Authors by book count

Most extensive bibliographies

Janet Evanovich

American author best known for the Stephanie Plum mystery series and comic romantic adventure novels.

76 works10 series

Susan Hill

Susan Hill is an English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, children's author, memoirist, and essayist best known for her gothic fiction and Simon Serrailler crime novels.

76 works1 series

Umberto Eco

Italian novelist, semiotician, medievalist, philosopher, literary critic, and essayist (1932–2016).

76 works0 series

Yasunari Kawabata

Japanese novelist and short-story writer, and the first Japanese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

76 works0 series

Graham Greene

English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, journalist, and screenwriter whose work explores moral ambiguity, political conflict, faith, and betrayal.

75 works0 series

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, religious thinker, and social critic best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

75 works3 series

Caroline Peckham

British author of fantasy, paranormal romance, dark romance, and young-adult fiction, best known for the Zodiac Academy and The Rise of Isaac series.

74 works17 series

American comic-book writer known for creator-owned and superhero graphic works including Casanova, Sex Criminals, Hawkeye, The Invincible Iron Man, The Immortal Iron Fist, and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen.

74 works24 series

Susanne Valenti

Susanne Valenti is a British romance author who co-writes with her sister, Caroline Peckham. Their work spans dark romance, paranormal romance, fantasy romance, contemporary romance, and dystopian romance.

74 works15 series

Anthony Burgess

English novelist, critic, composer, poet, playwright, and memoirist (1917–1993), best known for A Clockwork Orange.

73 works2 series

Caitlín R. Kiernan

Irish-born American writer and vertebrate paleontologist known for weird fiction, dark fantasy, horror, science fiction, and graphic fiction.

73 works4 series

Harry Harrison

American science-fiction author, editor, comic-book artist, and illustrator best known for the Stainless Steel Rat and Bill, the Galactic Hero series.

73 works8 series

J. D. Robb

J. D. Robb is the pseudonym of Nora Roberts, used primarily for the futuristic suspense In Death series.

73 works1 series

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Jennifer L. Armentrout is an American novelist of young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She also writes adult and new-adult romance as J. Lynn.

73 works17 series

Philip K. Dick

American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and memoirist whose speculative fiction explored unstable reality, identity, technology, politics, and religion.

73 works1 series

Aldous Huxley

English novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, travel writer, and philosophical thinker best known for Brave New World, The Doors of Perception, and Island.

72 works0 series

Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss was the pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991), an American children's author, illustrator, poet, and cartoonist.

72 works3 series

Larry Niven

American science-fiction and fantasy author best known for the Known Space and Ringworld works.

72 works14 series

Walter Mosley

American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and nonfiction author known for crime fiction, speculative fiction, and politically engaged writing.

72 works8 series

Jared K. Fletcher

American comics letterer, colorist, and graphic designer.

71 works9 series

Roger Zelazny

American science-fiction and fantasy writer best known for the Chronicles of Amber, Lord of Light, and his mythic, stylistically experimental fiction.

71 works7 series

Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian-Spanish novelist, essayist, playwright, journalist, and political writer (1936–2025), awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.

70 works1 series

Thomas Mann

German novelist, short-story writer, essayist, memoirist, and Nobel Prize laureate.

70 works1 series

Victor Hugo

French Romantic poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and political writer (1802–1885).

70 works2 series

John Byrne

British-born American comic-book writer and artist known for influential work on X-Men, Fantastic Four, Superman, and creator-owned science-fiction comics.

69 works19 series

Nalini Singh

Fijian-born, New Zealand-raised author of paranormal romance, contemporary romance, romantic suspense, fantasy, and thrillers.

69 works6 series

Pablo Neruda

Chilean poet, diplomat, and Nobel Prize laureate whose work ranges from intimate love poetry to political, historical, ecological, and autobiographical writing.

69 works2 series

T. S. Eliot

American-born British poet, critic, essayist, playwright, and editor whose poetry and criticism shaped literary modernism.

69 works2 series

Tim Pratt

Tim Pratt is an American Hugo Award-winning science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and poetry author and senior editor at Locus magazine.

69 works12 series

Brian K. Vaughan

American comic-book writer and television writer best known for Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, Saga, and Paper Girls.

68 works8 series

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) was an English crime novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, scholar, translator, and Christian humanist.

68 works1 series

Rudyard Kipling

English novelist, poet, short-story writer, journalist, and Nobel Prize-winning author.

68 works3 series

Stefan Zweig

Austrian writer, poet, biographer, essayist, playwright, novelist, and memoirist known for psychologically intense novellas and humanist historical studies.

68 works2 series

Stephen Baxter

English hard science-fiction author known for scientifically rigorous novels spanning deep time, space exploration, alternate history, evolution, and humanity's future.

68 works14 series

Tennessee Williams

American playwright, novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter best known for The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

68 works0 series

Yoko Ogawa

Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and nonfiction author.

68 works2 series

Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell is a British historical novelist best known for the Sharpe, Warlord Chronicles, and Last Kingdom series.

67 works7 series

Harlan Ellison

American author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime fiction, screenplays, teleplays, essays, and comics.

67 works3 series

Haruki Murakami

Japanese novelist, short-story writer, essayist, memoirist, translator, and literary nonfiction author known for surreal, magical-realist fiction shaped by jazz, Western literature, solitude, memory, and social trauma.

67 works1 series

Hermann Hesse

German-Swiss novelist, poet, essayist, and painter whose fiction explores spiritual searching, self-discovery, and the tension between individuality and society. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.

67 works0 series

K.F. Breene

Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, and Amazon Charts bestselling author of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and fantasy novels.

67 works9 series

Peter Hobley Davison

British literary scholar, bibliographer, editor, biographer, and authority on Shakespeare and George Orwell.

67 works2 series

Gene Wolfe

American science fiction and fantasy author (1931–2019), known for intricate, literary novels and short fiction.

66 works7 series

Ichiro Kishimi

Japanese philosopher and writer specializing in Adlerian psychology and Western philosophy.

66 works4 series

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish satirist, poet, essayist, political pamphleteer, and Anglican clergyman, best known for Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub, and A Modest Proposal.

66 works2 series