Which author have you read the most books from? Don't lie
>John Green
John Red
probably tylo be chillinreally it's JK Rowling
Scott Bakker
then John Hawkes, I think
>>8247902
Dostoevsky
JK Rowling, obviously.
>>8247912
Wait no, it's Roald Dahl.
Yukio Mishima, or whoever wrote those Magic Treehouse books I liked in first grade.
Lorrie Moore (all of them)
R. L. Stine
>>8247902
R.L Stine, desu
>>8247902
enid blyton probably
GRRM, how bad is it guys?
Dostojewski, Plato, Hesse
gogol
Dav Pilkey
>>8247912
samesadly
>>8247902
Mick Mac McCorncob
>>8247917
Mary Pope Osborne
Kurt Vonnegut is GOAT.
>>8247909
>>8247953
Dostoyevsky wrote about 16 books and a bunch of short stories. Hesse wrote about 20 books.
ok let's assume that you've read every novel by each of those authors and aren't just name dropping them to appear clever.
are you saying that you've never read more than that by a single writer, even in your childhood? not even Roald Dahl or Enid Blyton or Beatrix Potter or some of the other names mentioned in this thread? didn't you ever read Asterix or Tintin?
that probably explains why you're reading all that turgid nonsense now
>>8247972
>Which author have you read the most books from?
>the most
>>8247972
>getting this triggered over someone's answer
>>8247917
>Yukio Mishima
Same
>>8247972
Mine is also Dostoyevsky. Every novel, novella, and short story. Deal with it.
>>8247902
Sir Terry Pratchett with Iain M. Banks probably coming up second.
Plato, which I don't really count
Shakespeare, which I do
Gene Wolfe
Dostoevsky
Cs Lewis
Plato
>>8248003
>Deal with it.
gosh i don't know if i can
there must be some sort of support group for people like me
Philip Roth, about 15
>>8247972
>Asterix or Tintin
Counted in words you'd have to have read very little for the authors of those to be your most read authors.
>>8247972
Oh well if we're counting fucking comics then I've read like 60 volumes of One Piece
Terry Pratchett.
And if we add in Comic books, Rumiko Takahashi and Neil Gaiman. My old library had sandman volumes and later Ranma volumes on lease.
Stephen King, he was all I read in my youth.
Aside from him it's Dostoyevsky
*sigh* Rowling
>>8247902
Richard Brautigan. Then it's Kawabata. Then Tove Jansson and Robert van Gulik.
Bulgakov
>>8248159
I've read Sombrero Fallout and An Unfortunate Woman, what Brautigan should I read next?
>>8247972
I am Russian I don't even know who those 3 authors you listed are.
>>8247902
18 plays by Shakespeare.
9 books by Tolstoy.
>>8248175
Trout Fishing in America, In Watermelon Sugar and Revenge of the Lawn are the best.
>>8248178
Isn't Roald Dahl available in Russia?
That probably explains why Russians are always such miserable fucks.
i've read everything by shakespeare, so him i guess.
Michener, surprisingly.
>>8247902
comics? Bill Watterson. books? Dostoevsky.
>>8247902
probably either J.K. Rowling or Philip Roth
>>8248159
Richard Brautigan underrated gr8
K. A. Applegate.
Robert Jordan, definitely.
Tao Lin.
Not even kidding. I don't like him either. I just read all of his work for some reason.
>>8247902
Hemingway or Fitzgerald. Probably Hemingway.
>>8247902
Plato I guess
>>8247902
Agatha Christie
I used to be a fan of her in my teens.
Now I find most of her books awful, but I still like some of them, e.g Ten Little Niggers
>>8247909
Mr. Dusty off-ski for me as well
>>8247932
Eeeeeeeeey~ Muh wigga
>a platonic dialogue is a book
>>8248378
God she's so beautiful
Balzac, Hugo, Dostoyevsky
>>8247902
Terry Brooks.
Bolaño
>>8247902
Michael Crichton
Tom Robbins
>>8248285
Same! 54+ core Animorphs books, and most of the spinoffs.
Also, probably 20+ by Brian Jacques, and if we're counting comics, Kirkman, Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Bill Willingham, and Alan Moore.
KAFKA
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>muh daddy issues
>>8247902
I never read more than one book from a single author.
>>8247902
It's either a throw up between:
Sanderson, Jim Butcher, LK Hamilton and Kim Harrison
Jenő Rejtő and Gibson. It's rare that I read more than few books by the same author.
Don DeLillo
It really never gets old.
>>8247902
C.S. Lewis, then Dickens, then Dostoyevsky
Haruki Murakami
Pretty sure I've read almost all his work that's been translated into English.
Bukowski and Hemingway
Not memeing btw
Brain Jaques by a landslide.
I think I read the whole Redwall series as a kid
Ian Flemming
Gotta love those 007 novels.
I don't know who wrote those books you're the hero of but probably that then.
If it's multiple authors then rl stine
Terry Pratchett or Larry Niven.
Ah high school.
>>8247902
Shel Silverstein, desu
>>8247902
Uh... whichever wrote the most books? I have no idea who that is, actually.
Another Dostoevsky reader here.
>>8247972
>turgid nonsense
>he hasn't even read Poor Folk
>>8247902
Isaac Asimov, with Arthur C. Clarke second, and Goscinny & Uderzo third.
Samuel Beckett ^-^
Murakami or Stephen King.
Crichton or King. They were pretty much all I read as a teenager.
Plato, Kant, and Marx
William Vollmann
>>8247902
I only read one book per author because I am mortal and will die without having read them all if I waste more time.
>>8247902
Let´s see:
>Frederick Forsyth
>John Grisham
>Ken Follett
>JK Rowling
Yep, I´m a pleb.
>>8249522
I'm like this in some ways, but it's usually around 2 or 3 if I like the author.
>>8247902
philip roth
cormac mccarthy
william faulkner
thomas pynchon
stephen king
clive barker
the latter two were back in middle and high school.
Either the author of The Boxcar Children or the author of The Hardy Boys. Used to slam those down by the dozen in the old days!
>Jesse hhhhhhhhhnnnnnggggggg
>>8249696
Hopping trains at that age, wow. Must have been the inspiration for On The Road.
>>8249696
I loved those books so much as a kid.
This is a really hard question. Cervantes I'd say.
milan kundera
>>8247972
>Being this assblasted over Internet people
Jules Verne. He was my favourite author when I was a child.
After that, I don't think I've ever read more than two books by the same author.
Chuck Palahniuk but also RL Stine because that's just life
As a young child, R.L. Stine, Matt Christopher, and whoever wrote the Boxcar Children books. Since roughly the age of ten, I'm not entirely sure but I've read most of the available works of Vonnegut, Hesse, Heller, Kafka, Steinbeck, and Poe.
As of right now,Eoin Colfer
>>8248514
>women authors
>sanderson
>dresden files
fugging reddit scum need to leave
>>8249704
They didn't hop trains, anon-friend. They lived in an abandoned boxcar following the deaths of their parents to avoid having to live with their crotchety old grandfather, who eventually finds them, at which point they discover he's actually the best grandfather in the world, even having their boxcar moved to his backyard for them.
>>8247909
Dostoevsky as well
Not counting Dr. Seuss level books
probably hg wells, though that's just because I read a shitton of his books in middle school.
>>8249881
>using "women" as an adjective
pleb detected
>>8247902
JD Robb (Nora Roberts' pseudonym for her scifi crime fiction series)
Those books are like crack if you're into genreshit at all. I've gotten over that phase but I must've read about 40 of the fuckers before I quit reading genreshit.
I think Hemingway
>>8250086
Nevermind, it was RL Stine fa sho I must have read like 45 goosebumps books as a little tyke
>>8250054
lol i'm glad this meme is catching on
>>8250054
>using latinate adjectives when a germanic one would suffice
churl
>>8247902
Patrock O'Brian 20
Cormac 10 (11 if you can count plays, Sunset Limited)
Denis Jonnson 8
Hemingway 7
Faulkner 6
Mailer 6
Steinbeck 6
DeLillo 6
Roth 5
>>8250222
Tortilla-fucking corncob faggot.
>>8250222
Denis Johnson, is he good? Any recs?
>>8247902
william gibson
>>8247996
I guess that lack of response proves it. /lit/ is an ad royalty farm.
David Mitchell.
>>8250131
then you'd better use "man" as an adjective in every context as well
Went on a massive Kerouac bender and beat myself silly thinking about going on adventures.
>>8250250
I love Train Dreams, Jesus' Son, Angels and The Name of the World
The Laughing Monsters, Resuccitation of a Hanged Man and The Stars at Noon were a little disappointing.
Fiskadoro I don't know what the fuck happened. I hope he at least had a drug problem, maybe then he would have an excuse.
>>8248005
Same (but PKD instead of Banks)
>Usually read only an author's most significant works as I want to experience a broad range of literature
>On a whim just decide to read one of his more obscure works
>It's by far my favourite of his
>Suddenly think about all those diamonds I'm ignoring by only reading the most popular
Fuck
>>8250616
Just read more
>tfw vonnegut is your top read author on goodreads and now have to read a bunch of books by other prolific writers to not appear as a plebeian
Probably hunter s thompson, the absolute madman
>>8247902
This sounds like bragging, but Don DeLillo. I got into him in high school and I've read all of his books except the new one and the one he published under a psuedonym.
>>8247902
prolly nichi
>>8248280
24
>>8247902
Sidney sheldon
Stephen King, help me guys!
>>8247902
Stephen King
honobu yonezawa
>>8249574
>Ken Follet
Yeah me too.
Yukio Mishima
Franz Kafka
>>8250976
Why would that be bragging?
>oh wow i'm so arrogant, my most-read author is Don DeLoli
Hermann hesse
>>8251466
It seems pretentious, I guess? I just loved him, even though I wasn't well read at all. I would show up at school feeling like I was drunk solely from reading DeLillo. His sentences were intoxicating.
PKD probably
>>8247902
K. A. Applegate, Stephen King, Plato. Maybe Heidegger.
>>8251490
>It seems pretentious, I guess?
nah m8 you are misreading this.
not that anon but this is one of those moments where you don't see how new poster you are coming across to others. that's all.
dostoyevsky probably, if you go to book sales/used book stores enough you will eventually have seen almost his entire catalogue. when they weren't those godawful constance garnett translations i would just grab them
If we are counting this by books it would be darren shan.
For words it would probably be Harry Mulish
Kafka by number of works, Hemingway when you count Kafkas short stories by collection.
Read everything by both.
>>8251586
You said Strange Loop, I get to link to Paul Dempsey.
"I never agreed to that rule!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v69wlCtKgDk
>>8247902
Probably Terry Pratchett. Him or one of the Dr Who novelists because I read a shit-ton of them as a child.
>all these people saying Rowling
How in the hell? There are far longer children's (or adults', for that matter) book series in existence than Harry Potter.
Damn, maybe the 'vidya has killed reading' people were right...
>>8251621
It's apparent from this post that you yourself play or played a lot of video games.
Emilio Salgari, probably read everything he ever wrote when I was young
>>8247902
John r. Erickson
>>8247902
Tom Clancy.
>>8251630
my man!
Probably Nabokov, in part because I took a seminar on him.
>>8247902
J.K Rowling. 7 books.
Tolkien is a close 2nd at 6 books.
Nabokov by a long ways, read everything he's ever published except his lectures on Quixote and Gogol
Robert Jordan obviously.
11 books of WoT.
Roald Dahl or James Ellroy
stephen king
terry pratchett as a kid
italo calvino as an adult
Joyce Carol Oates
>>8252118
ouch.
>>8249715
>Cervantes
What have you read from him, aside from the Quixote?
>>8252073
what lesser known/discussed works by Nabokov would you recommend? i recently read Mary (Mashenka) and King, Queen, Knave, both in trans. i preferred the former. the latter seemed to be a glorious hit and miss, a spectacular failure. it has actually turned me off to reading the rest of his Russian novels. well, for a brief while.
Gerald L. Holmes
Bukowski
>>8247902
Franklin W. Dixon
Asimov
Hesse
Eco
Nietzche
Freud
>>8254159
That would absolutely be mine, if that were a real individual author
