Ten by ten

There are a couple of I guess you could call them "chain postings" on Bluesky -- five authors you've read at least five books by, and ten authors you've read at least ten books by. The former seemed too easy, so here are the ten authors I've read at least ten books by, as I posted on Bluesky:

Richard Powers
Jack Vance
Tom Perrotta
Lawrence Block
Neal Stephenson
Philip Jose Farmer
Elinor Lipman
Robert Shea
Robert Anton Wilson
Iain Banks

I stopped after coming up with the ten, although I could have added another author or two, if needed. I've certainly read more than 10 by R.A. Lafferty, Roger Zelazny and by Gene Wolfe. Probably also Heinlein, Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and the Strugatsky brothers. With Vladimir Nabokov, I am pretty close. 

Some authors, of course, simply haven't written very many books. I've read all six of Jane Austen's canonical novels, and a seventh book that collected two unfinished novels with a novella called "Lady Susan," but that only brings me up to seven. Poor Jane wrote until shortly before her death and she was only 41 when she died. 

Tom Perrotta has a new novel out this month and there's a new Stephenson novel coming out in October, so that makes me happy.