What authors have you read every book by...?

To me, a sure sign that you've enjoyed someone's work is seeking out everything they've written and devouring it.

I'm two books away from doing this for Chuck Palahniuk having not read Haunting or his travel guide to Portland.

I've read everything by Max Barry but he only has three books, so it's easy.

What authors have driven you to read all of their works?

It's pretty easy for some authors who only wrote one or two books.

For instance, I've read everything by John Kennedy Toole.

Neal Stephenson, Michael Chabon, and David Foster Wallace.

My next goal would be to do the same for David Halberstam. That's gonna take awhile, though :)

Raymond Chandler, Patrick O'Brian (sort of: all the Aubrey & Maturin and I've given his other books a shot), Dashiell Hamett, James Ellroy. I guess I only really do that for fiction and then only series fiction (Robert B. Parker's Spenser books, etc.)

There was a time when, despite his productivity, I was right on Stephen King's tail. But I matured and haven't read him in a few years. (I wish he didn't feature so prominently in my author cloud). I don't think I've exhausted any authors, though I'm darn close on Michael Chabon and Kurt Vonnegut. Finishing Graham Greene is my life's ambition.

I've read all or almost all by: Vonnegut, Saramago, Peter Carey, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Pratchett, Dreiser, ...

oh, and Mieville--i think all of his, and most of Hardy and definitely all of Henry James, and most of Dos Passos ...

I've read everything by Douglas Adams.

At one point, I'd read all the Terry Pratchett books, but I can't keep up.

Raymond Chandler and I'm closing in on Nabokov.
It's easier when they're dead.

edit: ...but come to think of it, I'm closing in on some Live ones as well.

I've read all of William Gibson aside from that Agrippa: (a book of the dead)
All of Orhan Pamuk's fiction available in English.

At one time, I could say this about Robert Parker, but sadly he's lost me. The Spenser formula has finally worn thin.

I had read all of Terry Pratchett's, but then the quality started to decline and I gave up on them.

I've read all of Iain M Banks' SF novels, but not all of his non-SF novels (but then he writes them as Iain Banks (no M) so it kind of counts...).

Neal Stephenson (except for a few of the early rants), Kevin Brockmeier, Billy Collins

have read all/most of the following authors with output greater than one or two books, most of this being adolescent/early adult reading (so following veins when alternatives were not so readily apparent): kafka, sartre, camus, dostoyevsky, hamsun, nietzsche, kundera, rushdie, hesse, henry miller, beckett, borges, um, that's all i can recall off the top of my head. maybe calvino.

Nick Hornby. Does Speaking with the Angel count? He didn't write the whole thing, he only edited and introduced it.

Richard Brautigan is a hard fellow to collect, as many of his works were ephemeral, but thanks to teh internets and lovely libraries with equally lovely special collections, I think I've read nearly everything.

I've read every word Joyce Carol Oates ever wrote.

(No, really.)
(OK, not really.)

Now that's out of the way, I think I've read everything by Sinclair Lewis. Maybe everything by Margot Livesey and Pat Barker, from the UK. Probably every 87th Precinct series novel by the late Ed McBain (more than 50, IIRC). Possibly every Edith Wharton except The Decoration of Houses.

edit: Crikey, I forgot dear old Richard Yates.

At one point I'd read about 85-90% of the Agatha Christies, but the rest are too hard to get hold of (she published something like 90 novels under that name). I'm only one or two short of all of Wodehouse also, but again it's the rare/less popular ones that elude me. I used to belong to a library with an awesome core stock collection out the back with their older books. No one ever went out there so the books were generally on the shelf rather than being lent.

I've also read all of Steven Donaldson and all Pratchett except the latest Discworld novel. Cos I'm a geek.