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Prolific Authors 2019

Way back in December of 2011 (and again in the Decembers of 2013, 2015, and 2017), we took a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school. Since our last check-in, I’ve read an additional 48 books from 50 different authors. There shouldn’t be much movement over the past 2 years, but it’s time to take another look and see if my “favorite” authors have changed much in that time span. Once again, we will be limiting ourselves to the now 70 authors from whom I have read more than one book.

 

Author Name Current Total 2017 Total Difference
Nancy Holder 16 15 1

Nancy Holder adds 1 new book over the past 2 years to maintain her lead.

Richard Castle 15 14 1

The writer (or writers) using the nom de plume of the main character from the television show Castle sees a slight increase, despite the show being off the air for well over 3 years now.

Stephen King 13 12 1
Greg Rucka 13 13 0
Christopher Golden 12 12 0
Brad Meltzer 12 11 1

Very little movement in the next tier the past 2 years.

Jeffery Deaver 11 8 3

We round out the double digits with Deaver, who will be going up again soon, as I’m currently reading one of his books. Continue reading →

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Book 19 (of 52) – Lock Every Door

Lock Every Door – Riley Sager

Lock Every Door, the latest from Riley Sager, tells the tale of a young woman who, at her lowest point, seems to have found a dream job: apartment sitting in the building she has fantasized about her entire life.  Everything is not as it seems, however, when her fellow apartment sitters start disappearing.  While she tries to find her missing friends, she learns that the strangeness has been going on longer than she, or anyone, could have imagined and that her life is very much in danger.

Sager’s third novel in the last three years abandons his previous theme of summer camps in exchange for New York and a high rise apartment building, with a little class warfare thrown in for good measure.  I’ve yet to be disappointed by Sager and look forward to whatever comes next from him.

 

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Book 20 (of 52) – The Last Time I Lied

The Last Time I Lied – Riley Sager

In Riley Sager’s second novel, The Last Time I Lied, a young artist returns to the summer camp as a counselor where her three roommates went missing fifteen years before, hoping to finally get some closure.  While she tries to figure out what happened years ago, another triplet of missing girls causes the finger of blame to point back towards her.

Picking up on a theme from last year’s Final Girls, Sager returns to summer camp in his latest work.  Whether it is meant to be a recurring theme or just a coincidence remains to be seen.  It looks like we’ll get a better idea next year, when his third novel in as many years is released.  I look forward to finding out.

 

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2017: The Year In Books

With another year coming to an end, it is time to take a look back at the 28 books I read over the past year, 3 less than last year.  Of those 28, 7 were non-fiction and, of the 21 novels, only 4 were TV show tie-ins.  For the first time, none of the books came out of my “to-read” drawer, and a record 16 were e-books.  I read over 80,000 pages, my lowest total since at least 2013.

Once again, a majority of the books I read this year were by authors I’ve never read before. The 15 authors that I read for the first this year were:
Amy Schumer
Jessie Humphries
Gene Kim
Tod Goldberg
Matt Zoller Seitz
Philip K. Dick
Harland Sanders
Paul Levine
William J. Mann
Matthew V. Clemmons
Chris Smith
Riley Sager
Whitney Cummings
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tom Perrotta

There were 4 authors I read multiple titles from during 2016, the ghost writer for Richard Castle, Jeffery Deaver, David Mack, and Erle Stanley Gardner.

7 of the books I read were released this year, while 3 of them were released last century.

Finally, the breakdown by month.  Vacation in December certainly helped pad its totals a tad bit.

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Book 21 (of 52) – Final Girls

Final Girls – Riley Sager

After a single survivor is left behind in three different mass killings, the media dubs them the Final Girls. When the first turns up dead, the other two finally meet, but not is all what it seems.  Quincy, the newest Final Girl, must learn what happened before she becomes the next victim, finishing a job started a decade earlier.

Final Girls, the debut novel for Riley Sager, picks up on a popular theme in the horror movie world and takes it to the realm of novels.  He weaves an interesting tale that has enough twists and turns to keep you interested.  I look forward to more from this new voice in the thriller world.