Authors whose first name starts with Q

Q.B. Tyler has 20 books in the catalogue, from My Best Friend's Sister (2017) to Wilder Saint (2026). Tyler's series is Campus Tales. Titles include First Semester (2018), Second Semester (2018) and Spring Semester (2019). Other books include Bittersweet Addiction (2018), Bittersweet Surrender (2018), Bittersweet Love (2020), Unconditional (2019) and Love Unexpected (2020).

Qiu Xiaolong

23 books• 4 series

Qiu Xiaolong is a Chinese American crime novelist, poet, translator, critic and academic. Born in Shanghai, Qiu travelled to the United States in 1988 to write a book on T. S. Eliot and stayed after the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre of 1989. Thirteen of his novels form the Inspector Chen Cao series of Shanghai police procedurals, opening with Death of a Red Heroine (2000), winner of the 2001 Anthony Award for best first novel, and A Loyal Character Dancer (2002). Poetry and translation sit beside the fiction, in Classic Chinese Love Poems (2003) and Poems of Tang and Song Dynasties (2006). The catalogue holds 23 books dated 2000 to 2026.

Amy Quan Barry, born in Saigon, is a Vietnamese American poet, novelist and playwright, and holds the Lorraine Hansberry Professorship of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Barry has received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. The 8 catalogued books span 2001 to 2025, from Asylum (2001) to The Unveiling (2025), with Controvertibles (2004), Water Puppets (2011), Loose Strife (2015), She Weeps Each Time You're Born (2015), We Ride Upon Sticks (2020) and When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East (2022) between. Subjects record American poetry, families and psychic ability.

Quenby Olson has 18 books in the catalogue, starting with Knotted (2013) and reaching Miss Percy's Definitive Guide (to the Restoration of Dragons) (2024). Three series are listed: Sundered Veil, Miss Percy Guide and Regency Bestiary For Fine Ladies and Gentlemen. Other titles include First Position (2015), The Half Killed (2015), The Crimson Gown (2016), The Bride Price (2017) and The Family Blood (2018). Olson is still publishing.

Quentin Bates writes Icelandic crime fiction in English, and is described as an English-Icelandic writer. Officer Gunnhildur is the one recorded series, built around a policewoman investigating murder in Iceland, with the country's financial crisis among the recurring subjects. Eleven books are catalogued, from Life on the Edge (2001) and Frozen Assets (2010) through Cold Comfort (2012), Chilled to the Bone (2013), Cold Steal (2014), Thin Ice (2016), Cold Breath (2018) and Cold Malice (2020) to Historical Value (2025).

Quentin Black has 14 catalogued books published between 2017 and 2026, across two series, Connor Reed and Bruce McQuillan. The Bootneck (2017) opens the catalogue, followed by Lessons in Blood (2018), Ares' Thirst (2019) and Northern Wars (2020). Later titles include The Puppet Master (2022), A King's Gambit (2023) and The Devil's Nemesis (2024), with Nerium Kill Chain (2026) the newest.

Quiara Alegría Hudes

13 books• 1 series

Quiara Alegría Hudes, born September 22, 1977, is an American playwright, producer, lyricist and essayist. Hudes wrote the book for the musical In the Heights (2007) and the screenplay for the film version. Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue, the first play of the Elliot Trilogy, was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and Water by the Spoonful, the second, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2012. The catalogue lists 13 works from Holy Broth (2004) to The White Hot (2025), including Welcome to My Neighborhood!: A Barrio ABC (2010). Subject headings include drama, coming of age, immigration and stories in rhyme.

Werewolves and paranormal romance anchor Quinn Loftis's catalogue, which runs to 52 books published between 2011 and 2026. The Grey Wolves series opens with Prince of Wolves (2011); other series include Elfin, Gypsy Healers, Nature Hunters Academy, Kingdom Shifter, Clan Hakon and Flux Powered. Bipolar disorder, mental illness and psychiatric hospitals also appear among the catalogue's subjects. The most recent title is Veil of Ruin (2026).

Quintin Jardine, born in 1945, is a Scottish crime novelist with three series to his name. Bob Skinner, a police officer in Edinburgh, heads the longest of them, from Skinner's Rules (1993) through Skinner's Festival, Skinner's Trail, Murmuring the Judges and Skinner's Ghosts. Oz Blackstone and Primavera Blackstone carry the other two, starting with Blackstone's Pursuits (1996). Sixty-two books are catalogued through 2026, each around 400 pages, and Scotland supplies the setting throughout.