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Dave Gurney, a detective working murder and serial-murder cases in New York State, is the figure at the centre of John Verdon's fiction. The American novelist's catalogue holds 9 books, opening with the thriller Think of a Number (2010), published by Crown, and reaching Ghost Barn (2026). Police investigation and suspense are the recurring subjects. Verdon's novels average around 420 pages and continue to appear.

John W. Campbell

15 books• 3 series

John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8, 1910 to July 11, 1971) was an American science fiction writer and the editor of Astounding Science Fiction, later Analog Science Fiction and Fact, from late 1937 until Campbell's death in 1971. Campbell started writing science fiction at 18 while a student at MIT. Super-science space opera appeared under Campbell's own name; other stories used the pseudonym Don A. Stuart, and the pen names Karl Van Kampen and Arthur McCann also appear. The novella Who Goes There? (1938) became the films The Thing from Another World (1951) and The Thing (1982), plus a 2011 prequel. The Black Star Passes (1930) and The Mightiest Machine (1934) are catalogued titles.

John W. Dennehy has 15 books catalogued from 2016 to 2023. Clockwork Universe (2016) is the earliest title, and The Country Lawyer (2023) is the most recent. Dennehy's series is Country Lawyer. Ice Storm, Peddler's Bargain, Escape from Venus, Naval Spetsnaz and Pacific Rising date from 2016 and 2017, and Jurassic War followed in 2019.

John W. Mefford writes crime thrillers with recurring leads: Alex Troutt, Ivy Nash, Ozzie Novak, Booker and Jack Whitfield, with Alex & Ozzie pairing two of them. 61 catalogued books run from Committed (2011) to Dead Ringer (2026), with the 2010s the busiest decade. The 2016 titles all take an At prefix: At Bay, At Dawn, At Dusk, At Large. Ball & Chain and Greed Crime Thriller complete the series list.

John Wainwright wrote British police procedurals. His catalogue holds 77 books published between 1965 and 1995, from Ten Steps to the Gallows (1965) to Murder Story (1995). Wainwright built several police series around recurring officers, including Chief Inspector Lennox, Superintendent Gillant, Inspector Lyle, Superintendent Robert Blayde and Superintendent Ralph Flensing. The books run to a median of 221 pages, the 1970s were his heaviest decade, and the run is complete.

John Walker is credited on 139 catalogued books published between 2012 and 2026. The Sincerest Form of Flattery (2012) is the earliest title listed and Critical Mass (2026) the most recent. Walker works in long sequences, among them Rise of Mankind, the Statford Chronicles, Far From Home, the Liberation War, Ether War, Legacy War and Descendants War runs, Alpha Colony, Too Old to Die, Graduation Day and Veterans Code. Most of the catalogue dates from the 2020s.

John Weisman's 14 catalogued books span 1973 to 2011, starting with Guerrilla Theater: Scenarios for Revolution (1973). Weisman's named series is Headhunters. Subjects include thrillers, spies, assassination and the Central Intelligence Agency, and the list takes in Shadow Warrior (1989) and KBL: Kill Bin Laden (2011). The catalogue for Weisman is likely complete.

John Wilcox is the author of the Simon Fonthill series, catalogued under historical and war & military subjects. The Horns of the Buffalo (2004) is the earliest listed title, followed by The Road to Kandahar (2005), The Diamond Frontier (2006) and Last Stand at Majuba Hill (2007). Subjects include the British Army, the Zulu War of 1879, South Africa, India and China. The Guns of El Kebir (2007), Siege of Khartoum (2009) and The Shangani Patrol (2010) come later. The Arrow's Arc (2018) is the newest listed book.

John Wilker writes action-adventure science fiction, with 22 books published from 2017 to 2026. The Adventures of Wil Calder (2017) came first, and Big Ship, Lots of Guns and The Behemoth Job followed in 2018. Wilker's series are Space Rogues, Grand Human Empire, Rogue Enterprises, Expedition Inc and Invasive Species. Other titles include So This is Earth? and Stay Warm, Don't Die. Welcome, Please Leave (2026) is the newest.

John Wingate

27 books• 4 series

John Wingate (1920-2008) was a naval officer in the United Kingdom who wrote mostly on naval matters. The catalogue holds 27 books opening with Submariner Sinclair (1959) and running through Jimmy-the-One (1960), Sinclair in Command (1961), Nuclear Captain (1962), Torpedo Strike (1964) and The Fighting Tenth (1971). Recorded subjects include the Royal Navy's 10th Submarine Flotilla, British naval operations, Malta, the Mediterranean, the Second World War and Great Britain. Submariner Sinclair, WWII Action Thriller and Cold War Naval Thriller are the series recorded under Wingate's name.

John Wiswell

11 books

John Wiswell is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, born September 4, 1981. The short story Open House on Haunted Hill won the 2020 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Someone You Can Build a Nest In, the debut fantasy novel released in April 2024, won both the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. The catalogue holds 11 titles from 2020 to 2026, with The Dragon Has Some Complaints (2026) as the newest.

John Wyndham is the pen name used for the best-known work of John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (10 July 1903 to 11 March 1969), an English science fiction writer who also published as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. The Day of the Triffids (1951) and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957) head the list of Wyndham's best-known books, and The Midwich Cuckoos reached the screen twice as Village of the Damned. Some Wyndham stories take place in post-apocalyptic landscapes. The catalogue lists 28 books from Foul Play Suspected (1935) to Logical Fantasy: The Many Worlds of John Wyndham (2024), including The Kraken Wakes (1953) and The Seeds of Time (1956).

John Yunker's 9 catalogued books sit across two sets of subjects the listing records side by side: web site development, internet marketing, globalization and web design on one hand, penguins and whales on the other. Beyond Borders (2002) opens the run, followed by The Art of the Global Gateway (2010), The Savvy Client's Guide to Translation Agencies (2010), The Tourist Trail (2010), Think Outside the Country (2017), Bird Words (2018), Where Oceans Hide Their Dead (2018), Writing for Animals (2018) and Devils Island (2024). A John Yunker Mystery series is catalogued under the same credit.

Johnny B. Truant is an American writer across several genres, specialising in science fiction and fantasy stories; horror and fantasy are the subjects the catalogue records. Fat Vampire is the series Truant is best known for. The listing holds 46 books published between 2012 and 2025, among them All You Can Eat (2012), Fat Vampire (2012), Tastes Like Chicken (2012) and The Bialy Pimps (2012), closing with Plague of Demons (2025). WhiteSpace, Fat Vampire, Fat Vampire Chronicles, Save the World and Epic are the series listed, and the WhiteSpace titles are numbered as episodes. Avery Blake is credited on 2 titles beside Truant.

Johnny Boggs writes Westerns. Hannah Scott and Pete Belissari are the recurring leads, and the Hannah and the Horseman books ran across several titles between 1997 and 1999. The catalogue holds 73 books published between 1997 and 2024, opening with Hannah and the Horseman (1997) and reaching Bloody Newton (2024). Frontier and pioneer life, Texas, outlaws and murder trials recur as subjects. Killstraight and Frontier Story are the other named series, at a median of 249 pages.

Johnny Marciano writes children's fiction, with 9 books catalogued between 2019 and 2025. Two series are grouped under the name: Klawde, Evil Alien Warlord Cat and 66th Rebirth of Frankie Caridi. Enemies (2019), Evil Alien Warlord Cat (2019), The Spacedog Cometh (2019), Target: Earth (2020) and Revenge of the Kitten Queen (2021) sit early in the listing, followed by Emperor of the Universe (2020), How Did Humans Go Extinct? (2021), The 66th Rebirth of Frankie Caridi (2024) and Into the Oblivion (2025). Catalogue subjects record children's fiction and Oregon.

Johnny Shaw, born around 1970, is an American author and playwright with two Spotted Owl Awards and an Anthony Award. Catalogue subjects for the 10 books include thrillers, men's adventure, criminals, gold mines and missing persons, and Jimmy Veeder is the listed series. Dove Season (2010) is the earliest title, followed by Big Maria (2012) and Plaster City (2014). Floodgate (2016) and Imperial Valley (2017) come later, and The Southland (2020) is the newest.

Jojo Moyes

21 books• 5 series

Jojo Moyes writes contemporary fiction about women, families and the communities around them. Sheltering Rain (2002) is her earliest catalogued novel, and the Me Before You books and The Girl You Left Behind are the best known of her 21 titles. Mothers and daughters, single women and small-town life recur as subjects. Moyes published We All Live Here in 2025.

Jolie Day's catalogue runs to 27 books, published between 2015 and 2025. Max (2015) opens the listing and Quit Me If You Can (2025) closes it. Three series are recorded against the name: Rule Breakers, Oh Billionaires! and Next Door to a Billionaire. Day holds the sole credit on all 27 titles and is still publishing.

Series by Jolie Vines include Marry the Scot, Dark Island Scots, Wild Scots, Wild Mountain Scots, McRae Bodyguards, Body Count and Skeleton Crew. The catalogue records 37 books from 2019 to 2026. Hard Nox, Fight For Us, Storm the Castle, Love Most, Say Least and The Rival all date from 2019, Cocky Kilt from 2020, and Tyler's Rule (2026) is the newest.

Jon A. Jackson wrote the Detective Sergeant Mulheisen police procedurals, with Detroit, Michigan and Montana among the catalogue settings. The 11 catalogued books run from The Diehard (1977) to No Man's Dog (2004). The Blind Pig followed in 1978, and Grootka did not appear until 1990. Later titles include Hit on the House (1993), Deadman (1994) and Badger Games (2001). Subjects also record drug traffic and copper miners.

Horror is Jon Athan's line. 76 books are catalogued between Grandma Mary (2014) and PainSpacela (2026), organised into Tales From Under The Bed, Enter The Vortex, Restless Nightmares, Snuff Network, Night of the Killer Clowns and Heartless Heart-Ripper. Multi-volume collections dominate the early years, with four Enter The Vortex volumes in 2015 alone. Athan adds titles every year and the catalogue stays open.

Jon Berkeley, born in Dublin in 1962, works as an illustrator and children's author. Eight books are catalogued between 1995 and 2020. A Little Book of Celtic Wisdom (1995) and A Little Book of Irish Sayings (2002) sit beside recorded subjects of Celtic and Irish folk literature. The fiction runs to Chopsticks (2005), The Palace of Laughter (2006), The Tiger's Egg (2007), The Lightning Key (2009), The Hidden Boy (2010) and The Sleeper's Moon (2020), with subjects naming orphans, dragons, tigers, angels, mice and the circus. Two series stand under the name: Wednesday Tales and Bell Hoot.

Jon Cleary, who lived from 1917 to 2010, was an Australian novelist. His detective series follows Sydney police inspector Scobie Malone and begins with The High Commissioner in 1966. Cleary also wrote The Sundowners, a portrait of a rural family moving from one job to the next in the 1920s, and several of his books were adapted for film and television. The catalogue holds 54 titles from You Can't See Around Corners in 1947 onward, mixing police procedurals with wartime and adventure novels.

Jon Del Arroz writes science fiction about interplanetary voyages and imaginary wars, plus graphic novels. His 24 catalogued books begin with Star Realms (2016) and reach The Demon's Eye (2025). Series include Star Realms Novels, Flying Sparks Graphic Novel, Steam Knight, Aryshan War, Saga of the Nano Templar, Ixora Colony and King's Blood. Del Arroz also published Make Science Fiction Fun Again (2018).

Jon Evans writes thrillers and suspense, with backpacking, wilderness areas, hiking, smugglers and serial murders among the recorded subjects. Dark Places of The Earth is the series listed under the Evans name. Eight catalogued books run from Dark Places (2004) to Exadelic (2023), including The Blood Price (2005), Invisible Armies (2006), The Night Of Knives (2008), Beasts of New York (2010) and Swarm (2012).

Jon Fosse

25 books• 3 series

Jon Olav Fosse, born 29 September 1959, is a Norwegian author, translator and playwright. The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature went to Fosse for innovative plays and prose that give voice to the unsayable. Fosse's writing has been translated into over fifty languages, and no Norwegian playwright since Henrik Ibsen has been performed more. This listing holds 25 titles in English translation, from Nightsongs (1997) to Vaim (2025), taking in The Girl on the Sofa (2002), Aliss at the Fire (2004), the collections Plays One to Plays Five, and I Am The Wind (2011). Septology and Trilogien are the series recorded under Fosse's name.

Jon Hassler (1933-2008) was an American novelist and teacher who wrote about small-town life in Minnesota. Staggerford, an imaginary Minnesota town, gives its name to his main series and to the 1977 novel that opens it; Rookery State College is a second sequence. Teachers, Catholics, friendship, town custom and Native American life run through 23 catalogued books dated 1977 to 2021, at a median 282 pages. Hassler held a Regents professorship emeritus and a writer-in-residence post at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Jon Katz

36 books• 1 series

Dogs and farm life fill the later part of Jon Katz's catalogue; crime fiction fills the earlier. Katz, born in 1947, is an American journalist and photographer who wrote for HotWired, Slashdot and Slate, and whose first books include the Suburban Detective novels and the character Kit Deleeuw. Writing on geek subculture followed, then a long sequence on the relationship between people and animals, closing with Gus's Year in 2020. Thirty-six titles in all.

Jon Krakauer

13 books• 1 series

Jon Krakauer writes non-fiction about mountaineering, wilderness and the people drawn to them. Eiger Dreams (1990) opens a list of 13 catalogued books that holds Into the Wild (1996), Into Thin Air (1997), Under the Banner of Heaven (2003), Where Men Win Glory (2008) and Missoula (2015). Nothing later than 2018 is catalogued.

Jon Land is an American thriller author whose Caitlin Strong novels follow a fifth-generation Texas Ranger. The Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea books pair a Palestinian detective with a chief inspector of the Israeli police. Land is an emeritus board member of International Thriller Writers and sits on its marketing committee, and was a screenwriter for the film Dirty Deeds. The catalogue lists 55 books from The Doomsday Spiral (1983) to Icefall: The Rise of the Nine (2026), with Blaine McCracken, Jared Kimberlain and National Parks Thriller among the other series.

Jon McGoran writes thrillers and suspense. Three series are catalogued to the name: Detective Doyle Carrick, Crime Scene Unit and Spliced. Recorded subjects include forensic scientists, crime scene searches, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, criminals and fugitives from justice. Twelve books run from Body Trace (2006) to The Price of Everything (2025), taking in Drift (2013), Deadout (2014), Dust Up (2016), Spliced (2017) and Splintered (2019). McGoran is still publishing.

Jon Meacham

17 books

American political history is Jon Meacham's subject, written mostly as presidential biography. Voices in Our Blood (2001) opens the catalogue, followed by Franklin and Winston, American Gospel, American Lion on Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power and Destiny and Power. Seventeen titles run through 2026 to American Struggle, several adapted for younger readers, at a median of 450 pages.

Jon Mills has written 22 books between 2012 and 2026, beginning with Undisclosed (2012). The Promise, Clandestine and Retribution followed, and The Debt Collector appeared in 2015. Jon Mills's series are Debt Collector, the Undisclosed Trilogy and 50 States of Murder. Angel of Death, Hard to Kill and Prey appeared in 2016, and Wrong Mail (2026) is the newest title.

Jon Ronson

15 books

Jon Ronson is a British-American journalist and filmmaker who writes sceptical, informal investigations of fringe politics and science, appearing in his own stories as a faux-naïf narrator. Them: Adventures with Extremists (2001), The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) and The Psychopath Test (2011) are the best known of 15 catalogued titles, which reach The Castle (2026). Ronson has written for The Guardian, City Life and Time Out, and has made documentary films for the BBC and two documentary series for Channel 4.

Jon Scieszka, born September 8, 1954, is an American author of picture books such as The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! and Math Curse, often illustrated by Lane Smith. The Time Warp Trio novels for young readers were written to teach history, and Scieszka founded Guys Read, an online program encouraging boys to read. The Librarian of Congress appointed Scieszka the first U.S. National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving 2008 and 2009. The catalogue lists 86 books, including The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (1992) and the Frank Einstein and Trucktown series.

Jon Spoelstra has 19 catalogued books published from 1997 to 2026, with marketing, business and motivation among the subjects. Ice to the Eskimos (1997) is the first title, followed by Success Is Just One Wish Away (1998) and Marketing Outrageously (2001). Football, Blind Luck & Other Phenomena: My Journey from the Chicken Coop appeared in 2021. The Old Guys Murder Mystery series is also credited to Jon Spoelstra, and Who's Killing All My Old Girlfriends? dates from 2022. Who's Killing Wicked Nelly (2026) is the newest listing.

Jon Sprunk is an American fantasy author who grew up in central Pennsylvania and took a B.A. in English from Lock Haven University in 1992. The catalogue records subjects including assassins, magic, magicians, criminals, conspiracies and imaginary wars and battles. Book of the Black Earth is the series listed under Sprunk's name. Eight books run from Shadow's Son (2010) to Sun and Serpent (2019), taking in Shadow's Lure (2011), Shadow's Master (2012), Blood and Iron (2014), Storm and Steel (2015), Sun and Steel (2016) and Blade and Bone (2018). The median recorded length is 405 pages.

Jon Talton writes mysteries set in Phoenix, Arizona, with David Mapstone as the recurring investigator. Talton has 15 catalogued books published between 2001 and 2023, opening with Concrete Desert (2001) and reaching The Nurse Murders (2023) by way of Camelback Falls (2003), Dry Heat (2004), Cactus Heart (2007) and The Night Detectives (2013). Three series are catalogued: the David Mapstone Mysteries, the Cincinnati Casebook and Phoenix Noir. Murder, private investigators, journalists, sheriffs and history teachers recur as subjects. No new title has appeared since 2023.

Jonas Hassen Khemiri

12 books

Jonas Hassen Khemiri, born 27 December 1978, is a Swedish writer of six novels, seven plays and a collection of essays, stories and plays, translated into more than 25 languages. Khemiri has won the August Prize and a Village Voice Obie Award for best script. In 2017 Khemiri became the first Swedish writer to publish a short story in The New Yorker. The Family Clause won the Prix Médicis and was a National Book Award finalist. Khemiri moved to New York in 2021 on a Cullman Fellowship and teaches creative writing at NYU. The catalogue lists 12 books from One Eye Red (2003) to The Sisters (2023).

Jonas Jonasson

8 books• 1 series

Jonas Jonasson is a Swedish journalist and novelist, born in 1961. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2009) is his best-selling book and opens a catalogue of 8 titles that reaches The Distinctly Competent District Councillor (2026). The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (2018) continues that story. Swindlers, secret services, nuclear weapons, kings and revenge supply the plots, and Jonasson continues to publish.

Sarah Roberts is the recurring lead in Jonas Saul's thrillers. The catalogue holds 59 books published between 2010 and 2026, from Dark Visions (2010) to Remains To Be Seen (2026), with early titles running The Warning, The Crypt, The Threat, The Blade, The Hostage and The Kill. Other series include the Mafia Trilogy, Immortal Gene, Marcus Johnson and Jake Wood. Spirit writing, murder and kidnapping sit among the subjects, and books run a median of 316 pages.

Jonas Ward is a pen name, one of at least 6 used by William Robert Cox, an American writer of pulp and paperback westerns and mysteries who lived from 1901 to 1988. The Jonas Ward catalogue holds 24 westerns from One Man Massacre (1958) to Buchanan's Stage Line (1986). Tom Buchanan is the recurring hero, in titles such as Trap for Buchanan and Buchanan's Gun, and Texas Rangers appear among the subjects.

Jonathan Alderfer is linked in the catalogue to bird identification guides, grouped under the National Geographic Field Guide to Birds series. The 14 listed titles date from 2005 to 2013, opening with National Geographic Complete Birds of North America (2005). Other titles include Texas, The Carolinas, Colorado, Hawaii and New York. National Geographic Kids Bird Guide of North America (2013) is the latest, and the catalogue is likely complete.

Jonathan Ames

14 books• 2 series

Jonathan Ames, born March 23, 1964, is an American writer of novels and comic memoirs. The catalogue holds 14 books from I Pass Like Night (1989) to Karma Doll (2025), including the Happy Doll series. Ames created two television series, Bored to Death for HBO and Blunt Talk for Starz. The Extra Man became a 2010 film that Ames co-wrote, and You Were Never Really Here became a 2017 film with Ames as executive producer. Ames also wrote a column for the New York Press and has stepped into the boxing ring as The Herring Wonder.

Jonathan Auxier

8 books• 3 series

Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes (2011) is the first of 8 catalogued books by Jonathan Auxier, a Canadian-American young adult writer born on August 10, 1981. That novel, Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard and The War of the Maps form The Vanished Kingdom, and The Night Gardener (2014) and Sweep (2018) also appear on the list. Auxier has reached the New York Times bestseller list. The catalogue names two series, Peter Nimble Adventure and Fabled Stables, and records subjects such as orphans, magic, thieves, blindness and ghost stories. Belly of the Beast (2022) is the newest title.

Jonathan Brooks writes LitRPG, most of it built around dungeon cores. Dungeon Player (2017) opens a catalogue of 74 books that reaches The Affinity Collector 3 (2026), with a fourth Affinity Collector scheduled for 2027. Twelve series carry the run, among them Dungeon Crafting, Dungeon World, Dimensional Dungeon Cores, Station Cores, Hapless Dungeon Fairy and Glendaria Awakens. Brooks continues to publish.

Jonathan Cahn writes Christian non-fiction and suspense on biblical prophecy. The Harbinger (2012) opens a catalogue of 15 titles that includes The Mystery of the Shemitah, The Book of Mysteries, The Paradigm, The Oracle and The Return of the Gods, along with companion study guides and a prayer journal. Christianity, prophecy, the Jewish calendar and the sabbatical year are the recurring subjects, and The Altar of Pergamon is the most recent book.

Jonathan Carroll

28 books• 3 series

Jonathan Carroll, born 1949, is an American novelist whose work gets filed as magic realism, slipstream or contemporary fantasy, and has lived in Austria since 1974. The Land of Laughs (1980) opens the catalogue, followed by Voice of Our Shadow (1983), Bones of the Moon (1987), Sleeping in Flame (1988) and After Silence (1992). Rondua / Answered Prayers and Crane's View are the named sequences. Reincarnation, death and dogs recur among the subjects. The list holds 28 books reaching Ceffo (2023), at a median of 244 pages.

Jonathan Coe

22 books• 3 series

Jonathan Coe, born 19 August 1961, is an English novelist whose fiction carries a steady political concern, frequently delivered through comic satire. What a Carve Up! (1994) borrows the plot of a 1960s spoof horror film with the same title and places it inside the carve-up of UK resources under Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s. The catalogue lists 22 books from The Accidental Woman (1987) to The Proof of My Innocence (2024), including The Rotters' Club (2001) and The Closed Circle (2004). Coe's series are Rotters' Club and Winshaw Legacy.

Jonathan Dee

8 books• 1 series

Jonathan Dee, born in 1962, is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. Eight books are catalogued, from The Lover of History (1990) to Sugar Street (2022), listed as standalone novels rather than a series. The Privileges (2010) stood as a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Artists, celebrity, wealth and interpersonal relations head the recorded subjects. All eight books have a page count, 2,325 pages in total at a median of 273.

The Adam Lapid Mysteries are Jonathan Dunsky's one named series. Eighteen catalogued books run from 2016, the year that produced The Dead Sister, The Auschwitz Violinist and The Favor, through A Debt of Death and Family Ties (both 2017), to The Jewish Policeman (2026). Dunsky remains in active publication.

Jonathan Dyer writes espionage thrillers, with war and military also among the recorded subjects, and Nick Temple Files is the series on record. Titles in the catalogue include The Beggar's Prayer (2010), The Holy Lance (2011), Switchback (2012), The Heraklion Gambit (2013), Silent Vector (2014), The Flemish Coil (2017) and The Shadow Chamber (2020).

Jonathan Eig

10 books• 1 series

Jonathan Eig is an American journalist and biographer, born April 26, 1964. King: A Life (2023), a biography of Martin Luther King Jr., won the Pulitzer Prize. Eig's other books in the catalogue include Luckiest Man (2005), Opening Day (2007), Get Capone (2010), The Birth of the Pill (2014) and Ali: A Life (2017). Subjects attached to the catalogue include Al Capone, organized crime, gangsters and tax evasion trials.

Jonathan Evison

9 books

Jonathan Evison, born on 27 September 1968, is an American novelist. Critics have set the work beside J.D. Salinger, Charles Dickens, T.C. Boyle and John Irving, and Sherman Alexie called Evison the most honest white man alive. Nine books are catalogued, from All About Lulu (2008) to The Heart of Winter (2025), taking in West of Here (2011), The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (2012), This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! (2015), Lawn Boy (2018), Legends of the North Cascades (2021), Small World (2022) and Again and Again (2023). Subjects record coming of age, stepfamilies, widows, Los Angeles and Washington state.

Jonathan Franzen

23 books• 2 series

Jonathan Franzen, born August 17, 1959, is an American novelist and essayist who has written for The New Yorker since 1994. The Corrections (2001) won the National Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist and made the International Dublin Literary Award shortlist. Freedom (2010) put Franzen on the cover of Time under the headline "Great American Novelist". Crossroads (2021) is the first novel of a projected trilogy. Earlier books include The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), How to Be Alone (2002) and The Discomfort Zone (2006).

Jonathan Gash is the pen name of John Grant, born 1933, an English doctor and writer. His Lovejoy novels follow an antiques dealer through crime in England, and the series reached television in an adaptation by Ian La Frenais. A second series features Dr Clare Burtonall, a woman physician. Gash has also written as Graham Gaunt and Jonathan Grant. The catalogue holds 34 books from The Judas Pair (1977) to Preddy Boy (2013), at a median of 266 pages.

Jonathan Haidt

10 books• 1 series

Ten books across 23 years make up Jonathan Haidt's catalogue, published between 2002 and 2025. Haidt is an American social psychologist who teaches at the New York University Stern School of Business, and the psychology of morality is his subject: the theory of moral foundations sets out innate modules, shaped by biological and cultural evolution, behind human moral reasoning. The Happiness Hypothesis (2006), The Righteous Mind (2012), The Coddling of the American Mind (2018) and The Anxious Generation (2024) are among the titles, and The Amazing Generation (2025) is the newest. Positive psychology, political psychology and ethics are the listed subjects.

Horror is the recorded subject for Jonathan Janz, alongside haunted houses, horror tales, paranormal fiction, and the occult and supernatural. The catalogue holds 21 books published between Witching Hour Theatre (2005) and Veil (2025), every one credited to Janz alone. Children of the Dark is the series recorded under the name. Titles include House of Skin (2012), The Sorrows (2012), Savage Species (2013), The Darkest Lullaby (2013), Castle of Sorrows (2014) and Wolf Land (2015).

Jonathan Kellerman, born August 9, 1949, is both an American novelist and a psychologist. Kellerman has won Edgar and Anthony awards, and the character most associated with the name is Alex Delaware, a child psychologist who consults for the Los Angeles Police Department. The catalogue holds 67 Kellerman titles, beginning with the non-fiction Helping the Fearful Child (1981) and When the Bough Breaks (1985), and running to Jigsaw (2026). Beyond Alex Delaware there are the Clay Edison, Petra Connor and Detective Jacob Lev series. Milo Sturgis appears in the subject tags alongside Delaware.