Five by ten?
Saturday, January 6th, 2024 06:07 pmThat 'five books by ten authors I Have Read' thing is a doddle for anyone who reads mysteries:
A Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie
Dorothy L Sayers
Gladys Mitchell
Edmund Crispin
Rex Stout
R. Austin Freeman
Dick Francis
Lindsey Davis
Elizabeth Peters
or fantasy:
Ursula Le Guin
Ben Aaronovitch
Neil Gaiman
J.R.R. Tolkien
Andre Norton
Michael Moorcock
Terry Pratchett
Tanith Lee
Patricia McKillip
Zen Cho
or children's writers:
Louisa May Alcott
E. Nesbit
C.S. Lewis
Peter Dickinson
Susan Cooper
J. K. Rowling for-my-sins
Joan Aiken
Diana Wynne Jones
L.M. Montgomery
Tove Jansson
But of course, when you get to seeryus littrachure, I think only Jane Austen. Couldn't swear that I've read five Dickens *novels* (do Christmas Carol and Edmund Drood count?), can't remember if I've read five Hardy, abandoned Proust at the start of The Fugitive (jealousy is the most boring emotion possible), definitely did not finish vol.5 of Dream of Red Chambers if I even started it, and anyway that's as much one volume as Genji.
A Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie
Dorothy L Sayers
Gladys Mitchell
Edmund Crispin
Rex Stout
R. Austin Freeman
Dick Francis
Lindsey Davis
Elizabeth Peters
or fantasy:
Ursula Le Guin
Ben Aaronovitch
Neil Gaiman
J.R.R. Tolkien
Andre Norton
Michael Moorcock
Terry Pratchett
Tanith Lee
Patricia McKillip
Zen Cho
or children's writers:
Louisa May Alcott
E. Nesbit
C.S. Lewis
Peter Dickinson
Susan Cooper
J. K. Rowling for-my-sins
Joan Aiken
Diana Wynne Jones
L.M. Montgomery
Tove Jansson
But of course, when you get to seeryus littrachure, I think only Jane Austen. Couldn't swear that I've read five Dickens *novels* (do Christmas Carol and Edmund Drood count?), can't remember if I've read five Hardy, abandoned Proust at the start of The Fugitive (jealousy is the most boring emotion possible), definitely did not finish vol.5 of Dream of Red Chambers if I even started it, and anyway that's as much one volume as Genji.
