Complete an author challenge (Kevin)

[Kevin]

This year I am giving myself the complete an author challenge and working to finish Guy Gavriel Kay, L.E. Modesitt, and Neil Gaiman.
Any one else interested?

[Brenda ╰☆╮]

Sounds like a great challenge. I created a new folder for it.

[Bill]

Good luck Kevin. I am much too scattered to concentrate on individual authors.

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

I read a load of Sanderson a few years ago as a new year target.

[Brenda ╰☆╮]

I have no doubt, that I will read all of Sanderson, eventually, Helen.
It will not be a challenge for me.
; )

[Kevin]

Well I am plugging away at my challenge and realizing that it may be hard or impossible to find all of Neil Gaiman's writings. One of his limited edition books sells in the $200+ range... May have to skip that one... Maybe picking three authors was a bit of a reach.

[Brenda ╰☆╮]

I would say.....just meet the challenge with book availability.
: )

[Margret]

Oh yeah I would just pretend that one didn't exist lol

[Anna]

I have a long term goal of reading everything I can reasonably get my hands on by Diana Wynne Jones, Neil Gaiman and Ursula K. Le Guin. I don't think any of these can happen in a year, maybe not ever, but it's nice to think I might get there at some point. I'm not in a hurry with any of these, just making sure I read some of their stuff every now and then.

[Kevin]

Thats great. I love most of Gaimans stuff but the issue I am having is being able to tell which stuff I have read because of the many compositions and editions. I think I am going to have to leave his challenge at all available short stories and novels. His comic books are just to overwhelming when trying to figure out where a new story might be. I love Ursula and I am planning on trying some DWJ this year.

[Kevin]

Update- I have read 34 books/stories by Neil Gaiman 6 to go...
2 books by Guy Gavriel Kay with 3 to go
and zero books by L.E. Modesitt with 15+ to go.

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

Wow!

[Anna]

Anna wrote: "I have a long term goal of reading everything I can reasonably get my hands on by Diana Wynne Jones, Neil Gaiman and Ursula K. Le Guin. "

So... I originally thought I'd try to read 4 books by each author this year. So far I've read 2 DWJ and 2 UKLG. Not too bad, I'm sure I can read another 2 by each in the second half of the year.

But I have read "a bit" more Gaiman than planned, my spreadsheet says I'm at 57 for this year :D (That includes re-reads.) Unless I find I've missed something essential, I think I can say I've completed my goal of reading 'everything by Gaiman I can reasonably get my hands on'. There are still some graphic novels my library has that I haven't read, but they really don't seem to be for my taste in the slightest, so I don't want to force read those.

Here's everything I've read by Gaiman, unless I've forgotten something:

Novels (9)


Collections (6)


Short fiction (5)


Graphic novels (32)





MG/Other (4)


Picture books (10)

[Kevin]

Awesome Anna! So good to know that there is another person setting crazy goals for themselves!

[Anna]

Heh, at first I thought I was nuts reading all those kids' books, but I ended up really loving some of them. I've now made myself a list of DWJ and UKLG books I want to get to next, but I'm still not pushing for more than 4 each for 2017. Gaiman was easy because I only had to read a bunch of graphic novels and picture books, but the rest is all novels so I want to take it as slow as I need to.

[Kevin]

Anna wrote: "Heh, at first I thought I was nuts reading all those kids' books, but I ended up really loving some of them. I've now made myself a list of DWJ and UKLG books I want to get to next, but I'm still n..."

Anna wrote: "Anna wrote: "I have a long term goal of reading everything I can reasonably get my hands on by Diana Wynne Jones, Neil Gaiman and Ursula K. Le Guin. "..."

Beautiful job on that Gaiman List above, you might already have done so, but you should add that to goodreads Lists, anyone else trying to read all Gaiman would be glad to have it. If you did could you post a link to it please?

Inspires me to read more Gaiman for sure.

[Anna]

That's not even close to everything he's ever written, just everything I had access to within reason and/or was interested in. I just looked at his author profile and went through what I wanted to try and find and what I could l leave unread.

Someone's made a Best of Neil Gaiman list

[Kevin]

Anna wrote: "That's not even close to everything he's ever written, just everything I had access to within reason and/or was interested in. I just looked at his author profile and went through what I wanted to ..."

Thanks Anna

[Helen, I·ᴍ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪʙʀᴀʀʏ]

I'm pleased to say that when I read Wolves in the Walls to a class, some were scared :D

[Anna]

Wow, that is impressive, Helen! I thought it was brilliant, both the picture book and the audio. I really liked the mood.