Book Series Guide

Authors by book count

Most extensive bibliographies

Christopher Buehlman

Christopher Buehlman

American author, comedian, playwright, and poet known for horror, dark fantasy, historical fiction, and fantasy novels.

11 works1 series
Dan Brown

Dan Brown

American author of bestselling thriller novels, including the Robert Langdon series, as well as children's and humorous books.

11 works1 series
Daniel Keyes

Daniel Keyes

American author best known for Flowers for Algernon and for psychologically focused fiction and nonfiction.

11 works1 series

Darick Robertson

American comic-book artist, writer, and creator best known for co-creating Transmetropolitan, The Boys, Happy!, Oliver, and Space Bastards.

11 works11 series
David Mitchell

David Mitchell

English novelist and screenwriter known for interconnected, genre-bending fiction.

11 works1 series

David Trotter

British literary scholar and critic, emeritus professor of literature at the University of Cambridge.

11 works3 series
Donella H. Meadows

Donella H. Meadows

American environmental scientist, systems thinker, educator, author, and syndicated columnist known for her work on global modeling, sustainability, and systems thinking.

11 works1 series
Douglas R. Hofstadter

Douglas R. Hofstadter

American cognitive scientist, physicist, writer, and translator known for influential work on consciousness, analogy, creativity, language, and self-reference.

11 works1 series
Elizabeth Lim

Elizabeth Lim

Elizabeth Lim is an American author of young adult fantasy, fairy-tale retellings, and adult fantasy.

11 works4 series
Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout

American novelist and short-story writer known for compassionate literary fiction about ordinary lives, family relationships, memory, loneliness, and community.

11 works2 series

Ellendea Proffer

American scholar, editor, publisher, and author specializing in Russian literature.

11 works0 series
Emma Straub

Emma Straub

American novelist and picture-book author known for warm, humorous stories about family, friendship, relationships, aging, and memory.

11 works0 series

Eric Klinenberg

American sociologist and public intellectual known for research on cities, social infrastructure, media, isolation, and urban disasters.

11 works0 series
F. T. Lukens

F. T. Lukens

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of young adult speculative fiction.

11 works2 series
Fonda Lee

Fonda Lee

Canadian-American author of science fiction and fantasy for young adults and adults.

11 works3 series

Gabriel Rodríguez

Chilean comic-book artist, writer, and architect best known as the co-creator of Locke & Key.

11 works4 series

Gary Gianni

American comics artist, illustrator, and writer known for The MonsterMen, Hellboy: Into the Silent Sea, and Prince Valiant.

11 works2 series
George Eliot

George Eliot

George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist, poet, essayist, and translator Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880).

11 works0 series

Gretchen Rubin

American nonfiction author known for writing about happiness, habits, human nature, and self-knowledge.

11 works0 series

Héctor García

Spanish author, software engineer, photographer, and Japan-based writer known for books on Japanese culture, philosophy, and well-being.

11 works1 series

Helen Oyeyemi

British novelist, short-story writer, and playwright born in Nigeria in 1984.

11 works0 series
Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys (1890–1979) was a Dominica-born British novelist and short-story writer known for psychologically intense fiction about displacement, colonialism, gender, and marginalization.

11 works0 series

Jennifer Thorne

Jennifer Thorne is an American author of young adult fiction, adult horror, historical fiction, romance, and picture books. She also publishes younger-reader fiction under the name Jenn Marie Thorne.

11 works0 series

John Leonard

American literary and cultural critic, novelist, essayist, and television critic.

11 works0 series
Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson

British-American journalist, author, and filmmaker known for humorous investigative nonfiction.

11 works0 series
Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen

American novelist, essayist, and memoirist known for expansive literary fiction about American family and social life.

11 works1 series
Kate Moore

Kate Moore

British author and ghostwriter known for narrative nonfiction, memoir, true crime, children's books, and gift books.

11 works1 series

Katherine Dunn

American novelist, journalist, poet, and nonfiction writer best known for Geek Love and her boxing journalism.

11 works0 series
Ken Liu

Ken Liu

American author of speculative fiction, including the Dandelion Dynasty and acclaimed short-fiction collections.

11 works4 series
Laini Taylor

Laini Taylor

American writer and artist best known for young adult fantasy, including the Daughter of Smoke & Bone and Strange the Dreamer series.

11 works3 series

Leonard Peikoff

Canadian-American philosopher and leading interpreter of Ayn Rand's Objectivism.

11 works0 series
Lev Grossman

Lev Grossman

American novelist and journalist known for The Magicians trilogy, The Bright Sword, and fantasy for younger readers.

11 works3 series

Marie Kondo

Japanese tidying consultant, bestselling author, founder of KonMari Media, and host of the Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.

11 works1 series
Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi

Iranian-born French graphic novelist, memoirist, children's-book author, filmmaker, and visual artist best known for Persepolis.

11 works1 series
Mark Z. Danielewski

Mark Z. Danielewski

American novelist known for experimental, typographically innovative fiction including House of Leaves and The Familiar.

11 works2 series
Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham

American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, and screenwriter best known for The Hours.

11 works0 series
Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan

American author, journalist, and professor known for nonfiction about food, agriculture, plants, psychedelics, and consciousness.

11 works0 series
Mike Chen

Mike Chen

Mike Chen is a New York Times bestselling author of science fiction, horror, fantasy, and young adult fiction, as well as a writer of licensed franchise novels and comics.

11 works2 series
Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

American television host, producer, actress, media executive, philanthropist, and author known for memoir, self-help, spirituality, health, and inspirational nonfiction.

11 works0 series
Paula Hawkins

Paula Hawkins

British author and former journalist known for psychological thrillers, including The Girl on the Train.

11 works0 series
Pauline Baynes

Pauline Baynes

English illustrator and author best known for illustrating the works of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.

11 works0 series
Rachel Lynn Solomon

Rachel Lynn Solomon

Rachel Lynn Solomon is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of romantic comedies and young adult fiction.

11 works1 series
Rebecca Roanhorse

Rebecca Roanhorse

American speculative-fiction writer known for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and Indigenous-centered storytelling.

11 works5 series
RJ Barker

RJ Barker

British fantasy author known for epic, dark, and historical fantasy novels.

11 works4 series
Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay

American writer, cultural critic, essayist, novelist, memoirist, and comic-book writer known for incisive work on feminism, race, gender, trauma, and popular culture.

11 works1 series
Ruth Ware

Ruth Ware

British author of psychological crime thrillers and mystery novels.

11 works1 series

Sarah Addison Allen

American novelist known for Southern magical realism, lyrical prose, and stories about family, food, memory, and community.

11 works2 series

Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti is a Canadian writer whose eleven books span fiction, nonfiction, memoir, children's literature, and drama.

11 works0 series