Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly blog event sponsored by The Broke and the Bookish.
Let me tell you something, folks: this was a harder entry to write than it should be. I have books in my house the way that many people have dust bunnies - they're everywhere, in every room (even under the beds from time to time) and periodically float through the air when company's over and land in your coffee. Well, something like that, anyway.
Anyway, with books scattered through every room in the house, and even more in boxes in storage - there is no way I was going to hunt-and-count every book by every author. Here's my gut instinct on the authors who take up more shelf space than others, but in no particular order.
1. Tamora Pierce. Her books aren't long, but she almost always writes her YA books in quartets. I have all of her Tortall series and several of the other ones. This means a lot of volume on my shelves.
2. Mercedes Lackey. Her earlier works are better - and if you missed it, her earlier works have touched a soft spot inside of me, but I still have many of her Valdemar series in mass market and more than a few of the other books (including the Joust series) in hardcover.
3. Lois McMaster Bujold. She writes both fantasy and sci-fi, and her Vorkosigan series has been running for years now.
4. L. Frank Baum. Yes, the author of the Oz books. I have the entire original series in the Dover editions. In the event I ever have a kid, these will be required bedtime stories.
5. David Weber. His Honor Harrington series is even longer than Bujold's Vorkosigan saga, so...yeah. There are a lot of his books on my shelves.
6. Jean Plaidy/Victoria Holt. Same author, different pen names. I have a couple of Holt's historical mysteries for some reason, but mostly I have the prolific author's historical novels written under the name Plaidy. And a LOT of them, too.
7. Elizabeth Chadwick. This woman writes a lot of medieval historical fiction. I own many of them.
8. Piers Anthony. For the same reason as Lackey, I was turned onto his Xanth series as a teenager and have never been able to shed my collection of his books. I have a few of his other series, too, but I never got into them the same way I loved the Xanth books.
9. Rachel Caine. She writes adult urban fantasy and YA vampire fiction, all of which are easily found and quickly read.
10. L. A. Meyer. Meyer's "Bloody Jack" series currently has eleven books in it and there's another one expected. With no end in sight, I expect more black-spine-with-red-letters books on my shelf soon.
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