Indian Readers discussion

Do you fall in love with Author too ??? Do you buy each and every book that author has ever written?
If yes.. then share the name of authors of which you own a complete collection:


For me:
Alistair MacLean
Dan Brown
Agatha Christie
Durjoy Dutta , Maanvi Ahuja
Ashwin Sanghi
Frederick Forsyth
Chetan Bhagat
William Dalrymple
Jeffrey Archer
John Grisham

The following are my (nearly) full collections:
P.G. Wodehouse

Narayan Rk

Have most of ..
PG Wodehouse
Jane Austen
Agatha Christie
Earl Stanley Gardner
Jeffrey Archer (older ones at least)
JK Rowling
Asterix series
Malcom Gladwell

Hey Qube - am guessing an 'almost complete' collection of Asimov would run into 100s of books. I hope you have a secure library!! Where did u say u live?? ;)

Qube wrote: "Almost complete, if not complete:

Alistair MacLean
Isaac Asimov
PG Wodehouse
Agatha Christie
Edgar Wallace
Tolkien
Frederick Forsyth
Earl Stanley Gardner
Conan Doyle
Jules Verne
Michael Crichton
R..."

Nice collection... feeling envy!

hey Qube, next time you prune your collection... let me know... i will be happy to help you :)

Qube, I also envy your collections. When I moved this summer, space was at a premium and so I had to donate many of my books. I still hung on to a few Asimovs, though not as many as I would like.

If I had the money, I'd buy a house with a huge library room--bookshelves from floor to ceiling!

Wow! That's a lot of book loving ! I don't have as many books as ya'll do but I am collecting books by
P.C.Cast, L.J.Smith, Meg Cabot, Sarah Dessen.

Qube wrote: "Ken wrote: "Qube, I also envy your collections. When I moved this summer, space was at a premium and so I had to donate many of my books. I still hung on to a few Asimovs, though not as many as I ..."

Going digital is not collection of books. They exist virtually and have no impact on physical world. As Qube here describes the space constraint. Me too worried where I am gonna put my all books?

Qube wrote -- "If I had the money, I'd buy a house with a huge library room--bookshelves from floor to ceiling"! -- The feeling is mutual.

One home library I would like is this: its awesome. I feel so envious of the people who own it (and I don;t at all envy the poor sods who have to maintain it, possibly paid cleaners)
http://bookriot.com/2013/11/21/readin...

Smitha wrote: "One home library I would like is this: its awesome. I feel so envious of the people who own it (and I don;t at all envy the poor sods who have to maintain it, possibly paid cleaners)
http://bookrio..."
I don't even want the net. Just give me that Library and time to read those lovely books! It's strange when today, we have less space at home and so libraries become all the more crucial, that these institutions are dying a slow but steady death. I wonder how many of us are members of libraries....

Rana Dasgupta
Franz Kafka
Aleksandar Hemon
Satyajit Ray
Jhumpa Lahiri
Margaret Mascarenhas
Haruki Murakami
Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason series...

@Kunal: do you have Kafka's letters [to his father and to milena] also?

yes Sudhang, I do.

Where did you get them?

through a scribd subscription, though i think the letters are available by themselves in Indian stores in the paperback form too, or at least a partial collection. but i could be wrong. the diaries certainly are.

That's interesting; I had no idea scribd was good for anything other than solution manuals to tech books.

no more full collections? eh? cant believe!!!

My Complete or Almost Complete Collections.

Neil Gaiman
Stephen King [Almost Complete]
George R. R. Martin
Patrick Rothfuss
Khaled Hosseini
Robert Kirkman
Gillian Flynn
Robert Ludlum
Frederick Forsyth
Jeffrey Archer
J. K. Rowling
Christopher Paolini
Markus Zusak
Mario Puzo
J R R Tolkien
Paulo Coelho
Chetan Bhagat
Ashwin Sanghi
Amish Tripathi
Anand Neelakantan
Tsugumi Ohba [Only Have the Full Death Note Collection]
Marjane Satrapi
Agatha Christie [Almost Complete]
Dan Brown
Steig Larsson
John Green [Currently Colleting]
Daphne du Maurier [Currently Collecting]

I really liked his (Khaled Hosseini) first book... but when I read his second book ,Thousand Splendid Sun I really fell in love his writing so I bought his next as well...

Khaled Hosseini
Marjane Satrapi
JK Rowling
Aravind Adiga
stephenie mayer
Mark Zusak
Mario Puzo
Chetan Bhagat (considering the fact I don't like his way of writing AT ALL)
JRR Tolkien (on the way)

Nitish wrote: "I really liked his (Khaled Hosseini) first book... but when I read his second book ,Thousand Splendid Sun I really fell in love his writing so I bought his next as well...

[author:Kha..."
Glad to see ,nitish that some good sensible readers have sense to be repelled by chetan bhagat's writing when all
You see is people reading "half girlfriend" in metros.

Gordon wrote: "My Complete or Almost Complete Collections.

Neil Gaiman
Stephen King [Almost Complete]
George R. R. Martin
Patrick Rothfuss
[author:..."

that's must be thousands of books, i hope you have a secure house and doesn't share your address :P

Nitish wrote: Chetan Bhagat (considering the fact I don't like his way of writing AT ALL)

[author:Kha..."

I always pick Chetan Bhagat to see how deep he has gone this time into depths of stupidity... and after his last half-mind-half-sensible-full-idiocracy book.. i hope he has touched the bottom of pit...

Sidney Sheldon's all books,Chetan Bhagat's ,Sudeep Nagarkar,Durjoy Datta,Khaleed Hosseini's,Preeti Shenoy's

My Complete Collections

Full collection - Physical
Arthur Hailey
Michael Crichton
Chetan Bhagat [Only reason is price is supportive]
Karan Bajaj
Khaled Hosseini
Joseph Heller [Almost complete]