Book Series Guide

Authors by book count

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Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon is an American author best known for the internationally bestselling Outlander novels, which combine historical fiction, romance, fantasy, and time travel.

18 works3 series
E. K. Johnston

E. K. Johnston

Canadian novelist and forensic archaeologist known for young adult speculative fiction, fairy-tale retellings, and Star Wars novels.

18 works5 series
Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque

German novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and playwright known for anti-war and exile literature.

18 works2 series
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russian novelist, essayist, and journalist whose fiction explores psychology, morality, freedom, faith, and social change.

18 works0 series
Genki Kawamura

Genki Kawamura

Japanese filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter, and novelist born in Yokohama in 1979.

18 works1 series

Gillian Beer

British literary critic and academic known for her work on Victorian literature, evolutionary theory, science, narrative, and Virginia Woolf.

18 works3 series
Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming

British novelist, journalist, naval-intelligence officer, and creator of James Bond.

18 works1 series
Ibram X. Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi

Ibram X. Kendi is a historian, National Book Award-winning author, and leading antiracist scholar.

18 works1 series
Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde

British novelist known for comic speculative fiction, literary satire, mystery, and fantasy.

18 works4 series
Jesse Q. Sutanto

Jesse Q. Sutanto

Jesse Q. Sutanto is a USA Today bestselling author known for the Vera Wong novels and the Dial A for Aunties series. She has won an Edgar Award, a Libby Award, an Audies Award, and the Comedy Women in Print Award.

18 works5 series

Jock

Jock, pseudonym of Mark Simpson, is a Scottish comic-book artist, writer, and graphic novelist known for dynamic work in superhero, horror, science-fiction, and crime comics.

18 works2 series

Kent Williams

American painter, draftsman, illustrator, and graphic-novel artist known for figurative painting, artist books, and co-created graphic novels.

18 works3 series
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder

American author best known for the autobiographical Little House novels about pioneer life in the nineteenth-century American Midwest and Great Plains.

18 works1 series
Marieke Nijkamp

Marieke Nijkamp

Dutch nonbinary author of young adult and middle-grade novels, graphic novels, comics, and anthologies.

18 works2 series
Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

English novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, travel writer, biographer, and editor, best known for Frankenstein.

18 works1 series
Matt Dinniman

Matt Dinniman

American writer, artist, and musician best known for science-fantasy LitRPG.

18 works4 series
N. K. Jemisin

N. K. Jemisin

N. K. Jemisin is an award-winning, bestselling author of speculative fiction, known for the Broken Earth trilogy and other acclaimed fantasy and science-fiction works.

18 works4 series
Naomi Novik

Naomi Novik

American fantasy author known for the Temeraire and Scholomance series, as well as Uprooted and Spinning Silver.

18 works3 series
Nathaniel Philbrick

Nathaniel Philbrick

American historian and author of narrative nonfiction, maritime history, memoir, and historical works for young readers.

18 works1 series

Nicholas Kilmer

American painter, art dealer, curator, and writer known for art-world mysteries, memoir, art-historical nonfiction, and plays.

18 works1 series

Nick Caistor

British journalist, translator, editor, and author of nonfiction about Latin America.

18 works7 series
Olivia Dade

Olivia Dade

Olivia Dade is a romance author known for bawdy romantic comedies featuring nerdy characters, plus-size protagonists, and happily-ever-after endings.

18 works6 series
Rachel Hawkins

Rachel Hawkins

American author of young-adult and middle-grade fiction, adult gothic suspense, and thrillers.

18 works3 series

Richard Howard

American poet, literary critic, essayist, translator, and educator known for dramatic-monologue poetry and influential translations from French.

18 works0 series
Rick Yancey

Rick Yancey

American author of suspense, mystery, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and young-adult fiction.

18 works5 series
Sarah Pekkanen

Sarah Pekkanen

Sarah Pekkanen is an American bestselling author of contemporary fiction and psychological suspense, writing both solo novels and co-authored thrillers with Greer Hendricks.

18 works1 series
Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) was an American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, dramatist, and author of children's books, renowned for her Gothic, supernatural, psychological, and domestic fiction.

18 works0 series
Tarryn Fisher

Tarryn Fisher

Tarryn Fisher is a South African-born, Seattle-based author of romance, psychological suspense, thriller, and new adult fiction.

18 works3 series
Thomas Piketty

Thomas Piketty

French economist and author known for historical research on economic inequality, wealth distribution, taxation, and political conflict.

18 works0 series

Tony Harris

American comic-book artist and co-creator known for Starman and Ex Machina.

18 works4 series
Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton

Swiss-British author and public intellectual known for accessible books applying philosophy, literature, art, and psychology to everyday life.

17 works0 series
Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

American novelist, memoirist, essayist, and children's author known for literary fiction, including Bel Canto, Commonwealth, The Dutch House, Tom Lake, and Whistler.

17 works0 series
Ashley Poston

Ashley Poston

Ashley Poston is an American author of young adult and adult romance, fantasy, and science fiction, including The Dead Romantics, The Seven Year Slip, and A Novel Love Story.

17 works6 series
Bora Chung

Bora Chung

South Korean novelist, short-story writer, essayist, translator, and activist known for blending horror, science fiction, fantasy, and social critique.

17 works0 series

Chuck Hogan

American novelist and screenwriter known for crime fiction and horror, including Prince of Thieves, Gangland, and The Strain trilogy co-authored with Guillermo del Toro.

17 works3 series
Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie

American writer, lecturer, and teacher best known for influential works on public speaking, interpersonal relations, self-improvement, and worry management.

17 works0 series
Daniel H. Wilson

Daniel H. Wilson

Cherokee American novelist, robotics engineer, and nonfiction author known for science fiction thrillers, robot-themed humor, and speculative fiction.

17 works3 series
David Lagercrantz

David Lagercrantz

Swedish journalist and author known for biographies, literary crime novels, and his continuation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series.

17 works2 series
Donald A. Norman

Donald A. Norman

American cognitive scientist, psychologist, computer scientist, and design researcher known for foundational work in human-centered design, usability, and cognitive science.

17 works0 series
Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) was an English author and humorist best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

17 works4 series

Elizabeth Wein

Elizabeth Wein is an American-British author of historical and science-fiction fiction for young adults, as well as nonfiction. She is best known for Code Name Verity and the Lion Hunters cycle.

17 works3 series
Eric LaRocca

Eric LaRocca

Eric LaRocca is a horror and dark-fiction author whose work explores grief, obsession, identity, and transgressive love.

17 works1 series
Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels

German socialist philosopher, political theorist, historian, and revolutionary; co-founder of Marxism with Karl Marx.

17 works0 series
Grady Hendrix

Grady Hendrix

American author, journalist, and screenwriter best known for horror fiction and nonfiction.

17 works1 series
Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay

Canadian novelist and poet known for richly imagined fantasy novels shaped by history, myth, and questions of identity.

17 works2 series

Hans Fronius

Austrian painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and teacher (1903–1988), known for expressionist printmaking and literary-themed graphic works.

17 works0 series
Herman Melville

Herman Melville

American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and sailor best known for Moby-Dick.

17 works0 series

Israel Gollancz

British philologist, Shakespeare scholar, and editor of Old and Middle English literature.

17 works2 series