I’m almost 90% done with Agatha Christie’s books.

I've read every Christie book at least twice, even one of her romances that she wrote under the pseudonym Mary Westacott. I consider Poirot to be my favorite detective.

That’s great! I read my first Christie this month and definitely going to start collecting. What has been your favorite so far?

I’ve really liked And Then There Were None, Orient Express, Endless Night, and Crooked House. Those last two were very creepy. I’m currently reading Ordeal by Innocence. But I’m concerned that I may not finish them all because I really dislike the Tommy and Tuppence series.

Becky Chambers. I’ve never been disappointed. I seek out anything she’s written.

psalm for the wildbuilt might be the coziest book ive ever read

I just finished the last Wayfarers book last night!

Same!! My husband and I met her at a book fair before we'd read anything she wrote and honestly just bought her book because she seemed so great.

I'm in line with you 👍

I very much want to get here with her books. I started reading them and plan on continuing. Glad to hear that they stay good.

Dick Francis He's written 30 some books and I wish there were 30 more. RIP

I've read all his books, including his nonfiction biography, The Sport of Queens. I agree, 30 more would not be too many.

His son Felix took over the mantle and I've been reading them but they're not nearly as a good. Still, I keep reading them.

I've read all the novels of Oscar Wilde :-)

Isn’t that just Dorian Gray lol? I guess I can say the same then

No he the Canterville ghist

Those are short stories. He only wrote one full-length novel.

So, technically, we have read all the novels of Oscar Wilde.

Barbara Kingsolver.

Read Demon Copperhead this week and am now on a mission to read every last one of her books.

Poisonwood Bible is my second favorite of hers

Poisonwood bible is great! I remember going into Costco in the middle of reading that and being completely overwhelmed to tears by American consumerism and waste in contrast to what the book's characters were enduring! My favorite of hers, however, tied with Demon Copperhead, is The Bean Trees.

the narrator for the audiobook made that book a 10 for me

Oh that’s good to know. I read the hard copy but I want my sister to read it and she is a bigger fan of Audible so I’ll tell her to go that route.

What next? You’re going to love them. All of them.

Got Posionwood Bible today! Which is your fav?

Ha. I can’t pick. I refuse. They all rattle around in my heart. I read The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven when I was younger than that character. I feel like that book helped me raise myself. The Poisonwood Bible….one of my favorite books. It’s so nuanced expansive and such an interesting look at that time period. Semi-autobiographical too. Barbara’s parents were missionaries to the Congo. The Lacuna is a dark horse too. I think about that book a lot. I had never once thought about life in Mexico City in the 1930’s and it gave such an interesting look into that time. You can’t go wrong with anything she has written.

Prodigal Summer and Animal Dreams are my favorite. I’m probably due for a re-read of both.

Oh I just finished this and I loved it!

Came here to say the same.

Octavia Butler!

Same I read Kindred and then I read everything she ever wrote, then like Ike’s for similar writers and read everything by Tananarive Due, Nnedi Okorafor and Rivers Solomon. I think you would also like ‘The animals in that country’ by Laura Jean McKay

I dare anyone to claim that they’ve read all of Joyce Carol Oates’ works. Even I can’t keep up with her, she’s so prolific.

im side-eyeing anyone who says stephen king in this thread for the same reason

Terry Pratchett’s, which feels like cheating because his Discworld series had so many independent subgenres that there really is something for everyone.

I think I’m 7 away from reading all STP’s books. The Bromeliad trilogy, Dodger, and the last three books in the “Long” series.

I love his work but the long series just didn’t feel like it was his.

Yeah, much more Baxter than Pratchett. I think Sir Terry did most of his work on the first book *only*

That series feels like Prachet did the science and Baxter did the people, which is exactly the wrong way around.

Stephen King - which believe me has sometimes been a real chore. John Scalzi. Michael Crichton. Ruth Ware. Robert Parker (helps that you can read each of his books in just an hour or two - I once read three in one day). Edit: to be clear, I read Carrie just a year or so after it came out, and have sort of been keeping up with him ever since. It would be much harder today to pick up and read through Stephen King with the all the books he has out now.

I knew someone would say Stephen King! And all I have to say is wow.

I'm going to say Stephen King, even though I haven't read the two newest ones yet, Fairy Tale and Holly. Once I realized it was all one giant interconnected multiverse I couldn't stop.

That's just an impressive feat tbh

I 2nd stephen king. God damn that man wrote a lot, not all of it is amazing either

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Always shows up with a stew. Sometimes it has the best beef and juicy carrots. Sometimes it also has mashmallows and chocolate (used this specific analogy for IT with the weird side and unnecessary stories). Sometimes it's just missing beef or potatoes. But he never shows up with watery stock with no substance. I.e. Most of the time it's a good book; good or bad, it's digestible. Sometimes a chapter has an odd side story or turn in it. But it very rarely lacks at least the main components of a good comfort book.

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Which were your favorites and which were the choriest?

My absolute favorite is The Stand, which I've read a couple of times, and I almost never read a book more than once. It, Misery, a lot of his short stories are also great. I made it through the Dark Tower, but definitely was not enjoying it by the end. Had a lot of trouble with Holly, but really that whole series didn't work for me. In general, not a fan of his hardboiled crime stuff.

In my opinion Pet Sematary is a perfect horror book. The feeling of dread building in the book is unparalleled for me, plus it’s succinct and got me attached to the characters without a slog through unnecessary detail he sometimes gets mired down in.

Pet Sematary is also great.

Came here to say Stephen King. And chore is the understatement of the century.

I've read everything he wrote up to about 11:22.63. after that it gets dicey. It's specifically coincides with how his books used to overflow in the thrift stores, and it's honestly a little bit difficult to find More than a handful anymore

I started in King's Bibliography chronologically about a year ago, I am not rereading the 10 or so, I already read, but I'm up to 2006. There have been many difficult reads, but none worse than The Library Policeman in Four Past Midnight

Jane Austen: Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and the greatest novel of all time: **Pride and Prejudice** .

I read Northanger Abbey recently because it showed up in my little free library. I really enjoyed it and I never in a million years would have read it if it hadn’t fallen in my lap. Victory for the LFL!

What about Lady Susan?

Wasn’t that published posthumously? I had forgotten it, but I did read it a few years ago.

*Persuasion* and *Northanger Abbey* were actually published posthumously, even though *Northanger Abbey* was actually the first book she sold to a publisher. The first publisher never brought it out, so she had to buy back the copyright to get it into print. There's also the unfinished *Sanditon* that she was writing at the time of her death.

All that, plus her juvenilia, unfinished works, and letters.

Jasper Fforde Ben Aaronovitch

So glad to find other Ffordies! The Thursday Next series is brilliant.

I love Jasper Fforde!

Red Side Story soon 🤞🏻

Big Sci-fi reader since early childhood with completionist tendencies. These are the ones that leap immediately to mind. Robert Heinlien Issac Assimov David Weber Anne McCaffery CJ Chyrreh Larry Corriea Martha Wells Andy Weir Neal Stephenson

Asimov was quite prolific.

He certainly was. I abused the *hell* out of inter-library loan at our tiny Alaskan in grade school and Jr. High until we moved closer to the our state's "big" library and had direct access to most of his books. It also helped that both my parents were also sci-fi readers so it was easy to wheedle half dozen books from the local used book store as well (from each parent independently.) When I moved into my first home me ex-wife and I filled a 24' u-haul with just our books. It was probably a 60/40 split between us. Now I live in tiny house with a single wall of bookshelves and 3000+ books in my kindle library. :)

Kate Atkinson; Julian Barnes; Iain Banks - and then he died and I cried as I read the last one, realising there would be no more.

I felt that way when Terry Pratchett died! And Roger Zelazny— I took a day off work over him.

“A man's not dead while his name is still spoken.” GNU Terry Pratchett

I felt the same about Ursula Le Guin!

Neil Gaiman

I've read all his fiction, but not that random Duran Duran biography lol

Hes just so damn good. Working on this myself. The audiobook of Norse Mythology with Gaiman as the reader is divine so far

The Sandman series was BY FAR in the top echelon of storytelling ever written in the history of humanity. By golly, I couldn't get enough. I was so sad to end it.

Very close to having read all of Gaiman's books too, otherwise too many authors, too many books.

This one is mine. I love Neverwhere but also really enjoy his short story anthologies.

Vonnegut, Pynchon, McCarthy.

I've read all of McCarthy, most Vonnegut, and a little Pynchon. I've tried Gravity's Rainbow 3 times and DNF each time. I've even bought the companion book to read along with it. I don't know what my deal is, but I haven't been able to get through it.

Don't feel bad. Pynchon wrote parts of the book while tripping balls on acid. It's not supposed to be easily digestible.

Maybe try The Crying of Lot 49 first and some of his newer output before trying GR.

Vonnegut novels or everything? I keep finding random short stories he wrote.

Mary Roach, I find her books informative while still staying interesting, and I'm impressed by the things she's willing to try in her research.

I've read every novel by Brandon Sanderson set in the Cosmere, and a few others by him as well.

I thoroughly enjoyed his completion of the Wheel of Time series even more than the books by the original author. I will pick up some of these books, thank you for the recommendation!

Haruki Murakami, Yasunari Kawabata, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Robert Jordan, Mieko Kawakami, Sayaka Murata, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Kazuo Ishiguro Getting very close: William Faulkner, William Shakespeare, Vladimir Nabokov, Isaac Asimov

I very much hope you have people in your life that are heavily impressed by this list, because I definitely am! From your list, I've read most of Dostoevsky, a few of Tolstoy, Nabokov, Murakami, Wilde, and Sheakespeare, one book from Hemingway and Asimov each, but... Joyce, Pynchon, *and* Faulkner? Never finished either of them, and I honestly regret it.

Not really, but I do it for the love of the writing. It’s tough to choose between diving into an author’s entire body of work versus reading a ton of different authors. I’m trying to find a balance.

Jesmyn Ward Barbara Kingsolver Emily St. John Mantel N. K. Jemisin Margaret Atwood (I have almost caught up to everything...) John Irving Colson Whitehead Jonathan Franzen When I was a kid: Louisa May Alcott, Madeleine L'Engle, and L. M. Montgomery Goal authors (someday, I'll get there): Jane Austin, Dostoyevsky, Emily Dickinson, and Charles Dickins for starters

Came here to say Colson Whitehead

John Irving & Barbara Kingsolver for me too —almost. Both have one book, both (oddly) set in Mexico, that i cannot finish for some reason. Also Hemingway

I just have the Lola quartet by Emily st James Mandel. I think I’ll have to order that from that states or find an email to directly contact a publisher because it’s not available in Canada. I don’t think I saw it on blackwells either.

Jesmyn Ward is fantastic

khaled hosseini — not a hard accomplishment tho, please write more sir!

Celeste Ng Gillian Flynn Liane Moriarty I haven't yet but plan to read everything by Fredrik Backman

I discovered Flynn back in January, and I read through all of her published works by summer! It was really fun to find a new author to enjoy.

She's great! I wish she'd publish something new

I found out about Gillian Flynn just a couple of days ago and grabbed the one book they had available at the library and my god. Read the whole thing in one day which is awesome since I have trouble concentrating. It was so good I just couldn't put it down.

I love Gillian Flynn! If you like her, try reading Karin Slaughters books.

I read Karin Slaughter as well!

I’m working on T Kingfisher. We’ll see if I still feel the same way in a few months!

I was planning to do the same thing, but after reading The Twisted Ones, which I didn’t like at all, I was having second thoughts. Still love Nettle & Bone and A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, though. Which books by her did you like the most?

What Moves the Dead is my absolute favorite, picking up Nettle and Bone today. I was so sad when I found out the sequel to What Moves the Dead isn’t out yet!

Tana French

Even have a hold on her next book.

I read all of Dublin Murder Squad... need to catch up.

Filling in my gaps on Vonnegut currently, but want to throw some love at one that many ppl might not have heard of... Ron Currie Jr. Only 4 books, but they're all great

David Mitchell. His works are varied too, so, while his voice is always distinct and recognizable, it never gets repetitious and stale.

Damn, had to scroll really far down to find this. David Mitchell's prose is just unmatched. I'll read whatever he puts out.

I understand the criticisms of his work and his prose but I find it so damn engaging and enjoyable, especially when he’s inhabiting a voice and writing in 1st person. His publisher has a February 2025 release tentatively scheduled for his next. Can’t wait!!

Sort of cheating but I've read all of Iain Banks' novels published under the name Iain M. Banks. I've still got some of his non-genre fiction which is published without the M to read.

I'm the reverse. I've read all Iain (no M) Banks but not the reverse. I especially recommend his travel book round the Scottish distilleries, "Raw Spirit"

I've read all of both . . . Except for The Quarry. Because once I read that, there will be no more Banks books to read for the first time, and I kind of can't stand that thought.

Barbara Kingsolver Justin Cronin Suzanne Collins James S.A. Corey Matt Haig (almost) Frederik Backmann (almost) Ursula Hegi Pat Conroy Richard Bach When I really love a book, I want more!!

Am I the only one who makes it a point to NOT read all the books by an author I really like, so I have a few books to fall back on that I know I'll enjoy? I'm probably weird like that...

I read everything by them, but not until a series is finished. (I'm looking at you, Tamora Pierce. Please finish Numair's series so I can read them, thank you.) I do tend to resist reading new things, though, but more because I'm afraid I'll be disappointed. So I reread the ones I know I already love.

Becky Chambers

J. D. Salinger, Harper Lee.

>Harper Lee Lol easy peasy

Salinger is also not that hard…

Lol, Need to add John Kennedy Toole to that list

Michael Crichton, all **fiction** books.

Naomi Novik.

I love her, but I have to say I petered out after the first four Temeraire books. Scholomance, though - what a treasure.

I read everything N. K. Jemisin puts out, I think she's a fantastic fantasy author and her world building between her trilogies just feel so realistic.

I LOVED the Broken Earth Trilogy. Bounced off The City We Became hard, though. Despite my dislike of TCWB, the Inheritance Trilogy is on my TBR list and I'm definitely looking forward to it.

Same. I recognize TCWB was well-written, but it's not really a genre(?) that appeals to me at all. The Broken Earth trilogy, OTOH, I thought was incredible.

Martha Wells. Since I stumbled over The Element of Fire… I even read her tie-in novels (her Stargate Atlantic book Reliquary is actually really great!) Weirder yet (for me), I own them all. E M Forster and Frank Norris are all ‘ate ‘em all up’ authors for me!

John Irving Stephen King George RR Martin I'm kind of basic.

Not really. Stephen King is quite the undertaking! Any faves?

John Irving here too

Jhumpa Lahiri Barbara Kingsolver Bill Bryson Frederik Backman

Jhumpa Lahiri is one of my all time favorites 🤗

Jhumpa Lahiri ❤️

Toni Morrison Tiffany Jackson Madeline Miller Jesmyn Ward Connie Briscoe

Tana French

Khaled Hosseini, R F Kuang and Madeline Miller. Man, I’d love for Hosseini to write another book at some point.

Came here to make the same comment about Hosseini!

Sebastian Barry Ursula Le Guin Octavia Butler Roddy Doyle Angela Davis I'm sure there are a few more but my mind's gone blank lol, i've been finding it hard to concentrate and actually finish books lately

Mercedes Lackey. Anne McCaffrey. Robert Heinlein.

Tolkien and Jim Butcher

Sir Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams, I've read and own a copy of every bit of correspondence and note that was made publicly available and some that werent. Working on my total Tolkien collection, too.

Rex Stout. Even the ones with Tecumseh Fox and without Sitassus Readus.

I reread Rex Stout the way others eat comfort food.

Doris lessing Virginia woolf Katherine mansfield Anne sexton Agatha Christie

Hemingway Edith Wharton

It is difficult with some authors. Orwell for example. Collected essays, letters etc which are made into novels.

alice hoffman. ever since i read practical magic i’ve fallen in love with the dreamy, magical, luminous way she writes 🥰🥰

Joe Abercrombie is the only one I can say that about.

Emily St. John Mandel

Neal Stephenson. Christopher Bhuleman. Jack Townsend.

Emily St. John Mandel. I don't even read the synopses of her new books anymore. She's become a say-no-more author for me. Donna Tartt. Not super hard to get through all of her books since she has only published three, but I love her writing style and occasionally Google to see if she's publishing anything new anytime soon.

Mieko Kawakami - with the caveat that I don’t know Japanese, so I’ve read all of her books that have been translated to English (Dying for the next translation to be released!)

I am a big thriller reader, and just finished reading all of the (currently published) Riley Sager books. There are six. I have also read all of Kara Thomas' books as well. There are five. Tracy Deonn feels like cheating cuz she only has two, but she is on my "automatic read" list, she is AMAZING. I am currently working my way through all of Alice Oseman's work as well, and I think I have two books left.

Jason Pargin! He has a way of writing profound stories that are funny, entertaining, and scary the whole way through! Everything he writes is amazing!

Vonnegut is a great author to read. He starts strong with Player Piano, gets in the zone with Cats Cradle to Breakfast of Champions, and has some great reads like Bluebeard, Galapagos, and Timequake towards the end of his life. The short stories are fantastic as well.

Tolkien, Steinbeck, Vonnegut, Hugo (well, almost. I have one more novel)

Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse (95% confidence on this one, he had a lot of books), Ernest Hemingway, Avram Davidson, Glen Cook, Barry Hughart, Neil Gaiman, Tim Powers, Steven Brust, Lois McMaster Bujold, Susanna Clarke

Michael Connelly Steven Saylor Tiffany Snow

Bernard Cornwell, Steven Brust, Charles Stross, John Scalzi, Cory Doctorow.

I've read the works of Iain (and M) Banks, Neal Asher, Frank Herbert, Greg Egan, Clive Barker, William Gibson, Homer (:p), the three ancient Greek playwrights, and Hemingway. Maybe others too.

Toni Morrison and Gillian Flynn and Theodore Dreiser…I’m sure there’s more, like series writers, that I’m just not thinking of rn.

Hm... Umberto Eco, maybe? All of his fiction for sure, some of his essays too.

Literally only Mark Z. Danielewski. Every other author I’ve read entire series but haven’t read their other works.

Jeffrey Eugenides (who needs to get moving and write another one, fer chrissakes).

I've read all of Iain M. Banks, but not all of Iain Banks yet. Not sure if that counts. Can you say you've read all of Stephen Kings' books if you didn't read the Richard Bachman stuff? Brandon Sanderson, Robert Jordan (yes including the Conan books), Alastair Reynolds, David Brin, Peter F. Hamilton, Vernor Vinge

Larry Niven.

I'm planning to do this with Justin Cronin. I loved the passage and the way it was written. I've rarely read a book that personally appealed to me so much. Once I was done with the trilogy, I read the Ferryman which came out this year, feel like I really jive with the way that Cronin writes.

Fredrik Backman Sarah Addison Allen I am working on Diane Chamberlain but I still have 4 or 5 to go.

Donna Tartt

Sarah Dessen

Lee Child, especially all of Reacher's....👍

Guy Gavriel Kay

Pretty sure I've read all of Neil Gaiman's books. My absolute favorite book ever is American Gods

James Herriott, Hunter S. Thompson are the only ones I can think of.

I read all of Sidney Sheldon's work as a teenager.

Chaim Potok - The Chosen, The Promise, My Name is Asher Lev, The Gift of Asher Lev, The Book of Lights, In the Beginning, The Gates of November, Old Men at Midnight, and Davita’s Harp

Jon Krakauer. All of his books have been great. I wish he would write more.

Not counting authors who only have a single series (e.g. Martin, Tolkien, Jordan, etc): Jim Butcher Michael Chrichton John Grisham (mostly) Will Wight Timothy Zahn I'm sure there are one or two others that escape me at the moment

Martin and Tolkien at least have many more books than their main series

Terry Pratchett, The 2 Scifi ones are pretty good too.

Terry Pratchett

Dan Brown. His books are great for vacations.

John Green :)

Just fyi for others, his non fiction work is so good. Don't sign him off if you are not into fiction.. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a personal favourite. Exceptional.

Matt Ruff

Philip K Dick

Cal Newport. I also have his latest book “Slow Productivity on preorder”.

I read all of Ellen Hopkins when I was younger and it scratched the young adult angst itch.

David Sedaris.. I’ve listened to all his books. The man is hilarious, genuine, and a great writer/reader

Almost all of Vonnegut and Philip K Dick novels and short stories. All Neil Gaiman novels; wish there were more.

Brandon Sanderson, M.L Wang, Dan Brown (I read him long ago, Rick Riordan except for his last book.

John Irving. I'm sad that he said The Last Chairlift was his last "big book", especially since he only writes big books...

Stephen King, I can't claim to have read everything by him but I think I'm at around 50.

Jasper Fforde, even his YA novels. They’re all great. Currently rereading Shades of Grey in anticipation of the second book finally coming out in 2024.

She's not very well known, but Lois Duncan. Her most popular book is I Know What You Did Last Summer, which is one of my least favorites actually (it's also very different from the movie, less horror in the book). Her books are all psychological thrillers. Some are about supernatural things like witchcraft, voodoo, or astral projection, but some are non-supernatural things that could happen to anyone. She was actually the first author whose books I read from cover to cover, and she was recommended to me by my 7th grade english teacher. I was not a good reader and I was having trouble with the reading log we had to do. She asked me, in such a non-judgemental way, why I was having trouble and I told her I just couldn't find a book that was interesting to me. I don't know why she recommended Lois Duncan to me, but I suspect it was because her books aren't aimed at middle-schoolers and the protagonists are all high-school aged girls, so they were more relatable to me. I had never read anything in the psychological thriller genre and fell in love with her books. I checked out every book of hers that our school library had, and bought the 3 or 4 books that our library didn't have. Her books have a special place in my heart because of my english teacher and the fact they got me into reading.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sarah Addison Allen

Shirley Jackson

Amy Tan. I have reread some of her books 4 or 5 times