{"id":20740,"date":"2023-12-18T07:21:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T13:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20740"},"modified":"2023-11-15T11:07:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T17:07:48","slug":"prolific-authors-wrap-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/prolific-authors-wrap-up-2\/","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> (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\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 wrap things up with a look back at the 97 authors I&#8217;ve read more than once.<\/p>\n<h3>Largest Increase (since 2021)<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_20236\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/silentwife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20236\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20236\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/silentwife-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/silentwife-198x300.jpg 198w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/silentwife.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Silent Wife &#8211; Karin Slaughter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Karin Slaughter &#8211; 6<br \/>\nErle Stanley Gardner &#8211; 5<br \/>\nJeffrey Deaver &#8211; 4<br \/>\nGrady Hendrix &#8211; 4<br \/>\nRichard Osman &#8211; 3<br \/>\nAlex Finlay &#8211; 3<br \/>\nTaylor Jenkins Reid &#8211; 3<\/p>\n<h3>Largest Increase (since 2011)<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_13581\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TheSkinCollector.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13581\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13581\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TheSkinCollector-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TheSkinCollector-186x300.jpg 186w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/TheSkinCollector.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Skin Collector &#8211; Jeffery Deaver<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jeffrey Deaver &#8211; 14<br \/>\nErle Stanley Gardner &#8211; 14<br \/>\nRichard Castle &#8211; 13<br \/>\nKarin Slaughter &#8211; 12<br \/>\nMary Kubica &#8211; 8<\/p>\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.\u00a0 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 [&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":[10001,5332,9787,1578,8099,6225,775,10171,10028],"class_list":["post-20740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-alex-finlay","tag-erle-stanley-gardner","tag-grady-hendrix","tag-jeffery-deaver","tag-karin-slaughter","tag-mary-kubica","tag-richard-castle","tag-richard-osman","tag-taylor-jenkins-reid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20740","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=20740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20741,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20740\/revisions\/20741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}