Subject: Let's see...
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Posted on: 2023-05-30 04:44:17 UTC

Counting just the books I consider "mine" (not Phobos'), it turns out there are eleven authors represented with more than five books each, so here's the lot!

11. Greg Bear (6 books) - Very good sci-fi author. The first book of his I read was Darwin's Radio, followed by its sequel Darwin's Children. If you've seen the show Sweet Tooth, it's a little bit like that, only it takes the science more seriously.

10. Neil Gaiman (6 books) - Notably, I picked up my copies of Neverwhere and Anansi Boys while in the U.K., and my copy of The Graveyard Book is signed by the author. ^_^

9. Ken Follett (7 books) - Historical fiction author, mainly. He's amazing at bringing characters to life and making you care about their circumstances. I'd recommend the Pillars of the Earth series and the Century Trilogy even to people who don't normally read historical fiction.

8. C.S. Lewis (7 books) - It's The Chronicles of Narnia. I couldn't tell you when I last actually read them, but they're on my shelves!

7. J.K. Rowling (7 books) - Yes, I still have the Harry Potter series on my shelves. No, I'm not giving the author another cent.

6. K.A. Applegate (8 books) - Miscellaneous Animorphs books that survived several moves, mostly non-main series ones.

5. Diana Gabaldon (8 books) - The Outlander series. Because someone I knew from my previous job decided I had to read them and just... gave them to me. All of them. o.o I've read the first two. The first one is fine, if a bit meandering. The second one needed to be half as long. I have little hope for the rest.

4. Diane Duane (9 books) - The Young Wizards series. If we're counting multiple copies, I've got 16 total, 8 in paperback and 8 digital. It should be 9 in digital—I got a sweet deal on the 9-volume set of the New Millennium edition—but I didn't get book seven in my download for some reason. {= (

3. Naomi Novik (9 books) - The His Majesty's Dragon series, a.k.a. the Temeraire series. Picture the Napoleonic war, but with an air force composed of dragons crewed like sailing ships. The twist? The dragons are sapient and growing tired of being used like simple beasts. Cue politics and shenanigans that take the main characters all over the world.

2. Anne McCaffrey (25 books) - Including the Dragonriders of Pern series, the Freedom series, and the Powers That Be trilogy with Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. For Pern, I have the Harper Hall trilogy as a collected edition, but per hS rules, counted them as three. I used to have more McCaffrey books, but the Tower and Hive series and the Acorna series are both rather Sueish, and T&H is also just too horny. It didn't need to be more horny than the series with a literal unicorn girl, but there you are.

1. Sir Terry Pratchett (25 books) - Discworld, of course!

... Actually, I could've put Tolkien on this list, too, if we count multiple copies of the same book. I've got two LotR, two Silm, two Children of Hurin (somebody gave me one after I'd already bought it for myself), one Hobbit, and one Unfinished Tales for a total of 8. And, if we count LotR as three books the way it was originally published, that's 12!

If we expand the definition of "author representation" to include the author's name appearing anywhere on the cover, I could also throw in The Map of Tolkien's Middle-earth, Tales Before Tolkien, A Tolkien Bestiary, The Tolkien Companion, and even The Atlas of Middle-earth.

And I could add The Atlas of Pern, The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern, and The People of Pern to my McCaffrey count, too. {= D

~Neshomeh

P.S. I waffled about including Warhammer 40k since I've read so many of the Horus Heresy books, but I didn't want to count them to see which authors are most represented. There are way too many 40k books in this apartment, and that's not even considering the digital ones. {X' D

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