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John L. Campbell is a horror writer; subject headings for the 11 catalogued books include zombies, survival, virus diseases and the occult and supernatural. Omega Days is the series on the site, and the titles include Omega Days (2013), Ship of the Dead (2014), Crossbones (2015), Drifters (2015) and The Feral Road (2016). Two 2015 titles, A Cruel and Bitter Nothing and A Judge from Salem, carry the name Atticus Wulf. The books span 2012 to 2017, from Red Circus (2012) to Cannibal Kingdom (2017), and the list is marked likely complete.

Sniping and commando operations are the subjects John L. Plaster's catalogue returns to across 8 books published between 1993 and 2017. Ultimate Sniper (1993) is a training manual for military and police snipers. Three titles cover the Studies and Observations Group of the US Military Assistance Command in Vietnam: SOG: Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam (1997), SOG: A Photo History of the Secret Wars (2000) and Secret Commandos (2004). Later books reach back to Civil War sharpshooting and, in Sniping in the Trenches (2017), to the First World War.

John Lanchester

11 books

John Henry Lanchester, born on 25 February 1962, is a British novelist and journalist whose book reviews run regularly in the London Review of Books. The catalogue lists 11 books from The Debt to Pleasure (1996) to Look What You Made Me Do (2026). Mr. Phillips (2000), Fragrant Harbor (2002), Capital (2012) and The Wall (2019) are among the titles, alongside I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay (2009) and How to Speak Money (2014). Subject headings range from food writers, cookery and dining to financial crises and investment bankers.

John Langan

12 books• 1 series

John Langan, born in 1969, is an American writer of contemporary horror. Langan won a Bram Stoker Award in 2016 for the novel The Fisherman, took a Bram Stoker nomination in 2008 for best collection, and has been a finalist for the International Horror Guild Award. Langan also sits on the board of directors of the Shirley Jackson Awards. Horror titles in this catalogue include Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters (2008), House of Windows (2009), The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies (2013), The Fisherman (2016), Sefira and Other Betrayals (2019), Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies (2020) and Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies (2022). This Fleshy Side of the Bone is dated 2026.

John Lantigua is an American journalist and crime novelist. Lantigua's journalism awards include the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, for work on voter fraud at The Miami Herald, and immigration coverage for The Palm Beach Post won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 2004 and 2006. Lantigua's crime fiction includes the series featuring Willie Cuesta, a Cuban American private investigator based in Miami. The catalogue lists 12 books from Heat Lightning (1987) to In the War Zone of the Heart (2022), including Burn Season, Twister and The Lady from Buenos Aires.

John Lawrence Reynolds is a Canadian author of both fiction and non-fiction. Three Reynolds novels have taken the Arthur Ellis Award: The Man Who Murdered God, Gypsy Sins and Murder Among the Pines. The Joe McGuire mysteries, set around Boston, and the Maxine Benson mysteries are the named series, while the non-fiction runs to titles such as RRSPs and RRIFs for dummies (1999). Reynolds was born in Hamilton, Ontario. 28 books are catalogued from 1989 to Beach Blonde in 2021, at a median of 262 pages.

The Second World War and the Cold War frame John Lawton's thrillers, set in London and built on police work and espionage. Frederick Troy heads the Inspector Troy series, Joe Wilderness leads a second, and standalone novels and short fiction sit beside them. Seventeen catalogued books run from Black Out (1995) through Old Flames (1996), A Little White Death (1998) and A Lily of the Field (2010) to Smoke and Embers in 2025.

John Le Carre

30 books• 5 series

John le Carré was the pen name of David John Moore Cornwell, an English novelist of espionage who lived from 19 October 1931 to 12 December 2020. During the 1950s and 1960s Cornwell worked for MI5 and MI6, and late in life took Irish citizenship. The catalogue counts 30 books, from Call for the Dead (1961) to A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré (2022). The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), the third novel, was an international bestseller and an award-winning film. George Smiley is the recurring figure, with Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974) and Smiley's People (1979) in the list. Subjects include the Cold War, spies and intelligence officers.

John Legg writes westerns set on the American frontier of the nineteenth century. The catalogue holds 60 books published between 1984 and 2026, from Cheyenne Lance to On the Devil's Trail, and stays active. Series include Arizona Territory, Colorado Territory, Rocky Mountain Lawmen, Mountain Country, Mountain Times, Savage Land, Forts of Freedom and Buckskin. Trappers, lawmen, gunfights and conflict with the Shoshoni and Arikara supply the material, across books averaging 256 pages.

John Lescroart, born January 14, 1948, writes legal and crime thrillers built around three recurring characters: Dismas Hardy, Abe Glitsky and Wyatt Hunt. More than 10 million copies of Lescroart's novels have sold, in 22 languages across more than 75 countries, and 18 titles have reached the New York Times bestseller list. San Francisco appears in the subject tags. The catalogue lists 35 books, opening with Sunburn (1981), then Son of Holmes (1986), Rasputin's Revenge (1987) and Dead Irish (1989). The Vig (1990), Hard Evidence (1993) and The 13th Juror (1994) come next. The Auguste Lupa Mystery series and standalone novels also appear.

John Locke writes thrillers and crime suspense. Forty-six catalogued books run from Lethal People in 2009 to The Enemy Next Door in 2022, built around four recurring figures: Donovan Creed, Dani Ripper, Emmett Love and Gideon Box. Kidnapping, missing persons and murderers supply the plots, and the 2010s are the densest decade. Nothing new has appeared since 2022.

John Lutz

66 books• 6 series

John Lutz (1939-2021) was an American writer in mystery, crime and suspense, with a career past fifty years, at least fifty books and roughly 250 short stories to it. Three private investigators carry the series work, Alo Nudger, Fred Carver and Frank Quinn, with St. Louis, Florida and New York among the settings. SWF Seeks Same, filmed in 1992 as Single White Female, is his best known title, and Lutz led both the Mystery Writers of America and the Private Eye Writers of America as president. The catalogue holds 66 books, from The Truth of the Matter (1971) to Single White Female Seeks Same (2022).

John M. Kimbro wrote gothic romance under several women's pen names, chiefly Katheryn Kimbrough and also Charlotte Bramwell and Ann Ashton. The catalogue holds 64 titles published between 1971 and 1987, from The Heiress to Wolfskill to If Love Comes. The Saga of the Phenwick Women is the major sequence. Titles follow the house-of-secrets pattern the genre ran on, as with The House on Windswept Ridge, Thanesworth House and The Phantom Flame of Wind House, across books averaging 253 pages.

John Maddox Roberts (1947-2024) wrote science fiction, fantasy and historical fiction, including the SPQR series and Hannibal's Children. The catalogue lists 52 books between 1977 and 2010, from The Strayed Sheep of Charun (1977) to The Year of Confusion (2010). Subjects record Decius Caecilius Metellus, Rome and private investigators beside the science fiction and fantasy. Other groupings include Falconer, Stormlands, Cingulum, Gabe Treloar, Space Angel and Act Of God. Eric Kotani shares the credit on 4 titles and Robert Jordan on 1, and the listing also carries Conan and Dragonlance shared-world material.

John Marrs is a British writer of psychological thrillers and speculative fiction and a former journalist. Marrs's novel The One (2016) was adapted into an eight-part Netflix series, and a sequence of standalone near-future novels shares its fictional universe. The catalogue lists 14 Marrs books, from The Wronged Sons / When You Disappeared (2013) to Dead in the Water (2026), including The Passengers (2019), The Minders (2020) and The Marriage Act (2023).

John Marsden

41 books• 5 series

John Marsden (27 September 1950 to 18 December 2024) was an Australian writer and teacher who wrote more than 40 books. Marsden started writing for children while teaching, and So Much to Tell You (1987) was the first published book. The young adult novel Tomorrow, When the War Began (1993) started a series of seven books. In 2006 Marsden founded Candlebark School, an alternative school, and cut back on writing; the arts-focused Alice Miller School followed in 2016, both in Victoria's Macedon Ranges. Other titles include Letters from the Inside (1991) and The Dead of Night (1994), and the Ellie Chronicles also appear in the catalogue.

John Masters

27 books• 3 series

A British army officer turned novelist, John Masters (1914-1983) fought with the Chindits in Burma during the Second World War and became chief staff officer of the 19th Indian Infantry Division. Masters is best known for historical novels set in India, including Bhowani Junction (1954), filmed in 1956. Nightrunners Of Bengal (1951) opens the 27-book list. Masters also produced a three-volume autobiography and the Savage Family Chronicles.

Crime and detective fiction accounts for the 9 books catalogued under John McFetridge, published between 2003 and 2021. Two series are recorded: Eddie Dougherty Mystery and Gordon Stewart Mystery. Subjects record Toronto, arson and arson investigation, murder, art thieves, real estate agents and the motion picture industry. Below the Line (2003) opens the listing and Every City Is Every Other City (2021) closes it, taking in Dirty Sweet, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Swap / Let It Ride, Tumblin' Dice, Black Rock, A Little More Free and One or the Other.

Georgia is where John McMahon sets his police procedurals, with Detective P.T. Marsh working murder, arson and the legacy of lynching. The Good Detective (2019) opens the series, followed by The Evil Men Do and A Good Kill. Head Cases (2025) starts a second sequence around a federal Patterns and Recognition unit, continued in Inside Man. Five books make up the catalogue, at a median of 352 pages.

John Angus McPhee, born on 8 March 1931, is an American writer regarded as a pioneer of creative nonfiction. McPhee was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in General Nonfiction four times and won in 1999 for Annals of the Former World, a collection of five books. The George Polk Career Award followed in 2008, and McPhee has held the Ferris Professorship of Journalism at Princeton University since 1974. The catalogue lists 45 McPhee books, from A Sense of Where You Are (1965) to They're in the River (2025), including Oranges (1967), The Pine Barrens (1967) and Encounters with the Archdruid (1971). Subjects include geology, essays and travel.

John Michael Greer, born 1962, is an American writer and druid whose books cover religion, environmentalism and the occult. Subjects in the catalogue include magic, divination, geomancy, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Druidism. The 111 catalogued books begin with Paths of Wisdom (1996) and include Circles of Power (1997), The New Encyclopedia of the Occult (2003) and A World Full of Gods (2005). Series include Weird of Hali, Sterling Chronicles and Ariel Moravec Occult Detective, and The Complete Archdruid Report and After Oil also appear. The newest title is The Way of the Secret Temple (2025).

John Milton

24 books• 3 series

John Milton (9 December 1608 - 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist and civil servant. The 1667 epic Paradise Lost, composed in blank verse across 12 books, takes up the fall of man, the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan, and their expulsion from Eden; it raised Milton's standing among poets, and recognition arrived within his own lifetime. Milton served the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and afterwards under Oliver Cromwell, in a period of religious flux and political upheaval. The catalogue carries 24 entries dated from On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629) onward, including Lycidas (1638), Areopagitica (1644) and Eikonoklastes (1649).

John Morgan Wilson

10 books• 2 series

John Morgan Wilson, born on September 19, 1945, is an American journalist and crime writer. Wilson's Benjamin Justice novels follow a reclusive former reporter, brought down by a Pulitzer scandal and marked by personal loss, who works out of West Hollywood and is drawn into murder cases around Los Angeles. Simple Justice (1996), the first of them, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America. Six of the eight Justice books received Lambda Literary Award nominations for Best Gay Men's Mystery, and three won. The catalogue also lists the Philip Damon Mystery series, and Spider Season (2008) is the newest title.

Sir John Mortimer (1923-2009) practised as a barrister in Britain and wrote plays, screenplays and fiction. Horace Rumpole, the barrister of Rumpole of the Bailey, is the creation Mortimer is known for, and the Rumpole short stories were worked up from episodes of the television series Mortimer wrote himself. Forty-three titles are catalogued, from Charade (1947) to Forever Rumpole (2011), with the Rapstone Chronicles alongside the Rumpole books and London courtrooms and English politics across the subject list.

John Moss is a Canadian author, born John Errington Moss on February 7, 1940. After years teaching at the University of Ottawa, Moss began the Quin and Morgan novels. Moss has lectured on Canadian literature in Europe, the United States, Japan, Greenland and the Canary Islands, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. The catalogue opens with Sex and violence in the Canadian novel (1977), and police procedural, Toronto and Canadian literature criticism appear among the subjects. Still Waters (2008) and Grave Doubts (2009) are later titles, and Finding the Right Words (2025) is the newest.

John Nichol's books cover the Royal Air Force and the Second World War. Subjects attached to the catalogue include aerial operations, fighter pilots, British personal narratives and biography. Tornado Down (1992) and Team Tornado (1994) come early in the run, and The Last Escape (2002) and Tail-End Charlies (2003) follow. Eject! Eject! (2023) is the newest title listed, and nothing has been added since. Across the 14 books measured, the median length is 370 pages.

John Nichols is the author of the New Mexico Trilogy, and catalogue subjects include New Mexico, Mexican Americans, water rights, coming of age, Oklahoma and New York City. The 15 catalogued books span 1965 to 2022. The Sterile Cuckoo / Pookie (1965) and The Wizard of Loneliness (1966) are the earliest titles, followed by The Milagro Beanfield War (1974), The Magic Journey (1978) and The Nirvana Blues (1981). American Blood (1987) and Keep It Simple: A Defense of the Earth (1992) come later, and I Got Mine: Confessions of a Midlist Writer (2022) is the newest.

John Norman is the pen name of John Frederick Lange Jr., born in 1931, an American writer and philosophy professor. The Gor novels are the main work: science fantasy set on the imaginary world of Gor, with Tarl Cabot recurring, running from Tarnsman of Gor (1967) to Treasure of Gor (2024) and filling most of a 53-book catalogue. The Telnarian Histories form a second series, and The Cognitivity Paradox (1970) is a work of philosophy. Slavery, adventure and erotica recur as subjects, in books with a median length of 488 pages.

The John O'Brien listing covers 38 books dated 1990 to 2025. Leaving Las Vegas (1990) heads it, with The Assault on Tony's (1996) and Stripper Lessons (1997) alongside, and Las Vegas and Nevada stand as the catalogued subjects. Four series follow from 2009 on: A New World, Lifting the Veil, Ares Virus and a set of standalone novels, running through titles such as Chaos, Return, Awakening, Dissension and Sanctuary. Dominoes (2025) is the most recent entry.

John O’Hara

44 books

John O’Hara was an American writer who lived from 1905 to 1970 and turned out short stories in great number, helping to shape the New Yorker short story as a form. Appointment in Samarra (1934) and Butterfield 8 (1935) made O’Hara's name before the age of 30. The catalogue holds 44 titles and closes with The New York Stories in 2013. Marriage, adultery, social manners and self-destructive behaviour run through the work.

John P. Marquand (1893–1960) was an American novelist who first found readers with the Mr. Moto spy stories, beginning with Your Turn, Mr. Moto in 1935. Marquand later earned critical standing for satire, and The Late George Apley brought him the Pulitzer Prize in 1938. A recurring subject in Marquand's fiction is the confining codes of America's upper class and of people trying to join it. The catalogue holds 27 books, from The Unspeakable Gentleman (1922) to Warning Hill (1964).

John Patrick Green is an American author and illustrator, known for creating the children's graphic novel series InvestiGators and for illustrating the comic Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden. Alligators, detectives, humour, friendship and sibling rivalry appear among the subjects of 26 catalogued books published between 2010 and 2026, from Nothing but Trouble to Weather or Not. InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T., Kitten Construction Company, Teen Boat! and the Phineas and Ferb Comic Readers are the named series.

John Peel's 81 catalogued books begin with The Fireball XL5 Files and Island in the Sky in 1986 and end with It Came From The Isle of Man in 2023. Doctor Who, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine are among the names linked to the catalogue. Subjects span science fiction, fantasy, horror, the supernatural and children's fiction. Series include Outer Limits, Shockers, Fear the Year 2099, Dragonhome, Magical States of America and Lucy Wilson Mysteries. Terrance Dicks and Justin Richards each share the credit on 1 book.

John Pilger

12 books

John Pilger (9 October 1939 - 30 December 2023) was an Australian-born journalist and documentary filmmaker who also worked as a writer and scholar. From 1962 Pilger lived mainly in Britain. Pilger first gained international attention for reporting on the Cambodian genocide. American, Australian and British foreign policy drew Pilger's criticism as imperialist and colonialist, as did Australia's treatment of Indigenous Australians. Pilger was also a visiting professor at Cornell University. The catalogue lists 12 books from The Last Day (1976) to South Africa (2006), including A Secret Country: The Hidden Australia (1980), Hidden Agendas (1998) and Tell Me No Lies (2004).

John Pilkington writes historical mysteries set in Tudor and Stuart England. The Thomas the Falconer Mysteries open with The Ruffler's Child (2002); the Martin Marbeck Elizabethan spy novels, the Justice Belstrang Mysteries, the Bishopsgate Ward Mysteries and the Will Revill and Betsy Brand books follow. Treason, theft, political corruption and the playhouse supply the plots. Thirty catalogued titles reach Death of a Renegade (2026).

John R. Erickson is an American cowboy and author, born October 20, 1943, best known for the Hank the Cowdog series of children's novels. The catalogue lists 121 Erickson books from Through Time and the Valley (1978) to The Case of the Poison Toad (2025). The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog (1980) and The Further Adventures of Hank the Cowdog (1983) sit alongside titles such as Panhandle Cowboy (1980) and Cowboys Are Partly Human (1983). Subject tags include dogs, ranch life, humorous stories and the American West.

John R. Maxim is the author of the Bannerman series, and Paul Bannerman is named as a fictitious character in the catalogue subjects. The listed books run from 1980 to 2009, opening with Platforms (1980) and Abel Baker Charley (1983). Time Out of Mind (1986) and Lesko's Ghost (1989) came next. The Bannerman Solution (1989), The Bannerman Effect (1990) and Bannerman's Law (1991) followed. Thrillers, espionage, suspense and New York City appear among the subjects, and The Aisha Prophecy (2009) is the newest title.

Thrillers of war and military action define John R. Monteith's work. The Rogue Submarine series includes Rogue Avenger (2005), Rogue Crusader, Rogue Goliath and Rogue Invader. Monteith also writes the Wraith Hunter Chronicles and Archangels Wrath, and visionary and metaphysical fiction appears among the subjects. The 24-book list reaches Rogue Raiders in 2024.

John Rector writes crime and psychological suspense, and has taken prizes for short fiction. Nine books are catalogued, from The Grove (2009) to Broken (2020), with The Cold Kiss (2010), Already Gone (2011), The Walls Around Us (2011), Lost Things (2012), Out of the Black (2013), Ruthless (2015) and The Ridge (2017) between. Rector lives in Omaha, Nebraska, and rights to the novels have sold in North America, the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands. Subjects record crime, conspiracy, alcoholics and life change events.

John Ringo, born March 22, 1963, is an American author of science fiction and military fiction, with several New York Times best sellers. The work ranges from straight science fiction to military and political thrillers, and more than seven million copies are in print in seven languages. The catalogue starts with A Hymn Before Battle (2000), followed by Gust Front, March Upcountry and March to the Sea in 2001, and reaches Beyond the Rift (2026). Series include Posleen War, Black Tide Rising, Council Wars, Looking Glass, Troy Rising, Von Neumann's War and Special Circumstances. Subjects include space warfare, human-alien encounters, Navy SEALs and survival.

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

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

John Scalzi

75 books• 17 series

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

Murder in Mexico is John Scherber's main series, and Mexico is the setting the catalogue returns to, from Twenty Centavos (2009) and San Miguel de Allende: A Place in the Heart (2010) onward. The Townshend Vampire books take the fantasy side. Crime, suspense and thriller sit together in the subjects. The catalogue holds 49 titles dated 2009 to 2023, at a median of 304 pages, ending at Let's Close Our Eyes and Dream (2023).

John Shannon is an American novelist, born on 29 November 1943, whose later work is detective fiction. Shannon published four novels across the 1970s and 1980s and started the Jack Liffey mysteries in 1996. Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Graham Greene, Robert Stone and Jim Harrison are the influences Shannon names. The catalogue holds 19 books, from The orphan (1972) to Boystown (2025), with The Concrete River (1996) and The Cracked Earth (1999) among them.

John Shirley

98 books• 20 series

John Shirley, born February 10, 1953, is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and songwriter working in science fiction and horror. City Come A-Walkin' (1980) came before many books now tied to cyberpunk, and William Gibson called Shirley "cyberpunk's Patient Zero" in the introduction to a later edition. Shirley's fiction includes the A Song Called Youth trilogy and the collection Black Butterflies. With David J. Schow, Shirley co-wrote the screenplay for The Crow (1994), and Shirley has written lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult. The catalogue lists 98 books through The Silver Revolver (2025), including media tie-ins in the Bioshock and John Constantine Hellblazer lines.

John Shors has written ten novels, translated into nearly thirty languages and sold internationally as bestsellers. The Demon Seekers trilogy (2019 to 2020) is the most recent work. Earlier novels include Beneath a Marble Sky (2004), Beside a Burning Sea (2008), Dragon House (2009), Cross Currents (2011) and Unbound (2017), and subjects include India and the Taj Mahal. Shors has won several writing awards, and Hollywood has optioned several of the novels. Shors has spoken with over 3,000 book clubs on six continents and leads occasional literary tours to novel settings. Home is Boulder, Colorado.

John Sneeden has 13 books in the catalogue, published from The Signal (2014) to Dark Reckoning (2024). Sneeden's series are Delphi Group, Drenna Steel and Silas Beck. Other titles include The Portal, The Hades Conspiracy, Death List and The Anomaly.

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

John Stack writes historical fiction. Eight catalogued books run from 2009, when Captain of Rome and Ship of Rome both appeared, to Treachery in 2021. Subject headings cover the Punic wars, Rome, naval battles and sea stories, together with Great Britain, the Tudor period of 1485 to 1603 and the Armada of 1588. Masters of the Sea and Mercenary of Rome are Stack's two series, and Aces Over Ypres (2016) is also on the list.

John Steele writes action thrillers, and two series sit under that name: Jackie Shaw and Callum Burke. Ravenhill (2017), Seven Skins (2018), Dry River (2019), Rat Island (2021) and The Sky Turned Black (2022) make up that run, with one page count recorded at 320. The same author name in this catalogue also carries three titles from outside it, A History Of Ecclesiastical Proceedings Relative To The Third Presbyterian Church (2011), Pete and the Pottery Genie (2012) and Advancing Cultural Astronomy (2021), which stretch the listed span back to 2011.

John Steinbeck

44 books• 1 series

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

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

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

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

The Frank Burly series is the fiction catalogued for John Swartzwelder, an American comedy writer and novelist born on 8 February 1949 in Seattle. Swartzwelder started in advertising, wrote for Saturday Night Live in the mid-1980s and joined the original writing staff of The Simpsons in 1989, working there as writer and producer until 2003. The 17 catalogued books are tagged with humour, mystery, time travel and private investigators. The Time Machine Did It (2004) is the first, followed by Double Wonderful (2005) and The Exploding Detective (2007). Dead Detective Mountain (2023) is the newest.

John Trenhaile writes espionage thrillers, with books catalogued from The Man Called Kyril (1981) to Against All Reason (1994). Trenhaile's series are Stepan Povin and Simon Young. Titles include Nocturne for the General (1985), The Mahjong Spies (1986), The Gates of Exquisite View (1987), Krysalis (1989) and Blood Rules (1991). Aircraft hijacking appears among the subjects.

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

John Updike

83 books• 8 series

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

John Varley

33 books• 6 series

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