Subject: Both more and less than what I was expecting.
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Posted on: 2023-05-28 13:34:57 UTC

Figured I'd do this too, but extend it to 'what books are out in my room', given I ran out of bookshelf space last year and so there are some books in different places around my room that should be included. That being said, I also felt like I a) had to actually count them and b) extend the list to 10 authors instead of 5 because 5 is just too few.

So, here's my list:

  1. Enid Blyton (55). Children's mystery novels, if I have one book in the series, I have all the books in the series (and a couple of others for good measure), haven't read them in ages but I particularly remember liking Five Finder-Outers over the more well-known Famous Five.

  2. Jack Campbell (31). Sci-Fi with a dip into Fantasy(ish). Very good at describing battles, particularly the space ones in The Lost Fleet series which make you put the book down and work out how the battles happen in 4D (yes, 4.). The Lost Stars spinoff to The Lost Fleet are probably my favourite but it's hard to find a book of his that I dislike. Also thoroughly enjoy his depictions of the aliens in The Lost Fleet. I won't say any more because of Spoilers.

  3. Dan Abnett (18). While I'm aware he has written so much, I have almost exclusively only collected his writing in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Gaunt's Ghosts predominantly but I do also have his Eisenhower and Ravenor books in a couple of places too.

  4. Robert Muchamore (16). Young adult spy novels, CHERUB & it's prequel in Henderson's Boys all about teenagers being spies in modern day and WWII respectively. Made up a large chunk of what I read as a teenager (alongside a couple of other authors further down the list).

  5. Jim Butcher (12). Adult Urban Fantasy in The Dresden Files, also done a bit of a steampunk-y series in The Cinder Spires, still waiting for that to get a second book. I actually started The Dresden Files with Storm Front and funnily enough given hS's comments Summer Knight is one of the two Dresden Files books I haven't read yet (the other being the latest one).

  6. Chris Ryan (11). Young adult spy novels, bit more of an emphasis on survival elements than Robert Muchamore but still really fun books, have (almost) all the Alpha Force series in my room and a couple of his other novels as well. Seem to recall only picking up Robert Muchamore's books after having read all of Chris Ryan's. Fun Fact, also the only author in this list that I have met in real life.

  7. Rick Riordan (11). Young adult novels that I love even to this day. Started off with Percy Jackson and have got at least book from each series he has written ever since. I ended up borrowing quite of his books from the library when I was at Uni so my collection is a little smaller than I'd like.

  8. Andrzej Sapkowski (7). The original Witcher series. Have read it in it's entirety but have lost two of the books somewhere and somehow have two The Tower of The Swallows in my room (with a third in my car). Not sure how that happened.

  9. Brian Jacques (6). Redwall! I have read all 22 of the books in the series, although most of them I either borrowed from a library or from my sister (and I think a few of the books I have are technically hers still). High Rhulain (one of the books that is my sister's that I still have) is my favourite and has been read many times.

  10. C. S. Lewis (6). Somehow I have lost Prince Caspian which is more annoying than you might think considering the backs of the books made up an image of Cair Paravel which is now sadly incomplete. Still a lovely series of books I enjoyed as a kid. In the same bookshelf as my Enid Blyton books funnily enough.

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