Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Authors I Own The Most Books From

Hosted each week by The Broke and the Bookish, it's a meme for listing the top ten for everything bookish.

It's been awhile since I've done a top ten post (June), but, to be honest, this is the first top ten that I actually have ideas for all month!
Anyway, a bit of a disclaimer for this post. I READ YA BOOKS (mostly). I ALSO READ NEW BOOKS.
Did you get that? Okay. 
My point is, most YA book series are not extraordinarily long and most YA authors do not have a long list of books written.
Especially since I'm reading new releases!
So, even though I own over 500 books (not including ebooks), this won't be a very impressive list.
It's also going to be painfully obvious that I have some series with holes in them.

P.S. Click the cover for the Goodreads page!

1. Erin Hunter
(28 books)
I was introduced to this series when I was in the 6th grade and while I was definitely a reader before then, this is the series that made me a much more passionate reader. I was OBSESSED with this series! My friends and I would even pretend to be in the Warrior world (I was Goldenfur, the Thunderclan medicine cat by the way. And I still use that name out of habit on practically every website). I stopped reading the series around 3 or 4 years ago, because it was beginning to be repetitive and never-ending, but I still love this series and it was such a big part of my life that I have kept all of the books.

2. Margaret Peterson Haddix
(10 books)
I know, big gap, right? From 28 to 10! Anyway, Haddix is kind of another throwback. I discovered The Missing series when I was a freshman in highschool (maybe earlier. I didn't keep track of when I read what until Goodreads) and I loved it! I love time travel, I even loved it back then, and it was an amazing time travel series! I also loved the fact that there was no romance, which I avoided like the plague at the time. In 2012 I gave The Shadow Children a try and I enjoyed it, not as much, but I enjoyed it (I'm actually STILL working on that series! Only one more left!). And I went to a cheap used book-sale a few months ago, where I got to fill a bag full of as many books as I could and only pay $10, and I got the other two Haddix books. So, a bit of a throwback, but I still read her books so...


3. Julie Kagawa
(10 books-kind of)
I say "kind of" because, as you can see, I have two copies of The Immortal Rules. I bought the original one before they changed the cover and then I later bought the new version to match The Forever Song (And I know I don't have The Eternity Cure! I'm working on it!). But since I really like the original cover, I haven't gotten rid of it.


4. Rick Riordan
(10 books)
Not really a surprise!
Rick Riordan is one of my favorite authors!

5. Jennifer L. Armentrout
(9 books)

Jennifer writes so many books, I'm actually surprised that I don't own more from her!


6. Cassandra Clare
(8 books)

Again, not a surprise!


7. J.K. Rowling
(7 books)

Is it really that surprising that J.K. made the list? I just did the 8's, THE SEVEN was bound to appear!

8. Michael Grant
(7 books)

Yes, I know, Michael Grant wasn't the only author that wrote Eve & Adam, but I'm still counting it!

9. Ally Carter
(7 books)

I know that Double Crossed is a novella, but I own it, so I'm counting it!

10.  C.C. Hunter
(7 books)

Just ignore the novella...


What authors do you own a lot of books from? 

7 comments :

  1. Wow, those are a lot of Erin Hunter books ! XD

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    1. Yeah XD
      That was my middle school obsession! If I still read the books, I would probably have more! Erin has more series now and, of course, the Warriors books has more books now, too.

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  2. Oh wow! I've never even heard of Erin Hunter and you have so many books. I didn't read when I was younger, so that's probably why. I'll have to check them out and see if I'd enjoy them. I love middle grade and YA and cats, lol.

    My TTT Post

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    1. It's one of those weird series that is really poplar, but also under the radar, so it's not all that surprising that you haven't heard of it. But I really loved the series, so I definitely recommend them!

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  3. Awesome list. I haven't read any of the Warrior Cat books. I'm afraid that my list would be pathetic. I buy so many books that usually I just end up with a bunch of singles by authors. My list would include a lot of Nicholas Sparks though. I have all of his books.

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    1. That actually happens to me a lot, too. I have a whole lot of trilogies and debuts on my shelves!

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  4. wow 28 books!? I do understand what it's like to be obsessed with a series since you were young. I was also obsessed in Hardy Boys when I was 12 or 13 and I still am now :P
    my top ten tuesday: http://wp.me/p3v5T1-ua

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