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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 02:52pm on 28/02/2005 under
[livejournal.com profile] nhw has posted a meme where you list those authors you've read or own 10 or more books by.



So far I've managed to construct the following list from my memories and a little judicious bibliography surfing on the web:

Authors I own 10 books by:

Ursula Le Guin
Steven Brust
C. J. Cherryh
David Brin
Diana Wynne Jones
Gene Wolfe
Roger Zelazny
Lois McMaster Bujold
Robert van Gulik
Iain Banks
Haruki Murakami
Joseph Campbell
Anne McCaffrey

Authors I've read 10 books by:

Larry Niven
Isaac Asimov
Robert A. Heinlein
Harry Harrison
Arthur C. Clarke*
Poul Anderson*
Jack Vance
Arthur Ransome*

and doubtless others I've forgotten from my childhood.

* I've starred the ones I'm less than certain I've read the requisite 10.


It's interesting that there's an obvious age related difference between the lists. I've read a fair bit of old SF but don't own much of it nowadays. In contrast the 'own 10' list is populated by a lot of new comers (Bujold and Brust particularly) and would have Greg Egan on it too if he'd only get more written and published. Tim Powers almost made the 'own 10 books' cut but we're stuck at 9 and aren't likely to pick up Epitaph in Rust or The Skies Discrowned.
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posted by [identity profile] wwhyte.livejournal.com at 07:12pm on 28/02/2005
Wow. I didn't realise Murakami had written ten books. I think I may have ten books by George Orwell back in Dublin, which I'm quite proud of.
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posted by [personal profile] mylescorcoran at 12:56am on 01/03/2005
I've own exactly 10 books; I'm going to pick up Kafka on the Shore soon .

The ten are:

After the Quake; Underground; Sputnik Sweetheart; The Wind-up Bird Chronicle; Dance Dance Dance; The Elephant Vanishes; South of the Border, West of the Sun; Hard-boiled Wonderland; Norwegian Wood; A Wild Sheep Chase.

I have a nagging feeling that I'm missing someone obvious in the '10 owned' category, probably a childhood favourite.

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