I've seen several social media posts lately where readers share their auto-buy authors. These are authors whose books a reader would automatically buy just because they were written by the authors. 

I went through all of the books I rated on Goodreads to come up with my auto-buy authors. I was surprised that there are only three:

Brandon Sanderson - For anyone who has been following me, this is a no-brainer. Not only will I buy any book he publishes, I will fund any crowdsourcing campaign he start...