#top3authorsonshelf

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Top 3 authors on my shelves #top3authorsonshelf

Tagged by @stefito0o, thank you! I know I'm severely belated getting this up but all of these authors are double-stacked on my shelves and hauling them out and reassembling my shelves is something I haven't had the energy for until lately. (Also, these aren't entirely accurate stacks because I only went for "read and owned" and didn't trawl the TBR shelves.)

Terry Pratchett - This should surprise nobody who's met me! I discovered him while working in a library during high school and have never looked back. I'm working on collecting an edition of everything he's written and I'm very nearly there. It was hard getting everything into the same shot here, let me tell you.

Seanan McGuire - Also probably not a surprise to many followers! She's another one of my auto-buys, after Pratchett, and I can count on her books to be either entertaining or heartbreaking, and often both at the same time. …And I've just realized I didn't include her books as Mira Grant. Whoops. Oh well. Assume you see the Newsflesh trilogy here too!

Lois McMaster Bujold - A friend in my early 20s said I had to read the Vorkosigan books and they were right! At the time, like with Pratchett, the easiest/best way for me to read everything was to hit up used bookstores whenever possible, hence the varying print runs. Then I padded out the set with omnibus editions and started in on her fantasy works. I don't know if I'll buy more of the World of Five Gods novels than what I have, because I like her SF a little more, but I have a few and no regrets there.

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I haven't created a tag in a long time so I thought why not make one now 🤷🏻‍♀️ so here it is

Top 3 authors on my shelves #top3authorsonshelf

J.R.R.Tolkien - when I was growing up and the trilogy movies was coming out I wasn't interested at all. The orcs were so disgusting to me that I didn't even want to give them (the movies) a chance. But then The Hobbit became a movie(s) and so I read the book. And then LOTR. Since then I have watched the movies a few times maybe. Now I am so in love with Middle Earth that I want to read absolutely everything there is about it. I am slowly making my way through.

Agatha Christie - I mean that's not a surprise really, is it? My relationship with The Queen of Crime began a very long time ago, nearly 20 years in fact, with my mother reading her books and me wanting to find out why she likes them so much. That's actually a small collection here, if I was doing that with my bookshelf in Bulgaria she would've been number one with the 21 titles I have there.

J. K. Rowling - I know that's a controversial name but as many other people I grew up reading the Harry Potter series and with it consisting of 7 books it's no surprise she's in this list. Growing up I didn't have the books, I was taking them from the library and it was a dream of mine to own them. A dream that's now reality and in the original language too.

I can't wait to see what people have on their shelves 🤗

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Top 3 Authors on my Shelves - #top3authorsonshelf

I was tagged to do this by the wonderful @stefito0o! Sorry for taking a while to get to this (and I hope I'm doing it right?) 😅 I don't think my answers will be much of a surprised but nevermind

1. J.R.R. Tolkien

Anyone who's been around me or this blog for about 5 seconds will know how much I love Tolkien. He's the author I return to time and time again and always find something new to love. Reading his books, especially Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, feels like returning to old friends - and they have become old friends at this point. Tolkien's world enchants me, it fills me with so much joy and wonder when I open the pages of any Middle Earth book. I've had a lot of favourites wax and wane throughout my reading life - but Tolkien's Middle Earth is the one constant, the thing I'm always in the mood for, and I prize my Tolkien collection more than any other books I own.

2. Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb is an author who would not have been on this list 9 years ago when I first read the Farseer Trilogy. I enjoyed the series but didn't love it, however, when I returned to it a couple of years ago I fell in love and I've gone on to devour the rest of the Realm of the Elderlings.

Through this series Robin Hobb has taught me so much about myself, who I want to be, and about my relationships with the people around me - this can be both love, hate, frustration, and grief. There is so much depth and heart behind these characters, I feel so deeply connected to them - particularly Fitz and the Fool - and my world would be a darker place without them. (I'm still putting off reading the Fitz and the Fool Trilogy because I don't want to say goodbye to them!) Hobb is the best character and relationship writer in fantasy, and it just shows with how much I've connected to her characters over the last few years. She's a mature writer and requires a certain level of empathy to enjoy but she's stunningly profound.

3. Terry Pratchett

So where Robin Hobb has taught me so much about myself, Terry Pratchett has taught me about the world. His ability to encompass all of humanity in all our forms is astounding. He presents the world as it is and how we should want it to be with satirical honesty. Pratchett holds up a mirror to the world - particularly the world I know here in Britain - and shows us ourselves, warts and all, and STILL makes me remember the beauty in humanity.

Pratchett was an angry man, he saw the injustices in the world and wanted to change them. He used his characters (my particular favourite being Sam Vimes) to show us all the flaws in our worldview and made us reconsider them. But he showed us that anger and sense of justice through comedy. He makes us laugh while reconsider our (often deep seated) prejudices and change! I've never encountered an author who can simultaneously love and laugh at humanity quite like Terry. He's a man the world should mourn the passing of and I'll never get over not having another Pratchett book to read.

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