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A reading meme from
hamsterwoman about authors you've read 5+ books of. Went through my ebook library but there's a lot of others I read in physical copy which I think I'm forgetting.
Mystery
Agatha Christie - my ebook library says 38, can't remember if I've read any in print as well
ACD - all of his Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories (multiple times, yikes)
Ngaio Marsh - Inspector Alleyn, about 14 of them, and steadily gaining - for some reason when I am travelling, I am incapable of reading things other than stuff like mystery
YA/Children's Lit
JK Rowling - Harry Potter
Lloyd Alexander - Prydain
Tamora Pierce - Tortall
Diane Duane - Young Wizards, spinoff ones centering around the cat wizards
Diana Wynne Jones - Chrestomanci, her Ingary novels, and a fair number of standalones. I am rationing out my DWJ novels though.
LM Montgomery - all of her Anne novels and I think a very high proportion of her short stories like Chronicles of Avonlea
Susan Cooper - Dark is Rising
Garth Nix - Old Kingdom, Seventh Tower, plus some of his standalones
Gertrude Chandler Warner - honestly I am not sure how many but probably 10 or 15+
Jude Watson - I read all twenty-odd Jedi Apprentice novels which follow Obi-Wan's youth, and I think I probably read a significant chunk of the ones about Anakin as well
Madeleine L'Engle - all of the Chronos and Kairos books
Kenneth Oppel - Silverwing series, Matt Cruse series
Kit Pearson - War Guests trilogy, Awake and Dreaming, and Whispers of War
Jacqueline Wilson
Laura Ingalls Wilder - all of her novels
Melissa Wiley - all of the Little House spinoffs I could get my hands on, I might be missing one or two Caroline ones. I was devastated to learn she would not be finishing the Martha ones which were my favourite due to publisher interference
General everything else
Ilona Andrews - Hidden Legacy series both the original Nevada trilogy plus Catalina's
Ashley Jennifer
Jane Austen - P&P, S&S, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, I keep stalling out on Emma
Gillian Bradshaw - Down the Long Wind, a lot of her standalones
Steven Brust - most of his Vlad Taltos series (still need Vallista & Tsalmoth, and I haven't finished reading the Dumas so I feel I can't read the parodies yet)
Jacqueline Carey - all of Kushiel's Legacy except Mercy
Liz Carlyle
Sylvia Day - unfortunately
Tessa Dare - before they got a bit too twee for me, like eight of her books
Laura Lee Guhrke - I read too many of her romances in a row and that was not good but after a break I will prob read more
Elizabeth Hoyt - all of her Princes novels + short story, something like 9 or 10 out of 12 of her Maiden Lane novels, the first of her new Greycourt series
Laura Kinsale - Shadowheart/For My Lady's Heart are related, but also a bunch of her standalones as well
Diana Gabaldon - in the main sequence I read up to 8, plus Lord John Grey
Sophie Kinsella - for some reason I read 8 Shopaholic novels, unfortunately the marginal returns started dropping precipitously but there were some really fun ones in the beginning, plus some of Kinsella's standalones
Ursula K LeGuin - Earthsea, and handful of Hainish novels (also short stories like Word for World is Forest and Birthday of the World collection)
Ann Leckie - everything she's written, all of Radch and Raven Tower
Richelle Mead - I never did read her YA vampire novels but I read all her Succubus (Georgina Kincaid) novels and the Age of X novels and she will never write the 3rd book...
CS Lewis - Narnia and also Till We Have Faces
Naomi Novik - way too many Temeraire novels (5), plus Scholomance
Dorothy L Sayers - all the Wimsey novels and most of the short stories, except the war papers
Sharon Shinn - all of Elemental Blessings, Twelve Houses (except Fortune & Fate), I think all of the Samaria ones (not very good at remembering which title goes with which novel)
Sherry Thomas - if it's not all of her novels it is close. I think all of her romances including the Marsdens, Fitzhughs (and short story), her YA series, and all the Lady Sherlock books (itself 8 books)
Megan Whalen Turner - The Queen's Thief series plus short stories
Jaye Wells - Prospero's War (sadly I don't think she's writing any more and my shipper heart has never recovered)
Martha Wells - missing one from Raksura, read all of Ile-Rien, most of Murderbot, and a bunch of standalones like City of Bones and Witch King
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Mystery
Agatha Christie - my ebook library says 38, can't remember if I've read any in print as well
ACD - all of his Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories (multiple times, yikes)
Ngaio Marsh - Inspector Alleyn, about 14 of them, and steadily gaining - for some reason when I am travelling, I am incapable of reading things other than stuff like mystery
YA/Children's Lit
JK Rowling - Harry Potter
Lloyd Alexander - Prydain
Tamora Pierce - Tortall
Diane Duane - Young Wizards, spinoff ones centering around the cat wizards
Diana Wynne Jones - Chrestomanci, her Ingary novels, and a fair number of standalones. I am rationing out my DWJ novels though.
LM Montgomery - all of her Anne novels and I think a very high proportion of her short stories like Chronicles of Avonlea
Susan Cooper - Dark is Rising
Garth Nix - Old Kingdom, Seventh Tower, plus some of his standalones
Gertrude Chandler Warner - honestly I am not sure how many but probably 10 or 15+
Jude Watson - I read all twenty-odd Jedi Apprentice novels which follow Obi-Wan's youth, and I think I probably read a significant chunk of the ones about Anakin as well
Madeleine L'Engle - all of the Chronos and Kairos books
Kenneth Oppel - Silverwing series, Matt Cruse series
Kit Pearson - War Guests trilogy, Awake and Dreaming, and Whispers of War
Jacqueline Wilson
Laura Ingalls Wilder - all of her novels
Melissa Wiley - all of the Little House spinoffs I could get my hands on, I might be missing one or two Caroline ones. I was devastated to learn she would not be finishing the Martha ones which were my favourite due to publisher interference
General everything else
Ilona Andrews - Hidden Legacy series both the original Nevada trilogy plus Catalina's
Ashley Jennifer
Jane Austen - P&P, S&S, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, I keep stalling out on Emma
Gillian Bradshaw - Down the Long Wind, a lot of her standalones
Steven Brust - most of his Vlad Taltos series (still need Vallista & Tsalmoth, and I haven't finished reading the Dumas so I feel I can't read the parodies yet)
Jacqueline Carey - all of Kushiel's Legacy except Mercy
Liz Carlyle
Sylvia Day - unfortunately
Tessa Dare - before they got a bit too twee for me, like eight of her books
Laura Lee Guhrke - I read too many of her romances in a row and that was not good but after a break I will prob read more
Elizabeth Hoyt - all of her Princes novels + short story, something like 9 or 10 out of 12 of her Maiden Lane novels, the first of her new Greycourt series
Laura Kinsale - Shadowheart/For My Lady's Heart are related, but also a bunch of her standalones as well
Diana Gabaldon - in the main sequence I read up to 8, plus Lord John Grey
Sophie Kinsella - for some reason I read 8 Shopaholic novels, unfortunately the marginal returns started dropping precipitously but there were some really fun ones in the beginning, plus some of Kinsella's standalones
Ursula K LeGuin - Earthsea, and handful of Hainish novels (also short stories like Word for World is Forest and Birthday of the World collection)
Ann Leckie - everything she's written, all of Radch and Raven Tower
Richelle Mead - I never did read her YA vampire novels but I read all her Succubus (Georgina Kincaid) novels and the Age of X novels and she will never write the 3rd book...
CS Lewis - Narnia and also Till We Have Faces
Naomi Novik - way too many Temeraire novels (5), plus Scholomance
Dorothy L Sayers - all the Wimsey novels and most of the short stories, except the war papers
Sharon Shinn - all of Elemental Blessings, Twelve Houses (except Fortune & Fate), I think all of the Samaria ones (not very good at remembering which title goes with which novel)
Sherry Thomas - if it's not all of her novels it is close. I think all of her romances including the Marsdens, Fitzhughs (and short story), her YA series, and all the Lady Sherlock books (itself 8 books)
Megan Whalen Turner - The Queen's Thief series plus short stories
Jaye Wells - Prospero's War (sadly I don't think she's writing any more and my shipper heart has never recovered)
Martha Wells - missing one from Raksura, read all of Ile-Rien, most of Murderbot, and a bunch of standalones like City of Bones and Witch King
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Date: Nov. 2nd, 2024 04:28 am (UTC)And Lyorn! :)
I think you could read the Paarfi books without Dumas (well, maybe Monte Cristo before Baron of Magister Valley -- I feel like that one does benefit from the comparison a lot). Or at least I've read the Khaavren books without reading anything but the Three Musketeers, i.e. none of the sequels, and I felt no lack.
Naomi Novik - way too many Temeraire novels (5), plus Scholomance
oh, oops, I forgot about Scholomance XD
P.S. you seem to have two Sharon Shinns on the list...
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Date: Nov. 2nd, 2024 03:01 pm (UTC)I have read Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers but god it's been so long since Monte Cristo and I remembering only the first part (escape from prison) because I liked it so much, and not particularly caring about the revenge thing. Maybe I gotta re-read that. ahhh but good to know about the other Khaavren books.
Whoops, one of them was Sherry Thomas instead.
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Date: Nov. 2nd, 2024 04:58 pm (UTC)Both Vallista and especially Tsalmoth have some very interesting revelations -- I'm looking forward to you getting to them! :D
Monte Cristo and Musketeers were both at least 20 years in the past when I read their Paarfi counterparts, so honestly I think you would be just fine. The prison escape in BoMV works very neatly with some in-universe stuff, and beyond that, I think it's just the CONCEPT of revenge, and then things like, "OK, I like how the Mercedes character is a badass in this one instead of... not" :)
But I understand the completest spirit that wants to be properly prepped for reading a book :)
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