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Grace Novarr's avatar

This is really interesting! Off the top of my head, the only authors that whose works I've read 5+ of are either YA/children's authors with long series that I read devotedly as a child (Cassandra Clare, JK Rowling, Brandon Mull, and, like, the Magic Tree House books), or authors that I've consciously gone out of my way to be well-acquainted with in adulthood. Annie Ernaux is on my list too, Jane Austen, Rainbow Rowell (also a YA author, but I've read her adult work too), Emily Henry, Charles Dickens... I'm approaching with Sally Rooney (4/4 published novels), F. Scott Fitzgerald (3 novels, 1 short story collection), Vladimir Nabokov (3 novels, 1 memoir), Henry James (do novellas count?), and a few others. Maybe I should make a list of authors I'd love to be a completionist about. I think James Baldwin and Kazuo Ishiguro would be on there.

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such a simple yet interesting system. i do believe in being an author completionist but don't really have a system - i just feel hesitant about reading the 'last' book of their discography! My completed authors include: margaret atwood, ian mcewan, eliza clark, meg mason, emily henry, the brontes (probably more but i dont remember!) I'm near to completing murakami, mieko kawakami, orhan pamuk and r.f. kaung

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