Welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s top ten prompt is Authors I’ve Read the Most Books By, which had me thinking back to some of the series I enjoyed as a kid as well as some of my favourite authors today. Of course, it helps if you’re a prolific author, like some of the authors in my list, and it probably comes as no real surprise that some of these authors are still favourites today! As long as they keep writing, I’ll keep reading them!
Topping the list at approximately forty books EACH are Agatha Christie and Bodie (& Brock) Thoene. I honestly can’t remember how many of Agatha Christie’s books I’ve read, but I figure forty is a pretty good guess considering how many I have on my shelf. And I think I counted at least thirty-eight for the Thoenes, but as they’re currently packed away in a box awaiting our move, I couldn’t verify.
Next at twenty-eight books read is Susan May Warren, although I have a feeling I’m forgetting a few. At any rate, I haven’t made it to forty yet, so she’s a solid second place in my most-read hierarchy. You can read plenty of my reviews right here on my blog, for example Way of the Brave and Knox.
Sitting at twenty-five books read are two very different authors! You don’t have to hang around here long to know that Ronie Kendig is one of my favourite authors, and if you count the number of times I’ve read some of her books, that number could easily rival (perhaps even surpass) the approximately forty listing! Brand of Light is one of my favourites, as is her current thriller series beginning with Storm Rising.
The other author is Hilda Stahl, who wrote the Elizabeth Gail series that I read as a pre-teen along with a few of those quintessential prairie romances of 1980s and 1990s Christian fiction.
When it comes to medieval romance, Tamara Leigh is my go-to, as evidenced by the fact that I’ve read twenty-one of her books. There are a few contemporary romances in there too, which are also a great read. Check out my reviews for Faking Grace or Fearless.
Anyone else out there read the Three Investigators series with Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews? I don’t know whether this one technically counts, because while Robert J. Arthur started the series, I believe there were a few authors who took over the series after about twelve or so books, but I really did love these books as a young reader. I had to have a bit of a guess at how many of them I had as I’ve lost track of where they are (probably somewhere at my parents’ place, and probably all but fallen apart, considering how old they were when I read them as a kid!) . But my blog, my rules, so in the list they go!
The final three of my ten most read authors are tied on eleven books each: Roseanna White, Melissa Tagg, and L.M. Montgomery. Anne of Green Gables and the series that follows her life was a favourite when I was growing up, and The Blue Castle is a favourite of mine now. For Roseanna’s books, check out my reviews for The Number of Love and A Name Unknown, and for Melissa Tagg, check out my reviews for Keep Holding On and Now and Then and Always.
I’ve only just started with Agatha Christie! Slowly catching up with the classics!
Great list, thanks for sharing!
My TTT is here http://bookloverssanctuary.com/2020/07/07/top-ten-tuesday-authors-i-have-read-most-books-by/
Interesting list without some different choices!
I’ve never read a single Agatha Christie book. Someday I really need to! She seems so iconic.
My TTT.
Agatha Christie has been on several lists today, and I’ve never read any of her work! Clearly I need to fix that! Here is my Top Ten Tuesday.
Several authors you named are also on my most read list including Ronie Kendig, Susan May Warren and Tamara Leigh. I was at my parents’ house recently and just packed up an almost entire set of the Elizabeth Gail books. I just can’t get rid of them.
My most read authors are Gilbert Morris and Emilie Loring at 60 and 50 books respectively. Whew!
I love how you formatted this post. It’s very eye-catching.