Authors whose first name starts with J, page 2 of 13

Jack Cartwright has 28 books in the catalogue, all published between 2022 and 2026. Dead Like Them (2022) is the first title and Into The Woods (2026) is the newest. Cartwright's series are Wild Fens, the Deadly Wolds Murder Mysteries and the DCI Cook Murder Mystery. Early titles include Dance With Death, One For Sorrow and Suffer In Silence.

Jack Cavanaugh writes religious historical fiction, much of it in saga form. The American Family Portrait series is the longest run, opening the catalogue in 1994 with The Puritans and The Colonists and continuing through The Patriots, The Pioneers, The Adversaries and The Allies. Twenty-nine catalogued books reach I am NOT a Demon, also catalogued as Behold, in 2024, with Great Awakenings, Kingdom Wars, Songs in the Night, African Covenant and Book of Books alongside. The Reformation, the Second World War and South Africa supply further settings.

Jack Coughlin is a retired United States Marine Corps gunnery sergeant who writes military thrillers and nonfiction. The catalogue opens with his autobiography, Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper (2005), and runs to 13 books ending with In the Crosshairs (2017). The Kyle Swanson Sniper novels carry the fiction. Subjects across the catalogue include snipers, special operations, terrorism and the Iraq War.

Jack Dane's catalogue holds nine books, all published in 2024 and 2025. The John Kincaid novels, Only The Bones Know, All That Remains Behind and In The Quiet Night, all 2024, open the list, and the 2025 titles follow: His First Wife, Such Lovely Neighbors, The Apartment Across The Hall, The New Sitter, The Other Couple and Don't Go Downstairs.

Jack Du Brul is an American techno-thriller novelist, born October 15, 1968, in Burlington, Vermont. Vulcan's Forge (1998) opens the catalogue of 14 books, followed by Charon's Landing (1999), The Medusa Stone (2000), Pandora's Curse (2001), River Of Ruin (2002) and Deep Fire Rising (2003). The Lightning Stones (2015), The Titanic Secret (2019) and The Iron Storm (2025) are later titles. Philip Mercer is the series on the author page, and Isaac Bell also appears among the characters. Geologists, terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, Nazis and treasure feature in the subject tags.

Jack Finney (1911-1995) wrote American science fiction and thrillers, and time travel is the thread running through the work. The catalogue holds 16 titles from The Third Level (1940) to From Time to Time (1995), taking in 5 Against the House (1954), The Body Snatchers (1955), also published as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Assault on a Queen (1959) and Time and Again (1970). Ordinary people meeting extraordinary circumstances is the other recurring theme, and many of the books were adapted for film or television.

Jack Flynn has a single catalogued book: Blood in the Water (2020), a mystery running 352 pages. No further title has followed it, and the entry stands alone in this directory under the Jack Flynn name.

Jack Gatland has 62 books in the catalogue, published from 2020 onward. The first listed title is Liquidate the Profits (2020), and early entries include Letter From The Dead (2020), A Dinner To Die For (2021) and Murder Of Angels (2021). Seven series appear under the name: Detective Inspector Declan Walsh, Tom Marlowe, Ellie Reckless Crime Thrillers, Liam Harper, Sebastian Silver Cozy Mysteries, Hunter & Chase and Damian Lucas. A Model For Murder (2026) is the latest title, and Bury The Past is due in 2027.

Jack Grimwood writes espionage thrillers. Moskva (2016) opens a sequence built around Tom Fox, with Nightfall Berlin (2018) following; The Return (2019), Island Reich (2021) and Arctic Sun (2023) complete 5 catalogued books. Moscow, Berlin, intelligence officers, missing persons and serial murder supply the material. No title has appeared since 2023.

Jack Heath is an Australian writer of fiction for children and adults, living in Gungahlin, Canberra. The Danger, Scream, Liars and Timothy Blake series are the work Heath is best known for. Shortlistings include the ACT Book of the Year Award, CBCA Notable Book Award, the Aurealis science fiction book of the year and the Australian of the Year Award. The catalogue lists 46 books from The Lab (2006) to The Mistake (2025), and subjects include spies, genetic engineering, kidnapping and thieves.

Espionage, terrorism and the Second World War supply Jack Higgins with his material. Higgins published the earliest of 76 catalogued books as Harry Patterson, among them Sad Wind from the Sea (1959), Cry of the Hunter (1960) and Hell Is Too Crowded (1962). Sean Dillon, Paul Chavasse, Liam Devlin and Martin Fallon head series of their own, alongside standalone thrillers. The Midnight Bell, published in 2016, closes the catalogue.

Jack Hunt's catalogue runs to 93 books published between 2013 and 2026, from Under the Ground (2013) to Blood Ties (2026). Post-disaster survival supplies most of the series names: EMP Survival, A Powerless World, Agora Virus, Cyber Apocalypse, Camp Zero, Survival Rules and Safety Plan. High Peaks Mystery Thriller, Lone Survivor and Outlaws of the Midwest run alongside them. The median Hunt book is 400 pages. Hunt continues to publish.

Jack Jordan writes crime and suspense thrillers. Nine books are catalogued between 2016 and 2026: Anything for Her and My Girl (2016), A Woman Scorned and Before Her Eyes (2018), Night by Night (2019), Do No Harm (2022), Conviction (2023), Redemption (2024) and Deception (2026).

Jack Kerouac

47 books

Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet, and a pioneer of the Beat Generation alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. The catalogue carries 47 books dated 1942 to 2018, a span that runs long past Kerouac's death in 1969 through posthumous publication. The Sea Is My Brother (1942) and And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945) sit at one end, On the Road (1957) and The Dharma Bums (1958) in the middle, and Piers of the Homeless Night (2018) at the other. Poetry, letters and biography fill out the list beside the fiction.

Jack Ketchum

43 books• 2 series

Jack Ketchum was the pen name of Dallas William Mayr (10 November 1946 to 24 January 2018), an American horror novelist. Ketchum won four Bram Stoker Awards, received three more nominations and was named Grand Master at the 2011 World Horror Convention. Offspring and Red, two Ketchum novels, were adapted to film. Off Season (1980) appears in the catalogue, followed by Hide and Seek (1980), Cover (1987), She Wakes (1989) and The Girl Next Door (1989). Gorilla In My Room (2019) is the newest title. Subjects include horror, psychopaths, kidnapping, captivity and Maine.

Jack L. Chalker

60 books• 12 series

Jack L. Chalker (17 December 1944 to 11 February 2005) was an American science fiction author. Before writing full time, Chalker spent 12 years teaching history in Baltimore City Schools and left in 1978. Chalker belonged to the Washington Science Fiction Association and helped found the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. The catalogue records 60 books from A Jungle of Stars (1976) to Kaspar's Box (2003). Series include Well Of Souls, Dancing Gods, Soul Rider, Four Lords of the Diamond, Rings of the Master and Changewinds, and Nathan Brazil and Mavra Chang are named characters in the subject records.

Jack Lively has 10 books in the catalogue, published from 2020 to 2026, and Tom Keeler is the one series listing. Straight Shot (2020) comes first, followed by Switch Back (2020), Breacher (2021), Hard Candy (2022) and Impact (2022). Later titles include Badlands (2024), The Reckoning (2025) and Backlash (2026). The catalogue marks Jack Lively as still publishing.

Jack London

156 books• 2 series

Jack London (January 12, 1876 to November 22, 1916), born John Griffith Chaney, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. London helped pioneer commercial fiction and the American magazine, and became one of the first American writers to win international celebrity and a large fortune from writing. A member of the radical San Francisco literary group "The Crowd", London campaigned for animal welfare, workers' rights and socialism. Those causes shaped The Iron Heel, a dystopian novel, and The People of the Abyss, a non-fiction exposé, as well as War of the Classes and Before Adam. The catalogue lists 156 titles from The Wisdom Of The Trail (1899), including The Son of the Wolf (1900) and Children of the Frost (1902).

Jack Mars writes espionage and action thrillers at volume: 203 catalogued books since 2015. Luke Stone leads the first sequence, from Any Means Necessary (2015) through Oath of Office and Situation Room, and the Agent Zero books follow. Later series include Spy Game, Jake Mercer, Lara King, Axel Strike, Cole Hunter, Connor Cross and Cyrus Drake. Terrorism and cyberterrorism are the catalogued subjects, and Cross Asset is scheduled for 2027.

Jack McDevitt

35 books• 4 series

Jack McDevitt, born April 14, 1935, is an American science fiction author whose novels often turn on contact with alien races and on archaeology, including xenoarchaeology. Two sets of characters carry most of the books: the relic hunters Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath, and the faster-than-light pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins. Seeker took the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and McDevitt has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and John W. Campbell awards many times. The catalogue lists 35 books from The Hercules Text (1986) to Doorway to the Stars (2024), including A Talent for War (1989), The Engines of God (1994), Eternity Road (1997) and Moonfall (1998). The first published McDevitt story was "The Emerson Effect" in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981.

Jack Murray writes mystery across five series: Lord Kit Aston, Agatha Aston, DI Nick Jellicoe, the Bobbie Flynn Mysteries and the Danny Shaw / Manfred Brehme books. 31 catalogued titles run from The Affair of the Christmas Card Killer (2018) to The Auction Lot Murders (2026), among them The Chess Board Murders (2018), The Frisco Falcon (2019), The Medium Murders (2020) and The Witchfinder General Murders (2020). Murray remains actively publishing.

PRIMAL is the recurring name in Jack Silkstone's special-operations thrillers. Seventeen books are catalogued between 2011 and 2020, opening with Primal Origins (2011) and Primal Unleashed (2011) and running through PRIMAL Vengeance (2013), PRIMAL Fury (2014), PRIMAL Nemesis (2015) and PRIMAL Renegade (2015). The SEAL and Primal 2055 series sit alongside. Weapons of mass destruction, Afghanistan and human trafficking are the recorded subjects.

Jack Slater's catalogue contains 42 books published between 2017 and 2026. The earliest titles, Nowhere to Run, No Place to Hide and No Way Home, all appeared in 2017. Five series are listed: DS Peter Gayle, Jason Trapp, Blake Larsen, Gideon Ryker and Will Roper. Other titles include Dark State (2018), False Flag (2019) and Flash Point (2019). The newest entry is No Refuge In The Badge (2026).

Jack Stainton has nine catalogued books, published from A Guest to Die For (2020) to Before You Knew (2026). You're Family Now (2021), Mother (2022), He Is Here and Last One To Lie (both 2023), Dead Ever After and The Boss's Wife (2024) and Her Perfect Husband (2025) fall between them. Two's Company is the one named series, and Stainton is actively publishing.

Jack Steen writes horror. The catalogue holds 23 books dated 2020 to 2026, opening with Patient 1024 (2020) and The Asylum Confessions (2020). Most titles belong to the Asylum Confession Files, which group entries such as Killer Families (2021), Killers & Cults (2021) and Murder for Marriage (2021), with a Haunting series alongside. The median book runs 246 pages. Killer Grandparents (2026) is the newest title.

Tales from the Gas Station is the series that carries most of Jack Townsend's catalogue, four volumes published between 2018 and 2022. Six books are catalogued in all, with Bedside Manor (2021) and The Green Night (2023) outside the series. Nothing new has been catalogued since 2023.

Jack Vance

116 books• 14 series

Jack Vance, born John Holbrook Vance (1916–2013), was an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mysteries, some of the mysteries appearing under pen names including Ellery Queen. Honours include the 1984 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, Grand Master status from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1997, and induction into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2001. The catalogue lists 116 books, among them the Dying Earth, Demon Princes, Tschai, Alastor and Cadwal Chronicles series, plus The Languages of Pao (1957).

Jack Whyte

17 books• 4 series

Jack Whyte (15 March 1940 - 22 February 2021) was a Scottish-Canadian novelist of historical fiction who left Scotland for Canada in 1967 and settled in Kelowna, British Columbia. The catalogue holds 17 books published between 1992 and 2018, opening with The Skystone (1992) and closing with The Burning Stone (2018). Subject tags cover Arthurian romances, Britons, Romans, Scotland, kings and rulers, and the Crusades, with fantasy and adventure alongside the historical filing. The headings are the Camulod Chronicles, the Templar Trilogy and a non-fiction list; Forty Years in Canada: A Memoir dates from 2006. The Jack Whyte run is listed as likely complete.

Jackie Ashenden has 90 books in the catalogue, from Falling For Finn (2013) to His Forced Sicilian Bride (2026). Talking Dirty With the Boss, Talking Dirty with the CEO and Talking Dirty With the Player all arrived in 2013. Series include Nine Circles, Texas Bounty, Bad Boy Sheikhs, Billionaire Fairy Tales, Motor City Royals, Tate Brothers, 11th Hour, Kings of Sydney and Billion $ Bastards. Subjects include billionaire and royalty romance, romantic suspense, erotica, family secrets and revenge.

Scotland supplies the setting for Jackie Baldwin's crime fiction. Three series divide the 8 catalogued books: the DI Frank Farrell novels, which open with Dead Man's Prayer (2016); the Detective Grace McKenna Scottish murder mysteries; and the Highland Bookshop Murders, which reach Poison at the Wild Haggis Bookshop in 2026. Ex-clergy, missing children and investigation are among the recorded subjects.

Jackie Collins

40 books• 6 series

Jackie Collins wrote about Hollywood, the film business and the women who fought their way through it. 40 catalogued books run from The World Is Full of Married Men (1960) through The Stud (1969), The Love Killers (1974), The World Is Full Of Divorced Women (1975) and Lovers and Gamblers (1977), ending at The Santangelos. Lucky Santangelo is the character Collins is best known for, joined by the Madison Castelli and Fontaine Khaled books. The catalogue is likely complete.

Jackie Kabler writes crime and mystery fiction. The Cora Baxter Mysteries follow a television journalist and open with The Dead Dog Day (2015), continuing through The Deadline (2016) and The Development (2018). Standalone psychological crime follows from Am I Guilty? (2019) onward, including The Perfect Couple (2020), The Happy Family (2021), The Murder List (2022), The Vanishing of Class 3B (2023), The Life Sentence (2024) and The Revenge Plot (2025). Kabler, born in 1966, is a British freelance television presenter and a reporter for QVC. Eleven books are catalogued through 2026.

Jaclyn Goldis has 5 catalogued books published between 2021 and 2026: When We Were Young (2021), The Chateau (2023), The Main Character (2024), The Safari (2025) and The Last Time We Saw Her (2026). No series is recorded for Goldis, and the titles arrive roughly a year apart. The catalogue is open.

Jaclyn Moriarty is an Australian novelist known above all for young adult fiction. Moriarty has taken a Davitt Award, and an Aurealis Award for Best Children's Fiction. The Ashbury/Brookfield books start at Feeling Sorry for Celia (2000) and continue through The Year of Secret Assignments (2003), The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie (2006), Dreaming of Amelia (2009) and The Ghosts of Ashbury High (2009). The Colours of Madeleine trilogy follows from A Corner of White (2012), and the catalogue holds 19 books reaching 2026.

Jacob Peppers is filed under fantasy, with 44 books catalogued since A Sellsword's Compassion (2017). A Sellsword's Resolve, A Sellsword's Valor and A Sellsword's Wrath followed in 2018. Reckoning of Steel (2026) is the newest title, and Blood of Dragons is due in 2027. Named series include Last Eternal, Seven Virtues, Saga of the Known Lands, Nightfall Wars, Antiheroes, Of Frost and Flame, Essence Chronicles, Everwar and Cities of Sigmar.

Jacqueline Carey

23 books• 6 series

Jacqueline Carey is an American writer, born 9 October 1964, working primarily in fantasy. Kushiel's Legacy is Carey's largest work, split into the Phedre, Imriel and Moirin trilogies and opening with Kushiel's Dart (2001); Phedre no Delaunay is its central character. The 23 catalogued titles run from Angels: Celestial Spirits in Legend and Art (1997) to Cassiel's Servant (2023), and take in the Sundering books, Santa Olivia and the Agent of Hel series. Courts and courtiers, kings and rulers, quests and erotic literature recur as subjects, across books of a median 610 pages.

Jacqueline Druga's catalogue runs to 194 books, beginning with The Peacekeeper (2000) and reaching The Day They Came in 2026. Early titles include Bob, Surviving the Apocalypse and The Nerdfly (all 2001) and Sister Perpetua Is an Alien (2004). Series under the Druga name include Beginnings, Sleepers, Zombie Battle, Flu, My Dead World, Last Mile, Rectify and Earth Endures. Subjects recorded for the catalogue are historical fiction and children's fiction, and new titles continue to appear.

Jacqueline Susann

6 books

Jacqueline Susann wrote six catalogued books. Every Night, Josephine! (1963) opens the list, a book about her dog; Valley of the Dolls (1966) followed and stands among the best-selling books in publishing history. With The Love Machine (1969) and Once is Not Enough (1973), Susann became the first author to put three novels in a row at the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Dolores (1975) and Yargo (1979) complete the catalogue, both appearing after her death in 1974. Susann was born in 1918 and worked as an actress as well as a novelist, and the motion picture and television industries supply much of her subject matter.

Jacqueline Wilson

178 books• 15 series

Jacqueline Wilson, born Jacqueline Aitken on 17 December 1945, is an English novelist who writes for children. Adoption, abuse and divorce are among the realistic topics the novels take on. Wilson made a debut in 1969 and has passed 100 books; this catalogue lists 178, the earliest dated entry being Hide And Seek (1972) and the latest The Seaside Sleepover (2025). Tracy Beaker, Hetty Feather, Girls, Sleepovers and Stevie Day are among the series. Friendship, sisters, family life and schools appear in the subject records.

Jacqueline Winspear

23 books• 5 series

Jacqueline Winspear, a mystery writer born on 30 April 1955, is the author of Maisie Dobbs, a series examining the aftermath of World War I. Books in the series have won Winspear several mystery writing awards. The catalogue lists 24 Winspear books, starting with Maisie Dobbs (2003) and including Birds of a Feather (2004) and Pardonable Lies (2005). The Comfort of Ghosts (2024) is the newest published title, and Charlie Bright is scheduled for 2027. Subjects include women private investigators, both world wars and missing in action.

Jacqueline Woodson

42 books• 7 series

Jacqueline Woodson, born February 12, 1963, is an American writer of books for children and young adolescents. Miracle's Boys is Woodson's best-known book, and Brown Girl Dreaming, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers and Show Way each earned a Newbery Honor. Woodson was Young People's Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017 and National Ambassador for Young People's Literature for 2018 to 2019. Another Brooklyn reached the 2016 National Book Award shortlist for fiction. Honors include the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2018), the Hans Christian Andersen Award (2020) and a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship. The catalogue lists 42 books from Last Summer with Maizon (1990) to Remember Us (2023), with subjects such as African Americans, friendship, family life, race relations and grief.

Jacquelyn Frank writes paranormal romance. Rapture, catalogued at 2009, reached number 8 on The New York Times paperback fiction chart. Vampires, spirits, the supernatural and blessing and cursing appear among the recorded subjects. The listing holds 43 books between 2006 and 2020, opening with Jacob (2006) and closing on Seduce Me in Shadows (2020), and the run is marked likely complete. Nightwalkers and Immortal Brothers are the recorded character groupings, with World of Nightwalkers, Shadowdwellers, Energy Vampires and Gatherers among the series.

Jacquelyn Mitchard

29 books• 3 series

Jacquelyn Mitchard is an American journalist and novelist who also writes for children. The Deep End of the Ocean (1996) was the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club, on 17 September 1996. Twenty-nine books are catalogued from Mother Less Child: The Love Story of a Family (1985) to The Birdwatcher (2025), among them The Most Wanted (1998), A Theory of Relativity (2001), Twelve Times Blessed (2003) and children's titles such as Baby Bat's Lullaby (2004). Mitchard's series are Cappadora Family, Midnight Twins and What We Saw at Night. Mitchard teaches creative writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Jada Fisher has 84 books in the catalogue, published from 2018 to 2026 and filed in the Fantasy genre. Chosen (2018) is listed as the first title, with Altered Reality, New Reality, Oracle and Power of the Seers from the same year. Series include Dragon Guard, Brindle Dragon, Dragon Oracle, Rise of the Black Dragon, Dragon's Squire and Last Free Dragon. Battle for King's Tower (2026) is the newest entry, and the catalogue is marked as ongoing.

Jade Presley has 7 catalogued books across two series, Shattered Isle and Never List. Four titles appeared in 2022, Her Mates, Her Revenge, Her Villains and The Assassins, followed by The Reckoning (2023), The Never List (2025) and The King's List (2026). Presley is still publishing.

Jaden Skye wrote 25 mysteries between 2011 and 2018. Death By Honeymoon (2011) opens the Caribbean Murder series, and the titles that follow run Death by Divorce, Deceit, Desire, Jealousy, Marriage, Obsession, Proposal and Betrayal. Murder in the Keys, Killing Game and Tom's River Saga are the other three series, and the catalogue ends with No Place to Deceive (2018).

Jae has 58 catalogued books, published between 2007 and 2026, at a median 79 pages. The run opens with Backwards to Oregon (2007) and reaches Sparks (2026), with the 2010s the heaviest decade. Nine series organise the output: Oregon, Fair Oaks, Portland Police Bureau, Shape-Shifter, Moonstone, Vampire Diet, Just a Touch Away, Matchmaking Cats and Heart-to-Heart Medical Romance. Conflict of Interest, Second Nature, Hidden Truths and Manhattan Moon sit in the early run.

Jagger Cole has 70 books catalogued from 2020 to 2026. Named series include Bratva Captive, Dark Bratva Academy, Venomous Gods, Kings & Villains, Scaliami Crime Family, Dark Descendants, Savage Heirs, Darkest Dance, Cinder, Forever Always and Tuff Built. Titles from 2020 include Always Hers, Captivated and Cherished. Dance of Monsters is the newest book, from 2026.

Jaime Jo Wright writes Christian romantic suspense with a haunted edge to the settings. The House on Foster Hill (2017) opens a catalogue of 20 books, followed by The Curse of Misty Wayfair, The Haunting at Bonaventure Circus, On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor, The Premonition at Withers Farm and The Souls of Lost Lake. What the Forest Hides is scheduled for 2027.

Jaine Diamond has 23 catalogued books published between 2015 and 2027. The run opens with Deep (2015), followed by Dirty Like Me and Dirty Like Us (2016), Deeper and Dirty Like Brody (2017), then Dirty Like Dylan, Dirty Like Jude, Dirty Like Seth and Dirty Like Zane (2018). Three series are listed for Diamond: the Bayshore Billionaires, the Vancity Villains and Orchard Cove. Thirst For Me appeared in 2026 and Juicy Little Secrets is scheduled for 2027.

Jake Needham writes crime novels set in Asia, with Thailand and Singapore as the recurring locations. Two figures return across the books: Inspector Samuel Tay and Jack Shepherd. The Big Mango (1999) opens a catalogue of 20 titles taking in Laundry Man (2002), The Ambassador's Wife (2008), The Umbrella Man (2012) and The King of Macau (2014), and reaching A Jury Of His Peers (2026). Needham groups the work as the Mean Streets of Asia Crime Novels and the Charlie Trust series.

Jake Tapper

8 books• 1 series

Jake Tapper writes political non-fiction and political fiction. Eight titles are catalogued from Body Slam (1999) to Original Sin and Race Against Terror, both 2025, with The Outpost (2012), The Hellfire Club (2018) and All the Demons Are Here (2023) between them. Charlie and Margaret Marder is the named fiction series. Presidents, governors, political campaigns and the 2000 United States election fill the subject tags.

James A. Michener

50 books• 1 series

James A. Michener (February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American writer of more than 40 books, most of them long family sagas tracing many generations in a single geographic setting, with detailed history woven in. Tales of the South Pacific and Return to Paradise, both from 1947, are the earliest listed titles, followed by The Fires of Spring (1949), Sayonara (1953), The Bridges at Toko-ri (1953) and Hawaii (1959). Many of Michener's books were bestsellers and Book of the Month Club picks, and the research behind them was noted for its thoroughness. Travel, civilization and the Korean War feature in the subjects.

James Alexander Thom (1933-2023) was an American novelist of the frontier and of colonial American history, working from heavy documentary research. Follow the River (1981), drawn from the Draper's Meadow massacre of 1755, is Thom's best-known book. Long Knife (1979), From Sea to Shining Sea (1984), Panther in the Sky (1989) and The Children of First Man (1994) stand beside it, with the Shawnee, western exploration and Clark's 1778-1779 Illinois expedition among the subjects. Sixteen titles are catalogued, from Let the Sunshine In (1976) to Once Upon a Time It Was Now (2017). Thom served in the Marine Corps in Korea and taught journalism at Indiana University.

James Baldwin

40 books• 4 series

James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987), born James Arthur Jones, was an American writer and civil rights activist whose essays, novels, plays and poems drew wide acclaim. Time magazine ranked Go Tell It on the Mountain among the top 100 English-language novels. The essay collection Notes of a Native Son (1955) established Baldwin as a voice for human equality, and a 1965 debate with William Buckley became a landmark on race in the United States. Catalogued works include Giovanni's Room (1956), Another Country (1962) and The Fire Next Time (1963), with race relations and African American life as recurring subjects.

James Becker writes historical thrillers about relics and lost treasure. Nineteen books are catalogued between 2008 and 2023, beginning with The First Apostle (2008) and ending with Thoth's Riddle: Flights of Fantasy (2023). Chris Bronson is the recurring character, and the Chris Bronson sequence runs alongside the Lost Treasure of the Templars books, the Steven Hunter Thrillers and a set of standalone novels. The Moses Stone (2009), The Messiah Secret (2010), The Nosferatu Scroll (2011), Echo of the Reich (2012) and The Lost Testament (2013) fill out the middle of the run. Christian antiquities, the Knights Templar, cryptographers and treasure troves are the recurring subjects.

A Street Cat Named Bob (2012) made James Bowen's name and started a run of nine books about one animal. Bowen was a homeless street musician in London, and the books record his life with Bob the cat. The World According to Bob (2013), For the Love of Bob (2014) and A Gift from Bob (2015) follow, alongside children's titles such as Bob: No Ordinary Cat and My Name Is Bob, and the run closes with The Little Book of Bob (2018).

James Byrne is catalogued with 4 books published between 2022 and 2026. The run opens with The Gatekeeper (2022) and continues through Deadlock (2023), Chain Reaction (2025) and Storm Warning (2026). Byrne writes the Dez Limerick series and remains actively publishing.

James Caine has 19 books in the catalogue, all dated 2022 to 2026. The run starts with The Affair, The Girl Outside, The In-Laws and The Patients List in 2022 and reaches The Wife Across the Street in 2026. Other titles include The Boss, The Family Cabin, The Jealous Wife, A Happy Marriage and A Sister's Promise. No series is recorded. Caine's release status is ongoing.

Sam Johnstone heads James Chandler's thrillers, which start with Misjudged (2020) and take their titles from the courtroom, False Evidence, Capital Justice, The Truthful Witness, Bodies of Proof. Eleven catalogued books reach Reasonable Suspicion in 2026, with Smith and Bauer as the second series, at a median 364 pages.