10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:
Ursula Le Guin
Kim Stanley Robinson
Octavia Butler
N. K. Jemisin
Becky Chambers
Iain M. Banks
Martha Wells
M. R. Carey
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vonda McIntyre
@SallyStrange@bookstodon I find Novik a little hit and miss but Spinning Silver is very good and the Scholomance series is a good effort at the genre my friend calls "screw you jk rowling". Yoon Ha Lee is superb.
10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:
Terry Pratchett
Brandon Sanderson
Neil Gaiman
Piers Anthony
Brian K. Vaughan
Warren Ellis
Garth Ennis
Kieron Gillen
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Matt Fraction
Gosh that was harder than I thought it would be. I felt like using #GraphicNovels might be cheating but I guess I don't read a ton of longer series otherwise.
@SallyStrange@bookstodon #10Authors5BooksEach
A bit surprised so few favourite authors from later years made it on the list...
SFF:
Douglas Adams
Iain M. Banks
James Blish
Samuel R. Delany
Philip José Farmer
C. S. Lewis
J. K. Rowling
Lemony Snickett
Tolkien
Jack Vance
Jules Verne
Swedish:
Bo Baldersson
Tage Danielsson
Åke Hodell
Åke Holmberg
Astrid Lindgren
Sjöwall/Wahlöö
Sven Wernström
Other:
Borges
Agatha Christie
Georges Perec
Plato
Proust
Shakespeare
Terry Pratchett
T. Kingfisher / Ursula Vernon
Mary E. Loud
Jane Lindskold
Paru Itagaki (Manga counts!)
Naomi Novik
Seanan McGuire / Mira Grant / A. Deborah Baker
C. L. Polk
Stanislav Lem
Ferrett Steinmetz
N. K. Jemisin
Mary Roach
@Chip_Unicorn@bookstodon I am gonna boost this with the caveat that although Ferret Steinmetz is a good writer, he has a bad reputation for overt sexism and harassment. It's a damn shame. I really enjoyed 'The Sol Majestic.'
@firefly@Chip_Unicorn@bookstodon oh hi, you seem nice. No, I enjoyed the read because it was a good story. However given that I have friends who were directly affected by his antics, I have mixed feelings about the prospect of enjoying any more of his writing.
Anything else in "other people's business" I can help you out with?
10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:
Ellis Peters
Peter Tremayne
Connie Willis
Ursula K. Le Guin
Tony Hillerman
Terry Pratchett
James S. A. Corey
David Brin
Frederik Pohl
Kim Stanley Robinson
C.S. Lewis
John Christopher
John Scalzi
John Wyndham
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Lloyd Alexander
Madeleine L'Engle
Philip K. Dick
Poul Anderson
Ursula K. Le Guin
@Chip_Unicorn@bookstodon Thanks! There are so many more excellent authors mentioned in the replies too. This has been absolutely terrible for my "to-read" list lol
Martha Wells
Ben Aaronovitch
James S. A. Corey
Nathan Lowell
Naomi Novik
Jonathan L. Howard
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Jim Butcher
Charlaine Harris
Ian Tregillis
@SallyStrange@bookstodon
That I remember...
Albert Camus
John Steinbeck
Hemingway
Tolstoi
Herman Hesse
Sartre
Fedor Dostoievski
Eric Maria Remarque
Aldous Huxley
...
I don't repeat a lot of authors, but surprisingly there are 10 where I've read at least 5 of their books:
Stephen King (by a mile)
Neil Gaiman
John Grisham
Joe Hill
JK Rowling
George R.R. Martin
James Michener
Malcolm Gladwell
Nathaniel Philbrick
Michael Crichton
This list was a bit of an eye-opener for me. With the exception of Rowling (I read the Harry Potter b4 we knew she was awful), everyone on the list is male and of them, only Gladwell is not white.
Herman Hesse
Kurt Vonnegut
William Gibson
Neal Stephenson
Thomas Pynchon
Elmore Leonard
Stephen King
Margaret Atwood
Alan Moore (and, I'm opening the field to graphic novels, many more...)
Ursula LeGuin
K. A. Applegate (over 30 i think)
Octavia Butler
Martha Wells
T. Kingfisher
N. K. Jemisin
Becky Chambers
Douglas Adams
Hermann Hesse (it was a teenage phase)
Terry Pratchett
I have read too much for this list, but I'll read off the first 10 in Z-A order that I've read at least 5 books from, looking at my account on LibraryThing (which is more complete for SF):
Roger Zelazny
Gene Wolfe
Margaret Weis
Lawrence Watt-Evans
A. E. Van Vogt
Jules Verne
Jack Vance
Leo Tolstoy
JRRT
Steph Swainston
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