My Favorite Authors

Hey Wishers!

Today I’m talking about some of my favorite authors. From YA contemporary to sci-fi, these are the voices that really stand out and inspire me:

Morgan Matson

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Author of: Second Chance Summer, Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour, Since You’ve Been Gone, The Unexpected Everything.

My Favorite Book: Since You’ve Been Gone and The Unexpected Everything

What Makes Their Writing Stand Out: All her characters are relatable and the scenarios in her books are so much fun.

Have I Met Them? Yes, she was so sweet!

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Marissa Meyer

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Author of: The Lunar Chronicles series: Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter. Her upcoming book, Heartless, comes out November 8th.

My Favorite Book: Cress

What Makes Their Writing Stand Out: The creativity! Her world in the Lunar Chronicles is so creative and interesting, and the way she binds all the fairytales together is amazing.

Have I Met Them? No, unfortunately not. But she is a part of the Fierce Reads Fall Tour, so I’m hoping to meet her then!

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Lauren Oliver

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Author of: Delirium trilogy, Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls, and Rooms

My Favorite Book: Before I Fall and Pandemonium

What Makes Their Writing Stand Out: Before I Fall is such an emotional book that really puts things in a perspective. I loved the romance in Delirium, as well.

Have I Met Them? Yes! Read about it here.

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Danielle Paige

Author of: Dorothy Must Die series, and her upcoming novel Stealing Snow comes out September 20th.

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My Favorite Book: Dorothy Must Die

What Makes Their Writing Stand Out: I have never read a book like Dorothy Must Die before. It’s such a complex, interesting reimagining of The Wizard of Oz.

Have I Met Them? No, but she’s coming near me for Barnes and Noble B-Fest, so I’m definitley going to meet her then!

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Jenny Han

Author of: The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,

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P.S. I Still Love You, and the Burn for Burn trilogy (with Siobhan Vivian).

My Favorite Book: Fire with Fire and P.S. I Still Love You

What Makes Their Writing Stand Out: LARA JEAN AND PETER.

Have I Met Them? Yes! She was at one of Morgan Matson’s book events that I went to recently.

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Rachel Hawkins

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Author of: Rebel Belle series and Hex Hall trilogy.

My Favorite Book: Rebel Belle and Miss Mayhem

What Makes Their Writing Stand Out: Characters! Harper Price is so unique and hilarious, she always has me laughing. David and Asher are so swoon-worthy and I am in love with them.

Have I Met Them? No, I wish!

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Richelle Mead

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Author of: The Vampire Academy series, Bloodlines series, Soundless, The Glittering Court

My Favorite Book: The Vampire Academy and Bloodlines series

What Makes Their Writing Stand Out: Her style of writing has me flying through her books, and I am so in love with all of them. Her characters are perfect, too.

Have I Met Them? No 😦

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Kiera Cass

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Author of: The Selection series and The Siren

My Favorite Book: The One

What Makes Their Writing Stand Out: I love all of her characters so much, especially America and Matson. She also comes up with some really unique names for her characters.

Have I Met Them? Yes!

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Huntley Fitzpatrick

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Author of: My Life Next Door, The Boy Most Likely To, and What I Thought Was True

My Favorite Book: My Life Next Door

What Makes Their Writing Stand Out: Huntley Fitzpatrick deals with relationships in an honest, relatable way that I haven’t seen in other YA books.

Have I Met Them? No

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Who are your favorite authors? Do we have any in common? Let me know in the comments!

xx,

Sophie

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