Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! This week, we’re talking about authors we’d like a new book from! I’ve broken my list into two, so it’ll be five authors I want another book from that are still alive, and then five that I wish had written another book before they passed.
Donna Tartt: She’s written a book about every ten years and The Goldfinch came out in 2013 so I am ready for the next one!
Jeffrey Eugenides: He hasn’t written a novel since The Marriage Plot all the way back in 2011! I know he teaches full time but I want another book-book from him (I’m not a big short stories person).
Margaret Atwood: She’s actually been putting out books fairly regularly, but I’m really wishing for at least one more original novel (I haven’t read her Handmaid’s sequel The Testaments yet, but I want something not based on an existing book!)
Jhumpa Lahiri: She actually does have a pretty recent book (Whereabouts, which was released in 2021), but that only brought her total number of novels to three and I want moooooore.
Neil Gaiman: He hasn’t written an individually-penned novel since 2013’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane!
Leo Tolstoy: I loved his long epics and their beautifully realized characters so much.
Jane Austen: Only six books was far too few.
Oliver Sacks: One of my all-time absolute favorites. I still have some of his work left to read but I am gutted there won’t be any more.
Joan Didion: I actually still have quite a lot of Joan back catalog to get through but the idea that I will eventually reach the end makes me very sad.
Sylvia Plath: I am not a poetry girlie so for me it’s just the brilliance of The Bell Jar that makes me long for something more.
Great selection of authors we need more from! I had considered Gaiman but was sure he’d written something recently… obviously I was wrong!
He’s coauthored some things and done the Norse Mythology book (which I really enjoyed but isn’t really original work), but no solo novels!