I operate a kind of Premiership and Championship system with promotion and relegation.
Writers in the top tier are the ones whose every new book essentially becomes a compulsory acquisition for me.
Lower down there are those whose latest publication represents an 'event', if not an immediate incentive to pile on. (Usually more on pile though.)
This is not a guide to my favourite authors, many of whom are no longer with us, and Mario Vargas Lllosa no longer features as, although alive, he has gone into receivership, to follow the metaphor.
Premiership...
Lawrence Osborne (GB)
Kazuo Ishiguro (GB)
Haruki Murakami (Japan)
Yoko Ogawa (Japan)
Tim Winton (Australia)
Samantha Schweblin (Argentina)
Mariana Enríquez (Argentina)
Andrés Neuman (Argentina)
Jorge Franco (Colombia)
Katie Kitamura (US)
Emily St John Mandel (US)
Francisco Goldman (US)
Michel Houellebecq (France)
Rodrigo Rey Rosas (Guatemala)
Championship...
Ian McGuire (GB)
David Szalay (GB)
Geoff Dyer (GB)
David Mitchell (GB)
Julian Barnes (GB)
Gregory Norminton (GB)
James Meek (GB)
Ian McEwan (GB)
Carlos Fuguet (Chile)
Nona Fernández (Chile)
Lina Meruane (Chile)
Dave Eggers (US)
Ben Lerner (US)
Junot Díaz (US)
Margaret Atwood (Canada)
Arturo Arias (Guatemala)
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