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BSJ is also my most-read author, but then I did start a PhD on the guy, so...
― emil.y, Saturday, 5 August 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
Grant Morrison, if that counts. Currently working my way through the Penelope Fitzgerald bibliography as it's quite manageable.
I haven't burnt out on Wodehouse yet - I've deliberately saved a few of the best-regarded ones for some imagined retirement period of the distant future.
I'll always read the new Franzens, St Aubyns, Richard Prices, Michael Connellys, Janet Malcolms...
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 7 August 2017 10:53 (six years ago) link
I've been reading for so many decades now that there's no way to answer this question accurately in terms of actual numbers for each author. Many of the authors I've read extensively I no longer go back to and haven't approached for a long time.
For example, I've probably read about 95% of Mark Twain's total output, including his novels, travel books, short stories, autobiography, speeches and those odd duck titled Christian Science (where he tried his hand at that new-fangled muckraking the public seemed to enjoy so much) and 1610, which was suppressed by his estate as too shocking, but mainly consists of fart jokes. But, I've read nothing of his since about 1992.
I've read muckle in John MacPhee's catalog of non-fiction, most of Stephen J. Gould's biology essays, big swathes of Knut Hamsun, Gore Vidal, and Dashiell Hammet. I went through a phase of John LeCarre and one of Walter Mosley. Then there's Shakespeare, Donne, Pound, Yeats and all that crew. Wodehouse is up there in terms of sheer numbers, too. I won't touch on the many Big Canonical Names I've waded around in, just because it sounds too much like bragging, when really it is only a reflection of old age and perseverance.
Without a long, hard session of retrospective rummaging, I know I'm bound to miss more names than I retrieve. And the full list would be queerly uninformative, other than by its eclecticism.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
really don't know
i have a friend who has read *at least* 80 piers anthony books tho, probably more by now
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 01:55 (six years ago) link
much as i wish i had a better answer to this, my answer is prob isaac asimov, who i read dozens of books by ages 11-15.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
three weeks pass...