{"id":1541,"date":"2014-12-03T15:42:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T20:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2014-12-03T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T20:42:06","slug":"most-read-authors-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/2014\/12\/most-read-authors-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Read Authors 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

While any list of what our patrons are reading will probably look like it had been taken straight from the New York Times Bestseller List, this year’s list has a few surprises. <\/p>\n

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  1. James Patterson<\/a> – Best known for his Alex Cross series.\"Most<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Nora Roberts<\/a> – Has over 200 romance novels to her credit, and she also writes mystery under the pen name J. D. Robb (no. 17).<\/li>\n
  3. Tracie Peterson<\/a> – Christian and historical fiction author.<\/li>\n
  4. Christine Feehan<\/a> – Paranormal romance writer with over 40 books spanning 5 series.<\/li>\n
  5. Mary Pope Osborne<\/a> – Writer of the long-running Magic Tree House series.<\/li>\n
  6. Sherrilyn Kenyon<\/a> – She writes urban fantasy and is best known for her Dark Hunter series.<\/li>\n
  7. Wanda E. Brunstetter<\/a> – Author of numerous historical romance and Amish fiction series.<\/li>\n
  8. Debbie Macomber<\/a> – Has penned more than 150 romance and women’s fiction novels.<\/li>\n
  9. Iris Johansen<\/a> – Author of crime fiction and romance novels.<\/li>\n
  10. Stephen King<\/a> – Bestselling author of horror and spine-tingling tales.<\/li>\n
  11. Janet Evanovich<\/a> – Best known for her Stephanie Plum and contemporary romance series.<\/li>\n
  12. Ron Roy <\/a>– Children’s fiction author best known for the series A to Z Mysteries and Capital Mysteries.<\/li>\n
  13. J. K. Rowling<\/a> – Harry Potter author who has also written several mystery fiction novels.<\/li>\n
  14. Lisa Jackson<\/a> – Best-selling author of over 75 romance novels and romantic suspense novels.<\/li>\n
  15. Beverly Lewis<\/a> – Christian fiction novelist and adult and children’s author of over 80 books.<\/li>\n
  16. Fran Manushkin<\/a> – Children’s author who is best known for her Katie Woo books.<\/li>\n
  17. J. D. Robb<\/a> – Nora Roberts alter-ego who writes the slightly-futuristic Eve Dallas series.<\/li>\n
  18. Sandra Brown<\/a> – Bestselling author of romantic novels and thriller suspense novels.<\/li>\n
  19. John Grisham<\/a> – Author of numerous bestselling legal thrillers.<\/li>\n
  20. Heather Graham<\/a> – She has been known to write in different genres but is best known for her romantic suspense books.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    While any list of what our patrons are reading will probably look like it had been taken straight from the New York Times Bestseller List, this year’s list has a few surprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitleylibrary.org\/wpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}