Main authors whose books you have?

[Kyriakos]

By that i mean authors of whom you have at least three or more works. The works have to be by that author, not about him/her.

If you want to you can provide a more intricate list as well, as in how many books you have by who.

In my library there are two shelves where each holds works of a sole author. These are of Dostoevsky (almost all the novels and a large number of short stories) and Kafka (everything published, stories, novels, letters, diaries, notebooks, aphorisms).

After that there are more than ten books by Lovecraft, and the same for Poe and De Maupassant.

Then there are approximately 7 books by Baudelaire and the same for E.T.A. Hoffmann.

After that there are at least three books by each, for Ibsen, Strindberg, Aristotle, Camus, Heidegger and Cavafy.

I think that the rest are either single books, or at most two by each remaining author.

The total number of books is around 700.

 

[NiRv4n4]

Tolkien - LotR, Hobbit, Silmarillion, a cool book of his art.

Crichton - especially like Jurassic Park and Timeline

 

[Formaldehyde]

I have everything that Kurt Vonnegut, Carl Hiassen, Neal Stephenson, Patrick O'Brien, John D MacDonald, and Robert Crais have ever written. I also have most of the Rex Stout books and I've read them all. Same with Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and Frederick Pohl (Gateway). I think I'm still missing one or two by Robert Littrell, Charles McCarry, Alan Furst, George Fraser (Flashman), Donald Westlake (Dortmunder), and Bernard Cornwell (Sharpe's). There are dozens of authors whom I have 3 or more books. If I really like an author I eventually read all his works.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Another vote for George Fraser and The Flashman series . Beyond awesome .

A quick mental recollection of the bookshelf reveals 3 or more by Cormac McArthy , Tolstoy , Jack London and Tennessee Williams (plays) . I'm not a big book collector though and there are numerous authors that I've read more than 3 books by , but I generally use the library , book exchange or give them away after reading them.

 

[Supr49er]

John Irving.

 

[sanabas]

Quite a lot of authors that I have more than 3 books by. Those that I have close to a complete collection (I think) are Lois McMaster Bujold, Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, Charles Stross, Terry Pratchett, Irvine Welsh, Douglas Adams, Nick Earls, Chuck Palahniuk, Spider Robinson, John Wyndham, HG Wells, Shane Maloney, Ben Elton, James Herriott, Hunter S Thompson, Max Barry, Michael Marshall/Michael Marshall Smith and Iain Banks/Iain M Banks. Also plenty of stuff by Stephen King, Richard Laymon, Clive Barker, Tom Sharpe, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Tom Holt, Jasper Fforde, Robert Heinlein and Eric Flint. Plus plenty of others I'm forgetting.

 

[Tycho]

Tolkein, Martin, William L. Shirer, Albert Speer, HG Wells, Niven, and Arthur C. Clarke.

 

[SuperJay]

Off the top of my head? Patrick O'Brian, Tolkien, Shakespeare, Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemmingway, Jane Austen, Thomas Pynchon, H.G. Wells, Mark Twain, Joseph Heller, William Faulkner, George Orwell, Stephen King, James Clavell, George R.R. Martin, Toni Morrison, Lauren Hillenbrand, Neil Gaiman, Herman Wouk, David Eddings, Leon Uris, Jon Krakauer, Anthony Bourdain, Chuck Palahniuk, Steig Larsson, Stephen Ambrose, Brett Easton Ellis, and others I can't recall in my mental image of my bookshelves at home.

I don't own anything by J.K. Rowling or Stephanie Meyer.