Authors whose first name starts with P, page 7 of 7

Poetry about women and relationships makes up the catalogue of Pierre Alex Jeanty, with self-help and religion also among the recorded subjects. The 15 books run from Unspoken Feelings of a Gentleman (2014) to What I Should've Texted (2024). To The Women I Once Loved (2015) and Unspoken Feelings of a Gentleman II (2016) come early, followed by Her (2017), Apologies that Never Came (2018), Him (2018) and Ashes of Her Love (2019). The books are short, with a median of 155 pages.

Pierre Lemaitre

14 books• 3 series

Pierre Lemaitre is a French novelist and screenwriter best known outside France for crime novels featuring Commandant Camille Verhœven. Alex, the first of his books translated into English, shared the CWA International Dagger for 2013; Camille and The Great Swindle took the same prize in 2015 and 2016. The Great Swindle, an epic of the First World War published in French as Au revoir là-haut, won the Prix Goncourt in November 2013. Lemaitre's 14 catalogued titles run from Irene (2006) to The Silence and the Rage (2025), with the Paris Between the Wars and Glorious Years sequences beside the Verhœven novels.

Piers Anthony is the publishing name of Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, born August 6, 1934, an American science fiction and fantasy writer. The long-running Xanth novels, set in the imaginary realm of Xanth, are his best-known work. Anthony has counted among his chief achievements the publication of a book beginning with every letter of the alphabet, from Anthonology to Zombie Lover, and a number of his books have reached The New York Times Best Seller list. This catalogue lists 195 titles from Chthon (1967) to Knicklepede Knight (2026), including the Apprentice Adept, Cluster, Battle Circle, Mode and Incarnations of Immortality sequences.

Pintip Dunn writes science fiction for teenage readers; dystopian settings, teenage girls, sisters, mothers and daughters, and crime prevention fill the subject records. The catalogue holds 11 books from Forget Tomorrow (2015) to The Lotus Flower Champion (2023), with Forget Tomorrow the one series recorded under the name. Remember Yesterday (2016), Seize Today (2016), Girl on the Verge (2017) and Dating Makes Perfect (2020) sit in the listing. The median Dunn book runs 400 pages.

Pip Ballantine's listing holds 15 catalogued titles published between 2011 and 2018. Tale from the Archives is the one series recorded, and A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences: Tales from the Archives, Volume 10 (2016) sits in the listing as an anthology volume; P.C. Haring, K.T. Bryski and Scott Roche each carry a credit on one entry here. Titles include The Evil that Befell Sampson (2011), Magic by Gaslight (2012), The Precarious Child (2012), The Little Clockwork Mermaid (2013), Mechanical Wings (2014) and Tangi a te Ruru / The Cry of the Morepork (2016). The Books and Braun Dossier (2018) is the newest entry.

Unicorns drive the children's books of Pip Bird, whose catalogue holds 24 titles from 2019 to 2024. The Naughtiest Unicorn (2019) began the main series, and 4 books appeared in its first year, including The Naughtiest Unicorn at Christmas. Bird also writes the Super Cute and Dave the Unicorn series. The Naughtiest Unicorn and the Ice Dragon (2024) is the newest title, and Pip Bird is still publishing.

Pip Williams is an Australian author and social researcher, born in 1969. Four books are catalogued: One Italian Summer (2017), The Dictionary of Lost Words (2020), The Bookbinder of Jericho (2023) and The German Ward (2026). The Dictionary of Lost Words was her debut novel and is her best known work. The novels run to about 420 pages.

Piper C.J. writes three series: The Night and Its Moon, No Other Gods, and Fern's School for Wayward Fae. The Night and Its Moon (2022) opens a catalogue of 19 titles reaching Hell and the Heart (2026), with The Sun and Its Shade (2023) and The Dawn and Its Light (2024) continuing the first sequence. Several books a year appear under the name, and the catalogue is open.

Piper Davenport writes motorcycle club romance and historical romance, 100 catalogued books between 2007 and 2026. Spooks, Angels and Babies (2007) opens the list and Road to the Edge (2026) is the most recent. Dogs of Fire MC and its Savannah Chapter, Wolfpack MC and the Primal Howlers carry the club books, with Cauld Ane, Civil War Brides and the Wallace Brothers elsewhere; several series run in a parallel Sweet Edition. Short stories and novellas appear under the name Tracey Jane Jackson.

Piper Fox writes paranormal and alien romance. Shifters carry Ironhaven Pack Romance and Bears of Crooked Creek; Last Warriors of Dilaria and Alien Warriors of New Dilaria handle the science fiction side; Seven Brides for Seven Demons, Immortal Blood and Academy for Reapers cover the rest. Fox has published 63 books between 2020 and 2026, from Ancient Hunger (2020) to Tempest of Passion and Power (2026), with 2020 alone bringing a large block of the list.

Piper Huguley has 16 catalogued books, published between 2014 and 2024 and each credited to Huguley alone. Three series are recorded: Home to Milford College, Migrations of the Heart and Sassy Ladies. The run opens in 2014 with The Lawyer's Luck, The Mayor's Mission and The Preacher's Promise, continues through A Virtuous Ruby (2015), A Champion's Heart (2016) and Oney: My Escape From Slavery (2018), and reaches American Daughters (2024). Huguley remains actively publishing.

Piper J. Drake is the pen name of Lalana Dararutana (1976–2026), an American author and podcast personality who also published as PJ Schnyder. The catalogue lists 25 books between Red's Wolf (2010) and Fangs So Bright & Deadly (2024). True Heroes, London Shifters, Triton Experiment, Mythwoven, Mystic Bookstore and Intergalactic Idol are the recorded series. Romance, romantic suspense, working dogs, dog trainers, veterans and human trafficking appear among the subject headings.

Piper James is a romance author with 31 books catalogued between 2021 and 2025. Early titles include Fooling Around with Ford, Faking with the Enemy and Playing with the Doctor, all from 2021. Series under the Piper James name include Milestone Mischief, Red River Romps, Sweet Pea Flings, Rebel Rendezvous, Love in Las Vegas, Branston Bandits, Fangirls of Evening Shade and Anonymously Yours. The Emerson Effect (2025) is the newest listing, and Piper James is still publishing.

Piper Rayne is the name credited on 116 catalogued books published between 2016 and 2027. The run opens with Degenerate (2016) and continues to The Troublemaker (2026), with Catching Light listed for 2027. Rayne works in linked series, among them Greene Family, Baileys, Single Dads Club, Hockey Hotties, Rooftop Crew, Blue Collar Brothers, Lake Starlight, Plain Daisy Ranch and Hollywood Hearts. Most of the catalogue dates from the 2020s, and new titles keep arriving.

Piper Stone has 206 books in the catalogue, dated 2015 through 2026. Snow White & Rose Red (2015) is the earliest entry and Born Savage (2026) the newest. Series recorded under the Stone name include Mafia Masters, Kings of Corruption, Merciless Kings, Lords of Corruption, Missoula Smokejumpers, Montana Bad Boys, Alpha Dynasty, Ruthless Empire and Alpha Beasts. Stone is an ongoing author.

Pippa Grant writes romance across a dozen series: Misfit Brides, the Copper Valley Bro Code, Thrusters Hockey, the Copper Valley Fireballs, Girl Band, Tickled Pink and the Officers' Ex-Wives Club among them. Fifty-seven catalogued books have appeared since Southern Fried Blues (2013), arriving two or three months apart. Faking Cinderella is the newest catalogued title.

Pippa McCathie writes the Havard & Lambert Mysteries, a Welsh crime series that opens with Murder In The Valleys (2018) and continues through Murder at the Old Abbey (2019), Murder by the River Usk (2020), Murder in a Welsh Town (2020), Murder of a Gentleman (2022) and Murder of a Scoundrel (2024). Eight titles make up the catalogue, Liberation Day and The Island Brief among them.

Pirateaba is the writer of The Wandering Inn, a series listed in book form from 2018. The catalogue lists 26 Pirateaba books through 2026, with titles such as Blood of Liscor, The General of Izril and Tears of Liscor. A second series, Singer of Terandria, sits alongside the main work. Memory's Flame (2026) is the newest title.

Pittacus Lore is the name on the Lorien Legacies, a young adult science fiction sequence about teenagers, extraterrestrials and fugitives, with schools and imaginary wars in the background. I Am Number Four (2010) opens the run, followed by The Power of Six (2011), The Rise of Nine (2012) and The Fall of Five (2013), with The Lost Files novellas, the Legacy Chronicles and Lorien Legacies Reborn extending it. Thirty-nine catalogued titles end at Ashfall Prophecy in 2022.

PJ Ryan is catalogued in the Grades 3-5 category, with 16 books all dated 2013 or 2014. The Mysterious Garden (2013) is listed first. Other 2013 titles include Alien Invasion, Ghost Hunting, Magellan Goes Missing and Mystery At Summer Camp. Quiet On The Set! (2014) is the newest, and the catalogue marks the list as likely complete.

Plum Parrot has published 30 catalogued books since 2022, across seven series: Victor of Tucson, Cyber Dreams, Falling with Folded Wings, Vainglory, Andy in the Apocalypse, Neon Dust and Aura Overload. Falling with Folded Wings (2022) opens the run, with its second and third volumes plus Dungeon Delver, Electric Angel, Ghost Chrysalis, Pit Fighter and Spirit Hunter all arriving in 2023. World Walker is the newest title, from 2026, and Against Fate's Shadow is dated 2027.

Cozy mystery is where Polly Holmes works, with paranormal witches, amateur sleuths and cats and dogs among the recorded subjects. The 10 catalogued books open with Pumpkin Pies & Potions (2020) and take in Mistletoe, Murder & Mayhem (2021), Muffins & Magic (2021), A Deadly Disappearance Down Under (2022), Black Magic Murder (2022), Cupcakes & Cauldrons (2023) and One Hex Too Many (2023). Holmes is credited alone on all 10, and Meringues, Matrimony & Murder arrived in 2025.

Six books by Poppy Alexander are catalogued, published between 2019 and 2026. Christmas and bookshops give the run its two recurring hooks: 25 Days 'Til Christmas (2019) and The 12 Days of Christmas (2021) on one side, The Littlest Library (2021), The Battle of the Bookshops (2025) and How to Find a Romance in a Bookshop (2026) on the other. Storybook Ending (2024) sits between them.

Poppy Green writes children's fiction for grades 1 to 3. The catalogue counts 22 books from 2015 to 2025. The 2015 titles include A New Friend, Forget-Me-Not Lake, Looking for Winston, The Emerald Berries, The Maple Festival and Winter's No Time to Sleep!. Later titles include The Clover Curse (2016) and The Great Big Paw Print (2016). Sunflower Hour (2025) is the most recent.

Poppy Parkes's catalogue holds 65 books published between 2017 and 2023. The Light Between Us (2017) is the first title, and Finding Me and You: Sequel to The Light Between Us came out the same year. Series include Down the Shore, Mountain Men of Heartwood, Wayward Brits, Light Between Us, Cowboy in Love and Once Upon a Happily Ever After, and A Cherry Falls Romance is also linked to Parkes. King of the Castle (2023) is the newest title, and the catalogue marks Parkes as dormant.

Poppy Woods published 10 catalogued books in three years, between 2018 and 2020, all credited to Woods alone. A Call To Pride (2018) is the earliest title and Love and Chaos (2020) the last. Unsung Veil and Reinas Asesinas are the two series recorded under the name, and a run of A Call To titles covers Pride, The Heart, War and Freedom. Books arrived at an average gap of 0.2 years, and nothing new has been catalogued since 2020.

Poppy Z. Brite

29 books• 6 series

Poppy Z. Brite is the former name of William Joseph Martin, an American author born on 25 May 1967 who rose to prominence in gothic horror in the early 1990s through novels and short story collections. Lost Souls (1992), Drawing Blood (1993) and Exquisite Corpse (1996) are the best-known novels. Later work turned to dark comedy, much of it set among New Orleans restaurants, and many characters are openly gay or bisexual. The catalogue lists 29 books from Seed of Lost Souls (1988) to Portrait of a Phantom (2017), including His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood and Other Stories (1995). Rickey and G-Man is the series on record, and subjects include cooks and New Orleans.

PopularMMOs writes illustrated adventure books for readers in grades three to five, built around video games, zombies and friendship. A Hole New World and Enter the Mine both appeared in 2020, followed by Zombies' Day Off, Into the Overworld and The End of All the Things (2023). Five books make up the catalogue, at a median of 208 pages.

Portia MacIntosh's catalogue runs to 47 books between 2012 and 2026. Entries such as One Way or Another / Between a Rockstar and a Hard Place (2012) and Bad Bridesmaid / Always the Bridesmaid (2014) carry two titles each. Single-title releases include Drive Me Crazy (2015), Truth Or Date (2016) and The Accidental Honeymoon (2017). Marram Bay and Nicole Wilde are the two series listed for MacIntosh. The newest title is Out of Your League (2026).

Portia Moore has 22 books published between 2014 and 2022, organised into the If I Break and Collided series. If I Break, Almost Broken and Before I Break all came out in 2014. Beautifully Broken and What Happens After followed in 2015, and He Lived Next Door and Shattered Pieces in 2017. Collided appeared in 2019, and Ours (2022) is Portia Moore's latest title.

Posey Parks, also published as Shantee' A. Parks, is a USA Today bestselling writer of contemporary romance and romantic suspense. The characters include assassins, bodyguards, Navy SEALs, CIA hackers, mobsters and firefighters, and figures cross between series. Hidden Witness is a second-chance mafia romance series. The catalogue lists 55 books from Love Unfolded (2015) to Knotted By The Mafia (2026), with further series such as Relentless Chase, Ruthless Mafia Bosses and Twisted Mafia Vows.

Poul Anderson

160 books• 18 series

Poul Anderson (25 November 1926 to 31 July 2001) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy who also wrote historical novels. Anderson won the Hugo Award seven times and the Nebula Award three times. The catalogue lists 160 titles, from Duel on Syrtis (1951) to Swordsmen from the Stars (2020), with series including Flandry, the Polesotechnic League, the Psychotechnic League, Time Patrol, Hoka, Maurai, King of Ys and Harvest of Stars. Subjects on file include space opera, time travel, space warfare and epic fantasy.

Premee Mohamed

17 books• 4 series

Premee Mohamed is a scientist and a writer of speculative fiction, of Indo-Caribbean background and based in Edmonton, Alberta, and works as social media manager and associate editor at Escape Pod. The catalogue runs to 17 books published between 2018 and 2026, among them The Apple-Tree Throne (2018), Beneath the Rising (2020), The Annual Migration of Clouds (2021), These Lifeless Things (2021), The Void Ascendant (2022) and The Butcher of the Forest (2024). Beneath the Rising and Annual Migration of Clouds are the two series recorded. The listing also carries Shoreline of Infinity 13 (2018), a magazine issue credited to seven further writers.

Alien warriors and fated mates define Presley Hall's science fiction romance, across four series: Fated Mates of the Kalixian Warriors, Warrior Mates of Zivon, Voxeran Fated Mates and Fated Mates of the Xaathian Barbarians. Single-word titles dominate the opening year -- Bound, Broken, Claimed, Consumed, Rescued, Stolen, all dated 2020. 31 books appeared between 2020 and 2023, ending with Alien Alpha's Desire, and nothing has followed.

Preston W. Child's catalogue holds 112 books from 2014 to 2026, with Ice Station Wolfenstein / Ice Station Thule (2014) listed first. Series credited to Child are Black Sun, Last Templars, Templar Legacy, Olivia Newton, Guardians of the Holy Grail, Louisiana Files and Artemis Team. Other titles include The Atlantis Scrolls (2015), Tomb of Odin (2015), Bones in the Bayou (2016) and The Collector of Curses (2026).

Preston William Child writes action thrillers built on historical mysteries and lost treasure. The titles state it plainly: Ice Station Wolfenstein, The Quest for Valhalla, Nazi Gold, The Atlantis Scrolls, Tomb of Odin, The Library of Forbidden Books, Mystery of the Amber Room and Hunt for the Lost Treasure. Norse myth and the Second World War recur as material. Child has 49 catalogued books dated 2014 to 2024, averaging 263 pages and reaching The Fate Weaver.

Primo Levi

24 books• 1 series

Primo Levi (1919-1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. If This Is a Man, published in 1947 and also titled Survival in Auschwitz, opens the catalogue and the Auschwitz Trilogy; The Reawakening (1963) follows. Levi wrote short story collections, essays and poems as well as memoir, including The Periodic Table (1975), The Monkey's Wrench (1978), Moments of Reprieve (1981) and The Search for Roots (1981). Auschwitz, the Second World War, imprisonment and survival are the subjects. Twenty-four titles are catalogued through 2016, at a median 182 pages.

Priscilla Masters writes English detective fiction. DI Joanna Piercy, Martha Gunn, Claire Roget and Florence Shaw each head a series, six groupings in all across 40 catalogued books published between 1988 and 2026. Mr. Bateman's Garden (1988) opens the list, which reaches The Cliff's Edge Murders (2026) by way of Winding Up the Serpent (1995), A Fatal Cut (2001) and Disturbing Ground (2002). Murder, missing children, physicians, coroners, forensic psychiatrists and serial murderers recur as subjects.

Priscilla Oliveras writes contemporary romance. Nine books are catalogued under the name, from His Perfect Partner (2017) to Kiss Me, Catalina and West Side Love Story, both dated 2022. Matched to Perfection is the series recorded here, and Her Perfect Affair (2018) and Their Perfect Melody (2018) follow the first title's wording. Resort to Love (2018), Holiday Home Run (2020), Island Affair (2020) and Anchored Hearts (2021) also appear. Catalogue subjects record dance teachers, divorced fathers and man-woman relationships. Six volumes have page counts recorded, with a median of 342 pages.

Priscilla Royal writes a single series of medieval mysteries. Wine of Violence (2003) opens it and Prayers of the Dead (2021) is the newest of 19 catalogued books, with Tyrant of the Mind (2004), Sorrow Without End (2006) and Forsaken Soul (2008) among those between. Priories, monastic orders and murder investigation in medieval England are the recurring subjects, and a woman sleuth carries the run.

Priscilla West is credited on 8 catalogued books, all published across 2013 and 2014. Subjects filed against them record romance fiction, erotic stories, man-woman relationships, billionaires, rock musicians, mixed martial arts and college students. Forbidden Surrender (2013) is the earliest title, and the 2013 group also holds Beautiful Surrender, Secret Surrender, The Sandstone Affair and Wrecked. Fearless, Reckless and Rescued follow in 2014. One series is recorded under the name, Sandstone Affair, and the median length is 237 pages.

Prue Leith, born Prudence Margaret Leith on 18 February 1940, is a South African and British restaurateur, chef, cookery writer, novelist and broadcaster. Leith judged BBC Two's Great British Menu from 2005 to 2016, then replaced Mary Berry as a judge on The Great British Bake Off in 2017 after the show moved to Channel 4, staying until 2025. Leith was also Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, from 2016 to 2024. The catalogue lists 42 books from Leith's All Party Cookbook (1972) to Being Old...and learning to love it! (2026), including Leith's Cookery Bible and the Angelotti Chronicles novels. Paul Hollywood shares credit on 2 of the books.

Pseudonymous Bosch is the pen name of Raphael Simon, who writes children's mystery and fantasy. The Secret series opens with The Name of This Book is Secret (2007) and continues through If You're Reading This, It's Too Late (2008), This Book Is Not Good For You (2009) and You Have To Stop This (2011). The Bad books follow, from Bad Magic (2014) to Bad News (2017), and the Unbelievable Oliver chapter mysteries close a catalogue of 12 titles in 2020. Subjects cover magic, synesthesia, secrets and puzzles.