Authors whose first name starts with A, page 8 of 18

Alison Littlewood is a British writer of horror novels and short stories, who also publishes as Alison J. Littlewood and under the pen name A. J. Elwood. Raised in Penistone and now living in Doncaster, Littlewood read English and history at Northumbria University and worked in marketing before turning to fiction. Recorded subjects run to horror, suspense, folklore and serial murder investigation. The 15 catalogued books open with A Cold Season (2002) and take in Path of Needles (2013), The Unquiet House (2014), The Hidden People (2016) and Visions of Grace (2025).

Alison Ragsdale has 13 books in the catalogue, published from 2014 to 2025. The earliest are The Father-Daughter Club and Tuesday's Socks, both from 2014, and the newest is My Sister's Only Hope (2025). Subject tags include fathers and daughters and travel. Other titles are Finding Heather, The Art of Remembering, The Liar and other stories and Someone Else's Child.

Alison Sherlock writes contemporary romance, with family life among the subject headings. The catalogue counts 18 books from The Desperate Bride's Diet Club (2012) to Starry Nights at Dragonfly Lake (2026). Named series are Willow Tree Hall, Riverside Lane, Railway Lane, Maple Tree Lodge Hotel and Desperate. Love Begins At Willow Tree Hall (2017), The Village Shop for Lonely Hearts (2020) and The Village of Lost and Found (2021) are among the titles.

Alison Stine is an American poet and author whose first novel, Road Out of Winter (2020), took the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award. The catalogue lists 8 books published between 2001 and 2024, from Lot of My Sister (2001) to Dust (2024), taking in Ohio Violence (2009), Wait (2011), Supervision (2015), The Protectors (2016) and Trashlands (2021). Subject headings record poetry and teenage girls. Stine's poetry and nonfiction has run in newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Paris Review and Tin House.

Alison Weir is a British historian and author who writes about English royalty, and about royal women in particular. Weir's first book, Britain's Royal Families (1989), set out a genealogy of the British royal family; biographies of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, Katherine Swynford and Elizabeth of York followed, alongside studies of Henry VIII and his court and of the Princes in the Tower. Weir writes historical fiction as well, including the Six Tudor Queens and Tudor Rose novels. The catalogue holds 59 titles between 1989 and 2026, the most recent being The Boleyn Secret.

Historical romance appears among the recorded subjects for Alissa Johnson, alongside private investigators, women spies, female offenders, arranged marriage, guardians and wards, and revenge. The catalogue holds 12 books from As Luck Would Have It (2008) to A Dangerous Deceit (2017). Johnson's series are Haverston Family and Thief-Takers. A Christmas Ball (2009), McAlistair's Fortune (2009), Nearly a Lady (2011), Practically Wicked (2012) and A Talent for Trickery (2015) are other titles.

Alistair MacLean

42 books• 5 series

Alistair MacLean (21 April 1922 to 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist of thrillers and adventure stories. MacLean's books have sold an estimated 150 million copies, placing MacLean among the best-selling fiction authors of all time. Service in the Royal Navy aboard HMS Royalist during the Second World War supplied the basis for the debut novel, H.M.S. Ulysses (1955). Many of the novels were filmed, above all The Guns of Navarone and Ice Station Zebra. Catalogued titles include South by Java Head (1958), Night Without End (1960) and Fear is the Key (1961). The author page also lists the Alistair MacLean's UNACO series and Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

Alistair Moffat, born 1950, is a Scottish writer and journalist who directed the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and later served as Rector of the University of St Andrews. Scottish history is the main subject: Kelsae (1985), The Sea Kingdoms (2001), The Borders (2002), Before Scotland (2005) and Tyneside (2005) each take one place or region from its earliest times. Travel writing, human genetics and memoir also appear, Homing (2003) among them. The 35 catalogued titles begin with The Edinburgh Fringe (1978) and reach The Highlands and Islands of Scotland: A New History (2024).

Alix E. Harrow, born November 9, 1989, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer who has also published as Alix Heintzman. The short story "A Witch's Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies" won a 2019 Hugo Award after Nebula, World Fantasy and Locus nominations. The Ten Thousand Doors of January (2019) is Harrow's debut novel. The catalogue lists 14 books, including The Once and Future Witches (2020), A Spindle Splintered (2021) and The Slantwise Histories (2026). Subjects include alternative history and historical fantasy.

Two titles by Alix Harrow are catalogued: Patience and Not-Forsaken (2017) and Starling House (2023). Six years separate the two, and no further title has appeared since 2023, which leaves the catalogue dormant.

Alix Rickloff has 17 catalogued books from Lost In You (2008) to The Last Light Over Oslo (2023). Rickloff's series are Imnada Brotherhood, Bligh Family and the Heirs of Kilronan Trilogy. Dangerous as Sin (2009), Earl of Darkness (2010), Lord of Shadows (2011), Demon's Curse (2012) and Unleash the Curse (2013) are among the titles. No new Rickloff book has appeared since 2023.

Aliya Whiteley writes science fiction and horror. Sixteen books are catalogued from Mean Mode Median (2004) to The Misheard World (2026), among them The Beauty (2014), Skein Island (2015), The Arrival of Missives (2016), The Loosening Skin (2018) and Greensmith (2020). Recorded subjects include mushrooms, corporate culture, old age homes and suicide. Whiteley's catalogue is ongoing, with most of its titles dated in the 2020s.

Alka Joshi writes historical fiction set in India. The Jaipur Trilogy runs from The Henna Artist (2020) through The Royal Jewel Cinema, also published as The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (2021), to The Perfumist of Paris (2023); Six Days in Bombay followed in 2025. Four books are catalogued, with young women, sisters, artists and apprentices among the subjects.

Allan Folsom was an American screenwriter and novelist who lived from 1941 to 2014. Five books are catalogued, all of them thrillers of unusual length, at a median of 678 pages. The Day After Tomorrow (1994) opens the run, and the John Barron and Nicholas Marten novels follow through The Exile (2004), The Machiavelli Covenant (2006) and The Hadrian Memorandum (2009). Conspiracies, world politics, spies and Catholic clergy recur as subjects.

Allan Guthrie, born Allan Buchan in 1965, is a Scottish crime writer who also works as a literary agent and editor. Guthrie was born in Orkney and has lived in Edinburgh for most of his adult life; Edinburgh heads the places indexed in the catalogue, alongside hard-boiled mystery, revenge, extortion and ex-convicts. Two-Way Split (2004) was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger and took the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2007, and Kiss Her Goodbye (2005) drew Edgar, Anthony and Gumshoe nominations. Ten books are catalogued through to Bad Men (2013), and the Pearce series carries the Guthrie credit.

Espionage and thrillers define Allan Leverone's catalogue; crime, missing persons and action-adventure also appear among the recorded subjects. Tracie Tanner and Paskagankee are the recurring groupings, and a further series, Jack Sheridan, is listed alongside them. Thirty-four books run from Postcards from the Apocalypse (2010) to Something to do in Las Cruces (2025), including Final Vector (2011), The Lonely Mile (2011) and Revenant (2012).

Matthew Hervey, an officer of the fictional British 6th Light Dragoons, carries Allan Mallinson's fiction from the late Napoleonic Wars into colonial campaigns in India, North America and South Africa. A Close Run Thing (1999) opens the sequence, followed by The Nizam's Daughters (2000), A Regimental Affair (2001), A Call to Arms (2002), The Sabre's Edge (2003) and Company of Spears (2006). Mallinson, born in 1949, is an English author and a retired British Army brigadier, and also writes military history, reaching the First World War. The catalogue holds 19 books through 2020, at a median 448 pages.

Allan Martin has 8 catalogued books, published between 2019 and 2025. Two series account for part of the list: Inspector Angus Blue and the DCI Jüri Hallmets Thrillers. The Peat Dead (2019) is the earliest title and The Dead of Mull (2025) the most recent, with Death in Tallinn, The Dead of Jura, The Dead of Appin, Winter Blood, Tales Murderous and Mysterious and The Dead of Oban between them. Martin is credited on all 8 titles and remains actively publishing.

Allan Massie (16 October 1938 to 3 February 2026) was a Scottish journalist, columnist and sports writer for newspapers in England and Scotland. Massie wrote 40 books, over 25 of them novels. The catalogue lists 47 titles from 1978 to 2015, among them Muriel Spark (1979), The Caesars (1983), A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (1984) and Augustus (1986). Massie's series include Bordeaux, Question Of Loyalties and Dark Ages, and End Games in Bordeaux (2015) is the last listed title.

Allan W. Eckert wrote historical novels for adults and children, natural history and plays. The Narratives of America sequence takes up the frontier, Shawnee history and the wars that came with European settlement. Incident at Hawk's Hill (1971) was a Newbery Medal runner-up, went into Reader's Digest Condensed Books, and Disney adapted it as the 1975 television film The Boy Who Talked to Badgers. Eckert, a naturalist, also wrote more than 225 episodes of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and took an Emmy Award for that work. The catalogue holds 39 titles, from The Last Great Auk in 1963 to The Infinite Dream in 2011.

Allan Zullo, born on 23 November 1947, is an American non-fiction writer who has written or co-written more than 120 paperbacks for adults and younger readers. Zullo produced the Hall of Shame sports books with Bruce Nash, the Ten True Tales series for children and the Haunted Kids books, and he wrote A Boomer's Guide to Grandparenting with his wife Kathryn. He also created the newspaper comic strip The Ghost Story Club, which ran from 1995 to 1998. Raised in Rockford, Illinois, Zullo took a journalism degree from Northern Illinois University in 1969; the catalogue lists 104 titles between 1987 and 2019.

Allegra Goodman

12 books

Allegra Goodman's catalogue runs to 12 books published between 1989 and 2026. Total Immersion (1989) opens it and This Is Not About Us closes it in 2026, with Kaaterskill Falls (1998), Intuition (2006), The Cookbook Collector (2010) and Sam (2023) along the way. Jewish families, Jewish women and summer resorts are the recurring subjects. Goodman, born in 1967, is an American writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and continues to publish.

Allen Drury covered the United States Senate as a reporter during the Second World War, watching Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman at close range, and turned that experience into Advise and Consent (1959). The novel took the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was long cited as the definitive Washington tale. Drury's Senate diaries appeared as A Senate Journal 1943-45. The 24 catalogued books run to 1998, built around the Advise and Consent sequence plus the Mark Coffin, University and Amarna series, with politics, Congress and statecraft as the recurring subjects.

Crime fiction is Allen Eskens's field - mystery, suspense and police procedural, with veterans, dysfunctional families and false identity recurring as subjects. The Life We Bury (2014) opens the catalogue. Detective Max Rupert and Lila Nash each anchor a series, and standalone novels run alongside. Eskens has 11 books catalogued, reaching The Loyal Daughter, scheduled for 2027.

Allen Levi's catalogue holds three books, published across two decades: Oliviatown (2003), The Last Sweet Mile (2018) and Theo of Golden (2023). The books are short, 64 pages at the median. No new Allen Levi title has been catalogued since 2023.

Space colonies, interplanetary voyages and space flight appear in the subject records for Allen M. Steele, a science fiction author tagged for both hard science fiction and space opera. The catalogue counts 45 books from Orbital Decay (1989) to Lemuria 7 (2026). Clarke County, Space (1990), Lunar Descent (1991), Labyrinth of Night (1992) and Rude Astronauts (1993) are early titles. Coyote is a listed series, and Coyote and Near-Space short fiction are grouped separately.

Allen Manning has 24 books listed between 2013 and 2024. Delivering Justice (2013) is the first. Manning's series are John Stone, Daniel Lee, Two Percent Power, Hard Core Origin and the Scott Maverick Thriller books. Six titles came out in 2017 alone, including The Hard Kill and Miami Winter. Blood Rad Moon: A Werewolf Novel (2024) is the latest.

Allen Zadoff is an American young adult novelist whose Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have (2009) won the Sid Fleischman Humor Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators in 2010. The Unknown Assassin and Wild & Chance series, together with Boy Nobody, are the works most associated with Zadoff. Four series are listed on the site: Allen Zadoff Standalone Novels, Boy Nobody / Unknown Assassin, Wild & Chance and Allen Zadoff Non-Fiction. The 10 catalogued books run from Hungry: Lessons Learned on the Journey from Fat to Thin (2007) to The Donut Prince of New York (2024), with I Am the Mission (2014), I Am the Traitor (2015) and The Puppy War (2021) among them. Subject headings include biography, compulsive eaters, theater, assassins and brainwashing.

Allie Reynolds has two catalogued books: Shiver, published in 2020, and The Swell, also catalogued as The Bay, published in 2022. Nothing further has appeared since, and the catalogue is recorded as dormant.

Allie Therin has 9 catalogued books, published between 2019 and 2026: Spellbound (2019), Starcrossed (2020), Proper Scoundrels and Wonderstruck (2021), Liar City and Once a Rogue (2023), Twisted Shadows (2024), Viscounts & Villainy (2025) and Edge of Mercy (2026). Two series are recorded for Therin, Roaring Twenties Magic and Sugar & Vice. All nine books are credited to Therin alone, and the catalogue is marked as ongoing.

Allison Ashley has seven catalogued books, published between 2020 and 2026: Perfect Distraction (2020), Home Sweet Mess (2021), Would You Rather (2022), The Roommate Pact (2023), Falling Into Place (2025), If Tomorrow Never Comes (2025) and Until Next Summer (2026). Chronic illness, health insurance, best friends and marriage are the subject headings across the fiction. The median book runs 322 pages, and Ashley is still publishing.

Allison Brennan, an American writer born in 1969, writes romantic thrillers; her first book was published in 2005. The catalogue lists 74 of her books through Make It Out Alive, with One Last Warning announced and the list reaching 2027. Lucy Kincaid and Max Revere are recurring figures. Series listings include the Predator Trilogy, Quinn & Costa Thriller, Angelhart Investigations, River City Mysteries, Regan Merritt and Moreno & Hart Mysteries. Subjects include the FBI, serial murders, women journalists and romantic suspense.

Libraries and librarians supply the setting for Allison Brook's mysteries. Death Overdue (2017) opens the Haunted Library series, and the titles keep the joke running - Read and Gone, Buried in the Stacks, Checked Out for Murder, Dewey Decimated, Overdue or Die. Murder, cold cases and a library cat fill the plots. Books on the Beach is a second series, and nine titles are catalogued through Death on Dickens Island in 2025.

Allison Hobbs writes erotica and contemporary romance, with African Americans and African American women among the recorded subjects. Sexual fantasies, revenge, prostitutes and love triangles also appear there. The catalogue holds 39 books from Pandora's Box (2002) to Drunk In Love (2021), and Double Dippin', Munch, Make Me Beg and Fantasy Heat are the series listed. Nothing has been added since 2021.

Allison Leigh's catalogue subjects list contemporary and western romance, ranchers, Wyoming, Texas, pregnancy and child custody. The 70 books start with Stay... (1998) and reach Fortune's Fake Fiancé (2026), and Fortune's Lone Star Family is due in 2027. Series credited to Leigh are Return to the Double-C Ranch, Cape Cardinale and Turnabout. The Rancher And The Redhead (1998), Married to a Stranger (2000) and Montana Lawman (2002) are among the earlier titles.

Allison Leotta is a former federal prosecutor who writes legal crime thrillers. Her six books follow Anna Curtis and run from Law of Attraction (2010) through Discretion (2012), Speak of the Devil (2013) and A Good Killing (2015) to The Last Good Girl (2016). Subject headings cover public prosecutors, family violence, missing persons and Washington, D.C., the city where Leotta prosecuted sex crimes and crimes against children.

Allison Pataki writes historical fiction built on real lives. The Traitor's Wife (2014) opens the catalogue, followed by The Accidental Empress (2015) and Sisi (2016), which take up Austria, then Where the Light Falls (2017), The Queen's Fortune (2020), The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post (2022) and Finding Margaret Fuller (2024). Politics, government and cerebrovascular disease also appear among the subjects. Eleven books are catalogued, the newest being It Girl.

Allison Pittman writes Christian fiction. Catalogue subjects record history, Mormons, prostitution, marital conflict, orphans and forgiveness, and one strand of the listing is grouped as Baseball Novels. Pittman has 23 books published between 2005 and 2024, from Ten Thousand Charms (2005) to A Letter to Eli (2024), with All For and Crossroads of Grace as the other two series. Pittman remains actively publishing.

Allison Winn Scotch is an American novelist, born on June 12, 1973, and a New York Times best-selling author. The Department of Lost & Found (2007) is the first of 11 catalogued books, and The Insomniacs (2026) is the newest. For the Allison Winn Scotch books in order, Time of My Life (2008), The One That I Want (2010), The Song Remains the Same (2012) and The Theory of Opposites (2013) come next, then In Twenty Years (2016), Between Me and You (2018), Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing (2020), The Rewind (2022) and Take Two, Birdie Maxwell (2024). Scotch has written for magazines including Redbook, Self, Shape and Prevention, and started a writing blog called Ask Allison.

Ally Carter

29 books• 8 series

Spies, thieves and boarding schools furnish Ally Carter's fiction for young readers. The Gallagher Girls series, set at a school that trains teenage spies, runs from 2006 through Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy, Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover and Only the Good Spy Young. Heist Society turns to con artists, Embassy Row to diplomatic intrigue, and Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor to a mystery for younger readers. Thirty titles make up the catalogue, which began with the adult novel Cheating at Solitaire (2005).

Ally Condie

19 books• 6 series

Ally Condie writes young adult and middle grade fiction. The Matched trilogy is the best known work: Matched (2010) reached No.1 on the New York Times list and stayed on it for over a year, with Crossed (2011) and Reached (2012) following as bestsellers, and all three appear in more than 30 languages. Matched was named to YALSA's 2011 Teens' Top Ten and to Publishers Weekly's best children's books of 2010. Condie also wrote the standalone Atlantia (2014) and the middle grade novel Summerlost (2016). Nineteen books are catalogued, starting with Yearbook (2006) and reaching The Girls Trip in 2026.

Allyson Lindt has 88 books on record, spanning 2013 to 2026, with romance, fantasy and suspense among the subjects. Denial of Interest, Faking Love, Her Airman and His Cosplayer came out in 2013. Valkyries Rising, Valkyrie's Legacy, Three Player Tag-Team, Three Player Co-op, Love Hack, Neon and Fake It are among the series. Valkyrie Transformed (2026) is the newest title.

Alma Alexander is the pen name of Alma A. Hromic, born in 1963 in Yugoslavia. Alexander grew up across Zambia, Eswatini and South Africa, spent time in England and New Zealand, and settled in Bellingham, Washington. The fantasy runs to 33 books: the Worldweavers books for young adults, The Secrets of Jin-shei and its sequel Embers of Heaven, The Hidden Queen and Changer of Days. Shapeshifting, queens, sisters and female friendship recur, through to The Shadow Before the Dawn in 2026.

Alma Katsu writes historical horror and paranormal fiction. Her 17 catalogued books open with the Taker Trilogy, made up of The Taker (2011), The Reckoning (2012) and The Descent (2013), and take in The Hunger (2018), catalogued with the Donner Party, and The Deep (2020). Katsu also writes espionage fiction, with Red Widow (2021) and the Spy Who Vanished series, drawing on a 29-year career at the NSA and CIA. Incarnate (2026) is the newest title.

Alta Hensley is an American author of romance and erotica with 68 books catalogued between 2011 and 2026. Traditional Love (2011) is the first title, and In the Palace of Lazar (2014) and Captured by Time (2015) come soon after. Series include Top Shelf, Breaking Belles, Secret Bride, Dark Pen, Gods Among Men, Heathens Hollow, Riot Crew, Evil Lies and Chicago Sin. They Know If You've Been Bad or Good is the newest book, from 2026.

Alton Brown

13 books• 1 series

Alton Brown writes about cooking and the equipment and science behind it. Thirteen books are catalogued from 2002 to 2025, beginning with I'm Just Here for the Food (2002) and its later companions, then Alton Brown's Gear for Your Kitchen (2003), I'm Just Here for More Food (2004) on baking, the three Good Eats volumes of 2009, 2010 and 2011, EveryDayCook (2016) and Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations (2025). Brown created and hosted the Food Network series Good Eats, which ran 16 seasons, presented the miniseries Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and commentated on Iron Chef America and Cutthroat Kitchen. Good Eats Reloaded recapped the show on Cooking Channel, and Good Eats: The Return ran from 2019 to 2021. Brown was born in 1962.

Alton Gansky writes Christian fiction and mysteries, including Christian suspense, according to the catalogue subjects, which also mention science fiction and the end of the world. The 50 books span 1996 to 2017, from By My Hands (1996) to End Game (2017). Series include J.D. Stanton Mystery, Perry Sachs Mystery, Madison Glenn, Ridgeline Mystery and Barringston Relief Chronicles. The catalogue marks the output as likely complete.

Alvin Schwartz (1927-1992) was an American author and journalist who wrote more than fifty books on folklore and word play, many of them for young readers. Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark is the series recorded here, and it also carries a character entry. Word-play and folklore titles in the catalogue include A Twister of Twists, A Tangler of Tongues (1972), Witcracks: Jokes and Jests from American Folklore (1973), Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat (1974), Tomfoolery: Trickery and Foolery with Words (1975) and Whoppers: Tall Tales and Other Lies (1975), beside practical guides such as Going Camping (1972) and Hobbies (1972). Subjects cover folklore, tales, riddles, horror stories, wit and humor, and juvenile literature.

Aly Martinez has 31 catalogued books dated 2014 to 2026, running from Among the Echoes (2014) to Falter (2026). Changing Course (2014), Fighting Silence (2015), The Fall Up (2015) and Retrieval (2016) appear among them. Series credited to Martinez are Wrecked and Ruined, On the Ropes, Guardian Protection, Darkest Sunset and the Difference Trilogy, together with three duets: Retrieval, Truth and Regret.

Alyn Troy writes mysteries in three series: Mystic Brews, Pixie Twist Mysteries and Eerie Falls Mysteries. The 22 catalogued books began in 2020 with Lattes and Spirits, A Double Shot of Ghosts and A French Press of Murder. Many titles pair coffee with ghosts, as in Coffee Grounds and Ghostly Hounds (2020). A Twisted Dive, A Twisted Riposte, A Twisted Treasure and A Twisted Tune all appeared in 2021. Debutante Demitasse (2026) is the newest Troy title.

Alys Clare is the pen name Elizabeth Harris uses for English historical whodunnits, most of them set in medieval times. The Hawkenlye Mysteries pair the Abbess Helewise with Josse d'Acquin and begin with Fortune Like the Moon in 1999. Three further runs follow: the Aelf Fen Mysteries, the Gabriel Taverner Mystery novels and the World's End Bureau Victorian Mystery books. Harris grew up in the countryside near the Hawkenlye setting, went to school in Tonbridge and read English at the University of Keele. The catalogue stands at 39 titles, the newest being The Thief and the Labyrinth in 2026.

Alyson McLayne's main line is Highland historical romance, the Sons of Gregor MacLeod books, with Scottish clans and revenge among the recurring subjects. Seven catalogued titles run from 2016, the year The Fabrizio Bride and The D'amici Mistake appeared under the Sizzling, Sexy, Santa Barbara heading, to Highland Thief in 2021. Highland Promise, Highland Betrayal, Highland Conquest and Highland Captive fill the years between. Nothing new has appeared since 2021.

Alyson Noel

32 books• 5 series

Thirty-two books by Alyson Noel are catalogued, from Faking 19 (2005) to Chasing Eternity (2024). Noel, born December 3, 1965, is an American author from Orange County, California. Paranormal fiction dominates the recorded subjects, along with psychic ability, immortality, the dead, high schools and death. Soul Seekers, Riley Bloom, Beautiful Idols and Stealing Infinity are the series listed, and Evermore (2009), Blue Moon (2009) and Shadowland (2009) are among the titles.

Alyson Richman is an American novelist with 11 catalogued books published between 2000 and 2025. The Mask Carver's Son (2000) opens the list and The Missing Pages (2025) is the newest title. The Lost Wife (2011) is the best known: a husband and wife are separated in a concentration camp during the Second World War and meet again sixty years later at their grandchildren's wedding. The Garden of Letters (2014), The Velvet Hours (2016), The Thread Collectors (2022) and The Time Keepers (2024) follow. Richman's novels have appeared in more than 25 languages.

Alyssa Clarke writes historical romance across two series, Wagers and Wallflowers and Those Very Bad Fairbanks. A run of 2021 titles shares one formula: Kiss Me, If You Dare, Love Me, If You Dare, Marry Me, If You Dare, Ruin Me, If You Dare, Seduce Me, If You Dare and Tempt Me, If You Dare. Dukes, viscounts and rogues fill the rest, in Seven Nights with the Duke (2021), Taming of the Rogue (2021) and The Viscount and the Hellion (2021). The catalogue holds 32 books reaching A Very Scandalous Fairbanks Christmas (2025).

Alyssa Cole

25 books• 5 series

Alyssa Cole, born in 1982, is an American novelist who works across historical, contemporary, science fiction, mystery and thriller registers. Her characters carry a wide range of professions, from Civil War spies to present-day epidemiologists, and her romances cover both straight and gay relationships. The Loyal League follows Black agents during the Civil War; Reluctant Royals and Runaway Royals handle the contemporary side. Twenty-five books span 2014 to 2024, from Eagle's Heart to One of Us Knows.

Alyssa Day is one of the pen names of Alesia Marie Holliday, an American author who also writes as Jax Abbott and under Holliday's own name, and who has won a RITA Award from the Romance Writers of America. The catalogue lists 13 books from The Unforgiven (1999) to Whisper of Rebellion (2022), including Atlantis Unmasked (2009), Atlantis Betrayed (2010), Heart of Atlantis (2012) and January in Atlantis (2018). Series include League of the Black Swan and Vampire Motorcycle Club. Subjects include paranormal romance, Atlantis, Poseidon, vampires, shapeshifting, jewel thieves and the Tower of London.

Alyssa Maxwell writes historical cozy mysteries in two series. The Gilded Newport Mysteries follow a woman journalist through murders in the Rhode Island mansions, opening with Murder at the Breakers (2014) and continuing through Murder at Beechwood, Murder at Rough Point and Murder at Chateau Sur Mer. A Lady and Lady's Maid Mystery runs alongside. Twenty-three books reach Murder at Rosecliff in 2026.

Alyssa Rose Ivy has 73 catalogued books from Beckoning Light (2011) to Autumn's Wolf (2022), tagged for fantasy, young women and South Carolina. Perilous Light (2012) and Enduring Light (2013) followed the first title, alongside Derailed, Flight, Veer and The Hazards of Skinny Dipping. Ivy series include Crescent Chronicles, Empire Chronicles, Hazards, Lunar Academy, Court of Shifters Chronicles, Dire Wolves Chronicles and Corded Saga. No new title has appeared since 2022.

Alyssa Satin Capucilli

142 books• 11 series

Alyssa Satin Capucilli, born November 2, 1957, is an American children's author whose most notable work is the Biscuit series. Biscuit, the opening book, appeared in 1996, and the series had sold more than 21 million copies worldwide by 2016. Biscuit books belong to HarperCollins' I Can Read! line. The catalogue lists 142 books from Peekaboo Bunny (1994) to Biscuit's Puppy Sleepover (2025), and other series include Katy Duck, Tulip and Rex, This Bear and Library Fish.