Authors whose first name starts with L, page 4 of 14

Fantasy fills most of Lauren Dawes's 27 books, released between 2012 and 2023. The Helheim Wolf Pack series and its novellas form the core of the list, alongside the Cat McKenzie books. Half Blood (2012) is the earliest title, followed by Half Life and Half Truths the same year. Love Unbound (2023) is the latest, and no newer Dawes title is listed.

Lauren DeStefano, born in 1984, is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known for the Chemical Garden novels and for her gallows humour. The catalogue holds 18 books dated between 2011 and 2024, opening with Wither (2011) and running to The Lost Ones (2024). Four series stand under the DeStefano name: Chemical Garden, Internment Chronicles, Pram and Glass Spare. Recorded subjects include science fiction, genetic engineering, utopias, orphans, grief and kidnapping. DeStefano continues to publish.

Lauren E. Rico writes romance and erotica across the Whiskey Sisters, TEMP/sub and Symphony Hall series. The catalogue lists 13 books from 2016 to 2026, opening with Rhapsody (2016). Reverie, Requiem and Solo appeared in 2016 and 2017, and Mischief and Mayhem, Darkest Desires and Forbidden Fantasies followed. Mirror Image (2026) is the newest title, and Rico is still publishing.

Cozy mystery with amateur women sleuths is Lauren Elliott's line. The Beyond The Page Bookstore Mysteries include Murder by the Book (2018), Prologue to Murder (2019), Proof of Murder (2020) and A Margin for Murder (2022), and the Crystals & CuriosiTEAS Mystery series sits beside them. Elliott's 15 catalogued titles start with Mixed Drinks to Impress (2017) and reach Epilogue to a Christmas Murder.

Lauren Groff, born July 23, 1978, is an American novelist and short story writer with five novels and three story collections. The catalogue lists 12 Groff titles, starting with The Monsters of Templeton (2008) and Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories (2009), then Arcadia (2012), Fates and Furies (2015), Florida (2018) and Matrix (2021). The Vaster Wilds appeared in 2023 and Brawler in 2026. Time named Groff one of its 100 most influential people in 2024. Subjects include family life, married people, single women and sea monsters.

Lauren Haney is the pen name of Betty Winkelman (1936-2022), an American mystery novelist. The Lieutenant Bak series carries the name, with Lieutenant Bak as the recurring character and Egypt, history and mystery and detective fiction recorded among the subjects. Nine books run from The Right Hand of Amon (1997) to two 2003 titles, A Path of Shadows and Flesh of the God. Two books have a recorded length, at a median of 305 pages.

Southern family life is Lauren K. Denton's subject. Sisters, inherited houses, motherhood and self-reinvention recur across 6 novels set largely in Alabama, part of the work shelved as Christian fiction. The Hideaway (2017) opens the run and A Place to Land (2022) closes it. No further title has appeared since 2022.

Lauren K. McKellar has 13 catalogued books published between 2014 and 2023, all credited to McKellar alone. Not like the movies is the one series filed under the name. The run opens with The Problem with Crazy (2014) and ends at Home for Christmas (2023), taking in Eleven Weeks (2015), The Twenty-One (2015), Fame (2016), Fast (2017), Fortune (2017) and A Whole New Ball Game (2018). No title has been recorded since 2023.

Lauren Kate

16 books• 4 series

Fallen (2009) opens the Lauren Kate catalogue and reached number one on the New York Times list for children's chapter books. Kate, an American author born in 1981, writes for adult and young adult readers alike; her 16 catalogued books run through to White Lights (2026), and Torment (2010), Passion (2011) and Rapture (2012) each topped that same list. Angels, reincarnation, love and school stories make up the listed subjects, and her work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

Lauren Landish writes contemporary romance and erotica, with catalogue subjects that also list menage, M/F/M, reverse harem and dark romance. The listing holds 89 books published between 2015 and 2026, opening with Addicted (2015) and Ambition (2015) and reaching Puck, Marry, Kill (2026). Series credited to Landish include Irresistible Bachelors, Never Say Never, Get Dirty, Ballers & Babies, Mr. Dark, Bertoli Crime Family, Bennett Boys Ranch, Virgin Diaries, Dirty Fairy Tales and Big, Fat, Fake.

Contemporary romance is Lauren Layne's field, much of it set in New York. Marriage, weddings, man-woman relationships and, in places, police work and white-collar crime supply the plots. Layne's catalogue holds 42 books published between 2013 and 2024, divided among the Oxford, Sex Love & Stiletto, Wedding Belles, Love Unexpectedly, 21 Wall Street, Central Park Pact, Best Mistake, I Do I Don't and Man of the Year series. After the Kiss (2013) opens the run and Miranda in Retrograde (2024) is the latest title.

Lauren Myracle

32 books• 6 series

Lauren Myracle, born in 1969, is an American writer of young adult and middle-grade fiction. The Internet Girls books - ttyl (2004), ttfn (2006) and l8r, g8r (2007) - are written in instant messages and are Myracle's best-selling titles. The Winnie Years counts off ages with Eleven (2004) and Twelve (2007), and Flower Power, Life of Ty, Wishing Day and Crestview Academy follow. Friendship, sisters, families and school are the constants across 32 catalogued books, from Joyride (2003) to Plays Well with Others (2025).

Lauren Oliver

25 books• 5 series

Lauren Oliver, born Laura Suzanne Schechter on November 8, 1982, is an American novelist whose work includes numerous young adult novels. Before I Fall (2010) opens the catalogue and was filmed in 2017. The Delirium trilogy comprises Delirium, Pandemonium and Requiem. Amazon Studios made Panic into a series, with Oliver as creator, writer and showrunner. Liesl & Po, a middle-grade novel, was a 2012 E. B. White Read Aloud Award nominee. The catalogue lists 26 books through A Fatal Delivery (2026), with The Sleepwalker due in 2027.

Lauren Palphreyman writes young adult paranormal romance and adventure. Six books are catalogued, beginning with Cupid's Match (2017) and taking in Devils Inc. (2020) and A Circus of Ink (2021). The Wolf King (2023) starts the series of that name, The Night Prince (2025) continues it, and The Wolf Queen is scheduled for 2027.

Lauren Roberts writes the Powerless series, and the catalogue lists 5 books published between 2023 and 2025: Powerless, Powerful, Reckless, Fearful and Fearless. Subject headings describe the work as romantic and dark fantasy, with class differences and survival stories as themes. Powerless (2023) is the earliest catalogued title.

Lauren Rowe writes steamy, humorous romance that ends in a happily ever after, and posts bonus material such as original music from the books on the author's website. The catalogue counts 32 books from Countdown to Killing Kurtis (2015) to Chasing the Rush (2026). The Josh & Kat Trilogy, the Reed Rivers Trilogy, the Hate & Love Duet and Football and Feels are the series, and college students, musicians and women law students appear among the subjects.

Lauren Royal writes historical romance set mainly in England and Scotland, in the Restoration and Regency periods of the 17th and 19th centuries, and has reached the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. Southern California is home. The catalogue lists 29 titles, opening in 2000 with Amethyst, also published as When an Earl Meets a Girl, and Emerald, also published as How to Undress a Marquess, and reaching Something in the Viscount's Kiss in 2026. Series include the Chase Family books, Chase Brides, the Regency Chase Family series and Sweet Chase Brides, with a nonfiction line alongside them: Chase Family Recipes appeared in 2014. Devon Royal shares credit on one title.

Romance and erotica are the subjects the catalogue assigns to Lauren Runow. Thirty-one books are listed, from Unwritten and Rewritten (2015) to Diving Catch (2025), with Playing it Safe scheduled for 2027. Black Widow (2016), Gravity and The High Road (2017) and a 2018 group that takes in Austin, Bryce and Sparks Fly fall in between. The series listed are Falling for the Stars, Sexton Brothers and Leighton River, and the run is marked ongoing.

Lauren Smith writes historical, erotic and paranormal romance. The League of Rogues opens the catalogue with Wicked Designs (2013) and returns through His Wicked Seduction (2014) and Her Wicked Proposal (2016); Sins and Scandals, the Pirates of King's Landing, Brothers of Ash and Fire, the Brotherhood of the Blood Moon, Cyborg Genesis and the Shell Harbor Mermaids follow. Regency London, sadomasochism and romantic suspense recur as subjects. Seventy-six books are catalogued through Oops I Hexed Him Again (2026), with The Princess and the Pirate scheduled for 2027.

Lauren Street writes action thrillers. Twelve books are catalogued across three years, 2023 to 2025. Closer By The Hour, Fuel To The Flame and Hide Me Away all appeared in 2023; A Friend Like You, A Gamble Either Way, Calling My Children Home, Here You Come Again, The Company You Keep and Too Far Gone followed in 2024; Come Back To Me and The Only Way Out came in 2025. Street is still publishing.

I Survived, a New York Times bestselling series of historical fiction for children in grades 3 to 5, is written by Lauren Tarshis, an American author born November 23, 1963. The I Survived books present historical disasters from a child's point of view. Tarshis also wrote Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree (2007), a Golden Kite honor book and an Oprah's Book Club pick, and its sequel Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell in Love (2009). The catalogue lists 48 Tarshis books through 2026, including I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (2010) and I Survived the Night of the Lions (2026).

Lauren Weisberger

8 books• 1 series

The Devil Wears Prada (2003) made Lauren Weisberger's name, a roman à clef drawn from her job as assistant to Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and filmed in 2006. Revenge Wears Prada (2013) continues that series. Weisberger's 8 catalogued novels reach 2021 and share a register of fashion magazines, New York, female friendship and wealth. Nothing new has appeared since Where the Grass Is Green and the Girls Are Pretty (2021).

Lauren Willig, an American novelist, specialises in historical fiction. The Pink Carnation series is Willig's best-known work, following British spies of the Napoleonic era in the Scarlet Pimpernel mould as they fight for Britain and fall in love. Willig's 26 catalogued books open with The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (2004) and reach What Happens at Nightfall (2026), taking in espionage, women spies, England and historical suspense. Willig continues to publish.

Wolf Hollow took a Newbery Honor in 2017, and Beyond the Bright Sea the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction the year after; both are Lauren Wolk's books for children. Wolk is an American author, poet and editor, born in Baltimore and a graduate in English literature from Brown University in 1981. Seven catalogued books run from Those Who Favor Fire in 1999 to The Outermost Mouse in 2026, with Echo Mountain in 2020, My Own Lightning in 2022 and Candle Island in 2025 between them. Coal mining, pollution, orphans and community life appear among the subjects.

Ell Donsaii is the character at the centre of Laurence E. Dahners's longest series, with the Hyllis Family and the Stasis Stories as further runs. Single-word titles are the early pattern: Porter (2011), Quicker (2011), Smarter (2012), Allotropes (2013). Time Flow, Blind Spot, Proton Field and Tales of Simple Magic fill out the list. The catalogue holds 61 books published between 2010 and 2026, from Bonesetter (2010) to Jumper Magic (2026), at a median of 254 pages.

Laurence Leamer

22 books

Biography of American public figures is the field of Laurence Leamer, an author and journalist born October 30, 1941, and a noted authority on the Kennedy family. Leamer has written biographies of Johnny Carson, the Reagan family and Arnold Schwarzenegger, plus a book on Mar-a-Lago. The catalogue lists 22 books from The Paper Revolutionaries (1972) to Warhol's Muses (2025), including The Kennedy Women (1994) and Three Chords and the Truth (1997).

Laurence Shames has 26 books catalogued from The Big Time (1986) to Sunset Bluff (2024), mixing non-fiction with the Key West Mysteries. Subjects on the non-fiction side include Harvard Business School and its Class of 1949, businesspeople and biography. Key West and the Mafia appear among the fiction subjects. Titles of the 1990s include Florida Straits (1992), Scavenger Reef (1994), Sunburn (1995) and Mangrove Squeeze (1998).

Lauretta Hignett writes paranormal fiction. The Mouse (2017) opens 47 catalogued books that reach One Big Bite (2026). Ten series divide the run, among them Hidden City Supernatural Sleuth, Blood and Magic, the Eternity College Chronicles, Welcome To Midlife Magic and A Legacy of Vengeance and Magic. Demons, immortals and magic fill the titles, Of Demon Breed (2019) and Dancing With The Vengeance Demon (2022) among them.

Laurie Alice Eakes writes inspirational romance and romantic suspense. The Midwives books, opening with Lady in the Mist (2011), and the Daughters of Bainbridge House, Glass Goldfinch, Cliffs of Cornwall and Ashford Chronicles series make up the historical side. The Widow's Secret (1999) opens the catalogue and Abduction Rescue (2022) closes it, 28 titles at a median of 299 pages. Clean and wholesome romance, Christian suspense and thriller suspense are the listed subjects.

Laurie Cass is the author of the Bookmobile Cat Mysteries. Subjects include cozy mystery, cats, librarians, murder and women sleuths. The catalogue holds 15 Cass books published from 2013 to 2026. Lending a Paw (2013) is first, followed by Tailing a Tabby (2014), Borrowed Crime (2015) and Pouncing on Murder (2015). Gone with the Whisker (2020) and Checking Out Crime (2021) are later titles, and Murder on Thin Ice (2026) is the newest. Large print editions appear among the subjects.

Laurie Faria Stolarz is an American young adult novelist whose books feature teenage protagonists. The best-known Stolarz series begins with Blue is for Nightmares (2003), and Dark House is the other Stolarz series. White Is for Magic (2004), Silver Is for Secrets (2005) and Deadly Little Secret (2008) are among the other titles. Witchcraft, psychic ability, nightmares, stalking and high school life are among the subjects. The 19 catalogued books run to Blue Is Also for Dreaming (2023).

Laurie Forest writes the Black Witch Chronicles, epic fantasy of magic, dragons, witches and religion. The Black Witch (2017) opens the run, followed by Wandfasted (2017), Light Mage (2018), The Iron Flower (2018), The Rebel Mages (2019), The Shadow Wand (2020), The Demon Tide (2022) and The Dryad Storm (2025). Eight books are catalogued, and Forest continues the series.

Laurie Frankel

6 books

Laurie Frankel is an American novelist, essayist and public speaker. This Is How It Always Is (2017), which takes a child's gender transition as its subject, drew good reviews and controversy together, and Frankel campaigns for transgender rights. Six books are catalogued, from The Atlas of Love (2010) to Enormous Wings (2026), with Goodbye for Now (2012), One Two Three (2021) and Family Family (2024) between them. Parenting, friendship between women, loss and Seattle recur as subjects.

Laurie Friedman writes children's fiction, with 159 books catalogued from A Big Bed for Jed (2002) to Duck and Dog Bake a Pie (2022). Mallory McDonald is a recurring character, and titles include Back to School, Mallory (2004), Mallory vs. Max (2004) and Happy Birthday, Mallory! (2005). The Mostly Miserable Life of April Sinclair also appears in the listing. Friedman's series include Mallory McDonald, Ruby Valentine, Spots and Stripes, Chef Kate, Beans, Moose and Silly Milly. Subjects include friendship, family life, school, diaries, dating and stories in rhyme. The median book runs to 159 pages.

Laurie Gelman, born Laurie Hibberd in 1964 in Ottawa, Ontario, is a Canadian television personality and writer; in 2007 she worked on the Canadian talk shows The Mom Show and Doctor in the House. Gelman's four novels satirise school-gate parenting: Class Mom (2018), You've Been Volunteered (2020), Yoga Pant Nation (2022) and Smells Like Tween Spirit (2023). Middle-aged mothers, parent-teacher associations and family life supply the material. Nothing has followed since 2023.

Laurie Gilmore is the pen name of the American author Melissa McTernan, known for the ongoing contemporary romance series Dream Harbor. The Pumpkin Spice Café (2023), the first Dream Harbor book, won TikTok Shop Book of the Year at the 2024 TikTok Book Awards. The catalogue lists 10 books from 2023 to 2026, including The Christmas Tree Farm, The Gingerbread Bakery and The Daisy Chain Flower Shop (2026). Subjects on file include small town romance, Christmas and cozy fiction, and Maple Hollow is a second series.

Laurie Graham, born in 1947, is an English journalist, radio scriptwriter and novelist who lives in London. The catalogue opens with humorous guides, Parents' Survival Guide (1986), A Marriage Survival Guide (1988), Teenagers: A Family Survival Guide (1992), before the novels take over with Perfect Meringues (1997) and The Dress Circle (1998). Twenty-eight books are catalogued through Dr. Dan, Dr Dad (2021), with female friendship, British social life and historical settings among the subjects.

Laurie Halse Anderson is an American writer of children's and young adult novels. Speak (1999) brought the first wide recognition; the American Library Association gave Anderson its Margaret A. Edwards Award in 2010, and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award followed in 2023. The catalogue holds 40 books published between 1996 and 2025, among them the Vet Volunteers series, the Seeds of America trilogy and Fever 1793 (2000). Veterinary medicine, animal rescue, schools and history recur as subjects.

Laurie J. Marks, born 27 March 1957, is an American author of fantasy novels. Catalogue subjects record epic fantasy, science fiction, LGBT2Q+ fiction, imaginary wars and the invented land of Shaftal, and name Karis G'deon as a character. Nine books are catalogued between Delan the Mislaid (1989) and Dancing Jack (2023), among them The Moonbane Mage (1990), Ara's Field (1991), The Watcher's Mask (1992), Fire Logic (2002), Earth Logic (2004), Water Logic (2007) and Air Logic (2019). Elemental Logic and Children of the Triad are the series recorded under this name.

Laurie Notaro is an American humorist who writes comic essays about her own life. The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club and Autobiography of a Fat Bride both appeared in 2002 and set the pattern, and I Love Everybody (2004), We Thought You Would Be Prettier (2005) and It Looked Different on the Model (2011) follow. Notaro also writes fiction, including Spooky Little Girl (2010). Nineteen catalogued titles reach I've Got a New Complaint (2026).

Laurie Penny

11 books

Laurie Penny is a British journalist and writer, born Laura Barnett on 28 September 1986. Penny's articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Spectator, The New York Times and Salon, and Penny has been a contributing editor at the New Statesman. Penny has also written for the television series The Haunting of Bly Manor and The Nevers. The catalogue holds 11 books from 2011 to 2022, starting with Penny Red (2011) and including Meat Market (2012), Cybersexism (2013), Unspeakable Things (2014), Bitch Doctrine (2017) and Sexual Revolution (2022). Everything Belongs to the Future (2016) and The Howling Girl (2018) are also listed. Subject headings include feminism, consent, political activists and British politics.

Detective fiction across several series is Laurie R. King's output. The Mary Russell books pair Mary Russell with Sherlock Holmes, beginning with The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994), while Kate Martinelli, a policewoman, has her own run from A Grave Talent (1993). Harris Stuyvesant, Raquel Laing and Folly Island add more, alongside standalone novels and non-fiction. King's catalogue holds 50 titles through Those Who Are Gone in 2026.

Laurie Roma writes erotic romance and science fiction. The catalogue holds 39 books published between 2012 and 2025, opening with Under Pressure (2012) and reaching Into the Dawn (2025). Roma's series are 3013, Breakers' Bad Boys, the Arcadians, the IAD Agency, Fated Encounters, Bad Boys of Ever After and the Misfits of Magic. The 2010s hold the largest share of the run.

Melanie Travis, a dog owner and private investigator in Connecticut, leads Laurien Berenson's mystery series. Berenson's catalogue holds 51 books, opening in 1984 with titles published as Laurien Blair and reaching Peg and Rose Deck the Halls (2026). The Senior Sleuths Mysteries are a second line. Dogs, murder and women sleuths recur as subjects.

Lavie Tidhar

49 books• 7 series

Lavie Tidhar, born 1976, is an Israeli-born writer working across multiple genres, and has lived in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Laos and Vanuatu. Osama took the World Fantasy Award for best novel in 2012; Central Station won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2017; A Man Lies Dreaming took the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize in 2015. Seven series are recorded, among them Judge Dee, Bookman Histories, Gorel of Goliris, Central Station, Maror and the Anti-Matter of Britain Quartet, plus the Apex Book of World SF anthologies. The catalogue holds 49 titles dated 2006 to 2026.

Lavinia Kent writes Regency historical romance set in London, with 22 books from 2009 to 2019. A Talent for Sin (2009) is the first. Several 2011 titles pair a heroine's name with a descriptor, as in Annabelle, The American and Linnette, The Lioness. Kent's series are Bound and Determined, Real Duchesses of London and Forbidden Cove. Unmanageable (2019) is the final title.

LaVyrle Spencer wrote contemporary and historical romance, much of it around widows, second chances and Minnesota towns. The Fulfillment (1979) opens a catalogue of 25 books, followed by The Endearment, Hummingbird, Spring Fancy and The Gamble. The catalogue closed in 1997 with For the Heart and is listed as complete.

Lawana Blackwell writes Christian historical romance set in England. Her 13 books span 1995 to 2016 in three sequences: Victorian Serenade, the Gresham Chronicles and Tales of London. Clergy families, actresses, singers and Victorian social life fill the novels, among them The Widow of Larkspur Inn (1998), The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark (1999) and The Maiden of Mayfair (2001). A Haven on Orchard Lane (2016) is the last title catalogued.

Lawrence Block

262 books• 22 series

Lawrence Block, born June 24, 1938, is an American writer of crime, mystery and suspense fiction whose career spans more than half a century. Block is best known for two long-running series set in New York: Matthew Scudder, a recovering alcoholic private investigator, and Bernie Rhodenbarr, a gentleman burglar. The Mystery Writers of America named Block a Grand Master in 1994. The catalogue begins in 1958 with Carla and A Fire At Night and reaches Writing Drunk, Writing Sober in 2025. John Keller, Evan Tanner, Kit Tolliver and Ehrengraf for the Defense are further series, and books written as Jill Emerson form another.

Lawrence De Maria writes crime thrillers and mysteries. The catalogue holds 49 books published between 2011 and 2026, from Sound of Blood (2011) to Savannah Luck (2026). De Maria writes four series: the Jake Scarne Thrillers, the Alton Rhode Mysteries, the Cole Sudden CIA Thrillers and a Women Sleuths line. Median length is 210 pages, the 2020s are the heaviest decade, and De Maria continues to publish.

Lawrence Durrell

45 books• 4 series

Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writer, born in India, schooled in England from the age of 11, and resident in Corfu from 1935 and in many countries after that. The Alexandria Quartet, published between 1957 and 1960, is his best known work; the Avignon Quintet, the Revolt of Aphrodite and the comic Antrobus stories follow. Durrell's travel books include Prospero's Cell (1945) and Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (1957). He was the elder brother of the naturalist Gerald Durrell.

Lawrence Hill

10 books

Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist and memoirist, born January 24, 1957. The Book of Negroes (2007), also listed as Someone Knows My Name, draws on the Black Loyalists whom the British freed and resettled in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War; a TV mini-series adaptation was produced in 2015. Black Berry, Sweet Juice (2001) is a memoir about being Black and white in Canada. Hill gave the 2013 Massey Lectures, drawing on the nonfiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life. Catalogued titles run from Some Great Thing (1992) to The Illegal (2015).

Lawrence Kelter's catalogue subjects include women sleuths, homicide investigation, policewomen, private investigators, crime and thrillers. Stephanie Chalice is listed among the characters, and series include Stephanie Chalice, Chalice City Beat, Chloe Mather, My Cousin Vinny, Frank Mango, Palindrome Trilogy and Nik Briscoe. The 40 books run from By Executive Order (2001) to Beyond the Veil (2024), with Don't Close Your Eyes (2005) and Palindrome (2012) in between.

Lawrence Osborne

16 books• 1 series

Lawrence Osborne, born 1958, is a British novelist and journalist based in Bangkok. Osborne studied at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and at Harvard, and has lived in Poland, France, Italy, Morocco, Mexico, the United States, Thailand and Istanbul. Long-form journalism by Osborne has run in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Salon and Conde Nast Traveler, alongside a wine and spirits column for Men's Vogue. The catalogue holds 16 books dated between 1990 and 2026, from Paris Dreambook (1990) to Children of Wolves (2026), among them Bangkok Days (2009), The Forgiven (2012) and The Ballad of a Small Player (2014). Recorded subjects include travel, guidebooks, private investigators and Christianity, and the listing names Philip Marlowe among Osborne's characters.

Lawrence Sanders wrote crime fiction across five series: Archy McNally, Edward X. Delaney, the Commandment books, Peter Tangent and Timothy Cone. The Anderson Tapes (1970) is the earliest of 43 catalogued titles, with The First Deadly Sin (1973) and The Second Deadly Sin (1977) among them, and McNally's Bluff the last. Private investigators, Florida and hard-boiled detection fill the subject tags.

Lawrence Watt-Evans

65 books• 11 series

Lawrence Watt-Evans is a pen name of the American science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans, born in 1954, who also publishes science fiction as Nathan Archer. The Legend of Ethshar is his longest series, with Lords of Dûs, Obsidian Chronicles, Annals of the Chosen, Nightside City and The Adventures of Tom Derringer alongside it. The catalogue records 65 titles from The Lure of the Basilisk (1980) to Charming Sharra (2023), with a median length of 265 pages.

Lawrence Wright

19 books

Lawrence Wright, born on August 2, 1947, is an American writer and journalist on staff at The New Yorker. Wright is also a fellow at the Center for Law and Security at New York University School of Law. The Looming Tower (2006), a nonfiction account of Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11, is the book Wright is best known for, and Going Clear and the one-man show My Trip to Al-Qaeda both became films directed by Alex Gibney. Subject tags cover terrorism, politics and government, and history, and The Human Scale (2025) is the newest listed title.

Layla Frost is the author of 22 catalogued books, published from 2015 to 2026. Series are Hyde, Black Resorts, Amato and Court of Mayhem. Hyde and Seek (2015) is the earliest title, followed by Best Kase Scenario (2016), With Us (2017), Styx (2018), Give In (2018), Until Mayhem (2019), Little Dove (2020) and Damaged (2021). Rhys's Peace (2026) is the newest.

Contemporary romance is the whole of Layla Hagen's catalogue, organised into series built around families: the Whitley Brothers, Maxwell Brothers, Leblanc Brothers, Clifford Brothers, the Connor Family, the Gallaghers and the Very Irresistible Bachelors. Sixty catalogued books run from Lost in Us (2014) to Sinful Kisses in 2026.

Layla Harper writes fantasy. All eight catalogued books carry the Fae King's prefix: Fae King's Claim, Fae King's Hunger, Fae King's Sacrifice, Fae King's Temptation and Fae King's Vengeance date from 2020, Fae King's Throne from 2021, Fae King's Quest from 2022 and Fae King's Triumph from 2023. Harper is credited on every title, and the catalogue records nothing after 2023.