{"id":17879,"date":"2021-11-15T01:35:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T07:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17879"},"modified":"2021-11-07T20:02:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T02:02:58","slug":"prolific-authors-12-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/prolific-authors-12-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors &#8211; 12 Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2220\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg 512w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>Way back in December of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/prolific-authors\/\">2011<\/a>\u00a0(and again every other December since), we&#8217;ve taken a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school.\u00a0 This year, since I&#8217;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&#8217;ve read through August. Since our last check-in, I\u2019ve read an additional 60 books from 54 different authors. There shouldn\u2019t be much movement over the past 2 years, but it\u2019s time to take another look and see if my \u201cfavorite\u201d authors have changed much in that time span.\u00a0 Today, we continue with the two authors I&#8217;ve read 12 times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Golden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The prolific author first entered my bookshelf in 1998, thanks to a <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em> tie-in.\u00a0 Eleven more of those over the following seven years leave him here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brad Meltzer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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 <em>The Millionaires<\/em> and <em>The First Counsel<\/em>.\u00a0 Since then, he has been a pretty steady presence as new work is released, last seen in 2018 with <em>The Escape Artist<\/em>, with a new entry due out in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in December of\u00a02011\u00a0(and again every other December since), we&#8217;ve taken a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school.\u00a0 This year, since I&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[710,106,713,7901,9821,9820],"class_list":["post-17879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-brad-meltzer","tag-buffy","tag-christopher-golden","tag-the-escape-artist","tag-the-first-counsel","tag-the-millionaires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17879"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18212,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879\/revisions\/18212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}