{"id":23052,"date":"2025-11-10T03:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23052"},"modified":"2025-09-21T14:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:45:29","slug":"prolific-authors-fifteen-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/prolific-authors-fifteen-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors \u2013 Fifteen 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 1xx 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 the lone author I\u2019ve read fifteen times, who just so happens to be a fictional character.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Castle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Debuting in 2009, the television series\u00a0<em>Castle<\/em>\u00a0follows the lives of Richard Castle, a best-selling novelist, and Kate Beckett, a New York homicide detective, as they solve various unusual murders.\u00a0 As Castle, portrayed by Nathan Fillion, wrote and released Nikki Heat novels on the show, those novels were released in the real world as well, the first of which,\u00a0<em>Heat Wave<\/em>, was released in 2009.\u00a0 The two most recent efforts,\u00a0<em>Heat Storm<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Crashing Heat<\/em>, were released after the cancellation of the show, though it appears unlikely that there will be any future installments.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9306\" style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/drivingheat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9306\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9306\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/drivingheat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/drivingheat.jpg 287w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/drivingheat-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Castle &#8211; Driving Heat<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The first seven books in the series were eventually revealed to have been ghost-written by Tom Straw. It is unknown if Straw wrote the final entries, though I highly doubt he was responsible for the last one, which had a much different feel to it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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":[67,8399,7528,774,69,775,9107],"class_list":["post-23052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-castle","tag-crashing-heat","tag-heat-storm","tag-heat-wave","tag-nathan-fillion","tag-richard-castle","tag-tom-straw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23052","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=23052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23146,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23052\/revisions\/23146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}