Ten books

[mmcirvin]

Various bloggers have been asking and answering the question, "Which authors have you read more than ten books by?"

You can probably guess which ones are on my list because I talk about them a lot. They're pretty much all SF/fantasy authors (some write other things too). Off the top of my head:

Isaac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke
Philip K. Dick
Stanislaw Lem
Terry Pratchett
Rudy Rucker

There are probably others. Most people who compile these lists seem to have many, many more ten-book authors than I do. I don't actually read a lot compared to people who read a lot.

I can think of many more who are probably somewhere in the seven-to-nine-book range. (I think that whether I've read ten books by Robert Heinlein depends on whether the full-length novels reprinted in The Past Through Tomorrow are counted separately.)

I'm not sure whether or not I read ten of Tove Jansson's Moomintroll books or Michael Bond's Paddington Bear books in my childhood. I think I've read eight or nine by C. S. Lewis. I don't think my relatively recent Gutenberg-fueled L. Frank Baum Oz project ever got to ten.

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It's an interesting question whether Shakespeare plays should count, or books by "Carolyn Keene"/"Franklin W. Dixon" and their ilk.

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By the way, I think it's obvious that Carolyn Keene was actually the Earl of Oxford.

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...or novellas/short novels. Does it matter whether they're bound separately or not?

I think Larry Niven is another borderline case for me.