Which author have you read more than any other?

[LaceandChintz]

I'll start!
Enid Blyton, without a doubt. And still the author who instilled a love of reading, whose books I devoured, and have loved as much all over again reading them to my own children.

As an adult, I guess it's Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine.

Over to you...

Enid Blyton, Jeffrey Archer and Penny Vincenzo

*Vincenzi

Efeslight there is finally a new Susan hill Simon Serallier book coming out later this year, can’t wait!

Bill Bryson
Nelson DeMille
James Paterson
Peter James

Anita Shreve
Tracy Chevalier
Susan Fletcher
Kate Atkinson
William Boyd
Daphne du Maurier
Sarah Waters
Alexander McCall Smith (Scotland Street)
Guy Grieve
Tan Twan Eng

Have read pretty much all they have written ...

Stephen King, James Herbert and Jodi Picoult

Anthony Trollope (see my user name)

Neil Gaiman
Philip Pullman

Jane Austen. Again and again.

Sometimes I'll divert and re-read Dickens or Dorothy L Sayers. But Jane is my top comfort read.

I've recently inherited my grandmother's copy of Mansfield Park, discovered among my father's things. She died long before I was born and I know very little of her, so it was rather wonderful to find this among the handful of books with her name in (another was her Bible).

Diva DH wasn’t allowed Blyton either, Sven Hassell was regarded as quite proper

Has anyone called Penelope Lively?

As a child Judy Blume,

As an adult my most read author is Mary Wesley.
She only wrote 7 novels but I've read them over and over again! As PP said about the Adrian Mole series, they're my comfort blanket!

Terry pratchett
Nalini Singh
Georgette Heyer
Jane Austen
Eloisa James

As a child, Enid Blyton. As an adult I think it's Barbara Erskine.

Ian Rankin
Peter May
William Kent Krueger
Robert Dugoni

Jonathan Coe
Tessa Hadley
Philip Roth
James Lee Burke
Val McDermid

Probably Terry pratchett

As an adult, Iris Murdoch, John Irving and Ian Rankin.

I definitely think there is a law of diminishing returns with prolific authors though - John Irving and iris Murdoch in particular I loved the first couple books, but they started to get repetitive after a while. Anyone else eel the same?

Noel Streatfield

JK Rowling
Nancy Mitford
Jane Austin
Georgette Heyer
Kazuo Ishiguro

@TheGirlOnTheLanding I agree re John Irving-garp and Owen Meany utterly brilliant-by the time I read (can't even remember title-some divorce thing where the guy was creepily like my father) it was pretty diluted...

As a teenager, about 200 Sweet Valley High books. As an adult, about 60 Agatha Christie books.

Enid Blyton sparked my love of reading too op!
If I read a book and enjoy it I'll look for others by the same author, particularly; Jeffrey Deaver, Lee Child, Sophie Kinsella, Cecilia Ahern, Stuart Macbride, JK Rowling (and alter egos).
Trying to expand my reading material so following this for inspiration

Rumer Godden
Gerald Durrell
Neil Gaimon
Terry Pratchett
Agatha Christie
Ngaio March
L M Boston
John Wyndham

I'm clearly an old fart!

Read most of Philipa Gregory's books, Freya North, Marian Keyes,

Read Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher and loved it but have found her other books are very similar

Harry Turtledove
Terry Pratchett
Quintin Jardine
Eric Flint
Larry Niven

As a child - Enid Blyton.

As an adult I've tended to go through phases of reading everything by a certain author, then moved on to another. I've read everything by Dick Francis, Robert Goddard, Lee Child, Emily Barr, Elly Griffiths, Felix Francis, Sue Grafton and probably lots of others I can't think of now.

Enid Blyton as a child

Patricia Scanlan
Roisin Meaney
Ellie Dean