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

Ruth Park

50 books• 2 series

Ruth Park lived from 1917 to 2010, born in New Zealand and writing in Australia. The Harp in the South and Playing Beatie Bow are her best known novels, and The Muddle-Headed Wombat began as a children's radio serial running from 1951 to 1970 before a book series followed between 1962 and 1982. Park also wrote about Sydney, travel and family life. Her 50 catalogued titles stretch from Poor Man's Orange (1949) to Callie (2010), with a median length of 72 pages.

Ruth Plumly Thompson continued the Oz books, beginning with The Royal Book of Oz (1921) and adding a volume a year through the 1920s: Kabumpo in Oz (1922), The Cowardly Lion of Oz (1923), Grampa in Oz (1924) and on to The Yellow Knight of Oz (1930). The catalogue holds 23 titles, all grouped under Oz Continued, with the imaginary place of Oz, enchantments and wishes among the recorded subjects. Catalogued dates run from 1921 to 2007.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

23 books

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927-2013) was a British and American novelist and screenwriter, and the only person to win both a Booker Prize and an Oscar. Jhabvala married the Indian architect Cyrus Jhabvala in 1951 and moved to New Delhi, where she began writing fiction on Indian subjects. After settling in the United States, she wrote screenplays for Merchant Ivory, the partnership of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant. The 23 catalogued books run from Amrita (1955) to At the End of the Century (2017), including Esmond In India and The Householder.

Ruth Reichl

14 books• 1 series

Ruth Reichl, born in 1948, is an American chef, food writer and editor who spent two decades as a food critic, mostly at the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. Reichl edited Gourmet magazine as editor-in-chief, co-produced the PBS program Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie, hosted Gourmet's Adventures With Ruth and served as culinary editor for the Modern Library, and has won six James Beard Foundation Awards. The catalogue holds 14 Reichl books, including Tender at the Bone (1998), Comfort Me with Apples (2001), Garlic and Sapphires (2005) and The Paris Novel (2024). Subjects include cooking, memoir and New York restaurants.

Ruth Reid is an American romance writer known for fiction set in the Amish community, with subject headings that add Christian romance, Michigan, tornadoes and disaster relief. The catalogue lists 14 books from The Promise of an Angel (2011) to Steadfast Mercy (2020) and marks the run likely complete. An Angel by Her Side (2012), Brush of Angel's Wings (2012), A Miracle of Hope (2013), Her Christmas Pen Pal (2014) and A Flicker of Hope (2017) are among them. Series are Heaven On Earth, Amish Wonders and Amish Mercies.

Ruth Rendell

88 books• 7 series

Ruth Rendell (17 February 1930 to 2 May 2015) was an English writer of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries who held the title Baroness Rendell of Babergh. Chief Inspector Wexford is the creation most associated with Rendell. Separate standalone crime novels looked into what drives criminals and their victims, and the pseudonym Barbara Vine carried that interest into a third body of work. Rendell's novels have sold an estimated 20 million copies. The catalogue records 88 books, starting with From Doon With Death (1964), then To Fear a Painted Devil (1965) and Vanity Dies Hard (1966).

Ruth Saberton writes romantic fiction set in England. Thirty-three catalogued books run from Ellie Andrews Has Second Thoughts in 2011 to The Gift in 2024, with 2014 alone producing five titles, among them Escape for the Summer, Escape for Christmas and Hobb's Cottage. Polwenna Bay, the Rosecraddick Chronicles and the Katy Carter books are the named series, and marriage and relationships between men and women recur as subjects.

Ruth Ware

13 books• 4 series

Ruth Ware is the pen name of Ruth Warburton, a British author born in 1977. The 13 Ware books catalogued here run from In a Dark, Dark Wood (2015) to The Woman in Suite 11 (2025), taking in The Woman in Cabin 10 (2016), The Death of Mrs. Westaway (2018) and The Turn of the Key (2019) along the way. Subjects attached to the books include psychological thrillers, suspense, murder, female friendship and investigation. Ware's series are Lo Blacklock, standalone novels and a set of short stories and novellas.

Ruthanna Emrys

11 books• 1 series

Ruthanna Emrys has 11 catalogued titles from 2014 to 2025, tagged as historical fantasy with Cthulhu, the Cold War, government investigators and missing persons among the subjects. Emrys is best known for the Innsmouth Legacy series, which includes The Litany of Earth (2014), Winter Tide (2017) and Deep Roots (2018). A Half-Built Garden (2022) and All That Means or Mourns (2025) are the newest books. Emrys is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy.

Contemporary romance with Ohio among its settings makes up much of Ruthie Knox's catalogue, 20 books from 2012 onward. Ride with Me, About Last Night and Room at the Inn appeared in 2012. Along Came Trouble, Flirting with Disaster, How to Misbehave and Making It Last followed in 2013. Ruthie Knox's series are Camelot, Prairie Nightingale, Roman Holiday, A TV Detectives and Strangers on a Train. Believer (2026) is the newest title, and Warrior is due in 2027.

San Diego writer and editor Ryan C. Thomas, born January 25, 1975, is the executive editor of Ranch & Coast, a southern California luxury lifestyle magazine. Thomas also writes horror and crime thrillers, with 21 books catalogued from The Summer I Died (2006) to Suffer to Survive (2025). His series are the Roger Huntington Saga and Hissers. Other titles include The Undead World of Oz (2009), Bugboy (2013) and Death March (2014).

Epic fantasy is Ryan Cahill's territory. Nine books are catalogued, from The Fall (2020) to The Truth (2026), taking in Of Blood and Fire (2021), Of Darkness and Light (2021), Of War and Ruin (2023) and Of Empires and Dust (2025). Bound and the Broken is the series Cahill is listed under. Dragons in fiction, epic fantasy and fantasy literature carry the subject tags, and the sequence is ongoing.

Ryan Casey writes post-apocalyptic survival fiction. Pandemic, infection and power failure name most of the series: Pandemic Z, Surviving the Virus, Infection Z, the Infected Chronicles, World Without Power, Surviving the EMP, Survive the Darkness, Into the Dark and World After. Dead Days ran as episodes in 2013, and the Brian McDone Mysteries form the crime line. The catalogue holds 123 titles, the fiction starting in 2012 with Silhouette and What We Saw and reaching The Final Dawn in 2026.

Ryan Gattis is an American crime writer with 14 catalogued books from 2004 to 2020. The earliest listing is Roo Kickkick & The Big Bad Blimp (2004), followed by Kung Fu High School (2005). All Involved (2015) and The System (2020) are later novels, and All Involved and Big Drop are the series attached to Gattis. Subject headings include noir fiction, gangs, drug traffic, murder and Los Angeles.

Ryan Graudin's catalogued series are Wolf by Wolf, All That Glows and Faye. Titles include All That Glows (2014), The Walled City (2014), Wolf by Wolf (2015), Blood for Blood (2016), Invictus (2019) and The Enchanted Lies of Céleste Artois (2024). Bright and Broken Things (2026) is the newest. Subject headings include time travel, science fiction, historical fiction and children's fiction.

Ryan Green writes true crime. The catalogue holds 53 books published between 2012 and 2026, reaching The Red Light Assassin (2026). Green's case studies cover Harold Shipman (2015), Fred and Rose West (2016), the Kurim case (2016) and the Truro murders (2017), and the Ryan Green True Crime series is also issued in 4-book collections. Books are short, at a median of 146 pages, and the 2020s are the heaviest decade.

Ryan Higgins makes picture books and early readers, with 17 catalogued from Mother Bruce (2015) to Goodnight, Bruce (2026). Bears, geese, mice and eggs appear among the subjects. Hotel Bruce (2017), Bruce's Big Move (2019), Bruce's Big Storm (2019) and Santa Bruce (2019) are other Higgins titles, along with Be Quiet (2017) and Spring Stinks (2021). The median book runs to 40 pages.

Ryan Holiday

17 books• 1 series

Ryan Holiday writes non-fiction about stoicism, marketing and success. Trust Me, I'm Lying (2012) opens a list of 17 catalogued books that holds The Obstacle Is the Way (2014), Ego Is the Enemy (2016), The Daily Stoic (2016), Stillness Is the Key (2019) and Lives of the Stoics (2020). Stoic Virtue is the one grouped series, and titles appear about every ten months.

Ryan Jo Summers has 18 books in this catalogue, dated between 2012 and 2024. The listing opens with Whispers in her Heart (2012) and reaches Storm's Warning (2024), with Summers credited alone on all 18. The Winds of Destiny series appears under the Summers name. One title, Ty's Journey: Sharing the Lessons, Life, and Love of My Adopted PTSD Collie (2017), sets down the life of an adopted collie. Summers remains actively publishing.

Swords, revenge and betrayal are the recorded subjects of Ryan Kirk's fantasy. Nightblade (2015) opens the catalogue, with World's Edge the same year and Nightblade's Vengeance in 2017. Twelve series are listed, among them Song of the Fallen Swords, Blades of the Fallen, Last Sword in the West, Legend of Adani, Sentinels Saga, Oblivion's Gate, Relentless Souls and A War of Light and Shadow. Kirk has 52 catalogued books reaching The Penitent's Path in 2026, averaging 344 pages.

Ryan Michele's catalogue holds 55 books, published from 2013 to 2025. Safe and Wanting You, both from 2013, are the earliest titles, and Property of Thrasher (2025) is the newest. Series credited to Michele include Ravage MC, Ravage MC Bound, Ravage MC Rebellion, Ruthless Rebels MC, Vipers Creed MC, Power Chain, Raber Wolf Pack and Kings of Anarchy South Carolina.

Ryan Rimmel is an American author whose LitRPG series The Mayor of Noobtown mixes humor, fantasy and player-driven storytelling. Rimmel is also a gamer and 3D printing enthusiast who talks with readers on Patreon. The catalogue lists 17 books from The Mayor of Noobtown (2019) to The Noob Returns (2026), plus the Fifth Era Apocalypse, Chronicles of Sir Crabby, Adventures of Squire Yorick and Noobtown Children's series. Village of Noobtown (2019), Castle of the Noobs (2020) and Jim the Curious Puppy (2022) are among the titles.

Science fiction is the genre tag on Ryan Schow's catalogue of 56 books, published between 2017 and 2026. Swann (2017), The Last War (2017) and Vannie (2017) open the run and The Nature of Monsters (2026) is the newest title. Schow writes in series: The Last War, Dark Days of the After, Age of Embers, Sunset on America, the Population Zero Trilogy, Atlas Hargrove, Swann and the Sadie Gray FBI Mysteries. Publication is ongoing.

Ryan Steck has 7 books catalogued between 2022 and 2027, and Matthew Redd Thriller is the series on the author page. Fields of Fire (2022) is the first title, followed by Lethal Range and Redd Christmas (both 2023). Out for Blood (2024), Gone Dark (2025) and Target Down (2026) come after. Storm is scheduled for 2027, and the catalogue lists the author as ongoing.

Rye Brewer published 20 books between 2016 and 2022 across League of Vampires, Divine Deities and Under Realm Academy. Redemption (2016) is the first. Single-word titles ending in -tion fill the early run: Absolution, Retribution, Revelation and Salvation (2017), then Temptation, Vexation and Vindication (2018). Envy (2022) is the most recent book.

The Frontiers Saga carries Ryk Brown's listing, split into Fall of the Core, Rogue Castes, Fringe Worlds, Leviathan and Astra Nullus. Fifty science fiction titles run from Aurora: CV-01 (2011) to Desperation (2026), with Freedom's Dawn, The Rings of Haven and Celestia: CV-02 among the early entries.

Ryk E. Spoor is an American author of science fiction and fantasy who also writes research grant proposals for a technology company. Digital Knight, the first novel, came out in 2003. Spoor has frequently collaborated with Eric Flint on the Boundary series, and the online handle Sea Wasp has been in use since 1977. The catalogue lists 19 books up to Shadows of Hyperion (2021). Series in the listing include Grand Central Arena, Balanced Sword, Jason Wood and Godswar.

Rylie Dark writes FBI suspense thrillers, one series to each investigator: Sadie Price, Hailey Rock, Hannah Mercy, Cassidy Wilde, Mia North, Carly See, Morgan Stark, Alex Quinn, Casey Faith, Kelly Cruz, Jessie Reach and Tara Strong. Only Murder (2021) opens a catalogue of 123 books, with the No Way and Only runs filling 2022. Only Prey is the most recent title, and Only Dusk is scheduled for 2027.

Rysa Walker

55 books• 12 series

Rysa Walker is an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and mysteries. Timebound (2012), the first Walker novel, took the 2013 Grand Prize of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. The catalogue lists 55 books from 2012 to 2026, including Time's Edge (2014), The Delphi Effect (2016) and On Alien Skies (2026). Subject tags include time travel, grandparents, good and evil and detective stories. Walker series include Chronos Files, Chronos Origins, Delphi Trilogy, Icarus Code, Thistlewood Star Mysteries and Coastal Playhouse Mysteries.

Ryshia Kennie received Regina's Writing Award in 2011. The first book, From the Dust (2007), is set on the prairies during the Depression, and later novels move their characters around the world. The catalogue lists 13 Kennie books through Fatal Intent (2022), with American Armor as the series on record. Recorded subjects include romance, romantic suspense, historical fiction, widows, veterinarians, Normans and undercover operations. Ring Of Desire (2009), Suspect Witness (2016), Son of the Sheik (2017) and Marshal on a Mission (2019) are other titles.

Ryuto writes light novels, and the catalogue lists 27 volumes from 2020 onward. The main run is Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship!, which reached Vol. 16 in 2026, with Vol. 17 scheduled for 2027. Survival in Another World with My Mistress! began in 2022 and appears both as a light novel and as a manga adaptation. Ryuto remains an active author.