Authors whose first name starts with R, page 12 of 13

Rosie Walsh has 7 books in the catalogue, and romance is the subject heading attached to them. The first four, The Greatest Love Story of All Time (2012), A Passionate Love Affair with a Total Stranger (2013), The Unfinished Symphony of You and Me (2014) and The Day We Disappeared (2015), are listed under the name Lucy Robinson. The Walsh name appears from 2018, on The Man Who Didn't Call / Ghosted, followed by The Love of My Life (2021) and The One Day You Were My Husband (2026).

Roslund-Hellstrom is the byline on the Ewert Grens series, with 12 catalogued books from 2004 to 2022. The Beast (2004) comes first, followed by The Vault (2005) and Cell 8 (2006). Three Seconds (2009), Two Soldiers (2012), Three Minutes (2016) and Three Hours (2018) are later titles, and 100 procent (2022) is the most recent. Subject tags set the books in Stockholm, Sweden, and list police procedurals, prisons, drug traffic, undercover operations and revenge.

Roslyn Sinclair writes sapphic and lesbian romance, and the subject list also records science fiction. Eight books are catalogued, from The Lily and the Crown (2017) to Ladies on the Rocks (2026), and Carlisle is the one series recorded under the name. The X Ingredient (2019), Truth and Measure (2022), Heavy Sugar (2022), Where the Heart is (2024) and The Woman from the Waves (2025) sit in the run. Sinclair is still publishing.

Ross Armstrong is catalogued under thrillers, psychological thrillers, suspense and crime. Eight books run from The Watcher (2017) to The Getaway (2023), with The Woman in Apartment 49 (2017), Head Case (2018) and Watch Me Disappear (2023) among them, and three titles carrying the Beach Bodies name published in 2019. Beach Bodies and Tom Mondrian are the two series recorded for Armstrong. No new book has been catalogued since 2023.

Ross Barkan, born Ross Elliot Barkan on 22 October 1989, is an American journalist, novelist and essayist. Nine catalogued books run from Demolition Night (2018) to Colossus (2026), with Futurist Letters the series in the listing and political science the subject heading attached. Four titles carry a 2025 date: Cognitorisk, Fascism or Genocide, Glass Century and Halcyonics. Barkan is the sole credit on each, the books reach a median of 256 pages, and new titles keep arriving.

Ross Greenwood writes action thrillers and police procedurals. Three series divide the 22 catalogued books: DI Barton, DS Ashley Knight and Dark Lives. The run opens in 2017 with Fifty Years of Fear, also issued as Survivor, and a number of Greenwood's titles carry two names in the same way, as with Abel's Revenge / Hunter. The Christmas Killer arrived in 2026 and the catalogue stays open.

Ross King, born July 16, 1962, is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer. Two works of historical fiction in the 1990s, Domino (1995) and Ex-Libris (1998), started the career; King then turned to non-fiction and has written historical books that sold widely and drew critical acclaim. Art and its makers supply much of the material, in Brunelleschis Dome (2000), Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (2002), Leonardo and the Last Supper (2012) and Mad Enchantment (2016). The catalogue holds 12 titles and reaches The Shortest History of Ancient Rome in 2025, with a median length of 448 pages.

Ross Kingston writes four series: Elemental Chronicles, Resplendence Prequel, Lunar Triumvirate and World of Altrea. The catalogue counts 13 books from 2017 to 2024, opening with Awakening (2017). Reaper, Illumination, Kimeno and Purgatory followed. Resplendence and Kimeno: Resplendence both date from 2021, and Blink of the Sun and Vault of Tribulation's End from 2022. Pocket Mage (2024) is the most recent, and Kingston is still publishing.

Ross Macdonald

31 books• 2 series

Lew Archer, a private investigator working in California, is the character Ross Macdonald is catalogued for. The Moving Target (1949), The Drowning Pool (1950) and The Way Some People Die (1951) sit early in that series, and the listing runs to 31 titles from The Dark Tunnel (1944) to Midnight Blue (2010). Some early books carry the name Kenneth Millar. Hard-boiled detection, murder and revenge fill the subject tags.

Ross Montgomery writes children's fiction, with 28 books in the catalogue from Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door (2013) to Small Wonder (2026). The Shadows of Kensington Gore is scheduled for 2027. The Tornado Chasers (2014), Ten Delicious Teachers (2015), Perijee and Me (2016), Max and the Millions (2018) and Space Tortoise (2018) are among the titles in between. Montgomery series include Finney Island Files, Shakespeare Shake-ups and Stockingham & Pike. Subjects include schools, dogs, extraterrestrial beings and missing persons.

Ross Thomas (1926-1995) wrote American crime fiction, best known for witty thrillers that lay bare the machinery of professional politics. Five of his novels appeared under the pseudonym Oliver Bleeck and feature Philip St. Ives, a professional go-between. Mac McCorkle and Arthur Case Wu head his other series. Twenty-seven books run from The Cold War Swap (1966) to Ah, Treachery! (1994), with Washington and the Cold War recurring as settings.

Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou is the author behind three novel sequences issued in English as multi-volume sets: The Husky and His White Cat Shizun, Remnants of Filth: Yuwu and the Case File Compendium: Bing An Ben. The listing starts at 余污 (2018) and runs to The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Vol. 11 (2026), 29 volumes in all, most of them dated 2022 onward. New volumes continue to appear, at an average gap of 0.3 years.

Rowen Chambers has published 11 catalogued books since 2023. She Didn't Fall, Such a Good Husband, The Last Trip and The Starter Wife all date from 2023, and My Husband's Mistress and The Affair followed in 2024. Behind Closed Doors (2025), Don't Trust Her (2026) and His Perfect Wife (2026) are later titles, and Chambers is still publishing.

Roxane Gay, born on October 15, 1974, is an American writer, professor, editor and social commentator. Gay's books include the short story collection Ayiti (2011), the novel An Untamed State (2014), the New York Times best-selling essays Bad Feminist (2014), the stories in Difficult Women (2017) and the memoir Hunger (2017). Gay holds the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University, after four years at Eastern Illinois University and a tenured English post at Purdue University. The catalogue also carries Black Panther: World of Wakanda (2017), Not That Bad (2018) and Love Letter to a Garden (2025).

Roxanne Snopek writes romance. Man-woman relationships, California and the therapeutic use of animals appear in the subject headings. The catalogue runs to 25 books published between 2012 and 2024, from Montana Dawn (2012) to The Wrangler's Christmas Gift (2024). Three River Ranch, This Old House, Malones of Grand Montana, Sunset Bay, Wild Sky Romance and Sweetheart Hunters are the six series listed under Snopek's name. The 2010s are the busiest decade, with a median recorded length of 292 pages.

Roxanne St. Claire has 68 catalogued books spanning 2003 to 2026. Subjects attached to the work include romance, romantic suspense, bodyguards, undercover operations, murder and missing persons. Tropical Getaway (2003) is the earliest title, and Hit Reply (2004) appears under the name Rocki Claire. Series include Bullet Catcher, Guardian Angelinos, McGraths, the Barefoot Bay books, Dogfather and Dogmothers. Appointment in Amalfi (2026) is the newest title.

Roxie Ray writes romantasy stocked with alien warriors, dragons, bears and wolf shifters. The catalogue holds 100 books published between 2015 and 2026, from 15 Inch Bad Boy (2015) to The Girl Who Cried Bigfoot (2026). Series include the Intergalactic Exchange Program, Lunarian Warriors, Warriors of Valkred, Bluewater Dragons, Black Claw Dragons, Dragon Rebels, Bears Of Forest Heights, Secret Shifters Next Door and Queen Of The Pack.

Roxy Collins has 18 books on record from 2022 to 2026, a release roughly every two to three months. The series listed are Billionaires in Heat, Backyard Goblin Gods, Pack's Companion, Breed or Bleed and Grayverse. Grunge (2022) is the catalogue's first title; Grouch (2022) and Grot (2023) follow a similar one-word form, while The Omega Lesson and The Omega Merger date from 2023. Omega Uncaged (2026) is the newest.

Roy Huff's catalogue holds 9 books published between 2013 and 2023. Two series are recorded against the name, Everville and Seven Rules of Time Travel. The City of Worms and The First Pillar both carry a 2013 date, followed by The Rise of Mallory (2014) and The Fall of Brackenbone (2015). Think Smart Not Hard (2017) sits apart from the fiction, and four time travel titles close the run at Time Travel Universe (2023).

Roy Johansen has 4 books in the catalogue, from The Answer Man (1999) to Killer View (2022). Beyond Belief (2001) and Deadly Visions (2003) fall between them, and Joe Bailey, Spirit Basher is the series name. Recorded subjects include polygraph operators, lie detection, parapsychologists, embezzlement and serial murder. Kendra Michaels also appears among the listed characters.

Roy Lewis writes English detective fiction across three series. Arnold Landon is an archaeologist and antiquarian, Eric Ward works as a private investigator, and Inspector John Crow heads the police novels; standalone titles, short stories and non-fiction fill the rest. A Lover Too Many (1969), Error of Judgment (1971) and The Woods Murder (1971) are among the early books, and the catalogue reaches 78 titles by 2026 at a median 229 pages. Murder investigation in England is the constant.

Hockey runs through Roy MacGregor's books. The Screech Owls series puts a young hockey team into mysteries and adventures, from Mystery at Lake Placid (1995) onward, and the Ice Chips books carry that line to The Ice Chips and the Killer Wave (2021). MacGregor also wrote about the professional game in Road Games: A Year in the Life of the NHL (1993). The listing holds 56 books dated 1983 to 2021, at a median of 156 pages.

Atropos (2011) opens Royce Wilson's catalogue, which runs to Those Who Stand Accused (2024) across eight books. Wilson writes two catalogued series, Riley Scott Detective and Preston Hollis Mystery. Listed titles include The Cameo, The Diamond, The Domino Effect, The Honorable and The Slayer Statute, all dated 2021, and Code Black, dated 2023. Wilson remains actively publishing.

Cartoons and pictorial American humour define the Roz Chast catalogue, which holds 16 books published between 1984 and 2023. The run opens with Parallel Universes (1984) and closes at I Must Be Dreaming (2023), taking in Unscientific Americans (1986), Proof of Life on Earth (1991), The Party, After You Left (2004) and Theories of Everything (2006). Subject headings also cover graphic novels, children's fiction, stories in rhyme and bedtime. The Marco series sits under the Chast credit.

Human-alien encounters are the listed subject of Ruby Dixon's fiction. The catalogue counts 134 books, from Off Limits (2014) to The Dragon's Favorite Strays (2026), with Villain Origin Story due in 2027. Series include Icehome, Ice Planet Clones, Ice Planet Honeymoon, Ice Planet Barbarians: Slice of Life, Fireblood Dragon, Corsairs, Bedlam Butchers MC and Aspect and Anchor, and Ice Planet Barbarians (2015) is among the titles.

Ruby Roe has 13 catalogued books, all published since 2023 and arriving two to three months apart. The Girl Games series opens the list with A Game of Deceit and Desire, A Game of Hearts and Heists and A Game of Love and Hate, all 2023, and the House of Crimson titles follow through 2024. Kingdom of Immortal Lovers and Deals of Dark Desire are the other two series, and Interitus is the newest catalogued title.

Ruby Speechley has 11 books in the catalogue, the earliest being Every Little Secret (2020). Other titles include The Face at the Window (2021), Gone (2023), Missing (2023), Guilty (2024), Someone Else’s Baby (2025), Stolen (2025), The Daughter You Left (2025) and The Uninvited Guest (2025), and A Mother Like You is also listed. Read in publication order, Ruby Speechley's books start with Every Little Secret, and the author is marked as still publishing.

Rudie van Rensburg is a South African writer with 17 books on record from Slagyster (2013) to Kopskoot (2024). Two series appear on the author page, Kassie Kasselman and Hans. Titles carrying the Hans name include Hans steek die Rubicon oor (2017), Hans gee Herklaas horings (2018) and Hans bars die bioborrel (2020). Judaskus (2015), Kamikaze (2017), Medusa (2019) and Piranha / Pirana (2020) are other listed books.

Rudy Rucker

53 books• 4 series

Rudy Rucker, born March 22, 1946, is an American mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author, and a founder of the cyberpunk movement. Software and Wetware, the first two Ware novels, each won a Philip K. Dick Award, and Rucker edited the webzine Flurb until 2014. Rucker writes both fiction and non-fiction, and the 53 catalogued books run from White Light (1980) to Sqinks (2025), taking in Infinity and the Mind (1981) and The Fourth Dimension (1984). Ware, Hollow Earth and Postsingular are the series.

Rudyard Kipling was a British author and poet, born in Bombay in British India, known above all for The Jungle Book (1894). Kipling is regarded as a major innovator in the short story form. The catalogue lists 59 works, starting with Plain Tales from the Hills (1888), The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories (1888) and The Man Who Would Be King (1888). The Light That Failed (1890) and Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) are among the titles. Series include Jungle Book and Puck, and subjects include short stories, poetry, animals and English children's stories.

Ruhi Choudhary writes police thrillers in two series, Detective Mackenzie Price and Zoe Storm. Our Daughter's Bones (2020), also published as Hidden Lake, opens a catalogue of 9 books reaching Run for Her Life and The Hanging Dolls, both 2025. Several titles carry alternate names for different markets. Choudhary publishes about two books a year.

Rumer Godden

69 books

Rumer Godden was a British author with more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books to her name. Black Narcissus opened the catalogue in 1939 and reached the screen in 1947; The River followed in 1946 and was filmed in 1951; nine of Godden's works were adapted for film in all. India, nuns, family life and children's stories about dolls and mice, The Mousewife (1951), Mouse House (1952), Impunity Jane (1954), run through the work. Godden wrote a few books with her elder sister, the novelist Jon Godden, among them Two Under the Indian Sun, a memoir of a childhood spent in a part of India now inside Bangladesh. The catalogue holds 69 entries reaching 2012.

RuNyx is a pseudonym, used by the woman who wrote the bestselling Gothikana (2021). The catalogue lists 9 RuNyx books, from The Predator (2020) to Enigma (2025), with Arkana scheduled for 2027. Dark Verse is the main series, running through titles such as The Reaper, The Emperor, The Annihilator, The Finisher and The Syndicater. Verenmore Volumes is the second series on the page.

Rupert Holmes is a British-born American dramatist and author, and a former composer, singer-songwriter and music producer. The singles Escape (The Piña Colada Song) from 1979 and Him from 1980, the musicals The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which earned two Tony Awards, and Curtains, and the television series Remember WENN sit outside the book catalogue. That catalogue holds 4 titles: Accomplice (1991), Where the Truth Lies (2003), Swing, also published as The Musician's Daughter (2005), and Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide (2023).

Rupi Kaur

4 books

Rupi Kaur is an Indian-Canadian poet, illustrator and photographer. Kaur began performing poetry in 2009 and reached a wide readership through Instagram. Her catalogue holds 4 books: the poetry collections Milk and Honey (2014), The Sun and Her Flowers (2017) and home body (2020), followed by Healing Through Words (2022). Survival, self-actualization and the lives of women are the recorded subjects. The catalogue has been dormant since 2022.

Rush Limbaugh

7 books• 1 series

Rush Limbaugh was an American conservative political commentator and radio host, on air from 1984 until his death in 2021. Limbaugh's 7 catalogued books divide in two. The Way Things Ought to Be (1992) and See, I Told You So (1993) address United States politics and social conditions. The Adventures of Rush Revere, a children's series whose subjects are teachers, time travel, horses and middle schools, runs from Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims (2013) through the First Patriots (2013), the American Revolution (2014), the Star-Spangled Banner (2015) and the Presidency (2016).

Ruskin Bond

165 books• 2 series

Ruskin Bond is an Indian author and poet, born on 19 May 1934, who has written more than 500 short stories, essays and novels, including 69 books for children. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, appeared in 1956 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Bond received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, the Padma Shri in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. The catalogue here lists 165 titles through to Hold On to Your Dreams in 2024, much of it children's fiction, ghost stories and short fiction set in India, with the Rusty books as his recurring series.

Russ Hudson is credited on 8 catalogued books about the Enneagram and personality typology, published between 1987 and 2025. Personality Types (1987) opens the run. Discovering Your Personality Type (1992), The Wisdom of the Enneagram (1999), Personality Types at Work (2000) and Understanding the Enneagram (2000) follow. Subjects recorded against the books include typology in psychology, personality inventories, self-assessment, spiritual life and spirituality. Creativity and the Enneagram (2025) is the newest title, and the median length is 380 pages.

Russ Scalzo writes Christian and paranormal fiction, the two subjects the catalogue records against the name. Nine books run from Hidden Thrones (2015) to three 2022 titles: Redemption, Sorrows End and The Aftermath. Face to Face (2016), Open Warfare (2016) and The Cup of Iniquity (2018) fall between them. Five books have a recorded length, at a median of 304 pages, and the catalogue has been dormant since 2022.

Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler works cold cases in Russ Thomas's crime novels, starting with an arson investigation in Firewatching (2020). Nighthawking (2021), Cold Reckoning (2022) and Sleeping Dogs (2024) complete a catalogue of four titles, and Thomas is listed as ongoing.

Russell Banks

25 books• 1 series

Russell Earl Banks (March 28, 1940 - January 8, 2023) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet. Banks's novels portray domestic conflict and the everyday hardships of ordinary, frequently marginalised people, often through moral themes and personal relationships. Banks drew on a working-class childhood and on years spent in Jamaica. Banks belonged to the International Parliament of Writers and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The catalogue holds 25 books, from Snow (1974) to American Spirits (2024), including Trailerpark (1981), Continental Drift (1985) and The Book of Jamaica (1986).

Russell Blake is a thriller writer with 62 catalogued books published between 2011 and 2023, at a working rate of up to 10,000 words a day. Jet, Assassin, Day After Never, Drake Ramsey, Dr. Steven Cross, Leah Mason and the Delphi Chronicle are among the series, and post-apocalyptic survival is the genre the catalogue records. In 2014 Clive Cussler chose Blake to co-write two Sam and Remi Fargo treasure-hunting novels, The Eye of Heaven and The Solomon Curse. Fatal Exchange (2011) opens the catalogue and Mayhem (2023) closes it.

Russell Cooper writes murder mysteries in two series, the Friday Street Murder Mysteries and Florence Fairweather. Eight catalogued books run from 2021, the year of Aubrey Hall and Milton Park, through Red Cottage (2022), Murder On Friday Street (2023), Easier Dead Than Done (2024) and A Murder Worth Dying For (2025), to Murder ME Tomorrow and No Good Day To Die in 2026.

Russell James has 46 books in the catalogue, from Dark Inspiration (2011) to Terror On Mount St. Helens (2026). Sacrifice came in 2012, followed by Black Magic, Deeper into Darkness and Tales from Beyond in 2013. Series include Grant Coleman Adventures, Rick and Rose Sinclair Adventure, Kathy West National Park Adventure, Office of Supernatural Directives and Q Island.

Russell Kirkpatrick

8 books• 3 series

Russell Kirkpatrick (1961 - 26 June 2026) was a New Zealand novelist, cartographer, photographer and geography lecturer who completed two fantasy trilogies and contributed to a number of atlases. The catalogue opens with Bateman Contemporary Atlas New Zealand (1996) and runs to Silent Sorrow (2021). Six novels sit between them: Across the Face of the World and In the Earth Abides the Flame (both 2004), The Right Hand of God (2005), Path of Revenge (2007), Dark Heart (2008) and Beyond the Wall of Time (2009), filed under epic fantasy with subjects of immortality, gods and wizards. Kirkpatrick took New Zealand's Sir Julius Vogel Award for best adult novel three times, and lectured at the University of Canberra from 2022 to 2026.

Russell Shorto

26 books• 2 series

Russell Anthony Shorto, born February 8, 1959, is an American author, historian and journalist. The Island at the Center of the World, Shorto's history of the Dutch origins of New York City, is the best-known book; the research drew on the New Netherland Project, now the New Netherland Research Center, and on the New Netherland Institute, where Shorto has been Senior Scholar since 2013. Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom, published in November 2017, tells the American Revolution through six lives. The catalogue holds 26 books dated 1988 to 2025, including a run of juvenile biographies from 1988 to 1991 and, most recently, Taking Manhattan (2025).

Russell Thorndike

19 books• 1 series

Russell Thorndike was a British actor and novelist, born in 1885 and died in 1972, and the Doctor Syn of Romney Marsh novels are the work most associated with the name. Thorndike served in World War I and then turned mainly to writing; the actress Sybil Thorndike was a sister. Doctor Syn (1915) heads the catalogue, and titles naming Doctor Syn continue through Doctor Syn Returns (1936) to The Shadow Of Doctor Syn (1944). Other books include The Slype (1927) and The Master of the Macabre (1947). Recorded subjects include smugglers, haunted houses and the occult.

Ruta Sepetys

9 books• 1 series

Ruta Sepetys writes historical fiction for young readers. Between Shades of Gray (2011) opens a list of nine catalogued books that holds Out of the Easy (2013), Salt to the Sea (2016), The Fountains of Silence (2019), I Must Betray You (2022) and The Bletchley Riddle (2024). Labour camps, refugees, survival and the Second World War run through the subjects, and A Fortune of Sand arrives in 2026.

Ruth Ann Nordin writes historical and western romance built around marriage, and the series names say so: Marriage by Scandal, by Design, by Fate, by Fairytale, by Obligation and by Deceit, alongside the Nebraska, Virginia and Montana collections, Native American Romance and Chance at Love. The earliest titles sit apart from that, among them Death Planet (2002), the Queens of Raz books and The Dimensions (2005). One hundred and twenty-five titles are catalogued through The Science of Love (2026). Nordin is a military wife living in Nebraska.

Ruth Axtell Morren writes inspirational Christian historical romance, including Regency stories about the aristocracy. The 20 catalogued books run from Winter Is Past (2003) to Love's Enduring Flame (2016), the latter published as Ruth Axtell. Wild Rose (2004) and Lilac Spring (2005) came early. Morren's series are Making of a Gentleman, London Encounters and Leighton Sisters, and The Making of a Gentleman appeared in 2007. Maine is among the listed settings.

Food puns carry the titles in Ruth Baker's cozy mysteries: Which Pie Goes with Murder?, Eat Once, Die Twice and Twinkle, Twinkle, Deadly Sprinkles all appeared in 2021, followed by A Sticky Toffee Catastrophe, Cookie Dough and Bruised Egos, Dough Shall Not Murder, Waffles and Scuffles and Deadly Bites on Winter Nights in 2022. Three series hold the 28 catalogued books, Ivy Creek Cozy Mystery, Whispering Haven Cozy Mystery and A Lady Mildred Ramsay Murder Mystery, and publication reaches The Mystery of the Healing Waters in 2026.

Ruth Cardello is an American contemporary romance author best known for lighthearted billionaire romances, several of which reached the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. The catalogue lists 72 Cardello books, from Maid for the Billionaire (2011) to Not Them (2026), with Not Us scheduled for 2027. Bedding the Billionaire (2012), Saving the Sheikh (2012) and Rise of the Billionaire (2013) are among the early titles. Series include Legacy Collection, Andrades, Corisi Billionaires, Westerly Billionaire, Lone Star Burn, Twin Dare, Twin Find, Texan Nights and Firebrook Valley. Subjects include billionaires, Texas, single mothers and New York.

Gaius Petreius Ruso, a reluctant sleuth in the Roman world, is the figure Ruth Downie's mysteries follow. Downie, an English author born in 1955, has 10 catalogued books in the Medicus Investigation series, opening with Medicus (2006) and closing with Prima Facie (2019). Several titles carry a second name: Terra Incognita also appears as Ruso and the Demented Doctor, and Caveat Emptor as Ruso and the River of Darkness. Physicians, Rome, Britain and historical crime make up the subjects.

History, biography and crime fiction make up the work of Ruth Dudley Edwards, a Dublin-born historian who has lived in England since 1965. Born on 24 May 1944, Edwards calls herself British-Irish, and her revisionist view of Irish history has drawn controversy. Edwards has written columns for the Sunday Independent, the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph and The News Letter. Her 24 books start with An Atlas of Irish History (1973) and include titles on James Connolly and Patrick Pearse. Edwards also writes the humorous Robert Amiss mysteries, with murder and the civil service among their subjects.

Ruth Gruber (September 30, 1911 to November 17, 2016) was an American writer, journalist and photographer, a humanitarian, and an official of the United States government. Gruber was born in Brooklyn to Russian Jewish immigrants and earned a doctorate from the University of Cologne at age 20 with a dissertation on Virginia Woolf. During the 1930s Gruber reported on women under fascism and communism, travelling to the Soviet Arctic. Gruber also worked for two years in Alaska for the U.S. Department of the Interior, as a field representative. The catalogue lists 11 books from 1972 to 2018, among them Haven (1983), Exodus 1947: The Ship That Launched a Nation (1999) and Witness (2007).

Ruth Hogan is a British novelist, born in 1961 and published by Two Roads, a Hachette imprint. Hogan's eight catalogued books run from The Keeper of Lost Things (2017) to The Stray Dogs (2026), taking in The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes (2018), Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel (2019), Madame Burova (2021) and The Phoenix Ballroom (2024). Lost articles, friendship, grief, secrecy, cemeteries and English settings recur across the novels, which average 333 pages.

Ruth Jones is a Welsh actress, comedian, writer and producer who co-wrote and co-starred in the BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey. Her fiction runs to five catalogued titles: Never Greener (2018), Us Three (2020), Love Untold (2022) and By Your Side (2025), alongside When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between (2025). The novels run to a median of 384 pages.

Ruth Ryan Langan, born in Detroit in 1937, wrote over one hundred romance novels, historical and contemporary, as Ruth Langan. She published contemporary western romantic suspense with Grand Central Publishing and novellas for Jove as R. C. Ryan, and her earliest titles appeared as Ruth Ryan. Jewels of Texas, Lassiter Law, Devil's Cove, the O'Neil Saga, Wildes of Wyoming and Sirens Of The Sea are among her series. The catalogue holds 74 titles dated 1981 to 2022.

Ruth Mancini has six catalogued books, published between 2013 and 2025. Two carry alternative titles: Swimming Upstream, also published as The Lies You Tell (2013), and Swimming Home, also published as His Perfect Lies (2018). In The Blood (2018), One Dark, Two Light (2020), The Woman on the Ledge (2024) and The Day I Lost You (2025) complete the list. Mancini is recorded as actively publishing.

Ruth Ozeki

6 books

Ruth Ozeki is an American author, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest, born Ruth Diana Lounsbury in 1956. Six books are catalogued: My Year of Meats (1998); All Over Creation (2003); A Tale for the Time Being (2013); The Face: A Time Code (2015); The Book of Form and Emptiness (2021); and The Typing Lady (2026). The work joins personal narrative to public argument, across science, technology, environmental politics, race, religion, war and global popular culture, with the meat trade, farming and infertility among the recorded subjects. Ozeki's novels appear in more than thirty languages.