Who's your high-volume author?

About equal Philip Wylie, Henry Miller and Charles Dickens.

Really? I used to love Wodehouse, but that was eons ago.

I'll be back to this thread, of course.

Heinlein, Kipling, and Steinbeck. There are many others I read way more often. They are worth checking out from the library, but I wouldn't buy them on sight.

Just off the top of my head: Hemingway, Vonnegut, Umberto Eco.

I was in on that thread about how many books have you read, and my total is high, somewhere in the thousands. My retention is spotty. Most of these are individual authors, not whole sets of one author.

For that, that would be some crime novelists, the battery of books hanging on my shelf for a while, and then passing on to others via goodwill or similar.

Franz Kafka.

I still like Primo Levi and Orhan Pamuk and some others, bestest, but they aren't high volume.

Larry Niven (weird).

Although if you were to extend the question to editor/anthologist...

It'd be Gardner Dozois

I also have a goodly number by Erskine Caldwell.

Stephen King...

Apparently I also own almost everything ever written by Edna Ferber. Can't think when the last time was that I read one of them. I'm going to have to do some re-reading on my way to doing some culling.

I do recall really liking



so I may start there.

Alan Watts -by far! he has transformed my life and helped me through many difficult situations.

William Faulkner, Dostoevsky, Doctorow, Ngaio Marsh. I gotta go take a look. I'll be back.

I have collected all the works by Primo Levy, Raymond Chandler, John D McDonald, John Keegan and Lee Child.
Not high volume, but enough.

I just came in to note that some of us have complete works in a single volume - O Henry, Emily Dickinson -

A goodly amount of Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, I.B. Singer and Bellow, but, the leader in total from one author is Ed McBain.

I've a dozen Alan Furst novels and that's the largest number. Six Gianrico Carofiglio novels, four Carlo Lucarella.. Had kept a lot of Henning Mankell, but eventually passed them along. On genres, I've long been keen on the Soho Crime Series by Chronicle Books, have saved 50 of them, so some fan could reap a wad of what I've thought are wonderful books - but those are mostly 50 different authors.

Most of my mad collection on books of many kinds on Italy (let's say 400, aside from the ones on my bedroom shelf) are in various containers and I don't want to go figure out which author I have the most of, since that is on the silly side in this case - it's probably Donna Leon or Michael Dibdin, procedural novels - but I also have a lot on ital artists and ital history, different kinds of reads. One favorite is Cellini's Autobiography, but that's the only one by him.

Hey, I need to read Cellini again, for the fun of it. It's right here four feet from the computer on the art shelves (metal, from Home Depot, planks and bungy cords help hold up the books), but there's other stuff on those shelves clamoring for attention.

Panz, I'm glad you took so well to Primo Levi, who you know is my favorite author, but I haven't read any of the other books besides The Reawakening. Once I make up my mind on my favorite, that's it, by gum. For other readers here - it's not any easy read, but.. a restorative of sorts.

Well if we are going just off of physical books that are on the shelves. It's a toss up between Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, and Kim Harrison.