Authors whose first name starts with J, page 11 of 13

John Sandford is the professional name of John Roswell Camp, an American novelist born on February 23, 1944. Camp is a former journalist and a Pulitzer Prize recipient. The Sandford catalogue runs to 63 books, opening with Rules of Prey (1989) and reaching Revenge Prey (2026), with Ruthless Prey announced for 2027. Lucas Davenport and Minnesota appear among the subject headings, and the series list includes Virgil Flowers, Letty Davenport, Kidd & LuEllen, Singular Menace and the Prey Universe.

John Saul wrote horror and suspense. Thirty-six catalogued books run from Suffer the Children (1977) to House of Reckoning (2009), taking in Punish the Sinners (1978), Cry for the Strangers (1979) and Comes the Blind Fury (1980). The Blackstone Chronicles is the one linked series. Supernatural events and serial murder recur as subjects. No new Saul title has appeared since 2009.

John Scalzi

75 books• 17 series

John Scalzi, born May 10, 1969, is an American science fiction author and a former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The Old Man's War series is Scalzi's best known work, and three of its novels earned Hugo Award nominations. Scalzi has kept the blog Whatever since 1998, won the 2008 Hugo for Best Fan Writer largely on its strength, and used it for charity drives. Non-fiction subjects include finance, video games, film, astronomy, writing and politics, and Scalzi consulted on the series Stargate Universe. The catalogue holds 75 titles from Rough Guide to Money Online (2000) to Monsters of Ohio (2026), including Agent to the Stars (2004), Old Man's War (2005) and The Android's Dream (2006).

John Spearman's catalogue runs to 38 books published between 2017 and 2026, divided among eight series: FitzDuncan, Dexter Falk, Orion Spur, Halberd, Sandy Pike, Perseverance Andrews, Mercenary Navy and Burden. Titles such as Gallantry in Action (2017), In Harm's Way (2018) and Surrender Demand (2019) set the military register of the early run. Serethyn's Scepter (2026) is the newest entry, and Spearman continues to publish.

John Steinbeck

44 books• 1 series

John Steinbeck's catalogue holds 44 titles, from Cup of Gold (1929) through to Steinbeck in Vietnam in 2012. Social conditions and American life supply the subject matter, with travel writing and the Cannery Row grouping among the named sets. Early entries include The Pastures of Heaven (1932), The Red Pony (1933), Tortilla Flat (1935) and In Dubious Battle (1936). The catalogue is listed as complete.

John Stonehouse has 9 catalogued books, published between 2013 and 2026. The John Whicher series runs through most of them, from An American Outlaw (2013) through An American Kill (2015), An American Bullet (2018), An American King (2020) and An American Reckoning (2022). Wildburn (2016), South Country (2023) and Mountain Gods (2024) fill out the catalogue, and Wolves of the Evening (2026) is the newest title.

Fourteen catalogued books by John Straley run from The Woman Who Married a Bear (1992) to Big Breath In (2024). Cecil Younger, a private investigator, is the recurring character of the first series; Cold Storage forms a second. Straley is a poet as well as a writer of detective fiction, and lives in Sitka, Alaska. Crime, suspense and the Pacific Northwest recur as subjects.

John Stryker Meyer writes about covert operations in the Vietnam War. Three books are catalogued: Across the Fence: The Secret War In Vietnam (2003), On the Ground: The Secret War in Vietnam (2007) and SOG Chronicles: Volume 1 (2018), which opens the series of that name. Long gaps separate the three, and nothing has followed since 2018.

John Twelve Hawks is a pseudonym; the author's legal name and identity remain unknown. The Fourth Realm Trilogy, The Traveler (2005), The Dark River (2007) and The Golden City (2009), is the central work, a dystopian sequence about brothers and surveillance that has been translated into 25 languages and sold more than 1.5 million copies. Spark (2014) followed five years later, along with the non-fiction ebook Against Authority. Certainty appeared in 2026.

John Updike

83 books• 8 series

John Updike, born March 18, 1932, was an American novelist, short-story writer, poet and critic of art and literature who died on January 27, 2009. Updike won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice, one of only four writers to do so, and the output spans over twenty novels and more than twelve short-story collections, plus poetry, children's books and criticism of art and literature. The New Yorker printed hundreds of Updike stories, reviews and poems from 1954 on, and Updike wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. The catalogue lists 83 books from The Poorhouse Fair (1958) to Hoping for a Hoopoe (2020), including Rabbit, Run (1960) and The Centaur (1963). Series include Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, Henry Bech, Maples Stories and Eastwick.

John Varley

33 books• 6 series

John Varley (1947–2025) was an American science fiction writer. Hugo and Nebula awards went to the novellas The Persistence of Vision, PRESS ENTER and The Pusher. Thirty-two books are catalogued, from In the Bowl (1975) to Irontown Blues (2018), taking in Titan and Wizard, both 1979, and grouped into the Eight Worlds, Gaea Trilogy, Thunder and Lightning and Metal series. Space colonies, interplanetary voyages and space opera are the recurring subjects.

Dave Gurney, a detective working murder and serial-murder cases in New York State, is the figure at the centre of John Verdon's fiction. The American novelist's catalogue holds 9 books, opening with the thriller Think of a Number (2010), published by Crown, and reaching Ghost Barn (2026). Police investigation and suspense are the recurring subjects. Verdon's novels average around 420 pages and continue to appear.

John Walker is credited on 139 catalogued books published between 2012 and 2026. The Sincerest Form of Flattery (2012) is the earliest title listed and Critical Mass (2026) the most recent. Walker works in long sequences, among them Rise of Mankind, the Statford Chronicles, Far From Home, the Liberation War, Ether War, Legacy War and Descendants War runs, Alpha Colony, Too Old to Die, Graduation Day and Veterans Code. Most of the catalogue dates from the 2020s.

John Wyndham is the pen name used for the best-known work of John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (10 July 1903 to 11 March 1969), an English science fiction writer who also published as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. The Day of the Triffids (1951) and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) head the list of Wyndham's best-known books, and The Midwich Cuckoos reached the screen twice as Village of the Damned. Some Wyndham stories take place in post-apocalyptic landscapes. The catalogue lists 28 books from Foul Play Suspected (1935) to Logical Fantasy: The Many Worlds of John Wyndham (2024), including The Kraken Wakes (1953) and The Seeds of Time (1956).

Jojo Moyes

21 books• 5 series

Jojo Moyes writes contemporary fiction about women, families and the communities around them. Sheltering Rain (2002) is her earliest catalogued novel, and the Me Before You books and The Girl You Left Behind are the best known of her 21 titles. Mothers and daughters, single women and small-town life recur as subjects. Moyes published We All Live Here in 2025.

Jolie Day's catalogue runs to 27 books, published between 2015 and 2025. Max (2015) opens the listing and Quit Me If You Can (2025) closes it. Three series are recorded against the name: Rule Breakers, Oh Billionaires! and Next Door to a Billionaire. Day holds the sole credit on all 27 titles and is still publishing.

Series by Jolie Vines include Marry the Scot, Dark Island Scots, Wild Scots, Wild Mountain Scots, McRae Bodyguards, Body Count and Skeleton Crew. The catalogue records 37 books from 2019 to 2026. Hard Nox, Fight For Us, Storm the Castle, Love Most, Say Least and The Rival all date from 2019, Cocky Kilt from 2020, and Tyler's Rule (2026) is the newest.

Horror is Jon Athan's line. 76 books are catalogued between Grandma Mary (2014) and PainSpacela (2026), organised into Tales From Under The Bed, Enter The Vortex, Restless Nightmares, Snuff Network, Night of the Killer Clowns and Heartless Heart-Ripper. Multi-volume collections dominate the early years, with four Enter The Vortex volumes in 2015 alone. Athan adds titles every year and the catalogue stays open.

Jon Hassler (1933-2008) was an American novelist and teacher who wrote about small-town life in Minnesota. Staggerford, an imaginary Minnesota town, gives its name to his main series and to the 1977 novel that opens it; Rookery State College is a second sequence. Teachers, Catholics, friendship, town custom and Native American life run through 23 catalogued books dated 1977 to 2021, at a median 282 pages. Hassler held a Regents professorship emeritus and a writer-in-residence post at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Jon Katz

36 books• 1 series

Dogs and farm life fill the later part of Jon Katz's catalogue; crime fiction fills the earlier. Katz, born in 1947, is an American journalist and photographer who wrote for HotWired, Slashdot and Slate, and whose first books include the Suburban Detective novels and the character Kit Deleeuw. Writing on geek subculture followed, then a long sequence on the relationship between people and animals, closing with Gus's Year in 2020. Thirty-six titles in all.

Jon Krakauer

13 books• 1 series

Jon Krakauer writes non-fiction about mountaineering, wilderness and the people drawn to them. Eiger Dreams (1990) opens a list of 13 catalogued books that holds Into the Wild (1996), Into Thin Air (1997), Under the Banner of Heaven (2003), Where Men Win Glory (2008) and Missoula (2015). Nothing later than 2018 is catalogued.

Jon Land is an American thriller author whose Caitlin Strong novels follow a fifth-generation Texas Ranger. The Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea books pair a Palestinian detective with a chief inspector of the Israeli police. Land is an emeritus board member of International Thriller Writers and sits on its marketing committee, and was a screenwriter for the film Dirty Deeds. The catalogue lists 55 books from The Doomsday Spiral (1983) to Icefall: The Rise of the Nine (2026), with Blaine McCracken, Jared Kimberlain and National Parks Thriller among the other series.

Jon Meacham

17 books

American political history is Jon Meacham's subject, written mostly as presidential biography. Voices in Our Blood (2001) opens the catalogue, followed by Franklin and Winston, American Gospel, American Lion on Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power and Destiny and Power. Seventeen titles run through 2026 to American Struggle, several adapted for younger readers, at a median of 450 pages.

Jon Ronson

15 books

Jon Ronson is a British-American journalist and filmmaker who writes sceptical, informal investigations of fringe politics and science, appearing in his own stories as a faux-naïf narrator. Them: Adventures with Extremists (2001), The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) and The Psychopath Test (2011) are the best known of 15 catalogued titles, which reach The Castle (2026). Ronson has written for The Guardian, City Life and Time Out, and has made documentary films for the BBC and two documentary series for Channel 4.

Jon Talton writes mysteries set in Phoenix, Arizona, with David Mapstone as the recurring investigator. Talton has 15 catalogued books published between 2001 and 2023, opening with Concrete Desert (2001) and reaching The Nurse Murders (2023) by way of Camelback Falls (2003), Dry Heat (2004), Cactus Heart (2007) and The Night Detectives (2013). Three series are catalogued: the David Mapstone Mysteries, the Cincinnati Casebook and Phoenix Noir. Murder, private investigators, journalists, sheriffs and history teachers recur as subjects. No new title has appeared since 2023.

Jonas Jonasson

8 books• 1 series

Jonas Jonasson is a Swedish journalist and novelist, born in 1961. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2009) is his best-selling book and opens a catalogue of 8 titles that reaches The Distinctly Competent District Councillor (2026). The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (2018) continues that story. Swindlers, secret services, nuclear weapons, kings and revenge supply the plots, and Jonasson continues to publish.

Jonathan Auxier

8 books• 3 series

Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes (2011) is the first of 8 catalogued books by Jonathan Auxier, a Canadian-American young adult writer born on August 10, 1981. That novel, Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard and The War of the Maps form The Vanished Kingdom, and The Night Gardener (2014) and Sweep (2018) also appear on the list. Auxier has reached the New York Times bestseller list. The catalogue names two series, Peter Nimble Adventure and Fabled Stables, and records subjects such as orphans, magic, thieves, blindness and ghost stories. Belly of the Beast (2022) is the newest title.

Jonathan Brooks writes LitRPG, most of it built around dungeon cores. Dungeon Player (2017) opens a catalogue of 74 books that reaches The Affinity Collector 3 (2026), with a fourth Affinity Collector scheduled for 2027. Twelve series carry the run, among them Dungeon Crafting, Dungeon World, Dimensional Dungeon Cores, Station Cores, Hapless Dungeon Fairy and Glendaria Awakens. Brooks continues to publish.

Jonathan Cahn writes Christian non-fiction and suspense on biblical prophecy. The Harbinger (2012) opens a catalogue of 15 titles that includes The Mystery of the Shemitah, The Book of Mysteries, The Paradigm, The Oracle and The Return of the Gods, along with companion study guides and a prayer journal. Christianity, prophecy, the Jewish calendar and the sabbatical year are the recurring subjects, and The Altar of Pergamon is the most recent book.

Jonathan Coe

22 books• 3 series

Jonathan Coe, born 19 August 1961, is an English novelist whose fiction carries a steady political concern, frequently delivered through comic satire. What a Carve Up! (1994) borrows the plot of a 1960s spoof horror film with the same title and places it inside the carve-up of UK resources under Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s. The catalogue lists 22 books from The Accidental Woman (1987) to The Proof of My Innocence (2024), including The Rotters' Club (2001) and The Closed Circle (2004). Coe's series are Rotters' Club and Winshaw Legacy.

The Adam Lapid Mysteries are Jonathan Dunsky's one named series. Eighteen catalogued books run from 2016, the year that produced The Dead Sister, The Auschwitz Violinist and The Favor, through A Debt of Death and Family Ties (both 2017), to The Jewish Policeman (2026). Dunsky remains in active publication.

Jonathan Franzen

23 books• 2 series

Jonathan Franzen, born August 17, 1959, is an American novelist and essayist who has written for The New Yorker since 1994. The Corrections (2001) won the National Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist and made the International Dublin Literary Award shortlist. Freedom (2010) put Franzen on the cover of Time under the headline "Great American Novelist". Crossroads (2021) is the first novel of a projected trilogy. Earlier books include The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), How to Be Alone (2002) and The Discomfort Zone (2006).

Jonathan Haidt

10 books• 1 series

Ten books across 23 years make up Jonathan Haidt's catalogue, published between 2002 and 2025. Haidt is an American social psychologist who teaches at the New York University Stern School of Business, and the psychology of morality is his subject: the theory of moral foundations sets out innate modules, shaped by biological and cultural evolution, behind human moral reasoning. The Happiness Hypothesis (2006), The Righteous Mind (2012), The Coddling of the American Mind (2018) and The Anxious Generation (2024) are among the titles, and The Amazing Generation (2025) is the newest. Positive psychology, political psychology and ethics are the listed subjects.

Jonathan Kellerman, born August 9, 1949, is both an American novelist and a psychologist. Kellerman has won Edgar and Anthony awards, and the character most associated with the name is Alex Delaware, a child psychologist who consults for the Los Angeles Police Department. The catalogue holds 67 Kellerman titles, beginning with the non-fiction Helping the Fearful Child (1981) and When the Bough Breaks (1985), and running to Jigsaw (2026). Beyond Alex Delaware there are the Clay Edison, Petra Connor and Detective Jacob Lev series. Milo Sturgis appears in the subject tags alongside Delaware.

Jonathan Lethem

33 books• 5 series

Jonathan Lethem is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer, born 19 February 1964. Lethem's first novel, Gun, With Occasional Music (1994), combined science fiction with detective fiction. Motherless Brooklyn (1999) won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Fortress of Solitude (2003) became a New York Times Best Seller. Lethem received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2005 and has taught creative writing at Pomona College since 2011. The catalogue lists 33 books, running to A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories (2025).

Jonathan Maberry

146 books• 35 series

Jonathan Maberry, born May 18, 1958, is an American suspense author who also works as an anthology editor, comic book writer, magazine feature writer, playwright and writing teacher. Horror Novel Reviews named Maberry one of Today's Top Ten Horror Writers. The catalogue holds 147 books from The Black Road (2002) to Bewilderness (2026), with Avalon Station due in 2027. Listed series include Pine Deep, V-Wars, Rogue Team International, Rot & Ruin Graphic Novels and Kagen The Damned, and Joe Ledger and Benny Imura are among the tagged characters. Subjects include horror, zombies, vampires, terrorism and superhero comics.

Jonathan Moeller has 313 books in the catalogue, from Demonsouled (2005) to Cloak of Frost (2026), with epic and historical fantasy as the listed subjects. Series include Ghosts, Ghost Exile, Frostborn, Cloak Mage, Cloak Games, Silent Order, Sevenfold Sword, Shield War and Dragontiarna, plus collections of short stories and novellas. Ghost in the Blood, Ghost in the Flames, Soul of Serpents and Soul of Tyrants all date from 2011, and the 2010s were the busiest decade.

Subject records for Jonathan Santlofer cite serial murders, artists, police artists and women art historians, alongside suspense and mystery. The catalogue lists 10 books from The Death Artist (2002) to Ten Perfect Guests (2026). The Killing Art (2005), Anatomy of Fear (2007), The Last Mona Lisa (2021) and The Lost Van Gogh (2024) are among them. Kate McKinnon and Nate Rodriguez are the two listed series.

Jonathan Stroud

28 books• 4 series

Jonathan Stroud is a British fantasy writer, born 27 October 1970, known for the Bartimaeus young adult sequence and the Lockwood & Co. children's series. The Bartimaeus sequence received the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, and Stroud's books have appeared on ALA Notable lists. Netflix announced a Lockwood & Co. television series in 2020, and filming began in July 2021. The catalogue lists 28 Stroud books from The Lost Treasure of Captain Blood (1996) to The Legendary Scarlett and Browne (2025), with The Amulet of Samarkand dated 2003.

Jonathan Tropper

6 books

Families under strain are Jonathan Tropper's material: grief, death, fathers and sons, and adult children forced back together. Six novels make up the catalogue, from Plan B (2000) to One Last Thing Before I Go (2012), taking in The Book of Joe / Bush Falls (2003), Everything Changes (2005), How to Talk to a Widower (2007) and This is Where I Leave You (2008). Tropper, born in 1970, also writes for television, co-creating Banshee (2013-2016) and creating Warrior (2019-2023) and Your Friends & Neighbors (2025). Books median 352 pages.

Jonathan Yanez is catalogued under LitRPG, with 113 books filed under the name. The run starts in 2013 with Bad Land, The Beast Within and The Trials, reaches King Tide in 2026, and has Neon Barbarian scheduled for 2027. Series include Forsaken Mercenary, Legends Online, Gateway to the Galaxy, Galactic Guardians, War Wolves, Orion Colony, Vampire Project, Hunters for Hire and Jack Voss. Typical length is short, with a median of 270 pages across the 29 books measured.

Jordan Belfort

4 books• 1 series

Jordan Belfort is an American former stockbroker who pleaded guilty in 1999 to fraud tied to stock-market manipulation and a penny-stock boiler room, served 22 months in prison, and testified against former partners as an FBI informant. The memoir of that career, The Wolf of Wall Street (2007), became Martin Scorsese's 2013 film with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead. Four books are catalogued: the memoir, its sequel Catching the Wolf of Wall Street (2009), the selling manual Way of the Wolf (2017) and The Wolf of Investing (2023).

Jordan Harper is an American crime writer and an Edgar Award winner, born in Springfield, Missouri and based in Los Angeles, where Harper also writes and produces for television. The short story collection Love and Other Wounds (2015) opens a catalogue of five titles: She Rides Shotgun / A Lesson in Violence (2017), The Last King of California (2022), Everybody Knows (2023) and A Violent Masterpiece (2026) complete it. Criminals, ex-convicts, fathers and daughters, and parental kidnapping recur as subjects.

Jordan Silver is credited with 174 books between 2013 and 2024. Titles from 2013 include Catch Me If You Can, Beautiful Assassin, Gabriel's Promise and Lady Boss, and the newest is Ninth Circle (2024). Series in the listing include Lyon, Eden High 1 and 2, Anarchist Season One and Two, Spitfire, Desire and Sibling Rivalry. Silver's release status is ongoing.

Jordanna Max Brodsky writes fantasy drawn from myth. Four books are catalogued: The Immortals (2016), Winter of the Gods (2017) and Olympus Bound (2018) make up the Olympus Bound series, with Greek gods and goddesses in an urban setting, and The Wolf in the Whale (2019) turns to the Arctic regions. Books are long, at a median of 498 pages, and nothing has followed since 2019.

Norwegian police procedurals make up Jorn Lier Horst's catalogue, 32 books published between 2010 and 2025 and widely translated into English. The run opens with Dregs, also issued as Bunnfall (2010), and includes Closed for Winter (2011), The Hunting Dogs (2012) and The Caveman (2013). Series include William Wisting, Alexander Blix & Emma Ramm, and Clue. Recurring subjects are murder investigation, police work and judicial error. The most recent title is The Lake (2025).

Jory John is an American author of children's books, known for dark humour and for taking on difficult topics. Jory John titles have reached the New York Times bestseller list, with The Good Egg at number one and The Bad Seed at number two, and John has twice received an E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor. The catalogue lists 40 books from Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country (2009) to This Is Not a Christmas Book (2026). Series include Food Group, Bear & Duck and Animal Problems, and bears, ducks, friendship and kindness appear among the subjects.

Jose Saramago was a Portuguese writer who took the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, cited for parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony. His 38 catalogued books open with Terra do Pecado, also published as Land of Sin (1947), and take in poetry, travel writing and journalism alongside the novels: Manual Of Painting And Calligraphy (1977), Levantado do Chao, also Raised from the Ground (1980), Journey to Portugal (1983) and The Year Of The Death Of Ricardo Reis (1984). Blindness is the one recorded series. The work reads often as allegory, taking subversive angles on historic events, with Portugal, Lisbon and biblical history among the subjects. Saramago lived from 1922 to 2010.

Joseph Conrad

41 books

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, was a Polish-British novelist and story writer, regarded as one of the greatest writers in English. Conrad spoke English fluently only from his twenties, and always with a strong accent, yet became a prose stylist who carried a non-English sensibility into English literature. Many of the novels and stories use nautical settings and turn on crises of human individuality in a world Conrad saw as indifferent, inscrutable and amoral. Almayer's Folly (1895), Lord Jim (1900), Heart of Darkness (1902) and Typhoon (1902) sit among 41 catalogued titles.

Joseph Delaney

33 books• 6 series

Joseph Delaney was an English author of dark fantasy for children, and the Spook's books, listed also as the Last Apprentice or Wardstone Chronicles, are the work he is known for. The Spook's Apprentice (2004) began that series, which draws on the folklore, history and landscape of Lancashire and has sold more than 4.5 million copies across 30 countries. Delaney taught before publishing, and his earliest fiction appeared under the pen name J.K. Haderack, starting with Mercer's Whore (1997). 33 catalogued titles end with Wulf's War (2023). Delaney lived from 1945 to 2022.

Joseph Finder

19 books• 4 series

Thrillers are the core of Joseph Finder's catalogue. Finder is American, born October 6, 1958. Paranoia, Company Man, Killer Instinct and Power Play sit in the list next to the Nick Heller thriller series. Two novels reached the screen: High Crimes, with Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman in the cast, and Paranoia, filmed in 2013 with Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford. The site lists 19 books, from Red Carpet (1983) and The Moscow Club (1991) to The Oligarch's Daughter (2025). Boston, corporate culture and missing persons appear among the subjects.

Political thrillers make up most of Joseph Flynn's catalogue. The Jim McGill series begins with The President's Henchman (2009) and puts conspiracies and the American presidency at its centre; the John Tall Wolf novels, the Ron Ketchum Mysteries, the Take the Money Trilogy and the Zeke Edison books follow. Forty-two catalogued titles run from The Concrete Inquisition (1993) to The Reluctant Candidate (2025).

Joseph Hansen (1923-2004) was an American crime writer and poet. Dave Brandstetter, a private investigator, is Hansen's central character, in a series running from Fadeout (1970) and Death Claims (1973) through a long line of California cases. Gay men and gay life in Los Angeles are the subjects that set the work apart from the crime writing around it. Early titles appeared as James Colton and two as Rose Brock. Thirty-seven books are catalogued between 1964 and 2002, and the Joseph Hansen Awards carry his name.

Joseph Heller

9 books• 3 series

Joseph Heller (1923–1999) wrote novels, short stories, plays and screenplays. Catch-22 (1961), a satire on war and bureaucracy, is the work he is known for, and its title passed into English as a name for an absurd or self-cancelling choice. Heller was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1972 and 1975. His 9 catalogued titles run to Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (2000) and take in Something Happened (1974), Good as Gold (1979), God Knows (1984) and Closing Time (1994), catalogued in the same Catch-22 series.

Grady Service, a game warden in Michigan, carries Joseph Heywood's Woods Cop Mysteries, which begin with Ice Hunter (2001) and continue through Blue Wolf In Green Fire (2002), Chasing a Blond Moon (2003), Running Dark (2005) and Strike Dog (2007). Heywood's catalogue also holds the Lute Bapcat and Beau Valentine series, standalone novels such as The Berkut (1987) and The Snowfly (2000), and non-fiction touching trout fishing. Twenty-four books reach Out of Service in 2024.

Joseph Kanon writes espionage novels set in the years around the Second World War and the early Cold War. Los Alamos (1997) opens a catalogue of 11 titles that reaches Shanghai (2024), taking in The Good German (2001), Istanbul Passage (2012), Leaving Berlin (2014) and Defectors (2017). The atomic bomb, New Mexico and Americans abroad appear in the subject tags.

Joseph O'Connor's catalogue holds 21 titles published between 1991 and 2025, opening with Cowboys & Indians (1991) and True Believers (1991) and reaching The Ghosts of Rome (2025). The Secret World Of The Irish Male (1994) and Irish Male At Home And Abroad (1996) belong to the Irish Male sequence, and the Rome Escape Line Trilogy carries the later historical fiction. Desperadoes (1994), Red Roses And Petrol (1995), Sweet Liberty (1996), The Salesman (1998) and Inishowen (2000) fill the middle of the run. Irish authors and poets, humour, biography and historical settings run through the subjects. O'Connor is still publishing.

Joseph Wambaugh

21 books• 1 series

Los Angeles policing is Joseph Wambaugh's subject, written as police procedurals and as true-crime case studies. The New Centurions (1970) opens the catalogue, followed by The Blue Knight (1972), The Onion Field (1973), The Choirboys (1976) and The Black Marble (1977), with the Hollywood Station books later in the run. Twenty-one catalogued titles end at Harbor Nocturne in 2012.

Josephine Angelini

16 books• 3 series

Starcrossed, published in 2011, is the young adult series Josephine Angelini is known for; Greek mythology and Nantucket island sit among its subjects, and Dreamless in 2012 and Goddess in 2013 continued it. The American author, born in 1975, has 16 catalogued books reaching Endless in 2024, with the Worldwalker trilogy of Trial by Fire, Firewalker and Witch's Pyre, and the Chronicles of Lucitopia, alongside. Magic, the supernatural, and space and time recur throughout.

Josephine Cox (1938-2020), also published as Jo Cox, was an English novelist of family saga and romance. Her books were frequent bestsellers, and UK Public Lending Right figures often placed her among the three most borrowed authors in the country. Dysfunctional families, domestic life and English social custom run through the work. Sixty-four catalogued titles open with Her Father's Sins (1988), include the Emma Grady Trilogy, and reach The Winter Secret (2026).