45 -- Author Releases More Than One Book A Year

[Lindsey]

45) Author releases more than one book a year

For prompt 45, we’re looking for authors who release more than one book a year. Any book published by an author fitting this description will work toward this prompt.

The author may regularly release two or more books in a calendar year, or may have released two books in a specific year as a one-time occurrence. The books do not have to have been released in 2025 (although that makes for a fun bonus challenge!) You may choose any book by this author (even if the year that that specific book was published, the author only released one book.)

You may also choose an author who regularly co-writes with others (Ex: James Patterson), a pseudonym shared by multiple authors, etc. Novellas and short stories fit this prompt.


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[Denise]

I’m reading the Bridgerton books, and more than one book came out in the same year

[Rachael]

Ana Huang usually releases two books/year if anyone wants to check out her work.

I'm specifically going to be reading King of Sloth for this prompt

[Ash]

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

[Aquaria]

Some 'prolific' authors:

*Louisa May Alcott
*Isaac Asimov
*Honoré de Balzac
*Enid Blyton
*Barbara Cartland
*Anthony Berkeley Cox (several pseudonyms)
*Agatha Christie
*John Creasey (several pseudonyms)
*Charles Dickens
*Alexandre Dumas (he wrote so many books that the joke in France is that not even Dumas has read all of Dumas)
*Janet Evanovich
*Zane Grey
*Henry James
*Stephen King
*Louis L'Amour
*ECR Lorac (several pseudonyms)
*Ngaio Marsh
*Georges Simenon (several pseudonyms)
*Nora Roberts
*Rex Stout
*Jules Verne

Many of the authors with Harlequin (or similar category imprints) write/have written more than 1 book per year. At the beginning of her career, Nora Roberts would usually write around 7-10 novels a year for Silhouette, and she never really slowed down after that. Janet Evanovich wasn't as prolific when she wrote category romances, but she, too, learned how to write fast and often from that start to her career. A sizeable percentage of romantic suspense writers started with category romances, so if you have a favourite check what they published early in their careers. You'll be shocked at how many of them were just like Nora Roberts, oh so long ago: Sandra Brown, Heather Graham, Lisa Jackson, Jayne Krentz, Carla Neggers...

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Freida McFadden, if you are a fan of suspense/murder mystery.

[Kerie Lynn]

The Housemaid's Secret

[Hilde]

The Swedish history books I read, several of those authors releases more than one book in a year.

My first choices are:
Dick Harrison, Tomas Blom & Daniel Rydén

[Aquaria]

Forgot to list my book, totally old school:

Barbara Cartland – A Hazard of Hearts

Nobody said the author had to be living.

[Lucilla]

Seanan McGuire is very prolific, she averages 2-3 books a year. She also wrote under the pseudonym A. Deborah Baker.

[Andrew]

I am reading Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday for this prompt as my first book of 2025.

[Rebekah]

I've book 6 in the Cherringham series by Neil Richards and Matthew Costello. Short, cosy mysteries set in the very British Village of Cherringham, one of the main protagonists being a former NYPD Detective. they always help me out of a reading slump too. There are 47 books in total.

[Lisa Marie]

I will be reading:


Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

HAPPY READING!!

[Natalie "Curling up with a Coffee and a Kindle"]

I'm using Jenni Keer. Her books are great!

[Alexandra]

I read “The Seventh Bride” by T. Kingfisher.

[Hilde]

Ended up choosing Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, the Eyewitness Classics edition.



I have read most of them years ago in Norwegian and English, the only ones I hadn't read yet was this book, Pinocchio that I am reading for prompt #22 and Gullivers Travels Eyewitness Classics, which is the only one I don't have.

[Kate]

[Angelslovebooks]

King of Wrath by Ana Huang

[Ana]

I just finished Murder With Puffins
Donna Andrews usually releases 2 books a year.
Does that count?

[Beth]

I read The Venetian Betrayal. Berry doesn't typically put out more than one book a year, but he has from time to time.

[Katie]

I read The Teacher by Freida McFadden

[Kara]

I listened to the audiobook of The Perfect Son . It wasn’t bad and the narrators were good for it too!

[Julie]

I read "The Holiday Cottage" by Sarah Morgan.

I have read a number of her books - even two this month - but they are so... well, they're palette cleansers.... not all that memorable though I really liked this one more than most.

[Traci]

I read:

The Spook in the Stacks by Eva Gates 1/31/25

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[Mar]

I've read "The Beast in the Jungle" by Henry James.

[Krista]

I'm reading Specters in the Glass House

[Brother Stephen]

I re-read Flint by Louis L’Amour

[Kayla]

Never Lie by Freida McFadden. My work is doing a book club next month for it.

[Michele]

Infernal Father of Mine by John Corwin is one of three in this series published in 2014.

[Lindsey]

I read Dark Restraint by Katee Robert, 4 Stars

[Megan]

Secrets of the Tulip Sisters by Susan Mallery
2.5 stars

[Ron]

I'll be reading Destroyer of Worlds: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb by Garrett M. Graff.


That book comes out in August, but the paperback version of When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day is also being released this year (which I'll also be reading).

[Pattie]

Frieda McFadden

[Kelly]

“The Big Bad Wolf” by James Patterson is an edge of your seat thriller. Patterson writes more than one book a year.

[Andrea]

I read The Pumpkin Spice Café by Laurie Gilmore. Although this book was not published in the same year as another book by this author, the next two books in this series were. All 5 books in the series will be published within 3 years.

[Donna]

“When Stars Fall at Midnight” by Tess Thompson

[Devika]

My Darling Duke by Stacey Reid

[Kristi]

I read We Could be Rats by Emily Austin.

[Anna]

The Innocent by Harlan Coben

[Rebecca]

Part of Your World, Abby Jimenez ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Sara]

I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang

[Amy]

Lindsey wrote: "45) Author releases more than one book a year

For prompt 45, we’re looking for authors who release more than one book a year. Any book published by an author fitting this description will work tow..."

Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors

Excellent book to learn a few new Mexican Words. 5 stars.

[Rhema]

Yumi and the nightmare painter - Brandon Sanderson

[Blakie]

I am planning to read a Nicholas Sparks book
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[Rachel]

I read Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

[Krystal]

Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts

[Tamara]

I read "Love: Poems" by Danielle Steel

[Phil]

I read A Rock and a Hard Place by J.D. Kirk for this topic (Read September 11th; 4*) This is the author's 2nd book published this year and he has another one due for release in October

[Leonore]

Sweet Tea at Sunrise by Sherryl Woods

[Lilijana ᓚᘏᗢ]

I read The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie 🌟4