Authors whose first name starts with D, page 3 of 6

David Foster Wallace

25 books• 1 series

David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and professor. Infinite Jest (1996), his second novel, is the book he is best known for, and the Los Angeles Times critic David Ulin called him one of the most influential and innovative writers of the previous twenty years. Wallace grew up in Illinois and studied at Amherst College and the University of Arizona; his Amherst thesis on philosophy and modal logic became his first novel, The Broom of the System (1987). Twenty-four catalogued titles include the essay collections and the tennis writing.

David Freed came to fiction from journalism. Reporting on criminal justice for the Los Angeles Times, Freed shared the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting for coverage of the 1992 Rodney King riots. The seven catalogued novels form the Cordell Logan series, which runs from Flat Spin (2012) to Deep Fury (2024) and turns on pilots, murder and investigation. Freed also works as an educator and screenwriter, and published a humorous collection of job application letters, Dear Ernest and Julio, in 1997.

David Gemmell wrote heroic fantasy. Legend, also published as Against the Horde (1984), opens the Drenai saga, continued in The King Beyond the Gate (1985) and Waylander (1986). The Rigante, Troy, Lion Of Macedon, Hawk Queen and Sipstrassi sequences follow. Thirty-five catalogued books reach Rhyming Rings (2017). Imaginary wars, warriors and kings are the recurring subjects.

Marine archaeologist Jack Howard is the figure David Gibbins built his fiction on. Gibbins, born in 1962, is an underwater archaeologist as well as a novelist, and the 14 catalogued books mix archaeological expeditions, treasure troves and antiquities with action and suspense. The catalogue opens with Atlantis (2005) and reaches Daughter of Attila (2025); Total War Rome is a second series beside Jack Howard. Gibbins remains actively publishing.

David Gilman is an English novelist and television screenwriter who went full-time as a writer in 1986, after work as a fire-fighter, a professional photographer, a soldier in the Parachute Regiment's Reconnaissance Platoon and a marketing manager for a South African publisher. The catalogue holds 20 books from Ghost in the Machine (2000) to The Knife Maker of Venice (2026), among them The Devil's Breath (2007), Ice Claw (2008), Master of War (2013) and The Last Horseman (2016). Master of War, Englishman, standalone novels and plays are the listings recorded. Subjects cover the Hundred Years' War, Great Britain, adventure, war and military writing, the South African War of 1899-1902 and children's fiction. Gilman's Danger Zone series has been published in 15 countries, and The Last Horseman was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure awards in 2017.

David Goggins has two catalogued books. The first appeared in 2018, and a second, Never Finished, followed in 2022. No further Goggins title has been catalogued since 2022.

David Grann

6 books• 1 series

David Grann writes narrative non-fiction about explorers and crimes. Six titles are catalogued: The Lost City of Z (2009), The Devil & Sherlock Holmes (2010), Killers of the Flower Moon (2017), The Old Man and the Gun (2018), The White Darkness (2018) and The Wager (2023). El Dorado, exploration, murder and criminal psychology appear in the subject list, and the catalogue has been dormant since 2023.

David Guterson

14 books

Fourteen books stand under David Guterson's name, published between 1989 and 2026. Guterson, born in 1956, writes novels, short stories, poetry, journalism and essays. Snow Falling on Cedars (1994) is the best known, a bestselling novel of Japanese American internment. Subject headings across the catalogue name the Pacific Northwest, internment camps, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and fishermen. The list runs from the story collection The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind (1989) to Evelyn in Transit (2026), with East of the Mountains (1999), Our Lady of the Forest (2003) and Ed King (2011) in between.

David Hagberg (October 9, 1942 to September 8, 2019) was an American novelist of techno-thrillers. Kirk McGarvey, a super-spy, is the character most associated with Hagberg. The listing also carries the Wallace Mahoney, Magic Man, Bill Lane and Nate Osborne and Ashley Borden series, Flash Gordon novels and non-fiction. Espionage, terrorism, intelligence officers and assassins are among the subjects, and Traitor (2022) is the newest listed title.

David Halberstam

22 books

David Halberstam (1934-2007) was an American journalist and historian who wrote on the Vietnam War, politics, the civil rights movement, business, media, American culture, the Korean War and, later, sport. His 22 catalogued books open with The Making Of A Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era (1965) and include The Best and the Brightest (1969), The Powers That Be (1979), The Breaks of the Game (1981) and Summer of '49 (1989). Halberstam won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and died in a car crash in 2007 while researching a book. The last title, The Glory Game, appeared in 2009.

David Handler writes mysteries, and the catalogue holds 34 books from Kiddo (1986) to The Man Who Led a Dream Life (2026). Series include Stewart Hoag & Lulu, Berger and Mitry, Danny Levine and Benji Golden. Ghostwriters, film critics, policewomen and murder investigation are among the recorded subjects. Titles include The Man Who Died Laughing (1988), The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald (1990) and The Boy Who Never Grew Up (1992).

David Healey writes military and historical fiction alongside regional non-fiction. The Caje Cole World War II novels and the Pacific Sniper books sit beside the Sea Lord Chronicles, the Delmarva Renovators Mysteries and the Rehoboth Beach titles. Thirty-six books are catalogued from Sharpshooter (1999) to The Guns of Liberty (2026), and Typhoon Sniper is scheduled for 2027. The American Civil War, Chesapeake Bay history and military history run through the subject list.

David Heska Wanbli Weiden teaches political science at Metropolitan State University of Denver and writes crime and thriller fiction. Weiden is Lakota, and Lakota life, South Dakota and Native American history run through the work. Three books are catalogued: Spotted Tail (2019), Winter Counts (2020) and Wisdom Corner (2026). Winter Counts, the debut novel, took the Anthony, Lefty, ITW Thriller, Barry, Macavity and Spur awards.

David Hewson

52 books• 6 series

David Hewson is a British author of mystery novels, born in 1953. Nic Costa, a young detective and art lover, heads a series about police officers in Rome; Pieter Vos heads a second, and further series take in Venice and the Faroe Islands. Hewson's debut, Shanghai Thunder, appeared in 1986, and a second novel set in Spain during Holy Week won the W H Smith Fresh Talent prize for 1996. The catalogue holds 52 books through The Devil in Dorsoduro (2026), Spanish travel guides and desktop publishing manuals from around 1990 among them.

Legal thrillers are David Hosp's form, built around the recurring character Scott Finn. Lawyers, law firms, serial murders and detectives are the catalogued subjects. Hosp's 7 books run from Dark Harbor (2005) to Game of Death (2014), by way of The Betrayed (2006), Innocence (2007), Among Thieves (2009), Next of Kin (2011) and The Guardian (2012). No further title has been catalogued since 2014.

David Housewright writes mysteries set in Minnesota, led by Mac McKenzie and Holland Taylor. The catalogue records 38 books, beginning with Penance (1995) and Practice to Deceive (1997), and reaching Fear the Reaper (2026). Subjects list private investigators, ex-police officers, Saint Paul and kidnapping, with hard-boiled and police procedural tags. Standalone novels sit beside the two series.

David Icke

24 books

David Icke is an English conspiracy theorist and author, born in 1952, who worked earlier as a semi-professional footballer, sports journalist and BBC broadcaster. Icke has self-published since the mid-1990s, and 24 titles are catalogued here, from Robots Rebellion (1994) to The Road Map (2026). The Biggest Secret (1999), Tales from the Time Loop (2003) and The David Icke Guide to the Global Conspiracy (2007) sit among them. Conspiracies, social control, extraterrestrial influences and reinterpreted history are the recurring subjects, and Icke has spoken in more than 25 countries.

David Ignatius

13 books

David Ignatius writes espionage thrillers built on the Central Intelligence Agency and the Middle East. Agents of Innocence (1987) opens the catalogue, followed by Siro (1991), The Bank of Fear (1994), Body of Lies (2007), The Increment (2009), Bloodmoney (2011) and The Director (2014). Thirteen books run to Phantom Orbit in 2024, at 352 pages on median.

David J. Gatward writes action and crime thrillers, 46 of them catalogued since 2020. DCI Harry Grimm heads the main series, which opens with Grimm Up North (2020) and carries a parallel run of short stories and novellas; the DI Haig crime thrillers and the Padre books form two further series. Close to Home (2026) is the newest title, and Festival's End is scheduled for 2027.

David Jackson writes crime thrillers across two series. Callum Doyle is a New York police detective, introduced in Pariah (2011) and continuing through The Helper (2012), Marked (2013) and Cry Baby (2014). DS Nathan Cody works in England, starting with A Tapping at my Door (2016) and running through Hope to Die (2017), Don't Make a Sound (2018) and Your Deepest Fear (2019). Standalone suspense follows in The Resident (2020) and The Rule (2021). Thirteen books date from 2011 to 2024, at a median 336 pages.

David Joy

6 books

David Joy, born 1983, is an American fiction writer from North Carolina, and the Appalachian mountains of that state carry most of the work. Growing Gills (2011) opens the catalogue, with fly fishing and brook trout among its subjects, and the novels follow: Where All Light Tends to Go (2015), The Weight of this World (2017), The Line That Held Us (2018), When These Mountains Burn (2020) and Those We Thought We Knew (2023). Fathers and sons, drug dealers, criminals and coming of age recur. Joy studied at Western Carolina University under Ron Rash and writes for Garden & Gun, Time and The New York Times Magazine.

David Kazzie has 10 catalogued books published between 2011 and 2025, grouped into three series: Immune, American Midnight and Charlie Dallas. The Jackpot (2011) is the earliest title, with The Immune (2015), Anomaly (2018) and The Living (2019) after it, then Nightfall and Shadows in 2020 and Daybreak in 2021. The Rising (2025) is the newest, and the catalogue is open.

David L. Golemon writes paranormal action thrillers. The Event Group novels turn on a covert organisation, and the first of them, Event (2007), sends Major Jack Collins to investigate a UFO incident tied to Roswell. Famous names and episodes from history drive later plots, among them Jack the Ripper and Czar Nicholas II, and Legend (2007) was a New York Times best seller. Golemon has 13 catalogued books ending at Season of the Witch (2019), and they run long, at a median of 506 pages.

David L. Robbins is an American author of historical fiction, a co-founder of the James River Writers and a teacher at the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. The Second World War supplies most of the fiction: War of the Rats (1999), The End of War (2000), Last Citadel (2003), Liberation Road (2004) and Broken Jewel (2009). Sixteen books are catalogued between 1998 and 2023, taking in the USAF Pararescue, Mikhal Lammeck and Promised Wars series.

David Lagercrantz

15 books• 5 series

David Lagercrantz, born on 4 September 1962, is a Swedish journalist and bestselling writer and a columnist for the newspaper Expressen. I Am Zlatan (2014) and The Girl in the Spider's Web (2015) are the works Lagercrantz is known for, and the catalogue records Millennium among the associated series; Lagercrantz wrote the fourth through sixth Millennium installments. The catalogue lists 15 books from Ultimate High (1997) to Post Mortem (2026), including Fall of Man in Wilmslow (2009). Rekke & Vargas is the Lagercrantz series on record. Subjects include hackers, journalists, Stockholm, inventors and soccer players.

David Leadbeater writes action and adventure thrillers. Matt Drake is a recurring character in the catalogue, and Joe Mason, Alicia Myles, Torsten Dahl and the Chosen Few give their names to further series. The listing holds 74 books from Chosen (2011) to Knife Edge (2026), among them The Bones of Odin (2011), Walking with Ghosts (2012) and The Tomb of the Gods (2013). Action and adventure is the one recorded subject heading.

David Lee Corley has 97 catalogued books published between 2017 and 2026. War, military action and world history are the subjects the catalogue records. Monsoon Rising (2017) opens the run and Sandy Down (2026) is the newest title. Corley's series include the Airmen, Black Mountain, Frank Kane, Iron Angels, Billy Gamble, River Hawks Thriller, Glades, Deep Recon, Frozen Edge, Black Water Salvage, Daniel Hyde and Samurai Wars sequences. Nearly all of the run falls inside the 2020s.

David Levithan

43 books• 7 series

David Levithan, born 7 September 1972, is an American young adult fiction author and editor. Levithan has written numerous works with strong gay male characters, notably Boy Meets Boy (2003) and Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List. Six Levithan books have won or been finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Series in the catalogue include Every Day and Dash & Lily, and the subjects on file include love, friendship, gay teenagers and high schools.

David Limbaugh

15 books• 1 series

David Limbaugh is a conservative American political commentator, a lawyer and the younger brother of Rush Limbaugh. Fifteen books are catalogued between 2001 and 2022, beginning with Absolute Power (2001) and taking in Persecution (2003), Crimes Against Liberty (2010) and The Great Destroyer (2012). A second strand is Christian: Jesus on Trial (2015), The Emmaus Code (2015) and Jesus Is Risen (2018). Political corruption, the Obama administration and biblical interpretation recur as subjects.

David Liss

29 books• 5 series

David Liss, born March 16, 1966 in New Jersey, is an American writer of novels, essays, short fiction and comic books. Liss grew up in South Florida and studied at Syracuse University, Georgia State University and Columbia University, then left postgraduate study of 18th-century British literature, dissertation unfinished, to write full-time. The 29 catalogued books start with A Conspiracy of Paper (2000) and include The Coffee Trader (2003) and The Whiskey Rebels (2008). Series are Benjamin Weaver and Randoms. Liss lives in San Antonio, Texas, and The Death and Birth of Iliana Marek (2026) is the newest title.

David Lodge (28 January 1935 – 1 January 2025) was an English novelist and literary critic who taught literature at the University of Birmingham until 1987. Several Lodge novels satirise academic life, above all the Campus Trilogy of Changing Places (1975), Small World (1984) and Nice Work (1988); the last two reached the Booker Prize shortlist. Roman Catholicism is another recurring theme, present from the debut novel The Picturegoers (1960). Lodge also wrote television screenplays and three stage plays, and went on publishing criticism after retiring. The catalogue lists 40 books from 1960 to 2021.

David Lynn Golemon writes paranormal thrillers, the Event Group Thrillers foremost among them. Event (2006) opens that series, drafting Major Jack Collins into the covert Event Group to look into a UFO incident tied to Roswell. Later books draw on figures and episodes from history, Jack the Ripper and Czar Nicholas II among them, and Legend (2007) was a New York Times best seller. The catalogue holds 17 books ending with Season of the Witch (2019), and the run is marked likely complete.

David Mark writes crime fiction and police procedurals set in England. DS Aector McAvoy is the recurring detective, and Sal Delaney and Cordelia Hemlock head the other two series. Thirty-five books run from The Dark Winter (2012) to The Buried Saint (2026), with The Zealot's Bones (2017) published under the name D.M. Mark. Murder, revenge, serial murderers and police investigation recur as subjects, across books of a median 312 pages.

Damascus Station (2021) began David McCloskey's espionage fiction, which follows CIA operations. Five catalogued books run to London Station in 2026, by way of Moscow X (2023), The Seventh Floor (2024) and The Persian (2025). Assassination and intelligence work supply the plots, and the median book runs to 419 pages.

David McCullough wrote American history and biography. The Johnstown Flood (1968) opens the catalogue; The Great Bridge (1972) takes on the Brooklyn Bridge; The Path Between the Seas (1977) and Mornings on Horseback (1981) follow. Truman (1992) and John Adams (2001) are the presidential biographies. Fifteen titles are catalogued, running to History Matters in 2025.

David Mitchell

10 books• 1 series

David Mitchell, born 12 January 1969, is an English novelist and screenwriter with nine novels. Two of them, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), reached the Booker Prize shortlist. Mitchell has written for newspapers including The Guardian and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2013. With Keiko Yoshida, Mitchell translated a Japanese children's book about autism and its sequel into English. Catalogued novels include Ghostwritten (1999), Black Swan Green (2006), The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010), The Bone Clocks (2014), Slade House (2015) and Utopia Avenue (2020).

David Moody is an English horror writer born 19 November 1970. Autumn, released free online in 2001, first brought Moody to public attention, and a film version starring David Carradine and Dexter Fletcher came out in 2009. Universal Pictures took film rights to the Hater trilogy in 2008, with Guillermo del Toro and Mark Johnson attached as producers. The catalogue holds 29 books from Straight to You (1996) to Kemberton (2026), with series including Autumn, Hater and Front, and subjects such as zombies, epidemics and survival.

David Morrell

56 books• 13 series

David Morrell, born April 24, 1943, is a Canadian-American author whose 1972 debut First Blood became the 1982 film and launched the Rambo franchise with Sylvester Stallone. Morrell has written 28 novels, translated into 30 languages, and the 2007 to 2008 Captain America miniseries The Chosen. The catalogue lists 56 books, including The Brotherhood of the Rose (1983) and non-fiction. Series include Cavanaugh, Frank Balenger and Thomas De Quincey. The newest title is Stars In My Eyes: My Love Affair With Books, Movies, And Music (2022).

David Nees writes action thrillers. The catalogue lists 17 books from Jason's Tale (2016) to Kidnap (2025), grouped into the Dan Stone Assassin series and After the Fall: Catherine's Tale. Catherine's Tale, Part 1 and Part 2 both appeared in 2017. American literature is the sole recorded subject heading, and Nees is credited alone on every title.

David Nicholls

7 books• 2 series

David Nicholls, born 30 November 1966, is a British novelist and screenwriter who began as an actor after college. As a screenwriter, Nicholls created the television series Rescue Me (2002) and adapted novels, plays and memoirs. The catalogue holds 7 books from 2003 to 2024, among them Starter for Ten (2003), The Understudy (2005), One Day (2009), Us (2014), Sweet Sorrow (2019) and You Are Here (2024). Subjects include actors, married people, fathers and sons, college students and the motion picture industry, with humour also tagged.

David P. Wagner writes the Rick Montoya Italian Mysteries, a series that puts an American in Italy on cases of murder and forged antiquities. Nine books run from Cold Tuscan Stone (2013) to Tuscan Bloodline (2025), with titles pointing to Tuscany, the Dolomites, Umbria, Mantova and Rome. The novels are short at around 212 pages, and Wagner is still adding to the series.

David Pearson writes police procedurals set in Ireland, organised by county: Maureen Lyons / Galway Homicide, Dublin Homicides, Mayo Murders and Wexford Homicides. Hays and Lyons are the recurring detectives. Twenty-six books are catalogued between 2018 and 2026, six of them in 2018 alone, Murder at the Old Cottage, Murder at the Pony Show, Murder in the Air, Murder on Pay Day, Murder on the Old Bog Road and Murder on the West Coast. The books run short, at a median of 210 pages, and The Whiskey Bar Mystery (2026) is the newest.

David Penny writes historical mysteries and crime thrillers. Thomas Berrington carries two series, one historical and one set in the Tudor period, while Unit-Thirteen and the DC Izzy Wilde crime thrillers run separately. Sixteen books are catalogued, published between 2014 and 2024, from The Red Hill (2014) to The Beasts of the City (2024). Intrigue and history are the catalogued subjects.

David Platt writes on Christian life and doctrinal theology. The catalogue holds 45 books published between 2010 and 2024, opening with Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream (2010) and reaching Exalting Jesus in Deuteronomy (2024). Bible commentary forms a large strand, with Exalting Jesus volumes on Matthew, Ephesians, Ezra-Nehemiah, the letters of John, and 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus. Christianity and culture, racism and marriage are among the other subjects, and Counter Culture Booklets is the one series listed beside the non-fiction.

David Poyer, born 1949, is an American author and a retired naval officer. Dan Lenson is a series, and subjects include the United States Navy, officers, sea stories, war and military thrillers and terrorists. Tiller Galloway, Hemlock County and Civil War at Sea are other series. The 51 catalogued books run from White Continent (1980) to Writing Your Memoir In The Age Of AI (2026). The Med (1988), Hatteras Blue (1989) and The Gulf (1990) are among the earlier titles.

David Ricciardi writes espionage thrillers. Four books are catalogued and grouped under the Jake Keller series: Warning Light (2014), Rogue Strike (2019), Black Flag (2020) and Shadow Target (2021). Iran, international relations, politics and Americans abroad are the recurring subjects. No new Ricciardi title has been catalogued since 2021.

David Roberts writes historical mysteries set in Great Britain in the 1930s, and the subject records name Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne as fictitious characters. Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne is the listed series. The catalogue carries 10 titles from Sweet Poison (2001) to Sweet Sorrow (2009), among them Bones of the Buried (2002), Dangerous Sea (2003), A Grave Man (2005) and No More Dying (2008). Murder, investigation and social life and customs are further subjects.

David Rollins writes thrillers and suspense. Vin Cooper is the recurring character, and Vin Cooper and Tom Wilkes are the two series listed. Subjects name the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations, government investigators, the intelligence service, Pakistan and airplane crash survival. Twelve books are catalogued, from Rogue Element (2003) through The Death Trust (2005), Hard Rain (2008), Ghost Watch (2010) and Field of Mars (2015) to Blood & Empire in 2026.

Andy Carpenter leads David Rosenfelt's longest series, a run of legal mysteries set in New Jersey in which dogs recur throughout. Rosenfelt's catalogue holds 49 titles, opening with Open and Shut (2002) and running to Bark Humbug (2026). The K Team and Doug Brock series and a set of standalone novels complete the list. Murder trials and investigation are the recurring subjects.

David S. Brody writes legal and conspiracy thrillers, with subject tags naming Boston, terrorism, swindlers, the Crusades and the Templars. The catalogue holds 25 books from Unlawful Deeds (1999) to Eyes That Hear (2026). Templars in America is the one series heading, and the listing runs through Blood of the Tribe (2003), The Wrong Abraham (2006), Cabal of the Westford Knight (2009), Thief on the Cross (2011), The Oath of Nimrod (2014), Echoes of Atlantis (2016) and The Cult of Venus (2017). David S. Brody is still publishing.

David Sedaris

22 books• 2 series

David Sedaris writes humorous essays and diaries, filed as American wit and non-fiction rather than as any kind of novel. The catalogue holds 22 books from 1992 to 2026, among them Barrel Fever (1994), Naked (1997), Holidays on Ice and Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000). The Diaries are a separate strand. Collections median 264 pages, and Sedaris publishes on, most recently with The Land and its People.

David Sodergren has 15 catalogued books, published from The Forgotten Island (2018) to The Suffering (2026). Night Shoot (2019), Dead Girl Blues (2020), Maggie's Grave (2020), Satan's Burnouts Must Die! (2021), The Navajo Nightmare (2021), The Haar (2022) and Rotten Tommy (2024) fall between them. Sodergren is actively publishing.

David Swinson writes crime fiction set in Washington D.C. Seven books are catalogued, opening with A Detailed Man (2011) and reaching From the Dust (2026). Frank Marr, an ex-police officer turned private investigator, heads the main series, which starts with The Second Girl (2016). Drug addiction, kidnapping and vigilante justice recur as subjects.

David Szalay

6 books

David Szalay is a British and Hungarian writer with six books to his name. All That Man Is (2016) and Turbulence (2019) are each built from intertwined short stories. All That Man Is was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2016 and took the Gordon Burn Prize the same year, and Flesh, the sixth novel, won the Booker Prize in 2025. The catalogue opens with London and the South-East in 2008 and takes in The Innocent (2009) and Spring (2011). Sales work, career change, London and Russia recur as subjects.

David Thorne, born in 1972, is an Australian humourist and satirist who built his audience online. Thorne came to notice in 2008 for an email exchange in which he offers a drawing of a seven-legged spider in payment of an overdue bill; the exchange spread by email and social networks to his site 27b/6, and those emails and essays became The Internet is a Playground. 16 catalogued books run from I'll Go Home Then, It's Warm and Has Chairs (2012) to Just Because It Happened To You Doesn't Make It Interesting (2024). Thorne's work has featured on the BBC, on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and on the Late Show with David Letterman.

David Walliams

56 books• 6 series

Born David Edward Williams on 20 August 1971, David Walliams is an English actor, comedian, writer and television personality. Walliams rose to fame with Matt Lucas on the BBC sketch shows Little Britain (2003–2006) and Come Fly with Me (2010–2011), judged Britain's Got Talent from 2012 to 2022, and wrote and starred in the sitcom Big School. Walliams's children's books have sold more than 50 million copies. The catalogue lists 56 titles from Inside Little Britain (2006) to The World’s Worst Superheroes (2025), including The Boy in the Dress (2008), Mr Stink (2009), Billionaire Boy (2010), Gangsta Granny (2011) and Awful Auntie (2014).

David Weber

90 books• 23 series

David Mark Weber, born October 24, 1952, is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy. The Honor Harrington books are his best-known work, and his first novel, written with Steve White, sold to Baen Books in 1989; Baen has remained his principal publisher. Weber's catalogue holds 90 titles from Insurrection (1990) to Challenges (2025), spanning the Honorverse, Safehold, War God, Dahak and Gordian Division series. Space warfare, women soldiers and imaginary wars and battles run through the recorded subjects.

Horror is David Wellington's field. The American writer, born 1971, is best known for a Zombie trilogy and also publishes science fiction under the name D. Nolan Clark. Monster Island (2004) opens the 27-book catalogue, with Monster Nation the same year and Monster Planet in 2006. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, knights and thieves appear in the subject records, along with the fictitious character Laura Caxton. Laura Caxton, Jim Chapel, Ancient Blades Trilogy, Red Space and Cheyenne Clark are the series credited to Wellington, whose most recent title is Erebus-13 (2026).

David Wong is the pen name of Jason Pargin, an American humour writer born in 1975 and executive editor of the comedy site Cracked.com. Two series carry the fiction: John Dies at the End, a horror comedy that began in 2007, and the Zoey Ashe books. Eight titles are catalogued through 2026, the later ones - among them If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (2022) and There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel of Giant Crabs (2026) - published as Jason Pargin. A film of John Dies at the End appeared in 2012.

Dane Maddock is the recurring lead of David Wood's adventure thrillers, and the Dane Maddock Universe heads the twelve series catalogued here. Wood has 81 books published between 2004 and 2025, opening with Dourado (2004) and reaching The Gray Ghost (2025) by way of The Silver Serpent (2007), Cibola (2009), Icefall (2011) and Buccaneer (2012). Bones Bonebrake Adventures, Brock Stone Adventures, Jade Ihara Adventure, Sam Aston Investigations and the Myrmidon Files sit alongside. Treasure troves, antiquities, horror and adventure carry the books.