Madwoman in the Attic type book but for 20th century women writers. Their analyses are utterly fascinating.
5. Erin Morgenstern – yeah I know, she just came out with The Night Circus. MOAR PLS.
6. Eleanor Catton – I kind of vaguely remember her talking about what she was working on…and it didn’t sound like something I’d like but *crosses fingers anyway*
7. Curtis Sittenfeld – I think what I really want is for her to write another book that I’m actually interested in reading, which hasn’t really happened since Prep.
8. Penelope Lively – it’s been a couple of years since Family Album. Even though I could just make my way through her backlist, it’d be nice if she came out with something new.
9. J.D. Salinger – This one’s a bit complicated. If he were still alive, I’d totally be rooting for him to write another book BUT now that he’s dead, I’m all like NO ONE BETTER UNEARTH A MANUSCRIPT HE’D HATE THAT. So yeah.
10. Emily Bronte – OK so she’s also dead… but you know, it’s a shame she only wrote Wuthering Heights. Or maybe it isn’t such a shame.
Everyone keeps picking the choices I should’ve chosen! Great ones.
‘American Wife’ by Curtis Sittenfeld is actually a really good book, so maybe give that one a try…
Yeah……I’m not really interested (though I did hear her read from it while I was working at B&N. She was delightful)
Nice list. I would like another Sittenfeld. I’m going to read Donna Tartt this year, and then I might just want more.
Ha ha – I have only ever hear of #9 and #10. How unread am I? ;)
well, I do have a tendency to like little known authors! but I swear I’m not a hipster lol.
I do think you’d like Gilbert & Gubar’s Madwoman in the Attic though! Wonderful analyses of 19th century women authors — Jane Austen, the Brontes, Emily Dickinson, etc.