{"id":23044,"date":"2025-10-06T03:16:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23044"},"modified":"2025-09-21T13:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:05:38","slug":"prolific-authors-eight-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/prolific-authors-eight-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors \u2013 Eight 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 114 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 four authors I\u2019ve read eight times, one fewer than two years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The prolific comic book writer, who passed away earlier this year, shows up mostly with <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> novels that I read in high school, with only two of his total coming from this century.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13790\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sunburn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13790\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13790\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sunburn-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sunburn-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sunburn.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunburn &#8211; Laura Lippman<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Laura Lippman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a five year wait for Lippman&#8217;s second back to cross my eyes, she has jumped up considerably these past two years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer McMahon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After feeling unimpressed after finishing my first of her works,\u00a0<em>Dismantled<\/em>, in 2010, I eventually gave her another try, and she has been a consistent presence ever since.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Riley Sager<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of my newer favorites, I\u2019ve read all of his novels as they\u2019ve been released annually since 2017\u2019s\u00a0<em>Final Girls<\/em>\u00a0through this year\u2019s\u00a0<em>With a Vengeance<\/em>, which will count towards the next list.<\/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":[768,7633,43,188,8023,1575,7632,5187,12120],"class_list":["post-23044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-dismantled","tag-final-girls","tag-high-school","tag-jennifer-mcmahon","tag-laura-lippman","tag-peter-david","tag-riley-sager","tag-star-trek-the-next-generation","tag-with-a-vengeance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23044","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=23044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23180,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23044\/revisions\/23180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}