A question/survey was running around on X the other day. This one seemed a bit more interesting to me.
Omitting collected works, who are the top 5 authors in your library by number of books on your shelves?
Stephen King ~15
E.E. Knight ~12
Christopher Nuttall 11
Dave Duncan 11
Miles Cameron 9
I included both physical and ebooks in my count. Most of my Stephen King and E.E. Knight books were physical, so I don’t have an accurate count close to hand.
After considering it a little longer, I would probably have to include Piers Anthony on the list. I owned a whole stack of his books before I figured out that some of his content was a little…erm…troubling. And I wouldn’t want to drop Miles Cameron off of the list in favor of Piers.
If shared universes with multiple authors are included, then Dragonlance would easily make it into the top five. Sorry, Miles. That one would bump you off.
What are your top 5 authors of books you own?
The rest of the best is based almost exclusively on my ebook library and so it runs towards a younger author demographic. I am loath to dig through my physical books to tally up those older authors, but I know there are a few that would be well deserving of inclusion here.
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman 10 - As a duo, which I took as violating the spirit of the question.
Nick Cole 8
Mark Lawrence 8
Emma Newman 6
Sebastien de Castell 6
Peter V. Brett 6
Martha Wells 6
SM Anderson 5
Frank Cho 5
Damien Black 4
