Most read authors

[Lee]

Hi all!
What are your 3 most read authors on Goodreads?

Mine are:

Stephen King
Shakespeare
Terry Pratchett

[CBRetriever]

Are you getting this from Your Stats?

J.A. Jance (mysteries set in Arizona and Seattle)
Georgette Heyer (Regency noel)
Janet Evanovich (mysteries set in New Jersey)
Andre Norton (SciFi/Fantasy)
C.J. Box (mysteries set in Wyoming)
Ellis Peters (mysteries set in 12th century England)
Robin Hobb (Fantasy)

[Patti (baconater)]

Where do I find this info?

[CBRetriever]

My Books (top menu banner on this page)
on the left of the page that comes up: Reading Activity -. Most read authors

[Patti (baconater)]

Thanks CB!

My top five are :

Stephen King
Rober Heinlein
Ruth Rendell
Darren Humphries
Minette Walters

[Lee]

Some gopd authors here everyone 😀
I really want to read more of Robin Hobb's books

[Jim]

I'm afraid I've only got two authors on the list, Jack Vance and Will Macmillan Jones
Which might tell you about how assiduous I am in actually putting books on the list as anything else :-)

[M.T.]

Jim wrote: "I'm afraid I've only got two authors on the list, Jack Vance and Will Macmillan Jones
Which might tell you about how assiduous I am in actually putting books on the list as anything else :-)"

I haven't even bothered to look because I know I'm in a similar predicament to Jim.

My real list is:

Terry Pratchett
Jim
Will Macmillan Jones
Barry Hutcheson

I also read First Light, which is the most wonderful book and am reading a number of other biographies by ww2 aces because there's nothing like reading a first hand account of a dogfight to improve your snurd chases!

Cheers

MTM

[Joo]

1 J.R. Rain 29
2 Cecilia Peartree 28
3 M.A. Comley 20
3 Gemma Halliday 20
5 Sibel Hodge 19

I must admit I'm surprised those numbers are so high. I can't abide Rain any more.

[Jim]

M.T. wrote: "I also read First Light, which is the most wonderful book and am reading a number of other biographies by ww2 aces because there's nothing like reading a first hand account of a dogfight to improve your snurd chases!..."

yes, one of my excuses for reading so much history is that it gives you a feel for how a different world works, which is important if you're writing fantasy :-)

[David]

My most reads:

1 Bernard Cornwell 27
2 David Hadley 25
3 Stephen King 16
4 William Shakespeare 15
4 Sean Platt 15
4 Terry Pratchett 15

If we discount the git at number 2, then I could include

Graham Masterton 12

[Jemima]

Slightly surprising...

1 Lindsey Davis
3 Poul Anderson
3 James A. Michener
5 Anne McCaffrey
5 Lindsay Buroker
5 Elly Griffiths

I also had some unmentionable person at number 2, David, but I deleted her!

I obviously put a lot of Poul Anderson and James Michener books on the list when I first joined, because I haven't read anything from either this century! But yes, I used to enjoy them a lot. I expected the other four to show up :)

MT McGuire comes in at number 27, alongside Bernard Cornwell among others (but then I haven't listed all the Sharpe books)

[David]

Jemima wrote: "I also had some unmentionable person at number 2, David, but I deleted her!"

I would have deleted mine, but being a number 2 seems apt somehow.

Anyway, he knows where I live.

[Jemima]

David wrote: "Jemima wrote: "I also had some unmentionable person at number 2, David, but I deleted her!"

I would have deleted mine, but being a number 2 seems apt somehow.

Anyway, he knows where I live."

lol True, I read her books more often than anyone else's!

[Benjamin]

I think my top 5 more reflects which books I've remembered to add to Goodreads.

1 Diana Wynne Jones 32
2 Catherynne M. Valente 19
3 Elizabeth Bowen 11
4 Gene Wolfe 10
5 Ursula K. Le Guin 9

[Jud]

1 Agatha Christie 69
2 Terry Pratchett 40
3 J.K. Rowling 15
4 Philippa Gregory 14
5 Kathy Reichs 13
6 Darren Humphries 12

[Jess]

1. J.K. Rowling
2. Lesley Pearse
3. Gregory Maguire

These are all authors I read a long time ago. I tend to have more variety in my reading nowadays.

[Kath]

My top is Jim Webster. That's because he produces frequent novellas rather than infrequent novels! All my top 10 are indies.

[Jim]

Kath wrote: "My top is Jim Webster. That's because he produces frequent novellas rather than infrequent novels! All my top 10 are indies."

Funnily enough, even as I clicked on the link I was wondering whether prolificacy rather than quality was a measure of success in this field :-)

I can quite see Agatha Christie being hard to overtake in the list of somebody who likes her stories :-)

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Mine isn't entirely accurate - according to it, I've only read 5 Agatha Christies. Of these 5 though, I have books by 4 of them to read this year.

1 - Stephen King
2 - James Patterson
3 - M A Comley
4 - Patricia Cornwell
5 - Dean Koontz

[Jud]

I went through most of Agatha Christie's books one year as my yearly challenge. The same for Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

[Jay-me (Janet)]

My most read included Ellis Peters and Terry Pratchett. And several others who are still writing so no doubt they would overtake those two. There are hundreds of books that I haven't entered such as all the Agatha Christie and Catherine Cookson that I read in my teens but they are not ones that I would choose to read now so they would be higher up the list than if I listed only current favourites.

And Goodreads have announced a few hours ago that they will be removing this list
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
They say the near future but apparently it has already gone.

[Jim]

yes it's gone from mine

[Jud]

The last comment is this;

"Hi everyone — thanks for offering your feedback here. It's very much appreciated! We're compiling your comments and emphasizing your collective requests to return "Most Read Authors". "

[Jud]

I've just checked and mine has gone now too!

[Lee]

I hope the most read feature does return. Maybe I'm a bit weird, but I liked to see which authors where climbing the leaderboard of my read books 😂

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

Jud wrote: "The last comment is this;

"Hi everyone — thanks for offering your feedback here. It's very much appreciated! We're compiling your comments and emphasizing your collective requests to return "Most ..."

That's a tad disappointing.