Seen elsewhere: name 10 authors of whose books you've read more than 5:
Elizabeth Moon >5
Margaret Atwood =5
Stephen King >5
Dean Koontz >5
Jennifer Roberson >5
Anne Rice >5
CS Lewis >5
Octavia Butler =5
Susan Cooper =5
JRR Tolkien >5
Bonus:
PC Hodgell =5
CS Lewis > 5
@scalzi > 5
CJ Cherryl > 5
Seanan McGuire > 5
@aliettedb > 5
Jane Austin = 5
Wm Shakespeare > 5 (if plays == books)
@pluralistic > 5
@lilithsaintcrow = 5
@naomikritzer > 5? (she's on my must-read list, but I fuzz between shorts/novelettes/novels)
@cstross = 5 (maybe more; Charlie's horror tips me into gibbering insanity on the regular so I can't accurately remember)
@marthawells > 5
@ursulav >5
Andre Norton > 5
NK Jemison > 5
Joan Vinge > 5
Vernor Vinge = 5
@maryrobinette > 5
@charliejane = 5
John D MacDonald > 5
Ross Macdonald > 5
Sarah Gailey = 5
Malka Older = 5
@Catvalente =5
Fritz Leiber > 5
Michael Moorcock > 5
Zoe Stone > 5
.... and on and on and on. The blessing of being An Old is that I've read a lot of books, and the advent of recreational computing means I can pile them up on a tablet to reread (I'm currently grinding through most of CJ Cherryl's A/U books)
The curse of being An Old is that there are other writers who I don't recall (and other writers that I refuse to admit I've ever read)
Melissa Scott
Sheri S. Tepper
Emma Newman
N. K. Jemisin
Seanan McGuire
Rachel Aaron
Nnedi Okorafor
Martha Wells
Becky Chambers
TJ Klune
(I focused on more recent authors)
my first list from the last time I did this meme
K.B. Wagers
Megan E. O'Keefe
Genevieve Cogman
Richard Kadrey
Deanna Raybourn
Cherie Priest
Matt Wallace
Martha Wells
Seanan McGuire
V.E. Schwab
@courtcan and the next 10 I did
Kevin Hearne
Grady Hendrix
Melissa McShane
Alexis Hall
Jodi Taylor
Marko Kloos
Chris Holm
T. Kingfisher
Max Gladstone
Sarah Painter
@courtcan
My collection speaks to various phases of my life, a rather eclectic list, & not one that speaks to my more recent interests.
Shakespeare
David Eddings
C. S. Lewis
Anne McCaffery
L. M. Montgomery
Augustine
Susan Cooper
Lloyd Alexander
Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Patricia C. Wrede
In some ways, it's more interesting to me to see who most influenced me in fewer books, e.g. Tolkien (I never did make it through the Silmarillion) or LeGuin (The Dispossessed & The Left Hand of Darkness, phew!)
In no particular order...
JRR Tolkien
Terry Pratchett
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Charles Dickens
Christopher Moore
Neil Gaiman
Robert Ludlum
Robertson Davies
Stanislaw Lem
Ian Fleming
Bonus: Douglas Adams
@tellington Rowling is on my mental list as well. I don't think it's unfortunate. We all read them because we didn't know who she really was.
My 11yo is currently working her way through the series (I'm buying only used copies), and I plan to use them to illustrate to her how all of our favorites are problematic and that she has to make a choice whether or not to separate the artist from the art. There's more, but that's the gist of my at-home 5th grade lit crit. 😊
Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich
Michael Robotham
Andrzej Sapkowski
N. K. Jemisin
Terry Pratchett
Bernard Cornwell
Deon Meyer
Tanja Kinkel
Micheal J Sullivan
Bernhard Hennen
....
L.M. Montgomery
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Ernest Hemingway
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Alice Munro
Maud Hart Lovelace
Gene Stratton Porter
John Steinbeck
Roald Dahl
Willa Cather
@courtcan
Diana Wynne Jones
Astrid Lindgren
Isabelle Allende
A.S. Byatt
Tonke Dragt
Val Dermid
Louise Penny
Elizabeth George
Doris Lessing
Jane Austen
@courtcan I'm not even sure there are as many as 5 authors from whom I've read more than 5 books each (and in every case it's because they wrote a series of 5+ books that I liked). I bet this is a question that only a small minority of readers will be able to answer.
@courtcan Makes sense. I feel like that's a lot even when most of them come from series though.
FWIW even as someone who reads mostly within a few specific genres, it's quite rare that I read more than one book by a single author.
Couldn't help doing a full inventory wandering around the house
Agatha Christie (all mysteries)
Robert Heinlein, too many to count
PD Wodehouse
Thornton Wilder
Beacon Press ReVisioning history (different authors, great series)
Will and Ariel Durant
CS Lewis
JRR Tolkien
Octavia Butler
Jane Austin
Nathaniel Hawthorne
George Elliot
Shakespeare
Lloyd Alexander
Royal Diaries (different authors, great series)
Dr. Seuss
Frank L. Baum
Charles Schultz
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/RVH/revisioning-history/
@courtcan Fun! But I don't think I have ten in my adult reading history; I tend to author-hop quite a bit. Let's see:
Neil Gaiman+
Neal Stephenson+
Andre Norton+
Ursula K. LeGuin+
Ray Bradbury+
Edit: Robert Jordan+
Patricia McKillip=
Katherine Kurtz=
I think that's it, for authors with 5+ full novels I've read in adulthood. I could finish the list with series I read as a child, and/or collections of short stories from authors like H.P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, C.L. Moore and Robert E. Howard!
Thank you @courtcan, I like reading these lists. My five or more books/or stories read by #author list. This isn't all of them; I haven't got to the attic bookcase, yet. A pattern emerged. Can you see it?
Lissanne Norman
Patricia Briggs
Clare Bell
CJ Cherryh
Andre Norton
Lois McMaster Bujold
Joan D Vinge
Connie Willis
Anne McCaffrey
Tamora Pierce
Nancy Kress
Nicola Griffith
Barb Hendee
Julie Kenner
Diana Rowland
Agatha Christie
Phyllis A Whitney
Danielle Steele
I hope everyone takes this #challenge to write up their list, too.
#sf #ScienceFiction #fanstasy #mystery #genderfiction #romance #writer #writingcommunity #writersofmastodon #books #10authors5bookseach #bookstodon
@courtcan
I've only been tracking my books for the last decade or so (since I've gotten too old to remember what I've already read 😆 ). These are my top 10 authors by number of books read:
Charles Stross - @cstross
C.J. Cherryh
John Scalzi - @scalzi
Lois McMaster Bujold
Jim Butcher
Alastair Reynolds
Richard Kadrey
Barry Hutchison
Stephen King
Adrian Tchaikovsky
10 authors that I've read (at least) 5 books by:
NK Jemisin
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
James SA Corey
Martha Wells @marthawells
Isaac Asimov
Barbara Kingsolver
MR Carey
Phillip Pullman
Kim Stanley Robinson
Ann McCaffrey
(I will soon add Richard Wagamese and Richard Powers to the 5 book club)
@courtcan
Michael Moorcock
Roger Zelazny
Larry Niven
JRR Tolkien
Piers Anthony
Terry Pratchett
Cory Doctorow
Charles Stross
Ursula K Le Guin
CS Lewis
Morgan Rice
Ben Aaronvitch
Edgar Rice Burroughs
China Mieville
Isaac Asimov
Katherine Kurtz
Jo Nesbo
and probably a number I forgot
@courtcan Difficult to select only #10Authors5BooksEach but I will add some wonderful #Canadian and #Indigenous authors along with a couple long-time favourites.
-Richard Wagamese
-Thomas King
-Louise Erdrich
-Guy Vanderhaeghe
-Wayne Johnston
-Linden MacIntrye
-Louise Penny
-Michael Crummey
-Michael Ondaatje
-Barbara Kingsolver
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