Authors I've read

[dougo]

Copying nothings, here's a list of authors I've read 10+ books by, in no particular order:

Robert Heinlein
Piers Anthony
Katherine Kurtz
Philip José Farmer
Roger Zelazny
L. Ron Hubbard (yes, I read all of Mission Earth)
Anne Rice
Larry Niven
Michael Moorcock
Edgar Rice Burroughs
L. Frank Baum
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Franklin W. Dixon (the Hardy Boys books—yes, I know this is a composite pseudonym, but I'm still counting it)

There might be more, but that's what I can think of from a scan of my bookshelves. Notable near misses would be Robert Anton Wilson with 9 (three Illuminatus trilogies) and Iain (M.) Banks—I own 9 of his books but I've only read 5 so far. There are also plenty of authors who haven't written 10 books but I've read all or most of what they have written, including Douglas Adams, J.R.R. Tolkien, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bret Easton Ellis, Jay McInerney, Douglas Coupland, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and J.K. Rowling.

Comments

Re: Piers Anthony

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I haven't read any Piers Anthony books since high school or maybe before, so my memory is kind of hazy.

I read On a Pale Horse but I don't remember if I read any more. I remember it being not that great, but maybe that was what I thought about the second book.

The only Piers Anthony book I actually own is Macroscope, and I seem to remember liking it best, but I don't actually remember much about it. I think it was as close to hard sf as he ever got—the macroscope was some technological device that could see arbitrarily far and could also somehow see back through time, or something.

I enjoyed the first 5 or 6 Xanth books a lot, but I was young.

I also enjoyed Split Infinity and Blue Adept, and probably wouldn't mind reading them again. I remember that games played a significant role in the story. I have no idea if the other 5 books in the series are any good.

I think I liked the Cluster series (or at least the first three) but I basically remember nothing about them at all.