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Two novels stand under Marianne Cronin's name. The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot came first, in 2021, and carried off an Alex Award; Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love followed three years later. Cronin was born in 1990 and performs improv comedy alongside the writing. The catalogue is listed as ongoing.

Marie Benedict

15 books• 2 series

Marie Benedict is a pen name used by Heather Benedict Terrell, an American novelist and lawyer born on November 24, 1968. The 16 catalogued books are historical and biographical fiction, beginning with The Other Einstein (2016) and continuing through Carnegie's Maid, Lady Clementine, The Personal Librarian and The Mitford Affair. Subjects include women scientists, industrialists and the Second World War. No series is listed. The Witch of Wall Street is due in 2027.

Quilting, sisters and female friendship run through the fiction of Marie Bostwick. Fields of Gold (2005) is her earliest catalogued novel, and the Cobbled Court Quilts series, set in Connecticut, is her best known strand, with the Dillon, Oklahoma and Too Much, Texas books alongside it. Bostwick's 18 titles reach The Book Club for Troublesome Women in 2025.

Marie Brennan

49 books• 11 series

Marie Brennan is the pen name of Bryn Neuenschwander, an American fantasy author. The Memoirs of Lady Trent, a sequence about a woman naturalist and the dragons she studies, was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2018. The Onyx Court novels began with Midnight Never Come in 2008, and the Doppelganger duology with Doppelganger and Warrior and Witch. Brennan took the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Poem with A War of Words. Fifty titles are catalogued through The Eye of Leviathan (2026), with Rook & Rose, Wilders, Driftwood and Legend Of The Five Rings among the other series.

Marie Ferrarella is an American romance writer, born Marie Rydzynski in Germany on 28 March 1948. Ferrarella has also written as Marie Nicole, Marie Michael and Marie Charles, and the novels have been translated into at least seven languages. The catalogue lists 328 books from 1983 to 2024, beginning with Scenes from the Heart, issued as Marie Charles. Series include Cavanaugh Justice, Matchmaking Mamas, Forever Texas, Baby of the Month Club and ChildFinders, Inc. Subjects include contemporary, western and suspense romance, police, physicians, single fathers and single mothers. Cavanaugh Justice: Cold Case Squad (2024) is the newest title.

Marie Force has 132 books catalogued from Line of Scrimmage (2008) to State of Mind (2026), across contemporary romance and romantic suspense. Force's series include Gansett Island, Fatal, First Family, Quantum, Green Mountain, Butler, Vermont, Treading Water, Wild Widows and Miami Heat/Miami Nights. Islands, Vermont, Washington, D.C., policewomen and murder investigations appear among the subjects. Fatal Affair dates from 2010. Force is still publishing.

Marie Harte's catalogue holds 136 books, from Lurin's Surrender (2004) to Between Bloode and Gods (2026). Subject headings cover contemporary romance, fantasy romance and erotica, with recurring subjects such as mechanics, contractors, veterans, neighbours, brothers and family life. Series include Cougar Falls, PowerUp!, Between the Shadows, Storm Lords, Talson Temptations, Wicked Warrens, Dawn Endeavor, Ethereal Foes and Circe's Recruits. Titles from 2005 include Engaging Gren, Master of Seduction and Thief of Mardu.

Marie James writes motorcycle-club and security-team romance. Cerberus MC is the largest series, with Tennessee and Las Vegas chapter spin-offs, joined by Blackbridge Security, Mission Mercenaries, Ravens Ruin MC, Westover Prep and the Hale and Lindell books. Seventy-six titles span 2015 to 2026, from Coming to Hale to Zeus, and James remains actively publishing.

Marie Lu

29 books• 11 series

Marie Lu, born Xiwei Lu on 11 July 1984, is an American author of young adult science fiction and fantasy. The Legend series, set in a dystopian and militarised future, is Lu's best known work, alongside Young Elites, Warcross and Batman: Nightwalker in the DC Icons line. The catalogue lists 30 books from Legend (2011) to Rebel (2026), with Silver Dawn listed for 2027. Skyhunter, Stars and Smoke and New Alchemists are further series. Subjects include resistance to government, plague, fugitives, soldiers and the supernatural.

Marilynne Robinson

14 books• 1 series

Marilynne Robinson writes novels and essays, the fiction concerned with clergy, fathers and sons, and the long arguments inside a family. Housekeeping (1980) opens the catalogue; Gilead (2004) begins the sequence continued in Home. The non-fiction runs from Mother Country through The Death of Adam, Puritans and Prigs, Absence of Mind and On Faith and Freedom of Thought. Fourteen titles make up the catalogue, published at long intervals.

Small towns and California wine country are where Marina Adair sets her contemporary romance: vintners, wineries, restaurateurs and grandmothers. The St. Helena Vineyard and Heroes of St. Helena books work that ground, and Sugar, Georgia, Destiny Bay, Sequoia Lake, Sierra Vista and Nashville Heights follow other towns. Adair's 33 catalogued books open with Kissing Under the Mistletoe (2012) and reach Love to Hate You (2025), at a median of 320 pages.

The Second World War runs through most of Mario Escobar's fiction. 16 catalogued books span Botanist (2014) to Library of Forbidden Books (2026), with Auschwitz Lullaby (2016), Children of the Stars (2017), Remember Me (2019) and The Librarian of Saint-Malo (2020) among them. Nazi persecution, concentration camps, prisoners and Romani lives fill the subjects. Imperfect Crimes is the one named series, and Escobar remains actively publishing.

Mario Giordano is a German writer, born in 1963. The novel Black Box (1999), drawn from the Stanford prison experiment, became Oliver Hirschbiegel's film Das Experiment and brought Giordano the Bavarian Film Award for Best Screenplay. Auntie Poldi is the recurring character of the comic mystery series, running from Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions (2015) through the Vineyards of Etna (2016) and the Handsome Antonio (2020) to the Lost Madonna (2021). Nine titles are catalogued from Apocalypsis I (2011) onward, the Cotton Reloaded books among them.

Mario Puzo

15 books• 1 series

Organised crime is Mario Puzo's subject. The Godfather (1969) sits in the middle of a catalogue of 15 books that starts with The Dark Arena (1955) and takes in The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965), Fools Die (1978), The Sicilian (1984) and The Fourth K (1990). Mafia families, Italian American immigrants and gambling run through the subjects, and nothing later than 2018 is catalogued.

Mario Vargas Llosa

37 books

Mario Vargas Llosa, who lived from 1936 to 2025, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and politician, and one of the leading writers of the Latin American Boom. The 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature cited his cartography of structures of power and his images of individual resistance, revolt and defeat. Thirty-seven titles are catalogued, opening with The Time of the Hero (1962) and taking in Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977) and The War of the End of the World (1981). Peru, its social life and its history recur as subjects.

Marion Blackwood has published 27 catalogued books since 2019, most recently War of Fire and Fury (2026). The catalogue opens with A Storm of Silver and Ash (2019), the first of a group of titles built on the same A Storm of pattern. Oncoming Storm, Court of Elves, Flame and Thorns, Ruthless Villains and Ruthless Enemy are the five series, and Blackwood remains actively publishing.

Marion Chesney

184 books• 22 series

Marion Chesney, later Marion Gibbons (1936-2019), was a Scottish writer of romance and mystery whose published career began in 1979. Historical romances appeared under the Chesney name, the Travelling Matchmaker and Daughters of Mannerling books among them, while the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth mysteries appeared as M. C. Beaton; both of those mystery runs were adapted for television. Helen Crampton, Ann Fairfax, Charlotte Ward, Jennie Tremaine and Sarah Chester are further pen names on the record. This listing gathers 185 books dated from 1979 onward, including later titles on which R.W. Green is credited.

Marion Kummerow writes historical fiction, and the series names mark out the territory: War Girls, Escaping the Reich, Berlin Fractured, German Wives, Margarete's Journey and War Girls Romance. The catalogue opens in 2012 with non-fiction about Munich - German Christmas Traditions, a guide to renting an apartment, an Oktoberfest guide and Hofbrauhaus Uncovered - before turning to novels with Unrelenting and Unyielding in 2016. Forty-three books run through to The Impostor of Buchenwald (2026), at a median 186 pages.

Marion Todd is a thriller novelist with a single catalogued series, Detective Clare Mackay. The run opens with See Them Run (2019) and reaches Watch Them Fall (2026), 10 books in eight years at close to one title a year. Detective Clare Mackay carries every entry, from In Plain Sight (2020) through Dead Man's Shoes (2025). Todd remains actively publishing.

Fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction and science fantasy were the fields of Marion Zimmer Bradley, an American author who lived from June 3, 1930 to September 25, 1999. Bradley is best known for the Darkover series and The Mists of Avalon, a novel of Arthurian fiction, and the writing stood out for a female perspective rarely seen before in sword and sorcery. Bradley started writing at 17, earned a Bachelor of Arts from Hardin-Simmons University, co-founded the Society for Creative Anachronism in 1966 and edited the Sword and Sorceress anthologies. The catalogue reaches back to Centaurus Changeling (1954), Falcons of Narabedla (1957) and The Door Through Space (1961), and Arilinn (2024) is the newest title in the listing.

Marisa de los Santos, born August 12, 1966, is a poet and a New York Times Best Seller list novelist. From the Bones Out (1999) is the first catalogued book, followed by Love Walked In (2005), which gives its name to a series, and Belong to Me (2008). The catalogue counts 11 books through The Trusted (2026). Fathers and daughters, friendship, custody of children and Philadelphia appear in the subjects.

Marissa Farrar has 117 books in the catalogue, from The Dark Road (2010) to The Riders' Reign (2026). Series include DI Erica Swift, Detective Ryan Chase, Verona Falls University, Serenity, Spirit Shifters, Dark Codes, Planet Athion: Darkest Skies, Wicked Monsters, Dark Ridge Wolves, London Inked Boys and Chronicles of the Four. Early titles include Buried (2011), The Body Farm (2011), Dominion (2012) and Autumn's Blood (2013).

Marissa Meyer

26 books• 8 series

Marissa Meyer writes young adult science fiction and fantasy, with cyborgs, extraterrestrial rulers and teenage protagonists at the centre. The Lunar Chronicles run from Cinder (2012) through Scarlet (2013), Cress (2014) and Fairest (2015), and the Wires and Nerve graphic novels extend them. Thirty-two catalogued titles reach The Escape Game, and The Traitor Game is scheduled for 2027.

Mating for Life (2014) opens Marissa Stapley's catalogue of 5 books, which reaches The Lightning Bottles (2024). Stapley, born in 1978, is a Canadian author and journalist, and Lucky (2021) is the novel most associated with her name. Things to Do When It's Raining (2018) and The Last Resort (2019) fall between. Family life, family secrets, coming of age, swindlers and a lottery ticket supply the material.

Marius Gabriel is a historical novelist born 13 November 1954 in Mafikeng, South Africa. Gabriel's books include the Redcliffe Sisters series, The Designer, The Ocean Liner and The Parisians. In 2018 Gabriel and Kerry Wilkinson became the first men writing under their own names to win a RoNA Award, Gabriel for The Designer. The catalogue holds 47 books; the earliest, from 1983, carry the pen name Madeleine Ker, and the newest is The Blood We Share (2025).

Marjan Kamali is an Iranian-American novelist whose three books have been published in more than 30 languages. Together Tea (2013), The Stationery Shop (2019) and The Lion Women of Tehran (2024) follow Iranian and Iranian American women through family life, mothers and daughters, and coming of age between two countries. Kamali was named an NEA Literature Fellow in 2022 and continues to publish.

Marjorie Eccles is a British author of crime fiction who has also written romantic novels, and some titles appeared under the name Jennifer Hyde. Three police series divide the work: Gil Mayo, Herbert Reardon and Tom Richmonds, covering contemporary procedure and historical crime in England. Thirty-four catalogued books run from Cast a Cold Eye (1988) to A Fatal Necessity in 2025.

Marjorie M. Liu

47 books• 12 series

Marjorie M. Liu is an American novelist and comic book writer. Liu has written paranormal romance and urban fantasy novels, including the Hunter Kiss and Tiger Eye series. For Marvel Comics, Liu wrote NYX, X-23, Dark Wolverine and Astonishing X-Men. Monstress, a creator-owned horror fantasy comic launched by Image Comics in 2015, earned an Eisner nomination for Best New Series and a 2017 Hugo Award for its first collected volume. In July 2018 Liu became the first woman to win the Eisner Award for Best Writer. The catalogue holds 48 books from Tiger Eye (2005) onward, with series Dirk & Steele, Monstress, Hunter Kiss, Night Eaters and Wingbearer.

Mark A. Hewitt writes the Duncan Hunter series, ten books of covert operations and military aviation. Special Access (2013) opens the run, followed by Shoot Down (2014), No Need to Know (2015), Airshow (2017), Blown Cover (2017), Wet Work (2020), Special Activities (2021), Infiltrated (2022), Midnight Ops (2024) and The Quiet War (2026).

Mark Billingham

32 books• 6 series

Mark Billingham, born 2 July 1961, is an English novelist, actor, comedian and television screenwriter. The Tom Thorne crime novels are the series Billingham is known for. The catalogue lists 32 books, from Knight School (1998) through Sleepyhead (2001), Scaredy Cat (2001), Lazybones (2003) and Lifeless (2005) to The Shadow Step (2026). Detective Miller is a second series, alongside standalone novels, short stories and nonfiction. Police procedure, London and serial murder are recurring subjects.

Mark Bowden

22 books• 2 series

Mark Bowden is an American journalist who writes book-length narrative nonfiction. A former national correspondent and long-time contributor to The Atlantic, Bowden is best known for Black Hawk Down (1999), on the 1993 US military raid in Mogadishu, which was filmed and won two Academy Awards. Killing Pablo (2001) tracks the hunt for Pablo Escobar, and Guests of the Ayatollah (2006) and Hue 1968 follow. 22 titles are catalogued from Doctor Dealer (1987) to Life Sentence (2023).

Mark Dawson is a British author of thrillers and mysteries, including the John Milton and Atticus Priest series. The catalogue holds 86 Dawson books, from Subpoena Colada and The Art of Falling Apart (both 2001) to Dope (2026), with The Cleaner (2013) and Saint Death (2013) among them. Beatrix Rose, Isabella Rose, Group Fifteen Files, Soho Noir and Charlie Cooper Thrillers are further series. Subjects include assassins, gangs, lawyers and England.

Mark de Castrique grew up above a Hendersonville, North Carolina funeral home where his father was the funeral director, and undertakers run through his mysteries. The Buryin' Barry books and the Sam Blackman series account for most of a catalogue of 25 titles between Blackman's Coffin (2003) and Desperate Spies (2025), with the Secret Lives mysteries beside them. Disabled veterans, private investigators, sheriffs and murder investigation fill the subject tags. De Castrique also works in broadcast and film production, and won an Emmy for documentary work.

Mark Edwards, born in 1970, is an English novelist based in London who writes mainly thrillers. Edwards's books have sold more than four million copies across 12 languages, and six were co-written with Louise Voss. The Magpies (2013) was the solo debut, and both it and No Place to Run (2022) reached the Kindle top ten. The catalogue lists 26 titles from Catch Your Death (2011) to One of the Family / The Viper's Nest (2026), including Follow You Home (2015) and The Blissfully Dead (2015). Series are Magpies and DI Patrick Lennon, and stalking and railroad travel appear among the subjects.

DCI Frank Merlin works murder cases in wartime London, and the series Mark Ellis built around him accounts for the whole catalogue. Six books have appeared since Prince's Gate in 2011, also published as The Embassy Murders, and most carry a second title of their own: Stalin's Gold is also In the Shadow of the Blitz, and Merlin at War is also The French Spy. Death of an Officer arrived in 2025.

Mark Gimenez is a Texas lawyer who writes legal thrillers and runs a solo law practice alongside the books. The Color of Law (2005), the first Gimenez novel, introduces Scott Fenney and reached the New York Times bestseller list. Twelve catalogued titles run through to Tribes (2020), among them The Abduction / Saving Grace (2007), Accused (2010), The Governor's Wife (2012) and Con Law (2013). Murder trials, judges, public defenders and Texas wealth are the recurring subjects, and John Bookman heads a second series.

Mark Goodwin has 46 catalogued books published between 2013 and 2027, written in series that run on collapse and crisis: Days of Elijah, Days of Noah, Kingdom Come, Cyber Armageddon, Black Swan, Ava's Crucible, Seven Cows Ugly and Gaunt, and Beginning of Sorrows. American Exit Strategy (2013) opens the catalogue, followed by American Meltdown (2014), American Reset (2014), Conspiracy (2014) and Perdition (2015). Free Fall is scheduled for 2027.

Mark Greaney

25 books• 4 series

Mark Greaney, born July 11, 1967, is an American thriller writer. The Gray Man novels follow Court Gentry, an assassin and CIA operative, and began with The Gray Man in 2009. Greaney co-wrote the last works of Tom Clancy and carried the Jack Ryan books forward from 2013 to 2017. The catalogue counts 26 books through The Hard Line (2026), with Dark Union announced for 2027. A Joshua Duffy series and standalone novels complete the list.

Mark Haddon, born in Northampton in 1962, is an English novelist whose best known book is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, published in 2003. Haddon has won the Whitbread Award, the Guardian Prize, a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award. His catalogue starts much earlier and much younger: picture books from 1988, the comic Agent Z series and the Baby Dinosaurs books all precede the adult fiction. Thirty-one titles span 1988 to 2026, reaching Leaving Home.

Mark Hayden writes three series: the King's Watch Universe, Operation Jigsaw and Tom Morton. A run of numbered titles sits in the middle of the catalogue, counting through The 13th Witch (2018), The Twelve Dragons of Albion (2018), The Eleventh Hour (2018), Eight Kings (2019) and Nine of Wands (2019). Hayden's 29 catalogued titles open with A Piece of Blue Sky (2015) and reach Second Nature Part Two (2026), at a median of 306 pages and roughly three a year.

Mark Helprin, born in 1947, is an American-Israeli novelist and journalist who has also worked as a conservative commentator and a policeman. His 16 catalogued books open with A Dove of the East (1975) and reach Elegy in Blue (2026), the 1990s being his densest decade. A Winter's Tale (1983), A Soldier of the Great War (1991) and Memoir From Antproof Case (1995) fall inside the run, and A Kingdom Far and Clear: The Swan Lake Trilogy is the one named series. Helprin has said that he belongs to no literary school or movement.

Mark Henshaw writes espionage thrillers built around the Central Intelligence Agency. CIA analyst Kyra Stryker and her colleague Jonathan Burke carry the series through international crises and murder investigations. Five books make up the run: Red Cell (2012), Cold Shot (2014), The Fall of Moscow Station (2016), The Last Man in Tehran (2017) and Forty Years (2020).

Mark Kurlansky

44 books• 2 series

Mark Kurlansky, born December 7, 1948, is an American journalist who writes fiction and non-fiction. Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (1997) became an international bestseller in more than fifteen languages. Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea (2006) won the 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for non-fiction. The catalogue lists 44 books from A Continent of Islands (1992) to To Catch a Fish (2026), including The Basque History of the World (1999), Salt (2002) and 1968 (2003).

Mark Lawrence, born in 1966, is an American-British novelist and the author of The Broken Empire trilogy. Emperor of Thorns won the David Gemmell Award for Fantasy for best novel in 2014, and The Liar's Key took the same prize in 2016. Lawrence runs the annual Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off. The catalogue lists 38 works, from During the Dance (2004) and Prince of Thorns (2011) to The Bookshop Book (2026). Other series include Red Queen's War, Book of the Ancestor, Book of the Ice, Impossible Times and the Library Trilogy.

Mark Manson

6 books• 2 series

Mark Manson, born 9 March 1984, is an American self-help author and blogger. Three Manson books reached the New York Times bestseller list: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Everything Is F*cked (2019) and Will (2021). The catalogue lists 6 titles beginning with Models: Attract Women Through Honesty (2011), and the subjects on file include conduct of life, psychology, dating and self-realization.

Hugo Marston, an American in Paris, leads Mark Pryor's mystery series. Pryor's 16 catalogued books open with The Bookseller (2012) and reach The Most Mysterious Bookshop in Paris (2026). Inspector Henri Lefort, the Hollow Man books and the Paris Bookshop Mysteries are the other lines. Paris settings, murder investigation and embassy work recur as subjects.

Mark T. Sullivan

18 books• 2 series

Mark T. Sullivan writes mystery, suspense and historical fiction. Beneath a Scarlet Sky is his bestselling novel, reaching the USA Today and Washington Post lists, and the Robin Monarch thrillers and the Seamus Moynihan books make up his two series. Sullivan has also written five novels with James Patterson. The catalogue holds 18 titles, from The Fall Line (1994) to All The Glimmering Stars (2024), with intelligence officers, conspiracies and the Second World War across the subject tags.

Mark Tufo has 84 books listed from 2009 to 2026, with subjects covering horror, science fiction action and adventure, young adult fiction and werewolves. Encounters and Indian Hill (both 2009) open the catalogue, and JackSkip (2026) is the latest entry. Tufo's series include Zombie Fallout, Shrouded World, Lycan Fallout, Book of Riley, Dystance, After the Pulse and the Michael Talbot Adventures.

Mark Twain

71 books• 5 series

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), an American writer, humorist and essayist whom William Faulkner called the father of American literature. Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), its sequel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894); The Gilded Age (1873) was a collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner. The catalogue begins with The Jumping Frog (1865) and The Innocents Abroad (1869), and humorous stories are among its subjects. Series on the listing include Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and Diaries Of Adam and Eve.

Mark Wayne McGinnis writes military science fiction built on starships and alien contact. Scrapyard Ship (2013) opens the catalogue and names the first series; Star Watch, USS Hamilton, Ship Wrecked, Tapped In and Fallen Ship follow, seven series in all. Human-alien encounters is the single subject tag on a catalogue of 54 titles, which reaches USS Thunderhead 2 (2026).

Marko Kloos

22 books• 5 series

Marko Kloos writes military science fiction and high fantasy. Kloos was born in Germany and lives in the United States. The Frontlines series opens the catalogue with Terms of Enlistment (2013) and runs through Lines of Departure (2014), Angles of Attack (2015) and Fields of Fire (2017); the Palladium Wars begin with Aftershocks (2019). Twenty-two books span 2013 to 2026, with space warfare, alien contact, space colonies and dystopian poverty among the subjects.

Markus Heitz

23 books• 7 series

Markus Heitz, born 10 October 1971, is a German writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction, known above all for the Dwarves novels. The catalogue lists 23 books starting with The Dwarves (2003), followed by The War of the Dwarves (2004), The Revenge of the Dwarves (2005) and The Fate of the Dwarves (2008). Other series by Heitz are Legends of the Alfar, Pact of Darkness, Doors, Justifiers and Return of the Dwarves. Subjects include epic fantasy, supernatural thrillers, werewolves, vampires and curses.

Markus Zusak

8 books• 1 series

Markus Zusak is an Australian-German writer, born 23 June 1975, and the recipient of the 2014 Margaret Edwards Award. The Book Thief (2005) and The Messenger (2002, also listed as I Am the Messenger) became international bestsellers. The catalogue holds 8 Zusak books from The Underdog (1999) to Three Wild Dogs (2025); Fighting Ruben Wolfe and Getting the Girl are books 2 and 3 of the Wolfe Brothers series. Bridge of Clay appeared in 2018.

Marley Valentine has 17 books in the catalogue, running from 2017 to 2025. Light My Way / Devastate and Find My Way / Deviate open the list in 2017, and With You (2025) is the latest. Reclaim, Revive, Rectify and Without You are other titles. Unlucky Ones and My Way are the listed series, and Marley Valentine is still publishing.

Marlon James

6 books• 1 series

Marlon James, born in 1970, is a Jamaican writer. A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) won the 2015 Man Booker Prize; John Crow's Devil (2005) and The Book of Night Women (2009) precede it, and Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019), Moon Witch, Spider King (2022) and The Disappearers (2026) follow, with White Wing, Dark Star scheduled for 2027. Jamaica, slavery, religion, clergy and assassins supply the subjects. James also wrote the limited television series Get Millie Black, lives in Minneapolis, teaches literature at Macalester College and lectures on St. Francis College's low-residency MFA. The books are long, at a median 640 pages.

Marni Mann's catalogue holds 48 books published between 2011 and 2026. Memoirs Aren't Fairytales (2011) opens the run and The Forbidden One (2026) is the most recent entry. Mann writes in connected sets: Memoir, Prisoned, Moments in Boston, the Dalton Brothers, Spade Hotel, Weston Group, Timber Towers and Bearded Savages. The 2010s hold the largest share of the catalogue, and Mann remains in print with new titles.

Marnie Riches writes crime fiction set in England and Amsterdam. The Georgina McKenzie books open the catalogue in 2015 with The Girl Who Wouldn't Die, The Girl Who Broke the Rules and The Girl Who Walked in the Shadows. The Manchester novels, Born Bad (2017), The Cover Up (2018) and Tightrope (2019), turn on organised crime in that city. Detective Jackie Cooke, Bev Saunders and the Gardeners' Club are the later series. Thirteen books are catalogued, reaching Pushing Up the Daisies in 2026.

Marsali Taylor writes the Cass Lynch Mysteries, crime novels set in Shetland and the waters around it. The 13 catalogued books open with Death on a Longship (2012) and reach An Imposter in Shetland (2025), taking in The Trowie Mound Murders (2014), Ghosts of the Vikings (2016), Death on a Shetland Isle (2018) and The Shetland Sea Murders (2021). Scotland is the standing setting, and the series is ongoing.

Marshall Karp writes police mysteries, and Lomax and Biggs is the recurring detective pair, with Mike Lomax named among the subjects. The Rabbit Factory (2006) is the first title, followed by Bloodthirsty (2007), Flipping Out (2009) and Cut, Paste, Kill (2010). Amusement parks, gangs, the film industry, actors and house flippers are among the subjects. Terminal (2016), Snowstorm in August (2022) and Don't Tell Me How to Die (2025) are later Karp titles, and the listing also carries NYPD Red 7 and NYPD Red 8.

Marta Perry writes Christian and inspirational romance, and Amish life and Pennsylvania appear in the subjects. The catalogue holds 82 books from A Father's Promise (1998) to The Amish Matchmakers (2025). Series include Brides of Lost Creek, the Flanagans, Brotherhood of the Raven, Caldwell Kin, Three Sisters Inn, Lowcountry Suspense, Promise Glen, River Haven and Lost Sisters of Pleasant Valley. Romantic suspense also appears in the subject tags.