Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. I’ve never participated so far, but since this week’s motto is Top Ten Authors I’ve Read The Most Books From, I thought it’d be the perfect time to join in the meme-craziness. Let’s do this!
There are actually a couple of authors of whom I have several books, just because I have a 3-strike-rule with authors. After reading one of their books and liking it, they have two more chances to prove to me that they are not just a one-hit-wonder. That way I end up knowing if their future books are an insta-buy or not. Still, 3 is not that big a number and we’ll see how many people actually made it on the list with more than that!
- Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler (16 books)
I devoured the Series of Unfortunate Events books (13 books in total) when I was younger and couldn’t resist additionally buying a collection of poems called Horseradish, The Beatrice Letters and The Unauthorized Autobiography.
- Charlaine Harris (13 books)
I don’t know how many books she’s written in total, but I barely made it through the entire Sookie Stackhouse Series, so I decided not to read another series of hers. It’s not that the Sookie Stackhouse books are bad, but they do tend to get repetitive after a while.
- Cassandra Clare (9 books)
I’ve read the entire Mortal Instruments Series as well as the Infernal Devices Series and I loved them. I intend to get to the companion novellas and short stories at some point as well!
- Nicholas Sparks (7 books)
I like cheesy romance … SO WHAT? I read The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven, The Lucky One, The Last Song, Dear John and A Walk to Remember. This pretty much means that I read most of the movie adaptations. I also own a copy of the Notebook, Message in a Bottle and Three Weeks with my Brother, but I haven’t gotten to those yet.
- David Levithan (6 books)
Okay, so three of the books were co-written with Rachel Cohn, but nonetheless, I really like his books. The co-written ones were more fun to be honest and consist of Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Naomi & Ely’s No Kiss List and Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares. The books I’ve read that were written by Levithan alone were still good books, but didn’t excite me as much: Every Day, The Realm of Possibility and Wide Awake.
- Cornelia Funke (5 books)
I adored her books! I will never get over the awesomeness that is the Thief Lord and the Inkheart Trilogy was basically a book series about fictional characters coming to life. (Dustfinger will always be my hero!) I also read Potilla, but that book was rather forgettable.
- Stephenie Meyer (5 books)
Read the Twilight Series as well as The Host. I liked the books at the time, but I am not sure how I feel about them now. I remember that it took me forever to get into The Host, but I actually remember more about it than I do about the Twilight books. There are supposed to sequels to the Host, but I’m not sure I’d read them now. I think it’s been too long.
- Tahereh Mafi (4 books)
I very much enjoyed the Shatter Me series, so I also read the companion novella Unite Me.
- John Green (4 books)
I have read pretty much the standard books: The Fault In Our Stars, Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns and An Abundance of Katherines.
- Eden Maguire (4 books)
Eden Maguire’s series the Beautiful Dead is rather unknown as far as I know and I think the ratings aren’t that high from what I can remember. Still, I loved reading it at the time and like thinking back to it. Click here to read the Goodreads synopsis!
Turns out there are a lot more people of whom I’ve read 4 books, such as Georgia Byng, George R.R. Martin, Kiera Cass, L. J. Smith and many more. This list would go on for a while though if I continued like this. By clicking on the author’s pictures, you’ll be redirected to their Goodreads page where you’ll be able to see their entire bibliography. What are some of your most read authors? Any recommendations?
Are there sequels to The Host? I think that if it was the plan, it never happened… right? I didn’t read it, it was too thick and I was still riding the vampire wagon
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The sequels aren’t out yet, but they are planned. They show up on Goodreads.
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really? oh wow, i kind of thought she had given up on writing somehow… =/
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You know how long it sometimes takes to get a book ready for printing. I think this time around she just wants to wait until it’s really ready, rather than just getting out there as fast as possible. Could be that she’s given up though, I don’t know. There is no release date available.
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well, the host came out in 2008, and she says she has been writing the sequel since 2009… I don’t know… maybe they’ll come out. I’m still kind of hoping that she will eventually finish Midnight Sun though…
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Really? I hate those re-tellings from different perspectives …
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usually me too, but i kind of liked his perspective better than hers…
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Okay, I get that. I just don’t think I’d necessarily want to dive back into that story in particular.
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lol, it would be a fun read… 😀 the good of his perspective was knowing what was on everybody’s heads. I would read it if it ever came out… just like I went into cassandra clare’s website to read some scenes from jace’s POV – it’s fun!
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Possibly so, I don’t know though, I’m not sure it’s for me.
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you’ll never have to find out, because it will NEVER come out…
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It sucks though when that happens. When you’re really into a series and they promise another book and it never comes …
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yeah, I understand why it happened, obviously, but I was REALLY into that series (way more than I should) and it sucked
lol
I’ll live with it… 😉
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I was really into it at the time as well. I think I even remember being disappointed when they announced that she wouldn’t continue writing it, but sure. You’ll get through it 😉
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I have that same 3 strike rule! Currently, I’m using it to determine whether I can like rainbow Rowell (cause I didn’t like fangirl) and whether I really like John Green as much as I think I do.
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I get that! I liked Fangirl and Attachments and I’m going to read Landline and Eleanor and Park. But I think it’s kind of already determined for me.
But yeah, John Green isn’t for everyone I think. Which ones have you read so far?
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I’ve read TFIOS and tried to read Looking for Alaska but it was so boring!
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I’m not actually a fan of Looking for Alaska, but I really liked Paper Towns and despite what most people say I also like An Abundance of Katherines.
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I’ll eventually read another one but John Green has one more strike left
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Well, you know how my tastes run. Stephen King and Anne Rice are great, Dean Koontz is also pretty good. JK Rowling got me into books and writing, and Jonathan Stroud is a great fantasy writer, as is Christopher Paolini. And I could recommend some friends of mine for you, depending on your mood.
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Thanks, I’ll make sure to check it out.
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Thanks, hope you enjoy them. One is particularly naughty.
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I once figured out that I’d read more books by Terrance Dicks (who wrote most of the “Doctor Who” classic series episode novelizations in the 1970s and ’80s, and several original novels in the 20 years after that) than I had by a lot of honest-to-goodness fictional titans, like Charles Dickens.
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i own a lot of books by classical authors, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald or Jane Austen and the likes, but I haven’t actually read all the books so they didn’t count for this list.
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