Top 10 Most-Owned Authors!

Hey, y'all! I've seen several booktubers posting videos listing the 10 authors that they own the most books from. Originally, I didn't do this one because I didn't think that I had enough authors to make a full list. However, upon reflection, I realized that I had more repeat-authors than I originally thought, so I decided that this would be fun. Plus, I think it's really interesting to see who will end up on the list.

Before I get into this, some ground rules for counting of books:
- Each book counts once, even if I have duplicate copies.
- Novellas in bind-up form (ex: Unite Me by Tahereh Mafi) count as one single book.
- However, novels in bind-up form count as their own separate entities. (AKA, if I own a bind-up of two novels, that bind-up counts as two books.
- Ebooks will also be included, but not if it's a duplicate.

Although I didn't include duplicates in the official count, I did note underneath what the count would be if I did count duplicates as separate books. It's a bit ridiculous on a couple.

10) Lloyd Alexander- 5 books

Adjusted for duplicate copies: 5
Read: 0 

Right off the bat, we have a four-way tie. Lloyd Alexander gets the last spot between the four because I own the entire Chronicles of Prydain series by him, but I haven't read it yet. I bought it because I love the Disney movie, The Black Cauldron, that is based off of the series. I got halfway through The Book of Three, and couldn't really get into it, so I just put it down. I'll get through it eventually, I just wasn't feeling it in that moment. 

9) Stephanie Meyer- 5 books

Adjusted for duplicate copies: 5
Read: 4 

Of the four-way tie, Stephanie gets the third spot because I've read most of her books, but don't plan on reading any more. I haven't read The Host, and I'm not sure I want to anymore, but I have read the Twilight Saga. Several times. 

7) Scott Westerfeld- 5 books

Adjusted for duplicate copies: 5
Read: 4 

I totally forgot about Scott Westerfeld and didn't even consider the fact that he could make it onto this list, because the only books on my bookshelf by him are Pretties and Specials, books 2 & 3 from his Uglies trilogy. However, I forgot that I had Uglies, the 1st book in that trilogy, in e-book and books 1&3 from his Midnighters trilogy (The Secret Hour and Blue Noon, respectively) on my bookshelf at home. Of the 5 I own, the only one I haven't read is Specials. But it's been so long since I read the other 4 that I can't remember much about either series. I plan to change that soon!

7) Rick Riordan- 5 books

Adjusted for duplicate copies: 5
Read: 3 

Finally, rounding out the 4-way tie, Rick gets the top spot because I plan on buying more of his books fairly soon. I've only read the first 3 Percy Jackson books, but I do plan on finishing the series and continuing on to The Heroes of Olympus. 

6) Stephen King- 6 books

Adjusted for duplicate copies: 6
Read: 1 

 

I'm laughing at the 666 action going on with this one, especially since it's Stephen King, the KING (LOL bad pun) of horror. As you see from the pictures above, I own Carrie, Under The Dome, and the first two books in The Dark Tower series. At home, I also have The Shining and Everything's Eventual, which is a compilation of short stories. But I've only read Carrie all the way through. I almost got through The Shining but put it down for some reason. 

5) J.K. Rowling- 8 books

Adjusted for duplicate copies: 20
Read: 8 

As an avid Harry Potter fan, I probably should own Quidditch Through The Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but I don't. Eventually. But I do, of course, have the entire series, as well as The Tales of Beedle the Bard. I re-read the series for the millionth time over the summer as part of my Summer Reading Challenge, and you can click here to check that out, if you'd like.

Explanation for duplicate copies: I have all the Harry Potter books in e-book form and in hardcover. When I first got the books, I got the first 5 in paperback. So 7 + 7 + 5+ Tales of Beedle the Bard= 20. I feel no guilt or shame for this.

4) D.J. MacHale- 10 books

Adjusted for duplicate copies: 16
Read: 10

We have another tie with 10 books apiece. DJ got the lower spot because the author at #3 has a new book coming out next month that I'm definitely, without a doubt, getting. Anyway, I love the Pendragon series. It was also part of my Summer Reading Challenge this summer, so you can click here to check that out. This series isn't super well-known, but it's one of my absolute favorite series of all-time. It's so beautiful.

Explanation for duplicate copies: I originally had books 1-6 in paperback, and re-purchased them in hardcover.

3) Cassandra Clare- 10 books (11th coming soon)

Adjusted for duplicate copies: 15
Read: 9 

Basically, I have all of Cassandra Clare's books. I would show pictures of my actual copies, but they're scattered between home and school. Like I said in DJ's explanation, he and Cassie are tied, but since The Bane Chronicles is coming out soon, and there is absolutely no way that I'm not buying that, I put her in the higher spot. Also, I read all of these except The Shadowhunter's Codex this summer, so if you wanna check out my Summer Reading Challenge, you can click here.

Explanation for duplicates: I originally had Clockwork Angel in paperback and found an inexpensive hardcover. I have e-books of City of Bones, City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, and City of Lost Souls because my copies are at home. 

 

2) Lemony Snicket- 13 books
Adjusted for duplicate copies: 13

Read: 13

I have all 13 books in the Series of Unfortunate Events. I kinda want to re-read these sometime soon, but I don't want to end up changing my opinion on them, because I'm worried I won't like them as much now that I'm older. So, I dunno. Maybe they'll get re-read soon, maybe they won't.

1) Agatha Christie- 25 books
Adjusted for duplicate copies: 26

Read: 9

These are not all of my Agatha Christie books, but it's the majority of them. If you'd like a full run-down of the books in this picture and whether or not I've read them, you can click here to check out my home bookshelf tour. There are 20 books in the picture above, but one is a duplicate. I also have And Then There Were None, Evil Under The Sun, and a bind-up of Sleeping Murder and Murder at the Vicarage in physical form, as well as ebook copies of The Mysterious Affair at Styles and Secret Adversary. Of these 25, I have read 9. But since I paid like $1 for most of them, I don't feel too bad about them. I can afford to take a while with these. She has a lot of books.

Explanation for duplicates: A lot of her books have been re-named in the years since their release, so I accidentally picked up 2 copies of After The Funeral/ Funerals are Fatal.

So, there you go, those are my top 10 most owned authors! A couple of them actually surprised me! This list will probably be out of date fairly soon, so maybe I'll make another one sometime. Not in the near future. At least 6 months from now. 

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Summer Reading Challenge!

Hey, y'all! So a while back, I told you that I had a pretty cool summer project to announce to you? It's finally time.

I realize that I'm probably over-hyping this. I'm probably more excited than y'all will ever be.

Anyway, my summer project is a reading challenge!!! I have a separate challenge for each month: May, June, and July. I might do something for August, but I haven't decided anything. The majority of the month will still be summer for me, so maybe I'll include it in the challenge, but for now, it's just May-July. Most of these are re-reads, but I think there are 5 books that I'm reading (all in May) which will be first-reads.

One of the exciting things about this challenge is that rather than doing a monthly book update, I'm going to post after every book. Basically, it'll be like all of the single book discussions I have within the series posts, just one by one. Then I'll do an overall series opinion post after all of the individual posts. Within this post, I'll probably say how I felt about these books and rank them from worst to best in the series. I'll probably also rank the covers, just because I love covers so much.

So, this means that I will have several posts about books per month. You may be wondering: but what about all of your other series? No worries, they'll be included in all of this! The current blogging schedule was created to accommodate my class schedule, and it'll be re-designed in the fall to accommodate my new class schedule (heads up- Wednesday posts rather than Tuesday. Maybe. Probably. More details in the fall.). Over the summer, however, the schedule will be just a bit nebulous. You'll still get 2 chapters of the fanfic, 2 CDs on My Shelf, and 2 Tumblr challenges per month... I just don't know when for sure. (Except the next fanfic chapter. That's May 3rd FOR SURE.)

OK, now on to the individual months...

May!

May is Cassandra Clare month! I'm going to start by reading the Infernal Devices trilogy. I haven't read any of these books. Surprising, right? I think I just really liked The Mortal Instruments, and I was worried I wouldn't enjoy the ID as much. But I've heard really great things about the series, and several people have said it's better than TMI.

I've worked out a plan to finish all of the books by the end of the month, and with following this plan, I'll finish the Infernal Devices by/on the 10th of May.

So, you've probably realized that the second series I'll be reading in May is The Mortal Instruments series. I've already read the first four books in this series. I own all 5 of the books that are out, but I haven't read the 5th one. I have this weird relationship with the series where I'll speed through one of the books, loving every second, and if I set the series down for more than a few days, I can't get myself to read the next book. And once I finally pick up the next book, I speed through it and love it and the whole cycle starts all over. Which is what happened when I read the 4th book. The 5th book wasn't out yet, and when it came out, I got it the day it came out... and then never read it.

I plan to have the first 5 books completed before May 27th because May 27th is when this beautiful gem is released:

I've already pre-ordered it on Amazon, and I should get it the day that it comes out. Sometimes, the mailroom at my school makes it take an extra day, but I don't mind so much because it was only $13, which is half of the regular price. I'm hoping it gets here on the 27th though, because this thing looks like it's going to be a MONSTER. 733 pages. That's approximately the same length as Deathly Hallows... which did I read in 24 hours... BUT I also had all day to do it. I don't have that luxury with this book. I was 13 when Deathly Hallows came out, and it was the middle of the summer. Now, I'm almost 20 and I have to work 40 hours a week. Yay adulthood.

June!

June is possibly the most exciting month this summer, because I'm re-reading HARRY POTTER. 

HARRY POTTER.

HARRY POTTER. 

I've read the Harry Potter series many, many times. BUT, I have a confession to make. I don't think I've ever read them straight through from Sorcerer's Stone through Deathly Hallows. When I first read the series, only the 1st-5th books were out. Then the 6th book came out and I read that one, I'm not sure if I ever read the first five through again before the 6th came out. Then, when the 7th came out, I didn't re-read all of the books before it came out, since I really didn't need a refresher. Then, ever since then, I've either just read the 6th & 7th or started reading the series from the beginning, but stopped after the 3rd book. Explanation time. I've always really loved the 6th & 7th books, so sometimes I got lazy and just wanted to read those two. Then, sometimes I would decide to read the whole series, but after the 3rd book, I'd decide I didn't want to read the monstrous 4th and 5th books and go on to books I hadn't already read. I've probably read 1-3 and 6-7 ten times more than 4&5. 

Anyway, my point is that this is probably the first time I'm going to actually read all the books back to back in order! I'm actually really excited to finish this month and to rank the books, because lately I've been questioning my long-standing rankings of the books, and so I want to re-read them and see how I feel afterward.    

But the most important reason for this series being in June is that June is my birthday month, and I want to be reading my favorite series in my favorite month. 

July!

July is the month of PENDRAGON!. I'm not sure how many of y'all have heard of Pendragon. When I was in junior high, it was really big among my friends, but I'm not sure how big it was among the general public. This series is possibly my favorite after Harry Potter. This is another series that I've never read straight through before, because only the first 7 were out when I started reading the series. There are 10 books total, and I honestly can't even remember which books were my favorite. Kinda. I can't remember a lot of the stuff, but I remember how much I really really loved it, and that it's just been too long since I've experienced this exciting world. 

The picture isn't my personal copies of the series, but it's basically what I have. The only differences are that my 1-6 all match in paperback, and 7-10 are in hardback. I want to buy the first 6 in hardback since it's one of my favorite series, but they changed the covers, and they're not cool. At all. Just look.

Their spines look pretty cool, but they just aren't good compared to the original covers with the main character on them. I want them all in hardback, and I want them all to match! Is that too hard to ask for? The weird thing is that I never see it in Barnes and Noble anymore. I'm not sure if it's just not as popular as I thought, but I just don't see it in-store anymore. It's sad, because it's such a great series, whether you read it when you're in the middle-grade age range or even older. I love this series, and I'm so excited to get into it again in July. 

So, that's my summer reading challenge! Are you excited? I'm excited! I'm still trying to decide what to do for August. I have an idea for it, but it's not long enough, and I'm not ready to let y'all know until I have all the details. If/ when I figure it out, I'll let y'all know. 

Also, you may have noticed the slight re-design of the blog. This was to accommodate extra links in the sidebar- namely, my Goodreads! Since I'll be doing this summer reading challenge, I decided to keep my blog up-to-date on what I'm reading, and where I'm at. I have it set to show my "currently reading" shelf, so whatever I'm reading will pop up there and you can see how I'm doing with my reading challenge. 

That's all I have for today! See you Saturday for a new fanfic chapter! Don't forget to check out my reading challenge updates all summer!