Book Series Guide

Authors by book count

Most extensive bibliographies

Ashley Herring Blake

Ashley Herring Blake

Award-winning American author of queer contemporary romance and LGBTQ+ young adult and middle-grade fiction.

13 works2 series

Aylmer Maude

English writer, biographer, translator, and social commentator best known for his close association with Leo Tolstoy and his biography of him.

13 works1 series
Brian Selznick

Brian Selznick

American author and illustrator known for innovative illustrated novels and picture books.

13 works1 series
Brynne Weaver

Brynne Weaver

Canadian bestselling author of dark romance, romantic suspense, paranormal romance, and romantic fantasy.

13 works4 series
Carissa Broadbent

Carissa Broadbent

Carissa Broadbent writes fantasy novels with romance and strong female protagonists.

13 works6 series

Catherine Belsey

Catherine Belsey (1940–2021) was a British literary critic and academic known for influential work in literary theory, cultural criticism, Shakespeare studies, and early modern literature.

13 works6 series
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nigerian writer known for novels, short fiction, poetry, essays, memoir, drama, and children's literature exploring Nigerian history, migration, identity, gender, and feminism.

13 works0 series

Colleen Doran

American cartoonist, writer, illustrator, and graphic novelist known for A Distant Soil, manga instruction books, and graphic-novel adaptations of Neil Gaiman's fiction.

13 works1 series
Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri

Italian poet, prose writer, philosopher, and political thinker best known for the Divine Comedy.

13 works1 series

Donald Miller

American author and business strategist known for memoir, Christian nonfiction, and practical books on marketing and business.

13 works1 series
Elena Ferrante

Elena Ferrante

Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of an Italian novelist known for psychologically acute fiction about women, friendship, family, Naples, and identity.

13 works1 series
Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

American poet whose compressed, innovative lyrics became central to American literature after her death.

13 works1 series
Fredrik Backman

Fredrik Backman

Swedish novelist, columnist, and blogger who debuted in 2012 with A Man Called Ove.

13 works1 series

Genevieve Cogman

British fantasy author and freelance role-playing-game writer.

13 works2 series
Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

French novelist and stylist associated with realism and literary modernity.

13 works0 series

Harold Hobson

British theatre critic, author, and theatre historian best known for his influential drama criticism in The Sunday Times.

13 works1 series
Heather Gudenkauf

Heather Gudenkauf

Heather Gudenkauf is an Edgar Award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Iowa novelist known for psychological suspense and thrillers about family secrets, crime, and small-town communities.

13 works1 series

Ibi Zoboi

Haitian-American author of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and picture books for children and teens.

13 works0 series

James Franco

American actor, filmmaker, visual artist, and writer whose books include literary fiction, poetry, memoir, nonfiction, and hybrid art works.

13 works0 series

Jason Rekulak

Jason Rekulak is an American novelist and author of nonfiction and children's picture books, known for suspense, thriller, horror, and mystery fiction.

13 works1 series

Jennifer Niven

Jennifer Niven is an American author of bestselling young adult and adult fiction, narrative nonfiction, and memoir.

13 works1 series
Jonathan Davis

Jonathan Davis

British author, editor, investor, and financial journalist specializing in investment writing.

13 works1 series
Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller

American novelist, satirist, playwright, and memoirist best known for Catch-22.

13 works1 series
Karen Joy Fowler

Karen Joy Fowler

American novelist and short-story writer known for literary, historical, speculative, and science-fiction fiction.

13 works0 series

Katharine McGee

American author of young adult and adult speculative, romantic, and historical fiction.

13 works3 series

Kathleen Norris

American poet, essayist, and spiritual memoirist known for accessible writing on faith, place, monasticism, and ordinary life.

13 works0 series
Laurie Gilmore

Laurie Gilmore

New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of small-town romance.

13 works2 series

Lee Loughridge

American comic-book writer and colorist, known for the creator-owned series Standstill and MidState.

13 works2 series

Leonard Mlodinow

American theoretical physicist, mathematician, screenwriter, and author of popular science, memoir, and children's books.

13 works1 series

Lydia Kang

American author and practicing internal-medicine physician writing young adult fiction, adult fiction, historical fiction, science fiction, popular nonfiction, and poetry.

13 works2 series

Maggie Nelson

American poet, essayist, memoirist, and art critic whose genre-defying books explore color, violence, family, freedom, gender, care, and artistic life.

13 works0 series
Maria Dahvana Headley

Maria Dahvana Headley

American author of fantasy, literary fiction, young adult fiction, memoir, drama, and speculative fiction.

13 works2 series
Marie Rutkoski

Marie Rutkoski

American author of children's, young adult, fantasy, thriller, and literary fiction.

13 works3 series
Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is an American novelist and essayist known for literary fiction and theological nonfiction.

13 works1 series
Mario Puzo

Mario Puzo

American novelist and screenwriter best known for The Godfather and his fiction about crime, family, power, and immigrant life.

13 works1 series
Matthew Woodring Stover

Matthew Woodring Stover

American fantasy and science-fiction novelist known for The Acts of Caine, Barra the Pict, and Star Wars novels.

13 works6 series

Neil Strauss

American author and journalist known for immersive nonfiction, celebrity biographies, memoirs, and relationship writing.

13 works0 series

Nick Harkaway

British novelist and nonfiction writer known for speculative fiction, literary thrillers, science fiction, and noir.

13 works4 series
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

Nikolai Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian-language writer, dramatist, and satirist whose grotesque fiction shaped modern Russian literature.

13 works2 series
Nina LaCour

Nina LaCour

American author of picture books, chapter books, young adult novels, and adult literary fiction.

13 works1 series
Nisha J. Tuli

Nisha J. Tuli

Nisha J. Tuli is a Canadian bestselling author of fantasy romance, contemporary romance, and dystopian fiction.

13 works5 series
Patrick Lencioni

Patrick Lencioni

American author, consultant, and founder of The Table Group, known for books on leadership, teamwork, and organizational health.

13 works1 series
Peter Heller

Peter Heller

American novelist, memoirist, and adventure writer known for literary fiction and nonfiction centered on wilderness, survival, friendship, and the natural world.

13 works1 series
Peter Swanson

Peter Swanson

American bestselling author of psychological crime, mystery, and suspense fiction.

13 works1 series
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)

Roman poet renowned for love elegy, mythological epic, didactic poetry, and poetry of exile.

13 works0 series

Ralph F. McCarthy

American writer and translator best known for retellings of Japanese folktales and children's classics.

13 works1 series

Sara Pichelli

Italian comics artist best known for co-creating and first drawing Miles Morales, the Ultimate Spider-Man.

13 works12 series
Shirtaloon

Shirtaloon

Shirtaloon is the pen name of author Travis Deverell, creator of the He Who Fights with Monsters series.

13 works1 series