Ten books or more

[mrissa]

Via rilina and ellarien, the meme with "ten or more books read by this author":

I'm only listing the ones I can definitely verify on my book list, which is extremely patchy before '02 or so. On the other hand, there are writers on this list I know I haven't read since '02.

Lloyd Alexander
Poul Anderson
Isaac Asimov
Greg Bear
Gregory Benford
Lawrence Block
Ben Bova
Marion Zimmer Bradley
David Brin
Steven Brust
Lois McMaster Bujold
Orson Scott Card
Jonathan Carroll
CJ Cherryh
Roald Dahl
Charles de Lint
Gordon Dickson
Diane Duane
Neil Gaiman, if you're counting the Sandman graphic novels as books
Mary Gentle
Lisa Goldstein
Andrew Greeley
Joe Haldeman
Robert Heinlein
Robin Hobb, if she and Megan Lindholm count as the same person
Diana Wynne Jones
Nancy Kress
Mercedes Lackey
Ursula LeGuin
Madeleine L'Engle
CS Lewis
Maud Hart Lovelace
Julian May
LM Montgomery
Tamora Pierce
Tim Powers
Terry Pratchett
Anthony Price
Arthur Ransome
Kim Stanley Robinson
Spider Robinson
Dorothy Sayers
Noel Streatfield
Kate Wilhelm
Roger Zelazny

I suspect James Morrow, for example, but can't verify it without digging around counting books in his bibliography, and I don't want to do that. I expect Peter O'Donnell will go over the mark next week.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Some of these were pretty poor reads! Especially with the ones I added in the comments section to your journal: Piers Anthony, Anne McCaffrey, David Eddings, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Blerg.

But some are lovely.

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

Hmm... the ones missing that I know we own a lot of are Pohl and Sheffield, but I'm willing to believe you have not reached 10.

I think Iain Banks has to be on the list, though. 7 Culture novels, Against a Dark Background, Feersum Endjinn (maybe you didn't finish that), The Bridge and/or The Company?. I've read two more beyond that.

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

Oops, I mean The Business.

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

T and I would both have to add "Bill Amend" to our list, but I don't know if that's the case for you or not.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Nope. I've probably read most of the comic strips in the books we have, but I haven't read the books themselves.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I think I have on Pohl, Sheffield, and Banks all, you're right. I haven't read much of any of them lately, but you lent me a bunch in college, back when it was still lending when we read each other's books.

And I did finish Feersum Endjinn, wretched mean man, and married you anyway.

[sculpin.livejournal.com]

My list would look an awful lot like yours. Somehow I entirely missed the books of Nigel Streatfield, though. And I'd have a few additions: Maurice Sendak, Philip Pullman, Charlotte MacLeod, and Tove Jansson.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Noel Streatfield did a bunch of children's books, most of which were somehow related to dance or the theatre. They were exactly right for me at the time, and I loved them enough to put them on our shelves now. In fact, I've lent one to carbonel, because I have one she doesn't.

Streatfield is one of the authors whose books were sometimes called different things in the US and the UK, and so I should probably get a comprehensive list of her bibliography and what titles it was known under so that I can pick up what I'm missing.

I've read Pullman's two trilogies and one of his others, but I haven't caught up on the rest. Seven seemed to be a pretty common number in my book log, in fact.

I don't remember how much Tove Jansson I read as a child, and I've only read one in the last few years. Should probably reread more soon.

[carbonel]

And I've since finished it, so we should find some time for me to get it back to you.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Indeed, and I have a tin of yours in our give-it-back basket, too, from the meringues. So e-mail me and we'll see if we can find a time in common before Minicon.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Lots of friends are doing this one. I am resisting; it looks like *work*, and it wouldn't be complete. At the very least, a lot of typing :-).

Well, maybe tomorrow. I could take the digital voice recorder up to the library and run through everything.

I don't think I can find any non-fiction author that I've read 10 books from. Stephen Ambrose probably comes close. Should Gibbon count as one book, or however many volumes it is? (Haven't actually read it, so it's theoretical.) Only 4 for Ansel Adams I think, or 5 if you count his letters.

A quick glance through the shelves with Pamela showed several authors we have 10 books of, but neither of us was prepared to claim we'd read 10.

Then there are the "automatic" ones that everybody should get. I mean, C.S. Lewis -- 7 Narnia + 3 Space Trilogy, and "of course" everybody has read those, so that's an automatic 10. And Doc Smith, 6 Lensman plus 4 Skylark.

Can I list Rex Stout 4 times?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I can't find any nonfiction author with 10 volumes I've read, either. Oliver Sacks and Stephen Jay Gould come the closest for me. Oh, and Mark Kurlansky: I've read all his books, including his short story collection (he should stick with nonfiction), but that doesn't add up to 10. I suppose I should get on the Simon Schama stuff Daniel and wshaffer recommended. In my copious free time.