It’s Tuesday again which means time for another round of Top Ten Tuesday; I like joining in on this meme because I have a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Top Authors I’ve Only Read One Book From But NEED to Read More. I have a very bad habit of trying plenty of different authors and never returning to them. It isn’t because I don’t like the author but because I like to try a bit of everything. Here are some authors I’ve really enjoyed but have only read one book by them.
- Jane Austen (read Pride and Prejudice)
- Charles Bukowski (read Factotum)
- Italo Calvino (read If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler)
- Joseph Conrad (read Heart of Darkness)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (read The Great Gatsby)
- Gillian Flynn (read Gone Girl)
- Graham Greene (read The Third Man)
- Mary Shelley (read Frankenstein)
- Evelyn Waugh (read Decline and Fall)
- Edith Wharton (read Ethan Frome)
Yay for Italo Calvino, Jane Austen, Graham Greene, & Edith Wharton! I’ve also only read one book from Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, and have been meaning to read other books from him 🙂
My TTT
So many great authors….so little time
I have only read one or no books by each of these authors, too, except Jane Austen. My TTT @HEADFULLOFBOOKS
All authors are great, just need to read more of them
Graham Greene wrote one of my favorite books of all time (Our Man in Havana) and Jane Austen is always worth a go. 🙂
I suspect they will be great, just need to find more time to read
Even I’ve read only Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I started reading Sense and Sensibility, but never got around to finishing it. I had to read Heart of Darkness and Frankenstein for my final year graduation class and I loved Shelly’s book.
I’ve read a short story by Fitzgerald and I’ve been meaning to read The Great Gatsby for years now. But that soon going to change.
My TTT
I really need to get onto them. Frankenstein is my all time favourite, so I should really try more
Austen made my list as well. I Highly recommend Tender is the Night by Fitzgerald. I need to read more Wharton as well. I have an immeasurable amount of love for Ethan Frome, so I need to read some of her longer works. I need to pick up Graham Green, seeing as I own three of his works! Great List!
SO many books to read, I have a lot of books on my bookshelf waiting, many by these authors.
Can’t go wrong with Wharton, Fitzgerald, & Austen. I wish there were more Austens I could read . . . well, there’s always re-reading. Flynn–I don’t know if you’ll find her previous work quite as gripping as Gone Girl . . . I think everyone will have high hopes for her next one, though.
I really enjoyed Gone Girl, I hear her other books are a little darker, so I’m excited to read them
I can definitely recommend all of Flynn’s work. I’m not sure how you’re feeling about Gone Girl (I wasn’t as impressed as most) but her other two novels were fantastic. I’ve read Ethan Frome and the Bunner Sisters and I’ve come to realize that everything that woman wrote was depressing as heck. lol Not sure I can recommend.
I only read Gone Girl, and I was underwhelmed as well! I wrote off Flynn after that, but this makes me want to go back and read her other stuff.
I almost did too after GG. Very disappointed with that one. I hope that’s not what we can expect to get out of her from this point on. 🙂
You kids, life isn’t so clean, there was no better way that book could of turned out. 😛
hahaha For me it wasn’t even the ending. It took me upwards of 3 weeks to get through which is fairly unheard of for me. Pacing was just off.
Fair enough, for me it kept me up to 4am. So I obviously didn’t have that problem
Well, I hope you enjoy her other two just as much. 🙂
One day, I might find out
I hear so many good things about her other stuff, I’m gonna try them
I enjoyed Gone Girl, it ended how it should of ended, which people didn’t like. I know Edith Wharton is an author for me, I love depressing books
Ooh we have two authors the same on our lists! Gillian Flynn and F. Scott Fitzgerald! I recommend you read Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen. It’s perfection.
I plan to read S&S for my next Austen
I’m going to be reading Ethan Frome this month :). Gatsby was great (no pun intended) if you liked it, try Tender is the Night next. I also enjoyed Heart of Darkness, suggest “Jude the Obscure” if you like those themes (not by the same author tho). 🙂
Here’s my list. I’ve started doing them on YouTube as an experiment. Like and comment if you get a chance. 🙂 http://youtu.be/I12_Yd-x2tM?list=UUP4Ao6fj3mLXHqOSSxyqh8w
Good luck on youtube, but was this video meant to say nothing about TTT?
I actually liked Sharp Objects better than Gone Girl (another of Flynn’s novels). I haven’t read a lot of books by the authors you mention – except Jane Austen… have read all of her stuff….. 🙂
I think Sharp Objects will be my next Flynn, since there is a movie coming out.
I wouldn’t have thought of Fitzgerald! I’ve only read Gatsby, too. Great list! Classic authors intimidate me.
They shouldn’t, not all of them are hard to read.