{"id":23040,"date":"2025-09-15T03:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23040"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:31:35","slug":"prolific-authors-six-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/prolific-authors-six-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors \u2013 Six 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>It is time once again to take a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school.\u00a0 This year, I\u2019m once again on pace to set a new record for books read in a year, so I thought it would be nice to take a deeper dive into those books I\u2019ve read through August of this year. Since our last check-in, I\u2019ve read an additional 114 books, so there should be some movement over the past two years.\u00a0 Without further ado, it\u2019s time to take another look and see if my \u201cfavorite\u201d authors have changed much over the years.\u00a0 We continue today with the four authors I\u2019ve read six times, two more than two years ago.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22316\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/swansong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22316\" class=\"wp-image-22316 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/swansong-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/swansong-194x300.jpg 194w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/swansong.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swan Song &#8211; Elin Hilderbrand<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Elin Hilderbrand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The best-selling author of novels set on her home island of Nantucket added four new novels to my read shelf these past two years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Mack<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All six of his entries come from\u00a0<em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>\u00a0works I\u2019ve read on my Kindle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah Pekkanen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She has teamed up with Greer Hendricks for four novels but has branched out on her own again in recent years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22011\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/breaknobones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22011\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22011\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/breaknobones-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/breaknobones-165x300.jpg 165w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/breaknobones.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Break No Bones &#8211; Kathy Reichs<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kathy Reichs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The creator of the books that were the inspiration for\u00a0<em>Bones<\/em>, she has been rising steadily as I&#8217;ve gained a newfound appreciation for the novel series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time once again to take a look at the authors I have read the most, dating back to high school.\u00a0 This year, I\u2019m once again on pace to set a new record for books read in a year, so 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":[109,4208,10260,8918,770,2889,8919,5187],"class_list":["post-23040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-bones","tag-david-mack","tag-elin-hilderbrand","tag-greer-hendricks","tag-kathy-reichs","tag-kindle","tag-sarah-pekkanen","tag-star-trek-the-next-generation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23040","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=23040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23221,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23040\/revisions\/23221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}