@RadiantFlux
I find this idea very inspiring, but change it a little. So here are #7authors to know me. It could have been 7 others ... and 7 others again. But it is still true.
https://digitalcourage.social/@MSchneiberg/109625049359585386

#7authors to know me (30 would have been better, but that's the beauty of it ... )

1. David Mitchell
2. Jennifer Egan
3. J. R. R. Tolkien
5. Ursula K. LeGuin
6. Daniel Mason
7. Ian Kershaw

#7authors I enjoy
Isaac Asimov
Terry Pratchet
Douglas Adams
Alastair Maclean
Hammond Innes
Robert Ludlum
Frank Herbert

I can't do #7books without #stress so I'll say #7Authors
and still feel like I'm leaving out some major favorites...
1. Lady Mary Stewart
2. Neil Gaiman
3. Zilpha Keatley Snyder
4. Terry Pratchett
5. Tolkien
6. C S Lewis
7. Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Tolkien and Lewis I outgrew but I would still re-read anything by any of the rest.
#readers gotta read

#7authors because I think #bookstodon needs another hashtag obvs.

1) Douglas Adams: along with #2, nobody else has had a bigger impact on my senses of both humor and self
2) Terry Pratchett: taught me that being kind and being funny aren't mutually exclusive
3) David Eddings: the first fantasy author I read after finding him in my small-town library, started a lifelong love of the genre
4) Neil Gaiman: helped me embrace the weird
5) Robert Jordan: not perfect by any means, but helped me learn that something can be wonderful despite it's flaws
6) N.K. Jemisin: showed me the gaps in my reading habits, that I am still working to fill
7) Becky Chambers: showed me that all epic situations are made up of people just doing their jobs the best they can

#7authors #fiction:
Sylvia Moreno-Garcia
Terry Pratchett
Suzanne Collins
Jane Austen
Susanna Clarke
Tana French
Shirley Jackson

#NonFiction
Mary Roach
John McPhee
Ed Yong
Michael Lewis
Susan Orlean
David Sedaris
Oliver Sacks

#bookstodon @bookstodon

@AnneClara I think #7books should be supplemented with #7authors for that reason!

If we're doing #7authors, here are mine:

Douglas Adams
Joanne Harris
Terry Pratchett
Barbara Kingsolver
Hilary Mantel
Anne Tyler
Elizabeth Strout
Dorothy Sayers
Barbara Pym
Josephine Tey

That's 10. I can sit down and happily read just about anything by any of them.

A new #7authors list. #shortstories

#DuMaurier
#joycecaroloates
#clivebarker
#roalddahl
#ursulaleguin
#philipkdick
#jonathancarroll

A new #7authors list. #shortstories

#DuMaurier
#joycecaroloates
#clivebarker
#roalddahl
#ursulaleguin
#philipkdick
#ShirleyJackson

#7authors I will read upon sight
1. Anna Quindlen
2. Fredrik Backman
3. Kate Atkinson
4. Ray Bradury
5. James Herriot
6. Jesmyn Ward
7. Nick Hornby

plus #7writers I look forward to reading articles/stories by
1. Ijeoma Oluo
2. Clint Smith
3. Ed Yong
4. Cheryl Strayed
5. Poe Ballantine
6. Luvvie Ajaya
7. Ezra Klein

#7authors I will read upon sight
1. Anna Quindlen
2. Fredrik Backman
3. Kate Atkinson
4. Ray Bradury
5. James Herriot
6. Jesmyn Ward
7. Nick Hornby

plus #7writers I look forward to reading articles/stories by
1. Ijeoma Oluo
2. Clint Smith
3. Ed Yong
4. Cheryl Strayed
5. Poe Ballantine
6. Luvvie Ajaya
7. Ezra Klein

#7authors to follow on from #7books:
William Gibson
Neil Gaiman
Jodi Taylor
Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant
Lili Saintcrow in all her guises!
Claire North in all her guises too!
Patrick Rothfuss
Naomi Novik

I could go on forever, but these are the ones who spring to mind right now.

Maybe to expand the field a bit we could do a #7authors to know me. In my case, anyway, that adds multiple writers whose corpus has been really influential but none of whose individual works stands out above the others. (No need to punish consistency!)

Jennifer Haigh
Richard Russo
Jim Harrison
Michael Pollan
Nevada Barr
James Lee Burke
John McPhee

#7books

Maybe to expand the field a bit we could do a #7authors to know me. In my case, anyway, that adds multiple writers whose corpus has been really influential but none of whose individual works stands out above the others. (No need to punish consistency!)

Jennifer Haigh
Richard Russo
Jim Harrison
Michael Pollan
Nevada Barr
James Lee Burke
John McPhee

#7books

@psychopoesie I had a hard time choosing which Sutchliff's but always was drawn to the British/Roman era. Ursula Le Guin, I love all her books.

Maybe it should be #7Authors

#7Authors who didn't make 7 Books list but probably should have.

Michael Connelly
@GreatDismal
@neilhimself
Hiruki Murakami
Tana French
Jesmyn Ward
Don Winslow
Fredrik Backman
Leigh Bardugo
James Lee Burke
Greg Iles
and most recently... Dervla McTiernan

I've never been good at math.

Can I do a side quest? How about #7authors I'm thinking about all the damn time right now (but not necessarily in the same way or for the same reason)?

* Ariella Azoulay
* Edward Said
* Marianne Hirsch
* Susan Sontag
* Walter Benjamin
* Jan Morris
* Frances Ferguson