10 writers who’s books I’ve read five or more of:

>>24552312 (OP)
1. Wodehouse

>>24552312 (OP)
> etc.
god I hate this poser.

>>24552312 (OP)
>1- Balzac
Based.

>>24552325
mediocre sentimentalists are now based

Patrick O’Brian
Hemmingway
Cormac
Faulkner
Shakespeare
Dostoevsky
Waugh
Matthiessen
Conrad
Naipaul
Burroughs
Henry Miller

>>24552312 (OP)
Stephen king
Grrm
BALLARD
Mccarthy
Gene wolfe
Maurice Druon
John wyndham
Patricia highsmith
Bakker
RL Stine

>>24552312 (OP)
He seems like a Francophile, nice
I'm just getting into Balzac and he wrote so many works it'll be easy to work his way up to my top 10.

>>24552461
This. Balzac is nice, easy reading. Proust is slow, boring, and hurts my head.

>>24552312 (OP)
Mishima
Chekhov
Kafka
Plato
Shakespeare
Ovid
Goethe

>>24553104
Ovid has more than one book?

>>24552312 (OP)
dirty arab

Bataille
Beckett
Burroughs
Gide
Huysmans
Jaeggy
Klossowski
Pasolini
Pound
Schwob
etc.

>>24553143
not an arab

>>24553112
He also wrote C-OVID

>>24552320
Rummy chap.

>>24552456
I feel like people are lying. Most would have to put up King and other sloppa writers in their top numbers if they were honest. Similarly just having read GURMs one series puts him on the list let alone all the other fantasy authors with endless series. Scifi ain’t much better. If you read The Expanse now it’s on your list.

But of course the only prestige is when your list is full of authors who didn’t write series. Cormy, Dosto and Kafka look a lot better.
>>24552312 (OP)
Trollope and Greene are like lit acceptable sloppa writers thoughbeit.

>>24553388
Hard to include short story authors. When I read Borges and Kafka it was from editions of "the complete fictions/stories."
Dosto is not really laudable.
Neither are poets generally by this metric. You know how little effort it takes to read a book of poetry end to end?
Same with a play, even if it is Shakespeare - especially if it's him.

Dante
Herman Hesse
Shakespeare

>>24552312 (OP)
I've read 47 books by homer.

Hmm lets see

DeLillo
DFW
Mishima
Pk Dick
Hesse
Mann
Goethe
Schiller
Kafka
Rowling
Balzac
Dostojewski
Tao Lin
Houellebecq
ETA Hoffmann (barely counts since its all little novelas)
Nietzsche
Plato (read his entire works, so that surel, counts)
Sophocles
I feel like theres a couple more but those are all i can remember right now

>>24553864
does tao lin have 5 books

>>24553868
Since you refuse to google im just going to guess but i think hes written like 7-8 novels

Richard Yates
Eeeee Eeeee Eeee
Shoplifting from american apparel
Taipei
Trip
Leave Society

These i can name from the get go.

>>24553104
Shakespeare doesn't have more than 5 books lmao

books =/= works

Update from the king of /lit/

henreader
40010prototype
Higashiyama Show
rustle
kyaradine
haguhagu
Kuromotokun
muk
airandou
kinomoto anzu
mdo-h
jk rowling

>>24553918
are those japanese comic books?

>>24553924
yup

>>24552312 (OP)
just counting novels:

Dick
Lem
Gene Wolfe
HG Wells
Conan Doyle
Remarque
Houellebecq
Nabokov
Hesse
Bernhard

I'm not how to count a book or work but I'll say I have read everything by:
Lovecraft (except letter correspondence)
Lewis Carroll (except some math papers)
Poe (except critic analysis articles)
Milton (except political tracts and pamphlets)
Aristophanes
Euripides
Sophocles
Aeschylus
(except lost works of those last ones)

PK DICK
Stephen King
Dan Abnett (wh40k lol, Inquisitor trilogy was cool)
I don't think there will ever be lots of authors that I will have read 5+ books. Zola, Steinbeck, once I finish a few more books. Very unlikely to be reading anyone else so much.

>>24552345
No, just Balzac.

>>24552312 (OP)
any author who has wrote more than five books is worthless

>>24552312 (OP)
Isaac Asimov
Jules Verne
Yukio Mishima

>>24552312 (OP)
The maximum of books I have read from the same writer is 3.

>>24552312 (OP)
1. Nabokov
2. Bret Easton Ellis
My list is neither extensive nor beyond contemporary fiction :P

>>24552312 (OP)
Shakespeare
Gibbon
Spinoza (all)
Hegel
Goethe
Nietzsche
Emerson
Hawthorne
Carlyle
Dickens
Hardy
Lawrence
A. Powell
D. Garnett
Nancy Mitford
Balzac
Zola
France
Colette
Proust
Tolstoy
Dostoyevsky
Chekhov
Nabokov
H. James
Bruce Catton
Fitzgerald
Hemingway
Chandler
Faulkner
MFK Fisher
Pynchon
McCarthy
Wilson-Knight
Barthes
Baudrillard
Angus Fletcher (the elder)
Calasso
Sloterdijk
Bloom

>>24555126
Whom did you like the most?

>>24553876
C’mon man, let me have this one, my list is too short.

>>24555256
alright, alright but only because you're a nice guy

i track this on my spreadsheet i've been keeping since 2014
there are a bunch of more obvious others that qualify that i had read prior to starting to track it - off the top of my head dostoyevsky, tolstoy, shakespeare, austen, kafka, other classics like that probably qualify. oh and italo calvino

>>24552312 (OP)
I've read like 40 books each from Terry Pratchett and Kalle Päätalo

>>24553112
yes
I've read Metamorphoses, Amores, Epistulae Heroidum, Ars Amatoria, Remedia Amoris and that's not even all he wrote
Ars Amatoria is fucking pick up artist manual in elegiac distichs with a focus on older married women, it's too based for this board
also forgot Thomas Mann because Lotte in Weimar really sucked but the other 4 books I read from him were good

i'm a late bloomer, so i try to not stick with any one author; but it started with +5 books from steven erikson.

>R. L. Stein
>Robert E. Howard
>Isaac Asimov
>Robert Heinlein
Am I pleb

>>24555558
based.

>>24552312 (OP)
Why would you end a list of ten items with "etc."? You finished the list, what are you indicating?

>>24552312 (OP)
best books by trollope?

>>24553868
Here is a new interview of tao lin
interesting guy
https://www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/tao-lin-on-sex-drugs-and-his-spiritual-awakening

>>24553104
Several of these did not write five books

>>24552368
>memingway

>>24555151
Thucydides, Montaigne, and Cervantes (unless one divides DQ and includes short stories) can't be on the list, unfortunately, but so far as classics and my list of 40 are concerned probably Shakespeare, but Dickens is close, as is Tolstoy. I love Fletcher's criticism too, for what it's worth, and Spinoza's my favorite outright philosopher-- by far

>>24552312 (OP)
>okay so here's a list of 10 (ten) authors that fit this criteria
>Here they are, numbered properly, from 1 (one) to 10 (ten)
>I'll end this list with "etc"
>this shows I've read MORE than 10 authors that fit my criteria.
>it invalidates making the list, but I got insecure last minute between googling books and authors, I'll just tack that on.

It just irritates me so badly I'm sorry friends

>>24557624
Roger, that. Being anonymous was the only way I could participate in this thread, although a kind of shame was attendant nonetheless. IRL I'd reveal none of this

>>24552312 (OP)
Kafka
Hemingway
Dostoyevsky
Miller
Tolstoy
Lawrence
Mann
Conrad
Nietzsche
Faulkner
Hesse
James
Murakami
Mailer
Emerson (his 4 LoA books which is like 4000 pages so I’m counting it)
Thoreau
Goethe
WCW
Flaubert
Proust (?)
Balzac

>>24552368
>Hemingway
yikes

Lot of people with 10 Balzacs here

>>24552312 (OP)
Moses
Paul
Sophocles
Euripides
Aeschylus
Rick Riordan when I was 14
Plato
James Dashner
Anonymous
Uhhh /lit/bros I'm not feeling too good...
etc.

>>24557769
because you can just read one balzac and say you read the all, there's no actual test to find out if you're lying because they're all exactly the same.

>>24557876
Wrong anon. The correct response was:
10 ballsacks lmao

>>24552345
>the one (uno) realist writer that stopped romantic slop
>sentimentalist
Absolute state of /lit/.

>>24552312 (OP)
Do individual novellas count as well?

>>24558061
Fakes realism with easy platitudes. The discerning reader sees through him quickly

etc.

>>24553870
Hmm, I read all except the last two.

>>24558061
I've actually read Balzac, and you're oversimplifying and fundamentally misunderstanding his place in literary history. He's not a sentimentalist in the cheap, pejorative sense, but he's also nothing like the naturalism of Zola. His works are full of melodrama, moralizing, and emotionally intense scenes, and his characters are often closer to archetypes of even caricatures.

That anon is still retarded, though, because Balzac is a great writer and Illusions perdues is one of the best novels of the 19th century.

He can't keep getting away with it!

>>24558559
>full of melodrama, moralizing, and emotionally intense scenes
Yes, realism. Life isn't the proto-Skinner dullness of Zola (except when shilling his trash politics, then all hand on deck).

>>24559196
Missing two among the best: Sebastian Knight, The Gift

Dosto
NEETche
Plato
Aristotle
Jung
Joyce
Hiaasen
Palahniuk
..Mishima?
If shorts count Tolstoy

>>24559196
I don't understand this at all. Why would you spend so much time reading an author that you "don't particularly like." I understand reading 3-4 books thinking that maybe you just haven't found the right one, waiting for it to click, but sixteen? This is a whole nother level of posturing.

>>24559828
It is a next level flex.

>>24552312 (OP)
A. C. Clarke
I. Asimov
C. S. Forester
D. Adams
R. Silverberg
V. Mollo
I. Chernev
F. Reinfeld
L. F. Baum
J. R. R. Tolkien
C. S. Lewis
R. Goscinny & A. Uderzo
G. Remi (Herge)
G. Trudeau
J. D. Fitzgerald
J. Thurber
L. Bernstein
W. Awdrey
T. Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
T. Southern
J. Verne

>>24552320
definitely the first one that came to mind

>>24552312 (OP)
R.L. Stein

JRR Tolkien
CS Lewis
Rick Riordan
Lemony Snicket
RL Stein
Erin Hunter
Michael Grant
Thats it, pls dont be mean to me ;_;

>>24559926
well it's a start. nothing to be ashamed of

>>24559859
I'm going to need you to rearrange your list alphabetically to appease my autism

Hamsun
Gogol(if you count some short stories as novella-lenght)
...And that's it. I don't binge usually binge authors, and Hamsun had 5 novellas in one 1000-page book so that's an exception

>>24559196
> I hate Nabokov and the way he writes
> ...
> gee I wonder if he's written anything else
is he retarded?

>>24560750
He said Nabokov is a tryhard (!)