Authors whose first name starts with J, page 18 of 26

1,514 authors, each with their books in publication order. Authors are filed by the first letter of their name as written, in alphabetical order.

Authors 1,021–1,080 of 1,514

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Joe Kassabian

9 books 3 series

Joe Kassabian's catalogue holds 9 books published between 2021 and 2024. Three series are recorded against the name: Liberty of Death, Forlorn Hope and Undying Legion. A Call to War, The Prisoner's Dilemma and Victory or Death all carry a 2021 date, Coffin Troopers, Cold Steel and Frontier Corps follow in 2022, and Burning City, Dying Planet and Invisible War in 2024. The run stays open.

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Joe Kubert

36 books 12 series

Joe Kubert, born Joseph Kubert on September 18, 1926 and dead on August 12, 2012, was a Polish-born American comic book artist and art teacher, and the founder of The Kubert School. The DC Comics characters Sgt. Rock and Hawkman are the work Kubert is best known for, alongside the creations Tor, Son of Sinbad and the Viking Prince, and the comic strip Tales of the Green Beret, made with writer Robin Moore. Two sons, Andy and Adam Kubert, became comic book artists, as did students including Stephen R. Bissette, Amanda Conner and Rick Veitch. The catalogue holds 36 entries dated 1995 to 2016, among them Fax from Sarajevo (1996), Yossel (2003) and several Tor volumes; collections in the listing also credit Bill Finger, Gardner F. Fox, Sheldon Moldoff and Julius Schwartz.

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Joe Layden

60 books

Sports biography accounts for most of Joe Layden's writing. The catalogue opens in 1994 with Thin Ice: The Complete, Uncensored Story of Tonya Harding and 40 Minutes of Hell, and takes in Deion Sanders (1995), Steve Young (1995) and USA Basketball (1996). Basketball, the NBA, football, women athletes and the Olympic Games run through the subjects, much of it written for young readers. 60 titles span 1994 to 2026, reaching In My Darkest Hour (2026), at a median 214 pages.

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Joe McGee

10 books

Joe McGee writes for readers in grades 1 to 3, and friendship and monsters are the catalogue subjects. The 10 listed books run from 2019 to 2025, starting with The Monster Squad and Crash! Bang! Boo! (2019). It's Raining Bats and Frogs! and Monster of Disguise appeared in 2020, Curse of the Crummy Mummy! and Trash Heap of Terror in 2022, Chiller Thriller in 2023 and The Rottenest Reunion in 2024. The Incredible Shrinking Grump and Castle of Schemes and Dreams date from 2025, and McGee is still publishing.

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Joe McKinney

31 books 6 series

Joe McKinney (1968-2021) was a San Antonio author who also served as a Patrol Supervisor with the San Antonio Police Department. McKinney wrote horror, and the catalogue records zombies, epidemics, monsters and paranormal fiction among its subjects, with Texas and Houston as settings. The listing holds 31 books published between 2006 and 2022, from Dead City (2006) to Forlorn Hope (2022), and includes the Retreat series. Anthology volumes in the listing, among them Demonic Visions: 50 Horror Tales, carry other contributors including Nancy Kilpatrick, Paul Kane and Jeremy C. Shipp.

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Joe Nobody

47 books 4 series

Joe Nobody writes post-collapse survival fiction together with practical preparedness manuals. Holding Their Own (2011) starts the run, and non-fiction titles such as Holding Your Ground and Without Rule of Law sit beside the novels. Four series carry the byline: Holding Their Own, Apocalypse Trails, Olympus Device and Secession. The 47 catalogued books span 2011 to 2021, drawing on survival skills, terrorism, the end of the world and Texas settings, and close with Honor's Edge.

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Joe Pulizzi

8 books 1 series

Joe Pulizzi writes about marketing. Eight Pulizzi books are catalogued from 2009 to 2025, with subjects recording target marketing, internet marketing, social media, online social networks, electronic commerce, management and customer services. Get Content Get Customers (2009) is the earliest, followed by Content Marketing and Managing Content Marketing in 2011, Epic Content Marketing (2013), Content Inc. (2015), Killing Marketing (2017), The Will to Die (2020) and Burn the Playbook (2025). Rebecca Lieb is credited alongside Pulizzi on one title.

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Joe R. Lansdale

156 books 24 series

Joe R. Lansdale, born Joe Richard Lansdale on October 28, 1951, is an American writer and martial arts instructor who works across Western, horror, science fiction, mystery and suspense and has also written comic books and screenplays. Lansdale's honours include the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, the Edgar Award and eleven Bram Stoker Awards, and several novels have been adapted for film and television. The catalogue begins with Act of Love (1981) and includes Dead in the West (1986), The Magic Wagon (1986), The Nightrunners (1987), The Drive-In (1988) and Cold in July (1989); Petrified Dreams (2026) is the newest. Hap Collins and Leonard Pine head the Hap and Leonard series, and Texas features in the subjects.

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Joe Siple

6 books

Joe Siple has 6 books in the catalogue, from The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride (2018) to The First Wish of Mr. Murray McBride (2025). The Final Wish of Mr. Murray McBride appeared in 2021. The remaining titles are The Town with No Roads (2019), The Last Dogs (2020) and Charlie Fightmaster and the Search for Perfect Harmony (2021).

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Joe Vasicek

51 books 11 series

Joe Vasicek has 51 books catalogued between 2011 and 2025. Bringing Stella Home, Desert Stars and Genesis Earth all date from 2011, and the newest title is Fantasy from A to Z (2025). Series include Sons of the Starfarers, Gaia Nova, Sea Mage Cycle, Genesis Earth, Star Wanderers: Outworld, Twelfth Sword and Falconstar. Science Fiction from A to Z (2014) is also on the list.

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Joe Weber

9 books 3 series

Joe Weber writes technological and espionage thrillers. Subjects recorded across the catalogue include terrorism, war stories, the Vietnam War of 1961 to 1975, Cuba, Hawaii, presidents and assassination. Nine books run from DEFCON One (1989) to Ashes of Victory (2018), and three series carry the name: Steve Wickham, Scott Dalton & Jackie Sullivan, and Brad Austin. Eight books have a recorded length, at a median of 352 pages.

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Joe Wicks

17 books 1 series

Joe Wicks, born Joseph Trevor Wicks on 21 September 1985 and known as The Body Coach, is a British fitness coach, television presenter and author. The Wicks fitness method is built on High Intensity Interval Training workouts. Wicks began by sharing 15-second recipe videos online and built one of the most followed fitness accounts on Instagram and YouTube. Lean in 15 (2015) was a best-seller that sold more than 900,000 copies. The catalogue lists 17 books through Protein in 15 (2025), including Veggie Lean in 15 (2018) and the Burpee Bears series.

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Joel C. Rosenberg

26 books 6 series

Middle East politics, terrorism and end-of-the-world themes run through Joel C. Rosenberg's thrillers. The Last Jihad (2002) opens the first series, followed by the David Shirazi, J.B. Collins and Marcus Ryker sequences, with non-fiction such as Epicenter (2006) and Inside the Revolution (2009) alongside. Twenty-six books are catalogued through The Beijing Betrayal in 2025, at 432 pages on median.

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Joel Dicker

6 books 1 series

Joël Dicker is a Swiss novelist, and Marcus Goldman is the one named series in his catalogue. Six titles are listed: The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2012), The Baltimore Boys (2015), The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer (2018), The Enigma of Room 622 (2020), and The Alaska Sanders Affair and Wild Animal, both from 2024. Subject headings cover cold cases, murder investigation, police work and judicial error. Dicker's books are long, at a median of 642 pages.

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Joel Goldman

13 books 4 series

Joel Goldman writes thrillers and legal mysteries, with lawyers, murder investigation, serial murders and Kansas among the recorded subjects. The catalogue holds 13 books from Motion to Kill (2002) to All Gone (2018). Goldman's four series are Lou Mason Mystery, Jack Davis Mystery, Alex Stone Mystery and Ireland & Carter Thrillers, and Lou Mason is the listed character. The Last Witness (2003), Cold Truth (2004), The Dead Man (2009), No Way Out (2010) and Final Judgment (2012) are other titles. The list is marked likely complete.

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Joel Rosenberg

24 books 7 series

Joel Rosenberg (May 1, 1954 - June 2, 2011) was a Canadian American author of science fiction and fantasy, and the long-running Guardians of the Flame series is the work most associated with Rosenberg. Rosenberg was also active in the gun rights movement. The catalogue holds 24 books published from The Sleeping Dragon (1983) to Knight Moves (2006). Other series are Thousand Worlds, Keepers of the Hidden Ways, D'Shai, Sparky Hemingway and Morded's Heirs/Paladins. Subjects include magic, time travel and the imaginary land of D'Shai.

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Joel Shepherd

20 books 3 series

Joel Shepherd is an Australian science fiction author born in Adelaide in 1974. Shepherd studied film and television arts at Curtin University in Perth. The Crossover manuscript was shortlisted for the George Turner Prize in 1999, and Crossover (2001) became the first of his 20 books. Cassandra Kresnov is his recurring character, with androids and women soldiers among the subjects, and Shepherd also writes the Spiral Wars and A Trial of Blood and Steel series.

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Joelle Charbonneau

20 books 5 series

Joelle Charbonneau writes for young adults and in mystery. Twenty books are catalogued between Skating Around the Law (2010) and Disclose (2020). The Testing is the science fiction series, with The Testing (2013), The Testing Guide (2013) and Graduation Day (2014); Verify and Dividing Eden are the later ones. Rebecca Robbins leads a roller-rink mystery sequence in Skating Over the Line (2011), Skating on the Edge (2012) and Skating Under the Wire (2013), and the Glee Club Mysteries take on show choirs in Murder for Choir (2012), End Me a Tenor (2013) and A Chorus Line-Up (2014). Nothing new has appeared since 2020.

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Joey W. Hill

66 books 7 series

Joey W. Hill writes erotic romance and paranormal erotica. Sixty-six books are catalogued between 2000 and 2025, across the Nature Of Desire, Knights Of The Board Room, Mistresses Of The Board Room, Arcane Shot, Daughters Of Arianne and Cantrips series, with Vampire Queen a recurring name. Dominance and submission, bondage, vampires, mermaids and angels fill the subject index. Make Her Dreams Come True (2000) opens the catalogue, followed by Holding the Cards (2002), Choice of Masters (2003), Natural Law (2004), Board Resolution (2005) and Ice Queen (2006). Naughty Dreams (2025) is the newest title, at a median of 374 pages.

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Johanna Lindsey

57 books 12 series

Johanna Lindsey wrote historical romance across pirates, Vikings, the English aristocracy and the American west. Captive Bride (1977) opens a catalogue of 57 books, and the Malory-Anderson family novels are the best known strand, alongside the Reid family, the Viking Haardrad family, Sherring Cross and the Ly-San-Ter books. The run closed in 2019 with Temptation's Darling.

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Johanna Spyri

21 books

Heidi (1880) is the best-known book by Johanna Spyri (1827-1901), a Swiss writer of novels and children's stories. Spyri was born Johanna Heusser in Hirzel, a rural part of the canton of Zürich. Summers spent near Chur in Graubünden as a child supplied the setting of her novels. The catalogue lists 21 titles, including Toni, the Little Woodcarver (1882), Gritli's Children (1884), Cornelli (1892) and Moni the Goat Boy, and Other Stories (1915).

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John A. Heldt

26 books 6 series

John A. Heldt has published 26 catalogued books between 2012 and 2025. The Mine and The Journey (both 2012) are the earliest, and Let Time Fly (2025) is the latest. Heldt writes in five series: Northwest Passage, American Journey, Carson Chronicles, Time Box and Stone Shed. September Sky (2015), Class of '59 (2016) and Hannah's Moon (2017) are other titles on the list.

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John A. Russo

44 books 2 series

John A. Russo, born in 1939 and sometimes credited as Jack Russo or John Russo, is an American novelist, screenwriter and film director. Russo co-wrote the screenplay for Night of the Living Dead (1968) with its director, George A. Romero, and afterwards became an author of horror fiction. The catalogue holds 44 books published between 1974 and 2024, opening with Night of the Living Dead (1974) and taking in Return of the Living Dead (1979), Midnight (1980), Black Cat (1982) and Day Care (1985) before Dead Time in Deadwood (2024). Subjects cover horror comics and graphic novels, horror films, independent film-makers, and motion picture production and direction. Living Dead is recorded as a character entry.

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John Ajvide Lindqvist

14 books 4 series

John Ajvide Lindqvist, born 2 December 1968, is a Swedish author of horror novels and short stories. Lindqvist is married to the author Mia Ajvide and is the father of the author Fritiof Ajvide. The catalogue lists 14 books from Let the Right One In / Let Me In (2004) to Anden i maskinen (2024), with Handling the Undead (2005), Harbor (2008) and Little Star (2010) in between. Platserna, Blodstormen and Let the Right One In are listed series. Vampires, Stockholm and revenge appear among the subjects, and Jack Thorne is credited on 1 book.

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John Allison

41 books 9 series

John Allison, born 1976, writes and draws comics, and has been producing them since 1998. Giant Days and Bad Machinery head a 41-title catalogue that runs from Heavy Metal Hearts and Flowers (2005) to Kill or Be Quilt (2025), with Scary Go Round, By Night, Steeple and Great British Bump-Off alongside. Teenage girls, women college students, female friendship and small-scale detective work recur as subjects. Allison's comics have taken multiple Eisner Awards.

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John Altman

8 books

John Altman, born in 1969, is an American writer of espionage thrillers and a Harvard graduate. A Gathering of Spies (2000) was the debut, and The Korean Woman (2019) is the most recent of 8 catalogued novels. Between them stand A Game of Spies (2002), Deception (2003), The Watchmen (2004), The Art of the Devil (2014), Disposable Asset (2015) and False Flag (2017). Recorded subjects include the Second World War, secret service, spy stories and Germany. The books have reached print in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Poland and the Netherlands, and Altman holds memberships of the Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers and the International Association of Crime Writers. All 8 books carry a page count, median 306 pages.

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John Ashdown-Hill has 13 books catalogued from 2009 to 2019, and Richard III is named in several titles. The Secret Queen, also titled Eleanor (2009), is listed first, followed by The Last Days of Richard III (2010) and The Mythology of Richard III (2015). Other titles include The Third Plantagenet (2014), The Wars of the Roses (2015) and The Private Life of Edward IV (2016). Elizabeth Widville, Lady Grey (2019) is the newest.

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John Banville Books / Benjamin Black is the combined catalogue entry for 41 books dated 1970 to 2025. The list opens with Long Lankin (1970), Nightspawn (1971) and Birchwood (1973), then Doctor Copernicus (1976), Kepler (1981) and The Newton Letter (1982). The Book of Evidence (1989) and Ghosts (1993) follow. Subject tags include historical and psychological fiction, mystery, pathologists, scientists, Dublin and Ireland. Series include Quirke, Revolutions Trilogy, Frames: The Freddie Montgomery Trilogy, Cleave Trilogy and St. John Strafford, and Venetian Vespers (2025) is the newest title.

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John Barlow

10 books 2 series

John Barlow writes the LS9 and Joe Romano series, and the catalogue lists 10 books from 2004 to 2022. Eating Mammals (2004) is the earliest, followed by Intoxicated (2007) and Everything But the Squeal (2008). Hope Road (2011), Father and Son (2013) and The Communion of Saints (2016) come later, and Right To Kill and To the Grave (2022) are the newest. Subjects include food, gastronomy, English short stories, inventors and the soft drink industry.

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John Barnes

42 books 7 series

John Barnes writes science fiction, much of it hard science fiction, with thriller and time-travel plots alongside. Series include Century Next Door, the Giraut books built on Giraut Leones, Timeline Wars, Timeraider, Jak Jinnaka and Daybreak. The catalogue lists 42 books from The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky (1986) to Raise the Gipper! (2012), taking in Orbital Resonance (1991), A Million Open Doors (1992), Mother of Storms (1994) and Kaleidoscope Century (1995). The 1990s were the heaviest decade.

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John Barth

21 books 1 series

John Simmons Barth (1930-2024) was an American writer of postmodern and metafictional fiction. The catalogue holds 21 titles from The Floating Opera (1956) to Postscripts (2022), taking in The End of the Road (1958), Chimera (1972), Letters (1979), Sabbatical: A Romance (1982), The Friday Book (1984) and The Tidewater Tales (1987). Three books from the 1960s drew the most attention: The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), which retells the colonial history of Maryland; Giles Goat-Boy (1966), a satirical fantasy in which a university stands for the Cold War world; and Lost in the Funhouse (1968), an experimental and self-referential story collection. Chimera took a share of the National Book Award in 1973. Subjects recorded against the catalogue include American fiction, novelists, storytelling, college students, married people and Maryland.

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John Bellairs

23 books 3 series

John Bellairs (John Anthony Bellairs, January 17, 1938 to March 8, 1991) was an American writer of the fantasy novel The Face in the Frost (1969) and Gothic mysteries for children. Lewis Barnavelt, Rose Rita Pottinger, Johnny Dixon and Anthony Monday are the recurring characters, and Edward Gorey illustrated most of the books. Catalogued titles include The House with a Clock in Its Walls (1973) and The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn (1978). By 1991 the books had sold a quarter of a million hardcovers and over one and a half million paperbacks.

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John Berendt

3 books

John Berendt, born in 1939, is an American author of narrative non-fiction with three catalogued books. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994) was a best-seller and a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. The City of Falling Angels (2005) draws on the people Berendt met while living in Venice in the months after the 1996 fire that destroyed the La Fenice opera house. My Baby Blue Jays followed in 2011. True crime, murder trials, travel writing and social history are the subjects indexed against the catalogue.

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John Berger

62 books 8 series

John Berger (5 November 1926 to 2 January 2017) was an English novelist, art critic, painter and poet who lived in France for more than 50 years. G., a novel, won the Booker Prize in 1972. Ways of Seeing, an essay on art criticism, accompanied the BBC series of that name. The catalogue lists 62 books from A Painter Of Our Time (1958) onward, including The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965), A Fortunate Man (1967) and The Moment of Cubism (1969). Into Their Labours is a listed series, and art criticism, painting, visual perception, peasants and country life appear in the subjects.

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John Bierce

10 books 2 series

John Bierce writes fantasy in two series, Mage Errant and More Gods Than Stars. The 10 catalogued books start with Into the Labyrinth (2018). A Traitor in Skyhold and Jewel of the Endless Erg appeared in 2019, and The Lost City of Ithos and The Wrack in 2020. The Siege of Skyhold (2021), Tongue Eater (2022) and The Last Echo of the Lord of Bells (2023) came next. The City That Would Eat The World (2025) is the newest title.

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John Billheimer

10 books 3 series

John Billheimer writes mystery fiction and nonfiction. Catalogue subjects name Owen Allison as a recurring fictional character and record government investigators, government spending policy, public finance, West Virginia, baseball and sportswriters. Two series are listed: Owen Allison and Lloyd Keaton Mystery. The 10 catalogued books run from The Contrary Blues (1998) to 2019, taking in Highway Robbery (2000), Dismal Mountain (2001), Drybone Hollow (2003), Stonewall Jackson's Elbow (2006), Field of Schemes (2012) and A Player to Be Maimed Later (2013). Baseball and the Blame Game (2007) and Hitchcock and the Censors (2019) sit outside the fiction.

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John Bingham

18 books 2 series

John Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris of Newbrook, was an English novelist, engineer and former MI5 officer. Bingham worked as a journalist before Maxwell Knight recruited Bingham into MI5, where David Cornwell was a younger colleague. Cornwell became the novelist John le Carré and named Bingham as a key inspiration for George Smiley. The catalogue lists the Kenneth Ducane and Brock series, with novels from My Name is Michael Sibley (1952) to Brock and the Defector (1982), including A Fragment of Fear (1965) and The Double Agent (1966).

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John Birmingham

45 books 11 series

John Birmingham, born 7 August 1964, is a British-born Australian writer. The 1994 memoir He Died with a Felafel in His Hand opens the catalogue, and Birmingham is also known for the Axis of Time trilogy and the Cruel Stars space opera trilogy. The catalogue lists 45 books through World War 3.3 (2026), including Weapons of Choice (2004), A Time for War (2005), Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney (1999) and the Dave vs. The Monsters series. World War II and thrillers appear in the subjects.

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John Boyne

30 books 2 series

John Boyne is an Irish novelist born in 1971. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006), a historical novel, became a 2008 film, has sold more than 11 million copies and appears in over 58 languages; All the Broken Places (2022) is its sequel. Boyne's work spans novels for adults and younger readers, novellas and short stories. The catalogue lists 30 books from The Thief of Time (2000) to The Elements (2026), including Crippen (2004), Mutiny on the Bounty (2008) and Noah Barleywater Runs Away (2010).

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John Brady

12 books 3 series

John Brady has 12 catalogued books from A Stone of the Heart (1988) to Crash (2018), across the Inspector Matt Minogue, Inspektor Kimmel and Sergeant Tommy Malone series. Subject tags name the fictitious character Matt Minogue and list Dublin, Ireland, police procedurals, drug traffic, cold cases and homeless men. Unholy Ground, Kaddish in Dublin, All Souls, A Carra King, Islandbridge and The Going Rate are among the titles. The catalogue marks Brady's output as likely complete.

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John Brownlow

3 books 2 series

John Brownlow has three catalogued books. The first, Sylvia: The Shooting Script (2003), is the screenplay of the motion picture Sylvia. Seventeen, published also as Agent Seventeen, followed in 2022, and Assassin Eighteen in 2023. Nothing has been added since.

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John Brunner

87 books 3 series

John Brunner was a British science fiction author who lived from 1934 to 1995. Stand on Zanzibar, set in an overpopulated world and published in 1968, took the 1969 Hugo Award and the BSFA Award, and The Jagged Orbit won the BSFA Award the following year. Brunner wrote his first novel, Galactic Storm, at seventeen under the pen name Gill Hunt. 87 catalogued books start at The Brink (1959), with the 1960s the busiest decade. The median book runs 222 pages.

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John Buchan

84 books 4 series

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 to 11 February 1940), was a Scottish novelist, historian, army officer and Unionist politician who served as the 15th Governor General of Canada. Buchan published a first novel in 1895, the year of Sir Quixote of the Moors, the earliest catalogued title, and went on to write more than a hundred books, The Thirty-Nine Steps the best known among them. Series include Richard Hannay, the Leithen Stories and Dickson McCunn. Buchan studied at Glasgow and Oxford, practised as a barrister, and in 1901 was private secretary to Lord Milner in southern Africa near the end of the Boer War. Subjects include the First World War, the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, the intelligence service and Scotland.

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John Bude

28 books 4 series

John Bude was the pseudonym under which Ernest Carpenter Elmore (4 November 1901 – 8 November 1957), an English theatre producer and director, wrote crime novels; Elmore also wrote fantasy. The Cornish Coast Murder and The Lake District Murder, both from 1935, open a catalogue of 28 books, followed by The Sussex Downs Murder (1936), The Cheltenham Square Murder (1937), Loss of a Head (1938) and Death On Paper (1940). Superintendent Green and Inspector Sherwood are the series, and Superintendent William Meredith is a named character. Golden Age mystery and police procedurals appear among the subjects, and the listing links British Library Crime Classics.

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John Burdett

10 books 3 series

Sonchai Jitpleecheep, a police officer in Thailand, carries John Burdett's longest sequence, which includes Bangkok 8 (2003), Bangkok Tattoo, Bangkok Haunts, The Godfather of Kathmandu, Vulture Peak and The Bangkok Asset (2015). The English crime novelist, born in 1951, has 10 catalogued books published between 1996 and 2017, from A Personal History Of Thirst (1996) to Death Effect (2017). Lawyers, murder trials and London appear in the subject headings alongside the Thai material.

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John C. Maxwell

208 books 10 series

Leadership is the main subject of John C. Maxwell, an American author, speaker and pastor. Maxwell's leadership books include The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader and The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, and some have reached the New York Times Best Seller list. The catalogue lists 208 titles from Think on These Things: Meditations for Leaders (1979) to The Resilient Leader (2026). The Winning Attitude (1984), Be a People Person (1989), Developing the Leader Within You (1993) and The Power Of Attitude (1995) are earlier entries. Series include Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Leadership Gold, John C. Maxwell's 101 and Lunch & Learn. Success, attitude and Christian life run through the subject tags.

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John C. McManus

16 books 1 series

John C. McManus writes military history. Recorded subjects centre on the United States Army and the Second World War, taking in military campaigns, Normandy, military life and the history of the American armed forces. Sixteen books span 1998 to 2023, from The Deadly Brotherhood (1998) to To the End of the Earth (2023). The books are long, at a median of 464 pages across the 13 measured. Titles include The Americans at D-Day (2004), Alamo in the Ardennes (2007), Grunts (2010) and September Hope (2012).

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John C. Wright

47 books 11 series

John C. Wright, born October 22, 1961, is an American author of science fiction and fantasy novels. The Golden Age (2002) is the debut novel, and Orphans of Chaos (2005) made Wright a Nebula Award finalist. The catalogue records 47 books through Sinister Syndicate of Space (2026). Series include Golden Oecumene, Count to the Eschaton Sequence, Chronicles of Chaos, Moth & Cobweb, Superluminary and StarQuest, and Null-A Continuum (2008) also appears.

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John Callahan

11 books

Cartoonist John Michael Callahan has 11 books in the catalogue, from Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot: The Autobiography of a Dangerous Man (1989) to Levels of Insanity: Cartoons by Callahan (2004). Callahan was an American cartoonist, artist and musician, born 5 February 1951, who died on 24 July 2010. Quadriplegia shaped both the rough drawing style and the often dark content. Do Not Disturb Any Further (1990), Digesting the Child Within (1991) and Freaks of Nature (1995) are among the titles. Subject headings include pictorial humor, quadriplegia and alcoholism.

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John Carson

58 books 9 series

Police thrillers make up John Carson's 58 catalogued books, organised around a run of named detectives: DCI Harry McNeil, DI Frank Miller, DCI James Craig, DCI Sean Bracken, DCI Liam Brodie, DCI Ewan McCall and Calvin Stewart. Crash Point (2014) opens the catalogue, with Silent Marker (2015), Rain Town (2016) and Watch Me Bleed (2016) after it. Killing Time is the 2026 entry.

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John Case

7 books

John Case writes thrillers. Seven titles are catalogued between 1983 and 2006. The business history Enterprise: The Making of Business in America (1983) opens the list, and the fiction follows with The Genesis Code (1997), The First Horseman (1998), The Syndrome, also published as Trance State (2001), The Eighth Day (2002), The Murder Artist (2004) and Ghost Dancer, also published as Dance of Death (2006). Private investigators, billionaires, Rome and Washington, D.C. run through the subjects. No new Case title has appeared since 2006.

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John Cheever

28 books 1 series

John Cheever (1912-1982) wrote short stories and novels of American suburban life, and the nickname the Chekhov of the suburbs followed. The settings stay consistent: the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, New England villages modelled on the towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where Cheever was born, and Italy. The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) and The Wapshot Scandal (1964) make the one series, while The Enormous Radio (1953), The Housebreaker Of Shady Hill (1958) and The Swimmer (1964) sit among the stories. 28 titles are catalogued from 1943 onward.

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John Christopher

29 books 3 series

John Christopher was the best-known pen name of Sam Youd (1922-2012), a British writer who signed other books Hilary Ford, Peter Graaf, Stanley Winchester, Anthony Rye, William Godfrey, Peter Nichols and William Vine. The Death of Grass (1956) and The Possessors (1964) sit among 29 catalogued titles, and the Tripods books made the Christopher name with young readers. Sword of the Spirits and the Fireball Trilogy are the other two series. Prizes followed the children's work: the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1971, then the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis five years later.

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John Clarkson

9 books 2 series

John Clarkson is credited on 9 catalogued books spanning 1992 to 2023. Catalogue subjects record mystery and detective fiction, suspense thrillers, crime, police, public housing and New York City. And Justice For One (1992) opens the run, followed by One Man's Law (1994), One Way Out (1996), New Lots (1998) and Reed's Promise (2001). A long gap then reaches Among Thieves (2015), Bronx Requiem (2016), Death Comes Due (2020) and Tribes (2023). James Beck and Jack Devlin are the series recorded under this name.

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John Connolly

51 books 11 series

John Connolly is an Irish writer, born in 1968, best known for the novels featuring private detective Charlie Parker. The catalogue opens with Every Dead Thing (1999), followed by Dark Hollow (2000) and The Killing Kind (2001), and lists 52 books to 2026. Other series include Samuel Johnson vs. the Devil, Chronicles of the Invaders and Nocturnes, and The Book of Lost Things appeared in 2006. Subjects include private investigators, Maine, serial murders and fantasy. The Castle is scheduled for 2027.

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John Conroe

36 books 5 series

John Conroe writes urban fantasy and supernatural thrillers, with vampires as recurring material. The Demon Accords is the backbone of the catalogue, extended by the Demon Accords Compendium and Demon Accords Generations, alongside the Zone War and Shadows of Montshire series. Thirty-six books span 2010 to 2026, opening with God Touched and Demon Driven (both 2010) and reaching Contention (2026).

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John Corwin

59 books 5 series

John Corwin writes paranormal fiction and urban fantasy. The Overworld Chronicles head a catalogue of 59 books, with the Overworld Arcanum, Overworld Underground, the Chronicles of Cain and the Amos Carver novels around them. No Darker Fate (2011) opens the list, Dead Red Revenge arrives in 2026, and titles appear three or four times a year.

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John Creasey

497 books 14 series

John Creasey (17 September 1908 to 9 June 1973) was an English novelist of detective and crime fiction who also wrote science fiction, romance and westerns, producing more than six hundred novels under twenty-eight pseudonyms. Creasey characters include The Toff (Richard Rollison), Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, Inspector Roger West, The Baron (John Mannering), Dr Emmanuel Cellini and Dr Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. Gideon, introduced in Gideon's Day (1955), was the basis for the 1958 John Ford film Gideon's Day and the television series Gideon's Way (1964 to 1966). The catalogue lists 497 books from Seven Times Seven (1932), with early titles as M.E. Cooke and Margaret Cooke.

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John Crowley

31 books 3 series

John Crowley (1942-2026) was an American author of fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction and non-fiction, and a documentary film writer in a second career. Little, Big (1981) is the best known of the novels and took the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. The Aegypt sequence turns on Hermeticism, memory, families and religion. The catalogue lists 31 titles published between 1975 and 2019, opening with The Deep (1975) and closing with And Go Like This (2019). Mysticism, magic and short fiction recur across the listing, and the 2000s are its busiest decade.

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John Dennis Fitzgerald (1906-1988) was an American author, most notable for The Great Brain, a run of children's books. Seven of the eight catalogued titles carry the Great Brain name, from The Great Brain (1967) through The Great Brain at the Academy (1972) and The Return of the Great Brain (1975) to The Great Brain Is Back (1995). Humorous stories, brothers, Utah, Mormons and detective stories fill the subject list, and the books are pitched at grades 3 to 5.

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