Your most read authors

[therisingblues]

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".

[Magpiespower]

Dunno?

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

[Q.]

Aldous Huxley

[JK]

Baldacci, Connelly, DeMille, Childs, Deaver, Iles

[am Bays]

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

[Pseudo]

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.

[Dirko]

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

Would probably be mine....

[Lunchcutter]

at the moment im loving janet evanovich and sue grafton

[Kahuna]

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

[JAS]

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

[godoubleblues]

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

[Pseudo]

at the moment im loving janet evanovich and sue grafton

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

[Strawb]

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

[bayman]

written by mal, the late mal

[Wedgie]

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.

[The Yetti]

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

[The Sleeping Giant]

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

[crackers]

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

[brod]

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

[Punk Rooster]

Chopper Read
John Silvester & Andrew Rule