I'm going by my Goodreads shelf and my memory... (I need to finish that reading spreadsheet. And that other spreadsheet. I have a lot of spreadsheet catch-up to do.) There's quite a bit of overlap here with my "Authors I Own the Most Books From" post.
1. Rick Riordan- 15 books: Um, what? I didn't realise it was this many! Percy Jackson and the Olympians (plus two of the guides), Heroes of Olympus, The Kane Chronicles. At risk of sounding strange, I liked the older books best.
2. Eoin Colfer- 12 books: All of the Artemis Fowl books (and the Artemis Fowl Files, yes, I'm that person), which I adore. I've also read The Supernaturalist, Airman, and The Reluctant Assassin.
3. Cassandra Clare- 10 books (+1/2, I'm partway thought The Bane Chronicles, I'm weird about how I read short stories): I've mentioned that I have a kind of odd relationship with her books, but I certainly have read a lot of them.
4. J. K. Rowling- 10 books: Harry Potter, and all the accompanying material (Quidditch through the Ages and whatnot).
5. James Patterson- 9 books (ish): *hangs head in shame* Maximum Ride, the first Daniel X. For those wondering, I have a disturbing amount of commitment to finishing a series when I start it, so I read eight Maximum Ride books, though I was pretty done with the series by book six. I will probably NOT be reading the ninth book, because I simple DO NOT have the emotional fortitude to subject myself to that. I try not to think about the James Patterson books I've read.
6. Kenneth Oppel- 8 books: Matt Cruse trilogy, Silverwing trilogy, and The Boundless. Airborn is one of those books that I go back to when I'm in a reading slump. (Hello, fellow rereaders!)
7. Holly Black- 7 books: The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, and The Darkest Part of the Forest. I read Spiderwick as a bind-up, but I also have the separate books, so I'm going to count them as they were originally published.
8. Lesley Livingston- 7 books: I kind of have a soft spot for her books, because they're from when I REALLY started reading YA. Which reminds me, I still haven't read Transcendent, yet.
9. Michael Scott- 6 books: Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series.
10. Julie Kagawa- 5 books: I have a lot of author's whose books I've read five of, apparently. I'm putting her here because I've read a couple of short stories as well, so...
I haven't yet, but I've been wanting to check out Holly Black for a while. Great Post !! Check out my Top Ten Tuesday
ReplyDeleteIt sort of hit me how many Holly Black books I've read while I was making this post. I didn't realise it was that many!
DeleteI'm see Cassandra Clare on a lot of lists! She made mine... but just barely. I can't believe I've only read 1 book by Holly Black. I need to remedy that SOON!
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That's the thing with series, though. It doesn't always feel like you've read ten plus books by the same author, but you have. I have a very strange mix of feelings about Cassandra Clare's books, but I do enjoy them overall.
DeleteI've found that I really enjoy Holly Black's work. I love that we get YA fantasy standalones from her (not that I don't love series, I do, standalone novels are great for a change of pace, though).
I need to read James Patterson one of these days. So many books, so little time lol.
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My feelings about James Patterson's work are... not positive. I've only read one of his adult novels (I forgot about it, I think, when I did the count), but his YA leave something to be desired for me. A lot of them he (and his co-writers) draw out a lot (Maximum Ride really should have been three books, five at most)...
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