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These were the 100 most popular authors, based on circulation figures, in 2004.
The headliners are still childrens picture book authors, and mystery and other popular fiction
authors. There are about 37,000 authors whose books circulated in 2004; the 100 authors below, by themselves, produced 12% of all circulation. Another way of looking at it: everybody from #71, Eve Bunting, upwards was checked out of our library system at least once a day... and Nora Roberts at the top of the list was checked out four times a day. Every day. All year long. Most popular authors for: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, & 2006; and Most Popular Non-Fiction Titles 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 & 2006; and, |
| All the authors: Roberts, Nora Berenstain, Stan Grisham, John Hillerman, Tony Dr. Seuss Brown, Marc Tolon Patterson, James Parker, Robert B. Brown, Dan Osborne, Mary Pope Evanovich, Janet Brown, Sandra Grafton, Sue Cornwell, Patricia Sandford, John McGarrity, Michael King, Stephen Rylant, Cynthia Barr, Nevada Rey, H. A. & Margret Kellerman, Jonathan Stine, R. L. Rowling, J. K. Braun, Lilian Jackson Dadey, Debbie McCall Smith, Alexander Connelly, Michael Steel, Danielle Perry, Anne Clark, Mary Higgins L'Amour, Louis Woods, Stuart Bridwell, Norman Peters, Elizabeth O'Brian, Patrick Jance, Judith A. Erickson, John R. Grimes, Martha Burke, James Lee Johansen, Iris Keene, Carolyn Leonard, Elmore Coulter, Catherine Block, Lawrence George, Elizabeth Beaton, M. C. McMurtry, Larry Christie, Agatha Koontz, Dean R. Wells, Rosemary James, P. D. Park, Barbara Rendell, Ruth Scottoline, Lisa Martin, Ann M. Kellerman, Faye Potter, Beatrix Cussler, Clive Francis, Dick Brown, Rita Mae McBain, Ed Gelsey, James Hiaasen, Carl Lackey, Mercedes Snicket, Lemony Steinbeck, John Oates, Joyce Carol Le Carrée, John Parish, Peggy Tyler, Anne Bunting, Eve Baldacci, David King, Laurie Jacques, Brian Mosley, Walter Sparks, Nicholas Paretsky, Sara Ludlum, Robert Cornwell, Bernard Peet, Bill Cleary, Beverly Muller, Marcia Robb, J. D. Kingsolver, Barbara Higgins, Jack Binchy, Maeve Hemingway, Ernest Lowell, Elizabeth Delinsky, Barbara Warner, Gertrude Chandler Yolen, Jane Marzollo, Jean McCaffrey, Anne Moncure, Jane Belk |
Authors of books for young people: Berenstain, Stan Dr. Seuss Brown, Marc Tolon Osborne, Mary Pope Rylant, Cynthia Rey, H. A. & Margret Stine, R. L. Rowling, J. K. Dadey, Debbie Bridwell, Norman Erickson, John R. Keene, Carolyn Wells, Rosemary Park, Barbara Martin, Ann M. Potter, Beatrix Gelsey, James Snicket, Lemony Parish, Peggy Bunting, Eve Jacques, Brian Peet, Bill Cleary, Beverly Warner, Gertrude Chandler Yolen, Jane Marzollo, Jean McCaffrey, Anne Moncure, Jane Belk |
Authors of books for adults: Roberts, Nora Grisham, John Hillerman, Tony Patterson, James Parker, Robert B. Brown, Dan Evanovich, Janet Brown, Sandra Grafton, Sue Cornwell, Patricia Sandford, John McGarrity, Michael King, Stephen Barr, Nevada Kellerman, Jonathan Braun, Lilian Jackson McCall Smith, Alexander Connelly, Michael Steel, Danielle Perry, Anne Clark, Mary Higgins L'Amour, Louis Woods, Stuart Peters, Elizabeth O'Brian, Patrick Jance, Judith A. Grimes, Martha Burke, James Lee Johansen, Iris Leonard, Elmore Coulter, Catherine Block, Lawrence George, Elizabeth Beaton, M. C. McMurtry, Larry Christie, Agatha Koontz, Dean R. James, P. D. Rendell, Ruth Scottoline, Lisa Kellerman, Faye Cussler, Clive Francis, Dick Brown, Rita Mae McBain, Ed Hiaasen, Carl Lackey, Mercedes Steinbeck, John Oates, Joyce Carol Le Carrée, John Tyler, Anne Baldacci, David King, Laurie Mosley, Walter Sparks, Nicholas Paretsky, Sara Ludlum, Robert Cornwell, Bernard Muller, Marcia Robb, J. D. Kingsolver, Barbara Higgins, Jack Binchy, Maeve Hemingway, Ernest Lowell, Elizabeth Delinsky, Barbara Preston, Douglas Rankin, Ian Clancy, Tom McCaffrey, Anne Twain, Mark Allende, Isabel Berg, Elizabeth |
More about this list:
'Literary' authors who appear in the top 100 are
Barbara Kingsolver, John Steinbeck, Larry McMurtry, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Tyler, Isabel Allende,
Mark Twain, and Ernest Hemingway;
in the second 100, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Toni Morrison, Jane Smiley, Gabriel García Márquez, Tracy Chevalier,
Charles Dickens, C. S. Lewis, Rudolfo Anaya, William Shakespeare, and Louise Erdrich.)
There is no nonfiction author in the top 100 this year. Unquestionably, we are fiction readers,
and we read a LOT. (Non-fiction authors in the second hundred this year: Deepak Chopra, Thich Nhat Hanh, and David Sedaris.)
'Most popular' is a moving target. Nora Roberts has been moving up the list
year by year and is now our most circulated author. Dan Brown zoomed up out of nowhere in 2003/2004.
Agatha Christie and Louis L'Amour are drifting down in popularity. And so on. On the other hand, nine of
the top twenty authors from 1998 are still in the top twenty in 2004. And the Berenstain Bears and Dr. Seuss
are perennial.
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Top 20 authors 1988-1992 !!! Dr. Seuss Hillerman, Tony Berenstain, Stan Martin, Ann M. Keene, Carolyn L'Amour, Louis Christie, Agatha Potter, Beatrix Francis, Dick Steel, Danielle William, Kate King, Stephen Cleary, Beverly McBain, Ed Blume, Judy Parish, Peggy Dixon, Franklin W. De Paola, Tomie Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman Suzanne, Jamie |
Top 20 authors in 1998 Dr. Seuss Stine, R. L. Berenstain, Stan Rey, H. A. & Margret Bridwell, Norman Hillerman, Tony Grisham, John Martin, Ann M. Brown, Marc Tolon Francis, Dick Grafton, Sue Cornwell, Patricia Daniels Clark, Mary Higgins Steel, Danielle Parker, Robert B. Erickson, John R. Perry, Anne Braun, Lilian Jackson Keene, Carolyn Christie, Agatha |
Top 20 authors in 2004 Roberts, Nora Berenstain, Stan Grisham, John Hillerman, Tony Dr. Seuss Brown, Marc Tolon Patterson, James Parker, Robert B. Brown, Dan Osborne, Mary Pope Evanovich, Janet Brown, Sandra Grafton, Sue Cornwell, Patricia Sandford, John McGarrity, Michael King, Stephen Rylant, Cynthia Barr, Nevada Rey, H. A. & Margret |
Updated January 25, 2007.
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