Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Top Ten Authors I Own The Most Books From. It’s all about the numbers, baby! Come stand in front of my shelves with me — and it’ll be perfectly obvious which authors just have to be on my list this week!
Which authors dominate my bookshelves?
1) Diana Gabaldon: For anyone who reads my blog, this one is pretty much a given. I own multiple copies of all of the books in the Outlander series. Plus, there’s the Outlandish Companion reference book, the Lord John books, a few anthologies with Gabaldon stories, and the new edition of Outlander with the TV tie-in cover, and well… I lost count once I passed 30 books. Not that I’m obsessed or anything.
Who, me? Obsessed with Outlander books?
2) J. K. Rowling: I have a complete set of Harry Potter books in hardcover and another set in paperback. And if we’re counting total books in the household, then we must also count my kids’ collections. And yes, I have the Hogwarts textbooks set and copies of JK’s grown-up novels as well.
3) Stephen King: I haven’t actually counted, but I have Stephen King paperbacks tucked away all over my house, as well as hardcover copies of his more recent novels. When I go to my library’s huge annual book sale, I bring a list of what King books I already own, rather than what I still want, for the sake of avoiding duplicates. No matter how many I have, there are always more that I haven’t read yet! But I’m working on it.
4) Jim Butcher: I’m ashamed to admit that I’m missing one of the Dresden Files books (Ghost Story). I read my friend’s copy, and still haven’t picked up one of my own. Even with that omission, I have 14 Dresden books on my shelves, as well as the six books in the marvelous Codex Alera series.
5) Patricia Briggs: Between the 8 (and counting) Mercy Thompson books and the 3 (and counting) Alpha & Omega books, I’m off to a good start. Not to mention a couple of random stand-alones from the author’s earlier days which are sitting on my shelf, still to be read.
6) Christopher Moore: Got ’em all, from Practical Demonkeeping through The Serpent of Venice. 14 novels plus a graphic novel, if I’m counting correctly…
7) Bill Willingham: The Fables series is one of my very favorite things. 19 volumes so far, plus a bunch of stand-alones, and even a kids’ book!
8) Brian K. Vaughan: He’s a genius, I tell you! I have two amazing series by Brian K. Vaughan, Y: The Last Man and Runaways. Love ’em.
9) George R. R. Martin: Obviously, there’s A Song of Ice and Fire, with more than one copy of some of the volumes. (Hey, the spines get cracked after a while. Gotta get new ones if I’m going to re-read!) Then there’s also Fevre Dream and a few anthologies edited by GRRM, and, well, he’s taking up a good chunk of my bookshelf real estate.
10) J. R. R. Tolkien: I hadn’t quite realized how many copies of Tolkien’s works were actually in my house until I started poking around in various rooms, checking my kids’ shelves, looking at the pile of paperbacks stuffed into a corner… Between multiple copies of The Hobbit and the LOTR books, plus a few other assorted works, JRRT definitely makes my top 10!
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I love the Outlander series. I no longer own it, but I did thoroughly enjoy it! Great list 🙂 We share J.K Rowling this week!
Outlander is a wonderful series. I don’t have any on my shelves though because my mother in law has borrowed them all. 🙂 The other books are great also.
Ha, I think you’d better make sure you get those books back from your mother-in-law! Who knows when you might want to re-read them? 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
I need to look into some of these authors! The only one i’ve read is Rowling!
J. K. Rowling is on my list too! I kind of want to start the Fables series because a friend has recently become obsessed with them. I also have a lot of Tolkien lying around, and for some reason, several copies of The Hobbit!
Oh, Fables is easy to become obsessed with! After the 1st book, I was hooked, and read them all in a row. Kind of crazy. 🙂
Nice diversity on your list. I’m a little late to Christopher Moore, but I’ve slowly been laughing my way though his genius body of work. My tops are Toni Morrison, Anne Patchett, Dennis Lehane and Chris Bohjalian. And I’ve read everything by Rowling except The Silkworm.
I have a handful of Morrison and Bohjalian books as well! I love Christopher Moore — he still manages to be surprising and to make me laugh until I cry.
A Song of Ice and Fire is a terrific series I own all 5 in the series. I’ve never read any other books by GRRM. But I thought the Wit and Wisdom of Tyrion Lanister sounded interesting.
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My daughter gave me the Wit & Wisdom present as a gift this year — it’s a cute gift book, not essential, but fun to have!
Patricia Briggs made my list too! I don’t have them all but I’ve read them! I’m trying to get them all in hard covers but they don’t sell them any more so I have to keep looking at used places. I’ll get there though I hope! Great list!
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See, and I’d like to replace some of my hardcovers with paperbacks, just for the sake of saving precious shelf space! She’s so amazing — can’t wait for the next Mercy book!
Jim Butcher takes up one whole shelf from my bookshelf! I don’t own all the Dresden Files (I stopped at Turn Coat, and then started to read them from the library or buy the ebooks.) Then there’s Codex Alera, which I own, but haven’t read.
I think it’s so unusual to find a series as long as Dresden that’s still going strong! I hope you give the Codex Alera books a try soon. I resisted for a while (don’t know why), but ended up loving them!
Reading the first Codex Alera book is on my TBR for this year, definitely!
Totally knew that Diana Gabaldon would top your list this week 😉 Yay for all the other authors on your list too 😀
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Yeah, I guess I’m a little predictable when it comes to Outlander. 🙂 And it’s not like I don’t read other books!
I didn’t do a TTT this week, but JK and Gabaldon definitely would have made my list! I had the Outlandish Companion at one point but ended up trading it in at the used bookstore 😦 I think I thought at the time that I wouldn’t really refer to it preferring to re-read the books if I was forgetting things, but I’m seeing now that probably wasn’t the smartest move! It may find it’s way back to my shelves one day, lol
Supposedly, Diana Gabaldon is working on Outlandish Companion volume 2, maybe to be published in the next year… so you could get ’em both!
I could! I’m sure there will be a boxed set 🙂
Awesome list!
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Have some similar authors on my list, which I actually end hard since I rely so heavily on library books!
Library books should count! And for that matter, I didn’t take into account all of my kindle books… hmmm, I might need to recalculate!
Hey, what a surprise Gabaldon is at the top of your list! 😉
I too have (nearly) the complete Tolkien, include quite a few books about him and his work. I have a lot of Stephen King too, though I stopped buying everything by him many year ago. I supposed I used to like him more than I like him now, but I still recognise him as one of my models in writing.
I have all of David Gemmell’s books in multiple languages (I own many both in English and Italian, but a few are in German as well).
I’m not there yet on all the books I want by Sherman Alexis, who is by far my favourite author now, but I discovered him only a couple years ago, so I’m still building his library. I also have quite a few by Langston Huges.
Then there is a small but growing section of dieselpunk books my many authors 🙂
Ha, I’m so predictable! 🙂 Funny, I think I like recent King more than older King — but I should probably reread The Stand and a few others before I say that! I haven’t read any David Gemmell… but I guess you’d recommend him. And I really should read more Sherman Alexie, but I’ve loved what I’ve read so far! Thanks for stopping by!
I am SUCH an idiot. I completely forgot to put my JK Rowling books on my TTT. I love HP so much and have multiple copies. You really can’t have too many HP books. 🙂
I absolutely agree! 🙂
Ugh, I didn’t even count my King duplicates! I replaced most with hardcovers along the way but held onto the paperbacks just in case. I don’t even want to know how much that would bump up my King count!
It’s crazy when I stop and count all the duplicate books in my house — but when something gets really worn, it’s nice to have a fresh copy! Especially since I’m a chronic re-reader. 🙂
JK Rowling is on all the lists today. Deservedly. Tolkien is not on mine because those books technically belong to my husband and I was only counting mine.
What’s yours is his and what’s his is yours, right? 🙂 This was a really fun topic to work on, and I’m really enjoying seeing everyone else’s lists too!