{"id":23054,"date":"2025-11-17T03:19:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23054"},"modified":"2025-09-21T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:46:08","slug":"prolific-authors-17-books-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/prolific-authors-17-books-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific Authors \u2013 17 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 continue today with our penultimate entry and the lone author I\u2019ve read 17 times, who was at the top of this list two years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nancy Holder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My former most prolific author first came to my attention in 1998, when I read <em>Halloween Rain<\/em>, her first entry, along with Christopher Golden, in the series of books based on the television show\u00a0<em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em>.\u00a0 Twelve of her 17 entries, all of which are tie-ins to either\u00a0<em>Buffy<\/em>\u00a0and\/or\u00a0<em>Angel<\/em>, were read between 1998 and 2002.\u00a0 After a nine-year layoff, she returned to my attention in 2011 with\u00a0<em>Carnival of Souls<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17162\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Book_of_Fours.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17162\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17162\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Book_of_Fours.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Book_of_Fours.jpg 220w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The_Book_of_Fours-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Book Of Fours &#8211; Nancy Holder<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another five years went by, before she returned again with two books in 2016, one in 2018, and then, finally, one in 2021.\u00a0 Seeing as I have depleted my backlog of\u00a0<em>Buffy<\/em>\u00a0novels, she\u2019s likely to stay put for the foreseeable future, unless someone re-releases these cheaply on the Kindle.<\/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":[2856,106,914,713,9763,2889,913],"class_list":["post-23054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-angel","tag-buffy","tag-carnival-of-souls","tag-christopher-golden","tag-halloween-rain","tag-kindle","tag-nancy-holder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23054","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=23054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23144,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23054\/revisions\/23144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}