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Ranchers, frontier life and women pioneers recur in the subjects of Joan Johnston's books, which cover historical, western and contemporary romance. Johnston, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, is an American romance author. The catalogue lists 68 Johnston books between A Loving Defiance (1985) and Winter Magic (2020), and the run is marked as likely complete. Series include Hawk's Way, Bitter Creek, Benedict Brothers, Captive Hearts, Sisters of the Lone Star and Frontier Brides.

Joan Medlicott is known for the Ladies Of Covington books, a series about retired women sharing a boarding house in North Carolina. The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love (2000) opens it, followed by The Gardens of Covington (2001), From the Heart of Covington (2002), The Spirit of Covington (2003), At Home in Covington (2004) and A Covington Christmas (2005). Seventeen catalogued titles in all run from Celibate Wives: Breaking the Silence (1992) to Reflections in a River (2011), with two Virgin Islands collections and a Caribbean novel in the early years. Female friendship and older women are the recurring subjects.

Joan Silber writes novels and short stories, and the catalogue holds 11 books from Household Words (1980) to Mercy (2025). In the City (1987), In My Other Life (2000), Lucky Us (2001), Ideas of Heaven (2005), The Size of the World (2008), As Long as It Takes (2009) and Fools (2013) fill the middle of the list. Improvement (2017) won the fiction prize of the National Book Critics Circle in 2017, and the PEN/Faulkner Award followed in 2018. Secrets of Happiness followed in 2021. Subject headings include American short stories, Jewish women, bohemianism, young women, coming of age and New York City. Silber is an American writer born in 1945.

Joan Wolf, born in 1951 in the Bronx, New York, is an American writer of romance novels. Wolf studied for a bachelor's degree at Mercy College on a full scholarship, then earned a Master's in English and Comparative Literature at Hunter College. Before beginning a writing career, Wolf taught at Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx. The catalogue lists 55 books from 1980 to 2023, beginning with A Kind of Honor and The Counterfeit Marriage (1980). Subjects include Regency and historical romance, contemporary romance, prehistoric peoples and France. Series are Dark Ages of Britain, Reindeer Hunters and Medieval Mysteries.

JoAnn Ross, an American writer, has published more than 100 novels since 1983 across romance, romantic suspense and women's fiction, and has also written as JoAnn Robbins and JoAnn Robb. She belongs to the Romance Writers of America's Honor Roll of best-selling authors and holds Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards in both category and contemporary single title. The catalogue lists 114 books from Winning Season (1983) to Just One Look (2022) and marks the run as dormant. Series include Shelter Bay, Honeymoon Harbor, Castlelough, High Risk, Lucky Penny, Callahan Brothers, Stewart Sisters and New Orleans Knights. Subjects include Navy SEALs, private investigators and first loves.

Joanna Barker writes romance, including the Bow Street and Cartwells series. The catalogue counts 12 books between The Truth about Miss Ashbourne (2018) and A Love Most Daring (2026). Beauty and the Baron (2019), Romancing Her Rival (2020), The Two Bells of Christmas (2022) and So True a Love (2024) are among the titles, and Joanna Barker continues to publish.

Joanna Bourne is an American writer of historical romance set in Europe during the Napoleonic wars. The Spymasters series follows a group of spies and has won a number of awards. The Spymaster's Lady and My Lord and Spymaster both appeared in 2008, and The Forbidden Rose (2010), The Black Hawk (2011), Rogue Spy (2014) and Beauty Like the Night (2017) complete six catalogued books. Library Journal placed Rogue Spy, which pairs a code-breaker with a British service agent, among the ten best romances of 2014.

Joanna Campbell Slan has 87 books in the catalogue, from Using Stories and Humor (1997) to Purple, Blame, Game (2026). Scrapbooking, photograph albums and rubber stamp printing appear among the subjects, alongside murder and mystery. Early titles include Scrapbook Storytelling (1999) and Storytelling with Rubber Stamps (2001), and Paper, Scissors, Death is dated 2008. Series include the Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-N-Craft Mysteries, Cara Mia Delgatto, Jane Eyre Chronicles, Friday Night Mystery Club, Southern Beauty Shop Mysteries and Tai Chi Cozy Mysteries.

Joanna Cannon is a British author and former psychiatrist. Six books carry her name, from The Trouble with Goats and Sheep in 2016 to An Unlikely Visitor in 2026. Missing persons, secrecy, childhood friendship, older women and nursing homes recur across the work, which takes in Three Things About Elsie (2018), Breaking and Mending (2019) and A Tidy Ending (2022).

JoAnna Carl's Chocoholic Mysteries put Lee McKinney Woodyard and the chocolate trade at the centre of murder investigations. Carl's catalogue holds 25 books, from Death Down Home (1990) to The Chocolate Raccoon Rigmarole (2021), with the Sam and Nicky Titus and Nell Matthews series alongside. Women detectives and cozy mystery are the standing subjects. No new Carl title has appeared since 2021.

Joanna Chambers writes MM romance, much of it historical. The Enlightenment trilogy, Provoked, Beguiled, Enlightened, sets gay men against the social classes of its period, and Winterbourne, Creative Types, Enemies with Benefits and the Capital Wolves Duet follow. Chambers started in 2013 and has 28 books listed through Liberated in 2026, at a median of 274 pages.

The Magic School Bus accounts for most of this catalogue, credited to Joanna Cole and various authors. The run holds 103 books published between 1988 and 2018, opening with The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks (1988) and continuing through Inside the Earth, Inside the Human Body and On the Ocean Floor. Ecology, animal habitats, rain forests and space exploration are the standing subjects. Books average 32 pages, pitched at grades 1 to 3, and the 2000s produced the most titles.

Joanna Davidson Politano writes Christian historical fiction set largely in Great Britain. Nine books are catalogued between 2017 and 2026, opening with Lady Jayne Disappears (2017) and running through A Rumored Fortune (2018), Finding Lady Enderly (2019), The Love Note (2020) and The Lost Melody (2022) to The Life She Forgot (2026). Families and fortune hunters recur as subjects, and House on the Edge of the Cliff is the one named series.

Joanna Gaines

11 books• 2 series

Joanna Gaines, born in 1978, is an American interior designer, television personality and author. Gaines co-hosted the HGTV renovation show Fixer Upper from 2013 with her husband Chip Gaines, and the two run the Magnolia brand, which takes in the Magnolia Journal, the Magnolia Network, Magnolia Realty and the Hearth & Hand collection for Target. 11 catalogued books span The Magnolia Story (2016) to The World Needs the Wonder You See (2025). Magnolia Table (2018) and its second and third volumes are the cookbooks; Homebody (2018), We Are the Gardeners (2019) and The Stories We Tell (2022) fill out the list.

Joanna Hickson writes historical fiction set in England and France. The Agincourt Bride (2013) opens the catalogue and the Catherine de Valois pair, completed by The Tudor Bride (2014). Red Rose, White Rose (2014), First of the Tudors (2016) and The Tudor Crown (2018) follow, then the Queens of the Tower books, The Lady of the Ravens (2020) and The Queen's Lady (2022). Eight titles are catalogued, the newest being The House of Seymour (2025).

Joanna Ho is a Chinese-American author whose writing takes up anti-racism and self-acceptance. Ho is best known for the 2021 picture book Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, a New York Times bestseller. Nine books are catalogued between 2021 and 2025, among them Playing at the Border: A Story of Yo-Yo Ma (2021), Eyes That Speak to the Stars (2022), The Silence That Binds Us (2022), One Day (2023), Say My Name (2023), Eyes That Weave the World's Wonders (2024), Becoming Boba (2025) and The Day the Books Disappeared (2025). Subjects record mothers and daughters, grandparents, sisters and self-confidence, filed under children's fiction.

Six books by Joanna Lowell are catalogued, published between 2016 and 2025. Dark Season (2016) opens the run, and The Duke Undone (2021), The Runaway Duchess (2022), Artfully Yours (2023), A Shore Thing (2024) and A Rare Find (2025) follow. Lowell publishes at roughly one book a year and remains active.

Joanna Mazurkiewicz has 77 catalogued books, published between 2012 and 2026. The listing opens with The Whispers of The Sprite (2012) and a run of 2013 titles including A Nightly Howl, Love with Fangs and Past the Witching Hour, and it reaches Crown of Ashes and Desire in 2026. Series include Love & Hate, the Adult Fairy Tales books and their spin-off, the Billionaire Matchmaking Club, Doomed Cases, the Draconia World, the Paranormal Personnel Saga, the Mage Chronicles and Baba Yaga's Legacy. All 77 books are credited to Mazurkiewicz alone.

Joanna Penn writes non-fiction about writing and self-publishing under her own name, and thrillers and dark fantasy as J.F. Penn. She is British, lives in Australia, and runs The Creative Penn, a site on writing, self-publishing, print-on-demand and book marketing. Her fiction includes the ARKANE thrillers, beginning with Pentecost (2011), the London Psychic books and the Mapwalkers series, and her non-fiction includes How to Market a Book (2013). The catalogue holds 51 titles from 2008 to 2026.

Joanna Schaffhausen writes crime thrillers and police procedurals with women investigators in front: Ellery Hathaway heads one series and Detective Annalisa Vega the other. Ten catalogued books run from The Vanishing Season (2017) through All the Best Lies (2020), Gone for Good (2021) and Long Gone (2022) to Gone in the Night in 2025.

Joanna Shupe is a USA Today bestselling author of historical romance who lives in New Jersey. Since 2015 Shupe's books have appeared on yearly best-of lists from Publishers Weekly, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, Kobo and BookPage, and Holly Root of Root Literary is Shupe's agent. The catalogue lists 25 books from The Courtesan Duchess (2015) to The Gilded Rose (2026), across the Wicked Deceptions, Knickerbocker Club, Four Hundred, Fifth Avenue Rebels, Uptown Girls and Gilded Age series. New York, socialites and nobility are recurring subjects.

Joanna Toye has 11 books in the catalogue, published between 1997 and 2022. Several titles concern The Archers radio programme, among them The Archers 1951-1967: Family Ties (1998), The Archers Miscellany (2009) and The Archers: The Ambridge Chronicles (2013). Toye also writes the Marlow's Department Store series. A Store at War (2019), Christmas for the Shop Girls (2020) and The Victory Girls (2021) are later titles, and Wedding Bells for the Victory Girls (2022) is the newest.

Joanna Trollope

40 books• 3 series

Joanna Trollope (9 December 1943 to 11 December 2025) was an English writer who also published as Caroline Harvey. Parson Harding's Daughter, a Caroline Harvey novel, won the Romantic Novelists' Association's 1980 Romantic Novel of the Year Award. The catalogue lists 40 books from Eliza Stanhope (1978) to Mum & Dad (2020), including The Choir (1988). Subjects include history, romance, domestic fiction, family life, clergy and England. The Legacy Saga is Trollope's listed series.

Joanna Wayne is the pseudonym of Jo Ann Vest, an American author of contemporary romance. The catalogue lists 55 books from Deep in the Bayou (1994) to French Quarter Fatale (2023). Subjects include romantic suspense, western romance, murder, private investigators, women journalists, cowboys and Texas. Series include Big D Dads: The Daltons, Hidden Passions, Four Brothers of Colt's Run Cross, Sons of Troy Ledger, Kavanaughs, Randolph Family Ties and Special Ops Texas. Early titles include Behind The Mask (1995), Extreme Heat (1996) and The Stranger Next Door (2000).

Motorcycle club romance is what Joanna Wylde is known for, with the Reapers MC as the recurring setting and single mothers, widowers and ex-convicts among the figures. Wylde's 23 catalogued books span 2002 to 2019, from The Price of Pleasure (2002) to Eli's Triumph (2019), and take in the Saurellian Federation and Silver Valley series. The writing sits in erotic and contemporary romance with a suspense strand. Volumes median 326 pages, and nothing new has followed 2019.

Christian romance is the main subject area for Joanne Bischof, whose 14 catalogued books run from 2012 to 2024. Be Still My Soul (2012) is the first, and Writer on the Wall (2024) is the latest. Bischof writes the Cadence of Grace, Blackbird Mountain, Suddenly Sadie and Wild Air series. Other titles include The Lady and the Lionheart, Sons of Blackbird Mountain and Christmas at the Circus. Subject tags also cover marital conflict and life change events.

Joanne DeMaio writes women's fiction set in Connecticut, about middle age, self-discovery and the conduct of a life. The Seaside Saga and the Beach Cottage books are her series, and seasonal titles run through them: Blue Jeans and Coffee Beans (2013), Snowflakes and Coffee Cakes (2013), The Denim Blue Sea (2015) and Beach Blues (2016). Forty-one catalogued books span Whole Latte Life (2012) to The Novelists, and Driftline is scheduled for 2027.

Joanne Dobson, born March 27, 1942 in New York City, writes mystery novels and has an entry in Great Women Mystery Writers (2007). Karen Pelletier is the character named in the subject records, which also list women college teachers, English teachers, authorship, women novelists and crime. Karen Pelletier Mystery, Helluva War Mystery and Capitola Black are the three series on file. The catalogue holds 10 books from Quieter than Sleep (1997) to In the Attic (2016), and the median runs 288 pages.

Joanne Fluke is the pen name of Joanne Fischmann, an American writer born Joanne Gibson around 1943 in Swanville, Minnesota. Fluke is chiefly known for the Hannah Swensen cozy mysteries about a small-town baker, and six Hallmark Channel films draw on that series. The catalogue counts 64 books between 1980 and 2024, opening with The Stepchild (1980), The Other Child (1983) and Winter Chill (1984); the newest entry is Pumpkin Chiffon Pie Murder (2024). Other pen names include Jo Gibson, Chris Hunter and Kathryn Kirkwood.

Joanne M Harris moves between fiction set in France, psychological thrillers and fantasy. Chocolat (1999) started the series that carries her name furthest, and Blackberry Wine (1999), Five Quarters of the Orange (2001) and Coastliners (2002) followed in the French vein, with cookbooks such as My French Kitchen (2002) beside them. The Loki and Runemarks books are her fantasy, and the Malbry novels take English settings. Harris's 34 catalogued books open with The Evil Seed (1992) and reach Vianne (2025).

Joanne Pence writes culinary mysteries. The amateur sleuth is Angie Amalfi, an underemployed food writer and gourmet chef in San Francisco, and Amalfi's romance with homicide inspector Paavo Smith runs alongside the cases; the flavour is humorous, screwball adventure. Born Joanne Lopez in San Francisco, Pence attended the University of California, Berkeley and managed operations analysis at the Social Security administration from 1970 to 1998. The catalogue lists 58 titles, opening with Dangerous Journey (1987) and Something's Cooking (1993) and reaching Deadly Ever After in 2025. Series include Cook and Inspector Mysteries, Inspector Rebecca Mayfield Mystery, Angie & Friends Food & Spirits Mysteries and Donnelly Cabin Inn.

Joanne Rock writes contemporary and historical romance, with billionaires, knights and the Middle Ages among the subjects. The 98 catalogued books span 2002 to 2026, from Learning Curves, In Hot Pursuit and Wild and Willing in 2002 to The Last Book Club. Joanne Rock's series include Murphy Brothers, McNeill Magnates, Dynasties: Mesa Falls, Single in South Beach, Kingsland Ranch and Brooklyn Nights.

Jocelyn Green writes fiction and devotional books, and Christian romance and history appear in the subject tags. The catalogue records 18 books from Faith Deployed (2008) to The Manhattan Confessions (2026). Heroines Behind the Lines: Civil War, Windy City Saga and On Central Park are the series, and Wedded to War (2012), Widow of Gettysburg (2013) and Spy of Richmond (2015) are among the titles. Military spouses, nursing and the American Civil War appear in the subjects.

Jocelynn Drake writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance, with vampires, magic and tattoo artists among the catalogued subjects. The 109 books in the catalogue begin with Nightwalker (2008) and include the Dark Days, Asylum Tales, Exit Strategy, Lords of Discord, Unbreakable Bonds and Ward Security series. Cursed God of Luck (2026) is the latest published title, with Wanted: Necromancers and Assassins due in 2027.

Jocko Willink

13 books• 2 series

Extreme Ownership (2015) is the earliest of 13 catalogued books by Jocko Willink, an American author, podcaster and retired United States Navy SEAL officer born September 8, 1971. In the Iraq War, Willink commanded Task Unit Bruiser of SEAL Team 3 in the fighting at Ramadi, receiving the Silver Star and the Bronze Star Medal and reaching lieutenant commander. Willink also sits on the board of San Diego FC. Other titles include Discipline Equals Freedom (2017), The Dichotomy of Leadership (2018) and Leadership Strategy and Tactics (2020), and Way of the Warrior Kid (2018) and Marc's Mission (2018) also appear, with children's fiction and leadership among the subjects. Letters from Uncle Jake (2024) is the newest.

Jodi Burnett's catalogue lists 28 books published between 2018 and 2026. Letting Go (2018) is the first title, followed by A Flint River Christmas, Danger In The Hills and Run For The Hills in 2019. Four series are named: Tin Star K9, US Marshal Dirk Sterling, FBI-K9 and Flint River. Survival (2026) is the most recent title.

Jodi Ellen Malpas writes erotic contemporary romance. This Man (2012) opens the series that made her name, continued in Beneath this Man and This Man Confessed (2013) and retold later from Jesse's side. Unlawful Men, Arlington Hall, Belmore Square and two duologies follow. Thirty-four books are catalogued through The Unraveling in 2026, at 418 pages on median.

Jodi Lynn Anderson is an American writer for children. The catalogue holds 17 Anderson books, beginning with Peaches (2005) and ending with The Palace of Dreams (2023). Anderson's series are Peaches, May Bird and Thirteen Witches. The Secrets of Peaches (2007), Tiger Lily (2012) and The Moment Collector (2014) are among the titles. Listed subjects include fantasy, friendship, farm life, ghost stories and teenage girls.

Jodi McAlister is an Australian author and academic. The work divides between contemporary romance, young adult fiction and academic writing on romance and literature. Readers looking for Jodi McAlister books in order start with Valentine (2017) and reach A Study in Sparkling (2026). Marry Me, Juliet and Literary Lovers are the series in the listing, and McAlister is the sole credit on all 9 books. New titles have arrived at an average of one a year.

Jodi Meadows writes fantasy fiction for children and young readers. The catalogue lists 23 books published between 2012 and 2025, opening with Incarnate (2012) and reaching Confessions From the Group Chat (2025). Newsoul/Incarnate, Lady Janies, Fallen Isles, Orphan Queen and the Nightrender Duology are the recorded series, along with a set of Orphan Queen prequel short stories and novellas. Magic, dragons, princesses, orphans, identity and mental illness run through the subject headings.

Jodi Picoult

42 books• 7 series

Jodi Picoult is an American writer, born in 1966, whose fiction is described as family saga, often built around moral dilemmas or procedural dramas that set family members against one another. As of 2026 Picoult had published 30 novels and several short stories, and had written several issues of Wonder Woman. Around 40 million copies of Picoult's books are in print in 34 languages, and the New England Bookseller Award for fiction came in 2003. The catalogue holds 42 books, opening with Songs of the Humpback Whale (1992) and including Harvesting the Heart, The Pact, Plain Truth and Salem Falls, alongside plays and graphic novels.

Time travel and historians are Jodi Taylor's stock in trade. The Chronicles of St Mary's opens with Just One Damned Thing After Another (2013); the Time Police, Elizabeth Cage, Smallhope & Pennyroyal and Frogmorton Farm series follow, with humour, history, fantasy and horror across the subjects. Taylor's catalogue reaches 65 books, Twelfth Night is the most recent, and Short on Time is scheduled for 2027.

Jodi Thomas is the pen name of Jodi Koumalats, an American author of historical romance born in Amarillo, Texas. Most of the novels are set in Texas, and Romance Writers of America inducted Thomas into its Hall of Fame in 2006. The catalogue records 70 books, from Beneath The Texas Sky (1988) to Silverleaf Rapids (2025). Ransom Canyon, Whispering Mountain, Texas Brothers, Wife Lottery, Honey Creek, McQuillen and Someday Valley are among the Thomas series. Ranch life, women pioneers and western romance appear in the subject tags.

Jodi Vaughn writes romance, mystery and action and adventure, and has 44 books in the catalogue. Veiled Secrets (2013) comes first, and werewolf titles such as Her Werewolf Bodyguard (2014) and Her Werewolf Protector (2015) follow. Vaughn's series include Rise of the Arkansas Werewolves/Werewolf Guardian, Harland Creek, Harland Creek Mystery Quilters, Somewhere, Texas, Vampire Housewife, Laurel Cove, Cloverton and Tiny Homes and Happy Tails. The Mystery of the Scottish Thistle Quilt (2026) is the newest title.

Jodie Bailey writes Christian romantic suspense, and the subject tags include the United States Army, soldiers, officers and drug trafficking. The catalogue lists 33 books from Freefall (2012) to Dangerous Mountain Search (2026). Crossfire (2014), Smokescreen (2015), Breach of Trust (2016) and Dead Run (2017) fall in between. Trinity Investigative Team and Dellinger Racing are the named Bailey series, and Jodie Bailey continues to publish.

Jody Hedlund writes Christian historical romance, and the recorded subjects also take in religious fiction, knights and knighthood, orphans, young women and man-woman relationships. The catalogue lists 75 books, from The Preacher's Bride (2010) to Horseshoes and Honeymoons (2026), with the 2020s the heaviest decade. Series credited to Hedlund include Beacons of Hope, Bride Ships, Colorado Cowboys, Knights of Brethren, Lost Princesses, Waters of Time and High Country Ranch. Hedlund remains actively publishing.

Jody Holford writes contemporary romance and cozy mystery in roughly equal measure. Angel's Lake, Kendrick Place, Mending Hearts, For the Love of the Game and Isn't It Sweet carry the romance; Britton Bay Cozy Mystery and Wannabe Sleuth carry the crime, starting with Deadly News (2018). Christmas recurs as a hook, in Forever Christmas (2014) and Some Kind of Christmas. 32 books span 2014 to All the Other Me in 2024.

Jody Lynn Nye

37 books• 16 series

Jody Lynn Nye, born 1957, is an American science fiction writer credited as author or co-author of roughly forty novels and more than a hundred short stories. Nye's specialism is action-driven science fiction and fantasy with a humorous register: contemporary fantasy such as Mythology 101 at one end, military science fiction such as Strong Arm Tactics at the other. About a third of the novels are collaborations. The catalogue holds 37 books from Dragonharper (1987) to 1635: The Weaver's Code (2024), with Mythology, Taylor's Ark, Tildi Summerbee, Bright Sparks and Wolfe Pack among the recorded series.

Joe Abercrombie

20 books• 6 series

Joe Abercrombie, born 31 December 1974, is an English writer of epic fantasy who has also worked as a film editor. The First Law and Age of Madness trilogies share one setting with other Abercrombie novels, and Abercrombie has also written a young adult trilogy. Half a King took the 2015 Locus Award for best young adult book. The catalogue opens with The Blade Itself (2006), reaches The Devils (2025) and lists The Heretics for 2027. Series include First Law World, Age of Madness, Shattered Sea and Devils.

Joe Berger works in children's fiction and pictorial works. The catalogue holds 15 titles dated between 2008 and 2018, from Bridget Fidget (2008) to The Stinky Truth (2018), all credited to Berger. Three series appear under the Berger name: Bridget Fidget, Hubble Bubble and Lyttle Lies. Recorded subjects include witches, grandmothers, pets, ladybugs, girls, toys and teeth, with Pandora listed as a fictitious character. Other titles include Hubble Bubble, Granny Trouble (2011), The Glorious Granny Bake Off (2013) and The Pesky Pirate Prank (2014).

Joe Buff writes naval techno-thrillers, and Jeffrey Fuller is the recurring character across all six catalogued books. Deep Sound Channel (2000) opens the series and Seas of Crisis (2006) closes it, with Thunder in the Deep, Crush Depth, Tidal Rip, the bestseller of the run, and Straits of Power between them. Nuclear submarines, submarine warfare and Navy SEALs supply the material. Buff spent 20 years as an actuary before writing full time from 1997.

Joe Clifford

19 books• 1 series

Joe Clifford is an American author and editor working across genres, with mystery and crime fiction at the core. Clifford speaks openly about past addiction, and that history has shaped the writing. The catalogue lists 19 books from Choice Cuts (2012) and Junkie Love (2013) up to The Skeleton Theory (2026). Jay Porter is a recurring character, and the recorded subjects include New Hampshire, brothers, missing persons, drug addiction and private investigators. Clifford continues to publish.

Joe Dispenza writes non-fiction on the brain and on changing behaviour: neuropsychology, the mind and body, and New Thought. Evolve Your Brain (2007) opens the catalogue, followed by Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself (2012), You Are the Placebo (2014), Becoming Supernatural (2017) and Mind to Matter (2018), with guided meditations among the titles. Nine books are catalogued, the last dated 2020.

Joe Giorello writes military history for readers in grades 3 to 5. Great Battles for Boys is Giorello's catalogued series, and 12 books are listed from Bunker Hill to WWI (2014) to Epic Sea Battles (2025). Volumes cover WW2 Europe and WW2 Pacific (both 2014), The American Revolution and Civil War (2017), World War I (2017), Ancients to Middle Ages (2018) and The Korean War (2021). Recorded subjects are military art and science, and United States history.

Joe Gores

21 books• 1 series

Joe Gores (1931-2011) was an American mystery writer. The DKA File novels and stories follow Daniel Kearny Associates, a San Francisco firm that repossesses cars, and draw on the author's own work as a private eye and repo man. Hammett (1975) became a film in 1982, and Spade & Archer (2009) is a prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon. A Time of Predators (1969) and Come Morning (1986) are among the works tied to the Edgar Award. The catalogue holds 21 Gores books.

Joe Haldeman

48 books• 10 series

Joe Haldeman is an American science fiction writer whose 48 catalogued books begin with War Year (1972). The Forever War (1974) is his best known novel, drawn from his service as a combat soldier in Vietnam, and the Forever War name extends across later books, comics and graphic novel adaptations. The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997) took Hugo and Nebula awards alongside it. Worlds, Marsbound and Attar The Merman are his other series. Human-alien encounters, space colonies, hard science fiction and war supply the subject matter. Haldeman received the SFWA Grand Master award, entered the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012, and taught writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1983 to 2014.

Joe Hart writes thrillers and dystopian science fiction. Dystopias, epidemics and survival run through the subject headings alongside crime, hard-boiled detection and police procedure. Series include the Dominion Trilogy, Nora McTavish, Liam Dempsey and Clare Murdock. Thirty books are catalogued, published between 2011 and 2026, from Midnight Paths (2011) to Night Calls (2026).

Joe Hill

69 books• 17 series

Joe Hill is the pen name of Joseph Hillström King, an American writer born June 4, 1972. Hill's novels include Heart-Shaped Box (2007), Horns (2010), NOS4A2 (2013) and The Fireman (2016), with King Sorrow following in 2025. 20th Century Ghosts (2005) and Strange Weather (2017) are story collections. Hill also wrote the comic series Locke & Key (2008 to 2013). Awards include Bram Stoker Awards, British Fantasy Awards and an Eisner Award. The catalogue lists 69 Hill books from 2005 to 2025, and its subjects include horror, ghost stories, short stories and comics.

Joe Hilley, born Joseph H. Hilley on June 29, 1956, is a New York Times best-selling author from Birmingham, Alabama, who grew up in Grand Bay on the Gulf Coast. Hilley graduated from Asbury College, Asbury Theological Seminary and the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. The catalogue lists the Mike Connolly Mystery series, with subject headings on lawyers, murder trials and conspiracies. Sober Justice (2004), Double Take (2005), Electric Beach (2006) and The Deposition (2007) are among the titles, and Kipling Park (2023) is the newest.

Joe Ide is an American crime fiction writer of Japanese descent, born around 1958, with 7 books in the catalogue. IQ (2016) opens the list, followed by Righteous (2017), Wrecked (2018), Hi Five (2020), Smoke (2021), The Goodbye Coast (2022) and Fixit (2023). IQ is the series on record, and Philip Marlowe appears among the characters. Subjects include private investigators, Los Angeles, missing persons, brothers and African American mystery fiction. No new Ide title has appeared since 2023.