{"id":18396,"date":"2021-12-20T06:18:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T12:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=18396"},"modified":"2021-12-14T08:14:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T14:14:32","slug":"prolific-authors-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/prolific-authors-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors Wrap Up"},"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 wrap things up with a look back at the 77 authors I&#8217;ve read more than once.<\/p>\n<h3>Largest Increase (since 2019)<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_12213\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/knifeslipped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12213\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12213\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/knifeslipped-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/knifeslipped-188x300.jpg 188w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/knifeslipped.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Knife Slipped &#8211; Erle Stanley Gardner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Erle Stanley Gardner &#8211; 5<br \/>\nJeffrey Deaver &#8211; 3<br \/>\nKarin Slaughter &#8211; 3<br \/>\nTom Perrotta &#8211; 3<br \/>\nRiley Sager &#8211; 2<br \/>\nGreer Hendricks &#8211; 2<br \/>\nSarah Pekkanen &#8211; 2<\/p>\n<h3>Largest Increase (since 2011)<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_5026\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/51tdsvBijUL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5026\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5026\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/51tdsvBijUL-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/51tdsvBijUL-205x300.jpg 205w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/51tdsvBijUL.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deadly Heat &#8211; Richard Castle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Richard Castle &#8211; 13<br \/>\nJeffrey Deaver &#8211; 10<br \/>\nErle Stanley Gardner &#8211; 9<br \/>\nJ.K. Rowling &#8211; 7<br \/>\nMary Kubica &#8211; 6<br \/>\nDavid Mack &#8211; 6<br \/>\nKarin Slaughter &#8211; 6<\/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":[4208,5332,8918,6384,1578,8099,6225,775,7632,8919,7655],"class_list":["post-18396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-david-mack","tag-erle-stanley-gardner","tag-greer-hendricks","tag-j-k-rowling","tag-jeffery-deaver","tag-karin-slaughter","tag-mary-kubica","tag-richard-castle","tag-riley-sager","tag-sarah-pekkanen","tag-tom-perrotta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396","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=18396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18400,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396\/revisions\/18400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}