Authors whose first name starts with J, page 19 of 26

John D. MacDonald wrote hard-boiled crime fiction, most of it in Florida, and created the Fort Lauderdale salvage investigator Travis McGee. 82 catalogued titles open with The Brass Cupcake (1950) and continue through Judge Me Not (1951), Murder for the Bride (1951) and Weep For Me (1951), with early science fiction in Wine of the Dreamers (1951) and Ballroom of the Skies (1952). Standalone novels, short stories and non-fiction fill out a catalogue that closed in 2019.

John Dalmas was the pen name of John Robert Jones (1926-2017), who wrote science fiction on military and governmental themes. The Yngling, serialised from 1969 and catalogued as a 1971 book, opens a run of 30 titles ending with Soldiers! Volume 2 in 2013. Seven series divide it, including the Regiment, Yngling, Fanglith, Lion of Farside and Chronicle from the 31st Century. Mercenary troops, soldiers, time travel and life on other planets recur as subjects, at a median 368 pages.

John David Mann, born in 1954, has 18 catalogued books published from 2007 to 2023. The Go-Giver (2007) is the first, and Mann has a Go-Giver series. Subjects on the listing include success, self-actualization, positive psychology, Christianity and Islam. Other titles include Go-Givers Sell More (2010), Flash Foresight (2010), Code to Joy (2012) and The Slight Edge (2013). The Vagrant (2023) is the newest entry.

John Deacon has published 30 books across a short span, every title dated between 2022 and 2026. The catalogue opens in 2022 with A Man Called Justice, Justice Returns, Justice Rides Again and Heck's Journey, then continues through a run of Heck titles - Heck's Gamble, Heck's Gold, Heck's Stand and Heck's Valley - in 2023. Deacon's series are Heck and Hope, Silent Justice, the Provider Saga, Lobo, Kip Callahan, Conn Sullivan, A Sweeping Oregon Trail Saga, Fletch and Faith and the Regulator Chronicles, with standalone novels alongside them. The newest title is Conn 3 (2026).

John Dean writes mystery and detective fiction, with catalogue subjects including murder, police, investigation and England. The catalogue lists 29 books, from The Long Dead (2006) to The Informer (2026). Dean's series are DCI John Blizzard, Detective Chief Inspector Jack Harris and Danny Radford, and John Blizzard also appears as a listed subject. Other titles include Strange Little Girl (2007), To Honour the Dead (2012) and The Railway Man (2017).

John DeChancie, born in 1946, is an American author and a Pittsburgh native, most famous for the comic fantasy Castle series and the science fiction Skyway series. DeChancie also writes screenplays and teleplays alongside prose fiction. The catalogue holds 25 books published between 1983 and 2015, from Starrigger (1983) to The Pirates of Perilous (2015), taking in Red Limit Freeway (1984), Paradox Alley (1987), Castle Perilous (1988), Castle for Rent (1989) and Castle War! (1990). Castle Perilous, Skyway, Dr. Dimension and Castle Falkenstein are the series recorded. Juvenile biography sits in the listing too, with Gamal Abdel Nasser (1987) and Juan Perón (1987), and presidents, heads of state and biography among the subjects.

John Diary is credited alone on 13 books published between 2016 and 2020. Recorded subjects are Minecraft, zombies and plot-your-own stories, filed as juvenile fiction. Three series carry the name: Minecraft Zombie Adventure, Sol Wars and Fidget Spinner League. Diary of a Monster Trainer (2016) is the first title and Beginning of the End (2020) the last, at a median of 135 pages.

John Dickson Carr wrote traditional detective fiction, most of it set in England. It Walks by Night (1930) opens the catalogue with the investigator Henri Bencolin, Hag's Nook (1932) starts the Dr. Gideon Fell series, and the Sir Henry Merrivale novels appeared as Carter Dickson. Eighty-seven catalogued titles, reissues included, run to 2022, at a median of 251 pages.

The U.S.A. trilogy is the work John Dos Passos is best known for. Dos Passos lived from 1896 to 1970, was born in Chicago, finished at Harvard College in 1916, and travelled through Europe and southwest Asia learning about literature, art and architecture. He drove for the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps in Paris and Italy during the First World War, then enlisted as a private in the United States Army Medical Corps. His 51 catalogued titles open with One Man's Initiation: 1917, take in Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer and the District of Columbia novels, and end with a 2003 collection of his travel writing.

John Drake writes historical adventure fiction about pirates, seafaring life and treasure. The catalogue holds 18 books from Flint and Silver (2008) to Fletcher and the Flying Machine (2022). Drake's series are Fletcher, John Silver, Londinium and Fletcher Companion. Subject tags include the Caribbean, Treasure Island and London. Pieces of Eight (2009), Skull and Bones (2010), Fletcher's Fortune (2015) and Death in Londinium (2016) are among the titles.

Cliff Janeway, a Denver ex-policeman turned antiquarian bookseller, is the detective John Dunning is remembered for, introduced in Booked to Die (1992). Dunning (1942-2023) was an American writer working in both detective fiction and non-fiction, and his reference books on old-time radio, including Tune in Yesterday (1976), stand beside the novels. The catalogue holds 16 titles from The Holland Suggestions (1975) to Dreamer (2013), at a median of 432 pages. No Dunning book has appeared since 2013.

John Durgin has 10 catalogued books, dated between 2022 and 2026, all credited to Durgin. The run opens with The Cursed Among Us (2022) and reaches I Woke Up a Final Girl in 2026. The Newport Curse series stands under the Durgin name. Other titles include Inside The Devil's Nest (2023), Sleeping In The Fire (2023), Consumed by Evil (2024), Kosa (2024), The Devil's In The Next Room (2025) and Conjuring the Demon (2026). Durgin remains actively publishing.

John E. Douglas

20 books• 2 series

John E. Douglas is a retired FBI special agent, born in 1945, who served as a unit chief in the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit and helped build criminal profiling in the United States. Mindhunter (1995) is the best known of 20 catalogued books, which open with the Crime Classification Manual (1992) and end with When a Killer Calls (2022). Sexual Homicide (1993), Unabomber (1996), Journey Into Darkness (1997) and The Anatomy of Motive (1999) work through serial murder investigation as case studies.

John E. Siers is credited with 16 catalogued books published between 2021 and 2026. The listing opens with The Moon and Beyond (2021) and reaches A Tale of Two Worlds (2026). Two series carry the Siers name: Lunar Free State and Children of the Lunar Free State. Other catalogued titles include In the Service of Luna (2021), Someday the Stars (2021), Valkyrie's Daughter (2021) and Aphrodite of Luna (2023). Siers remains actively publishing.

John Edgar Wideman

28 books• 1 series

John Edgar Wideman is an American novelist, short story writer, memoirist and essayist, and the first writer to take the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction twice. The Homewood books take their name from the Pittsburgh neighbourhood where Wideman was raised, and Hiding Place (1981), Sent for You Yesterday (1981) and Damballah (1984) belong to them; Brothers and Keepers (1984) and Philadelphia Fire (1990) follow. In 1963 Wideman became the second African American to win a Rhodes Scholarship, and he has taught literature and creative writing at public and Ivy League universities. The catalogue holds 28 titles through Languages of Home (2025).

John Ehle, born John Marsden Ehle Jr. on December 13, 1925, was an American novelist who died on March 24, 2018. Ehle's fiction is set in the Appalachian Mountains of the American South, and Ehle has been called the father of Appalachian literature. The catalogue lists 17 books from Move Over, Mountain (1957) to Dr. Frank: Life with Frank Porter Graham (1994). Titles include The Land Breakers (1964), The Free Men (1965), The Road (1967), Time of Drums (1970) and The Journey of August King (1971). Subjects include North Carolina, mountain life, civil rights, convict labor and railroads.

Legal thrillers are John Ellsworth's form. Thaddeus Murfee heads the main series, with Michael Gresham, Sisters In Law and Spies In The Rose Garden as further lines. Fifty-two catalogued books start in 2014 with The Defendants, Attorney at Large and Beyond a Reasonable Death, and reach The Redemption Manuscript (2024). Criminal defence lawyers, malpractice cases and revenge recur as subjects.

Three series carry John Etterlee's name: Rob Walker, Shadow Warrior and Roger O'Neil. Eight books run from Sniper: Black Ops (2018) to An imminent Threat (2024), with Sniper: Shadow Warrior (2018), The Cold Storm (2019), Strike Point (2020), The Messenger (2021), Retribution (2022) and Blood Red (2023) between them. Etterlee is credited on every title and remains actively publishing. Two volumes have recorded lengths, at a median of 268 pages.

John Everson

30 books• 3 series

John Everson writes contemporary horror and dark fantasy, with science fiction and fantasy beside them. Demonology, human sacrifice, apparitions and sirens recur as subjects. Covenant appeared in a limited-edition hardcover from Delirium Books in 2004 and took the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for a First Novel the year after; NightWhere, Everson's sixth novel, was a Bram Stoker Award finalist in 2012. The catalogue lists 30 titles published between 2000 and 2026, from Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions (2000) to The Witching House (2026), and the Curburide Chronicles and NightWhere are the series named.

John F. Dobbyn is a mystery writer in the United States and an emeritus professor at the Villanova University School of Law, teaching in criminal, corporate and insurance law. Lawyers, the Mafia, art forgery and murder investigation head the recorded subjects, with Boston as the setting. Eight titles run from Trumpeter Swan (2004) to Deadly Depths (2023), and the catalogue groups the Knight and Devlin series under his name. Three books total 968 pages, a median of 320.

John F. MacArthur Jr. is catalogued with 362 books published from 1972 to 2024, the first being Found: God's Will (1972). Subjects include the Bible, biblical interpretation, commentaries on the New Testament gospels and epistles, Bible study, prayer, Christian life and marriage. Series include MacArthur Bible Studies, MacArthur New Testament Commentary, MacArthur Old Testament Study Guide, Great Hymns of Our Faith and John MacArthur Pastor's Library. Early titles include Liberated for Life: Galatians (1976) and The Charismatics: A Doctrinal Perspective (1978), and the newest is The War On Children (2024).

John F. Rossmann is credited on 9 catalogued books split across two widely separated periods. Six appeared between 1974 and 1976: The Mind Masters, Shamblah, The Door, Amazons, Mindmasters 4: Amazon and Recycled Souls. Three more followed almost five decades later, Battle Song and War Cry in 2023 and King's Enemy in 2024. The catalogue records two series under the name, Mind Masters and the de Norton trilogy, and marks the listing as actively publishing.

John Farris, born John Lee Farris on July 26, 1936, is an American novelist, screenwriter and playwright. Farris reached best-seller status at twenty-three, is most famous for The Fury (Playboy Press, 1976) and is known for southern Gothic fiction. The catalogue lists 45 books from The Corpse Next Door (1956) to Last Poems (2025). Baby Moll (1958) and Danger in My Blood (1959) are listed under the name Steve Brackeen, and Harrison High (1959) sits alongside The Girl from Harrison High (1968). Subject tags include horror, psychics, fathers and daughters, and Georgia.

John Farrow is the name on the Émile Cinq-Mars series, which the catalogue subjects place in police procedural territory in the province of Quebec. The 13 listed books run from The True Life Adventures of Sparrow Drinkwater (1993) to Bright Shining As the Sun (2025), and The Timekeeper (1995) is listed under the name Trevor Ferguson. City Of Ice (2000), Ice Lake (2001), River City (2011), The Storm Murders (2015) and Seven Days Dead (2016) are among the titles.

John Feinstein (1955-2025) was an American sportswriter and commentator, for many years a reporter at the Washington Post. A Season on the Brink (1986) is his best known book, an account of a season inside Bob Knight's Indiana Hoosiers basketball programme, and it opens a catalogue of 51 titles reaching The Ancient Eight (2024). Basketball, golf, football and college sport run through the nonfiction, and the Sports Beat, Benchwarmers and Bobby Kelleher series were written for younger readers.

John Flanagan

37 books• 6 series

John Flanagan writes fantasy adventure for readers in grades 6 to 8. The Ruins of Gorlan (2004) opens Ranger's Apprentice, which extends into The Royal Ranger and The Early Years; the Brotherband Chronicles are a second series, and seafaring life and pirates sit in the subject tags. Thirty-eight titles are catalogued through Ambush at Sorato (2024). Apprentices, heroes, courage and friendship recur across the books.

John Forrester writes fantasy involving magic, with 17 catalogued books from 2011 to 2021. Six series are on record: Blacklight Chronicles, Clarise Chambers, Princes of Naverstrom, Maledorian Chronicles, Song of the Gods and Shandian Chronicles. Fire Mage and Fire Mage Reborn both date from 2011, followed by Shadow Mage (2012), Sun Mage (2012) and Dragon Mage (2013). Lord of Dragons and Theft of Dragons appeared in 2014, and Reins of Power (2021) is the newest.

John Fowles was an English novelist whose work sits between modernism and postmodernism, with Sartre and Camus among the influences on it. The Collector opened the catalogue in 1963. The Magus (1965) came out of a spell teaching English on the Greek island of Spetses after Oxford, and sold immediately, in tune with the anarchism and experimental philosophy of the 1960s. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) followed: a Victorian-era romance given a postmodern turn, set in Lyme Regis, Dorset, where Fowles lived for much of his life. Twenty-one titles run to The Journals: Volume 2 in 2005, taking in The Ebony Tower (1974) and Daniel Martin (1977).

Horse racing runs through every John Francome thriller. Francome, born in 1952, was a seven-time British champion jump jockey, then a racing trainer and a Channel 4 broadcaster, before writing. 27 catalogued books span Born Lucky (1985) to Storm Rider (2010), with Declared Dead (1988), Blood Stock (1989), Stone Cold (1990) and Rough Ride (1993) among them. Jockeys, steeplechasing and crime in British racing fill the subjects, and the catalogue is likely complete.

John Franklin Bardin (November 30, 1916 - July 9, 1981) was an American crime writer whose reputation rests chiefly on three novels from 1946 to 1948: The Deadly Percheron, The Last of Philip Banter and Devil Take the Blue-tail Fly. The catalogue lists 10 Bardin books up to Purloining Tiny (1978). A Shroud for Grandmama / The Longstreet Legacy (1951) and So Young to Die (1953) carry the credit Gregory Tree. Series named under Bardin are Dr. George Matthews and Mayberry / Bradley, and subject headings include psychiatrists and amnesiacs.

John G. Hartness has 130 catalogued books, beginning with the collection Returning the Favor and Other Slices of Life in 2009 and reaching Eternal Winter in 2026. Series include Bubba the Monster Hunter, Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter, Black Knight Chronicles, Beauregard the Monster Hunter, Bubba in Fairyland and TECH Ops, along with short story lines. Hard Day's Knight (2010), Back In Black (2011) and Black Magic Woman (2011) are among the early titles.

John Gallagher is credited with the Max Meow graphic novels for children, five books published between 2020 and 2023 and opening with Max Meow Book 1: Cat Crusader. Donuts and Danger (2021), Pugs from Planet X (2021), Taco Time Machine (2022) and Attack of the ZomBEES (2023) complete that group, and When Pancakes Go Bad (2025) is the most recent title under the name. The entry is filed under graphic novels with a children's fiction subject heading. Two Detroit books, Reimagining Detroit (2010) and Revolution Detroit (2013), also sit under this slug and stand apart from the children's work.

John Galligan writes mysteries in two sequences. The Fly Fishing Mystery books are The Nail Knot (2003), The Blood Knot (2005), The Clinch Knot (2008) and The Wind Knot (2011). Bad Axe County (2019), Dead Man Dancing (2020), Bad Moon Rising (2021) and Bad Day Breaking (2022) form the second. Nine books are catalogued in all, opening with Red Sky, Red Dragonfly (2001). Fly fishing, murder investigation, police procedure and women sleuths are the recurring subjects, and a character named Dog runs through the catalogue. No new Galligan title has appeared since 2022.

John Galsworthy

78 books• 3 series

The Forsyte Saga made John Galsworthy's name: a trilogy about the Forsyte family, begun with The Man of Property in 1906 and completed over the following fifteen years. Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright, born into a prosperous upper-middle-class family and steered toward the law before turning to writing instead. Two further trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter, extended the sequence, and the Nobel Prize in Literature went to Galsworthy in 1932. The catalogue holds 78 titles, from Jocelyn in 1898 onward, including work issued under the name John Sinjohn; the 1920s were the densest decade.

John Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English author of spy and thriller novels, best known for continuing the James Bond books. Gardner also wrote the Boysie Oakes series and three novels featuring Professor Moriarty, the villain created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Gardner joined the Home Guard at 13 during the Second World War and went on to serve in the Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Marines; after demobilisation Gardner studied theology at St John's College, Cambridge, and was ordained a Church of England priest in 1953. The Liquidator (1964) opens a catalogue of 60 books that includes Understrike (1965), Amber Nine (1966), Madrigal (1967) and Traitor's Exit (1970) and ends with Moriarty (2008). Herbie Kruger, Derek Torry and Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford are further series.

John Gaspard writes two kinds of books: guides to low-budget filmmaking and mystery novels. Fast, Cheap, and Under Control (2006) and Fast, Cheap & Written That Way (2007) cover film production and screenwriting. Mystery titles include The Ambitious Card (2013), The Bullet Catch and The Miser's Dream. Gaspard's series are Eli Marks Mystery, Young Eli Marks Mystery and Como Lake Players Mystery. The catalogue holds 23 books from Persistence of Vision (1995) to The Curious Mysteries of Eli Marks (2023).

Hostage rescue, kidnapping and fugitives drive John Gilstrap's thrillers. Jonathan Grave stands at the centre of the main series, with Victoria Emerson and Irene Rivers heading others and non-fiction alongside. Forty-one catalogued books run from Nathan's Run (1996) through Hostage Zero (2010) and High Treason (2013) to Scorched Earth in 2026.

John Glatt is a British American writer of biographies and true crime, born in London, who moved to New York in 1981. The catalogue lists 31 books from Rage & Roll (1993) to Tangled Vines (2023). Biographies include River Phoenix: The Biography (1995), The Chieftains: The Authorized Biography (1997) and The Royal House of Monaco (1998). Other titles include For I Have Sinned (1998), Evil Twins (1999), Cradle of Death (2000) and Cries in the Desert (2002). Subjects include murder case studies, film actors, rock music, princes and family.

John Gray

7 books

John Gray's catalogue holds 7 books published between 2017 and 2025. It opens with God Needed a Puppy in 2017 and continues through Keller's Heart (2019), Manchester Christmas (2020), Sweet Polly Petals (2020), Chasing Manhattan (2021), Chasing Rome (2022) and The Carpenter's Son (2025). The books are catalogued as American literature and children's fiction, and dogs, deafness and disability are their recurring subjects. Gray continues to publish.

John Green

13 books• 4 series

John Green, born John Michael Green on August 24, 1977, in Indianapolis, Indiana, is an American author and YouTuber who grew up in Orlando, Florida. Green's books have more than 50 million copies in print, and The Fault in Our Stars (2012) ranks among the best-selling books of all time. Looking for Alaska (2005), An Abundance of Katherines (2006), Paper Towns (2008), Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010) and Turtles All the Way Down (2017) are other listed titles, and Hollywood, Ending (2026) is the newest. Young adult fiction, grief, boarding schools and missing persons are among the subjects. Green also makes online video with Green's younger brother, Hank Green.

John Grisham

65 books• 11 series

Legal thrillers are the core of John Grisham's work. Grisham is an American writer, lawyer and former politician, born in 1955, who studied at Mississippi State University and took a law degree from the University of Mississippi in 1981. The catalogue holds 65 books, running from A Time to Kill (1989) through The Firm, The Pelican Brief and The Client to Shaken (2026). Series include Jake Brigance, Mitch McDeere, Camino Island, Rogue Lawyer and Theodore Boone. The American Academy of Achievement credits Grisham with 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers and 300 million copies sold.

John Joseph Grogan, born March 20, 1957, is an American journalist and writer of non-fiction. The memoir Marley and Me (2005) is a best-selling account of the Grogan family's dog, Marley. The catalogue holds 29 books published between 2005 and 2013, and titles in it carry Marley into children's fiction and picture books: Bad Dog, Marley! (2007), A Very Marley Christmas (2008), Marley Goes to School (2009), Snow Dog Marley (2010) and the Marley Picture series. Recorded subjects include dogs, Labrador retrievers, pets, biography, humorous stories and lift-the-flap books.

John Gwynne

14 books• 4 series

John Gwynne writes epic fantasy at length: the median catalogued book runs to 628 pages. Malice (2012) is the earliest of 14 catalogued titles, which take in The Faithful and the Fallen, the Bloodsworn Saga and Wolves of War, and reach The Wolves of War in 2026. Imaginary wars, magic, demons and angels supply the material.

John H. Carroll's catalogue holds 34 books published between 2010 and 2023. Six series are listed: A Story For Demented Children, Crazed, Wyvern, Dralin, Willden and Wronger. Fantasy and comic oddity sit together in the titles, among them Blue Haired Alien Girlfriend (2010), Rojuun (2010), Alien Coffee (2011) and Attack Of The Sugar Plum Fairies (2011). Resurrection Gone Wrong (2023) is the last dated entry.

Buck Reilly is the pilot at the centre of John H. Cunningham's adventure thrillers, and the series names its books by colour: Red Right Return (2011), Green To Go (2012), Crystal Blue (2013), Second Chance Gold (2014), Maroon Rising (2015), Free Fall to Black (2017), Silver Goodbye (2018), White Knight (2019) and Indigo Abyss (2021). Salvage work and flying are the recurring subjects. Thirteen books are catalogued, reaching Under the Charcoal Sky (2025).

John Hagee is an American pastor and televangelist with 54 catalogued books to his name. Hagee, born in 1940, founded John Hagee Ministries, which telecasts across the United States and Canada, and chairs Christians United for Israel, the largest Zionist organisation in America. The books run from Invasion of Demons (1973) to God's Prophetic Clock (2026), on biblical prophecy, Christian living, theology and Jerusalem. Hagee's remarks about the Catholic Church, Jewish people and Islam, and his promotion of the blood moon prophecy, have drawn controversy.

John Hall writes traditional mystery in the Sherlock Holmes line, and the recorded subjects name Holmes, Dr John H. Watson and Arthur Conan Doyle, with England the setting. Sherlock Holmes Mystery is the series in the catalogue. Fourteen books are listed from I Remember The Date Very Well (1993) to Special Commission (2016), among them Sherlock Holmes and the Telephone Murder Mystery (1998), Sidelights on Holmes (1998), Sherlock Holmes and the Boulevard Assassin (1999) and Sherlock Holmes and the Abbey School Mystery (2001).

John Hardy Bell has 8 catalogued books, the earliest The Strategist (2013) and the latest dated 2027. Three series are recorded: Grisham/Sullivan, Scott Priest and Jordan Pike. The Other Daniel (2014), The Rogue Element (also listed as Fracture), The Darkest Point (2019), The Last Good Agent (also listed as The Last Girls Taken) and In the Wind (2024) make up the published run. Only One Survived and The Tall Weeds both carry a 2027 date. Bell is credited on all 8 titles.

North Carolina is where John Hart sets his crime novels, which turn on families, fathers and sons, and murder. The King of Lies (2006) opens a catalogue of seven books that runs through Down River (2007), The Last Child (2009), Iron House (2012), Redemption Road (2016) and The Hush (2018) to The Unwilling (2021). Johnny Merrimon carries one short series; the rest stand alone. Nothing new has been published since 2021.

John Harvey is a British crime novelist, screenwriter and poet, best known for the Charlie Resnick novels, which are set in Nottingham and shaped by jazz. Harvey has also published under several pen names. The catalogue lists 153 titles from 1974 onward, beginning with Knife in the Night and The First Death (both 1974), then Angel Alone, Avenging Angel and Death Train (1975). Series on the author page include Charlie Resnick and Frank Elder, along with Apache, Hawk, Peacemaker, Gringos, Lawmen and Hart: The Regulator. Police procedurals, England and westerns appear in the subject tags.

John Hersey

27 books

Hiroshima (1946), an account of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of that Japanese city, is the defining book of John Hersey, an American journalist and novelist who lived from 1914 to 1993. A New York University journalism panel ranked Hiroshima in 1999 as the finest American journalism of the 20th century. Hersey is counted among the first to apply fiction's storytelling methods to reportage. The catalogue lists 27 books from Into the Valley (1943) onward, including A Bell for Adano (1944), The Wall (1950) and The War Lover (1959).

John Hindmarsh's catalogue runs to 20 books published between 2011 and 2023. Broken Glass (2011) opens the listing and No End In Sight (2023) is the most recent entry. Four series organise the work: Glass Complex, Jack Foster Space Opera, Midway, and Zed's Chronicles of the Parallel Universe Disruptions. Titles arrived at an average gap of 0.6 years, with the 2010s the heaviest decade. The catalogue records nothing new since 2023.

John Hornor Jacobs is an American author, born January 5, 1971. Southern Gods (2011), the novel Jacobs is best known for, began as a rough draft written through NaNoWriMo and was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. Foreign Devils (2015) received a David Gemmell Award nomination for Fantasy. Jacobs also wrote the Twelve-Fingered Boy Trilogy and the Incorruptibles series. Catalogue subjects include horror, fantasy, the supernatural, blues musicians and Arkansas, and The Night That Finds Us All (2025) is the newest of the 11 listed books.

John Irving

20 books• 1 series

John Irving is an American novelist whose 20 catalogued books begin with Setting Free the Bears (1968) and take in The World According to Garp (1978), The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), The Cider House Rules (1985) and A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989). Family life, fathers and sons, young men and physicians recur as subjects. Queen Esther is the most recent title, published in 2025.

Subject headings for John J. Donohue's books list martial arts, martial arts fiction, thrillers and the social life and customs of Japan. The catalogue holds 12 books from Forge of the Spirit (1991) to Keppan (2023), including Complete Kendo (1999), Sensei (2003), Deshi (2005), Tengu (2008) and Enzan (2014). Connor Burke and Yamashita Sensei is the series attached to Donohue.

John J. Gobbell writes action and war thrillers, and the Todd Ingram series is catalogued under the Gobbell name. Subject headings include World War, 1939-1945, American and Japanese naval operations, espionage and historical fiction. The 11 catalogued books run from The Brutus Lie (1991) to Across the Black Water (2026). For the John J. Gobbell books in order, The Last Lieutenant (1995), A Code For Tomorrow (1999) and When Duty Whispers Low (2002) follow the first title.

Aviation is the through-line of John J. Nance's catalogue: 22 books published between 1984 and 2017, from Splash of Colors, an account of the collapse of Braniff International, to 16 Souls (2017). Nance, born in 1946, is an American pilot, attorney and analyst of aviation and healthcare safety as well as a novelist. Air pilots, airlines, aircraft accidents and their investigation fill the subjects, alongside terrorism and the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Kat Bronsky is the one series, and the catalogue is likely complete.

John Jackson Miller

53 books• 23 series

John Jackson Miller, born in 1968, is an American science fiction author, comic book writer and commentator, known for work on the Star Wars franchise and for research into comic book circulation history published as the Standard Catalog of Comic Books series and on the Comichron website. The catalogue holds 53 entries, among them The Standard Catalog of Comic Books (2002), Warman's Comic Book Field Guide (2004), Star Wars: Vector, Vol. 1 (2005) and Batman: Revolution (2025). Listings include Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic, Star Wars: Knight Errant Graphic Novels, Star Wars: Lost Tribe Of The Sith, Star Trek: Prey, Mass Effect Graphic Novels and Orion Offensive. Subjects cover comic books and strips, graphic novels, space warfare, space ships and Star Wars fiction. Entries dated 1990 to 1995 carry the byline John J. Miller instead.

John William Jakes (March 31, 1932 to March 11, 2023) was an American writer of historical and speculative fiction. Jakes wrote The Kent Family Chronicles and the North and South trilogy set in the American Civil War, and used the pen name Jay Scotland. The catalogue lists 73 books from The Texans Ride North (1952) to The Gods of Newport (2006). Other series include Johnny Havoc, Lou Largo, Brak the Barbarian and the Crown Family Saga. Subjects range across westerns, frontier life, science fiction and private investigators.

John Katzenbach

16 books• 2 series

Psychological thrillers are John Katzenbach's territory: serial murderers, stalkers, criminals and the journalists who write about them. Born in 1950, Katzenbach worked as a criminal court reporter for the Miami Herald and the Miami News before leaving newspapers for fiction. The first novel, In the Heat of the Summer (1982), was nominated for an Edgar Award and reached the screen in 1985 as The Mean Season. Sixteen books are catalogued through The Architect (2026), among them Just Cause (1992), Hart's War (1999) and The Analyst (2002).