Authors you intend to read all of

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Whose oeuvres in their entirety do you want/intend to read? My list:

Kazuo Ishiguro
Willa Cather
Saul Bellow
Elizabeth George
P.D. James
Henry James
Edith Wharton
Thomas Hardy
Paul Scott
E.M. Forster
Mark Helprin

Maybe: John Buchan, Philip Roth, Emile Zola, Thomas Mann, Anthony Powell, Daphne du Maurier, Franz Kafka

[RandomAnthony]

I've read all of Murakami and Cormac McCarthy. I think I've read all the William Gibson, too.

[Suefly]

Some of the authors I want to read are Virginia Woolf, Kate Chopin, Elizabeth Strout, EE Cummings, Kafka, George Elliot, Henry Miller, as well as all of Malcolm Gladwell's work.

[Sally, la reina]

Ezra Pound

Anne Rice (I can't help it.)

Murakami

Emile Zola

Thomas Mann

[Rachel]

Neil Gaiman

Terry Pratchett

Malcolm Gladwell

... This is a real short list.

[Sarah]

Connie Willis
Ursula LeGuin
Neil Gaiman
I'm sure there are more but I need to go to bed.

[Sally, la reina]

Hi Pi.

[Janice]

John Irving
James Michener
Anne Rice (have read most of her books - just not the more recent ones)

I have read all of Amy Tan's books.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

I've read all of:
Harper Lee
Jane Austen
Patricia Wrede
Anne McCaffrey

I've read most of Terry Pratchett and Georgette Heyer, and Agatha Christie. I may have read all of Agatha Christie, but I'm not sure because there are different titles for the same book sometimes.

But I'm a bit of a dilettante. I don't tend to read everything by an author. I can't, really, I need to read broadly for my job.

[janine]

i don't consciously read all books written by one author, i'm not a collector. i may have read all books by some authors, but i'm not sure and i wouldn't know which ones. i just read what i come across, and if i come across a book by an author i really like i will read it if it looks good and i haven't read it yet.

[Helena]

John Steinbeck
Cormac McCarthy
William Faulkner
Neil Gaiman
Vladimir Nabokov

That’s all I can think of... there are plenty of authors whose entire works I’ve read... to date. I tend to discover an author I like and read everything they’ve written in short order. My very favourites, though, I savour and save for special occasions. I’m almost finished with Steinbeck and McCarthy... I’ll be so sad when I’ve completed them.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

janine wrote: "i don't consciously read all books written by one author, i'm not a collector. i may have read all books by some authors, but i'm not sure and i wouldn't know which ones. i just read what i come ac..."

I'm with you, Janine. :)

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I've sort of read all of Austen. I've read her six major novels. I haven't read Lady Susan, Sanditon, The Watsons, or her juvenilia.

I forgot Charlotte Brontë: I intend to read all of her.

[Jonathan]

Lobstergirl wrote: "I forgot Charlotte Brontë: I intend to read all of her."

What about Emily and Anne? They'll feel slighted.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I've read all of Emily (Wuthering Heights) and half of Anne (Tenant of Wildfell Hall). I wasn't crazy about either novel. I might give Agnes Grey a whirl anyway.

[Jonathan]

Sounds like you've got your Brontës covered.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

No, I'm ignoring Branwell.

[Jonathan]

Rotten painter. But I've never read anything he wrote. What did he write?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Juvenila, I think. Quite a dissolute young man.

[Jonathan]

Oh. Well, at least he had fun.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

That's what Lindsey Lohan's tombstone will say too, I guess.

[Jonathan]

It might. But to whom would "he" refer in LiLo's case? ...or maybe it's best left to the imagination.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Lindsay will be undergoing sex reassignment surgery within the next 4 years.

[Jonathan]

Hmmm.

[Phil]

I don't know that there is any author whose entire works would interest me. If it happens it happens, I suppose.

[Helena]

Barb wrote: "Nora Roberts.

I joke, I joke, I kid, I kid."

Funny Canadian! Go figure... we make funny people up here. Must be all the maple syrup.

[ms.petra]

Gabby, I like your list! I love Carlos Ruiz Zafon!
my list for now.
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Margaret Atwood, Shakespeare, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison, Mark Twain

[Aynge]

I think I have a couple more William Boyds and Mark Helperins to read, but otherwise I'm pretty much caught up with my favorite writers.

[Sarah]

I've read all of Jonathan Carroll, even though the last several have disappointed me.

[Ken]

There are quite a few authors whose entire body of work I’ve read, or at least all that seemed remotely worth reading. There are several, Knut Hamsun and Julian Green for instance, whose far flung works I picked up over the years in used bookstores, particularly while living in New York, ending up with fifteen or sixteen books by each author. In those cases, whether I’ll read them all before my death, the time of which is somewhat dependent upon the quality of drugs and alcohol in Los Angeles of course, is problematical.

There have been a few cases in which a living writer I liked a great deal passed away, and I would keep at least one book unread for as long as possible, perhaps until some proverbial rainy day, or until some suitable moratorium had been observed, after which I figured I might as well complete the journey: Paul Bowles, Thomas Bernhard and W.G. Sebald are in that category, or were for quite some time.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Ken wrote: "There have been a few cases in which a living writer I liked a great deal passed away, and I would keep at least one book unread for as long as possible, perhaps until some proverbial rainy day"

Julia Turner, the culture editor at Slate, said she does the same thing for Virginia Woolf. She's keeping one Woolf book unread.

I haven't instituted this policy yet, although I have slowed down my reading of Henning Mankell's Wallander mysteries, and Elizabeth George and P.D. James because I don't want to run out of them. All three are still alive but Mankell has ended the series, P.D. James is in her 90s, and George hasn't said when she will end the Lynley series.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I think I will add Dorothy Sayers.

[Carol]

Harper Lee

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Better get busy, Carol.

[Sally, la reina]

I'm adding Jennifer Egan.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I'll add E.M. Forster and Evelyn Waugh.

[Sally, la reina]

I'll whack you in the knees with this iron pole.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Me?

[Sally, la reina]

No.

[Sally, la reina]

Sorry, LG. That seemed funny but now I see it was just weird and mean.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I was just confused, that's all. I wondered if it meant you hated Forster and Waugh.

[Sally, la reina]

No, I rather like them both.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Mmm, a delightful conformity of opinion seems to have been reached.

[Sally, la reina]

Now that we're there I'm going to take off my clothes and roll around in it.

[Sally, la reina]

God! I'm being so weird tonight.

[Tyas]

I read all Andrea Hirata`s book. Anybody ever hear his name? He is an Indonesian author.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I have not, Tyas.

[Tyas]

of course not, because he is not to familiar in the world. But, all Indonesian reader knows him. He`s the number one author in my country. Where are you from, Lobstergirl? :)

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I'm from the East Coast/MidAtlantic region of the U.S. but now live in the Midwestern U.S.

[Tyas]

Ow, so far away from my country..
How about Jennifer Johnston? Have you ever read her book? She`s an Irish author.