Authors whose first name starts with F, page 2 of 3

Flynn Berry

4 books

Under the Harrow (2016) opens the catalogue of American writer Flynn Berry and remains the book she is most widely known for. Four titles follow: A Double Life (2018), Northern Spy (2021), Trust Her (2024), and A Good Man on a Dark Night, scheduled for 2027. Berry writes psychological thrillers and suspense. Recurring subjects include sisters, murder and crime, with London and Northern Ireland among the settings.

Fonda Lee

14 books• 4 series

The Green Bone Saga is the work most associated with Fonda Lee, a Canadian-American author of speculative fiction born March 10, 1979. Jade City, the first Green Bone Saga book, won the 2018 World Fantasy Award, and Time magazine placed Jade City among its 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. NPR included the saga in its 50 favourite science fiction and fantasy books of the past decade. The catalogue lists 14 books from Zeroboxer (2015) to Mark of the Warrior (2026), with Exo and Breathmarked as other series.

Ford Madox Ford

70 books• 2 series

Ford Madox Ford, born Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer in 1873, was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor who died in 1939. Two journals under Ford's editorship, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, shaped early twentieth-century English and American writing. The Good Soldier (1915) is the novel most often named, alongside the Parade's End tetralogy of 1924 to 1928 and The Fifth Queen trilogy of 1906 to 1908. The listing holds 70 titles from The Brown Owl (1891) to a Collected Poems dated 2023.

Forthright is the writer behind the Amaranthine Saga and Songs of the Amaranthine, with 21 books published between 2018 and 2026. Several titles follow a name-and-situation pattern, such as Kimiko and the Accidental Proposal and Tsumiko and the Enslaved Fox. Others use short phrases: Marked by Stars, Followed by Thunder, Hemmed in Silver. Forthright also writes Amaranthine Interludes and Immortal Holmes. Else-Moored (2026) is the latest title.

Foz Meadows

8 books• 4 series

Foz Meadows is an Australian fantasy novelist who also works as a poet and blogger. Nine books are catalogued under the name, opening with Solace and Grief (2010) and The Key to Starveldt (2011). Three series stand here: Rare, Manifold Worlds and Tithenai Chronicles. Coral Bones (2016), An Accident of Stars (2016), A Tyranny of Queens (2017), A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (2022), All The Hidden Paths (2023) and Finding Echoes (2024) follow, with Godburned dated 2027. Volumes run to a median of 528 pages.

Fran Manushkin, born November 2, 1942, is an American children's author who worked first as a children's book editor. Manushkin studied at the University of Illinois and Roosevelt University. Come Let Us Be Joyful: The Story of Hava Nagila received a Notable Children's Book citation from the Association of Jewish Libraries in 2000. The catalogue lists 64 early-reader books from 2009 to 2021, with Katie Woo named in the subjects; titles include No More Teasing (2009), Boo, Katie Woo! (2010) and Pedro is Rich (2021).

Fran Rizer writes mystery fiction, and the series on the site is A Callie Parrish Mystery. Callie Parrish is recorded as a fictitious character, and subject headings include beauty operators, funeral homes and homicide. The 11 books date from A Tisket, A Tasket, A Fancy Stolen Casket (2007) to A Skull Full of Posies (2017). Casket Case (2008), A Corpse Under the Christmas Tree (2013), Kudzu River (2014) and Southern Swamps and Ruins (2016) are among them. The catalogue marks the list as likely complete.

Fran Stewart writes the Biscuit McKee Mystery and ScotShop Mystery series, with 17 books catalogued between 2003 and 2018. Orange as Marmalade (2003) is the first title, and other titles include Yellow as Legal Pads (2004), Green As a Garden Hose (2005) and Violet as an Amethyst (2014). A Wee Murder in My Shop appeared in 2015. Stewart also has a non-fiction line. White as Ice (2018) is the latest book.

Fran Striker (1903-1962) was an American radio and comics writer who created the Lone Ranger, the Green Hornet and Sgt. Preston of the Yukon. The Lone Ranger dominates this catalogue of 37 titles, from The Lone Ranger (1936) through the Mystery Ranch, Thunder Mountain, Texas Renegades and Haunted Gulch adventures of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Tom Quest Adventure is the second series. Editions in the catalogue carry dates as late as 2020.

Fran Wilde

15 books• 3 series

Fran Wilde, born in 1972, is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy and a blogger. The debut novel Updraft (2015) earned a 2016 Nebula Award nomination and won both the 2016 Andre Norton Award and the Compton Crook Award. Riverland (2019), Wilde's first middle grade novel, took the 2019 Andre Norton Award, making Wilde the first two-time winner, and was an NPR Best Book and a Lodestar finalist. Short fiction by Wilde has run in Asimov's Science Fiction, Nature, Tor.com and Uncanny Magazine. Bone Universe, Gemworld and Canarvier Files are the listed series, and social class, disability and disruptive technology are recurring themes.

Motorcycle clubs give Franca Storm's series their names: Iron Kings MC, Black Thorns MC and Steel Titans MC, with Born to Sin as a fourth. Storm has 23 books dated 2015 to 2023. Reckless (2015) is the first, and three more titles end in -less: Soulless, Blameless and Heartless. Later books include Spartan, Wraith, Anarchy and Deviant, and Sins of the Father (2023) is the latest.

Kate Shackleton, a private investigator in England, leads Frances Brody's historical mystery series, which opens with Dying in the Wool (2009) and continues in A Medal for Murder (2010) and Murder in the Afternoon (2011). Brody's catalogue holds 20 books, from Somewhere Behind the Morning (2005) to Six Motives for Murder (2024), and takes in the Brackerley Prison Mysteries. The First World War recurs as a subject.

Colour is the organising device across Frances Crane's mysteries. Every Pat Abbott title carries one: The Turquoise Shop (1941), The Golden Box, The Yellow Violet, The Applegreen Cat, The Amethyst Spectacles, The Indigo Necklace, The Shocking Pink Hat. Crane (1890-1981) was an American mystery writer, and her first novel introduced the private investigator Pat Abbott alongside Jean, who later became his wife; the pair worked 26 cases. This catalogue holds 30 titles ending with Worse Than a Crime (1968), at a median of 159 pages.

Frances Evesham writes mysteries set in the English countryside and on its coast. The Exham on Sea Mysteries open with Murder At the Lighthouse (2015) and carry on through Murder on the Levels, Murder on the Tor and Murder at the Cathedral; the Ham-Hill Murder Mysteries begin with A Village Murder (2020). Sixteen catalogued books start at An Independent Woman (2014) and reach Murder at the Palace (2026).

The catalogue lists this author under two names, Frances Fyfield and Frances Hegarty, with 24 crime novels published from 1989 to 2020. The books are mysteries and psychological suspense set largely in London, with women lawyers and police among the subjects. Series characters include Helen West, Sarah Fortune and Geoffrey Bailey, and a third series follows Diana Porteous. A Question Of Guilt (1989) is the first title and Cold To The Touch (2020) the last.

Frances Hardinge

13 books• 2 series

Frances Hardinge, born 1973, is a British children's writer. Her debut, Fly by Night (2005), won the 2006 Branford Boase Award and was named among the School Library Journal Best Books, and her later novels and short stories have collected further shortlistings and awards. Thirteen books are catalogued through to Traitors' Nest (2026), among them A Face Like Glass (2012), Cuckoo Song (2014), The Lie Tree (2015) and Deeplight (2019). Recorded subjects include fantasy, witches, magic, guilds, and books and reading.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

44 books• 4 series

Frances Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 to 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright, born in Cheetham, Manchester. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911) are the three best-known Burnett children's novels. After the death of Burnett's father in 1853, the family emigrated to New Market, Tennessee, where Burnett began publishing magazine stories at 19 to support the household. The catalogue holds 44 books, starting with One Day at Arle (1872) and That Lass O'Lowrie's (1877). Series include A Lady of Quality, Emily Fox-Seton and Head of the House of Coombe.

Frances Mayes is an American writer, born in 1940, known above all for Under the Tuscan Sun, the 1996 memoir that held a place on the New York Times bestseller list for more than two years and became a film. The catalogue runs to 27 books, beginning with poetry in Peach and Glass (1977) and moving through travel writing about Italy to A Great Marriage (2024). Description and travel, Italian social life, women travellers and biography fill out the subjects.

Frances McNamara writes historical mysteries, and the Emily Cabot Mysteries and Lucy O'Donnell are the listed series. Catalogue subjects include murder investigation, graduate students, women scientists and Chinese Americans. Death at Hull House and Death at the Fair both date from 2009, followed by Death at Pullman (2011) and Death at Woods Hole (2012). Death in a Time of Spanish Flu (2022) is a later title, and Murder at St. Hilaire (2025) is the newest of 10 books.

Middle-grade fiction is the core of Frances O'Roark Dowell's work. The American writer debuted with Dovey Coe in 2000, a novel that won an Edgar and the William Allen White Children's Book Award and was translated into Chinese, French and German. Shooting the Moon (2008) earned a Christopher Award and a Boston Globe-Horn Book honor, and Where I'd Like to Be took a VOYA award. Dowell's series are Sam the Man, Phineas L. MacGuire and Secret Language of Girls. The catalogue holds 27 books up to A Friendship Album Christmas (2025).

Frances Parkinson Keyes

58 books• 1 series

Frances Parkinson Keyes wrote about her life as the wife of a U.S. senator, and set novels in New England, Louisiana and Europe. Letters From a Senator's Wife (1924) opens a catalogue of 58 titles. A convert to Roman Catholicism, Keyes gave the later books Catholic themes, and saints, biography and both world wars appear among the subjects. Keyes lived from 1885 to 1970, and the surname rhymes with eyes rather than keys.

Eight books stand under the name Francesca Capaldi, published between 2019 and 2024 and filed as English literature. Two series are catalogued: Wartime in the Valleys and Beach Hotel. Danger for Daisy (2019) comes first, then Heartbreak in the Valleys and War in the Valleys in 2020, Hope in the Valleys and Trouble in the Valleys in 2022, A New Start at the Beach Hotel and All Change at the Beach Hotel in 2023, and Dark Days at the Beach Hotel in 2024. New titles arrive at an average gap of eight months.

Francesca Penn writes romance and erotica. The catalogue records 28 books credited to Penn alone, running from Take It (2018) to Strictly, Oh...Sometimes (2026). Quick and Dirty, Cambridge Men, Sinclair, Holiday Boyfriends, Summer Boyfriend and Abbreviated are the series recorded. The average gap between titles is 0.3 years, and the 2020s hold the densest stretch of the run.

Francine Mathews writes mystery and spy fiction, and publishes historical mysteries under the name Stephanie Barron. Her 15 catalogued books divide between the Merry Folger novels, which set murder investigations on Nantucket, and a strand of espionage fiction that includes the Caroline Carmichael books. Death in the Off-Season (1994) opens the catalogue and Death on a Winter Stroll (2022) is the last title recorded. Mathews appears in the reference work Great Women Mystery Writers.

Francine Pascal (née Rubin, 1932–2024) was an American author whose name is tied to the Sweet Valley books for young adults. Sweet Valley High anchored that collection, was adapted for television, and branched into spin-offs such as The Unicorn Club and Sweet Valley University. The catalogue opens with Hangin' Out with Cici (1977) and also carries the Fearless series. Subjects include twins, sisters, high schools, friendship and dating. Most Sweet Valley books came out in the 1980s and 1990s, and several titles were re-released decades later.

Francine Rivers writes Christian historical fiction. Biblical history, frontier life and the bond between mothers and daughters run through 43 catalogued books, the earliest being Kathleen (1979). Mark of the Lion, A Lineage of Grace, Sons of Encouragement and Marta's Legacy are the main series, non-fiction and short stories fill out the list, and The Woman Between is scheduled for 2027.

Francis Clifford was the pen name of Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson (1917-1975), a British author of crime and thriller novels. The 23 catalogued books run from Honour the Shrine (1953) to Ten Minutes On A June Morning, And Other Stories (1982), a collection that appeared after the author's death. Titles include Time Is an Ambush (1962), The Green Fields of Eden (1963) and The Hunting Ground (1964). Catalogue subjects list Burma and the 1st Battalion Burma Rifles of the British Army.

Francis F.G. Cottam writes suspense, thrillers and horror. The catalogue holds 20 books dated between 2001 and 2019, opening with The Fire Fighter (2001) and closing with The Auguries (2019); part of the run is bylined F.G. Cottam. Recorded subjects include the Second World War, London, Scotland, fire fighters, single women and mothers and daughters, with fantasy also listed. Short work is grouped under F.G. Cottam Short Stories/Novellas. No new Cottam title has been catalogued since 2019.

Francis Henry King (4 March 1923 - 3 July 2011) was a British novelist and short-story writer. King spent 15 years with the British Council in postings across Europe and Japan. At the Sunday Telegraph, King served 25 years as a chief book reviewer and 10 years as theatre critic. The catalogue lists 44 books, beginning with To the Dark Tower (1946) and followed by An Air That Kills and Never Again (both 1948). The Dividing Stream (1951), The Man on the Rock (1957) and Cold Snap (2009) are also listed, and the 1970s are the busiest decade.

Francis Spufford is an English author and writing teacher, born in 1964, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 2007. Golden Hill (2016), his first novel, took the Costa Book Award for First Novel, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. Before it came nonfiction on technology, exploration and reading: I May Be Some Time (1996), The Child that Books Built (2002), Backroom Boys (2003), Red Plenty (2007) and Unapologetic (2012). Eleven titles are catalogued, running through Light Perpetual (2021) and Cahokia Jazz (2024) to Nonesuch in 2026.

Francis Vivian was the pen name of Arthur Ernest Ashley, born in 1906 at East Retford in Nottinghamshire. Ashley was the younger brother of the photographer Hallam Ashley, and spent ten years as a painter and decorator before turning to popular fiction in 1932. The catalogue holds 11 books from The Death of Mr. Lomas (1941) to Dead Opposite the Church: A Golden Age Mystery (1959), and lists the Inspector Knollis Mysteries as Vivian's series. Sable Messenger (1947), The Laughing Dog (1949) and The Sleeping Island (1951) are among the titles.

Francisco X. Stork

11 books• 1 series

Francisco X. Stork is a Mexican-American writer, born Francisco Xavier Arguelles in 1953. Stork is best known for the award-winning Marcelo in the Real World. Stork has written 11 novels, among them Disappeared, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book, and One Last Chance to Live, released in September 2024. The catalogue runs from The Way of the Jaguar (2000) and lists subjects including Mexican Americans, gangs, prisons, death row inmates, rehabilitation and friendship.

Franck Thilliez

27 books• 2 series

French crime novelist Franck Thilliez was born in Annecy on 15 October 1973 and spent ten years as a computer engineer before turning to fiction. Thilliez has 27 catalogued books from 2003 to 2025, starting with Train d'enfer pour Ange rouge. La Chambre des morts (2005) became a film in 2007. The Sharko & Hennebelle series and the Nightmare Brigade are his named series, and his subjects include murder investigation, bioterrorism and laboratories. Dust-Off Dreams (2025) is the latest listing.

Frank Beddor

13 books• 2 series

Frank Beddor, born July 31, 1958, is an American former world champion freestyle skier who has also worked as a film producer, actor and stuntman. Beddor's producing credits include There's Something About Mary and Wicked. As an author, Beddor wrote The Looking Glass Wars (2004), and the catalogue lists 13 books to 2017 across the Looking Glass Wars and Hatter M: The Looking Glass Wars series. Subjects include fantasy, dystopias and graphic novels.

Frank Cottrell Boyce

22 books• 3 series

Frank Cottrell-Boyce, born 23 September 1959, is a British screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor known for children's fiction and for collaborations with the film director Michael Winterbottom, and wrote the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Two major British children's book awards followed: the 2004 Carnegie Medal for Millions, which began as a film script, and the 2012 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for The Unforgotten Coat, a commission from a charity. Sequels to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, Ian Fleming's children's classic, make up the one series in the catalogue, which holds 22 books from Welcome to Sarajevo (1997) to The Wonder Brothers (2023).

Frank Paul De Felitta (1921-2016) was an author, film producer, director and pilot. Audrey Rose (1975) and The Entity (1978) are his best-known novels, and the Audrey Rose series is the one series recorded under his name, continuing with For Love of Audrey Rose (1982). Reincarnation, spiritualism, the supernatural and families run through the subjects. Eight books are catalogued, from Oktoberfest (1973) to A Swift Death to Critics (2000).

Frank Delaney

30 books• 3 series

Frank Delaney was an Irish novelist, journalist and broadcaster. His novel Ireland became a New York Times bestseller and named the series it belongs to, and Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea is one of his non-fiction books. The catalogue holds 30 titles, from James Joyce's Odyssey in 1981 to Undead in 2013, taking in The Celts (1986), A Walk In The Dark Ages (1988) and Legends of the Celts (1989). Irish history, literary landmarks and travel run through the work.

Frank E. Peretti (Frank Edward Peretti, born January 13, 1951) is a New York Times bestselling author of Christian fiction about the supernatural and spiritual warfare. The New York Times has credited Peretti with creating the Christian thriller genre, and This Present Darkness (1986) and Piercing the Darkness (1989) are the best-known novels. The catalogue lists 30 books from The Door in the Dragon's Throat (1985) to Hybrids (2015). Cooper Kids Adventures and Veritas Project are series. Peretti has held ministry credentials with the Assemblies of God and lives in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Frank G. Slaughter

67 books• 1 series

Frank G. Slaughter (1908-2001) was an American novelist and physician whose books sold more than 60 million copies. Slaughter drew on his medical practice and on his interest in history and the Bible, and his novels often introduced readers to new medical research and technology. He also published as C. V. Terry. The catalogue holds 67 titles, running from Sangaree through Battle Surgeon (1944) to Transplant (1986), and the 1950s were his peak decade.

Frank H. Jordan is the author of the Jo Modeen series. The catalogue lists 12 books from 2014 to 2022, from The Modeen Factor (2014) to Modeen Hunters' Moon (2022). The Modeen Transformation (2014), Modeen: Black Ops (2015), Modeen Rogue (2016), Modeen: Flashpoint (2020) and Modeen: Salvation (2021) are among them. No new Frank H. Jordan title has appeared since 2022.

Frank Herbert

90 books• 8 series

Frank Herbert (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction writer best known for Dune (1965) and the five sequels that followed it. Dune ranks among the best-selling science fiction novels ever published. Herbert also wrote short stories and worked as a newspaper journalist, photographer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer. The catalogue opens with Operation Syndrome (1954) and continues through The Dragon in the Sea (1956), Missing Link (1959), The Worlds of Frank Herbert (1961) and Dune World (1963). Pandora Sequence and ConSentiency Universe are further series, and metaphysics and the imaginary place Dune appear in the subjects.

Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert, and Kevin J Anderson is the combined credit on the Dune books, a science fiction saga about the imaginary planet Dune, feudal nobility and life on other worlds. Dune (1965) is the first of 22 books, followed by Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune. The Prelude to Dune trilogy (1999-2001) and Legends of Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (2002) extend the saga, and a graphic novel adaptation reached Book 2 in 2022.

Yakima Henry is the recurring character in the westerns published as Frank Leslie. Twenty-eight books are catalogued between 2007 and 2021, at a median of 288 pages, opening with The Lonely Breed and The Thunder Riders in 2007 and continuing through The Killing Breed, The Wild Breed and The Savage Breed. Colter Farrow and Bloody Arizona are the other named series. Outlaws, revenge, gunfights and frontier life supply the subjects, and Stripped and Branded (2021) is the last dated entry.

Frank Lloyd Wright

32 books

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American architect, designer, writer and educator who designed more than 1,000 structures across a 70-year career and taught hundreds of apprentices in the Taliesin Fellowship. Wright called his approach organic architecture, designing in harmony with people and landscape, and Fallingwater (1935) is its clearest demonstration. The catalogue under his name holds 32 titles, from Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright (1910) through The Disappearing City (1932), The Natural House (1954) and A Testament (1957), to Unpacking the Archive in 2017.

Frank McCourt

5 books• 1 series

Frank McCourt, born Francis McCourt in 1930 and died in 2009, was an Irish-American teacher and writer. His memoir Angela's Ashes won the Pulitzer Prize for its tragicomic account of a childhood of poverty and squalor. Five books carry McCourt's name, from Angela's Ashes (1996) through 'Tis, Angela and the Baby Jesus and Teacher Man to A Couple of Blaguards (2011). Irish-American family life, biography and New York run through the work.

Frank Roderus spent about ten years as a newspaper reporter before turning to full-time novel writing. Roderus has produced over 300 books under several pseudonyms, most of them westerns. The catalogue lists 59 books under the Roderus name from Journey to Utah (1977) to Ginger: Orphan Filly (2016), including The Keystone Kid (1978), The 33 Brand (1979) and The Rawhide War (1981). Subject tags include western stories, clergy, Kansas, kidnapping, horse racing and ranch life, and series include Heller Thriller, Harrison Wilke Trilogy and Billy Ray.

Frank Tallis is an English clinical psychologist who writes crime fiction. The catalogue opens on the professional side with Understanding Obsessions and Compulsions (1992) and further books on obsessive-compulsive disorder, then turns to the Liebermann Papers, historical mysteries built around the Viennese psychoanalyst Max Liebermann. The BBC adapted those novels as Vienna Blood, first broadcast in 2019. Under the name F.R. Tallis the same author publishes horror. 24 books run to Mortal Secrets (2024).

Surviving the Evacuation is Frank Tayell's main sequence, an outbreak-survival series continued in the Life Goes On and Here We Stand runs. Tayell also writes the Strike a Match books and Brawl of the Worlds, for 41 catalogued titles between 2013 and 2026. Zombies vs The Living Dead (2013) and London (2013) are the earliest entries, and The Best Revenge (2026) the most recent.

Frank Tuttle writes the Markhat Files and Paths of Shadow series, along with standalone novels, short stories, novellas and nonfiction. The 22 catalogued books run from Wistril Compleat (2001) to Three Mean Streets (2018). Dead Man's Rain (2008), The Cadaver Client (2009) and The Banshee's Walk (2010) appear in the middle years. Hold the Dark (2009) and Passing the Narrows (2010) are other titles. The catalogue appears complete.

Frank Viola, born 12 October 1964, is an American author, speaker and blogger on Christian subjects. Viola writes on Jesus studies and biblical narrative, with emphasis on the kingdom of God, the supremacy of Christ and care for the poor and oppressed. Viola's earlier books focused on organic and missional church life, drawing on New Testament principles such as face-to-face community and the priesthood of all believers. The 17 catalogued books run from The Untold Story of the New Testament Church (2005) to 48 Laws of Spiritual Power (2022), and include Pagan Christianity? (2008) and Jesus: A Theography (2012).

Westerns account for the whole of Frank Wheeler's catalogue: 83 books published between 2020 and 2026, divided between the Westward Western Saga and Frontier Western Justice series. Destined for Justice (2020) opens the run, alongside A Bullet For Justice, Battle at Dry Cross, Texas Trails and The Lone Star Rider in that same first year. Eastbound (2026) is the most recent title.

Frank Zafiro's books are catalogued under police, serial rape investigation, and thrillers and suspense. The 63 books run from The Bastard Mummy and Under a Raging Moon, both 2006, to The Split List (2026). Zafiro's series include River City Crime, River City Short Stories, Stefan Kopriva Mystery, Charlie-316, SpoCompton Crime, Bricks and Cam Job, Sandy Banks Thriller and Jack McCrae Mystery.

Frankie Diane Mallis writes fantasy and romance. Two series stand under the name: Drowned Empire and Faceless Queen Duet. Eight books run from Daughter of the Drowned Empire (2022) to The Faceless Queen (2026), taking in Guardian of the Drowned Empire (2022), Solstice of the Drowned Empire (2022), Lady of the Drowned Empire (2023), Son of the Drowned Empire (2023), Warrior of the Drowned Empire (2024) and Traitor of the Drowned Empire (2025). Mallis is credited on all eight and remains actively publishing.

Frankie Love writes stories about bad boys and mountain men. The catalogue lists titles such as Ace, Big Bad Wolf, Bucked, Charmed By The Mountain Prince and Claimed By The Mountain Man from 2016, and Found on the Prairie (2025) is the newest. Series include Mountain Men of Linesworth, Mountain Man's Babies, Six Men of Alaska, Dirty Kings of Vegas, Men of Evergreen Mountain and Las Vegas Bad Boys.

Franklin Horton writes post-apocalyptic fiction about survival after collapse. The Borrowed World (2015) starts the main series, and the Mad Mick books, Locker Nine, The Way of Dan, the Ty Stone thrillers and Defeated Creek follow. Thirty-nine catalogued titles reach Collateral Savage in 2026.

Franklin W. Dixon is the author name on the Hardy Boys books, and the catalogue lists 473 titles under the Dixon name from 1927 to 2023. The Tower Treasure, The House on the Cliff and The Secret of the Old Mill all date from 1927. Dixon series include Hardy Boys Casefiles, Hardy Boys Adventures, Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, Hardy Boys: Secret Files and Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Super Mystery, plus the Ted Scott Flying Stories. Undercover Bookworms (2023) is the newest title.

Franz Kafka

26 books

Franz Kafka's catalogue is built from short fiction: The Judgement (1912), Meditation, The Stoker, The Metamorphosis (1915), A Country Doctor, In the Penal Colony and A Hunger Artist. Twenty-six entries are listed, counting later translations, correspondence and collections such as The Lost Writings. The 1920s are the densest period, and volumes are short at a median of 191 pages.

Fred Hoyle was an English astronomer who wrote both popular science and science fiction. Hoyle worked out the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis in the B2FH paper alongside Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge and William Alfred Fowler, rejected the Big Bang in favour of a steady-state model, and argued for panspermia as the origin of life on Earth. The term Big Bang was Hoyle's own coinage, made on BBC Radio. The catalogue holds 41 titles from The Nature of the Universe (1950) to A Different Approach to Cosmology (2000), including the novels The Black Cloud (1959), A for Andromeda (1962) and Fifth Planet (1963). Hoyle lived from 1915 to 2001 and was founding director of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy at Cambridge.

Fred Hughes writes science fiction, and every one of the 9 books credited to Hughes carries the word Prince in its title. The catalogued run covers 2022 to 2024: Prince Commander (2022), The Prince Awakens (2022), Prince Liberator (2023), Prince Peacemaker (2023), Prince Renegade (2023), Prince War Leader (2023), Prince Conqueror (2024), Prince Dominator (2024) and Prince Imperator (2024). Four of the books are dated 2023. The two measured volumes have a median length of 406 pages, and Hughes remains actively publishing.

Fred Rogers

43 books• 3 series

Fred Rogers, full name Fred McFeely Rogers and known professionally as Mister Rogers, was an American television personality, Presbyterian minister and author who lived from March 20, 1928, to February 27, 2003. Rogers created, ran and hosted the preschool series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood from 1968 to 2001. Born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Rogers took a music degree from Rollins College in 1951, started in television at NBC in New York and moved back to Pittsburgh in 1953 to make children's programmes for WQED. Books include You Are Special (1981), Mister Rogers Talks with Parents (1985) and Going To The Doctor (1986), with subjects such as parenting, self-esteem and preparing children for medical care.