Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Top Ten Tuesdays: Popular Authors I've Never Read

Hello again! I wasn't sure at first if I'd do this week's Top Ten Tuesday, since there are a lot of popular authors I've never read. Then I decided that I might as well- after all, I should have no problem coming up with people to put on the list . . . except that I'm not entirely sure who's popular and who's not. In the end, I took a few guesses, but I think that most of these authors either are or were popular.
  1. J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter is one of the few series that my parents have ever specifically said I'm not allowed to read. I'm ok with that.
  2. Rick Riordian. The whole descendants-of-gods thing kind of turned me off. It's one thing when it's the actual mythology; it's another when it's set in modern day.
  3. Ally Carter. I've said a few times that I'm going to try one of her books. It obviously hasn't happened yet.
  4. John Green. No, I haven't even read The Fault in Our Stars. I don't plan on changing that. There are other books that interest me much more.
  5. William Shakespeare. I've read several adaptations of his work, but never the actual plays. I will have by the end of this school year, though. Romeo and Juliet I'll be reading for literature, and I still want to read Hamlet at some point too.
  6. Brandon Sanderson. I think he's popular? I know several people who really like his books. I haven't heard much about them, but I'm pretty sure they're fantasy and I'm considering looking into them over the summer. (Or whenever I run out of new books to read. Whichever happens first.)
  7. Erin Hunter. Are the Warriors books even still popular? Anyone know? I used to know several people who were into them. I even joined a roleplay or two based on the books. (I'm weird that way. I joined a Hunger Games based RP before I read THG.) But I never actually read them.
  8. Cassandra Clare. Her books sound interesting, but also very much  . . . not sure what the word is, but I don't want to get into it.
  9. Stephanie Morrill. I'm a big fan of the Go Teen Writers blog, which she writers for. I have e-copies of two of her books. I think that her Ellie Sweet series sounds pretty cool, what with the main character being a writer and all. But I have yet to actually read any of her work.
  10. Stephen R. Lawhead. I thought about reading one of his series, I think the King Arthur ones, at one point. But I couldn't find them at the library, and I think I heard something about mature content, so I decided not to.
There's my list. Please don't kill me over any of them. Thanks for reading!
-Sarah (Leilani Sunblade)