book series

[silverflight8]

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

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

(still need Vallista & Tsalmoth, and I haven't finished reading the Dumas so I feel I can't read the parodies yet)

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...

[silverflight8]

I read Lyorn actually! I forgot to post about it though. Maybe I will get it together. It was fun but I don't recognize all the references lol

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.

[hamsterwoman]

Yeah, I recognized only a small percentage of the songs (although there's a cheat-sheet somewhere...)

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 :)

[silverflight8]

Hmm good to know! Maybe I will read them sooner then. I just added them all to my storygraph TBR list which I use to keep track of things. I gotta post about the other books still ahhh

[musyc]

Oh fun! Of your whole list, the only one we have in common is Harry Potter. Half points for the Kushiel's books, as I've read the first trilogy repeatedly but not beyond that, so I only get 3 out of 5+.

[silverflight8]

Ha, for some reason I thought you read a lot of the KL novels! But the first trilogy is so juicy.

[musyc]

Yeah, once the Phedre and Joscelin story was no longer front and center, I lost interest. The other characters were nice, but I had no EPIC FEELS connected to them. If you're not going to crawl upside down along the underside of a bridge to storm a prison by yourself, is it really love? XD

[silverflight8]

Haha I've had those pairings. Reading the subsequent books and realizing that I'm literally only reading for the short cameos of the two characters I care about...