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Which authors have you read the most of?
By looking at the list of works by the same author inside the front cover, I think my following list is pretty accurate:
My top 5 authors:
1: Stephen King (at least 15 books, he doesn't seem to have a comprehensive list contained within his books recently) best book "The Stand".
2: John Grisham (14 books) best "Playing for Pizza".
3: Colleen McCullough (6 books) best "The Grass Crown".
4: J.K.Rowling (6 books) best "The Half Blood Prince".
5: James Clavell (5 books) best "Shogun".

Dunno?

The authors I like reading most haven't been as prolific as King et al...

Aldous Huxley

Baldacci, Connelly, DeMille, Childs, Deaver, Iles

Steve Waugh
Peter Fitzsimons
Ken Piesse
Mark Ray
Jack Pollard
Jim Main
Max Walker
Gideon Haigh

John Fowles.
The Collector, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus, The Aristos, The Ebony Tower, Mantissa, Daniel Martin, A Maggot = 8 books.
That includes all of his major fiction. Still got his Journals to read yet...

Jefferey Deaver.
A Maiden's Grave, Garden Of Beasts, Death of a Blue Movie Star, Bloody River Blues, The Bone Collector, The Stone Monkey, The Vanished Man, The Twelfth Card, The Sleeping Doll, Twisted = 10 books.

Ian Rankin.
Knots and Crosses, Mortal Causes, The Hanging Garden, Dead Souls, The Falls, Bleeding Hearts, A Good Hanging, Beggar's Banquet = 8 books.
Still got Exit Music sitting on my "to read" pile.

Douglas Adams.
5 x Hitchhiker's books, 2 x Dirk Gently, The Salmon of Doubt = 8 books.

Hermann Hesse.
Rosshalde, The Prodigy, Steppenwolf, The Glass Bead Game = 4 books.
Still got Gertrude on the "to read" pile.

Various sci-fi authors of whose works I would have read maybe half a dozen:
Robert Silverberg, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, John Wyndham.

Steven KING
Jeffrey DEAVER
Lee CHILD
Michale CONNELLY
Harlen COBEN
Lawrence BLOCK
Jonathan KELLERMAN

Would probably be mine....

at the moment im loving janet evanovich and sue grafton

I used to enjoy Wilbur Smith,he wrote a good yarn but got a little formulaic.

Nothing earth shattering or highbrow I'm afraid but currently it would have to be Bill Bryson...just love his style and humour.

As a kid it was Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine series...bit like Blyton's Famous Five

Then Agatha Christie and later Lillian Beckwith...very funny semi-autobiographical stories of life on a Hebredian island in the 40's and 50's.

Regards
JAS

Stephen King (gotta agree with Theri, "The Stand" by far his best)
Michael Connelly - The Poet, Black Echo
John Connelly - Every Dead Thing
Nelson DeMille (although found his latest "The Gate House" hard to read), a couple of his early ones are really good reads, Cathedral and By the Rivers of Babylon
Dennis Lehane - Gone Baby Gone, Mystic River
Robert Barrett - Les Norton books

generally like crime novels

Lunchcutter wrote:at the moment im loving janet evanovich and sue grafton

Mrs. Pseudo is currently tearing through her catalogue at a decent rate.

Stephen King (agree the Stand excellent book)
Robert G Barrett
John Grisham
Jeffrey Archer
Robin Hobb
Sara Douglass

written by mal, the late mal

Harry Harrison
(well over 30 books)
daylight
Terry Brooks
Matthew Reilly

Yeah I know, not real highbrow but I do read mainly biographies and factual stuff these days though which has many varied authors.

As a youngster
Captain WE Johns.....Biggles
Enid Blyton.....The Famous Five and the Secret Seven
Agatha Christie

At Sunday School
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as well as Paul....The Bible

As I matured
Spike Milligan
Wilbour Smith
Neville Shute
Colin Thiele
Grisham
Matthew Riley
Most Sport Biographies or Auto Biographies

Now
Anything with Large Print

A little surprised that there isn't any love for Irvine Welsh.

Have read all John Grishams, except the last two so far - A time to Kill and The Client , the best of them
Robert Ludlum's Bourne books are a very good read
Tom Clancy with Patriot Games and Rainbow Six enjoyable
Biographies always a good read and Alex Haley's Roots is a very good read

The Sleeping Giant wrote:A little surprised that there isn't any love for Irvine Welsh.

Ive got plenty , hed be third on my lst

- Henry Rollins
- Steve Waugh
- Irvine Welsh

Chopper Read
John Silvester & Andrew Rule