Authors whose first name starts with A, page 16 of 18

Anthony Doerr

6 books

All the Light We Cannot See, a 2014 novel, won Anthony Doerr the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and brought the American author wide recognition. Doerr writes both novels and short stories, and 6 books are catalogued: The Shell Collector (2001), About Grace (2004), Four Seasons in Rome (2007), Memory Wall (2010), All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land (2021). Subjects on file include grief, survival, nature and American short stories.

Anthony Giddens writes sociology and social theory. The catalogue of 42 books opens with Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber (1971) and closes with Key concepts of sociology (2018). Social structure, class, political sociology, globalization and capitalism are the standing subjects, and titles such as Central Problems in Social Theory (1979) and Modernity and Self-Identity (1991) sit in the middle of the run. A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism is a multi-volume project, its second part being The Nation-State and Violence (1987). Textbooks form a separate group within the catalogue.

Anthony Horowitz

106 books• 23 series

Anthony Horowitz is an English novelist and screenwriter, born 5 April 1955, who specialises in mystery and suspense. For children and young adults Horowitz created Alex Rider, a 14-year-old British boy who spies for MI6, along with The Power of Five (titled The Gatekeepers in the US) and The Diamond Brothers. The catalogue holds 106 Horowitz books from Enter Frederick K. Bower (1978) to A Deadly Episode (2026). Other listed series include Detective Daniel Hawthorne, Susan Ryeland, Groosham Grange and the Pentagram Chronicles. Horowitz is still publishing.

Anthony J. Melchiorri is catalogued under Science Fiction, with 49 books from Enhancement (2014) to Hive Empire (2026) and Fire of Dawn scheduled for 2027. The God Organ and The Human Forged date from 2014, and The Tide from 2015. Series include Tide, After the Tide, Deadmen's War, Sunken Spaceship, Shadow of War, Black Market DNA Series, Eternal Frontier and Vector. Samuel Peralta and Philip Harris are each credited on 1 book.

Anthony J. Quinn writes crime and suspense fiction set in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Nine books are catalogued under the name, from Disappeared (2012) to Turncoat (2021). Inspector Celcius Daly is the recurring character the catalogue records, and a W B Yeats series is grouped here too. Border Angels (2013), The Blood Dimmed Tide (2014), Blind Arrows (2015), Silence (2015), Trespass (2017), Undertow (2017) and The Listeners (2018) sit between the endpoints. Catalogue subjects record missing persons, human trafficking victims, police procedure and historical mystery.

Horror and action-adventure are the two subjects tagged on Anthony M. Strong's books. The catalogue lists 25 titles, from Soul Catcher (2015) to Ghost Hour (2026). John Decker is the recurring character, and Strong's other series are CUSP Files and Remnants. The Haunting of Willow House (2017), Crimson Deep (2020) and Whitechapel Rising (2020) are among the listed books.

Anthony McCarten

14 books

Anthony McCarten, born 28 April 1961, is a writer and filmmaker from New Zealand. McCarten's screen work includes the biopics The Theory of Everything (2014), Darkest Hour (2017), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), The Two Popes (2019) and Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022). McCarten has received four Academy Award nominations, two of them for Best Adapted Screenplay. The catalogue lists 14 books from A Modest Apocalypse and Other Stories (1991) to Warren and Bill (2024).

Anthony Dymoke Powell (1905-2000) was an English novelist. A Dance to the Music of Time, his twelve-volume sequence published between 1951 and 1975, is the central work and ranks among the longest novels in English; A Question of Upbringing (1951) opens it. Powell had already published Afternoon Men (1931), Venusberg (1932), From a View to a Death (1933) and Agents and Patients (1936) in the 1930s. The catalogue of 37 books also holds the memoir To Keep The Ball Rolling and the biography John Aubrey and His Friends (1948). The Times placed Powell among the 50 greatest British writers since 1945 in its 2008 list.

Anthony Price (1928-2019) was an English writer of espionage thrillers. Dr David Audley, an intelligence analyst, and Colonel Jack Butler carry the whole of his fiction, from The Labyrinth Makers (1970) through The Alamut Ambush, Colonel Butler's Wolf, October Men, Other Paths to Glory and Our Man in Camelot. Twenty books close with The Memory Trap (1989), the series complete.

Historical novels make up most of the Anthony Quinn listing, with subjects covering London, the Second World War, suffragists and architects. The Rescue Man (2009) opens it, followed by Half of the Human Race (2011), The Streets (2012), Curtain Call (2015), Freya (2016), Eureka (2017), Our Friends in Berlin (2018) and London, Burning (2021). The same listing carries the football biographies Klopp (2022) and Keegan: The Man Who Was King (2025), and runs to 11 books dated 2009 to 2025.

Anthony Riches writes historical fiction set in the Roman world. Catalogue subjects name Marcus Valerius Aquila and Gaius Julius Civilis, and place the books in the Roman Empire and in Britain of the Roman period, with action and adventure and war and military among the tags. The listing holds 21 books published between 2009 and 2026, opening with Wounds of Honour (2009) and reaching Field of Blood (2026). Empire, Swords of Troy and Michael Bale are the groupings recorded against the name. Riches holds the sole credit on all 21 titles.

Anthony Ryan

38 books• 7 series

Anthony Ryan writes epic fantasy about soldiers and imaginary wars. Blood Song (2011) opens the Raven's Shadow sequence, continued in Tower Lord (2014) and extended by Raven's Blade. The Draconis Memoria, the Covenant of Steel, Seven Swords, the Age of Wrath and Slab City Blues make up the rest. Thirty-eight catalogued books reach Reapers (2026), and they run long, at a median of 576 pages.

Anthony Trollope

81 books• 6 series

Anthony Trollope was an English novelist of the Victorian era who also served as a civil servant. The catalogue holds 81 Trollope titles, opening with The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847) and closing at Malachi's Cove and Other Stories and Essays (1985). Trollope grouped much of the fiction into the Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Palliser novels, and wrote travel books, essays and short stories alongside them. English social life and customs, inheritance and succession, and manners recur across the subjects.

Antoine Laurain is a French writer, born in Paris in 1972. The Portrait, his first novel, took the Drouot Prize in 2007; Smoking Kills followed in 2008 and Carrefour des Nostalgies in 2009. The President's Hat became one of the great successes of 2012, winning both the Relay travel prize and the Landerneau prize for emerging writers, and appearing in 17 languages; the Gallic Books edition made it one of the highest-selling French books in English translation in 2013, and Laurain toured the United States with it at the invitation of independent bookshops. Ten books are catalogued, from The President's Hat (2012) to French Windows (2024), with Paris, booksellers, antique dealers and portrait painting among the subjects.

Anton Gill, born in 1948, is a British writer of historical fiction and nonfiction. The Journey Back from Hell, about the lives of concentration camp survivors after liberation, won Gill the H. H. Wingate Award for non-fiction. The catalogue lists 41 books from 1984 to 2017, including Mad About the Boy: The Life and Times of Boy George and Culture Club (1984), City of the Horizon (1991) and Desert Oath (2017). Series credited to Gill are Assassin's Creed and Huy the Scribe Egyptian Mystery.

Anton Myrer (1922-1996) served in the United States Marine Corps and wrote fiction about American military life in combat and in peacetime. Eight books are catalogued between Evil Under the Sun (1951) and A Green Desire (1982). Once An Eagle, published in 1968 while the Vietnam War was at its height, became required reading for Marines and a text used in leadership training at West Point. Historical fiction and the Second World War head the recorded subjects. Five of the eight books have a recorded length, totalling 3,369 pages.

Anton Treuer's catalogue documents the Ojibwe language and Ojibwe history. Recorded subjects include the Ojibwa language, Ojibwa Indians, American literature by Indian authors, Minnesota history, government relations, folklore and biography. The listing holds 20 titles dated between 1990 and 2024, among them Ojibwe in Minnesota (2010) and Where Wolves Don't Die (2024). Numbered issues of the Oshkaabewis Native Journal make up much of the early run. Treuer remains actively publishing.

Antonia Fraser

40 books• 3 series

Antonia Fraser, born Antonia Pakenham on 27 August 1932, is a British writer of history, biography, novels and detective fiction. Fraser is the widow of Harold Pinter, the 2005 Nobel laureate in literature, and was known as Lady Antonia Pinter until his death in 2008. The catalogue runs to 40 books between 1954 and 2023, setting biographies and histories such as Mary Queen of Scots (1969), Cromwell (1973) and The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England (1975) beside the Jemima Shore detective novels. Subjects record kings and rulers, queens, England and women detectives.

Antonia Hodgson

5 books• 2 series

Antonia Hodgson is a British writer and publisher, born in 1971, and the author of four historical crime novels and one fantasy novel. London, debt, imprisonment and the Marshalsea prison supply the subject matter of the historical mysteries, and Tom Hawkins is the series listed under Hodgson's name. The Devil in the Marshalsea (2014) opens the catalogue, The Raven Scholar (2025) is the most recent published title, and The Fox in Winter is listed for 2027. Hodgson received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in 2026.

Antonio Manzini

4 books• 1 series

Antonio Manzini is an Italian actor, film director and writer. The Rocco Schiavone novels are the fiction catalogued here: Black Run (2015), Adam's Rib, also issued as A Cold Death (2016), Out of Season (2018) and Spring Cleaning (2019). Subject headings cover murder investigation, kidnapping, revenge and escaped prisoners, with Italy as the setting.

Antony Beevor

21 books• 2 series

Sir Antony Beevor, born 14 December 1946, is a British military historian. Beevor's popular histories concentrate on the Second World War and the Spanish Civil War, and more recent work covers the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War. After Winchester College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Beevor commanded a tank troop in the 11th Hussars in Germany and left the British Army in 1970 to write. Beevor has been a visiting professor at Birkbeck, University of London, and the University of Kent. The catalogue lists 21 books from The Violent Brink (1975) to Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs (2026), including Stalingrad and Berlin: The Downfall 1945.

Antti Tuomainen is a Finnish author and journalist, born in 1971. Eleven books are catalogued between 2010 and 2025, opening with The Healer (2010) and taking in The Mine (2015), Palm Beach, Finland (2017) and Little Siberia (2019). The Rabbit Factor Trilogy follows: The Rabbit Factor (2020), The Moose Paradox (2021) and The Beaver Theory (2023). Finland, crime, missing persons and journalists are the recurring subjects.

Anya Mora's 26 catalogued books were published between 2019 and 2025. The run opens with The Perfect Family / Tuesday's Child (2019) and reaches Love You to Death (2025). Mora writes three series: Sister Wife, Willow Grace FBI Thriller and Gray West Mystery. Titles from 2021 include Secrets Mothers Keep, Ransom Road and The Sister Wife's Secret.

Anya Seton

12 books

Twelve novels make up Anya Seton's catalogue, published between Dragonwyck in 1941 and Green Darkness in 1972, with the 1950s the strongest decade. Katherine (1954), Avalon (1956) and The Winthrop Woman (1958) sit among them. The books are historical fiction drawing on English and American history, Dutch American settlers, nobility and Vikings, with gothic romance and suspense in the mix. Seton, an American writer born Ann Seton, preferred the label biographical novels for them.

Anyta Sunday's catalogue lists 60 books from 2011 to 2026, starting with Veined (2011). Series credited to Sunday include Signs of Love, King's Man, Harrison Campus, Love, Austen, Friends to Lovers/Love and Family, Love Inscribed and Bonds We Share. Shane & Trey (2012), Taboo For You (2013), The Douglas Fir (2013) and Bird Meets Cage (2014) are among the titles.

Dark Root runs through April Aasheim's catalogue: Dark Root Ancestry, Children of Dark Root and a grouping of Daughters of Dark Root short stories and novellas sit alongside Miss Sasha's School of Magick and Reed Hollow Chronicles, and Daughters of Dark Root is recorded as a character entry. The 23 books span 2012 to 2022, from The Universe is a Very Big Place and The Witches of Dark Root, both 2012, to Constellations and Candles (2022). Humorous writing is the one subject on record. The median book runs 313 pages, and nothing has been listed since 2022.

April Genevieve Tucholke has nine catalogued books, published between 2013 and 2026. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2013) opens the run, followed by Between the Spark and the Burn (2014), Wink Poppy Midnight (2016), The Boneless Mercies (2018) and Seven Endless Forests (2020). Beatrice Likes the Dark (2022), Merry and Hark (2023), The Secret Life of Hidden Places (2024) and Rebecca the White House Raccoon (2026) come after. Editions have reached sixteen countries, and the books have drawn ten starred reviews along with Junior Library Guild and YALSA Teens Top Ten selections. Between is the series recorded under the name, and Tucholke lives in the Pacific Northwest.

April Henry

26 books• 4 series

April Henry writes mysteries for young readers and adults, much of it set in Oregon. Claire Montrose leads the early novels from Circles of Confusion (1999). Girl, Stolen (2010) starts a run built on kidnapping, and the Point Last Seen books follow. Twenty-four titles are catalogued, reaching In the Blood in 2026.

April Hunt writes romantic suspense, with subject headings that name private security services, thrillers, and military and action-adventure romance. Readers searching for April Hunt books in order start with Heated Pursuit (2016) and reach The Cupid Dilemma (2026), published under the name April Asher. Steele Ops is the series carried under the Hunt name. The catalogue runs to 9 books at a median of 352 pages, Hunt is the sole credit throughout, and new titles continue to arrive.

April L. Moon has 7 catalogued books published between 2024 and 2026. Six of them share a Fated to the… pattern: Fated to the Feral Wolf, the Warrior Wolf and the Wolf Prince in 2024, the Scarred Wolf and the Wolf Billionaire in 2025, and the Wolf Maiden in 2026. Wolves recur through every one. The seventh, When Cupid Falls First (2024), stands apart from that run. The catalogue is open.

April Murdock has 77 books in the catalogue, starting in 2019 with Her Undercover Billionaire Boss. The Aimless Billionaire, The Beach Bum Billionaire and The Billionaire's Heart are among the other 2019 titles. Series include Silverstone Dude Ranch, Sagebrush Ranch, Brothers of Duncan Ranch, Cowboys of Duncan Ranch and Brothers of Thatcher Ranch, as well as Small Town Billionaires, Billionaire Ranchers and Texas Redemption. A Montana Broken Cowboy (2026) is the newest title.

April Smith is an American novelist who also writes and produces for television. Four mystery thrillers by Smith feature FBI Special Agent Ana Grey; one of them, Good Morning, Killer (2002), was adapted for TNT's Mystery Movie Nights in 2011, with Smith as executive producer. Be the One (2000) is a standalone thriller about the only woman baseball scout in the major leagues, and A Star For Mrs. Blake was chosen by the Cincinnati Public Library as its 2014 all-city read. Home Sweet Home is the most recent novel. The catalogue opens at James at 15 (1977) and lists women detectives, government investigators, anarchists and undercover operations among its subjects.

Nine books are catalogued under April White, dated 2004 to 2022. The earliest are food and drink titles, Philadelphia Magazine's Ultimate Restaurant Guide (2004), Philadelphia Chef's Table (2012), Apples to Cider (2014) and Lemonade with Zest (2018), and the recorded subjects for them cover guidebooks and Philadelphia restaurants. Four novels named Code of Conduct, Code of Honor, Code of Ethics and Code of Matrimony follow between 2019 and 2021, and The Divorce Colony (2022) closes the listing.

Aprilynne Pike

16 books• 5 series

Aprilynne Pike, born 1980, is an American author with international bestseller status, best known for the debut novel Wings, released in English on May 5, 2009. The catalogue records 16 books between 2009 and Heat (2021). Series on the author page are Wings, Earthbound, Life After Theft, Charlotte Westing Chronicles and Glitter. Fairies, trolls, courts and courtiers, high schools and plants are among the subject tags. No new book has been added since 2021.

Apryl Baker has 58 books catalogued from The Promise (2011) to The Hunters (2026). Subjects include ghosts, extrasensory perception and parapsychology and crime, and Ghost Files is listed among the characters, with The Ghost Files dated 2013. Series include Crane Diaries, Reaper Chronicles, Kincaid Security & Investigations, Bloodlines Legacy, Minnesota Raptors, Witches of New Salem and Wolfpack University. Apryl Baker is still publishing.

AR Torre has 10 catalogued books published from 2014 to 2026, under subject headings for psychological suspense, serial murderers and criminals. Black Lies (2014) is the first title, followed by Do Not Disturb (2015), If You Dare (2015) and The Ghostwriter (2017). Filthy Vows and Rolling the Dice date from 2019. A Familiar Stranger (2022), A Fatal Affair (2023) and The Last Party (2024) are more recent, and The Missing Ones is dated 2026.

Araminta Hall writes psychological suspense about families. Nannies, dual-career households, family secrets and the strain between mothers and daughters are the recurring subjects. Seven books are catalogued: Everything and Nothing (2011), Dot (2013), Our Kind of Cruelty (2018), Imperfect Women (2020), Hidden Depths (2021), One of the Good Guys (2024) and Unreliable Narrator (2026). Several carry a second title, Imperfect Women also appearing as Perfect Strangers.

Archer Mayor

36 books• 3 series

Joe Gunther is the Vermont policeman at the centre of Archer Mayor's procedurals. Open Season (1988) starts a run of 36 catalogued books reaching Fall Guy in 2022, with Brattleboro and the state's drug trade recurring in the subject records. Short stories and non-fiction sit beside the novels, and nothing later than 2022 is catalogued.

Ari Avatar writes children's fiction for grades 3 to 5, with survival and adventure among the subject headings. Thirteen books are catalogued from 2022 to 2025, starting with Monster Escape (2022). Dragon Pet (2022), Obby Challenge (2022), Diary of a Roblox Pro (2023), Zombie Invasion (2023) and Haunted House (2024) are among them. Alien Mission (2025) is the newest title.

Ari Wright's first catalogued book dates from 2024, and the catalogue already holds 13 books through Knotty Or Nice (2026). Wright's series are MVP: Most Valuable Pack, Star-Crossed City / The Instant Always and Royalverse. The first listed title is For Always (2024). Others include Her Knotty List, Knot Her Goal, Bound To The Beasts, For Ever and Once Upon A Pack.

Aria Cole has 103 catalogued books, starting in 2016 with Black, Scarlet, White and Taking Tessa and reaching The Firefighter's Forever Bride (2026). The median entry is 84 pages long. The name Mila Crawford appears on 8 of the listed books. Cole series include Mountain Man's Mail-Order Bride, Blue Collar Alphas, Men of Copper Mountain, Devil's Peak Fire & Rescue, Sinister Knights MC and Auctioned to the Alpha.

Aria Grace has 169 catalogued books, the earliest from 2012 and the newest, Hold Me Still, from 2026. His Undoing, More Than Friends and House Cleaner are among the 2012 titles. Series include Mile High Romance, Blue Collar Daddies in the City, Omega House, Men of the Vault, Oak Grove, River's Edge Shifters and Mated in the Mafia. Della Cain is credited on 3 books and Alex Blaine on 1.

Aria Ray's catalogue counts 75 books from 2021 to 2026. Hacker (2021) is listed first, and Breaker, Celt, Grit, Storm, Secret Target, Collateral Deceit and Surrogate Betrayal all date from the same year. Blade and Bones appeared in 2022. Quake (2026) is the newest title. Series on the author page include Dark Slayers MC, Savage Legion MC, Sons of Rage MC, Twisted Metal MC, Ruthless Russian Mob, Griffin Security & Protection and Deadly Empire.

Ariana Franklin is the pen name of Mary Diana Norman (1933-2011), a British author and journalist who wrote historical crime fiction. The catalogue lists 21 titles across 1970 to 2020, opening with Stately Ghosts of England (1970) and closing with Death and the Maiden (2020). Subjects run to medieval England, women forensic pathologists and the character Adelia Aguilar, and the Makepeace Hedley series also appears under this name. The 2000s were the heaviest decade, and the run is likely complete.

Ariana Nash has 47 catalogued books, published between 2018 and 2026 and divided across ten series: Silk and Steel, Shadows of London, Prince's Assassin, Blackrose Brotherhood, Court of Pain, SOS Hotel, Primal Sin, Forgive Me, Jailor and Pool Boy. Sealed with a Kiss (2018) opens the catalogue, and the most recent entry is Just the Pool Boy at Vampire Mansion (2026). New titles arrive two to three months apart on average, and Nash is still publishing.

Arianne Richmonde writes erotic romance, with 21 books catalogued from 2012 to 2023. Pearl recurs across her titles, with Shades of Pearl (2012) and A Taste of Pearl, Belle Pearl and Shimmers of Pearl (2013). Richmonde's series are Pearl, Hooked Up, Beautiful Chaos and the Glass Trilogy, and Glass (2012) is her earliest book. Falling Star, Shining Star and Shooting Star appeared in 2014, and The Prenup (2023) is the newest.

Aric Davis writes crime and suspense fiction, with subject headings covering revenge, murder investigation, missing persons, runaway teenagers and Michigan. The catalogue lists 14 titles dated 2008 to 2018 and one series, Nickel. Books in the list include Nickel Plated (2011), A Good and Useful Hurt (2012), Rough Men (2013) and The Fort (2013). The Hollows (2018) is the newest title, and the catalogue is likely complete.

Ariel Lawhon writes historical fiction, with subjects that include the Hindenburg airship, impersonation, princesses, assassination and biographical themes. The catalogue opens with The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress (2014). Flight of Dreams (2016), I Was Anastasia (2018), Code Name Hélène (2020) and The Frozen River (2023) follow. The Pirate Queen (2026) is the newest title.

Ariel Marie is a romance author with 48 catalogued books, from Power of the Fae (2015) to The Savage Vow (2026). Fight for the Fae (2015) and A Faery's Kiss (2016) are other early titles. Series include Nightstar Shifters, Dragon Mates, Dragon Curse, Gargoyle Protectors, Blackclaw Alphas, Golden Moon Shifters, Montana Grizzlies, Immortal Reign and Demon Obsession.

Ariel Sullivan is a newly publishing author with 3 catalogued books, all in the Conform / Reform series. Conform (2025) opens the sequence and Beneath followed in 2026. A third title, Core, is scheduled for 2027.

Arkady & Boris Strugatsky is the joint byline behind a body of Russian science fiction that reaches English readers in translation. The catalogue holds 27 books, from The Country of Crimson Clouds (1959) to The Waves Extinguish the Wind (2023). Noon Universe is the named series, and titles include Space Apprentice, Far Rainbow, Prisoners of Power and The Inhabited Island. Murder, police investigation and a ski resort setting also appear among the subjects, next to The Dead Mountaineer's Inn (1970).

Arlem Hawks writes historical fiction. Nine catalogued books run from All You Wish (2019) to A Match Gone Awry (2024), among them Georgana's Secret (2021), Beyond the Lavender Fields (2022) and Across the Star-Kissed Sea (2024). Releases average 0.6 years apart and Hawks is still publishing. Anyone searching Arlem Hawks books in order meets a run concentrated in the 2020s; two books have a recorded length, at a median of 344 pages.

Irish crime writer and reviewer Arlene Hunt has 11 books in the catalogue, from Vicious Circle (2004) to While She Sleeps (2022). The QuicK Investigations novels are set in Dublin and feature private investigators John Quigley and Sarah Kenny. Hunt also wrote stand-alone thrillers such as The Chosen, The Outsider and While She Sleeps, and Undertow was a nominee for Best Crime Novel at the 2009 Irish Book Awards. A second series, Detectives Eli Quinn and Roxy Malloy, also appears under Hunt's name.

Quilting supplies the setting for most of Arlene Sachitano's mysteries. Harriet Truman and the Loose Threads group carry the longest series, whose titles play on the craft, Quilt as Desired, Quilter's Knot, The Quilt Before the Storm, Make Quilts Not War. Chip and Die (2003) opens a catalogue of 18 books reaching Quilts of a Feather (2025), with the Harley Spring and Permelia O'Brien mysteries beside it. Murder investigation, widows, Washington State and the electronics industry fill the subject tags.

Armand Rosamilia has 79 catalogued books published between 2006 and 2026. Dying Days, Dirty Deeds, Flagler Beach, First Coast Thriller, Chelsea Avenue, Keyport Cthulhu and the Hellmouth Trilogy are among the series, and several take their names from places: Flagler Beach, Chelsea Avenue, Keyport, Green River. Freehold: Southern Storm (2006) opens the catalogue and Permafrost (2026) is the newest title, at a median of 214 pages a book.

Armistead Maupin

17 books• 2 series

Armistead Maupin, an American writer born May 13, 1944, is noted for Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco. The catalogue lists 17 Maupin books from 1978 to 2024. Tales of the City and More Tales of the City are both dated 1978, followed by Further Tales of the City (1982), Babycakes (1984), Significant Others (1987) and Sure of You (1989). Maybe the Moon (1992) and The Night Listener (2000) are also listed. Subjects include gay men, lesbians and city life in San Francisco. Mona of the Manor (2024) is the newest title.

Arnaldur Indridason

21 books• 4 series

Arnaldur Indridason, written Arnaldur Indriðason in Icelandic, is an Icelandic crime novelist born on 28 January 1961. Detective Erlendur leads the most popular of Indridason's series. The catalogue lists 21 books, opening with Synir duftsins (1997) and Dauðarósir (1998). English titles include Silence of the Grave (2001), Voices (2002), The Draining Lake (2004), Hypothermia (2007) and Strange Shores (2010). Ferðalok (2024) is the newest. Series on the author page are Inspector Erlendur, Detective Konrad and the Reykjavik Wartime Mystery/Flovent and Thorson Thrillers. Iceland, police procedure, missing persons and the Second World War appear in the subject tags.

Arne Dahl

12 books• 4 series

Arne Dahl is the pen name of Jan Arnald, a Swedish novelist and literary critic born 11 January 1963 who also writes regularly for the newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Crime fiction made the Dahl name, above all a sequence of novels about a fictional squad of Swedish investigators, called A Gruppen in Swedish and the Intercrime Group in the first English translation. The first five of those books were filmed as 180-minute stories, screened two 90-minute episodes at a time. The catalogue holds 12 titles from Misterioso (2011) to Within the Circle (2023), and A-gruppen/Intercrime, Opcop and Detective Sam Berger are the series on record. Stockholm, police procedure and serial murder investigation appear among the subjects.

Arnold Bennett

100 books• 3 series

Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English novelist who completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories and 13 plays, plus a daily journal running past a million words. The Five Towns and Clayhanger Family books take the pottery district as their ground, with town life, manners and conduct as the material. Bennett wrote for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, briefly ran the Ministry of Information during the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. The listing holds 100 titles from A Man from the North (1898) onward.

Art Spiegelman, born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman on 15 February 1948, is an American cartoonist, editor and advocate for comics. Maus is the graphic novel most associated with Spiegelman. Spiegelman co-edited the comics magazines Arcade and Raw, and spent ten years from 1992 as a contributing artist at The New Yorker. The catalogue holds 11 books, from Maus: A Survivor's Tale (1986) to JR & Art Spiegelman: The Ghosts of Ellis Island (2015), including Maus II (1991), In the Shadow of No Towers (2004), Breakdowns (2008) and MetaMaus (2011). Subject headings cover the Holocaust, Holocaust survivors and their children, and comic books. Spiegelman is married to the designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the father of the writer Nadja Spiegelman.