{"id":23058,"date":"2025-11-24T04:11:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23058"},"modified":"2025-09-21T14:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:46:38","slug":"prolific-authors-19-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/prolific-authors-19-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors \u2013 19 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 with the lone author I\u2019ve read 19 times, starting in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karin Slaughter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In March of 2018, I was flying to Las Vegas for the IBM Think conference and I clicked open <em>Pretty Girls<\/em>, a standalone work by Karin Slaughter, which had been on the Kindle for a while. Little did I know that I would average close to three books per year for the next seven years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20875\" style=\"width: 339px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/afterthatnight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20875\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20875\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/afterthatnight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/afterthatnight.jpg 329w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/afterthatnight-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After That Night &#8211; Karin Slaughter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The following year, I jumped into her Will Trent series, accidentally starting with the eighth entry <em>The Kept Woman<\/em>.\u00a0 I worked my way through that series, becoming current in 2023.\u00a0 That summer, I went back to her older Grant County series, having some familiarity with characters who had crossed over.\u00a0 Earlier this year, I knocked off <em>Pieces of Her<\/em>, which was adapted by Netflix for a show in 2022 and has a sequel waiting for me.\u00a0 On top of all that, she has a new series which started in August.\u00a0 I imagine she may take the top spot next time I run through this list.<\/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":[7886,8099,1642,10276,8098,8254],"class_list":["post-23058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-ibm-think","tag-karin-slaughter","tag-netflix","tag-pieces-of-her","tag-pretty-girls","tag-the-kept-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23058","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=23058"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23142,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23058\/revisions\/23142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}