Top Ten Tuesday is a meme created by
The Broke and The Bookish.
Each week the girls at B&B think up a fun theme, and participating
bloggers post their favorite 10 books in that category. This week's
theme is
Top ten authors whose books I own the most of
This is actually a little bit of a difficult topic for me because my library is split in half between my parents' house in Tennessee and my place in Dallas and also my books are not very well organized at the moment so there's no way for me to easily look at all my books and be like, oh yeah. So today I'm splitting my list up, and I'm going to go over ten. But this is me so I usually go over ten.
I took these shelfies when I was home during my huge February roadtrip. The shelf on the left is my "favorites" shelf and contains many of the book collections on this list. The shelf on the right is one of my overflow shelves with very little rhyme or reason. However, I do know where my books are. A couple months ago, I called my mom and asked for the "matching blue, pink, and yellow books" that were on that shelf "around chest height." Before I could give her the titles, she already knew what they were. Also, they didn't make this list, but shout out to my Dear America diaries, which are all on that shelf on the right.
Note 1: I do count arcs (but only the physical ones, not digital) and duplicates, but I do not count duplicates that I bought with the intent of giving them away, which is one reason why this was difficult.
Note 2: Usually, I'm very specific about always using italics with book covers but eff that today. Ain't nobody got time for that with this list!
10. Suzanne Collins: 8
- The Underland Chronicles: Gregor the Overlander, The Prophecy of Bane, The Curse of the Warmbloods, The Marks of Secret, The Code of Claw
- The Hunger Games: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay
My Hunger Games copies are on my favorites shelf, but here are my
Underland Chronicles, Eoin Colfer collection, Charlie Bone & Percy
Jackson. Basically all my favorite middle grade books.
9. Laura Ingalls Wilder: 9
- Little House on the Prairie series: Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, Farmer Boy, On the Banks of Plum Creek (my favorite!), By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Big Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, These Happy Golden Years, and The First Four Years
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8. Ally Carter: 10.5
- Gallagher Girls series: I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy, Don't Judge a Girl By Her Cover, Only the Good Spy Young, Out of Sight Out of Time, United We Spy, United We Spy chapter sampler (this is the .5), "Double Crossed"
- Heist Society: Heist Society, Uncommon Criminals, Perfect Scoundrels
me with Ally @ TLA 2013!
(I went through her line three times so I could get all my books signed)
(worth it)
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7. Cassandra Clare: 12
- The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls, City of Heavenly Fire
- The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel (hc & pb), Clockwork Prince, Clockwork Princess
- The Bane Chronicles: I don't know which one, but I have exactly one story from these
- The Magisterium: The Iron Trial
me with Cassie @ B&N Franklin, Dec 2011
This is the same store where I got to meet Elizabeth Eulberg,
Jackson Pearce, Jen Calonita & that hosted Dark Days in Feb
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6. J.K. Rowling: 13
- Harry Potter: Sorcerers Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows + 3 UK editions (I honestly can't tell you which ones because I just got them)
- Quidditch by the Ages
- Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them
- The Tales of Beetle the Bard
Bookshelf staples, I mean come on. HP, Shatter Me (and
yes, I put Tahereh & Ransom together because duh),
Twilight (Steph clocked in with a measly 6 so she's not allowed
on my list), Inheritance Cycle, and my Ally Carters. There's
my bonus Clockwork Angel (because Magnus's vow &
this copy was like $1 at the Scholastic sale) and some of my
adult Richelle Meads. Also Sarah Ockler <3
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5. Eoin Colfer: 13
- Artemis Fowl series: Artemis Fowl, The Arctic Incident, The Eternity Code (my fave!), The Opal Deception, The Lost Colony, The Time Paradox, The Atlantis Complex, The Last Guardian, The Artemis Fowl Files
- W.A.R.P series: The Reluctant Assassin, The Hangman's Revolution
- The Supernaturalist
- Airman
It took 2 separate signings, but I got all my EC books AND my mom's signed in
April (This pic is from TLA. Eoin said he would sign all my books "as long as [he]
didn't have to carry them." Also worth it. Best mother's day gift I've ever given!
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4. Abbi Glines: 17
(I know we're not supposed to be ashamed of what we read, but I'm definitely sad I have more of Abbi's books than other authors I like better.)
- The Vincent Boys: The Vincent Boys (2 copies), The Vincent Brothers
- Sea Breeze series: Breathe, Because of Low, While It Lasts, Just for Now, Sometimes It Lasts, Bad for You, Hold on Tight
- Rosemary Beach series: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, Forever Too Far, Rush Too Far, Twisted Perfection, Simple Perfection (absolutely horrible & I want to pretend it doesn't exist because it ROYALLY PISSED ME OFF)
Me with Abbi at the Take a Chance launch in February. No
shelfie with her books because I own all of hers on Kindle.
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3. Jennifer Echols: 14.5 17.5
- Standalones: Major Crush, The Ex Games, Love Story, Going Too Far, Forget You, The One That I Want, Such a Rush (arc & hc), Dirty Little Secret, Levitating Las Vegas
- The Boys Next Door: The Boys Next Door, Endless Summer (omnibus of TBND + ES so I gave it the .5)
- The Superlatives trilogy: Biggest Flirts (arc & hc), Perfect Couple (arc)
- Stargazer: Star Crossed, Playing Dirty
I really did almost cry when I met Jenn at TLA last year.
This is a partial pic of my JE collection, but I'm giving
myself bonus points for having nearly all the Simon
Pulse romantic comedies. Also, you see the Mediator
books there? Remember them for later...
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2. Richelle Mead: 21 + 1.5 27 + 1.5
- Vampire Academy: Vampire Academy (first edition pb + special edition hc), Frostbite, Shadow Kiss, Blood Promise, Spirit Bound, Last Sacrifice PLUS I bought the entire series last year when it was on sale for Kindle
- Bloodlines: Bloodlines, The Golden Lily, The Indigo Spell, The Fiery Heart, Silver Shadows
- Dark Swan series: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned, Shadow Heir + ebook collection of all four
- Age of X trilogy: Gameboard of the Gods (audio)
- anthologies (I did .5 for these so hence the 1.5): Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy & Prediction , Kisses from Hell, Immortal: Love Stories with Bite
Meeting Richelle in June of 2012. I drove 2 hours with my mom to sit
in the bookstore for 2 hours (we missed Richelle's Q&A) and wait for
the line to go down. This began my waiting until the very end to get
my books signed, a practice I still do today. And yes, I am wearing
a Rock the Vote t-shirt & I gave one to Richelle. You can see the
backs of the t-shirts
here.
My VA collection plus my Gallagher Girls (and some TMI)
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1. Meg Cabot: WHAT EVEN ARE NUMBERS
- The Princess Diaries:
I don't even know which ones I have, but it's at least seven plus two of the "bonus" books like Holiday Princess so...9? So I just looked at the picture of my Meg Cabot books that I took in February, and I have 1-4 (x2) plus five and six plus three of the bonus books so: 13
- Abandon trilogy: Abandon, Underworld, Awaken + Awaken ARC: 4
- Mediator series: Shadowland, Ninth Key, Reunion, Darkest Hour, Haunted, Twilight (AND OMG THERE WILL BE A BOOK 7 AND I WANTS IT): 6 (but rest assured I WILL buy #7)
- Avalon High: Avalon High, Avalon High: Homecoming: 2
- Boy series: Boy Next Door (two pb, one is a first edition with Meg's pen name), Boy Meets Girl, Every Boy's Got One: 4 (and she could totally write more of these & I'd buy them)
- Heather Wells series: Size 12 is Not Fat, Size 14 is Not Fat Either, Big Boned, Size 12 & Ready to Rock: 4
- Insatiable: Insatiable, Overbite (c'mon, Meg, WRITE BOOK 3 ALREADY DANGIT): 2
- Standalones: Nicola & the Viscount, Victoria & the Rogue, Teen Idol, She Went All the Way, Ransom My Heart: 6
- anthologies: Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy & Prediction, Prom Nights from Hell: 2 x .5
Guys, that is NOT my entire Meg collection. I brought
a bunch with me to Dallas, and I've bought some since
I moved here. Yeah.
You guys think those are the big guns, though. HA. The ACTUAL winners of most books in my library are
Carolyn Keene, whose Nancy Drew books (mostly the original yellow books, but a handful of Nancy Drew Files) have starred on my shelves for two decades;
Franklin W. Dixon, whose Frank & Joe (mostly Joe) Hardy were the stars of my tween daydreams (mostly Hardy Boys casefiles, but my brother has most of the original blue ones); (and yes, that means I have most of the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Super Mysteries!);
R.L. Stine (long live the
Goosebumps, but I also have one of his ya novels);
Gertrude Chandler Warner, whose
Boxcar Children were my elementary school staple; and
Ann M. Martin (I bought FORTY of
The Baby-sitters Club books in ONE trip to my local used bookstore when I was eleven or so. The price tag for such a haul? $2 + tax.).
This is the bookshelf with my Nancy Drews,
Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen collection (I was a
child of the 90s!), and Hardy Boys.
So....yeah. As you can tell, most of these authors are among my favorites, and I have been fortunate to meet most of them too (so a disproportionate number of these books are signed)! I obviously have not met Laura Ingalls Wilder, but I HAVE been to her home. I
have met Meg Cabot, but I don't know where the picture is for that. :(
But I digress. I am a second generation book hoarder. My mom still has boxes full of the
Bobsey twins from when she was a kid.
Whew! This post literally took all day to do, but I had a lot of fun. I'm glad I could find all these pictures to include as well! Who are your favorites and how many do you have? Share your thoughts and links in the comments!
6. Dee and Matt, Open Road Summer by Emery Lord. Man, I loved this book! I'll be posting a review soon, but I think Emery NAILED the songs in book. I often think that authors who write out lyrics use cheesy rhymes and cheap clichés, but Emery's lyrics for Dee and Matt both are meaningful. Dee shines as a rising star who uses her long-term relationship and devastating breakup as inspiration for a raw and relatable album while Matt is a former child star struggling to make sense of a very personal loss. Both of these characters use their music to guide them through their losses and realize the beauty of the lives they have. If you're wondering why I wrote out 'and' instead of using an ampersand, it's because these two are not romantically involved.
