Book Series Guide

Authors by book count

Most extensive bibliographies

Tahereh Mafi

Tahereh Mafi

Iranian-American author of young adult and middle-grade fiction, best known for the Shatter Me series.

20 works4 series
Talia Hibbert

Talia Hibbert

Black British author of witty, diverse contemporary romances and young adult fiction.

20 works3 series
Tobias S. Buckell

Tobias S. Buckell

Grenada-born American speculative-fiction author known for science fiction, fantasy, thrillers, and short fiction.

20 works3 series
Tom Holland

Tom Holland

English author, historian, biographer, novelist, translator, and broadcaster known for narrative histories of the ancient and early medieval worlds.

20 works4 series
Truman Capote

Truman Capote

American novelist, short-story writer, nonfiction author, playwright, and literary journalist known for Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and In Cold Blood.

20 works1 series
William Golding

William Golding

English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate best known for Lord of the Flies.

20 works1 series

A.D.P. Briggs

British scholar, critic, editor, and translator of Russian literature, especially Alexander Pushkin.

19 works2 series
Adam L. G. Nevill

Adam L. G. Nevill

English horror fiction writer known for supernatural, folk, and psychological horror.

19 works0 series

Benedict Jacka

English author best known for the Alex Verus urban fantasy series and the Inheritance of Magic series.

19 works3 series
Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson

American-British journalist and author known for humorous travel writing, memoir, language books, history, and popular science.

19 works1 series
Cassandra Khaw

Cassandra Khaw

Malaysian nonbinary horror and science-fiction writer known for dark fantasy, weird fiction, poetry, and game writing.

19 works5 series
Christina Henry

Christina Henry

American horror and dark fantasy author known for dark retellings, urban fantasy, and original horror novels.

19 works2 series
David Graeber

David Graeber

American anthropologist, anarchist, activist, and author known for influential works on debt, bureaucracy, work, value, and political imagination.

19 works1 series

Gordon W. Allport

American psychologist and pioneer of personality psychology.

19 works0 series
Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel

British novelist, memoirist, short-story writer, and essayist, best known for the Wolf Hall trilogy.

19 works2 series
Ira Levin

Ira Levin

Ira Levin (1929–2007) was an American novelist and playwright known for tightly plotted thrillers, horror, science fiction, comedies, and dramas.

19 works1 series
Irvin D. Yalom

Irvin D. Yalom

American psychiatrist, psychotherapist, Stanford professor emeritus, and author known for influential works on group and existential psychotherapy, therapeutic case stories, philosophical novels, and memoir.

19 works0 series
Jeffrey Ford

Jeffrey Ford

Jeffrey Ford is an American writer of literary speculative fiction, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery.

19 works1 series
Joan Didion

Joan Didion

American novelist, essayist, memoirist, journalist, and screenwriter (1934–2021).

19 works0 series
John E. Douglas

John E. Douglas

John E. Douglas is a former FBI special agent, criminal profiler, and author known for pioneering behavioral profiling of violent offenders.

19 works1 series
Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver

American novelist and journalist known for psychologically incisive literary fiction, social satire, dystopian fiction, short stories, and essays.

19 works0 series
Lisa See

Lisa See

Lisa See is an American author known for historical fiction, mystery novels, memoir, and nonfiction exploring Chinese and Chinese American history, culture, and women's lives.

19 works2 series
Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

French modernist novelist, essayist, critic, and short-story writer best known for À la recherche du temps perdu.

19 works1 series
Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal is an American science-fiction and fantasy author, puppeteer, voice actor, and former SFWA president.

19 works2 series

Maurice Broaddus

Maurice Broaddus is an Indianapolis-based author, editor, librarian, educator, and community organizer whose fiction spans science fiction, fantasy, horror, and young adult literature.

19 works2 series
Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon

American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter, and comics creator.

19 works2 series
Nikki St. Crowe

Nikki St. Crowe

USA Today and No. 1 Amazon bestselling author of dark, spicy paranormal romance and romantasy.

19 works5 series
Primo Levi

Primo Levi

Italian Jewish chemist, writer, Holocaust survivor, and memoirist whose precise, humane works span testimony, fiction, poetry, essays, and science writing.

19 works0 series

Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk is a Canadian-born British novelist and nonfiction writer known for literary fiction, memoir, essays, and formally innovative autobiographical writing.

19 works1 series

Rashid Khalidi

Palestinian-American historian of the modern Middle East, Palestinian nationalism, and U.S. Middle East policy.

19 works5 series
Richard Chizmar

Richard Chizmar

American horror, thriller, and dark-fiction author, editor, publisher, and screenwriter; founder of Cemetery Dance magazine and Cemetery Dance Publications.

19 works2 series
Richard P. Feynman

Richard P. Feynman

American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate known for quantum electrodynamics, Feynman diagrams, and exceptionally clear scientific writing.

19 works1 series

Ronald S. Gottesman

American literary scholar, film scholar, editor, and bibliographer known for work on Upton Sinclair, Orson Welles, King Kong, textual editing, and American literature.

19 works2 series

Rufus Goodwin

American poet, novelist, journalist, and nonfiction writer whose work includes poetry, fiction, spirituality, religion, and dreams.

19 works0 series
Sayaka Murata

Sayaka Murata

Japanese novelist and essayist known for literary, speculative, dystopian, and body-horror fiction examining conformity, gender, sexuality, family, work, and social norms.

19 works0 series

Sulari Gentill

Sri Lankan-born Australian novelist known for historical crime fiction, contemporary mystery, and young adult fantasy.

19 works2 series
William Gibson

William Gibson

American-Canadian novelist and essayist widely regarded as a pioneer of cyberpunk science fiction.

19 works4 series

William L. Simon

American business and technology writer, screenwriter, and coauthor of bestselling nonfiction books.

19 works0 series
Alexandra Bracken

Alexandra Bracken

Alexandra Bracken is an American bestselling author of fantasy and science fiction for young adults, middle-grade readers, and adults.

18 works5 series
Ali Hazelwood

Ali Hazelwood

Ali Hazelwood is an Italian-born, American-based author of contemporary, paranormal, and young adult romance.

18 works3 series
Andrew Rowe

Andrew Rowe

Andrew Rowe is a professional game designer and progression-fantasy novelist known for interconnected fantasy series and standalone game-inspired fiction.

18 works5 series
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

French writer, poet, pioneering aviator, and journalist best known for The Little Prince and his aviation memoirs.

18 works0 series
Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde was an American poet, essayist, memoirist, feminist, and activist whose work addressed race, gender, sexuality, class, illness, and liberation.

18 works0 series
Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver

American novelist, essayist, poet, and nonfiction writer known for works about ecology, social justice, family, and place.

18 works1 series

Boris Pasternak

Russian poet, novelist, memoirist, and dramatist, best known internationally for Doctor Zhivago and for his influential lyric poetry.

18 works0 series

Daniel J. Siegel

Daniel J. Siegel is an American psychiatrist, author, and educator known for developing interpersonal neurobiology and writing about the mind, relationships, mindfulness, and parenting.

18 works1 series
Danielle L. Jensen

Danielle L. Jensen

Danielle L. Jensen is a Canadian #1 New York Times bestselling fantasy author whose novels include the Saga of the Unfated, Bridge Kingdom, Dark Shores, and Malediction series.

18 works5 series
David Ellis

David Ellis

English academic, literary critic, biographer, and memoirist.

18 works3 series