I noticed that fellow writers Kyle Muntz and Joseph Michael Owens had posted lists recently regarding what authors they had read the most and how many books respectively. I wanted to participate as well, though I’m not as sure of my data.
To be honest, I scrolled through my ‘read’ list on Goodreads and decided to try to find anyone who’d written 8 or more books that I’ve read. That seemed as good a number as any.
Regardless, here’s the list:
Charles Bukowski 45
Philip Roth 28
Honoré de Balzac 21
John Steinbeck 18
Piers Anthony 18
Haruki Murakami 17
Kurt Vonnegut 16
Herman Hesse 14
Hunter S. Thompson 14
Chuck Palahniuk 14
J.P. Donleavy 14
Stephen King 14
Clive Barker 13
Jack Kerouac 13
Sherman Alexie 10
John Fante 10
David Foster Wallace 9
Hugh Lofting 9
Ernest Hemingway 9
Dave Barry 9
Joyce Carol Oates 9
Carlos Castaneda 9
Aleister Crowley 9
Tom Robbins 9
Margaret Atwood 8
Douglas Adams 8
Thomas Pynchon 8
Jasper Fforde 8
Louis-Ferdinand Céline 8
Now, this shouldn’t necessarily be taken as a commentary on these authors, or on authors who aren’t present. Some of these I just liked enough that I was willing to keep reading and they’d written 8 or more books. Some authors I adore, but just haven’t read 8 or more of their books yet. This is just raw data, and possibly inaccurate in case I missed someone/miscounted/or such. Do with it what you will.
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