Authors who never miss for you

Joseph Conrad
Ernest Hemingway
Slyvia Plath
T.S. Eliot
R. Scott Bakker
Robin Hobb

There are others but I can't think right now.
 
xvart said:
John Sandford. I love his Prey novels, and there has only been one that I would prefer never to read again.

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I was in the bookstore yesterday, and somehow I missed that the newest Prey novel had been released! Phantom Prey has been bumped to the "on-deck" position of my book pile, once I finish Storm of Swords again.

xvart.
 
Terry Prachett
Neil Gaiman
Brian Jacques(Though High Rulhain I found a tad disappointing)

If we are including late Authors
HP Lovecraft
PG Wodehouse
 
Hmmm, there are a few I can think of.

Ray Bradbury
Arthur C. Clarke (except for the ones he co-wrote with others)
John Crowley
Stephen R. Donaldson
Robin Hobb (so far, as I haven't read everything by her yet)
Patricia McKillip
Robert J. Sawyer
 
Having now started Quicksilver I'm going to add Neal Stephenson to my list.
 
My list:

E. Hemingway
Steven Erikson
N. Gaiman
Brad Thor
Tom Clancy
Vince Flynn
Brent Weeks
Conn Igguldon
Christopher Moore
Mark Frost
Edgar Allen Poe


Recent newcomers:
Brent Weeks
Brian Ruckley
Patric Rothfuss
Peter V Brett
 
My list overlaps some others.

Genre Authors:
Arthur C. Clarke (even those he's co-written with others)
Ray Bradbury
Robin McKinley
Patricia A. McKillip
Patricia C. Wrede
Pamela Dean
Guy Gavriel Kay
Sheri S. Tepper
Tom Holt
Neil Gaiman

Non-Genre Authors:
John Donne
Euripides
Pindar
Alexander Pope
Alexandre Dumas

Relatively New Authors that I Like So Far (but their bibliography isn't very large):
Scott Lynch
Joe Abercrombie
Alan Campbell
Sarah Micklem
 
Oscar Wilde
George Orwell
Guy Gavriel Kay

They've never missed for me.
 
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Conn Iggulden
David Gemmell
Brent Weeks
Neal Asher
Dean Koontz (older stuff, still getting into his new ones)
Stephen King (same as with Koontz)
 
long [and incomplete list]:

Terry Pratchett
Joseph Conrad
Ernest Hemingway
Marguerite Duras
Guy Gavriel Kay
Nevil Shute
Dick Francis
George R R Martin
Lois McMaster Bujold
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Michael Ondaatje
Iain M Banks
Raymond Chandler
William Boyd
Isabel Allende
Gabriel Garcia Marques

I will probably add Peter S Beagle, after I read more of his work
 
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Ha ha Xvarts here! :D
My boss reads those Prey novels all the time.

William Burroughs & Philip K Dick (except that one co-authored with Zelaney-yeesh!)
 
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Authors who never miss? Never, ever?

I could list my top twenty all time favourites here, apart from the fact that when I really, really think about it, there is always that one book that I felt could have been better, or the one I wish I'd never picked up.

So, having scanned my shelves, I can really only come up with Clarke and Asimov as being faultless (based on what I have, which is not quite everything).

ND
 
Stephen King
Dan Simmons
Peter Straub
Robert Jordan
Brian Keene
Ray Bradbury
H.P. Lovecraft
 
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Cool concept. I personally have to rule out authors with insufficient sample size (e.g. Rothfuss with only two works).

J.R.R. Tolkien
Tad Williams
Stephen R. Donaldson
Elizabeth Moon
Carol Berg [newly minted - currently enjoying a feverish Berg-mania]
Joe Abercrombie
R. Scott Bakker
 
Hmm. I will throw my hat into the ring:

Brandon Sanderson (original works)
Tim Marquitz
Paul Kearney
Joe Abercrombie
Chris Wooding
 
Never miss is a big call, but there are a few for me:

Clive Barker
Jeff Vandermeer
China Mieville
Daniel Silva
James Clavell
Jeffrey Ford
Alastair Reynolds (still a few more of his to read)...

+ I've only read two of his books (with plans for more) - Chris Wooding.
 
Not really never miss but authors I would read as soon as they publish something new:

Zelazny (first and foremost)
Saberhagen fantasy
Robert Parker (mystery)
Hemingway
(the above all RIP so there will be no more)

Dave Duncan (I like most of his stuff)
Ruth Rendell (as soon as a new Wexford book comes out I read it but do not read any of her standalone)
PC Hodgell (not hard to keep up with her output)
Bujold (mostly)


There are probably a couple others I am not thinking of.
There are many books I like a lot but do not automatically read everything the author writes (E.G. GRR Martin).
 
Not many for me, but I would go with Graham Masterton and Robert McCammon.
Carl Alves
 
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