Authors whose first name starts with J, page 3 of 13

Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell (1921-1994), known as James Clavell, was a British and American writer and filmmaker who served as a British Army officer in the Second World War. The Asian Saga novels, some adapted for film and television, are the work he is best known for. The catalogue lists 10 books from King Rat (1962) to Escape (1995), including Tai-Pan (1966), Shogun (1975), Noble House (1981), Whirlwind (1986) and Gai-Jin (1993). Clavell also wrote the screenplays for The Fly (1958) and The Great Escape (1963), and wrote and directed To Sir, with Love (1967). Subjects include prisoners of war, Hong Kong and World War II.

James Comey has 8 catalogued books, published between 2018 and 2026. The run opens with A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (2018), followed by A Christian and a Democrat (2019), The Comey Memos (2019) and Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust (2021). From 2023 the output turns to the Nora Carleton series: Central Park West (2023), Westport (2024), FDR Drive (2025) and Red Verdict (2026). Comey is still publishing.

James Crumley, born in 1939 and died in 2008, wrote violent hardboiled crime fiction alongside short stories, essays and screenplays. Critics placed Crumley as a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private-eye novel and as a writer somewhere between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson. Two detectives carry the work: C.W. Sughrue and Milo Milodragovitch, both operating through Montana and Texas. Ten books run from One to Count Cadence (1969) to The Right Madness (2005), among them The Last Good Kiss (1978) and The Mexican Tree Duck (1993).

Charlie Moon is the detective in James D. Doss's mysteries, set in Colorado among Ute communities. The Shaman Sings (1994) opens a 17-book run that closed with The Old Gray Wolf in 2012. Police procedure, missing persons and Native American life carry the series, and the shaman titles - The Shaman Laughs, The Shaman's Bones, The Shaman's Game - group its early years.

James Dashner

26 books• 7 series

The Maze Runner series and the young adult fantasy series The 13th Reality are what American writer James Dashner, born November 26, 1972, is best known for. Much of Dashner's speculative fiction is aimed at children or young adults. The Journal of Curious Letters (2008), first in The 13th Reality, was a Borders Original Voices pick. The Maze Runner reached cinemas in 2014, with further films in 2015 and 2018 grossing an estimated $949 million together. The catalogue lists 26 books from A Door in the Woods (2003) to The Infinite Glade (2025), with the Jimmy Fincher Saga, Mortality Doctrine and Maze Cutter among the series.

Fantasy is James E. Wisher's genre across 66 catalogued books published between 2015 and 2026. The catalogue holds series including Aegis of Merlin, Soul Force Saga, Dragonspire Chronicles, Portal Wars Saga, Soul Bound Saga, Immortal Apprentice Trilogy, Divine Key and 72 Demons. Children of Junk (2015) and the two Death and Honor books open the run, and The Eternal Guardian (2026) is the most recent title.

James Ellroy

28 books• 5 series

Los Angeles crime is James Ellroy's territory - police, murder and hard-boiled detective fiction. Brown's Requiem (1981) opens the catalogue; the Lloyd Hopkins books follow in the mid-1980s, and The Black Dahlia (1987) and The Big Nowhere (1988) start the L.A. Quartet. Underworld U.S.A. and a Second L.A. Quartet came after. Ellroy has 28 titles catalogued, arriving at Red Sheet in 2026.

James Fenimore Cooper

34 books• 2 series

James Fenimore Cooper wrote frontier and sea fiction in the early American republic. The Leatherstocking Tales follow Natty Bumppo, with The Pioneers (1823), The Prairie (1824) and The Last of the Mohicans (1826) among them; The Pilot (1824) and The Red Rover (1827) belong to the sea stories. Thirty-four titles are catalogued, Indians of North America and pioneer life recur as subjects, and the 1840s were the busiest decade.

James Frey

21 books• 4 series

James Christopher Frey, born 12 September 1969, is an American writer. A Million Little Pieces (2003) and My Friend Leonard (2005) sold as memoirs before large parts of both were shown to be exaggerated or invented, which set off a public controversy. Bright Shiny Morning (2008) followed as a novel. Frey founded and runs the transmedia company Full Fathom Five, the outfit behind the seven-book Lorien Legacies written by Frey and others under the shared pen name Pittacus Lore. The catalogue holds 21 books through to Next To Heaven (2025), with three Endgame headings: The Training Diaries, The Zero Line Chronicles and The Fugitive Archives.

James Grady, born April 30, 1949, is an American writer and investigative journalist known for thrillers of espionage and intrigue as well as police procedurals. Grady wrote for television with Stephen J. Cannell, worked on films with Brandon Lee, William Katt and David Hasselhoff, and has edited fiction anthologies. London's Daily Telegraph listed Grady among 50 crime writers to read before you die in 2008. The catalogue lists 25 books, from Six Days of the Condor / Three Days of the Condor (1974) and Shadow of the Condor (1975) to Shadows on Sidewalks (2026). Condor, John Rankin and Devlin Rourke are the series.

James Grippando writes legal thrillers set largely in Miami, with the defence lawyer Jack Swyteck at the centre. The Pardon (1994) opens a catalogue of 36 books that reaches The Right to Remain in 2026, alongside standalone novels, novellas and plays. Missing persons, suspense and the work between attorney and client supply the plots.

James Haddock has published 20 books since 2019, grouped into five series: Hand Made Mage, Dragon's Envoy, Thief's Gift, Cast Down World and Heart Mage. The first year brought Hand Made Mage, Duty Calls, Mage Throne Prophecy and The Derelict Duty, with Cast Down World and Wizard's Alley following in 2020 and Lord of the High Reaches in 2021. Root and Branch arrived in 2026, and the catalogue is ongoing.

James Hadley Chase was the pen name of Rene Lodge Brabazon Raymond, an English crime writer who lived from 1906 to 1985. Ninety-six books are catalogued between No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939) and Hit Them Where It Hurts (1984), and some early titles appeared as by Raymond Marshall. Recurring characters carry the series: Vic Malloy, Steve Harmas, Dave Fenner, Frank Terrell, Tom Lepski, Mark Girland, Helga Rolfe and Don Micklem. Fifty of the books have been filmed, the work was widely translated into Russian, and Chase was called the king of thriller writers in Europe. The median book runs 204 pages.

James Hall writes Florida thrillers featuring a character named Thorn, according to the catalogue subjects. Mean High Tide (1995) is the earliest listed title, followed by Gone Wild (1996), Buzz Cut (1997) and Red Sky (1998). Later books include Blackwater Sound (2002), Magic City (2007), Hell's Bay (2009), Silencer (2011) and Bad Axe (2020). Dolphins, male friendship, conspiracies and family-owned businesses are among the listed subjects.

James Harper writes action thrillers. The catalogue lists 37 books between Fallen Angel (2011) and Blood Runs Cold (2026), grouped into the Evan Buckley series, the Angel & Kincade mysteries and Dixie Killer Blues. Bad Call and Bad To The Bones both appeared in 2014. No subject headings are recorded for the catalogue, and Harper is credited alone on all 37 titles.

James Hayman writes police procedurals. One series is recorded, McCabe & Savage Thriller, and the six catalogued books run from 2009 to 2018: The Cutting (2009), The Chill of Night (2010), Darkness First (2013), The Girl in the Glass (2015), The Girl on the Bridge (2017) and A Fatal Obsession (2018). Murder investigation, violent crime against women and personality disorder supply the subject matter, at a median of 376 pages.

James Herbert

25 books• 3 series

James Herbert (1943-2013) was an English horror writer. The Rats (1974) opened the catalogue and gave its name to a series about mutated rats, continued in Lair (1979) and Domain (1983). The Fog (1975), The Survivor (1976), Fluke (1977), The Spear (1978) and The Dark (1980) followed in quick succession. Haunted houses and ghosts run through the later work, where David Ash is Herbert's recurring character. Twenty-five titles are catalogued, closing with Ash in 2012. Herbert designed his own covers and publicity, and the books have sold 54 million copies in 34 languages.

James Herriot wrote about veterinary practice in the English countryside, mixing memoir, anecdote and animal stories. The catalogue holds 39 titles published between 1970 and 2023, among them All Creatures Great and Small (1972), All Things Bright and Beautiful (1974) and the 2023 collection The Wonderful World of James Herriot. All Creatures Great and Small is the best known sequence, and Herriot also wrote children's books such as Bonny's Big Day. The books are short at a median of 180 pages, and the catalogue is closed.

James Hilton (1900-1954) was a British-American novelist and screenwriter. Lost Horizon (1933) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1934) are his best remembered novels, with Random Harvest beside them; the schoolmaster books draw on English public schools, and Murder At School (1931) on detective fiction. Hilton also co-wrote the screenplays for Camille (1936) and Mrs. Miniver (1942), the second of which won him an Academy Award. Twenty titles are catalogued, starting at Catherine Herself (1920).

James Holland is a historian, writer and broadcaster whose catalogued books carry subject tags for the Second World War, the Burma campaigns and the Royal Air Force. Holland co-founded the Chalke Valley History Festival and serves as its Programme Director, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has a collection at the Imperial War Museum. The catalogue lists 42 books from Fortress Malta (2003) to The Visionaries (2026), including The Battle of Britain (2010) and Dunkirk (2011). Holland series include Sergeant Jack Tanner, Duty Calls and War in the West.

James Hunt is credited with 91 books between 2014 and 2026, from Broken Lines to The Runaways. Series in the listing include EMP Survivor, EMP Post Apocalyptic Survival, Grid-Down Prepper Thriller, World War IV, Agent Hill and GMO 24. Mystery series include North and Martin Abduction Mystery, Lockhart Missing Person Mystery and Lindsy and Mike Foster Paranormal Mystery. Hunt is still releasing books.

James Islington is an Australian author of high fantasy, born around 1981. The Licanius Trilogy is his first sequence, made up of The Shadow of What Was Lost (2014), An Echo of Things to Come (2017) and The Light of All That Falls (2019). Hierarchy followed, opening with The Will of the Many (2023) and continuing in The Strength of the Few (2025) and Scion (2026). Six books in total, and Islington is still publishing.

James J. Butcher writes fantasy. Three books are catalogued: Dead Man's Hand and Long Past Dues, both published in 2023, and Cold Iron Task in 2025. The run remains in progress.

James Jones

14 books• 1 series

James Jones, born in 1921 and died in 1977, was an American novelist who wrote about the Second World War and what it left behind. From Here to Eternity, his debut, won the National Book Award in 1952, was filmed the following year, that film took the Academy Award for Best Picture, and was later made into a television series. The Thin Red Line (1962) and Whistle (1978) complete his World War II Trilogy. Fourteen titles are catalogued, from 1951 to 2011, including Some Came Running, The Pistol and the reportage of Viet Journal.

James Joyce

21 books

Chamber Music (1907) opens a James Joyce catalogue of 21 titles. Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic who contributed to the modernist movement. Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Ulysses (1922) follow, the last of them tracking the episodes of Homer's Odyssey through shifting literary styles. The listing reaches Finn's Hotel (2013) and takes in manuscript facsimiles and correspondence alongside the fiction.

James L. Nelson

34 books• 6 series

Ships and sea warfare are James L. Nelson's material. Nelson writes naval historical fiction across the Isaac Biddlecomb novels of the American Revolution, the Thomas Marlowe books, the Samuel Bowater series, the Norsemen Saga and Blood, Steel, and Empire. Ship captains, naval operations and pirates recur throughout. Thirty-four catalogued titles run from By Force of Arms (1996) to Hispaniola Gold (2026).

Dave Robicheaux, a Louisiana detective, is the figure most associated with James Lee Burke, who also writes the Holland family novels around Billy Bob, Hackberry and Weldon Holland. Burke's 49 catalogued books stretch from Half of Paradise (1965) to The Hadacol Boogie in 2026, a span of six decades. Hard-boiled crime in Louisiana and Texas is the core subject. Median length is 387 pages, with the 2000s as the peak decade.

James M. Cain

25 books

James M. Cain (1892–1977) stands at the origin of hardboiled American crime fiction. The novelist, journalist and screenwriter wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Double Indemnity (1936), Serenade (1937), Mildred Pierce (1941) and The Butterfly (1947), and Hollywood filmed the first three of those between 1944 and 1946. Greed, guilt, murder and insurance fraud drive the plots. 25 books are catalogued under Cain's name, the latest a 2024 noir collection.

James Martin writes cookery books. Eighteen catalogued titles run from The Deli Cookbook in 2000 to James Martin's French Adventure in 2017, covering British food, desserts, quick and easy cooking and delicatessen fare, with Saturday Kitchen Cookbook (2007) and James Every Day (2008) among them. Driven, published in 2008, turns to motoring, and a strand of autobiography sits beside the recipes.

Fantasy is James Maxwell's genre: magic, shapeshifting, kings and princesses, and wars fought across invented lands. The Evermen Saga opens the catalogue with Enchantress (2012) and continues through The Hidden Relic (2014), The Lore of the Evermen (2014) and The Path of the Storm (2014); Shifting Tides follows with Golden Age (2016), Silver Road (2016), Copper Chain (2017) and Iron Will (2018). The Firewall Trilogy and Gateway Saga complete 15 books, which reach Fate and Fortune (2026). Volumes run long, at a median of 484 pages.

James McBride

9 books

James McBride, born September 11, 1957, is an American writer and musician. McBride's novel The Good Lord Bird received the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction. The catalogue lists 9 McBride books, starting with The Color of Water (1996) and continuing with Miracle at St. Anna (2001), Song Yet Sung (2008), The Good Lord Bird (2013), Kill 'em and Leave (2016), Five-Carat Soul (2017), Deacon King Kong (2020) and The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (2023). Subjects include race identity, African Americans, fugitive slaves and mothers.

James O. Born writes crime thrillers, drawing detail and dialogue from a career in law enforcement. Walking Money (2004) opens the catalogue and was shortlisted for the Barry Award; Escape Clause, the third novel, took the gold medal in the first Florida Book Award. Bill Tasker and Alex Duarte head the two series. Eight books are catalogued through Putin's Gambit (2017), with Florida police work, undercover operations and murder investigation as recurring subjects. Born also co-writes novels with James Patterson.

James Oliver Curwood

45 books• 2 series

James Oliver Curwood (June 12, 1878 - August 13, 1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. Curwood set many books in the Hudson Bay region, the Yukon or Alaska, and Publishers Weekly placed them among the top-ten US best sellers in the early and mid 1920s. At least 180 films draw on Curwood's novels and short stories. At death, Curwood was the world's highest-paid author per word. The catalogue holds 45 titles, beginning with The Wolf Hunters and The Courage of Captain Plum in 1908, and includes the Kazan and Baree series. Subjects include wolves, dogs, bears, mounted police and gold mining in Canada.

James Oswald

25 books• 5 series

James Oswald is a Scottish writer and farmer. Two sequences define the catalogue: the Inspector McLean crime novels, set in Edinburgh, and the Ballad of Sir Benfro fantasy series, published under the name J. D. Oswald. Oswald self-published at first, moved to Penguin Books, and from 2018 has been published by Wildfire, where the Inspector McLean run continued and DC Constance Fairchild arrived as a new lead. 25 books are catalogued, from Dreamwalker (2012) to The Violent Hour (2026). Dragons, magic, murder and investigation carry the subject tags.

James P. Hogan

34 books• 8 series

James P. Hogan (1941-2010) was a British science fiction writer. The Giants sequence is his major work, five novels published between 1977 and 2005 and opening with Inherit the Stars (1977). Artificial intelligence, time travel, space colonies and human-alien encounters supply the material across the rest, including The Genesis Machine, Thrice Upon a Time, Voyage From Yesteryear and Code of the Lifemaker. Thirty-nine titles close with Migration (2010).

James P. Sumner writes action thrillers. The 20 catalogued books open in 2014 with True Conviction, also issued as Crucible, alongside Hunter's Games and One Last Bullet, and close with Time To Die (2023). Series include Adrian Hell, GlobaTech, Roach, the Warlock Prophecies and Thrillerverse Events. Nothing has followed 2023.

James Patterson

510 books• 73 series

James Patterson, born on March 22, 1947, is an American writer whose catalogue here holds 514 books published from 1976 to 2027. The run opens with The Thomas Berryman Number (1976), and Along Came a Spider (1992) and Kiss the Girls (1995) follow later. Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, Witch & Wizard, NYPD Red, Private, Middle School and the Women's Murder Club are among the Patterson series, alongside standalone thrillers, non-fiction and romance. Marshall Karp shares the credit on 5 of the books. Patterson's sales exceed 425 million copies, and Patterson was the first person to sell one million e-books. Forbes ranked Patterson the highest-paid author in 2016, for a third year running, and the National Book Foundation gave Patterson the Literarian Award in November 2015. 27 Stars is scheduled for 2027.

James Ponti writes mystery and adventure fiction for readers in grades 3 to 5. The catalogue lists 38 books between 1992 and 2027, starting with Hollywood East: Florida's Fabulous Flicks (1992) and reaching Operation Oz, scheduled for 2027. City Spies, Dead City, the Sherlock Society and the Florian Bates T.O.A.S.T. mysteries are the series recorded. Early entries include junior novelizations, among them Around the World in 80 Days Jr. Novel (2004) and The Santa Clause 3: Escape Clause (2006).

James R. Benn, born in 1949, is an American author of historical crime fiction. The Billy Boyle World War II Mysteries form Benn's main sequence, putting the investigator Billy Boyle on murder cases inside the 1939-1945 war. Benn's catalogue holds 26 books dated 2000 to 2026, from the debut Desperate Ground to The Ninth Circle, with standalone novels alongside the series.

James Reasoner writes westerns and frontier fiction, and the 193 catalogued books run from Texas Wind (1980) to Blood on the Border (2026). Civil War history, Texas and military fiction also appear among the subjects. Reasoner's series include Stagecoach Station, Abilene, Cody's Law, Wind River, Outlaw Ranger, Tales From Deadwood and the Walker, Texas Ranger tie-ins. Lee Goldberg, William Rabkin and Livia Reasoner are each co-credited on 1 book.

The Celestine Prophecy (1993) is what James Redfield is known for: an adventure parable about a found manuscript and spiritual awakening. Redfield, born in 1950, is an American writer, lecturer, screenwriter and film producer. Nine catalogued books run to 2011, among them The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision (1996), The Celestine Vision (1997), The Secret of Shambhala (1999) and The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision (2011), plus an account of the film adaptation. New Age spirituality, travel and millennialism run through them, at a median of 256 pages.

James Riley

16 books• 4 series

James Riley, born in 1977, writes fantasy for readers in grades 3 to 5. Story Thieves is the best known series, opening in 2015 and continuing through The Stolen Chapters (2016), Secret Origins (2017) and Pick the Plot (2018). Half Upon a Time (2010) opens the catalogue and its own trilogy, and the Revenge of Magic, Once Upon Another Time and The Dragon's Apprentice follow. Sixteen books are catalogued through 2025, with fairy tales, magic, monsters and books about books as recurring subjects.

James Rollins

48 books• 10 series

James Rollins is the pen name of James Paul Czajkowski, an American writer born August 20, 1961, who gave up a veterinary practice in Sacramento, California to write full time. Rollins writes action-adventure, mystery and techno-thriller novels, often set underground or underwater, drawing on experience as an amateur caver and certified scuba diver. The catalogue opens with Subterranean (1999) and Excavation (2000), counts 49 books through Trust No One (2026), and lists Into the Serpent's Nest for 2027. Series include Sigma Force, the Order of the Sanguines, Tucker Wayne and Jake Ransom. Under a second pen name, James Clemens, Czajkowski publishes fantasy.

James Rosone writes military thrillers and speculative war fiction. Modern and near-future conflict supplies the material: World War III, Red Storm, Soviet Endgame, Battlefield Korea, Battlefield Ukraine and Battlefield China sit alongside the Monroe Doctrine, Rise of the Republic and Falling Empires series. Fifty-eight books span 2010 to 2026, from Dinner with a Terrorist to Baltic Breach.

James Runcie, born 7 May 1959, is a British novelist, documentary filmmaker, television producer and playwright, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a visiting professor at Bath Spa University. From 2016 to 2020 Runcie served as Commissioning Editor for Arts on BBC Radio 4. The catalogue holds 14 books, from The Colour of Heaven (2000) and The Discovery of Chocolate (2001) through Canvey Island (2006) and East Fortune (2009) to The Great Passion (2022). Sidney Chambers titles run from Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death (2012) to Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love (2017), and Grantchester Mysteries is the listed series. Clergy, murder, England and the 1950s appear in the subjects.

The Expanse is the work James S.A. Corey is catalogued for: space opera built on interplanetary voyages, space warfare and conspiracy. Leviathan Wakes (2011) opens it, followed by Caliban's War (2012), Abaddon's Gate (2013) and Cibola Burn (2014), with novellas such as The Butcher of Anderson Station, Drive and Gods of Risk between them. Corey also wrote the Star Wars novel Razor's Edge (2013) and has started the Captive's War series. Twenty-nine titles are catalogued, reaching The Faith of Beasts in 2026.

James Sallis, who lived from 1944 to 2026, was an American crime writer, poet, science fiction writer and biographer. The Lew Griffin novels, set in New Orleans, follow a detective through a series that opens with The Long-Legged Fly (1992); Drive, published in 2005, became a film of the same name in 2011. Sallis also wrote about music, starting the catalogue with The Guitar Players: One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music (1982). Thirty-eight titles are catalogued in all.

James Scott Bell is a novelist and a writing instructor. Legal thrillers dominate a catalogue of 91 books published between 1988 and 2025, covering the Mike Romeo, Ty Buchanan, Trials of Kit Shannon and Mallory Caine, Zombie-at-Law series. Lawyers, Los Angeles and Christian suspense recur as subjects, alongside a line of books on authorship and craft technique. The run opens with The Night Carl Sagan Stepped on My Cat (1988).

James Stavridis is a retired United States Navy admiral who writes on naval subjects. The catalogue pairs standing Navy reference works, among them editions of the Division Officer's Guide and the Watch Officer's Guide together with Command at Sea (1998), with books written for general readers: Destroyer Captain (2008), Partnership for the Americas (2010), The Accidental Admiral (2014), Sea Power (2017), The Leader's Bookshelf (2017), Sailing True North (2019), 2034 (2021) and 2084 (2026). Naval art and science, officers' handbooks, watch duty and military affairs are the catalogued subjects. Robert Girrier, Jeffrey L. Heames and Thomas Michael Ogden are each credited alongside Stavridis on one title.

James Swain writes crime fiction and books on card magic. Two recurring figures carry the crime novels: Tony Valentine, a private investigator, and Jack Carpenter, a former police officer who recovers missing children. Card dealers, gambling crime, swindlers and Las Vegas run through the subject headings. The catalogue holds 28 books published between 1989 and 2026, from The Man Who Walked Through Walls (1989) to Neon Hustle (2026). Other series include Billy Cunningham, Lancaster & Daniels, Vincent Hardare and Peter Warlock. The magic titles, among them Miracles With Cards (1996) and 21st Century Card Magic (1999), are self-published. Swain, born in 1956, has twice been nominated for the Barry Award.

James Swallow is a British author based in London whose output covers original novels, tie-in fiction, short fiction, audio dramas and video games. Swallow's own series include the Marc Dane action thrillers and the Sundowners novels, which mix the Western with steampunk. Tie-in work draws on Star Trek, Warhammer 40,000, Doctor Who, 24, Stargate and 2000 AD. Swallow is a BAFTA nominee and has won Scribe Awards for Star Trek, Watch Dogs: Legion, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Star Cops work. The catalogue holds 126 books from Who Killed Captain Kirk? (1993) to Flames of Betrayal (2026), including the non-fiction Dark Eye: The Films of David Fincher (2003).

South Florida is where James W. Hall sets his crime fiction. The American author and longtime creative writing professor is best known for the Thorn novels, whose title character is a loner who ties fishing flies and works alongside his private-investigator friend Sugarman. Key Largo and Miami supply the geography, and the books hold poverty against wealth. Hall's 30 catalogued titles open with Under Cover of Daylight (1987) and reach Stare Down (2024); Harper McDaniel names the later series. Hall is actively publishing.

Survivalist fiction and preparedness manuals make up the work of James Wesley Rawles, a former US Army Intelligence officer and survival retreat consultant born in 1960. Patriots (1998) began the Coming Collapse sequence; Counter-Caliphate Chronicles is the second series. Survival, financial crisis and the breakdown of civil order are the subjects throughout. Rawles also promotes the American Redoubt, a survivalist refuge in the northwestern United States. Ten books are catalogued through 2020.

Erotic romance is the subject tag attached to Jami Davenport's catalogue, which holds 57 books from 2008 to 2024. Save the Last Dance (2008) is the first title, and Penalizing (2024) the most recent. Davenport's series include Seattle Sockeyes Hockey, Scoring, Seattle Steelheads Football, Seattle Lumberjacks, Portland Icehawks, Evergreen Dynasty, Men of Tyee, Madrona Island and Gone Missing Detective Agency. Jami Davenport is listed as an ongoing author.

Jamie Beck writes contemporary romance and family drama. Twenty-one books are catalogued between 2014 and 2023 across the Sterling Canyon, St. James Siblings, Sanctuary Sound and Potomac Point series. In the Cards (2014) opens the run, followed by Accidentally Hers (2015), Worth the Wait (2015) and Secretly Hers (2016). Colorado skiing, single mothers, physical therapists and neighbours appear among the catalogued subjects.

Jamie Brenner writes contemporary fiction about women, families and marriage. The catalogue holds 13 books from The Gin Lovers (2012) to Naked Angel (2026), most of them published in the 2020s. Two series appear: Gin Lovers and the Burlesque Trilogy. Prohibition, the 1920s and New York recur as subjects, alongside mothers and daughters, marriage, small-town life and summer settings, across novels of a median 371 pages.

Jamie Day has four catalogued novels, published between 2023 and 2026. The Block Party (2023) is the first, followed by One Big Happy Family (2024), The Lake Escape (2025) and Beach Thriller (2026). Day publishes at roughly one book a year and the run is ongoing.

Jamie Ford

4 books

Jamie Ford is an American novelist with four books published between 2009 and 2022. The debut, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (2009), spent 130 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and took the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in adult fiction. Songs of Willow Frost (2013) came next, then Love and Other Consolation Prizes (2017) and The Many Daughters of Afong Moy (2022). Chinese American and Japanese American lives, the wartime relocation of 1942 to 1945, orphans, grief and prejudice are the recurring subjects. No new title has appeared since 2022.

Jules Clement, a sheriff in the imaginary town of Blue Deer, Montana, is the recurring figure in Jamie Harrison's mysteries. The first four titles run from The Edge of the Crazies (1995) through Going Local (1996) and An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence (1998) to Blue Deer Thaw (2000). Harrison returned with The Widow Nash (2017), The Center of Everything (2021), The River View (2024) and A River Dream (2025). Eight books are catalogued, and rodeos and police investigation sit in the subject record.

Jamie Lee Grey writes Christian suspense and adventure about persecution and survival. Four series carry the work: Mystery Babylon, Tribulation, Band of Believers and Daughter of Babylon. Grey's 29 catalogued books open with Holy War (2017) and reach The Refuge (2026), with Darkness, Destruction, Dissent and Duplicity all published in 2018. Volumes median 278 pages, at roughly three a year.