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This week I'm not a fan of the new releases topic so I'm skipping ahead to next week's which is all about authors I've read the most! I'm selecting ten of the most popular and the book totals are estimates where given!
1) Enid Blyton-100
I read a ton of her books as a kid-21 Famous Five, 15 Secret Seven, 6 Malory Towers, 6 St Clare's, 3 Wishing Chair, the Noddy series, the first three Naughtiest Girl, The Adventure Series, The Secret Series, The Five Find Outers...quite a lot!
2) Stephen King-28
I devoured most of his early work, loving the likes of IT, The Stand, Christine, Carrie, Salems Lot. I haven't much liked his newer work, finding it a lot more slow and lacking the horror elements I loved so much. I haven't counted DNFs but have included Bachman books.
3) Michael Stephen Fuchs-13
I've read the first eleven books in the Arisen series and two prequels. I hope to read the last three to complete the series but the two other spin-offs soon plus a fun Fickisms book about the wit of a character.
4) Kelley Armstrong-32
I've read her whole Otherworld series, the spin off volumes following the Wolf Pack, a scattering of her crime and YA books and I still have two series to try. I've also read a few short story anthologies and other short stories and graphic novels.
5) Richard Laymon-34
I've read all but two of his books-Amara and Night in the Lonesome October. I particularly loved Dark Mountain, In The Dark, Darkness Tell Us, Come Out Tonight, The Quake, The Glory Bus, One Rainy Night, Endless Night, Friday Night In Beast House, The Lake and After Midnight. I loved the fast paced books and wish there could've been more.
6) Francine Pascal-90
Francine Pascal may have created the Sweet Valley High books that I loved as a kid but ghost writers actually wrote the books and I loved Sweet Valley High and the Caitlin series. It was too hard to get the later books in the SVH series and I never got to read Senior Year at all. I read a scattering of the University series from libraries but never all of them.
7) Hunter Shea-14
I've read about 14 of his novels and short stories but still have about six to read but all the new stuff to come so I expect this total to rise a fair bit too.
8) Jean Plaidy-14
I've read her entire Tudor series and a few of the Queens of England series. I have quite a few more to read so this number will get higher!
9) Robert Boren-13
I've read the full 13 book Bug Out series and loved it. I also have three spin off series to read, all pretty lengthy so expect this number to shoot up...
10) Walter Farley-13
I read 13 Black Stallion books, unaware of a few I'd missed and the books written by his son. I also never got round to reading the spin off trilogy The Island Stallion.
Some great authors here. I need to do my post for this week.
ReplyDeleteI'm not really sure why I did this post a week early but it seemed a good idea at the time!
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