Hello! I missed last week’s Top Ten Tuesday (was on vacation) but we got back yesterday. Today’s topic is “Authors I’ve read the most books by.” I don’t know if I can be accurate with this one. I obviously can get a lot of the authors I’ve read lots of books by, but will I get all of the ones? I don’t know. But I’ll do my best, and will at least include most of the authors I’ve read a lot of books by. I’m going to include novellas too, but I will only count a book once if I read it in another language. And I might miss some.
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (>25 books) –
I literally have no clue how many books I’ve read by this duo. I’m sure I’ve read all of the Dragonlance books (there’s about 100 of them, but they didn’t write all of them), plus I’ve read the Darksword trilogy. I named my kids after characters in the Dragonlance books. So I can safely say she’s up there in the amount of books I’ve read.
Marie Lu (23 books and short stories, I think?) –
- Legend series (4 books, 3 graphic novels, 1 prequel, 2 novellas)
- Batman: Nightwalker (1 book, 1 graphic novel)
- The Young Elites (3 books)
- Warcross (2 books)
- The Kingdom of Back
- The Evertree
- Short stories in:
- Hope Nation
- Slasher Girls and Monster Boys
- A Tyranny of Petticoats
- New York Times
Cassandra Clare (18 books) –
- The Mortal Instruments (6 books)
- The Infernal Devices (3 books)
- The Dark Artifices (3 books)
- Chain of Gold
- The Bane Chronicles
- Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
- The Shadowhunter’s Codex
- Ghosts of the Shadow Market
- Short story from Summer Days and Summer Nights
Veronica Roth (11 books) –
- Divergent (4 books and 2 short stories)
- Carve the Mark (2 books)
- The End and Other Beginnings
- Chosen Ones
- “Ark”
“Inertia” was a part of Summer Days and Summer Nights, but since it’s also in The End and Other Beginnings, I’m only counting it once.
Sarah J. Maas (10 books) –
- Throne of Glass (7 books)
- A Court of Thorns and Roses (3 books)
That’s all I’ve read from her so far (still not sure whether I’m going to read the Crescent City books), but her series tend to run on the very long side.
Joel C. Rosenberg (9 books) –
- The Last Jihad (5 books)
- The Twelfth Imam (3 books)
- The First Hostage
Laura Ingalls Wilder (9 books) –
She wrote the Little House on the Prairie series. Checking Goodreads, there are actually a few books in this series that I didn’t know about until today, but I haven’t read them.
Leigh Bardugo (9 books) –
- Shadow and Bone (3 books)
- Six of Crows (2 books)
- King of Scars
- Ninth House
- Short story from Summer Days and Summer Nights
L.M. Montgomery (8 books, I think) –
I’ve only read her work from the Anne of Green Gables series, but I think that’s 8 books. My grandma had a box set, and I remember three boxes with 3 books each. I’d have to go find the boxes to be sure, but there is a collection of short stories; perhaps I read that too.
Francine Pascal (?) –
I don’t know if she counts because I’m pretty sure she didn’t write all those books by herself. But I did read lots of the Sweet Valley High books, as well as a lot of the Sweet Valley University books, so I figured I should add them in here.
So who have you read the most books by? Was it difficult to figure out for some authors?
Aah Dragonlance! I loved those when I was younger! Re-Read Dragons of Autumn Twilight a few years ago as a nostalgia read! Great list!
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My kids are named Laurana and Tanis, so we read through that book as a family. Still haven’t finished Dragons of Winter Night together yet.
Oh wow Hickman and Margaret. I read those too (or some of ’em anyway). It’s been years!
Clare is someone I want to try. And Wilder- I don’t know how many of the Little House books I read as a kid, but I know I did get to some of them. 🙂
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You’d probably like the Shadowhunter books 🙂
Sweet Valley High! I think I had a couple of those books. I was more of a horror fan and still have stacks of Point Horror, Shivers and Spooksville.
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Those are new to me. I read some scary stories but not a lot.
I hope you have fun reading the rest of the Little House on the Prairie books! Which ones did you miss?
My TTT.
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I haven’t read On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894 or West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915. They’re not normally included in the boxed sets. Amazon has them though.
Marie Lu and Cassandra Clare are also on my list! I love their book, though I haven’t read all of them. Great list! 🙂
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Thanks! I still have a couple of Clare’s I have to read (the Eldest Curses books). I probably won’t read her MG books she wrote with Holly Black either, but I do hope to read her adult book when it comes out!
I’ve read a lot of books by Sarah J Maas and Leigh Bardugo as well.
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It’s not hard to read lots of books by them since their universes are so big!
Yes, I think Francine Pascal count. 🙂
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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I read a bunch of Sweet Valley High books in the 80s.
Here’s my Top Ten Tuesday.
They were very popular.
Like Margaret Weis though… it’d be hard to figure out just how many I’ve read.
Cassandra Clare and Sarah J. Maas were close to making my list.
I couldn’t count Francine Pascal for the same reason. I probably read 80 or so Sweet Valley High/University books but I’ve no idea how many she actually wrote.
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Yeah that’s why I mentioned her last. I’ve read so many of the Francine Pascal “Brand” but who knows?
Sadly, I’ve never read a Marie Lu book, but I own several. Hopefully I can pick one up soon! 🙂
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That’s me with VE Schwab. I own several, but I’ve only read one.
Ugh. I’ve never read Schwab either. I’m feeling like such a failure. 😉
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I can’t believe I forgot Francine Pascal!!
I almost forgot her too!
I am still kicking myself a week late just thinking about this, I LOVED all the books, from Twins, to High, to SVU. UGH!
I remember Sweet Valley High! My older sister had a bunch of them that I eventually ended up reading. I have no idea how many I actually read.
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It’s been so long for me I’ve forgotten too. I have a whole box of them in the garage; I’m sure I could count how many I own and that’s probably how many I read, but finding them would be a pain.
Leigh Bardugo was also on my list.
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I have read quite a few Marie Lu as well and want to read some more soon! I have been working my way through Sarah J Maas and Leigh Bardugo slowly. Getting there with the latter. Loved your list a lot!
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Thank you! SJM has some books I haven’t read still. I want to continue with the series I’ve started but I think I’ll wait on more series from her.