{"id":20721,"date":"2023-12-16T03:06:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T09:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20721"},"modified":"2023-11-15T11:06:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T17:06:51","slug":"prolific-authors-18-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/prolific-authors-18-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors \u2013 18 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> (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. This year, since I\u2019ve 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\u2019ve read through October. Since our last check-in, I\u2019ve read an additional 118 books, so there could be some movement over the past two 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 finish things off with a new leader, the lone author I\u2019ve read 18 times, a level unseen two years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeffery Deaver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1999, the first entry of Deaver\u2019s Lincoln Rhyme series,\u00a0<em>The Bone Collector<\/em>, was adapted into a film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.\u00a0 Around that time, I picked up a paperback copy, which I read in 2000.\u00a0 I slowly added additional titles as I would find them as remainders, picking up new hard covers for $3 or $4.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18844\" style=\"width: 434px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/midnightlock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18844\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18844\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/midnightlock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/midnightlock.jpg 424w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/midnightlock-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Midnight Lock &#8211; Jeffery Deaver<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Things increased in 2015, when I started picking up titles on deals through the Amazon Kindle store or from the library, leading to thirteen additional books added to my read bookshelf, with <em>The Burning Wire<\/em>, which I read earlier this year, being the most recent prior to the start of this countdown.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9399\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in December of\u00a02011 (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. 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