Authors you own the most books by?

[Proper Tidy]

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

I love him. I made the mistake of reading that biography of him and finding out he was a billy bullshitter, a bit of a johan hari, also despite the slant he placed on it later in life he was an extremely enthusiastic stalinist in his youth. But I still think he writes great things.

 

[Pickman's model]

I love him. I made the mistake of reading that biography of him and finding out he was a billy bullshitter, a bit of a johan hari, also despite the slant he placed on it later in life he was an extremely enthusiastic stalinist in his youth. But I still think he writes great things.

he who lies artfully treads closer to the truth than ever he knows
--fritz leiber

 

[rubbershoes]

Probably Anthony Burgess. But I haven't read any of his stuff for twenty five years.

After him and two who I still do read are Cormac McCarthy and Paul Auster

 

[neonwilderness]

Bernard Cornwell. (Uther)

bernard cornwell

Same for me, 17 (including a couple of duplicates).

No stands outs after that, probably Tolkien or Lovecraft.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

For fiction books probably Doris Lessing, maybe followed by Pat Barker.

 

[yield]

Alan Moore
Grant Morrison
Ursula K. Le Guin
Margaret Atwood
Ken MacLeod
Luther Blissett / Wu Ming


Lat year, before the purge, it would've been

Terry Pratchett
Richard K. Morgan
China Mieville

 

[D'wards]

Cormac McCarthy as I have all his books.

He's not the author I have read most by though, but that weren't the question were it

 

[Detroit City]

george orwell
alastair reynolds

 

[rubbershoes]

6/ Slavoj Zizek (6)
= / Anthony Buckeridge (6)

Unusual bedfellows

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

If physical only then Pratchett. I have a lot of collections but most I started collecting after I switched to digital.

 

[ska invita]

Bill Waterson
Ursula Le Guin
George Orwell
B Traven
Magnus Mills

 

[The Octagon]

Iain M. Banks / Iain Banks (14)
Bill Bryson (14)
Roald Dahl (13)
Andy McNab (8)
George RR. Martin (7)
Richard Morgan (6)

Technically the most by far and away is Roger Hargreaves (50, Mr Men Collection for the nieces ), not sure they count tho.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

If each volume of Doom Patrol and New X-Men counts, and I think they do, Grant Morrison. Oh and I have almost the full run of Lemony Snicket.

Other than that I don't have many books by the same author - purges over the years from moving flat have done that. China Mieville probably third, but the rest top out at maybe three each person max.

 

[moomoo]

Marian Keyes and Lisa Jewell.

 

[Saffy]

Stephen King
Philip Pullman
Neil Gaiman
Marian Keyes

 

[8ball]

Chuck Palahniuk - had a phase of reading lots of his books.
Aside from that my bookshelf doesn't have many 'runs' of authors - I guess Douglas Adams, Richard Dawkins (being a biologist means getting his books for Christmas), Pratchett and Vonnegut would be the nearest runners-up.

Also, when I like a book, I often give it to someone else, so my bookshelf and reading habits don't match too well.

Will probably end up totally revising this post once I take a look at my bookshelf - am working from memory.

 

[spanglechick]

If you include collected volumes as being the sum of their parts, then Shakespeare.
Even if not, I’ve got at least 20 Shakespeare plays as separate copies.
Again, if we include collected editions next would be Wilde, and then maybe Caryl Churchill? Lots of plays.

If not, then Dick Bruna (17), Marian Keyes (12) followed by JK Rowling (10). I’m not mad-keen on Rowling, but there’s a set of seven, plus two freebie slim books that were given away in a pack of shreddies or something, for Comic Relief, and I bought her first “non potter” effort, out of interest.

The Bruna books are for preschoolers but it’s the illustrations I love. They are perfection.

 

[Pickman's model]

Further to my previous post, a glance at the shelves reveals numerous books by yeats and machen

 

[Dandred]

Terry Pratchett 40, just counted.
Dahl 19
Joe Nesbo 11

 

[FridgeMagnet]

This is a text-heavy version of looking at peoples bookshelves on Zoom, isn't it?

 

[ska invita]

Further to my previous post, a glance at the shelves reveals numerous books by yeats and machen

Don't see you posting as much as normal Pickman's. Is it because you're not at work?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

If comic books count it's Alan Moore and Rumiko Takahashi. If normal books it's probably Douglas flipping Adams. Don't really have many books by the same author. I think Julian Cope and Greg Bear come in next with three books each, then Arthur C Clark who was recently bumped up to two books when I found a beaten up copy of Rama in a charity shop.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Iain (M) Banks, with 30-ish, basically everything he got published. About half are signed first editions, not that that's unusual - he was always generous when it came to signing copies for Scottish bookshops, and he signed some for me one of the times I met him.

Next it'll be Patrick O'Brian - the full Aubrey/Maturin series is 20-and-a-bit volumes

 

[chilango]

Unusual bedfellows

Or are they?

The only french sentence he could call to mind was a passage which had caused him some trouble in class the previous day. So far as he had been able to judge the translation was: 'the gentleman who wears one green hat approaches himself all of a sudden

 

[chilango]

This is a text-heavy version of looking at peoples bookshelves on Zoom, isn't it?

We have the "Shelfies" thread for that.

 

[Pickman's model]

Don't see you posting as much as normal Pickman's. Is it because you're not at work?

no, it's because I haven't been enjoying it so much this year

 

[ska invita]

no, it's because I haven't been enjoying it so much this year

Its not a vintage is it

 

[Lurdan]

I've no real idea which author. My shelves are double stacked with storage boxes behind them (some of which I haven't opened for ages). The mention of Marx made me curious. I just pulled 36 books by him off my 'Marx shelf' but I can see that that doesn't include stuff I know I have somewhere including most of the Penguin paperbacks. I know I've got a lot of books by Brecht but that's mainly because the plays got issued in single volumes. Can't actually see any of them mind.

Looking at just the political stuff at the front of the shelves I can see a dozen or so books by Gilles Dauvé which doesn't surprise me. Twenty odd books by Otto Rühle, the majority of them in German and some of those set in fraktur script. Well I can kind of understand the insane delusion that I might get around to learning to read German. But why have I got ten books (that I can see) by Maurice Dommanget ? Including eight about Blanqui which is eight more books than anybody needs.

Quite possibly it's Edgar Wallace. Used to pick them up in the 70s when I was devouring lots of old thrillers and they were easy to come by. Since everything by him is now out on the web I really ought to get shot. If I could get to where they are.

This is all a bit depressing actually

 

[Pickman's model]

Its not a vintage is it

Sadly not

 

[Proper Tidy]

I've no real idea which author. My shelves are double stacked with storage boxes behind them (some of which I haven't opened for ages). The mention of Marx made me curious. I just pulled 36 books by him off my 'Marx shelf' but I can see that that doesn't include stuff I know I have somewhere including most of the Penguin paperbacks.

Not buying this, no way did he write 36 books, took the lazy twat decades to do one and he didn't properly finish that