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Wednesday, February 6
Bookcase of the Future (I Wants)
by
Jason
on Wed 06 Feb 2008 10:00 PM CST
My Favourite Authors - A Semi-Scientific Study
by
Jason
on Wed 06 Feb 2008 12:07 AM CST
Cue the "anal retentive librarian" stereotypes...
I've kept a list of every book I've read since 1996. I was recently thinking about who my favourite authors are and instead of just picking the first names that came to mind, I thought it would be interesting to sort that list by author then record everybody whose name appears more than once. You can probably assume that this technique gives a pretty good indication that there's something about the author that I enjoy - whether its their writing style, the topics they write about or whatever. Of course, it's also embarrassing that there are a lot of great authors who, for whatever reason, I've only read one of their books - at least in that time frame. (I admit I was tempted to slip in a few of their names to give me more "cool" cachet but hey, what's a blog for if not stupid levels of personal revelation?) If you don't know an author on this list, you can do a quick Google search on the name to find out a bit more about them - although, in 90% of the cases, I warn you that it will probably just lead to somebody writing about one of my not-so-guilty pleasures (the Beatles) or one of my guilty ones (professional wrestling.) Here you go... Al Franken Alex Garland Anthony Bourdain Art Slade Ben Elton Bill Bryson Bret Hart Carl Sagan Christopher Sandford Chuck Klosterman Chuck Palahniuk Clifford Stoll Dave Barry Dave Bidini Dave Margoshes David Carpenter Dean Koontz Douglas Coupland Douglas Rushkoff Eric Hansen Eric Schlosser Frank McCourt Fred Stenson George Tremlett Gore Vidal Hal Niedzviecki Helene Hanff Howard Stern Hunter Davies Hunter S. Thompson Ian MacDonald Irvine Welsh James Mitchener Jay Ingram Jerry Spinelli JK Rowling John Allen Paulos John Rocco Kevin Taft Kurt Vonnegut Malcolm Gladwell Marcello di Cintio Mark Lisac Martin Amis Michael Crichton Michael Moore Mick Foley Molly Ivins Naomi Klein Oliver Sacks Pete Best Pete Shotton Philip Norman Ray Coleman Richard Dawkins Robert Fulghum Robert Harris Roddy Doyle Scott Adams Scott Keith Stephen King Steven Michael Berenzky (Mick Burrs) Thomas Wharton Tim Sandlin Timothy Findley Will Ferguson Yoko Ono Themes? Lots of popular culture and bestselling authors. More non-fiction than fiction. Not a lot of literature (I think I had my fill of that in undergrad!) A few Canadian authors but honestly, not as many as I suspected I'd have. I think, having worked in publishing and with writers, there are a lot of authors who I've read one of their books but rarely went on to read a second work because there was always the next new author to try. What would be really interesting would be to have a list like this going back to the time that you began reading - so you'd have everybody from Dr. Seuss to Franklin W. Dixon. |
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