Prolific Authors – 12 Books

Way back in December of 2011 (and again every other December since), we’ve taken a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school.  This year, since I’ve far surpassed my reading output of any year on record, I thought it would be nice to take a deeper dive into those books I’ve read through August. Since our last check-in, I’ve read an additional 60 books from 54 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.  Today, we continue with the two authors I’ve read 12 times.

Christopher Golden

The prolific author first entered my bookshelf in 1998, thanks to a Buffy the Vampire Slayer tie-in.  Eleven more of those over the following seven years leave him here.

Brad Meltzer

I was originally exposed to Meltzer through his comics work for DC, but eventually tried out his novels work in 2002, when I read both The Millionaires and The First Counsel.  Since then, he has been a pretty steady presence as new work is released, last seen in 2018 with The Escape Artist, with a new entry due out in March.

Book 11 (of 52) – The Escape Artist

The Escape Artist – Brad Meltzer

Brad Meltzer returns with his first solo work since 2015.  The Escape Artist tells the tale of a military mortician who teams up with the army’s artist in residence, who he knew when she was a child, to figure out what, or who, caused a plane crash that killed a friend of the President.  Can they figure out the truth before the past comes back to haunt, or kill, them?

Meltzer leaves behind his Culper Ring series to focus instead on two new protagonists, who are connected by an event in their past.  Meltzer again weaves obscure historical facts in to his tale, this time about the magician, John Wilkie, who once ran the Secret Service.

This is the 12th Brad Meltzer novel that I’ve read and I am looking forward to the next one, whether it takes 2 or 3 years.