{"id":22912,"date":"2025-12-15T03:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22912"},"modified":"2025-09-21T14:47:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:47:58","slug":"prolific-authors-22-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/prolific-authors-22-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors \u2013 22 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>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 conclude today with the sole author I\u2019ve read 22 times, a level unseen two years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeffery Deaver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1999, the first entry of Deaver\u2019s Lincoln Rhyme series,\u00a0<em>The Bone Collector<\/em>, was adapted into a film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.\u00a0 Around that time, I picked up a paperback copy, which I read in 2000.\u00a0 I slowly added additional titles as I would find them as remainders, picking up new hard covers for $3 or $4.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/the-broken-window.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21759\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/the-broken-window.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/the-broken-window.jpg 350w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/the-broken-window-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThings increased in 2015, when I started picking up titles on deals through the Amazon Kindle store or from the library, leading to 17 additional books added to my read bookshelf.\u00a0 In August of last year, I finished off the Lincoln Rhyme series with <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/book-33-of-52-the-broken-window\/\"><em>The Broken Window<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 There is still room to grow, as I have three remaining entries of his Kathryn Dance series, although my local library does not have them available in an electronic format, and what looks to be a new series where he has teamed up with Isabella Maldonado.<\/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":[1392,334,11658,1578,2889,6142,11549],"class_list":["post-22912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-angelina-jolie","tag-denzel-washington","tag-isabella-maldonado","tag-jeffery-deaver","tag-kindle","tag-the-bone-collector","tag-the-broken-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22912","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=22912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22913,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22912\/revisions\/22913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}