{"id":20717,"date":"2023-12-09T03:05:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T09:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20717"},"modified":"2023-11-15T11:05:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T17:05:40","slug":"prolific-authors-15-books-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/prolific-authors-15-books-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors \u2013 15 Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Way back in December of\u00a02011<\/a> (and again every other December since), we’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’ve read fifteen times, up one from 2021.<\/p>\n

Richard Castle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Debuting in 2009, the television series Castle<\/em> follows 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, Heat Wave<\/em>, was released in 2009.\u00a0 The two most recent efforts, Heat Storm<\/em> and Crashing Heat<\/em>, were released after the cancellation of the show, though it appears unlikely that there will be any future installments.<\/p>\n

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Frozen Heat – Richard Castle<\/p><\/div>\n

The first seven books in the series were eventually revealed to have been ghost-written by Tom Straw.\u00a0 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

Stephen King<\/strong><\/p>\n

I first read King\u2019s work during my freshman year of high school.\u00a0 In fact, I remember reading\u00a0Pet Sematary<\/em> after finishing my Biology final at the end of freshman year, waiting for the class to be dismissed.\u00a0 My total reached nine novels by 1993, but then college and other pursuits got in the way and King fell out of my favor.<\/p>\n

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Joyland – Stephen King<\/p><\/div>\n

That changed in 2012, when the release of\u00a011\/22\/63<\/em> brought me back in to the King fold.\u00a0 I\u2019ve added six of his more current work, half of which has been through the Hard Case Crime imprint, which limited, but did not completely remove, the horror elements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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