This week’s topic from That Artsy Reader Girl was a fun challenge. Not only do you have to pick your favourite books by your favourite authors, you also have to decide who your favourite authors actually are.
It made me realise that a great deal of my best-loved books are by the authors that I haven’t really explored beyond one or two of their works. Because I’m a stickler for self-imposed rules, I’m only including the authors that I read more or less extensively, no less than three books. I also put a twist by including a runner-up!
1. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Runner-up: The Remains of the Day
2. The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Runner-up: The Blind Assassin
3. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
Runner-up: Love, Again
4. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Runner-up: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
5. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
Runner-up: Night Watch
6. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Runner-up: The Moon and Sixpence
7. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Runner-up: The Dispossessed
8. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
Runner-up: The Stepford Wives
9. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Runner-up: My Cousin Rachel
10. The Doomed City by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Runner-up: Beetle in the Anthill
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I read Small Gods last year. So good. So funny. RIP Terry Pratchett.
My TTT: https://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/2026/05/ttt-favorite-audiobooks-for-road-trips.html
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Both of your choices for Christie are perfection!
Here’s my TTT for the week: https://readbakecreate.com/favorite-covers-for-murder-on-the-orient-express/
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Murder on the Orient Express is up there as well, top five at least ☺️
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Easily!
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These look good. I struggled this week.
I have And Then There Were None on my list ☺️
I want to read a Daphne Du Maurier
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
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I used the same rule!
Thanks for sharing your #TTT
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A great idea to include a runner-up. I had trouble choosing only ten authors and then an even bigger challenge deciding which one of their books I liked best.
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Never Let Me Go was a good read.
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Love “And Then There Was None”
“Rebecca” is on my TBR list
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Oh man, what a great list! And how clever of you to include your runners up!
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That Christie book is the only one I have heard of but the others look and sound neat as well.
My List:
https://thegentlechapter.blog/2026/05/26/top-ten-tuesday-five-star-reads/
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Rosemary’s Baby was such a good story.
Here is our <a href=”https://www.longandshortreviews.com/miscellaneous-musings/top-ten-tuesday-first-books-in-a-series-by-my-favorite-author/“>Top Ten Tuesday.
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I only read The Hand Maid’s Tale and The testaments by Margaret Atwood, oops.
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2026/05/26/top-ten-tuesday-ten-historical-fiction-novels-that-are-on-my-tbr/
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