{"id":20711,"date":"2023-11-27T03:03:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T09:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20711"},"modified":"2023-11-27T12:56:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T18:56:14","slug":"prolific-authors-12-books-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/prolific-authors-12-books-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors \u2013 12 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=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf.jpg 512w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bookshelf-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/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 continue with the two authors I&#8217;ve read twelve times, even with two years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Golden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The prolific author first entered my bookshelf in 1998, thanks to a <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em> tie-in.\u00a0 Eleven more of those over the following seven years leave him here.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14771\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kept_woman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14771\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14771\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kept_woman-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kept_woman-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kept_woman.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Kept Woman &#8211; Karin Slaughter<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Karin Slaughter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A New York Times best seller, Slaughter first crossed my radar in 2018 with the standalone novel <em>Pretty Girls<\/em>.\u00a0 I followed that up with <em>The Kept Woman<\/em>, which, unbeknownst to me, was the eighth entry in the Will Trent series.\u00a0 Since then, I&#8217;ve quickly caught up on that series while also starting her previous Grant County series.<\/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":[106,713,8099,1553,8098,8254],"class_list":["post-20711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-buffy","tag-christopher-golden","tag-karin-slaughter","tag-new-york-times","tag-pretty-girls","tag-the-kept-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20737,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20711\/revisions\/20737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}