The Top 32 Authors to Follow on Google+

Google+ isn't filled with just Google workers and tech-obsessed nerds. Many creative people are part of the community, and they're using Google+ to connect with their fans. Authors, especially, love talking to people about their work. We've rounded up the best published authors for you to follow on Google+. We've listed their best known works so that you can get an idea of the topics they write about.

Non-fiction

• +danah boyd - author of Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
• +Alexis Madrigal - author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology
• +Dan Gillmor - author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People
• +Steven Levy - author of Hackers
• +Farhad Manjoo - author of True Enough: Learning to Live in Post-Fact Society
• +David Dobbs - author of Reef Madness 
• +Diana Eng - author of Fashion Geek: Clothes Accessories Tech
• +Andrew Shaffer - author of Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love
• +Gina Trapani - author of Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better
• +Hanne Blank - author of Virgin: The Untouched History
• +Lisa Morton - author of The Halloween Encyclopedia

Food

• +Cheryl Tan - author ofA Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
• +Jeff Potter - author of Cooking for Geeks
• +Jennifer 8. Lee - author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles

Fiction

• +Warren Ellis - author of Crooked Little Vein
• +John Scalzi - author of Old Man's War
• +Cherie Priest - author of Dreadnought
• +Elizabeth Bear - author of Blood and Iron: A Novel of the Promethean Age
• +Tobias S. Buckell - author of Crystal Rain
• +Mark Frauenfelder - author of The Happy Mutant Handbook
• +V.V. Ganeshananthan - author of Love Marriage: A Novel
• +Jeff Mariotte - author of CSI: The Burning Season
• +Greg van Eekhout - author of The Boy at the End of the World
• +Paolo Bacigalupi - author of The Windup Girl
• +William Meikle - author of The Creeping Kelp
• +Jeremy Shipp - author of Fungus of the Heart
• +Todd Rose - author of The 7 Habits of Highly Infective People
• +David Dunwoody - author of Dark Entitities
• +J.P. Moore - author of Toothless 
• +Christopher Hebert - author of The Boiling Season
• +David Wilbanks - author of Dead Earth
• +Jay Lake - author of Pinion

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Edited to add:

• +Patrick Rothfuss - author of The Wise Man's Fear