Authors whose first name starts with O

Ocean Vuong

5 books

Ocean Vuong, born Vương Quốc Vinh in 1988, is an American poet, essayist, novelist and photographer. Poetry came first, in Burnings (2010) and Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016), and the debut novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous arrived in 2019, the year Vuong received a MacArthur Fellowship. Mothers and sons, Asian American experience and coming of age run through the work. Five books are catalogued, reaching Time Is a Mother (2022) and The Emperor of Gladness (2025). Earlier honours include the 2016 Whiting Award and the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize.

Octavia E. Butler

23 books• 4 series

Octavia E. Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American author of science fiction and speculative fiction and a winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. In 1995 Butler became the first science fiction writer awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Born in Pasadena, California and raised by a widowed mother, Butler found refuge in library books as a shy child, started writing science fiction as a teenager, and attended community college during the 1960s Black Power movement. The catalogue opens with Patternmaster (1976) and includes Mind of My Mind (1977), Kindred (1979), Wild Seed (1980) and Dawn (1987). Series include Patternmaster, Xenogenesis and Earthseed, with graphic novel adaptations also listed.

Octavia Randolph writes historical fiction, with action, war and psychological subjects attached. The Circle of Ceridwen Saga is her main sequence, opening with The Circle of Ceridwen (2012) and continuing through Ceridwen of Kilton, The Claiming, The Hall of Tyr, Tindr and Sidroc the Dane. Seventeen books are catalogued in all, published between 2012 and 2025 and reaching Treasure (2025). Randolph's novels are long, at a median of about 530 pages.

Olen Steinhauer

16 books• 5 series

Espionage is Olen Steinhauer's subject, first in Eastern Europe and then at the CIA. The Ruthenia Quintet runs from The Bridge of Sighs (2003) through The Confession, 36 Yalta Boulevard, Liberation Movements and Victory Square, following police work in a fictional communist state. Milo Weaver takes over with The Tourist (2009) and The Nearest Exit, reaching The Last Tourist in 2020. Sixteen titles make up the catalogue.

Olga Tokarczuk

8 books

Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist and public intellectual, awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019 for a narrative imagination that represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life. Flights took the Man Booker International Prize for 2018. Eight titles are catalogued, from House of Day, House of Night in 2002 through Primeval and Other Times (2010), The Books of Jacob (2014), Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2018) and The Empusium (2024) to Mr. Distinctive in 2025. Polish history, town life and Jewish messianic movements supply the material, and the writing carries a mythical tone.

Olive Collins has 7 catalogued books, published between 2011 and 2026. Lucinda's List (2011) and Crocheting with Kurt Cobain (2012) open the catalogue; The Tide Between Us (2018), The Memory of Music (2019) and The Weaver's Legacy (2020) follow; Manhattan Ember (2023) and The Healers' War (2026) are the most recent. O'Neill and Achill are the two series, and Collins remains actively publishing.

Oliver Harris writes British crime and detective fiction. Two series carry the work: Nick Belsey and Elliot Kane. Harris has 7 catalogued books published between 2011 and 2024, opening with The Hollow Man (2011) and running through Deep Shelter (2013), The House of Fame (2015), A Shadow Intelligence (2019), Ascension (2021) and A Season in Exile (2022) to The Shame Archive (2024). Police work, identity theft, disappearance and the Cold War are the recurring subjects, and Harris remains actively publishing.

Oliver North

19 books• 4 series

Oliver North is a retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, Vietnam veteran, political commentator and television host who writes on war and politics. North served on the National Security Council during the Iran-Contra affair and wrote about it in Taking the Stand (1987) and Under Fire (1991). The War Stories and American Heroes books cover Iraq, the Pacific and the Second World War; the Peter Newman and Jake Kruse novels are fiction. Nineteen titles end at Tragic Consequences (2022).

Oliver Potzsch writes historical crime. The German author's The Hangman's Daughter (2008) opened the series of the same name, and the Faustus books, the Black Musketeers and the Leopold von Herzfeldt cases followed, 19 titles in all, reaching The Girl and the Gravedigger in 2026. Executioners, witch trials, murder investigation, the Thirty Years' War and the bond between fathers and daughters run through the work. Potzsch was among the first writers to reach bestseller status by publishing e-books.

Oliver Sacks

21 books• 3 series

Born in London on 9 July 1933, Oliver Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist and historian of science as well as a writer, and died on 30 August 2015. Sacks took a medical degree from The Queen's College, Oxford, in 1958, then moved to the United States, interning at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco and completing a residency in neurology and neuropathology at UCLA. Migraine (1970) is the first catalogued book, followed by Awakenings (1973), A Leg to Stand On (1984), The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985), Seeing Voices (1989), An Anthropologist on Mars (1995) and Uncle Tungsten (2001). Letters (2024) is the newest of 21 books, and neurology, case studies and cognition disorders appear among the subjects.

Olivia Atwater is a Canadian-based author, best known for the Regency Faerie Tales trilogy of Half a Soul (2020), Ten Thousand Stitches (2020) and Longshadow (2021). Atwater also wrote the fantasy novel Small Miracles (2022), a novella co-written with Atwater's husband, and non-fiction on writing, such as Better Blurb Writing for Authors (2021). Tales of the Iron Rose and Victorian Faerie Tales are the other Atwater series. The catalogue lists 12 books from 2020 to Rosemary & Thyme (2026).

Three mystery series make up Olivia Blacke's catalogue: A Brooklyn Murder Mystery, the Record Shop Mystery books and the Ruby and Cordelia Mysteries. Puns carry most of the titles, from Killer Content (2021) and No Memes of Escape (2021) to Vinyl Resting Place (2022) and Rhythm and Clues (2024). Blacke has published 8 books and reached The Key to a Killer in 2026.

Olivia Dade writes contemporary romance, some of it erotic, with librarians and teachers among her recurring leads. Lovestruck Librarians opens the catalogue in 2015; There's Something About Marysburg, Spoiler Alert, Love Unscripted, Harlot's Bay and Supernatural Entanglements follow. Twenty-one books span 2015 to 2026, from Broken Resolutions to World's Okayest Oracle (Reluctantly) Seeks Demon.

Olivia Hawker writes historical fiction. The Second World War, Nazi Germany, underground movements and the Rote Kapelle resistance group are among her subjects. Eight books run from The Ragged Edge of Night (2018) to Riddle Song, scheduled for 2027, taking in One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow (2019), The Rise of Light (2021), The Fire and the Ore (2022), October in the Earth (2023) and Through All Our Heavens (2026). Volumes run long, at a median of 428 pages.

Olivia Hayle writes romance organised around wealth and workplaces: the New York Billionaires, Seattle Billionaires, Billionaire Games, Brothers of Paradise and Connovan Chronicles. Arrogant Boss, Broken Hero and Look But Don't Touch opened the catalogue in 2019, and the Billion Dollar titles followed through 2020. Twenty-five books are catalogued, reaching The Marriage Bet in 2026.

Frankie Sheehan is the detective at the centre of Olivia Kiernan's crime novels, which are set in Ireland. Too Close to Breathe (2018) opens the series, followed by The Killer in Me (2019), If Looks Could Kill (2020) and The Murder Box (2021). Six books are catalogued in all, from Dawn Solstice (2013) to The End of Us (2023), with murder investigation and suspense as the recurring subjects. The catalogue is dormant.

Cosy mystery is Olivia Matthews's form, spread across three series and 8 catalogued books. The Sister Lou Mysteries came first, with Mayhem & Mass (2017), Peril & Prayer (2018) and Alibis & Angels (2019); the Peach Coast Mysteries followed in Murder by Page One (2021) and Murder Out of Character (2022); and the Spice Isle Bakery Mysteries close the catalogue with Against the Currant, Coconut Drop Dead and Hard Dough Homicide, all dated 2023.

Olivia Newport writes Christian fiction, with subject headings naming the Amish, Christian romance and suspense, Colorado, upper-class women, architects and betrothal. The catalogue lists 39 books from Accidentally Amish (2012) to Now That I Know You (2021) and marks the list dormant. The Pursuit of Lucy Banning (2012), The Dilemma of Charlotte Farrow (2013) and The Invention of Sarah Cummings (2013) are early titles, along with In Plain View (2013) and A Fair Refuge (2014). Series are Hidden Falls, Hidden Falls, Season 1, Amish Turns of Time, Valley of Choice and Avenue of Dreams.

Olivia Thorn's catalogue is eight books published between 2023 and 2026, each titled with a man's name. Adriano, Dario and Massimo appeared in 2023, Lars, Roberto and Valentino in 2024, Niccolo in 2025 and Giorgio in 2026. Thorn continues to publish, adding two or three titles a year.

Olivia Wildenstein writes fantasy and romance. Twenty-nine books are catalogued between Ghostboy, Chameleon and the Duke of Graffiti (2015) and My Striking Beauty (2026), and My Broken Prince is announced for 2027. Series run to Lost Clan, Boulder Wolves, Angels of Elysium, Kingdom of Crows, Empress of Thorns, Quatrefoil Chronicles, Wicked Retellings and Cold Little Games. Several books carry double titles, among them Cold Little Games / The Masterpiecers (2016) and Cold Little Hearts / The Masterminds (2016). The median book runs 340 pages.

Olivie Blake

26 books• 7 series

Olivie Blake is the pen name of Alexene Farol Follmuth, an American writer working mainly in adult speculative fiction and SFF. The Atlas Six trilogy, a New York Times and Sunday Times best seller, is the best-known work. The catalogue lists 26 books from Clean (2016) to Dreamland (2026), with series including Atlas, This World Or Any Other, Fairytale Collections, Witch Way and Clara & the Devil. Magic, magicians, scholars and secret societies appear in the subjects.

Onley James has 34 catalogued books published between 2019 and 2026. Captivating and Intoxicating, both 2019, open the run, which reaches Murder & Mistletoe (2026). Eight series are catalogued: Necessary Evils, Elite Protection Services, Jericho's Boys, Time Served, Watch, Vengeful Bonds, Kiss. Kill. Repeat. and Night Movers. Bad Habits (2020), Disciplinary Action (2020), Play Dirty (2020), Dangerous Breed (2021) and Domesticated Beast (2021) sit early in the list.

Opal Carew is a Canadian novelist of erotic romance, with 116 catalogued books published between 2004 and 2020. Carew also writes erotica as Ruby Carew and sweet romance as Amber Carew, and the earliest catalogued titles, including Virgin Spy (2004) and Virgin Wanted (2005), carry the Amber Carew name. Twelve series are recorded, among them Office Slave, His To Claim, Riding Steele, Mastered By, Penthouse Pleasures, Red Hot Fantasies, Tempting The Boss and Dirty Talk. Triangles, group relationships, dominance and submission and resort settings fill the subject index. The books run to a median of 256 pages, and nothing new has been catalogued since Stroke of Luck (2020).

Opal Reyne has 21 books in the catalogue, from Finding the Dragon's Heart (2020) to The Nightmare (2026), with Don't Be Shy scheduled for 2027. A Serpent's Venomous Kiss, Playing with Hellfire and Sea of Roses appeared in 2021, and A Soul to Heal, A Soul to Keep, Storms of Paine and The WitchSlayer in 2022. Reyne series include Duskwalker Brides, Duskwalker Beginnings, Aedus Chronicles, Witch Bound, Pirate Romance Duology and Masked Monsters.

Ophelia Bell writes erotic paranormal romance, catalogued under romance, erotica and fantasy. Dragons supply most of her series titles, with Rising Dragons, Immortal Dragons and Sleeping Dragons alongside Aurora Champions, Arcturus Champions, Black Mountain Bears, Fate's Fools and Lords of Pandemonium. Bell has 60 books published between 2014 and 2024, opening with Animus and the Breath titles of 2014 and reaching Flame of the Dragon Champion (2024).

Orhan Pamuk

17 books

Orhan Pamuk, born in Istanbul in 1952, is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter and academic, and the first Turkish winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 2006. Silent House (1983) opens the catalogue, followed by The White Castle (1985), The Black Book (1990), The New Life (1994), My Name Is Red (1998), Snow (2002) and The Museum of Innocence (2008), with the memoir Istanbul: Memories and the City (2003) alongside. Istanbul, family life, East and West, and Turkish social custom are the recurring subjects. Pamuk has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, teaches writing and comparative literature at Columbia University, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.

Orlando Sanchez is catalogued here with a single title, Blur, published in 2014. No series and no other book are recorded against the name, and the entry is marked complete at that one title.

Orson Scott Card

114 books• 29 series

Orson Scott Card, born August 24, 1951, is an American writer known chiefly for science fiction. Card is the only person, as of 2024, to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards in consecutive years, for Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). Card coproduced the 2013 film of Ender's Game. The Tales of Alvin Maker won the Locus Fantasy Award. The catalogue counts 114 books from A Planet Called Treason / Treason (1978) to Ender's Tribe (2026), with Homecoming Saga, Mither Mages, Worthing and Women of Genesis among the other series.

Osamu Dazai

25 books• 2 series

Osamu Dazai was the pen name of Shūji Tsushima (19 June 1909 – 13 June 1948), a Japanese writer whose works The Setting Sun and No Longer Human are regarded as modern classics. No Longer Human was Dazai's final book and is the most widely read Dazai work outside Japan. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Murasaki Shikibu and Fyodor Dostoevsky shaped Dazai's writing. Dazai also used the pseudonym Shunpei Kuroki for Illusion of the Cliffs. The English-language catalogue opens with The Girl Who Became a Fish (1933) and includes Run, Melos! (1940), Home to Tsugaru (1944) and Pandora's Box (1944), with Justice with a Smile (2026) as the newest entry.

Oscar de Muriel writes historical crime set in Edinburgh. The Frey & McGray novels pair two detectives across ten catalogued books, from The Strings of Murder (2015) and A Fever of the Blood (2016) through The Loch of the Dead (2018) and The Dance of the Serpents (2020) to The Sign of the Devil (2022). The End of the Vodka (2026) is the most recent title, and the novels run to a median of 432 pages.

Oscar Wilde

57 books

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. Wilde worked through several literary styles in the 1880s before becoming one of London's most popular and influential dramatists of the early 1890s, and stood as a central figure in the Aestheticism movement of the late nineteenth century. The Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), the epigrams, the plays and the bedtime stories for children form the best-known work, alongside a criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency. The catalogue holds 57 titles from Ravenna (1878) onward, spanning poetry, drama, fairy tales, short stories and correspondence.

Ottessa Moshfegh

7 books

Ottessa Moshfegh is an American novelist and screenwriter, born in 1981, with seven catalogued books published between 2013 and 2022. Eileen (2015) won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and was a fiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018), Death in Her Hands (2020) and Lapvona (2022) followed, with Bettering Myself (2013), McGlue (2014) and Homesick for Another World (2017) also in the list. Psychological fiction, crime, prisons, short stories and Salem, Massachusetts are the subject headings. Nothing new has appeared since 2022.

Ovidia Yu is a Singaporean writer of mysteries and plays. 19 catalogued books open with the collection Eight Plays (2011) and reach The Tembusu Tree Mystery (2026). The fiction divides into the Crown Colony novels, which follow Su Lin, and a Singaporean Mystery run that includes Aunty Lee's Delights (2013); widows, restaurateurs, missing persons and murder investigation in Singapore supply the material. Yu has had more than thirty plays staged and holds the Singapore Youth Award (1997) and the National Arts Council Young Artist Award (1996).

Owen King, full name Owen Philip King, is an American novelist, graphic novelist and television film producer, born February 21, 1977. We're All in This Together (2005) was King's first book and drew generally positive reviews, while Double Feature (2013), the first full-length novel, was received less warmly. King wrote the novel Sleeping Beauties together with Stephen King, Owen King's father. The catalogue lists 6 books, including Intro to Alien Invasion (2015), The Curator (2023) and Letter Slot (2025).

Owen Laukkanen

13 books• 4 series

Owen Laukkanen, born February 20, 1983, is a Canadian mystery writer and the creator of the Stevens and Windermere series. The Professionals (2012), the first novel, was an Anthony Award finalist for Best First Novel at Bouchercon 2013 and made the Kirkus Reviews list of the top 100 novels of 2012. Laukkanen lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. The catalogue lists 13 books, from The Professionals to 11 Paper Hearts (2021), including Criminal Enterprise (2013), Kill Fee (2014) and Deception Cove (2019). How to Win at High School (2015) and The Fixes (2016) appeared under the name Owen Matthews. Neah Bay is also listed as a series.