Elizabeth at An Adventure in Reading recently posted an A-Z list of favorite and newly favorite authors on her blog. I thought it sounded like fun, so I am copying her idea for today's Sunday Salon.

Who are my favorite or newly favorite authors? Or, as I think of it, what authors am I always excited to read, or am excited to read more books from in the near future?

A - Margaret Atwood and Poppy Adams (who had a strong debut with The Sister)
B - Stefan Merrill Block (brilliant debut with The Story of Forgetting) and Geraldine Brooks
C - Michael Chabon and David Czuchlewski (check out The Muse Asylum if you like psychological thrillers)
D - Tim Dorsey (recommend to all Floridians)
E - Leif Enger (I have not read his books, but I have Peace Like A River on my bookshelf that I can't wait to get to)
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G - Steven Galloway (read The Cellist of Sarajevo and you'll thank me for it later!), John Green (check out his YouTube videos too) and Sara Gruen
H - Khaled Hosseini and Travis Holland (The Archivist's Story was a phenomenal, edge-of-your-seat book)
I - Kazuo Ishiguro (a new-to-me writer; his Remains of the Day is on my TBR list this year)
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K- Barbara Kingsolver
L - Lorna Landvik (she writes fun chick lit with some substance)
M - Margaret Mitchell, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Kate Morton (her The House at Riverton is gothic fiction at its best!) and Valerie Martin (looking forward to Property)
N - Irene Nemirovsky
O - Julie Otsuka (When The Empire Was Divine was absolutely divine)
P - Jodi Picoult
Q - Anna Quindlen
R - Anne Rice and Mary Doria Russell
S - Diane Setterfield, Shel Silverstein, Lee Smith, Nicholas Sparks and Matthew Sharpe (reading his Jamestown and snickering my way through it)
T - Anne Tyler
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Z- Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Markus Zusak (highly, highly, highly recommend The Book Thief and I Am The Messenger)

I have some letters missing - any suggestions?