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Who are the authors that you own the most of?
I own six of Nabokov's works, and five of: Hemingway, Dostoevsky, McCarthy, and Camus.
Why do you own the most of that author, if there is one?
For me, I just love Nabokov's writing style.
Picture somewhat related.

>> No.2917447
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Yukio Mishima.

But I haven't read most of them. They were just really easy to come across and fairly cheap, and I plan to read more of him eventually.

The author I've /read/ the most of would be Richard Brautigan, at twelve books.

>> No.2917449

>>2917447
Which ones have you read? Any good?

>> No.2917458

>>2917449
Patriotism, Five Modern Noh Plays, Death in Midsummer, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea and a few stories out of Acts of Worship. So, none of his major novels yet. And most definitely good! I was especially fond of the plays, of which Mishima's apparently written quite a bit (non-Noh ones also).

>> No.2917468

>>2917458
I've had my eye on The Sailor for a while, would you recommend I go ahead and purchase and read it?

>> No.2917472

I own everything ever published by Roald Dahl.

>> No.2917476

>>2917468
Go ahead man. I think it's generally agreed to be a good starting point for him.

>> No.2917531

6 Steinbeck.
He's my favorite author and in my opinion the greatest American author of the 20th century.

>> No.2917539

Many books I own are the complete works of their authors. Considering the 4 main languages of my library (English, French, Spanish, German), I could perhaps say Shakespeare, Voltaire, Cervantes, Mann. For each of those authors I have at least one major translation of their work if not more. To seek out every complete canon in the library in even one language would take me some time, but off the top of my head I list: Margaret Atwood, Robert Bridges, Browning, Byron, Camus, Catallus, Chaucer, Conrad, John Donne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Goethe, Homer, Victor Hugo, Joyce, Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Milton, Molière, Plato, Mordecai Richler, Gabrielle Roy, le Marquis de Sade, Salinger, Sartre, Robert Louis Stevenson, Tennyson, Woolf, and Zola.

>> No.2917550

>>2917539
Complete canon of Zola and Hugo? That's more than a hundred books for the just the two of them. I'm guessing you don't have any pictures?

>> No.2917811

>>2917539
I wasn't counting the "complete works of" or "collection of" books. If I counted those, then I have all of Lovecraft, Poe, Shakespeare, Jules Verne, Bradbury, Jane Austen, Canon Doyle, H.G. Wells, and Dickens.

>> No.2917813

>>2917811
You have a complete collection of H.G. Wells? I don't think I believe that, because I've seen your bookshelf in bookshelf threads. And Wells' wrote more than 100 books.

>> No.2917819

>>2917813
It's this one http://www.amazon.com/The-Works-H-Wells-Unabridged/dp/068128756X
I don't keep it on my bookshelf because it's fairly valuable (not extremely or anything) and it was a nice gift. I don't even think I brought it when I moved, it might still be at my parent's house.

>> No.2917823

>>2917819
Uh, yeah. It says right there it only contains "The Time Machine; The Island of Dr. Moreau; The Invisible Man; The First Men on the Moon; The Food of the Gods, The War of the Worlds." That is nowhere near the complete works of H.G. Wells. That's not even 5% of his complete works. The dude wrote a shitton:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells_bibliography

>> No.2917825

>>2917823
I just read and wrote what it said on the cover, I apologize for being misinformed and ignorant.

>> No.2917831

>>2917550
I was careless and forgot to mention that I merely have many Zola and Hugo books, by God, there is no way I could have the complete Zola and Hugo, or some of the others on there for that matter, if you were to include their journals and collected letters.

>> No.2917942

Five Dostoevskys.

>> No.2917949

Four Nabokov and four Hesse, three Conrad, Burroughs and Joyce. I would have a great deal more if I did not vow earlier this year to stop collecting and finish off my backlog.

>> No.2917953

Chesterton. Four novels, two essay collections, collected Father Brown stories, collected Poetry, Autobiography.

>> No.2918048

I've got seven of Faulkner's books and 13 of Shakespeare's. I have 5 of Hemmingway's and several others

>> No.2918058
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18 books by Turgenev (and yes, for some reason I still don't own a physical copy of Sketches, despite the other unusual books I have).

>> No.2918063

>>2917426
Thomas Pynchon, 8 books.

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>>2918058
>No Sketches

>> No.2918082

>>2918073

But I have it in eBook format

>> No.2918094
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I own most of what Nietzsche wrote. 11 volumes of published work, and the whole nachlass in a 7 volume set of 4320 pages. I also own what is probably the most definitive biography of him by Curt Paul Janz, that is well over a 1000 pages.

Once I'm through with all this, I'm going to read some of his correspondance as well I guess. I keep getting sidetracked by other interests though, but Nietzsche is one of the subjects I'm seriously planning to become an expert on. Not as in "the academic that gets to spew his shit on talkshows" kind of expert, but "lumpenproletarian next to you in a dive bar who knows more about Nietzsche than 99,9999% of the world population just because it interests him" kind if expert.

>> No.2918095

John Updike, Philip K. Dick, and Raymond Chandler. Because the first two are so damn prolific, I can only say I own about half their works, including short story collections and collected letters. The novels are all almost exclusively in mass market paperback form because I dig them for some reason.

>> No.2918099

i don't buy anymore than one of each novelist.

>> No.2918125

I got a shitton of Orwell, I think about 10 or so.

>> No.2918131

I own quite a bit of Thomas Hardy but he is my favourite author.

I also own a lot of PG Wodehouse but just the Jeeves stories at the moment.

Also got a fair amount of DH Lawrence, Hemingway, Garcia Marquez and Somerset Maugham

>> No.2918132

>>2918125
Is Down and Out in Paris and London an interesting for someone who doesn't give a shit about Orwell but generally likes literature about lumpenproles?

>> No.2918142

>>2918132
Yes, it's really really good. One of his best imo.

>> No.2918145

>>2918132
Oh it can definitely be an interesting.
It's a great story. I preferred his time in Paris but his time as a vagabond in England is also quite fun.

>> No.2918151

I have four books by Milan Kundera and four books by Dostoevsky. Working on filling my first bookshelf, you know. I own the Kundera because he's really interesting to read. Dost because I just pick them up places. I have a lot of Russian shit that I just pick up.

>> No.2918153

Ilf and Petrov
Because I'm Russian and because the exploits of Ostap Bender amused me.

>> No.2918163

>>2918058
Why Turgenev? Do you think he is the greatest of the Russian authors? Have you read all those books? I must say, those spines look innocent.

>> No.2918164

I'm afraid it would be - CONRAD - in 30 volumes bound in buckram or hard cardboard, I really wish I knew the difference. I picked it up at a school fair for around a dollar, but that in no way reflects my tastes.

>> No.2918170

Conrad also presents an interesting case of a man who mastered a foreign language late in life, while he worked as a prole in the British Merchant Navy, -and then, suddenly, at a mature age, produced canonical literature in it. On the other hand, his father gave him a thorough education in the classics of world literature when he was young, with an apparently strong emphasis on the bard.

>> No.2918329

33 G.K. van het Reve (Dutch)
13 K. Hamsun
11 L.-F. Céline
11 W.F. Hermans (Dutch)

>> No.2918413

DFW, with eight books. I think DeLillo comes next, with six.

>> No.2918424

Kafka, the complete works.
It's getting more embarrassing if you want to count single publications: Murakami and GRRM.

>> No.2918431

Terry Pratchett. I am addicted to his windy repetitive hilarious style.

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Twain, Burroughs, Shakespeare, O'Henry, Idies Shaw, Chris Hitchens from a quick glance at the bookshelf behind me - I have a bookshelf in every room of my house

>> No.2918457

>>2917949
>stop collecting and finish off my backlog.
Too difficult.

>> No.2918463

>>2918058
I really enjoyed Fathers and Sons. What other Turgenev would you suggest?

>> No.2918476

For some reason I'm very drawn to authors with a small bibliography. Some of my favorite writers have only published one or two books, so it's not hard to say I own their entire canon. John Kennedy Toole, Nathaniel West, Jaroslav Hasek, Breece D'J Pancake etc. Other than that I have a lot of Rilke, Maupassant, Milosz, Flannery O'Connor, Kawabata, and Chekhov

>> No.2918485

>>2918452
>Chris Hitchens
>Chris
He wouldn't have any of that, and always corrected people. "Call me Christopher"

>> No.2918491

7 Thomas Pynchon and 5 William Faulkner

>> No.2918492

H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King

>> No.2918501

>>2918476
You have Jaroslav Hasek's short stories too? How are those?

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>>2918485

actually he was quite gracious when I called him Chris. Could be I had the whiskey bottle at those times.

Now calling Martin Amis "Marty" was a whole 'nother thing.

>> No.2918599

Bukowski, Nabokov, Bradbury, Phillip Dick. I'd say my Ray Bradbury collection is the biggest.

>> No.2918605

>>2918501
You bring up a good point. I do not own all of his short stories. He published a fuck ton, and many of them have never been translated into english. The ones I have read have been very good though