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The Broke and the Bookish ask us to list the top ten authors we own the books by this week. A few were obvious, but I had to sit down in front of my shelves and do a little bit of counting. Some, likes Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, are in huge anthologies, so I thought that that was a slightly grey area. Here's what I came up with, based purely on physical copies:
1. JK Rowling: 8 (Potter series plus the disappointing The Casual Vacancy)
2. Thomas Hardy: 7 (took a seminar on him in college)
3. Nick Hornby: 7 (love him!)
4. Michael Chabon: 6 (half are my husband's, but I intend to read them all)
5. Ian McEwan: 5
6. Margaret Atwood: 5 (reading The Year of the Flood right now)
7. Jonathan Safran Foer: 4
8. Richard Russo: 3
9. Gary Shtenygart: 3
10. Zadie Smith: 3
There are many others that I own three of, I just cut it down to the ones that made me seemed the most literate and cultrally aware.
Now you're making me feel bad. I honestly included Clive Cussler, which is just embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteSo far JK Rowling has been on EVERY shelf! That's pretty amazing. You have a few authors I've never heard of -- making a note to look them up. Here is mine: Top Ten Tuesday at Long and Short Reviews
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ReplyDeleteHmmmm. I took a paper on William Shakespeare in uni, so I have a whole bunch of his plays . . . but because most of them are in a single big volume, I didn't even think of him when I was making my list! He was the only author who got his own paper, so there's no other classic writer whose works I had a similar excuse for collecting.
J.K. Rowling made my list, too. :) I'm ashamed to admit I only read my first Margaret Atwood book a couple of weeks ago, and now I want to read everything she's ever written!
ReplyDeleteI had no idea Nick Hornby had that many books out! I only own two of his. I had to take all my pride out of posting my list haha.
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