Authors you own the most books by?

[Lurdan]

private eye

 

[Chilli.s]

Cormac McCarthy and I banks. I don't tend to keep fiction though.

 

[LeytonCatLady]

Nick Hornby
Billy Hopkins
Marian Keyes
Irvine Welsh
Ben Elton
Iain Banks
Edward Rutherfurd
John Grisham
James Patterson
Bernard Cornwell
Sebastian Faulks
Colin Bateman

 

[imposs1904]

I don't have the space nowadays but, before the big book cull, it would have been Ian Rankin.

When I was a teenager, it would have been Orwell.

 

[tim]

Patrick Mondiano, even though most of his books are basically versions of the the same book: memory loss, Paris, traumatic pasts, shady types, German occupation, nightclub singers, telephone directories, jockeys, writers, suicide, Venezuelans, missing people, lots of addresses, running away, private detective agencies, intervals of several decades, identity changes, coming back, meeting half remembered friends, being Jewish, hiding the fact that you are Jewish, meetings in cafés.

I was reading "Rue des Boutiques Obscures" late at night and noting that lots of the addresses were in the neighborhood I was living in, when suddenly the address is 2 Square des Aliscamps which was my address, where they met an English jockey, before heading into the Vichy zone towards the Swiss Border, where things go wrong and survivor guilt ensuesPatrick Modiano: ‘I became a prisoner of my memories of Paris’

 

[Roadkill]

Probably Arthur Ransome or C.S. Forester, or perhaps Alistair MacLean, for whose identikit thrillers I have a bizarre fondness.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Iain Banks, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Jay Gould.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Pratchett

 

[TopCat]

Donald e Westlake

 

[Espresso]

Val McDermid and PG Wodehouse.

 

[mojo pixy]

some years ago I gave away and sold 90% of my books, I was homeless and had nowhere to keep them. Now I have a child so the most common books on my shelves atm are Roald Dahl, Roger Hargreaves and Goscinny & Uderzo. Culture!

 

[Winot]

Haven’t counted but my guess would be that Paul Auster is pretty high up the list because he’s written a decent number and I’ve read most of them.

Other than that, my grandad’s Dickens set.

 

[chilango]

A slight shift since my OP. Marx taking the No.1 spot from Coupland and a New Entry for Roland Barthes. I'm avoiding work today so I might do my download chart later too!

1/ Karl Marx (13)
2/ Douglas Coupland (12)
3/ Pierre Bourdieu (9)
=/ Richmal Compton (9)
5/ Edward Abbey (8)
6/ Slavoj Zizek (7)
7/ Anthony Buckeridge (6)
= / Gabriel Garcia Marquez (6)
= / Chuck Pahlaniuk (6)
= / Ernest Hemingway (6)
= / Roland Barthes (6)

 

[eoin_k]

Non-fiction:
Marx & Engels
Foucault
Braudel
Hobsbawm
Hilary and Steven Rose
EP Thompson

Fiction:
William Gibson
Jonathan Coe
Flann O'Brien
Orwell
Huxley
G Greene

 

[nogojones]

James Ellroy (17)
George Orwell (14)
Christopher Hill (11)
Graham Greene (8)
Maxim Gorky (7)
Steve Bell (7)
Voltaire (6)
Armistead Maupin (6)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (6)

Not definitive as my books are all over the shop and stuffed on shelves by size rather than in any order. Sold loads off if they had any value a few years back and moved over to e-books

 

[weltweit]

For me it would be Iain M Banks, 8, but as I got all his from the Library, I don't own any!

1) Consider Phlebas, Iain M Banks
2) Look To Windwards, Iain M Banks
3) Matter, Iain M Banks
4) Inversions, Iain M Banks
5) The State of the Art, Iain M Banks
6) Use Of Weapons, Iain M Banks
7) Surface Detail, Iain M Banks
8) The Player of Games, Iain M Banks

 

[rubbershoes]

A slight shift since my OP. Marx taking the No.1 spot from Coupland and a New Entry for Roland Barthes. I'm avoiding work today so I might do my download chart later too!

1/ Karl Marx (13)
2/ Douglas Coupland (12)
3/ Pierre Bourdieu (9)
=/ Richmal Compton (9)
5/ Edward Abbey (8)
6/ Slavoj Zizek (7)
7/ Anthony Buckeridge (6)
= / Gabriel Garcia Marquez (6)
= / Chuck Pahlaniuk (6)
= / Ernest Hemingway (6)
= / Roland Barthes (6)

I'd like to see Zizek make a cameo appearance in an Anthony Buckeridge book.


My authors are
Cormac McCarthy
Paul Auster
Iain Banks
Anthony Burgess, though I haven't read any for 20 years
Evelyn Waugh

If we were going on percentage of output, my top author would be Donna Tartt. She's only managed to write three books, the lazy mare.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Peter James's Roy Grace series. Or Harlan Coban.

Lots are in other people's homes. but they're mine in theory.

Anthony Buckeridge

lived in the house I was brought up in. Not when I was there; my parents bought it from him. He took all the lightbulbs with him, which Jennings would have thought was a rotten trick.

 

[chilango]

Okay here's my download (ebook) chart...

1. Slavoj Zizek (32)
2. Jean Baudrillard (21)
3. Pierre Bourdieu (17)
4.Roland Barthes (9)
= Louis Althusser (9)
6. Alain Badiou (8)
7. Silvia Federici (7)
= Michel Foucault (7)
= Jacques Ranciere (7)
10. Theodor Adorno (6)
= Jacques Lacan (6)
= Henri Lefebvre (6)

Fiction from the likes of Attwood, Wu Ming and Wyndham just missed out.

 

[hitmouse]

My shelves are a mess and I don't really have much of a system for the most part, but I reckon Iris Murdoch's going to win. Then again, having lots of Murdoch (or Lessing, I think) books is a bit like having a lot of Fall records, you can have about 50 of them and still only know a tiny amount of their output.
Going to try and do a count of a few of the big ones:
Simone de Beauvoir: 11 (4 volumes of her autobiography, 7 fiction, 0 philosophy)
Iris Murdoch: 9 that I could find
Doris Lessing: 7 (Doris Lessing I've managed to read all the way through: 1)
James Ellroy: 6
James Baldwin: 5
Joan Didion: 4 physical books, but one of those is a compilation of three books
Flannery O'Connor: 4 (plus an extra two by Flann O'Brien who isn't the same person but I keep reading their name as the same)
Shirley Jackson: 4 (plus a tiny little standalone copy of the Lottery)
Daphne du Maurier: 4
Jean-Paul Sartre: 4
Patricia Highsmith: 4
Margaret Atwood: 4
Mark Steel: 4
And then honourable mentions for Walter Benjamin, Victor Serge, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Olivia Laing, Hunter S Thompson, Jarrett Kobek, Virginia Woolf, Miranda July, and Kurt Vonnegut with a solid three entries each. I only own one physical Patrick Modiano book but that's another three-in-one compilation thing.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

I suppose if I had kept all the books I have ever had, Tintin or Asterix would be fighting it out with Enid Blyton. To the death!

 

[chilango]

I suppose if I had kept all the books I have ever had, Tintin or Asterix would be fighting it out with Enid Blyton. To the death!

Ian Livingstone & Steve Jackson would be challenging the likes of Ian Rankin and Robert Crais in my case I suspect...

 

[colacubes]

Shakespeare
George Orwell
P G Wodehouse
Iain Banks/Iain M Banks
Irvine Welsh
Charles Bukowski

 

[D'wards]

Probably Cormac McCarthy or Irvine Welsh.

Or maybe Stephen King

 

[belboid]

My brother
Karl Mark
Trotsky
Lenin
Umberto Eco
Hunter S Thompson
Michael Moorcock
Salman Rushdie
Alex Callinicos
Jeff Noon

The lack of any women is slightly embarrassing. Pat Barker isn't far behind.

 

[BigMoaner]

martin amis. was soooo good before he turned into a cunt.

 

[LeytonCatLady]

My brother
Karl Mark
Trotsky
Lenin
Umberto Eco
Hunter S Thompson
Michael Moorcock
Salman Rushdie
Alex Callinicos
Jeff Noon

The lack of any women is slightly embarrassing. Pat Barker isn't far behind.

You want women writers? I recommend:

Andrea Levy
Jane Austen
Emily Barr
Beryl Matthews
Caro Fraser
Daphne du Maurier
Janet Fitch
Hilary Mantel
Marian Keyes
Meera Syal

 

[belboid]

You want women writers? I recommend:

Andrea Levy
Jane Austen
Emily Barr
Beryl Matthews
Caro Fraser
Daphne du Maurier
Janet Fitch
Hilary Mantel
Marian Keyes
Meera Syal

mrsb has lots n lots of female authored books, so thats my excuse for not owning them myself. Austen & Mantel I have read lots by, just dont own them. I really should correct my lack of Andrea Levy books though

 

[discokermit]

sven hassel
richard allen
george g gilman

 

[chilango]

mrsb has lots n lots of female authored books, so thats my excuse for not owning them myself. Austen & Mantel I have read lots by, just dont own them. I really should correct my lack of Andrea Levy books though

Yeah, there's a notable lack of women (or black, Asian etc.) authors on my lists.

That said some pretty key single books that don't show up are.