Authors you own the most books by?

[Raheem]

George Orwell
Roald Dahl
Angela Carter
Jean-Paul Sartre
Michel Foucault (mostly unread, though)
Simone de Beauvoir
Madhur Jaffrey

That's everyone with more than three titles. There used to be loads of Peter Carey, but they have been culled.

 

[hitmouse]

My brother
Karl Mark

Your brother knows Karl Marx?

 

[Raheem]

I thought he was just using it as a term of affection for the great bearded one.

 

[belboid]

Your brother knows Karl Marx?

We're all Karl Marx's brother, comrade. (Death to the Oxford comma)

 

[Elpenor]

From memory as all my books are in storage:

Evelyn Waugh
Alan Warner

 

[spanglechick]

Your brother knows Karl Marx?

If this wasn’t a deliberate Sultans of Ping FC quote, I withdraw my laugh react.

 

[imposs1904]

Donald e Westlake

Just read Cops and Robbers. Loved it.

 

[hitmouse]

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

Also, I know you didn't mean it that way, but that wording reminded me of the all-time gem that is: The Life of Virginia Woolf, Beloved Chinese Novelist, As Told By David Gilmour - The Toast

 

[stereotypical]

Stephen King.
Jane Austen.
Kurt Vonnegut.
John le Carre.

 

[fishfinger]

I've got a few by et al.

 

[LeytonCatLady]

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

Discovered a couple more since this post:

Kathryn Hughes
Paula Hawkins (of Girl on the Train fame)
Jesse Sutanto (currently reading her novel Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice For Murderers which I got for Christmas. Have a read, she's very funny!)

 

[Orang Utan]

Katherine Rundell is brilliant

 

[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

In the last three years I've also added more novels by the following:

Lynda La Plante
Dan Brown
Stephen King
Jonathan Kellerman
Jake Arnott
Magnus Mills
Richard North Patterson
Colin Forbes
Mark Haddon

 

[Sasaferrato]

Michael Moorcock over 50.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Hilary Mantel
Alison Weir
Marian Keyes

 

[xenon]

Ebooks cos I don't do physical ones but without checking I reckon and in no particular order.

Ian M Banks.
Charlie Stross
James Ellroy

 

[DaveCinzano]

Probably Goscinny/Uderzo and Hergé, then le Carré, then Orwell, with James Herbert, Stephen King, HG Wells, John Wyndham, Asimov and Verne forming a tightly-contested pack behind them.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Was it ever explained why it was physical copies only?

Kindleist thread

 

[nottsgirl]

I barely have more than one book by any author because I don’t really keep books I’ve read - not enough space. Most of my books are recipe books, a few poetry, a couple of shelves of books to read and some art books. The only author I’ve got more than one book by is probably Seamus Heaney but I’d have to check.

 

[hash tag]

Amongst others, we can count a full set of books by the Rev. W. Awdry.

 

[StoneRoad]

I've just read through the thread.
[not in any particular order / classification]

Complete set of Awdrey {certainly father & probably son as well}
Ransome, JKRowling, WEJohns [almost a full set in storage, about 20 on the shelf]
Had a complete set of Clive Cussler, but that got culled two years ago [donated to a charity shop].
Tolkien, M Moorcock, plenty of Asimov, Banks, Baxter etc - but most of those went about a decade ago.
Bernard Cornwell, Patrick O'Brian, Alexander Kent
LJRoss [as they're based around here]

[I've also got a lot of Star Trek books, but that is made up from many different authors !]
[also, huge number of railway / engineering books]

I've returned many, many titles to charity shops after a couple of reads ...

 

[geminisnake]

Amongst others, we can count a full set of books by the Rev. W. Awdry.

My son would have loved that as a child!

Not sure how I've missed this thread for so long, I think Pratchett books are the most numerous in this house, he's the only author I have most of. Quite a few Val McDermid, but I've read way more of hers than I own, James Oswald and Stuart McBride are probably both next, though I've read more than I own of these too cos I just don;t have storage anymore

 

[hash tag]

My son would have loved that as a child!

No children in this home. They were a present to Mrs tag
I'm sure we have a complete set of Shakespeare & Dickens. Many Conan Doyle and Pratchett books.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

Philip K Dick, James Blish (all the Star Trek books and more), Frank Herbert, Arthur C Clarke - probably in that order.

Once it would have also been Pratchett too but I've given almost all of them away, just kept my signed copy of The Light Fantastic.

 

[WouldBe]

Michael Moorcock over 50.

Not Stanley Gibbons catalogues?

The first edition would have been a short read with just the penny black in it.

 

[weltweit]

It doesn't work that way for me, I don't have to own a book, I get my books from my library. Everyone's library and they even get books in specifically for me.

The most books by a single author I have read are probably between Iain M Banks and Ian Rankin.

 

[krtek a houby]

It's changed so much over the years.

Currently probably Iain M Banks, Flann O'Brien, Ian Fleming, Boris Akunin, Steven Erikson.

And all the HG Wells on E.

 

[Silas Loom]

It might be Powell, just because ADTTMOT comes in twelve volumes.

 

[mx wcfc]

Marx/Engels - 4
Tolkein - 4
Botting - 3
Stenton - 3

 

[danny la rouge]

Marx/Engels - 4
Tolkein - 4
Botting - 3
Stenton - 3

CS Lewis, late kick off.