an author meme

[lirazel]

Stolen from muccamukk, a meme: listing authors where you've read five or more of their titles, optionally sorted into categories and/or time period.

I'm skipping picture books and going straight to "chapter books." I'm sure there's some childhood stuff I've missed.


My own personal classics (aka the books I have reread most in my life):
L.M. Montgomery
Robin McKinley
Sydney Taylor
Maud Hart Lovelace
Megan Whalen Turner
Eva Ibbotson
Beth Brower (I haven't reread hers YET, but I certainly will)


Childhood stuff:
L. Frank Baum
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mary Norton
Louisa May Alcott
Elswyth Thane


Classics:
Jane Austen
William Faulkner
Shakespeare
Virginia Woolf
Probably Dickens?


Series written by multiple ghostwriters (aka cheating):
The Star Wars expanded universe novels
Sweet Valley Twins
The Babysitters Club
Nancy Drew
The Hardy Boys
The Bobbsey Twins
The Boxcar Children


Romance:
Joanna Bourne
Georgette Heyer
Tracy/Teresa Grant
Stella Riley
Courtney Milan
Julia Quinn (I don't even like her books that much but somehow I have read so many of them?)


Mysteries:
Dorothy L. Sayers
Tana French
Agatha Christie
Patricia Wentworth
Anne Perry
Charles Todd
Elizabeth George


Speculative fiction:
Naomi Novik
Guy Gavriel Kay
Frances Hardinge
Maggie Stiefvater
Lois McMaster Bujold
J.K. Rowling


Cross-categories:
Ursula K. Le Guin
Madeleine L'Engle
Barbara Hambly
James Baldwin
C.S. Lewis
Frederick Buechner
Mary Stewart