Top Ten Tuesday is an original blog meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic: Ten Authors I REALLY Want To Meet. I’m going to split this between authors that are still living today and those that aren’t. I tried not to make this list too similar to the list we made a few weeks ago listing our favorite authors, but some need to be on both lists.
Ten Authors I Want to Meet:
1. Jane Austen 2. Mary Shelley 3. Madeleine L’Engle 4. Oscar Wilde 5. C.S. Lewis
6. Maggie Stiefvater 7. Robin LaFevers 8. Juliet Marillier 9. Patrick Ness 10. J.K. Rowling
Do we have any authors in common? Let me know in the comments and be sure to leave a link to your own TTT post!
A Kernel of Nonsense 
Patrick Ness is one of my favourite authors. I’d love to meet him! 🙂
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Yes, let’s stalk him together. Kidding, kidding, mostly kidding.
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Excellent list! I would love to meet Jane Austen and J.K. Rowling as well! Have been meaning to read A Wrinkle in Time for ages! Also I may have met Patrick Ness… 😀 Here’s my TTT 🙂
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So jealous, Patrick Ness seems pretty awesome. Austen and Rowling are essential to a list like this and A Wrinkle in Time is so charming.
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I completely forgot abut dead authors! I mean it is a bit harder to meet them so I guess it is understandable. I would love to meet Mary Shelley and Oscar Wilde! Awesome list!
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It’s just a tad more difficult to meet authors who are no longer alive. It would be so interesting to talk to Shelley and Wilde. Thanks!
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Love your choices! JK, Robin LaFevers and Maggie Stiefvater particularly. They have created such incredible stories, it would be amazing to sit and talk with them.
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Thank you! Such interesting worlds and characters, I’d love to pick their brains for a bit.
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I would SO love to meet Mary Shelley. I would love to know what it was like for a woman author in the 1800’s. Also YES to Maggie Stiefvater and JK Rowling!!!
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Mary Shelley would be amazing to meet. I’d love to hear how she came of with the idea for Frankenstein and how she went about writing it.
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I love that you did half a list of classics authors. I never even thought of that! Great idea and great list!
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Thank you so very much!
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aw we don’t have any authors in common
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Ah, man!
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Oh gosh, I completely overlooked Robin LaFevers! I’d LOVE to meet her! And Jane Austen, oh wow, that would be amazing. I didn’t think to include authors that are deceased, fab idea! Great list, and awesome spin on the topic 😀
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Robin LaFevers is awesome. I have a feeling Jane Austen and I would get along so well. Thank you so much!
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Haha, yes to Maggie Stiefvater! I think I would be rather scared of meeting Jane Austen, though (like, I think I would worry that she was secretly being super critical of me, and um, oh well, I guess it’s good that that will never happen anyway). Also, I love that copy of Frankenstein – what a great cover design.
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I don’t think Jane Austen is super critical, but I do think she has an eye for pointing out the silly and ridiculous things people do. We might have a similar sense of humor…
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Wilde and Rowling made my list as well. Great choices here!
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They’d both be interesting to talk to, I think.
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I’d love to meet C.S. Lewis! I’d want to have a long conversation with him about the end of The Last Battle. I was not satisfied with the conclusion on that one!
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I actually never finished the whole series, but I find authors of children’s fiction to be really interesting. I’d love to sit down and talk to him and others who found value in writing for children.
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Great picks!!! Rowling would be a dream to meet 🙂 And like you I wish I could have met Wilde and Austen 🙂 Here’s my TTT if you would like to check it out 🙂 Have a great day!
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Thanks! I’d be so happy to meet Rowling. And Wilde and Austen are but a dream, but I think we would have so much fun.
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I totally forgot about Mary Shelley! What a great choice and a great list! I’d love to find out about the night Shelley, her husband, Lord Byron, and the doctor supposedly invented the vampire story.
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Thank you so much. I’d love to have been present that night too!
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SO many books I want to read! I want to actually finish P&P, and I’ve heard great things about The Importance of Being Earnest, including the movie I think? I basically want to read every book on the bottom row… any of those worth considering for the special feature??? R x
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I love The Importance of Being Earnest, it’s hilarious, though I do prefer the play over the movie. I might be considering some of these titles for the special project…
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Ohhhh. That could be interested! I was thinking over genres, and I know some people do or don’t do certain ones, so I was going to go literary YA contemporary if you know what I mean, to try and make sure everyone can at least get through it? The hardest part of this is going to be picking the book! R x
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I think we should probably come up with a variety of different books (5-10?) and then see what kind of feedback on the options we get. I should probably email you this instead…oh well.
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I would love to meet Ann M. Martin, Mitch Albom, J.K.Rowling, Veronica Roth, Jennifer Niven, Jodi Picoult, Sarah Dessen, Micol Ostow, Lauren Oliver, and Markus Zusak.
Meredith @ A Book Lover’s Corner
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Rowling is a must and I do think it would be very interesting to meet and speak to Markus Zusak.
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I really need to read Patrick’s series, I have heard amazing things!
Missie @ A Flurry of Ponderings
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Yes, please do. I love his Chaos Walking trilogy!
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Freaking awesome list! Not many of those made my list this week, but I’d still love to meet them all! My TTT Happy Tuesday! 😀
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I’m glad to hear it! Thank you so very much!
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Maggie Steifvater and JK Rowling were both on my list.
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/top-ten-tuesday-4/
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Yay! I saw them both quite a bit this week.
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Fantastic list! I would love to meet all of these people! 🙂
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Thank you so much!
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Jane Austen and Mary Shelley would’ve been on my list! I think meeting the Bronte sisters would have been interesting as well. 🙂
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Yes, Austen and Shelley are amazing! I’ve only read Wuthering Heights, but I think any family with a bunch of writers is really interesting.
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When you get a chance, make sure to read Jane Eyre. It was the first assigned reading I had to read in high school and I loved it! The Bronte sisters sure knew how to write a perfect gothic romance. 🙂
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For some reason, this book slipped my mind when replying to you. I have read Jane Eyre. I read it years ago in school and actually hated it, but I recently bought myself a copy because I want to give it another chance. I think I’ll appreciate it more now that I’m older.
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That happens to me quite a lot. I’ve recently reread classics that I absolutely hated in school but ended up loving when I revisited them. There’s just something about assigned reading that is so unappealing. I think what I hated most was the corresponding questions/discussions that had to be finished along with the completion of a chapter.
Anyway, I hope Jane Eyre is more enjoyable this time around when you reread it!
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It’s unfortunate that it sometimes works out that way. I remember having endless mini quizzes on certain books, it was really unnecessary in my opinion. I’m hoping so too!
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Rowling would have been on mine too, but not in the top 10. Top 15, definitely 🙂 Also, I included some late authors as well. Good to see I’m not the only one 🙂
Cheers from a TTT newbie!
@TarkabarkaHolgy from
Multicolored Diary
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Welcome to all the TTT fun!
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Great list! I really need to read Madeleine L’Engle – I can’t believe I have never read any of her books yet – and I call myself a bookworm lol. 😉
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Thank you. A Wrinkle in Time is a lovely book and one I missed out on as a child. Still, I think I’m more charmed by it now than I would have been when I was younger.
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