Who was the first author you had to read "everything" by?

[Keith80]

To show my age I'll admit to devouring as many of H.Rider Haggard's books as I could obtain as a boy. "She", "Alan Quartermain", "King Solomon's Mines", and "Nada the Lily" are still in my library. These wonderful adventure stories are treasures to me, and they helped to foment my life-long love of reading. I am now 80 years young and a day without reading is a day wasted. I graduated with a B.A. in English Lit. in 2013 from Trent U. "just for fun."

[WillowAsh]

C.L. Wilson is an awesome read. I love her series, Lord of the Fading Lands. When I finished the first one I was devastated that I had to wait until the next one came out. Her new series Winter King was great also. But Lord of the Fading Lands will always be my favorite of hers. They are about a the fae people.

[TarinaJ]

The ones I chose for myself, not the ones all my friends were reading, were Anne McCaffrey and David Eddings. I had hard back editions of Eddings' books for years and would go back every other year or so and re-read all of them. E-books don't weigh as much.

-- 27 Aug 2015, 21:30 --

To show my age I'll admit to devouring as many of H.Rider Haggard's books as I could obtain as a boy. "She", "Alan Quartermain", "King Solomon's Mines", and "Nada the Lily" are still in my library. These wonderful adventure stories are treasures to me, and they helped to foment my life-long love of reading. I am now 80 years young and a day without reading is a day wasted. I graduated with a B.A. in English Lit. in 2013 from Trent U. "just for fun."

That is wonderful. Congratulations!

-- 27 Aug 2015, 21:31 --

wow when i was younger and learnt about the library i spent many hours there, sourcing books.

i ended up reading all the Goosebumps books
aswell as the whole collection series of Nancy Drew (over 100 books)

The 'new' Nancy Drew or the old Nancy Drew?

[dpats24]

Robert James Waller. I know, he's been trashed by critics, but I love the way he tells a story. I especially like how he weaves characters from his other books into one another. My favorite is High Plains Tango, a whole book revolving around one line regarding Kincaid's past in Bridges of Madison County.

[bookworm1990]

The Redwall series! Definitely Brian Jacques was the first author whose shelf I cleared out at the library. I started with Salamandastron and branched out from there. Luckily the series doesn't go in order so I was able to jump around depending on what was available at the time. I used to wait for months for a new Redwall book and even into my teens I would go out the day it hit the bookstore shelves so I could start reading asap. Honestly, if Jacques was still writing, I'd still be reading them. Every once in a while I'll re read a random Redwall book but my favorite thing as a grown up to do is to recommend it to young readers. Many of the kids I talk to about the series at least try to read one and several have become fans like me!

[Keith80]

Thank you for the congratulations tj_avid_reader. I really enjoyed my English Lit. classes, and it really was a degree done for fun after I retired. My other degree is in metallurgy, and I graduated that one in 1957. That was hard work with lots of reading for information.

[chocomeiske]

Dean Koontz , Stephen King, James Patterson, Eric Jerome Dickey and Jim Butcher.

[Ginger_Julie]

P.C. Cast all the way. She writes amazing romance stories and many novellas to all of her series so that even when you end the series, it doesn't really end. You can delve into all her characters that you are wondering about and get to read all about their lives and why they are the way they are. I completely adore P.C. Cast, and if anyone is looking to getting into a new series, she is the author you want to go to! I know that I am still not through with her. I have long reading list and quite a few of them are from her and all her novellas, NOT just the book series'.

[Erica_Wilson17]

The very first author which I made sure I read every single book they'd written would e Cassandra Clare. Her writing is fantastic and her stories are even more so.

[SM_Brazil]

Dean Koontz , Stephen King, James Patterson, Eric Jerome Dickey and Jim Butcher.

Would have to be Stephen King for me I guess! After reading The Shining - I was hooked. Must have been junior high. A group of us girls were obsessed with V.C. Andrews and Mary Higgins Clark, too. My current obsessions are Louise Penny and Liane Moriarty.

[ashersb]

The very first author, who caught my attention to such an extent that I felt like I absolutely had to read everything by him, was Tolkien. I was still in my childhood years and I made the common mistake to read Lord of the Rings first. Thus, I often found myself asking questions about the characters and the story without being able to grasp exactly what had happened before and how we've gotten to a certain point of the plot. Regardless, I was so fascinated by his signature style of making such extensive descriptions of every single thing that I decided to read the one book, which explains everything from the very beginning - the Silmarillion. Ever since I read it I became so hooked on Tolkien's world that I bought every single work of his I could find on the market.

Nowadays I have more than a dozen books written by Tolkien written in English and translated in my native Bulgarian language (my LotR edition is consisted of one book only). Even though through the years I've gathered many books and series written by one author only (regardless of the author's gender), compared to the collection of books by other writers, his name is currently featured above the largest collection of books by a single author in my library.

Some other authors I've read "everything by", or at least everything I could find, are Richard A. Knaak, Lindsey Kelk, Cassandra Clare and more.

If you enjoy Richard A Knaak perhaps you would enjoy his book coming out in March 2016. I heard it was supposed to be very good.

[dashofelixir]

Sarah Dessen. I loved ALL of her books. And I loved how she had some correlations in them even though the storylines were different. My favorite book from her is "The Truth About Forever".

[Mother]

As with the "Who Was Your Favorite Author in Highschool" thread, my answer here also has to be Anne McCaffrey. I had to have every book she wrote, every series, and every standalone.

[StoneGargoyle]

Lovecraft. Definitely Lovecraft.

The Cthulhu Mythos is one of the most shockingly creative sub-genres of horror ever invented. I've read everything by Lovecraft. Literally everything.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

[shelley_soetosenojo]

The Five series of Enid Blyton. I think I was 8 or 9 years old when I first read one of the books in this series. I read all the books in that series that was available in the library. However, that wasn't that much!
Until I came across Nora Roberts in my mid twenties and I am trying to catch up with all the books she has written and still is...