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January Rayne writes the Eternally series, and the catalogue also holds titles such as Eternally Damned, Eternally Cursed and Eternally Lost. Rayne has 17 books published since 2022, when Eternally Hers and Carnival of Creeps appeared. Other series are Monster Stalker, Dead Man's Ranch and All Bets Are Off. Alaska Lights (2026) is the newest title, and January Rayne remains active.

Janwillem van de Wetering

31 books• 2 series

Janwillem van de Wetering (1931-2008) was a Dutch author who wrote in both Dutch and English across three separate lines: detective fiction, children's books and Zen philosophy. The Amsterdam Cops mysteries follow the police officers Henk Grijpstra and Rinus DeGier through the Netherlands, while the Hugh Pine books are children's fiction, with porcupines among the subjects. The Empty Mirror (1973) opens a catalogue of 31 titles that closes with Amsterdam Cops in 1999.

JaQuavis Coleman writes urban fiction, catalogued under African American street literature with crime, the drug trade and murder among the recorded subjects. The listing holds 23 books from The Cartel (2008) to Cartel Queen 3: Long Kiss Goodnight (2026). Three of those titles also carry Ashley Antoinette, the pairing credited as Ashley & JaQuavis. Series recorded for Coleman include Dopeman, Murderville, Streets Have No Kings and Carter Diamond.

Jaqueline Snowe has 29 books in the catalogue, published between 2017 and 2026. Let Life Happen (2017) is the first, followed by Take a Chance on Me (2018), Evening the Score (2019) and The Weekend Deal (2020). Best Player, Challenge Accepted and Teaching with the Enemy all date from 2021. Side Lined is the newest Jaqueline Snowe title, and releases are ongoing.

Jasinda Wilder writes romance and erotica. The catalogue runs to 123 books published between 2012 and 2026, opening with A Sexy Journey (2012) and reaching Badd Love (2026). Series carry most of it: Badd Brothers, Big Girls Do It, Alpha One Security, Black Room, Club Sin / Dirty Beasts, Delilah's Diary, Rock Stars Do It, Preacher's Son, Dad Bod Contracting, Blood Heir and Biker Billionaire among them. Man-woman relationships, sexual dominance and submission, romantic suspense and grief recur as subjects. Wilder is still publishing.

Jasmine Cresswell, born in Wales in 1941, is a British novelist with more than 50 romance novels written under that name and as Jasmine Craig. The catalogue holds 63 books published from 1977 to 2007, beginning with Forgotten Marriage and ending with Payback. Subjects range from historical and contemporary romance to romantic suspense, murder and mystery, with Denver and Chicago among the places named. Early titles include The Abducted Heiress (1978) and The Reluctant Viscountess (1981). Unit One is the series listed for Cresswell.

Jasmine Guillory

15 books• 3 series

Jasmine Guillory is an American author of romance novels whose protagonists are often African-American professionals. The Wedding Date and The Proposal both appeared in 2018, followed by Royal Holiday (2019), The Wedding Party (2019) and Party of Two (2020). The Proposal reached The New York Times Best Seller list for paperback trade fiction in February 2019. The newest listed title is It's Only Dancing (2026). Subjects include dating, marriage proposals, romantic comedy, holidays and baseball stories, and the Wedding Date series is listed under Guillory.

Jasmine Mas published six Psycho books between 2022 and 2023 - Psycho Beasts, Psycho Fae, Psycho Shifters, Psycho Academy, Psycho Devils and Psycho Gods. Blood of Hercules (2024) and Bonds of Hercules (2025) started a second run, with Battle for Hercules scheduled for 2027. Eleven books are catalogued across three named series: Cruel Shifterverse, Villains of Lore and Unsurvivable.

Jasmine Walt writes fantasy across ten series, including the Baine Chronicles, the Dragon Riders of Elantia, the Gatekeeper Chronicles, Of Dragons and Fae and the Shaman Queen Saga. Burned by Magic (2015) opens the catalogue, and an early run of titles follows one formula, Bound by Magic, Hunted by Magic, Marked by Magic, Claimed by Magic. The catalogue holds 39 titles, reaching The Vampire's Bargain (2024).

Jasmine Webb writes cozy mysteries in three series: the Charlotte Gibson Mysteries, the Mackenzie Owens Mysteries and the Poppy Perkins Mysteries. Aloha Alibi (2021) opens the catalogue, followed by Maui Murder, Beachside Bullet, Hibiscus Homicide and Kalikimaka Killer. Thirty-five books reach Pacific Piracy in 2026.

Galaxy's Edge appears in several series names under Jason Anspach, including Order Of The Centurion, Tyrus Rechs: Contracts & Terminations and Dark Operator. The catalogue lists 101 books from 'til Death (2015) to Fracture (2026). Ledge Town (2015), Second Impressions (2016) and The Man Who Balked (2016) are early titles, and Legionnaire, Galactic Outlaws, Kill Team and Attack of Shadows all date from 2017. Forgotten Ruin, Wayward Galaxy, Void Drifter, King's League and Sgt. Thor are further series. Subject headings name science fiction, action and adventure, war and the military.

Jason Goodwin

15 books• 2 series

Jason Goodwin writes on two tracks. His nonfiction covers the tea trade, Ottoman history and travel, in A Time for Tea (1990), On Foot to the Golden Horn (1993) and Lords of the Horizons (1998); his fiction is the Yashim series, in which a eunuch detective works cases in nineteenth-century Istanbul, opening with The Janissary Tree (2006). Fifteen catalogued titles close with A Pilgrim's Guide to Sacred London (2017).

Jason Kasper writes thrillers. The David Rivers books span two series, American Mercenary and Shadow Strike, and a further series carries the name Blair Morgan / The Spider Heist. The catalogue begins with Greatest Enemy / Jais (2016), and The Ranger Objective, Offer of Revenge and The Suicide Cartel appeared between 2017 and 2019. The Shadow Directive (2026) is the newest title, and The Paris Protocol is set for 2027.

Jason Matthews (1951-2021) was an American espionage novelist and a former CIA officer. Matthews wrote three books, forming one trilogy: Red Sparrow (2013), Palace of Treason (2015) and The Kremlin's Candidate (2018). Dominika Egorova and Nathaniel Nash carry the story across all three, which turn on Russian intelligence, women spies, extortion and an American presidential election. The novels are long, near 470 pages each, and the sequence closed in 2018.

Jason Pinter, born in 1979, is an American thriller novelist. Henry Parker, a New York journalist, carries his first series, from The Mark (2007) through The Guilty, The Stolen, The Darkness and The Fury; the Rachel Marin thrillers and the Zeke Bartholomew books follow. Twelve titles reach Past Crimes (2024), and Pinter is listed as ongoing.

Jason Rekulak is catalogued with The Impossible Fortress (2017), Hidden Pictures (2022), The Last One at the Wedding (2024) and Look What the Cat Dragged In (2026), the newest title. Subjects recorded for the books include teenage boys and girls, computer games, geeks, friendship in adolescence and humorous fiction. The catalogue lists no series for Rekulak and remains ongoing.

Jason Reynolds

23 books• 3 series

Jason Reynolds, born on 6 December 1983 in Washington, D.C., and raised in Oxon Hill, Maryland, writes novels and poetry for young adult and middle grade readers. Rap was an early inspiration, and several poetry collections came before the first Reynolds novel, When I Was the Greatest (2014), winner of the John Steptoe Award for New Talent. The New York Times bestselling Track series comprises Ghost (2016), Patina (2017), Sunny (2018) and Lu (2018). The catalogue lists 23 Reynolds books, from My Name Is Jason. Mine Too. (2009) to Coach (2025), including All American Boys (2015) and Long Way Down (2017).

Jason Vail writes historical crime fiction set in England, with crime and detection among the recorded subjects. Stephen Attebrook is the recurring figure, carried by the Stephen Attebrook Mystery series and the Attebrook Family Saga. A third series, Lone Star Rising, sits alongside them, and Texas, espionage thrillers and alternative history also appear in the subject headings. The catalogue holds 25 books from The Wayward Apprentice (2010) to Water Under the Bridge (2026), among them Baynard's List (2011), A Dreadful Penance (2012), Saint Milburga's Bones (2015) and The Bear Wagon (2017).

Jasper Fforde

19 books• 5 series

Thursday Next, a woman detective, heads Jasper Fforde's main series, where books and reading and the characters of literature supply the subject matter. The Eyre Affair (2001) opens a catalogue of 19 fantasy titles that reaches Dark Reading Matter (2025), with the Nursery Crime books, the Chronicles of Kazam and Shades of Grey beside the Next novels. Dragons, magic and time travel fill the subject tags.

Jasper T. Scott writes science fiction across a dozen series, among them Dark Space and the Dark Space Universe, the Ascension Wars, the Cade Korbin Chronicles, Rebel Galaxy, Starborn, Broken Worlds, the Kyron Invasion and Architects of the Apocalypse. The 57 catalogued books open with Dark Space (2013) and reach Concord (2026). Scott is actively publishing.

Jax Calder writes queer romance, much of it around sport. Five series divide the work: Sporting Secrets, Rainbow Redemption, Unlikely Dilemmas, Queer Ways to Fall in Love and Revenge Club. Six titles appeared in 2021, among them Coming out at the Ball Game, Playing Offside, Playing at Home and The Inappropriate Date, and the catalogue reaches 26 books by 2026. Calder adds four or five titles a year.

Science fiction is the genre tag on Jaxon Reed's catalogue of 82 books, published between 2014 and 2026. Servant of the State (2014) opens the run and Coreflex Ultimatum (2026) is the newest title. Reed writes in series: Pirates of the Milky Way, Star Farmer, Phaethon Corp, Agents of the Planetary Republic, Star League Assassins, Dark Waters Inn, Steam & Aether, Fae Killers, Redwood, the Empathic Detective, Forlorn Dagger and Dungeon Corps. Publication is ongoing.

Military science fiction fills Jay Allan's catalogue: space warfare, galactic empires, colonisation and imaginary wars are the recorded subjects. Fifty-four books span 2012 to 2022, grouped into Crimson Worlds with its successor and refugee cycles, Blood on the Stars, Far Stars, Portal Wars, Flames of Rebellion and the Andromeda Chronicles. Gehenna Dawn (2012) is the earliest catalogued title and Empire Reborn (2022) the last. Crimson Worlds supplies the recurring cast, and the run has been dormant since 2022.

Jay Crownover is a Colorado-born romance author who lives at the foot of the Rockies and has reached the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. The Marked Men series, Saints of Denver, Welcome to the Point, Loveless Texas, Forever Marked and the Monsters Duet make up the series list. The catalogue holds 39 books from Rule (2012) to Ms. Fortune (2025), with Jet (2013) and Nash (2014) among the early titles. Denver, ex-convicts and romantic suspense appear in the subjects.

Jay Kristoff

26 books• 8 series

Jay Kristoff, born 11 November 1973, is an Australian author of fantasy and science fiction for adult and young adult readers who lives in Melbourne. Stormdancer (2012) is the first catalogued book, followed by Kinslayer (2013), Endsinger (2014), Illuminae (2015), Gemina (2016), Nevernight (2016) and Godsgrave (2017); Allwinter (2025) is the newest of 26 books. Series include Lotus War, Illuminae Files, Nevernight Chronicle, Empire of the Vampire, Lifelike and Aurora Cycle. Japan, shoguns, griffins and space flight appear among the subjects.

Jay Shetty writes self-help drawn from monastic practice. Two books are catalogued: Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day (2020) and 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go (2023). Self-realisation, conduct of life, Hinduism and religious life are the recorded subjects. Nothing has been added since 2023.

Jaycee Dugard has written two books about her own kidnapping and the years that followed. A Stolen Life (2011) is the first, and Freedom: My Book of Firsts (2016) is the second. Both are catalogued as biography, under kidnapping victims, sexually abused children, life skills and self-actualization.

Jaye Pratt has 45 books catalogued between 2020 and 2026, the newest being Puck Me Dead (2026). Series by Jaye Pratt include Masked Men, Masked Men of Fear Island, Knox Academy Trilogy, G.O.D.S, Grand Ridge University, D'Arco Mafia Duet, O'Brien Mafia and Boys of Briar Academy. Early titles include G.O.D.S: Gifted. Obedient. Deadly. Students. (2021) and Boys Like You (2021).

Jaye Wells writes urban fantasy. The Sabina Kane series is her best known, published worldwide by Orbit Books, with Prospero's War, Meridian Six and Murdoch Vampires beside it. Twenty books are catalogued between 2009 and 2018: Red-Headed Stepchild (2009), The Mage in Black (2010), Green-Eyed Demon (2011), Blue-Blooded Vamp (2012), Silver-Tongued Devil (2012), Meridian Six (2013) and Rusted Veins (2013) among them, through to High Lonesome Sound (2018). Vampires, werewolves, assassins and magic fill the subject index. Wells worked as a magazine editor and freelance journalist before writing full time, and lives in Texas.

Jaymin Eve writes paranormal romance and urban fantasy, with werewolves and dragons among the subjects. The catalogue lists 75 books from First World (2013) to A Bond of Trust (2026), and Shadowed Souls is announced for 2027. Jane Washington shares the credit on 6 of those books. Series include Curse of the Gods, Walker Saga, Shadow Beast Shifters, Secret Keepers, Supernatural Prison, NYC Mecca, Boys of Bellerose, Shifter City Fated Mates, Dark Legacy, Hive Trilogy and Storm Princess Saga.

Jayne Allen's catalogue consists of 5 books, published between 2018 and 2025. The Black Girls Must Die Exhausted series opens with the 2018 novel of that name and continues through Black Girls Must Be Magic (2019) and Black Girls Must Have It All (2023). Recorded subjects are African American women, African American women journalists, female friendship and infertility. The Most Wonderful Time (2024) and Unfinished Business (2025) are the most recent listed titles.

Jayne Ann Krentz, born Jayne Castle on 28 March 1948 in Cobb, California, is an American romance novelist with New York Times bestsellers under seven pseudonyms. Three names remain in use: Krentz for contemporary romantic suspense, Amanda Quick for historical romantic suspense and Jayne Ann Castle for futuristic and paranormal romantic suspense. More than 35 million copies are in print. The catalogue lists 205 books, from Vintage of Surrender (1979, as Jayne Castle) to Enter the Nightmare (2026), with The Book Hunter due in 2027. Early titles also appeared as Jayne Bentley, Jayne Taylor and Stephanie James. Series include Burning Cove, Eclipse Bay and the Dreamlight Trilogy.

Jayne Castle is the maiden name of Jayne Ann Krentz, an American romance writer born March 28, 1948, in Cobb, California. Krentz reserves the Castle name for futuristic and paranormal romantic suspense, uses Amanda Quick for historical romantic suspense, and writes contemporary romantic suspense as Krentz. Krentz has had New York Times bestsellers under seven pseudonyms, and more than 35 million copies are in print. This catalogue lists only 2 Castle entries: A Man's Protection (1982, credited as Jayne Ann Krentz) and Sweetwater and the Witch (2022). The Futuristic World of Harmony and Curtain Worlds appear as related listings.

Jean Craighead George

100 books• 11 series

Julie of the Wolves won Jean Craighead George the Newbery Medal, and My Side of the Mountain (1959) earned a Newbery Honor. George, born July 2, 1919, and died May 15, 2012, was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, with the environment and the natural world as recurring themes. George also wrote at least two guides to cooking with wild foods and an autobiography, Journey Inward, and was the U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1964. The catalogue lists 100 books from Vulpes, the Red Fox (1948) to Crowbar: The Smartest Bird in the World (2015). Series include 13 Moons, Ecological Mysteries, American Woodland Tales and One Day in the..., and subjects name wolves, owls, falcons and ecology.

Ireland is the setting across Jean Grainger's historical fiction. Fifty-six catalogued books run from So Much Owed and The Tour (2013) to Kitty Kirwan's Last Waltz (2026). Series lines include the Kilteegan Bridge Story, the Knocknashee Story, the Dunmara Story, Mags Munroe, Conor O'Shea / The Tour, The Star and the Shamrock, Queenstown and Cullen's Celtic Cabaret. Tour guides, priests and redemption recur as subjects.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

10 books• 1 series

Jean Hanff Korelitz has 10 books in the catalogue, from A Jury of Her Peers (1996) to The Sequel (2024). The Sabbathday River (1998), Admission (2009), You Should Have Known (2014), The Plot (2021) and The Latecomer (2022) fall between them. Women lawyers, universities and New York appear among the subject headings. Korelitz, born May 16, 1961, is an American novelist, playwright, theater producer and essayist.

Jean Kwok

5 books• 1 series

Jean Kwok is a Chinese American novelist whose books have reached the New York Times bestseller list. Girl in Translation (2010), Mambo in Chinatown (2014) and Searching for Sylvie Lee (2019) are the first three, the last of them a Read with Jenna book club pick on The Today Show. Five titles are catalogued to 2026, with The Leftover Woman (2023) and Dominion (2026) completing the list. Chinese American families, family secrets, ballroom dancing and New York recur as subjects.

Earth's Children is the whole of Jean M. Auel's catalogue: six novels of prehistoric life opening with The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980) and closing with The Land of Painted Caves (2011). Ayla is the central character. Neanderthals, the glacial epoch, shamanism and sign language recur as subjects. The books are long, at a median of 626 pages.

Jean Meltzer is a Jewish American novelist who worked in television before turning to fiction, winning a Daytime Emmy Award as a producer, writer and director. Six books are catalogued: The Matzah Ball and A Little Christmas Spirit (2021), Mr. Perfect on Paper (2022), Kissing Kosher (2023), Magical Meet Cute (2024) and The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah (2025). Jewish holidays give several of them their occasion. Meltzer studied in rabbinical schools in Jerusalem for five years, and film rights to The Matzah Ball were optioned in 2022.

Jean Stone writes contemporary fiction about female friendship, remarriage and starting over, much of it set on Martha's Vineyard. Sins of Innocence (1994) opens a catalogue of 26 books that reaches The Little Bookshop by the Harbor (2026). Three series, Martha's Vineyard, Vineyard and Up-Island, carry the island setting, and adoption, weddings and the lives of middle-aged women recur. Stone continues to publish.

Brittany is the setting for the police procedurals of Jean-Luc Bannalec, which follow a French commissaire through murder investigations along the coast. Death in Brittany, also published as Death in Pont-Aven, opened the series in 2012, followed by Murder on Brittany Shores, The Fleur de Sel Murders and The Killing Tide. Sixteen books reach The Secrets of the Abbey, and The Winemaker's End is scheduled for 2027.

Jeanette Winterson

28 books• 4 series

Jeanette Winterson, born 27 August 1959, is an English author who also broadcasts and teaches creative writing. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), Winterson's first book, is a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian girl raised in an English Pentecostal community. Later novels take up gender and sexual identity, and then the relationship between people and technology. Winterson's awards include a Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, a BAFTA for Best Drama, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, the St. Louis Literary Award and two Lambda Literary Awards. The catalogue lists 28 books, reaching One Aladdin Two Lamps (2026), with translations in almost 20 languages.

Jeaniene Frost

34 books• 9 series

Jeaniene Frost, an American fantasy author born on 13 June 1974, created the Night Huntress series and the Night Huntress World novels. Foreign rights to Frost novels have been sold in twenty countries. The catalogue lists 35 Frost books, from Halfway to the Grave (2007), At Grave's End (2008) and One Foot in the Grave (2008) to A Curse of Beasts and Magic (2026), with A Storm of Dragons and Sorcery due in 2027. Other series include Night Prince, Night Rebel, Broken Destiny and Beautiful and Beastly. Subjects include vampires, paranormal romance, romantic suspense and bounty hunters.

Jeanine Cummins

5 books

Jeanine Cummins is an American author of Irish and Puerto Rican heritage, born in 1974. Five books carry the name: A Rip in Heaven, a 2004 memoir drawing on a Missouri murder case, then four novels, The Outside Boy in 2010, The Crooked Branch in 2013, American Dirt in 2020 and Speak to Me of Home in 2025. American Dirt sold more than three million copies and appeared in 37 languages; it also drew sustained criticism within the American literary community, which read it as cultural exploitation. Ireland, family secrets and coming of age recur across the fiction.

Jeanne DuPrau, born in 1944, is an American author living in Menlo Park, California, and is best known for The Books of Ember, science fiction novels for young people. The catalogue lists a Book of Ember series and titles such as The City of Ember (2003) and The People of Sparks (2004). DuPrau's 14 catalogued books also include Adoption: The Facts, Feelings and Issues of a Double Heritage (1981), The Apple IIgs Book (1987) and Cloning (1999). Project F (2023) is the newest title.

Jeanne M. Dams is an American crime fiction writer with three mystery series to her name. Dorothy Martin, an American retired teacher living in England, appears first in The Body in the Transept (1995). Hilda Johansson, a Swedish American, leads the second sequence, and the Oak Park Village Mysteries make the third. Thirty-eight books are catalogued, running through A Thief's Folly (2026).

Motorcycle clubs name most of Jeanne St. James's series: Dirty Angels MC, Blood Fury MC, Blue Avengers MC, Dirty Angels MC: Next Gen and Kings of Anarchy: Pennsylvania. Romance, action and adventure, and LGBTQ+ gay fiction are the recorded subjects. The catalogue holds 64 books published between 2009 and 2026, from Double Dare (2009) to Unrestrained (2026). Other series include In the Shadows Security, Brothers in Blue, Double D Ranch, Dare Menage, Obsessed and Rip Cord. St. James is actively publishing.

Jeannette Walls

5 books

The Glass Castle (2005), Jeannette Walls's memoir of a nomadic family childhood, is the best known of her five catalogued books. Walls is an American author and journalist, born in 1960, who worked as a gossip columnist for MSNBC.com before turning to books. Her catalogue opens with Dish (2000) and closes with Hang the Moon (2023). The Glass Castle spent 421 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, and Walls took both the Alex Award and the Christopher Award in 2006.

Jeff Abbott

23 books• 4 series

Jeff Abbott's crime fiction runs from small-town Texas to the international thriller. Jordan Poteet, a librarian in Mirabeau, leads the first series from Do Unto Others (1994); Whit Mosley and then Sam Capra follow. Assassins, the Mafia and intelligence officers enter with the later books. Twenty-three titles reach January and July in 2026, at 390 pages on median.

Colorado sheriffs and murder investigations make up Jeff Carson's mysteries, with amnesia and traffic accidents among the recurring plot material. David Wolf heads the main series and Ali Falco leads a second. Twenty-seven catalogued books run from Foreign Deceit (2012) through The Silversmith (2013), Cold Lake (2014) and Smoked Out (2015) to Wind Burn in 2026.

Watervalley is Jeff High's one series, and it accounts for the whole catalogue: four books published between 2013 and 2015. More Things in Heaven and Earth (2013) opens the run, followed by Each Shining Hour (2014), The Fullness of Time of Watervalley (2015) and The Splendor of Ordinary Days (2015). Physicians, small-town life, family life and romance supply the subject matter, across novels of a median 413 pages.

Jeff Kinney

32 books• 4 series

Jeff Kinney (Jeffrey Patrick Kinney, born February 19, 1971) is an American author and illustrator who created, writes and draws the Diary of a Wimpy Kid children's books. Kinney also created the children's website Poptropica. The catalogue holds 32 books, beginning with Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2007) and followed by Rodrick Rules (2008), The Last Straw (2009), Dog Days (2009), The Ugly Truth (2010) and Cabin Fever (2010). The newest title is Fight or Flight (2026). Subjects include diaries, middle school, family life, friendship and vacations, and the listing also includes Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid.

Jeff Lindsay

19 books• 6 series

Jeff Lindsay is the pen name of Jeffry P. Freundlich, an American crime novelist and playwright. His best known creation is Dexter Morgan, a Miami police forensic analyst who is himself a psychopath and who kills serial killers. The Dexter novels begin with Darkly Dreaming Dexter in 2004, and the first of them became the Showtime television series that ran from 2006 to 2013 with Michael C. Hall in the role. Lindsay also wrote the Billy Knight novels and the Riley Wolfe thrillers. The catalogue holds 19 titles, running from Tropical Depression in 1994 to The Fourth Rule in 2023.

Jeff Menapace has published 26 books since 2011, grouped into five series: Bad Games, Caleb Lambert, Cliche, Wildlife and Agent Maggie Allen. The catalogue opens in 2011 with Jeremy's Loss and The Straw Man and a Murder, reaches the first Bad Games title in 2013, and runs on to Still in F*cking Noodle in 2024. Menapace continues to publish.

Jeff Nania writes mysteries and thrillers. His John Cabrelli novels make up most of a 6-book catalogue that opens with Figure Eight in 2018 and continues through Autumn (2019), Bough Cutter and Spider Lake (both 2021), Musky Run (2023) and River Gold (2025). The books sit in the mystery, thriller and adventure categories, and Nania continues to publish.

Jeff Shaara writes historical war fiction, and the 21 catalogued books cover the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War II and the Korean War. Gods and Generals (1996) opens the list, followed by The Last Full Measure (1998) and Gone for Soldiers (2000). Series lines group the novels by conflict, among them World War II: 1939-1945 and Civil War: 1861-1865, Western Theater. The Unfinished Work of Abraham Lincoln (2026) is the newest title. Born Jeffrey M. Shaara on February 21, 1952, Shaara is the son of the Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Shaara.

Jeff VanderMeer

44 books• 11 series

Jeff VanderMeer, born on 7 July 1968, is an American author and literary critic first linked to the New Weird genre before writing the Southern Reach series. Annihilation, the first Southern Reach novel, won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards and became a film directed by Alex Garland. Shriek: An Afterword and Borne are among the other novels, and with Ann VanderMeer the author edited The New Weird, The Weird and The Big Book of Science Fiction. The New Yorker called VanderMeer the King of Weird Fiction. The catalogue lists 45 books from Dradin, In Love (1996), with Abdication due in 2027. Series include Ambergris and Borne.

Jeff Wheeler writes fantasy, with subjects that include magic, quests, kings and rulers, orphans and coming of age. The catalogue runs from The Wishing Lantern (1999) to Serpent Queen (2026), with The Fallen Empires scheduled for 2027. The Blight of Muirwood, The Scourge of Muirwood and The Wretched of Muirwood all appeared in 2011. Series include Kingfountain, Legends of Muirwood, Covenant of Muirwood, Whispers from Mirrowen, First Argentines and Grave Kingdom.

Forensic anthropology is Jefferson Bass's material: the Body Farm novels put Bill Brockton, a forensic anthropologist in Tennessee, onto criminal cases. The catalogue holds 16 titles, from Human Osteology (1971) and Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Body Farm (2003) to the novels Carved in Bone (2006), The Devil's Bones (2008), The Bone Thief (2010) and Without Mercy. The catalogue is listed as likely complete.

Jeffery Archer writes mystery and detective fiction, and English drama sits among his catalogued subjects. Three titles fall under this author entry: Willy And The Killer Kipper (1981), Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1987) and End Game (2025), the eighth William Warwick book. Archer remains actively publishing.