I'm curious who you have the most books by on your shelves/ in your readers. I went hard mode and left out genre fiction and children's or YA books, since those authors are prolific and tend to write in series--so if you read them at all, you probably have a stack by them. Here's my list of fiction and poetry authors I own five or more books by:
Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, A.S. Byatt, Italo Calvino, Joseph Conrad,
Robertson Davies, Charles Dickens, Fyoder Dostoyevsky, Margeurite Duras,
Umberto Eco, William Faulkner, Timothy Findley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Grama Greene,
Anne Hebert, Shirley Jackson, Henry James, James Joyce, Evelyn Lau, William Morris,
Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Robert Nye, Michael Ontaatje, George Orwell, Salman Rushdie,
John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Jane Urquhart, Charles Williams, Eiji Yoshikawa.
Poets: Dionne Brand, George Elliott Clarke, Leonard Cohen, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas,
W.B. Yeats.
>meme authors
>>8523851
I listed several I've never seen mentioned on /lit/. Why not tell us what's in your collection, o meme-proof one?
>>8523832
>Kobo Abe
>Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
>Kenzaburō Ōe
>Ray Bradbury
>Richard Brautigan
>Italo Calvino
>Osamu Dazai
>Philip K. Dick
>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
>Shūsaku Endō
>Robert Hans van Gulik
>Saikaku Ihara
>Yasushi Inoue
>Kazuo Ishiguro
>Tove Jansson
>Yasunari Kawabata
>Donald Keene
>Yukio Mishima
>Ōgai Mori
>Haruki Murakami
>Sōseki Natsume
>Kenneth Rexroth
>William Shakespeare
>Junichiro Tanizaki
>Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
>H. G. Wells
>Banana Yoshimoto
>>8524284
Interesting, and a serious weight of Japan-lit there. Are you Japanese, or just a fan of the literary styles from there?
>>8524302
I study Japanese lit, so about 1/5 of my collection is Jlit or about Japan.