Reading with Style discussion

Please post your Top 5 authors in this thread prior to posting for points.

Updated through post 45


Amanda
Anika
Bea
Beth
Claire
Connie
Coralie
Cory Day
D
Deedee
Don (The Book Guy)
Ed
Eleanor
Elizabeth (Alaska)
Heather
itpdx
Jayme (the ghost reader)
Jenifer
Joanna
Joy
Karen Michele
Kate S
Kath
Katlin
Katrina
Katy
Kazen
Krista
Lagullande
Norma
Phoebe
Rebekah
Rosemary
Sam
Tien
Valerie
Will

My Top 5 authors (11/22)

Agatha Christie
Mary Higgins Clark
Dean Koontz
Sue Grafton
John Grisham

My top 5 authors (11/22)

Anthony Trollope
Émile Zola
Honoré de Balzac
Anne Tyler
Jodi Picoult

My top 5 authors (including tie for 5th place)

Lois McMaster Bujold
Orson Scott Card
Ursula K. Le Guin
Kerry Greenwood
Agatha Christie
Charles Dickens
Mercedes Lackey

my top '5' authors:
1) Agatha Christie
2) Dee Henderson
3) William Shakespeare
4) Roald Dahl
5) J.A. Jance, Charles Dickens, Jean M. Auel, Richelle Mead, Willa Cather, C.S. Lewis, Robin Hobb and Juliet Marillier

Here is my list:

1 William Shakespeare 21
2 Alexander McCall Smith 13
2 Francesca Lia Block 13
4 Margaret Atwood 11
5 Jasper Fforde 10

My top 5 authors (11/22/15)

Charlaine Harris
Janet Evanovich
Alexander McCall Smith
Neil Gaiman
JK Rowling, John D. MacDonald

My top 5 authors.
1) Ann M. Martin
2) Mercedes Lackey
3) V.C. Andrews
4) Janet Evanovitch
5) Joanne Fluke

My top 5:

1. Patricia Cornwell 23
2. Terry Pratchett 13
2. Dick Francis 13
2. Robin Hobb 13
5. Erle Stanley Gardner 12

Well, I have lots and lots of ties for #5 because I've not read many series or such in 2015, when I really started using Goodreads to keep track.

Sarah Woodbury (4)
Deborah Harkness (3)
Ian Doescher (3)
Mercedes Lackey (3)
and all the 2s
Jeffrey Gitomer
Alexandre Dumas
Ernest Hemingway
Henry Petroski
Christopher Moore
Mark Kurlansky
Adam Stemple
Kelly McCullough
Seanan McGuire
Tom Peters
William Shakespeare
Daniel Goleman
Barbara Ashford
Anne McCaffrey

I feel spoiled for choices...

1 Charlaine Harris
2 Laurell K. Hamilton
3 Orson Scott Card
4 Kelley Armstrong
5 MaryJanice Davidson

My top 5 authors on 11/22/15


Stephen King (60 books)
Joyce Carol Oates (37 books)
William Trevor (32 books)
Philip Roth (20 books)
Jon Hassler (18 books)

My top 5 authors on 11/22/15:


Anita Shreve
John Steinbeck
Sarah Jio
Barbara Kingsolver

I have 7 authors tied for 5th place:
Tennessee Williams
Jodi Picoult
John Grisham
Nicholas Sparks
Elizabeth Berg
Kristin Hannah
Willa Cather

In order of appearance :

Charlaine Harris - read everything I am likely to read I think, so not likely.

Haruki Murakami - is male, so unfortunately will miss out this season for me.

Agatha Christie - woohoo! I still have a lot of these to go through

Sally Rippin - children's writer that I have read to my daughter many times. We met her this year and got a book signed, she was so lovely to my little girl!

Jeanette Winterson - finally I have a task I can use The Daylight Gate for!

My top five as of Nov 23:

Sarah MacLean
Tiffany Reisz
Lisa Kleypas
Patricia Briggs
Lorraine Heath

My top 5 as of Nov 23:

1. Agatha Christie (16)
2. Bill Bryson (9)
3. Dorothy Gilman (8)
4. JK Rowling,Alan Bradley, Elly Griffiths, James Herriot (all tied at 7 book each)

Now I don't know if these will count or not, because GR has them as #8 on the list, but the book count lands them in 5th place:

5?. RD Wingfield, Gerald Durrell (6)

1. Paul Theroux
2.Armistead Maupin
3.William Shakespeare
three tied for 4th - Joseph Hansen , Anthony Burgess , and E.F. Benson

I can now finish the Lucia series with Trouble for Lucia by E.F. Benson except I don't want it to end.

1. Walker Percy
2. Haruki Murakami
3. Raymond Carver
(all of the above tied for 1st place)

4. Gillian Flynn
5. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
6. Miriam Toews
7. Larry Brown
8. Suzanne Collins
9. F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. T.C. Boyle
11. Dave Eggers (Author)
12. Joyce Carol Oates
(all of the above tied for 4th place)

Should I narrow these down to five and just select two from the the #4 list? Thanks!

rebekah, your most read authors are:

1 Carolyn Keene 55
2 61105 Dr. Seuss 26
3 20828 Susan Wittig Albert 24
3 3389 Stephen King 24
3 947 William Shakespeare 24

Here are my most read authors:

1 Jim Butcher
2 Haruki Murakami
3 Margaret Atwood
4 Paul Auster
5 Jane Austen
5 Chuck Palahniuk
5 J.K. Rowling
5 Jasper Fforde
5 Anne Tyler - last minute addition!

My most read authors:

J A Jance - 31
Charlaine Harris - 24
Michael Connelly - 23
James Patterson - 23
Janet Evanovich - 22
Stuart Woods - 22

My most read authors as 11/23/15
1 Jim Butcher (17)
2 Margaret Atwood (5)
Isabel Allende (5)
Terry Pratchett (5)
5 Wallace Stegner (4)
Timothy Egan (4)
Sherman Alexie (4)
Naguib Mahfouz (4)

Lot of Charlaine Harris fans and Agatha Christie.

My most read authors are:

1. Takehiko Inoue (30)
2. Yoko Shoji (26)
3. Hisaya Nakajo (23)
3. Raymond E. Feist (23)
5. James Patterson (22)

err... looks like I'll be reading James Patterson's as I haven't read manga in years and I couldn't use them for this challenge anyway plus I've kinda lost my interest in Feist -unless if I reread Magician...

Magician was really good.

Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Magician was really good."

It WAS! I just don't do much re-reading and I'm not sure which box my copy is in... (moved house 2 years ago and some books are still in boxes lol)

Have you read all his books that are out?

This is the thread for posting lists. Please continue your conversation in the socializing thread.

Sorry :)

1. William Shakespeare (18)
2. Neil Gaiman (11)
3. Anne Rice (10)
4. Jeanette Winterson (9)
5. Orson Scott Card (8) and J.K. Rowling (8)

1. MC Beaton, Marion Chesney (28) -- Yes, I do secretly love Agatha Raisin with all her glorious imperfections!
2. Norah Roberts (26) -- Meh, haven't read her in years.
3. Janet Evanovich (25) -- Good ol' Stephanie Plum
4. Sue Grafton (21) -- Maybe I'll pencil in Kinsey's 'W' book for this task.
5. J.A. Jance (20) -- I'm caught up on the JP Beaumont series, so maybe I'll see what is next in the Joanna Brady series. (I don't like the Ali Reynolds series)

Sheesh -- what a bunch of lightweight stuff! Oh well, these are also pretty prolific authors.

Loads of ties

Margaret Atwood 8
Neil Gaiman 8
J.K Rowling 8
Charles Dickens 7
Jane Austen 6
John Steinbeck 5
Stephanie Meyers 5
Susan Hill 4
Muriel Spark 4
H.G Wells 4
Leo Tolstoy 4
Ian McEwan 4
Isabel Allende 4

From my current goodreads profile (as of 2015-11-28). This might change significantly in the future when I add many more books that I have, but I consider myself bound by this list for the Winter 2015-16 Task:
1. John Sandford 32
2. Ian Rankin 18
2. David Baldacci 18
4. Lee Child 16
5. John D. MacDonald 13

1) Chuck Palahniuk
2) Neil Gaiman
3) J.K. Rowling
4) Christopher Moore
5) Arthur Conan Doyle

Maybe I'll finally get around to reading The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror as this year's Christmas book for this task!

I have a three-way tie for 5th place.
Here is my list as of 11/30/15:

1) Kate Sedley 22
2) Ellen Datlow 16
2) Robert Silverberg 16
2) Margaret Maron 16
5) Mercedes Lackey 13
5) Jack McDevitt 13
5) Charlaine Harris 13

My list as of now:
1. J K Rowling
2. Irène Némirovsky
2. Katherine Mansfield
4. Anita Brookner
5. Andrea Levy
5. George Orwell
5. Philip Pullman
5. Sebastian Faulks
5. Barbara Kingsolver

I'm quite surprised (but pleased) that it is so female-dominated.

1 Terry Pratchett 40
2 Stephen King 35
3 Edgar Allan Poe 24
4 Mercedes Lackey 23
5 Stan Lee 21
5 H.P. Lovecraft 21

And I've already counted The Shepherd's Crown for part of my dominoes.... Looks like I'm either catching up on my King or reading comics.

My top five...
1. Dana Stabenow
2. Laurie R. King
3. Nevada Barr
4. David Baldacci
4. Mira Grant

1 Agatha Christie 91
2 Ruth Rendell 46
3 Ellis Peters 21
4 Beatrix Potter 20
5 Mary Stewart 18

1. Nora Roberts (15)
2. JR Ward (14)
3. Lauren Willig (14)
4. Karen Marie Moning (14)
5. Charlaine Harris (14)

Jane Austen
Terry Pratchett
Oscar Wilde
Lois MacMaster Bujold
Ngaio Marsh
Agatha Christie

1. Stephen King
2. Wolfgang Hohlbein
3. Hugh Howey
4. David Eddings
5. J.R.R. Tolkien, Michael Köhlmeier, Douglas Preston

1 Kurt Vonnegut (16)
2 William Shakespeare (15)
3 Jane Austen (9)
4 David Sedaris (8)
4 Margaret Atwood (8)