Who are your "Most Read Authors"

[Ken B]

Joshua wrote: "It's hard to keep track sometimes but I think this is pretty accurate.

Alan Moore
HP Lovecraft
Neil Gaiman
Warren Ellis
Thomas Ligotti
Stephen King (from youth)
Jonathan Hickman
Clive Barker
Rick ..."

Try this and see if the results are any different:

Go to "My Books". Look in the left column near the bottom and you will find a link "most read authors". Copy and paste the top ten here. You may have to clean the list up (formatting, not content!) a bit before posting.

[Marie]

Ken wrote: "Marie wrote: "The reason you are seeing this list is because I went a few pages back in this thread and found it from 2 years ago. :) I like to explore the threads in HA to see what I have missed f..."

You are welcome! :) I love exploring and finding cool threads on HA. Sometimes I will spend hours on here just going through the threads and seeing what kind of "treasure threads" have been hidden from view. :)

[Phil]

1. Stephen King - 66 (Goodreads says 59, but they also count Richard Bachman as a separate author)
2. Agatha Christie - 38
2. Terry Pratchett - 38
4. Brian Lumley - 32
5. F. Paul Wilson - 31
6. Michael Moorcock - 30
7. Ray Bradbury - 29
8. Brian Keene - 28
9. Robert Silverberg - 25
10. Joe R. Lansdale - 24

[Michelle]

1. Jackie Collins- 20
2. Anne Rice- 20
3. Dr. Seuss- 10
4. Danielle Steel- 10
5. Laura Ingalls Wilder- 9
6. Walt Disney Company- 9
7. Charlaine Harris- 9
8. Stephen King- 8
9. Sidney Sheldon- 8
10. VC Andrews- 7

Looks like I read a lot of popular authors from the 80's

[Albert]

1 Edward Lee 33
2 Arthur Conan Doyle 26
3 Anonymous 25
4 Terry Brooks 20
5 Piers Anthony 20
6 Ray Garton 20
7 Margaret Weis 18
8 Edgar Rice Burroughs 18
9 Matt Shaw 16
10 H. G. Wells 15
10 Stephen King 15

Interesting to see what authors people are reading the most. Will see about updating my list every December.

[Alan]

Stephen King - 67
Brian Lumley - 37
Terry Pratchett - 34
John Grisham - 29
Douglas Preston - 28
James Patterson - 27
Patricia Cornwell - 26
F. Paul Wilson - 26
Agatha Christie - 24
Bentley Little - 21

Agatha Christie is not accurate. I've read more like 50-60 of hers, but so long ago I don't remember the books enough to rate them.

[Rafael]

Agatha Christie - 34
Georges Simenon - 18
Bernard Cornwell - 16
Mary del Priore - 11
J.R.R. Tolkien - 11
William Shakespeare - 10
Christian Jacq - 10
Arthur Conan Doyle - 10
Isaac Asimov - 9
Mário Curtis Giordani - 8

[WendyB]

Jonathan Maberry 32
Stephen King 28
Douglas Preston 24
Lee Child 15
Dean Koontz 14
Robert McCammon 13
J.A. Konrath 13
Charles Dickens 13
Blake Crouch 12
Ronald Malfi 12
Dan Simmons 12
Jeff Strand 11

[Tawnee]

1 Stephen King 59
2 Douglas Preston 22
3 Dean Koontz 19
4 David Eddings 15
4 Tess Gerritsen 15
6 Brian Jacques 14
6 James Rollins 14
8 J.K. Rowling 9
9 Robert Jordan 7
9 Garth Nix 7

Couple of ties. I read almost all the Redwall books as a kid so that accounts for Brian Jacques. :) The others I'm not surprised by at all.

[Eric]

1. David Gemmell 17
2. Steven Brust 13
3. Michael J. Sullivan 9
4. Brian Keene 8
4. Chris Grabenstein 8
6. Dave Duncan 7
7. Harlan Coben 5
7. Richard Laymon 5
7. J.A. Konrath 5
7. Kealan Patrick Burke 5

Probably not completely accurate as I haven't logged a lot of my reading prior to 2008 on here, for example I've read the first 9 of Jim Butcher's Dresden series which would put him high on the list.

[Mickey]

1 Stephen King 22
2 Michael Crichton 6
3 Robert Kirkman 6
4 Garth Ennis 6
5 John Grisham 5
6 Jeph Loeb 3
7 Elmore Leonard 3
8 Nicholas Sparks 3
9 Dr. Seuss 3
10 Anne Rice 3

[Jay]

My top five:
Robert B. Parker - 64
Stephen King - 60
Simon R. Green - 44
Walter Mosley - 26
Jim Butcher - 20

[Mike]

Stephen King
Clive Barker
Robert McCammon