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 #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

A new #7authors list. #shortstories

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

#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

#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.