Authors I've read five or more books by? Hmm. Let's see what I can recall in no particular order. Frank Herbert Terry Pratchett Charles Dickens Charlie Stross Piers Anthony George RR Martin David Graeber JJ Norwich Douglas Adams Doris Lessing Daniel Gollnick Isaac Asimov Ray Bradbury Sarah Vowell - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

funranium.bsky.social • 157 days ago

Authors I've read five or more books by? Hmm. Let's see what I can recall in no particular order.

Frank Herbert
Terry Pratchett
Charles Dickens
Charlie Stross
Piers Anthony
George RR Martin
David Graeber
JJ Norwich
Douglas Adams
Doris Lessing
Daniel Gollnick
Isaac Asimov
Ray Bradbury
Sarah Vowell

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winkybiker.bsky.social•157 days ago

You need to read Iain M. Banks.

funranium.bsky.social•157 days ago

Already tried. Didn't click for me.

larryh22.bsky.social•157 days ago

Terry Pratchett
Caimh McDonnell
Christopher Moore
Heide Goode/Iain Grant
Dan Brown
J.K. Rowling
Ben Aaronovitch
Jodi Taylor
Jim Butcher
James Patterson
Michael Chricton
Clive Cussler
Tom Clancy
John Norman

funranium.bsky.social•157 days ago

Oop. Yep I missed a few I now recognize in your list.

larryh22.bsky.social•157 days ago

Just saw a post elsewhere that reminded me of Scott Turow and John Grisham as well. probably more i'm not remembering, like Stanley Turtledove who just popped into my head.

funranium.bsky.social•157 days ago

Well there's three more that should've been on the list.

phrogger-72.bsky.social•157 days ago

No Mr. Stephen King?

nourished.bsky.social•157 days ago

Ann Tyler
Judy Blume
Alice Hoffman
Louise Penney
Agatha Christie
John Irving
Patricia Cornwell
John Grisham
Carolyn Keene
Alexander McCall Smith
Beverly Cleary

jimmacski.bsky.social•157 days ago

No Vonnegut?

funranium.bsky.social•157 days ago

It ain't a complete list and I abandoned hope of remember everything.

But no, not that many books by him.

banzif.bsky.social•157 days ago

Pratchett ♥️

warmwestwind.bsky.social•157 days ago

Robin Hobb

burgunfaust.bsky.social•157 days ago

Did Martin actually write a fifth book?

funranium.bsky.social•157 days ago

He has written so much more than the Songs of Fire & Ice.

burgunfaust.bsky.social•157 days ago

I know. It was a dig at him making us wait so long. I don't want to read anything else he's written until he delivers on book 5.

funranium.bsky.social•157 days ago

I’d read five of his books before A Game of Thrones even came out.

garymc550.bsky.social•157 days ago

Now go read 5 Clancy, 5 Patterson, 5 Ludlum.

ivegotnofilter.bsky.social•157 days ago

I'll have to take this challenge!

mujerdesierto.bsky.social•157 days ago

Lois McMaster Bujold
Jim Butcher
Alan Burt Akers
Andre Norton
Robert A. Heinlein
Agatha Christie
J. K. Rowling
Laura Ingalls Wilder
John Scalzi
Charlaine Harris
Carolyn Keene
Mary Stewart
Roger Zelazny
Arthur C. Clarke
David Brin
Martha Wells
Sophie Kinsella
Kathy Reichs
Jim Kjelgaard
Eric Flint

cornfed.bsky.social•157 days ago

No @seananmcguire.bsky.social?

lizzietish81.bsky.social•157 days ago

Tolkien
Rowling
King
Lovecraft
Poe
Agatha Christie
David Eddings
Lloyd Alexander
Phillip K Dick
Simone St. James
Wendy Pini

kaczanoga.bsky.social•157 days ago

Came to my mind a frase I’ve heard in the ancient past that the names of the books can tell you a lot about what the person likes and thus who they may be

bobjb.bsky.social•157 days ago

Skiffy Fan, eh?

cadburymoose.bsky.social•157 days ago

Hmmm...

Frank Herbert - Yes
Terry Pratchett - Absolutely!
Charlie Stross - Yes
Piers Anthony - Unfortunately, yes.
Douglas Adams - Yes
Isaac Asimov - Yes
Ray Bradbury - Yes
Philip E. High - Sorry!
Arthur C. Clarke
Jack Vance
Anne Mccaffrey
Martha Wells
John Le Carre
R Austin Freeman
Mike Moorcock

cadburymoose.bsky.social•157 days ago

...continued on next rock.

Louis McMaster Bujold
John Scalzi
Christopher Anvil/Eric Flint
Poul Anderson
Douglas R. Mason
Larry Niven
Jerry Pournelle
S.M.Stirling
David Weber
T.Kingfisher
Tom Clancy
E.E. "Doc" Smith
George O. Smith
Jack Chalker
Andre Norton
Gordon R. Dickson
James P. Hogan
tbc...

cadburymoose.bsky.social•157 days ago

Murray Leinster
Cordwainer Smith
Harry Harrison
Bob Shaw
Jack Williamson
James White
Jack Vance/John Holbrook Vance

... I think that'll do for now, and I need to build bookshelves and unpack the mountain of boxes so I can reread stuff.

herculesprime.bsky.social•157 days ago

Nice list.

texast304.bsky.social•157 days ago

Mine are
Frank Herbert
Douglass Adams
Isaac Assimov
Larry Niven
Brandon Sanderson
Arthur Conan Doyle

fenderjazz2112.bsky.social•157 days ago

Try Trollope

goodhuman2025.bsky.social•157 days ago

In addition to some from your list:
Ken Follett
Tolkien
Stephen R. Donaldson
Robert E. Howard
Martha Wells
Winston Churchill
Robert Jordan
Tom Clancy
Ursula K. Le Guin

kaczanoga.bsky.social•157 days ago

Nice, we match in 70%!

goodhuman2025.bsky.social•157 days ago

Let me guess, Churchill is not on your list? 😎

kaczanoga.bsky.social•156 days ago

That is correct. But I am sure based on above we may have more favorites in common.

scifantasy.bsky.social•157 days ago

That's...quite a mix.

funranium.bsky.social•157 days ago

Gollnick has written a surprising number of things on radiation safety.

scifantasy.bsky.social•157 days ago

Sure, but at least his kid didn't ride his legacy into the ground. And below it.

sdowney.org•157 days ago

Frank was working on that himself, though. He just ran out of time.

funranium.bsky.social•157 days ago

William Gibson
Larry Niven
Stephen King
Dean Koontz
Tom Clancy
Anne Rice
Tim Powers
Mark E Rogers

I'm gonna give up. Trying to remember my library in my head is hard.

xiane.bsky.social•157 days ago

👍 for Tim Powers, too.

funranium.bsky.social•157 days ago

@hntdove.bsky.social & @peterclines.bsky.social I apologize for forgetting you earlier when my brain seized up.

parkrrrr.bsky.social•157 days ago

Iain Banks, with or without the M? (I know you gave up, but his seems like a name I would expect in such a list.)

funranium.bsky.social•157 days ago

You are the sixth. No.

parkrrrr.bsky.social•157 days ago

My apologies; I hadn't read all of the replies to the first skeet yet. And, fair that he's not for everyone - I read exactly one of his non-M books and I knew that I never wanted to read another.

funranium.bsky.social•157 days ago

I bounced off something in his style. Couldn’t tell you what.

parkrrrr.bsky.social•157 days ago

All of the books, even within the Culture series, are so different from each other that it could have been just about anything. Life's too short and there are too many other books to read to waste time on something that doesn't work for you.

lonesloane.msnkbrown.net•157 days ago

...Mark E Rogers...

SAMURAI CAT!

funranium.bsky.social•157 days ago

Zorachus

atheistagenda.bsky.social•157 days ago

Terry Pratchett
Harry Turtledove
Harry Harrison
JRR Tolkien
William R Forstchen
Bernard Cornwell
Arthur C Clarke
Stephen King
Jules Verne
Isaac Asimov
Frederik Pohl
Frank Herbert
Philip K Dick
Robert Heinlein
Colin Wilson
David Gemmell

wovlad.bsky.social•157 days ago

JRR Tolkien
James Herbert
Stephen King
JK Rowling
Peter Robinson
Harlan Coban
James Paterson
Patricia Cornwell
Michael Connelly
Ian Rankin
David Baldacci
Dean Koontz

drakenescio.bsky.social•157 days ago

A few not already here

Gene Wolfe
Mary Gentle
Octavia Butler
Harlan Ellison
Glen Cook
Iain Banks

cmgower.bsky.social•157 days ago

Read them all, also Niven, Clive Cussler, David Baldacchi, Coonts plus countless more.

squalidbros.bsky.social•157 days ago

Kurt Vonnegut
Evelyn Waugh
Richmal Crompton
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
Albert Camus
Knut Hamsun
Graham Greene
Ernest Hemingway
Alice Munro
Yukio Mishima
John Steinbeck
Magnus Mills
John Le Carre
Raymond Chandler
Andre Gide
Edna O' Brien

tjmac.bsky.social•156 days ago

Im sure I cant recall, but...

Louis LaMour
Zane Grey
Andre Norton
Alistair Maclean
Borroughs
C J Cherryh
Seanan McGuire
J Sandford
Poul Anderson
Asimov
Heinlein
Clarke
S King
J Chalker
B Eisler
Sanderson
Lee Child
R Jordon
L K Hamilton
J D McDonald
S Hunter
D Drake
P J Farmer
...and a lot more

iain-benson-author.bsky.social•156 days ago

Goes off to look up Sarah Vowell...given you've obviously been through my bookcase

funranium.bsky.social•156 days ago

And that isn’t a remotely complete list.

iain-benson-author.bsky.social•156 days ago

No, it's missing Tom Holt, Jasper Fforde, Harry Harrison and Bill Bryson 😂

larsnw.bsky.social•156 days ago

I’ll play!

William Gibson
Terry Pratchett
Neil Gaiman
Donald Westlake / Richard Stark
David Eddings
Ursula LeGuin
SJ Rozan
Neal Stevenson
Robert van Gulik
Lindsay Davis
Greg Bear
Arturo Perez-Reverto

paulbeckwith.bsky.social•157 days ago

Read any Iain M. Banks?

funranium.bsky.social•157 days ago

Something didn't hit right last times I tried. Never finished a book by him.

shatterling.bsky.social•157 days ago

Alastair Reynolds
George R.R. Martin

misterhickson.bsky.social•157 days ago

Oh geez, that’s hard. Yours makes mine look embarrassing.

Bruce Coville
R.L. Stine
Harry Turtledove
JKR
Peter David
“William Shatner”
Matt Dinniman
Douglas Adams
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Arthur Conan Doyle
Michael Chabon
Ian Fleming
Neil Gaiman
“Kenneth Robeson”

funranium.bsky.social•157 days ago

Sigh. And there's several more authors I forgot.

I gave up in the second post as my brain seized.

misterhickson.bsky.social•157 days ago

I admit I went and looked at my GoodReads account.

felgraf.bsky.social•157 days ago

Ah, Piers Anthony's Xanth books. A bunch of books I 100% did not get the subtext of as a 12 year old, and thankfully made the hop to Discworld once I was introduced to that.

... man, those books were.

Uh.

Something!

funranium.bsky.social•157 days ago

For me it was Bio Of A Space Tyrant. I moved on. They're one of the few sets of books I got rid of.

riderius.bsky.social•157 days ago

I always felt that Anthony's stuff read like a cheap knockoff of something. Then I discovered Pratchett, and was like "Ah! This is the real stuff 8-))"