Authors you own the most books by?

[chilango]

Physical copies only.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

you first

 

[planetgeli]

Zola.

French left winger, not Italian left winger.

 

[existentialist]

Pratchett, and Iain M Banks. Then Len Deighton, and probably Bill Bryson, thanks to family detecting a rich seam of Christmas/birthday opportunities and mining it to destruction

 

[chilango]

1/ Douglas Coupland (12)
2/ Karl Marx (10)
3/ Pierre Bourdieu (9)
=/ Richmal Compton (9)
5/ Edward Abbey (8)
6/ Slavoj Zizek (6)
= / Anthony Buckeridge (6)
= / Gabriel Garcia Marquez (6)
= / Chuck Pahlaniuk (6)
= / Ernest Hemingway (6)

 

[existentialist]

considers deleting post

 

[dessiato]

Physical books, Hemingway and Robert Rankin.

 

[Badgers]

Charles M. Schulz

 

[sunnysidedown]

Top 3 physical dusty bent and buggered

1. Kenneth Grant - 10
2. Baudrillard - 7
3. William Burroughs - 6

 

[Voley]

Barbara Cartland
Jilly Cooper
Dan Brown
Will Self

 

[BigTom]

1 - Bill Watterson (6 I think)
2 - Karl Marx (4, assuming you count Capital volumes 1-3 as 3 books)
3 - Whoever wrote my Law at Work book.

that's it I got rid of almost all my physical books a few years ago.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Charles Bukowski (18 at least, possibly 20+, lots in storage)
Stephen King (13)
John Steinbeck (12)

 

[strung out]

Adam Roberts - 21
Terry Pratchett - 20
China Miéville - 15
Michael Moorcock - 14
Iain (M) Banks - 13
George Orwell - 12
Kim Stanley Robinson - 8

I haven't read a fair chunk of the Pratchett and Moorcock books as I've bought collections of them that I'm working my way through. The others are absolute favourites though.

 

[kebabking]

Rankin or Tolkien.

Previously it would have been Dexter, but I had a bit of a clear out - not read a Morse book in years.

Bryson could be a contender - actually JK Rowling could the winner, one always forgets Harry Potter...

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Robin Hobb (20)

 

[chilango]

Rankin or Tolkien.

Previously it would have been Dexter, but I had a bit of a clear out - not read a Morse book in years.

Bryson could be a contender - actually JK Rowling could the winner, one always forgets Harry Potter...

Palmed the Rowling off onto my daughter.

She rejected the Compton and Buckeridge though so they're back on my shelves.

 

[JimW]

So few physical books left I think its the old committee who compiled English Chinese dictionaries.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Haven't actually counted but got every one of ryzard kapuscinksi. Also have loads of bill bryson because for some reason my mum thinks I like them (she had that made in america one years ago and I said I quite enjoyed it which I did tbf but it's mainly about language and not him being a boring twat going for walks and stuff, now I get one every other christmas)

 

[DotCommunist]

Dickens, not because I'm a huge fan but they were my nans complete works of. Next would probably be Hugh Cook paperbacks. So much on epub these days

 

[Proper Tidy]

Used to have loads of trotsky but I bulk sold them years ago on gumtree to an indian communist who subsequently send me intermittent texts about naxalite insurgency stuff for a few years

 

[Sasaferrato]

Adam Roberts - 21
Terry Pratchett - 20
China Miéville - 15
Michael Moorcock - 14
Iain (M) Banks - 13
George Orwell - 12
Kim Stanley Robinson - 8

I haven't read a fair chunk of the Pratchett and Moorcock books as I've bought collections of them that I'm working my way through. The others are absolute favourites though.

I got rid of physical books a while back, but Moorcock was the runaway leader 30+.

 

[Pickman's model]

Crowley
Lovecraft
Robert E Howard
Stuart Christie
Nietzsche
Chandler

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Loads by railway photographers like John Vaughan and Brian Morrison but I suppose they don't really count.

There's a German railway writer called Konrad Koschinski that I have a lot of books of.

Other than that, have most of George Orwell's non-fiction, plus 1984, which I was just revisiting the other day, funnily enough, and I appear to buy everything Jon Ronson produces. I just find his stuff fascinating, sometimes disturbing and frequently very funny, plus I like the way he doesn't try to hide his flaws and foibles.

All physical books. Not interested in digital and never will be.

 

[Spymaster]

Until recently it was W.E. Johns. I’d collected 86 Biggles first editions which I gave to my nephew as a christening present in February. The plan is to give him one more each year on his birthdays to complete the set.

Now it’s probably John Le Carré.

 

[Sprocket.]

Paul Theroux (travel)
Antony Beevor.
Mark Mazower.
Fred Vargas.
Eric Hobsbawm.
Bernard Cornwell. (Uther)
Gilbert Sheldon.

 

[andysays]

Zola.

French left winger, not Italian left winger.

Number two on my list

Dickens, not because I'm a huge fan but they were my nans complete works of. Next would probably be Hugh Cook paperbacks. So much on epub these days

Number one on my list

 

[chilango]

Haven't actually counted but got every one of ryzard kapuscinksi. Also have loads of bill bryson because for some reason my mum thinks I like them (she had that made in america one years ago and I said I quite enjoyed it which I did tbf but it's mainly about language and not him being a boring twat going for walks and stuff, now I get one every other christmas)

I love Kapuscinski. I keep giving/lending them to people though. I dont know how many copies of Shadow of the Sun I must have got through

 

[danny la rouge]

Oh, I don’t know. I need a proper cataloguer to library my collection.

Can one call round ASAP please?

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Couldn't tell you how many without checking but these always survive charity shop culls
Philip Kerr
Ian Rankin
Iain M. Banks
Anthony Burgess

 

[Kaka Tim]

bernard cornwell
iain banks
george orwell
philip k dick
ursula le guin