Authors whose first name starts with J, page 22 of 26

Jonathan L. Howard

31 books• 5 series

Jonathan L. Howard is a British writer and game designer, known mainly for novels about Johannes Cabal the Necromancer, and lives near Bristol. The catalogue holds 31 books published between 2009 and 2024, opening with The Necromancer (2009) and reaching The Shadow on the Glass (2024), with The Detective (2010), The Fear Institute (2011), Katya's World (2012) and Katya's War (2013) among them. Johannes Cabal, Russalka Chronicles, Carter & Lovecraft and Goon Squad are the series listed. Subjects cover fantasy, horror, the occult and supernatural, vampires, magic, private investigators and wagers.

Jonathan Lethem

33 books• 5 series

Jonathan Lethem is an American novelist, essayist and short story writer, born 19 February 1964. Lethem's first novel, Gun, With Occasional Music (1994), combined science fiction with detective fiction. Motherless Brooklyn (1999) won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Fortress of Solitude (2003) became a New York Times Best Seller. Lethem received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2005 and has taught creative writing at Pomona College since 2011. The catalogue lists 33 books, running to A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories (2025).

Jonathan London has 141 catalogued books dating from 1992 to 2022, the Froggy series among them. Froggy Gets Dressed (1992) is the earliest title, alongside The Lion Who Had Asthma and Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back from the same year. Other series include Duck and Hippo, Aaron's Wilderness, Shawn and Keeper and Brown Bear. Subjects include picture books, stories in rhyme, children's poetry, animals, wolves and imagination. Here Comes Truck Driver Hippo (2022) is the most recent title.

Jonathan Lunn's 16 catalogued books run from The Road to Crécy (1996) to Kemp: The Flames of Heresy (2023). The author page lists Arrows of Albion, Kit Killigrew Naval Adventures and Jungle War. Kit Killigrew is a fictitious character in the subject tags, and titles such as Killigrew and the Golden Dragon (2001) and Killigrew and the North-west Passage (2003) carry the name. Seafaring life, exploration, the Arctic and history are listed subjects, and Blitz in Malaya dates from 2019.

Jonathan Maberry

146 books• 35 series

Jonathan Maberry, born May 18, 1958, is an American suspense author who also works as an anthology editor, comic book writer, magazine feature writer, playwright and writing teacher. Horror Novel Reviews named Maberry one of Today's Top Ten Horror Writers. The catalogue holds 147 books from The Black Road (2002) to Bewilderness (2026), with Avalon Station due in 2027. Listed series include Pine Deep, V-Wars, Rogue Team International, Rot & Ruin Graphic Novels and Kagen The Damned, and Joe Ledger and Benny Imura are among the tagged characters. Subjects include horror, zombies, vampires, terrorism and superhero comics.

Jonathan Moeller has 313 books in the catalogue, from Demonsouled (2005) to Cloak of Frost (2026), with epic and historical fantasy as the listed subjects. Series include Ghosts, Ghost Exile, Frostborn, Cloak Mage, Cloak Games, Silent Order, Sevenfold Sword, Shield War and Dragontiarna, plus collections of short stories and novellas. Ghost in the Blood, Ghost in the Flames, Soul of Serpents and Soul of Tyrants all date from 2011, and the 2010s were the busiest decade.

Jonathan Nasaw writes psychological thrillers and horror, and the catalogue holds 10 books from 1975 to 2010. E.L. Pender and James Whistler are the named series. For the Jonathan Nasaw books in order, Easy Walking (1975) comes first, then West Of The Moon (1987), Shakedown Street (1993), The World on Blood (1996) and Shadows (1997). The Girls He Adored (2001), Fear Itself (2002), Twenty-Seven Bones (2004) and When She Was Bad (2007) follow, and The Boys from Santa Cruz (2010) is the newest. Subject headings include serial murders, vampires, phobias, California and the Caribbean.

Jonathan P. Brazee is a retired US Marine infantry colonel who writes speculative fiction, active since 2010 with one earlier story from 1979. The catalogue lists 114 books from The Few: A Tale of the Marines in the Near Future (2009) to Currahee (2026). Series include United Federation Marine Corps, Sentenced to War, Women of the United Federation Marines, Undead Marine, Android Wars and Al Anbar Chronicles. Subjects include war and military fiction, action and adventure, thrillers and Iraq.

Jonathan Raban

18 books

Jonathan Raban was a British travel writer, novelist, playwright and critic, born on 14 June 1942 and died on 17 January 2023. The catalogue lists 18 books between 1968 and 2023, starting with two 1968 titles: Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn and Technique of Modern Fiction. Soft City appeared in 1974 and Arabia in 1979. Subjects include travel in the United States and immigrants, and titles include Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi (1981) and Coasting: A Private Voyage (1986). Father and Son (2023) is the last book listed.

Jonathan Safran Foer

10 books• 1 series

Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist, born on February 21, 1977, who teaches creative writing at New York University. The novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) and Here I Am (2016) appear in the catalogue, as do the non-fiction books Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather (2019). The 10 listed titles also include Tree of Codes (2010) and run to Party Games (2025).

Subject records for Jonathan Santlofer cite serial murders, artists, police artists and women art historians, alongside suspense and mystery. The catalogue lists 10 books from The Death Artist (2002) to Ten Perfect Guests (2026). The Killing Art (2005), Anatomy of Fear (2007), The Last Mona Lisa (2021) and The Lost Van Gogh (2024) are among them. Kate McKinnon and Nate Rodriguez are the two listed series.

Jonathan Stone writes thrillers and suspense fiction, with 11 catalogued books between 1999 and 2022. Julian Palmer is the series in the catalogue, and subject headings include police procedurals, New York State, police chiefs, police training, psychics and theft. For the Jonathan Stone books in order, start with The Cold Truth (1999) and The Heat of Lies (2000), then Breakthrough (2003) and Parting Shot (2006). Dead Letters (2013), Moving Day (2014), The Teller (2015), Two for the Show (2016), Days of Night (2017) and Die Next (2020) follow. The Prison Minyan (2022) is the newest, and the author is marked dormant.

Jonathan Stroud

28 books• 4 series

Jonathan Stroud is a British fantasy writer, born 27 October 1970, known for the Bartimaeus young adult sequence and the Lockwood & Co. children's series. The Bartimaeus sequence received the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, and Stroud's books have appeared on ALA Notable lists. Netflix announced a Lockwood & Co. television series in 2020, and filming began in July 2021. The catalogue lists 28 Stroud books from The Lost Treasure of Captain Blood (1996) to The Legendary Scarlett and Browne (2025), with The Amulet of Samarkand dated 2003.

Jonathan Sturak writes thrillers and suspense, with romance among the recorded subjects. Ten books are catalogued between Clouded Rainbow (2009) and Global Burning (2017), among them A Brush of Love (2010), From Vegas with Blood (2011), A Smudge of Gray (2012), Vegas Was Her Name (2013) and Don't Kill The Camel (2016). Semi-Autobiographical Novels is Sturak's catalogued series. Other recorded subjects include Las Vegas, artificial intelligence, swindlers and traffic accident victims.

Jonathan Stutzman writes humorous children's books, at a median of 44 pages. Tiny T. Rex is the main series, with Tiny T. Rex and the Impossible Hug (2019) followed by the Perfect Valentine and the Very Dark Dark (2020). A Llama Book includes Llama Destroys the World and Llama Unleashes the Alpacalypse, and Fitz and Cleo is a third series. The Elephant's Nose (2015) is the earliest of 22 books, and Tiny T. Rex and the Littlest Star (2026) is the newest.

Jonathan Swift

50 books• 2 series

Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 - 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist and Anglican cleric. Gulliver's Travels (1726), a satirical prose novel, introduced the fictional island of Lilliput. Swift's other works include A Tale of a Tub (1704), The Battle of the Books (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1708) and A Modest Proposal. Swift first published every work anonymously or under pseudonyms such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff and M. B. Drapier. The catalogue holds 50 titles attributed to Swift, including Directions to Servants and Journal to Stella.

Jonathan Tropper

6 books

Families under strain are Jonathan Tropper's material: grief, death, fathers and sons, and adult children forced back together. Six novels make up the catalogue, from Plan B (2000) to One Last Thing Before I Go (2012), taking in The Book of Joe / Bush Falls (2003), Everything Changes (2005), How to Talk to a Widower (2007) and This is Where I Leave You (2008). Tropper, born in 1970, also writes for television, co-creating Banshee (2013-2016) and creating Warrior (2019-2023) and Your Friends & Neighbors (2025). Books median 352 pages.

Jonathan Wilson, born in 1976, is an English sports journalist and author who writes mainly about football. Wilson writes predominantly for The Guardian, is a columnist for World Soccer, and founded and edits The Blizzard; in 2024 Wilson started the football history podcast It Was What it Was with Rob Draper. The catalogue lists 17 books from 2006 to 2025, including Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics (2008), The Anatomy of England: A History in Ten Matches (2010), Brian Clough: Nobody Ever Says Thank You (2011), The Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper (2012) and Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina (2016). Catalogue subjects record soccer history, biography and Sunderland Football Club.

Jonathan Yanez is catalogued under LitRPG, with 113 books filed under the name. The run starts in 2013 with Bad Land, The Beast Within and The Trials, reaches King Tide in 2026, and has Neon Barbarian scheduled for 2027. Series include Forsaken Mercenary, Legends Online, Gateway to the Galaxy, Galactic Guardians, War Wolves, Orion Colony, Vampire Project, Hunters for Hire and Jack Voss. Typical length is short, with a median of 270 pages across the 29 books measured.

Jonathon King is the author of the Max Freeman series. Subject headings list Max Freeman as a fictitious character, along with ex-police officers, private investigators, journalists and Florida. The Blue Edge of Midnight (2002) is the first catalogued book, followed by A Visible Darkness (2003), Shadow Men (2004), A Killing Night (2005) and Acts of Nature (2007). King also has a set of standalone novels. The catalogue holds 11 books, ending with The Sindia Promise (2018).

Jordan Belfort

4 books• 1 series

Jordan Belfort is an American former stockbroker who pleaded guilty in 1999 to fraud tied to stock-market manipulation and a penny-stock boiler room, served 22 months in prison, and testified against former partners as an FBI informant. The memoir of that career, The Wolf of Wall Street (2007), became Martin Scorsese's 2013 film with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead. Four books are catalogued: the memoir, its sequel Catching the Wolf of Wall Street (2009), the selling manual Way of the Wolf (2017) and The Wolf of Investing (2023).

PsyCop is among the series credited to Jordan Castillo Price, whose catalogue subjects record gay and LGBTQ+ fiction, horror and single-author short story collections. The 84 books run from Among the Living (2006) to Living Dead (2026). Other series include ABCs of Spellcraft, Petit Morts, Channeling Morpheus/Sweet Oblivion, Mnevermind and Claimed by the Red Hand. Criss Cross (2006), Camp Hell (2008) and Body and Soul (2008) are among the early titles.

Jordan Dane

26 books• 7 series

Jordan Dane, born 1953, is an American novelist of romantic thrillers and young adult fiction. Dane pursued publication from 2003, sold a first three-book series at auction to Avon/HarperCollins in June 2006 and a second thriller series in May 2007, and has taken awards in 33 writing competitions, among them a Publishers Weekly best-of-2008 mass-market citation for the debut No One Heard Her Scream. Memberships include Romance Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime and the International Thriller Writers. The 26 catalogued books reach The Curse She Wore (2020), with suspense, murder investigation, women detectives and psychics among the subjects.

Jordan Harper is an American crime writer and an Edgar Award winner, born in Springfield, Missouri and based in Los Angeles, where Harper also writes and produces for television. The short story collection Love and Other Wounds (2015) opens a catalogue of five titles: She Rides Shotgun / A Lesson in Violence (2017), The Last King of California (2022), Everybody Knows (2023) and A Violent Masterpiece (2026) complete it. Criminals, ex-convicts, fathers and daughters, and parental kidnapping recur as subjects.

Jordan L. Hawk has 60 books in the catalogue, from Hainted (2012) to The Hollow Sea (2026). Widdershins also appeared in 2012, followed in 2013 by titles such as Stormhaven, Threshold and Hunter of Demons. Hawk's series include Whyborne & Griffin, Hexworld, SPECTR, Rath & Rune, OutFoxing the Paranormal and Spirits. Jordan L. Hawk is still publishing.

Jordan Marie writes contemporary romance and describes the stories as ones that end in a happily ever after. Jordan Marie is a self-described small-town country girl. The catalogue lists 83 books, from Breaking Dragon (2014) to Haunted (2026). Series include Lucas Brothers, Savage Brothers MC, Devil's Blaze MC, Filthy Florida Alphas, Stone Lake, Kingdom of Sin, Unforgiven Country and Eternals. Sweetheart, Colorado and Mistletoe Montana are also listed among the linked characters.

The Kingdom of Wrenly is the setting Jordan Quinn returns to across 37 chapter books published between 2014 and 2026. Princes, knights, dragons, fairies and mermaids fill a fantasy world written for grades 1-3, with The Lost Stone (2014) opening the run and The Runaway Cyclops (2026) the most recent. A graphic novel line, Dragon Kingdom Of Wrenly, extends the same world. Volumes run to a median of 128 pages.

Jordan Rivet writes young adult fantasy and adventure. The Seabound Chronicles open the catalogue with Seabound (2014), Burnt Sea, Seafled and Seaswept (all 2015), and the Steel and Fire books follow with City of Wind, Dance of Steel, Duel of Fire and King of Mist in 2016 and Night of Flame in 2017. Swordplay, duelling and imaginary places are the recurring subjects. Rivet's other series are Lost Clone, Empire Of Talents, Fire Queen's Apprentice and Art Mages of Lure, and the 28 books reach Lead Me Through Calamity (2026).

Jordan Silver is credited with 174 books between 2013 and 2024. Titles from 2013 include Catch Me If You Can, Beautiful Assassin, Gabriel's Promise and Lady Boss, and the newest is Ninth Circle (2024). Series in the listing include Lyon, Eden High 1 and 2, Anarchist Season One and Two, Spitfire, Desire and Sibling Rivalry. Silver's release status is ongoing.

Jordan Vezina's catalogue lists 29 action thrillers published between 2015 and 2023, from A Devil in Your Hedgerow (2015) to Variant Of Concern (2023). Five series are recorded: the Jericho Black Thrillers, Cannibal Warfare, Cannibal Road, Jacob Mitzak and Jack Bonafide. Vezina holds the sole credit on all 29 titles, and the listing has stood still since 2023.

Jordanna Max Brodsky writes fantasy drawn from myth. Four books are catalogued: The Immortals (2016), Winter of the Gods (2017) and Olympus Bound (2018) make up the Olympus Bound series, with Greek gods and goddesses in an urban setting, and The Wolf in the Whale (2019) turns to the Arctic regions. Books are long, at a median of 498 pages, and nothing has followed since 2019.

Jorge Borges wrote short fiction, poetry, essays and criticism, much of it read in English translation. The catalogue lists 47 titles between Inquisiciones (1925) and The Widow Ching-Pirate (2011), and the short stories dominate it: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (1940), The Garden of Forking Paths (1941) and The Library of Babel (1941). Borges also published as H. Bustos Domecq, the name on Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi (1942). Speculative fiction, subjective idealism and anachronism run through the subject headings.

Norwegian police procedurals make up Jorn Lier Horst's catalogue, 32 books published between 2010 and 2025 and widely translated into English. The run opens with Dregs, also issued as Bunnfall (2010), and includes Closed for Winter (2011), The Hunting Dogs (2012) and The Caveman (2013). Series include William Wisting, Alexander Blix & Emma Ramm, and Clue. Recurring subjects are murder investigation, police work and judicial error. The most recent title is The Lake (2025).

Jory John is an American author of children's books, known for dark humour and for taking on difficult topics. Jory John titles have reached the New York Times bestseller list, with The Good Egg at number one and The Bad Seed at number two, and John has twice received an E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor. The catalogue lists 40 books from Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country (2009) to This Is Not a Christmas Book (2026). Series include Food Group, Bear & Duck and Animal Problems, and bears, ducks, friendship and kindness appear among the subjects.

José Rodrigues dos Santos

34 books• 4 series

José Rodrigues dos Santos, born 1964, is a Portuguese journalist, novelist and university lecturer who has presented Telejornal on RTP1 since 1991. The catalogue opens with Comunicação (1992) and two volumes of war reporting, then turns to thrillers and historical fiction with O Codex 632 (2005) and A Fórmula de Deus (2006). Tomás Noronha, a historian, anchors the longest series, with the Saga do Lótus, Calouste Gulbenkian and Francisco Latino beside it. Thirty-four books reach O Sexto Sentido in 2025, at a median 496 pages.

Jose Saramago was a Portuguese writer who took the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, cited for parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony. His 38 catalogued books open with Terra do Pecado, also published as Land of Sin (1947), and take in poetry, travel writing and journalism alongside the novels: Manual Of Painting And Calligraphy (1977), Levantado do Chao, also Raised from the Ground (1980), Journey to Portugal (1983) and The Year Of The Death Of Ricardo Reis (1984). Blindness is the one recorded series. The work reads often as allegory, taking subversive angles on historic events, with Portugal, Lisbon and biblical history among the subjects. Saramago lived from 1922 to 2010.

Suspense thrillers are the output of Joseph Badal, an American novelist and financier born on November 17, 1944. Badal was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army and served as a captain during the Vietnam War, receiving commendations. Badal lives in New Mexico and sat on the New Mexico Small Business Council from 2011 to 2022. The catalogue records 19 books between The Pythagorean Solution (2003) and Soulless (2025), with the Bob Danforth, Lassiter and Martinez, and Curtis Chronicles series. Terrorism, the CIA and missing persons are among the subjects.

Joseph Conrad

41 books

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, was a Polish-British novelist and story writer, regarded as one of the greatest writers in English. Conrad spoke English fluently only from his twenties, and always with a strong accent, yet became a prose stylist who carried a non-English sensibility into English literature. Many of the novels and stories use nautical settings and turn on crises of human individuality in a world Conrad saw as indifferent, inscrutable and amoral. Almayer's Folly (1895), Lord Jim (1900), Heart of Darkness (1902) and Typhoon (1902) sit among 41 catalogued titles.

Joseph Delaney

33 books• 6 series

Joseph Delaney was an English author of dark fantasy for children, and the Spook's books, listed also as the Last Apprentice or Wardstone Chronicles, are the work he is known for. The Spook's Apprentice (2004) began that series, which draws on the folklore, history and landscape of Lancashire and has sold more than 4.5 million copies across 30 countries. Delaney taught before publishing, and his earliest fiction appeared under the pen name J.K. Haderack, starting with Mercer's Whore (1997). 33 catalogued titles end with Wulf's War (2023). Delaney lived from 1945 to 2022.

Joshua, a figure who walks into modern life with the manner of a parable, is Joseph F. Girzone's central creation. Joshua (1983) leads to Joshua and the Children (1989), Joshua In The Holy Land (1992) and Joshua and the City (1995), inside a catalogue of 32 titles. Kara the Lonely Falcon (1979) opens the run and The Village without a Heart (2022) closes it. Religious fiction, devotional writing and parables define the work, at a median 205 pages per book.

Joseph Finder

19 books• 4 series

Thrillers are the core of Joseph Finder's catalogue. Finder is American, born October 6, 1958. Paranoia, Company Man, Killer Instinct and Power Play sit in the list next to the Nick Heller thriller series. Two novels reached the screen: High Crimes, with Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman in the cast, and Paranoia, filmed in 2013 with Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford. The site lists 19 books, from Red Carpet (1983) and The Moscow Club (1991) to The Oligarch's Daughter (2025). Boston, corporate culture and missing persons appear among the subjects.

Political thrillers make up most of Joseph Flynn's catalogue. The Jim McGill series begins with The President's Henchman (2009) and puts conspiracies and the American presidency at its centre; the John Tall Wolf novels, the Ron Ketchum Mysteries, the Take the Money Trilogy and the Zeke Edison books follow. Forty-two catalogued titles run from The Concrete Inquisition (1993) to The Reluctant Candidate (2025).

Joseph Hansen (1923-2004) was an American crime writer and poet. Dave Brandstetter, a private investigator, is Hansen's central character, in a series running from Fadeout (1970) and Death Claims (1973) through a long line of California cases. Gay men and gay life in Los Angeles are the subjects that set the work apart from the crime writing around it. Early titles appeared as James Colton and two as Rose Brock. Thirty-seven books are catalogued between 1964 and 2002, and the Joseph Hansen Awards carry his name.

Joseph Heller

9 books• 3 series

Joseph Heller (1923–1999) wrote novels, short stories, plays and screenplays. Catch-22 (1961), a satire on war and bureaucracy, is the work he is known for, and its title passed into English as a name for an absurd or self-cancelling choice. Heller was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1972 and 1975. His 9 catalogued titles run to Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (2000) and take in Something Happened (1974), Good as Gold (1979), God Knows (1984) and Closing Time (1994), catalogued in the same Catch-22 series.

Grady Service, a game warden in Michigan, carries Joseph Heywood's Woods Cop Mysteries, which begin with Ice Hunter (2001) and continue through Blue Wolf In Green Fire (2002), Chasing a Blond Moon (2003), Running Dark (2005) and Strike Dog (2007). Heywood's catalogue also holds the Lute Bapcat and Beau Valentine series, standalone novels such as The Berkut (1987) and The Snowfly (2000), and non-fiction touching trout fishing. Twenty-four books reach Out of Service in 2024.

Joseph Jefferson Farjeon (1883-1955) was an English novelist, playwright and screenwriter working in crime and mystery. Ben the Tramp is the series most associated with the name, and No. 17 (1926) sits early in the run. Farjeon's father, brother and sister also built literary careers. The catalogue lists 82 titles from The Confusing Friendship (1924) to Riddle of an Umbrella (2026). Golden Age mystery, murder investigation, stowaways and tramps are recorded subjects, and books run to a median 256 pages.

Joseph Kanon writes espionage novels set in the years around the Second World War and the early Cold War. Los Alamos (1997) opens a catalogue of 11 titles that reaches Shanghai (2024), taking in The Good German (2001), Istanbul Passage (2012), Leaving Berlin (2014) and Defectors (2017). The atomic bomb, New Mexico and Americans abroad appear in the subject tags.

The Book of Deacon (2010) gives Joseph Lallo's catalogue its anchor, and a Sidequests line extends it. Big Sigma, Greater Lands Saga, Free-Wrench, Shards of Shadow and Paradoxes and Dragons follow. 52 books span 2010 to 2026, closing so far with Masker's Antiquities (2026). Fantasy fiction and war stories are the recorded subjects, and the books run to a median 274 pages.

Joseph Monninger (1953-2025) was an American writer and Professor of English at Plymouth State University who lived in Warren, New Hampshire. Survival, wilderness, dogs and family life run through 29 catalogued books, from The Family Man (1982) to Fight Night 1939 (2025), with the Stay Alive series and the Journey Trilogy written for young readers. Monninger served in the Peace Corps in his youth and twice held National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Goodbye To Clocks Ticking is his memoir of the first year after a terminal lung cancer diagnosis in 2021.

Joseph Nassise

31 books• 7 series

Joseph Nassise, born 1968, is an American urban fantasy writer. Riverwatch (2000), the debut, drew nominations for the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and the Templar Chronicles, the Jeremiah Hunt Chronicle and the Great Undead War series followed, along with books for Gold Eagle's Rogue Angel line. Nassise led the Horror Writers Association as president from 2002 to 2005, and was a Trustee from 2008 to 2010. The work has been translated into German, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. The 31 catalogued books reach Angel's Regret in 2026, at a median of 271 pages.

Joseph O'Connor's catalogue holds 21 titles published between 1991 and 2025, opening with Cowboys & Indians (1991) and True Believers (1991) and reaching The Ghosts of Rome (2025). The Secret World Of The Irish Male (1994) and Irish Male At Home And Abroad (1996) belong to the Irish Male sequence, and the Rome Escape Line Trilogy carries the later historical fiction. Desperadoes (1994), Red Roses And Petrol (1995), Sweet Liberty (1996), The Salesman (1998) and Inishowen (2000) fill the middle of the run. Irish authors and poets, humour, biography and historical settings run through the subjects. O'Connor is still publishing.

Joseph Souza has 14 catalogued books, from The Reawakening (2012) to Cruel to Be Kind (2026). The series listed for Souza are Liger Plague and Bad Choices. Subject headings include suspense, thrillers, Maine, neighbors, missing persons, unlawful entry and family secrets. Other titles are Darpocalypse (2013), Lethal Chain (2015), The Neighbor (2018) and Pray for the Girl (2019). Souza continues to publish.

Joseph Talluto has 16 books in the catalogue, published between 2009 and 2018, across three series: White Flag of the Dead, Generation Dead and Born In The Apocalypse. White Flag of the Dead (2009) is the first title, followed by America the Dead (2010) and United States of the Dead (2011). Dead Surge, Generation Dead and Last Stand of the Dead date from 2012, and The Zombie Wars: Call to Arms (2015) is also listed. The Chronos Plague (2018) is the most recent.

Joseph Telushkin

20 books• 3 series

Joseph Telushkin, born 1948, is an American rabbi and writer. Telushkin's 20 catalogued books run from Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism (1981) to Rebbe (2014), a title that reached the New York Times bestseller list on release. Subjects across the listing cover Jewish ethics, Jewish literacy, the Jewish way of life, rabbis, history and quotations. Telushkin also wrote the Rabbi Daniel Winter Mysteries; the catalogue records Daniel Winter as a fictitious character.

Joseph Wambaugh

21 books• 1 series

Los Angeles policing is Joseph Wambaugh's subject, written as police procedurals and as true-crime case studies. The New Centurions (1970) opens the catalogue, followed by The Blue Knight (1972), The Onion Field (1973), The Choirboys (1976) and The Black Marble (1977), with the Hollywood Station books later in the run. Twenty-one catalogued titles end at Harbor Nocturne in 2012.

Josephine Angelini

16 books• 3 series

Starcrossed, published in 2011, is the young adult series Josephine Angelini is known for; Greek mythology and Nantucket island sit among its subjects, and Dreamless in 2012 and Goddess in 2013 continued it. The American author, born in 1975, has 16 catalogued books reaching Endless in 2024, with the Worldwalker trilogy of Trial by Fire, Firewalker and Witch's Pyre, and the Chronicles of Lucitopia, alongside. Magic, the supernatural, and space and time recur throughout.

Josephine Cox (1938-2020), also published as Jo Cox, was an English novelist of family saga and romance. Her books were frequent bestsellers, and UK Public Lending Right figures often placed her among the three most borrowed authors in the country. Dysfunctional families, domestic life and English social custom run through the work. Sixty-four catalogued titles open with Her Father's Sins (1988), include the Emma Grady Trilogy, and reach The Winter Secret (2026).

Josephine Tey wrote detective fiction in the English traditional mode, with Inspector Alan Grant investigating across most of the novels. The Man in the Queue (1929), also published as Killer in the Crowd, introduces Grant, and A Shilling for Candles follows. Tey also wrote plays as Gordon Daviot, among them Richard of Bordeaux and Claverhouse, and the novel Kif: An Unvarnished History (1929). Nineteen titles make up the catalogue, which is complete.

Josh Lacey, born in London in 1968, is a British writer of children's books who also publishes as Joshua Doder. One adult title sits in the catalogue: God Is Brazilian (2005), a biography of Charles Miller, the man who brought football to Brazil. The children's books run to 27 catalogued titles dated 2004 to 2021, with dragons, pets, islands and adventure among the recorded subjects, in series including Dragonsitter, Misfitz Mysteries, Hope Jones and Tom Trelawney.

Josh Lanyon writes mysteries about gay men, with subject headings naming gay couples, murder investigation, erotic romance, blues musicians and extortion. The catalogue holds 106 books from 2007 to 2026. Boy Meets Body, Old Poison, The Dark Horse, Snowball In Hell and I'll Be Dead For Christmas all date from 2007, and Death of a Pirate King, Dangerous Ground, Hostage and Mexican Heat from 2008. Series include Adrien English Mysteries, Holmes & Moriarity, All's Fair, Dangerous Ground, In A Dark Wood, Doyle and Spain, XOXO Files, Secrets and Scrabble and Haunted Heart. The 12 Days Ultimatum (2026) is the newest.