Authors whose first name starts with R, page 4 of 6

Rina Kent is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of dark romance, known for anti-heroes and villains as leading men. Kent lives in London. The catalogue lists 50 books from 2019 onward, with Deviant King (2019) as the first title, and subjects that include mafia romance, enemies to lovers and New Adult. Series include Royal Elite, Legacy of Gods, Deception Trilogy, Kingdom Duet, Monster Trilogy and Vipers. Tempting Venom (2026) is the latest release and Crave the Villain follows in 2027.

Rita Herron writes romantic suspense, with subjects that include serial murders, police, twins, missing children and ranchers. Series include Detective Ellie Reeves, Nighthawk Island, Slaughter Creek, Cold Case, Badge Of Justice, Heroes Of Horseshoe Creek, Bucking Bronc Lodge, Demonborn and Manhunt. Fiction titles include Thief of Hearts (1997), Send Me a Hero (1998), Her Eyewitness (1999) and Forgotten Lullaby (2000). Midnight Ridge (2026) is the newest title.

Rita Lakin wrote the Gladdy Gold mysteries, whose detective is an older woman living among retirees. Eleven books are catalogued between Getting Old is Murder (2005) and Getting Old Will Haunt You (2019); the Getting Old titles carry most of the run, among them Getting Old is the Best Revenge (2006), Getting Old is Criminal (2007), Getting Old is a Disaster (2008) and Getting Old Can Kill You (2011). Lakin worked first in television, with 474 produced scripts across 30 productions between about 1962 and 1981, and The Only Woman in the Room (2015) is her memoir of being one of the first women show runners. Lakin was born in the Bronx in 1930 and died in 2023.

Rita Mae Brown

76 books• 7 series

Rita Mae Brown's catalogue reaches 77 books and splits between literary fiction and mystery. Rubyfruit Jungle (1973) belongs to the early work, catalogued under lesbian fiction. The Mrs. Murphy mysteries pair Harry Haristeen with her cats, and the Sister Jane books follow Jane Arnold and fox hunting. Runnymede is a third sequence. Clawed and Dangerous is the newest title, and Pawsible Suspects is scheduled for 2027.

Roald Dahl

89 books• 2 series

Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British writer of children's books and short stories, and also a poet, screenwriter and wartime fighter ace. Born in Wales to Norwegian immigrant parents, Dahl lived mostly in England and served in the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, first as a fighter pilot and then as an intelligence officer. The catalogue lists 89 titles from The Gremlins (1943) to Marvelously Revolting Recipes (2024), among them Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying (1946), Kiss Kiss (1959), James and the Giant Peach (1961) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964). Dahl's books have sold more than 300 million copies.

Rob Buyea is an American children's author, born in 1976, best known for the Mr. Terupt novels. Because of Mr. Terupt (2010) opens that series and took an E.B. White Read Aloud Award in 2011; Mr. Terupt Falls Again (2012), Saving Mr. Terupt (2015) and Goodbye, Mr. Terupt (2020) follow. The Perfect Score (2017), The Perfect Secret (2018) and The Perfect Star (2019) make a second series, and What Comes Next (2021), The Daredevils (2022) and Carter Avery's Tricky Fourth-Grade Year (2024) complete a catalogue of 10. Schools, classrooms, teachers and friendship are the subjects. Buyea studied biology and education at Syracuse University, wrestled for its team, and lives in North Andover, Massachusetts.

Rob Hart, born 1982 in New York, is an American novelist and former journalist. The Ash McKenna series and the novel The Warehouse (2019) are the work Hart is known for. Seventeen catalogued titles run from The Last Safe Place (2012) through New Yorked (2015), City of Rose (2015), South Village (2016), The Woman from Prague (2017) and Potter's Field (2018), with Three Hitmen and a Baby in 2026 and Roundabout scheduled for 2027. Private investigators, murder and missing children recur as subjects, and one series crosses Ash McKenna over with Pete Fernandez.

Rob Jones writes action adventure thrillers built on lost cities and ancient relics. The catalogue opened with The Vault of Poseidon (2015) and a run of 2016 titles - The Secret of Atlantis, The Curse of Medusa, Valhalla Gold, Thunder God and The Lost City. Joe Hawke, Jed Mason, Bill Blake, the Avalon Adventures, the Cairo Sloane Adventures, the Hunter Files and the DCI Jacob Mysteries divide the 45 catalogued titles between them. The Exodus Key is the newest, dated 2026.

Rob Osler has 5 catalogued books published between 2021 and 2026. Two series are recorded, Hayden & Friends and Harriet Morrow Investigates. Analogue (2021) opens the catalogue, followed by Devil's Chew Toy (2022), Cirque du Slay (2024), The Case of the Missing Maid (2024) and The Case of the Murdered Muckraker (2026). Osler is still publishing.

Rob Rinder has five catalogued books. Rinder's Rules (2015) opens the list, and the Adam Green Mystery series follows with The Trial (2023), The Suspect (2024), The Protest (2025) and The Defence (2026). The catalogue spans 2015 to 2026, and Rinder is still publishing.

Rob Sinclair writes action thrillers built around spies, assassins and detectives. The catalogue reaches 33 books published between 2014 and 2026, opening with Dance with the Enemy (2014), Rise of the Enemy (2015) and Hunt for the Enemy (2016). James Ryker, Sleeper 13, Simon Peake and D.I. Dani Stephens are Sinclair's series, and the newest title is The Lazarus Protocol (2026).

Robbi Renee has 13 catalogued books published between 2020 and 2025, beginning with French Kiss Christmas (2020) and French Kiss New Year (2021). Pretty Shattered, Davenport Dynasty, Grown and Sexy Somebody and Holiday Snack are the listed series. Kindred: Xander's Story (2021), Pretty Shattered Heart (2021), Somebody's Wife (2022) and A Beautiful Distraction (2023) are among the titles, and Summer's Echo (2025) is the newest.

Robert A. Heinlein

83 books• 11 series

Robert A. Heinlein wrote science fiction from 1939, starting with the short story Life Line. Interplanetary voyages, space colonies, space opera and time travel are the recurring subjects, and the catalogue carries a Hugo Award winner. The Future History timeline groups a large part of the early work; the Juveniles were written for younger readers, and World As Myth came later. Eighty-two titles are catalogued, with editions dated through 2025.

Robert Asprin

55 books• 10 series

Robert Lynn Asprin (28 June 1946 - 22 May 2008) wrote humorous science fiction and fantasy and was an active figure in fandom. The MythAdventures books and Phule's Company are the work Asprin is best known for; Skeeve, the imaginary kingdom of Possiltum and Captain Willard Phule all turn up in the subject tags. The catalogue holds 55 books from Another Fine Myth (1978) to Dragons Deal (2010), taking in Myth Conceptions (1980), Myth Directions (1982) and Hit or Myth (1983). Other headings cover Time Scout, Griffen McCandles, Wartorn and graphic novel lines for Myth Adventures, Thieves' World and Duncan & Mallory. The run is listed as likely complete.

Robert B. Parker

87 books• 9 series

Robert B. Parker (September 17, 1932 – January 18, 2010) was an American writer working mainly in mystery and detective fiction. The Spenser novels, about a private detective, are Parker's most famous works and inspired the ABC series Spenser: For Hire and a run of TV movies. The Godwulf Manuscript (1973), God Save the Child (1974) and Mortal Stakes (1975) are among the early titles. Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall are further characters, and Virgil Cole & Everett Hitch form another series. Parker's books draw on detailed knowledge of the Boston metropolitan area, and Robert Crais, Harlan Coben and Dennis Lehane are among those who credit the Spenser novels with renewing the detective genre.

Robert Bailey writes legal thrillers, and Alabama, trials and lawyers are among the subject headings on the list. The catalogue holds 12 Bailey books, beginning with The Professor (2014) and running to The Mediator (2026). Four series appear under the name: McMurtrie and Drake Legal Thrillers, Jason Rich, Bocephus Haynes and Max Ringo. Other titles include Between Black and White (2016), The Last Trial (2018), Legacy of Lies (2020), The Golfer's Carol (2020) and Rich Blood (2022).

Robert Barnard wrote traditional English detective fiction, and lectured and reviewed alongside it. The catalogue holds 64 titles published between 1974 and 2016, opening with Death of an Old Goat (1974). Charlie Peace and Perry Trethowan head two of the series; Idwal Meredith, John Sutcliffe and a sequence about Amadeus Mozart follow. Barnard also wrote criticism, including a study of Dickens (1974) and an appreciation of Agatha Christie (1980), and published four books as Bernard Bastable. Barnard lived from 1936 to 2013.

Robert Beatty

7 books• 2 series

Robert Beatty is an American author of children's fantasy and a technology entrepreneur. Serafina and the Black Cloak (2015) began a four-book series that runs through Serafina and the Twisted Staff, Serafina and the Splintered Heart and Serafina and the Seven Stars (2019). Willa of the Wood (2018) and Willa of Dark Hollow (2021) make a second series, and Sylvia Doe and the 100-Year Flood arrived in 2024. Spirits, good and evil, and questions of identity run through the work, which is set partly at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. A television adaptation of Willa of the Wood is in development with Beatty as an executive producer.

Robert Bryndza writes crime fiction. Detective Erika Foster heads the main thriller series, with Kate Marshall and Detective Jamie Day leading others, while the Coco Pinchard books open the catalogue in 2012. Twenty-six catalogued titles reach The Quiet Kill, and The Burning Lie is scheduled for 2027. London, murder investigation and women detectives recur as subjects.

Robert Charles Wilson

23 books• 2 series

Science fiction is the field of Robert Charles Wilson, an American-Canadian author born on December 15, 1953. The catalogue credits Wilson with 23 books from A Hidden Place (1986) to Owning the Unknown (2023), one of them shared with Marc Scott Zicree. Subject tags include the end of the world, human-alien encounters, time travel and cults. Memory Wire (1987), The Divide (1989), Mysterium (1994) and Darwinia (1998) come from the earlier years, and the Spin Saga is the named Wilson series.

Robert Craig has three catalogued titles, spread across six years: The Internet for Accountants (1998), Cover to Cover (2003) and More Like Wrestling Than Dancing (2004). No further work is recorded under the name in this catalogue.

Robert Crais

30 books• 5 series

Robert Crais, born June 20, 1953, is an American writer of detective fiction who first worked as a screenwriter. Crais wrote television scripts for Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Quincy, Miami Vice and L.A. Law. Crais names Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, Robert B. Parker and John Steinbeck as influences, and the novels appear in 62 countries. The catalogue counts 30 books, from The Monkey's Raincoat (1987) to The Big Empty (2025), set largely around Los Angeles private investigators Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. Scott James & Maggie is a second series.

Robert Dugoni writes legal thrillers and murder investigations, with 33 books in the catalogue from The Cyanide Canary (2004) to One Split Second (2026). Dugoni's series are Tracy Crosswhite, David Sloane, Charles Jenkins and Keera Duggan, alongside standalone novels and non-fiction. My Sister's Grave (2014) and Her Final Breath (2015) are among the listed titles. Subject tags point to Seattle and San Francisco, lawyers, conspiracies, women detectives and fathers and sons.

Robert E. Howard

158 books• 14 series

Robert E. Howard (January 22, 1906 to June 11, 1936) was an American pulp fiction writer across many genres. Howard created Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of sword and sorcery. Born and raised in Texas, Howard lived mostly in Cross Plains, with some time in nearby Brownwood. A bookish child and a boxing fan, Howard boxed as an amateur and took up bodybuilding in the late teens. Howard wanted to write adventure fiction from the age of nine but found real success only at 23. Early catalogued titles include Spear and Fang (1925), Skull-Face (1929) and Kings of the Night (1930). Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, Cormac Mac Art and James Allison are other series on the author page.

Los Angeles crime fiction is Robert Ellis's field. Lena Gamble and Detective Matt Jones lead the two series. Nine books are catalogued from Access to Power (2001) to City of Stones (2021), among them The Dead Room (2002), City of Fire (2007), The Lost Witness (2009), Murder Season (2011), City of Echoes (2015) and The Girl Buried in the Woods (2019). Serial murder, policewomen and the Los Angeles Police Department supply the subjects.

Robert Enright writes three series: the Sam Pope novels, the DS Jack Townsend books and the Bermuda Jones Case Files. Body Heat (2010) is the earliest title in a catalogue of 29, which picks up pace from The Night Shift (2016) and Doorways (2017) and reaches One Man Army in 2026. The 2020s have been the busiest decade, and books median 367 pages.

Imperial Rome is Robert Fabbri's subject. The Vespasian novels follow the future emperor through the reigns of Tiberius and Claudius, and Alexander's Legacy and the Crossroads Brotherhood stories sit alongside them. Twenty-five catalogued books run from 2011, the year of Tribune of Rome, Rome's Executioner and The Crossroads Brotherhood, to Beyond the Grave (2026). Fabbri continues to publish.

Robert Frost

32 books• 4 series

Robert Frost (1874–1963) was an American poet known for realistic pictures of rural New England life and for a command of American colloquial speech, both used to open out social and philosophical questions. Frost is the only poet to have received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1958, took the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 and was named poet laureate of Vermont in 1961. Thirty books are catalogued, from A Boy's Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) through Mountain Interval and The Road Not Taken (1916) to New Hampshire (1923) and the collected editions.

Robert Galbraith is the author of 7 catalogued crime novels, with Cormoran Strike as the recurring character. The run goes from The Silkworm (2014) through Career of Evil (2015), Lethal White (2018), Troubled Blood (2020), The Ink Black Heart (2022) and The Running Grave (2023) to The Hallmarked Man (2025). The books have a median length of 649 pages. Catalogue subjects include crime, England, missing persons, criminal investigation and detective fiction, and the Galbraith catalogue remains ongoing.

Robert Goddard

33 books• 4 series

Robert Goddard, an English novelist born in 1954, writes mystery and suspense. Past Caring (1986) was his first novel, and the catalogue has grown to 33 titles through to This is the Day They Dream Of (2025). Four series carry recurring figures: James "Max" Maxted, Harry Barnett, Umiko Wada and Inspector Taleb. Long Time Coming took the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Original Paperback, and the Crime Writers' Association gave Goddard its Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2019.

Robert Gold writes the Ben Harper thrillers, a series counting down through its own titles. Twelve Secrets (2022) opens the run, followed by Eleven Liars (2023), Ten Seconds (2024) and Nine Hidden Lives (2025). Four books are catalogued, and Gold is still publishing.

Robert Goldsborough is an American journalist who spent 45 years at the Chicago Tribune and Advertising Age, then became the authorised continuator of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe. Goldsborough wrote 17 Nero Wolfe pastiches in two stretches, 1986 to 1994 and 2012 to 2023. The first of them, Murder in E Minor (1986), won a Nero Award. A second series of five period mysteries began with Three Strikes You're Dead (2005) and features Chicago Tribune reporter Steve 'Snap' Malek. The catalogue holds 25 books and reaches The White Mountain in 2025.

Robert Graves

68 books• 4 series

Robert Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 - 7 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and critic. Graves's father was the Irish poet Alfred Perceval Graves, a figure in the Gaelic revival, and father and son both studied Irish mythology. Graves produced more than 140 works, among them the First World War memoir Good-Bye to All That and The White Goddess (1948), a study of poetic inspiration. The catalogue lists 68 books, including I, Claudius (1934), Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (1934) and Count Belisarius (1938). Graves's two series in the catalogue are Claudius and Sergeant Lamb.

The Robert Greene listing in this catalogue covers 121 books published between 1952 and 2023. The earliest entries, from 1952 and 1953, include Black Infinity and Cosmic Echelon, plus titles credited under the names Rand Le Page, A.J. Merak, Victor Salle and Berl Cameron, such as Satellite B.C. and Dark Andromeda. Series in the listing include Johnny Merak, Steve Carradine, Dark Armageddon Trilogy, Arkladian Chronicles and A History of Space Exploration. Subject headings cover westerns, outlaws, frontier and pioneer life, the Confederate army, private investigators and murder. The newest title is Visions out of Time (2023).

Robert Harris

23 books• 3 series

Robert Harris writes historical thrillers and political non-fiction. Non-fiction opens the catalogue: A Higher Form of Killing (1982) on chemical warfare, Gotcha! (1983) on the press and the Falklands, later joined by Selling Hitler (1996). The novels run from Fatherland (1991) through Enigma (1995), Archangel (1998), Pompeii (2003) and Imperium (2006), with a Cicero series among the named sequences. Harris's 23 catalogued books reach Agrippa in 2026.

Robert J. Crane writes fantasy and action adventure, much of it about teenage girls with powers. The catalogue holds 113 books published from 2011 onward, with Past Lies (2026) the most recent release and Out of Time scheduled for 2027. Avenger and Defender, both 2011, open the run. Girl In The Box, Out of the Box and Sanctuary are the recurring names, and Liars and Vampires, Southern Watch, Mira Brand, Girl Who Ran Away, Ashes Of Luukessia and Shattered Dome are the other series. Crane's densest decade is the 2010s, at a median of 295 pages per book.

Robert J. Sawyer

36 books• 6 series

Canadian and American science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer was born in Ottawa on April 29, 1960. Sawyer has published 25 novels, and short fiction by Sawyer has appeared in Analog, Amazing Stories, On Spec and Nature. Awards include the Nebula for Best Novel in 1995, the Hugo for Best Novel in 2003, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2006 and the Robert A. Heinlein Award in 2017, plus more Aurora Awards than any other writer. The catalogue has 36 books from Golden Fleece (1990) to Sawyer on Science Fiction (2026), including the Quintaglio Ascension, Neanderthal Parallax and WWW series.

Robert Jackson Bennett

16 books• 4 series

The Tainted Cup won Robert Jackson Bennett both the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Bennett is an American writer of speculative fiction, born June 22, 1984. The catalogue records 16 books from Mr. Shivers and The Company Man (both 2009) to A Trade of Blood (2026), including The Troupe (2012), American Elsewhere (2013), City of Stairs (2014), Foundryside (2018) and Vigilance (2019). Series are Divine Cities, Founders Trilogy and Shadow of the Leviathan. Subject headings name urban fantasy, espionage, horror, corporate power and corruption.

Robert James Waller, born in 1939 and died in 2017, was an American author, professor, photographer and musician. The Bridges of Madison County (1992) is the book he is known for; Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend, Border Music, Puerto Vallarta Squeeze and A Thousand Country Roads followed, alongside essay collections and the Iowa material that grounds much of the work. Thirteen titles span 1988 to 2012.

Robert Jordan

43 books• 8 series

Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney Jr. (17 October 1948 to 16 September 2007), an American writer of epic fantasy who used several pen names for different genres. The Wheel of Time, 14 books plus a prequel novel, has sold 90 million copies and ranks among the highest-selling book series. Earlier in the career, Jordan was one of several writers of original Conan the Barbarian novels. The catalogue opens with The Fallon Blood (1980), followed by The Fallon Pride (1981), and Conan titles such as Conan the Invincible (1982) and Conan the Destroyer (1984) appear in the early years. Jordan series also include Fallon.

Robert K. Massie (1929-2019) was an American journalist and historian who spent much of his career on the Romanovs, Russia's imperial family from 1613 to 1917. Nicholas and Alexandra (1967) opens his catalogue and became a British film in 1971 with Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman; Peter the Great: His Life and World (1980) won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1981; and Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (2011) closes the run with awards of its own. Dreadnought (1991) and Castles of Steel (2003) turn to the naval rivalry between Britain and Germany around the First World War. Nine books in all, running long at a median of 634 pages.

Robert K. Tanenbaum was an American trial attorney who also served as mayor of Beverly Hills. The Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi legal thrillers are his main sequence, catalogued under public prosecutors, women lawyers, murder trials and New York City. Tanenbaum's 34 books run from Badge of the Assassin (1979) and No Lesser Plea (1987) through Depraved Indifference (1989) and Justice Denied (1994) to That Day in Dallas (2025), and the catalogue also holds non-fiction.

Robert Kirkman

181 books• 31 series

Robert Kirkman, born 30 November 1978, is an American comic book writer, screenwriter and producer. Kirkman co-created The Walking Dead, Invincible, Tech Jacket, Outcast, Oblivion Song and Fire Power for Image Comics, wrote Ultimate X-Men, Irredeemable Ant-Man and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics, and worked with Todd McFarlane on Haunt. Kirkman is one of the five partners of Image Comics and serves as its COO. The catalogue gathers 181 volumes published between 2001 and 2026, listed as graphic novel and omnibus collections, from Battle Pope, Vol. 1: Genesis (2001) to The Emissary (2026). Charlie Adlard shares the credit on 2 volumes and Sean Phillips on 1.

Robert Kiyosaki

13 books• 1 series

Robert Kiyosaki, born April 8, 1947, is an American businessman and entrepreneur who writes on personal finance. Rich Dad, Poor Dad (1997) opens a catalogue of 13 titles that runs to Rich Dad Poor Dad for College Students (2014) and takes in Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant, Retire Young Retire Rich and Rich Dad's Prophecy. Kiyosaki founded the Rich Dad Company, which sells personal finance and business education through books and videos, and Rich Global LLC, which filed for bankruptcy in 2012. A class action brought by seminar attendees, and investigative documentaries from the CBC, WTAE-TV and CBS News, have also taken Kiyosaki as their subject. The catalogue marks the run likely complete.

Robert Littell, born 8 January 1935 in Brooklyn to a family of Russian Jewish origin, writes spy fiction. Littell's novels turn on the CIA and the Soviet Union, drawing on a working life that took in a 1956 degree from Alfred University, four years in the US Navy as navigator, antisubmarine warfare officer and communications officer, and years at Newsweek during the Cold War, including a posting as foreign correspondent from 1965 to 1970. Littell lives in France. The catalogue holds 26 books, from If Israel Lost the War (1969) to Bronshtein in the Bronx (2025).

Robert Louis Stevenson

56 books• 4 series

Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894), born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson, was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Kidnapped (1886) and the verse collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) are the works Stevenson is best known for. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson lived with serious bronchial illness yet wrote prolifically and travelled widely. The catalogue opens with Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879) and runs to The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson: Volume 2 (2021), with David Balfour as a series name. Pirates, travel and multiple personality are recorded subjects.

Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 to March 12, 2001) was an American thriller author who wrote 27 novels and created Jason Bourne. Between 300 million and 500 million copies of Ludlum's books are estimated to be in print, in 33 languages and 40 countries. The catalogue opens with The Scarlatti Inheritance (1971), followed by The Osterman Weekend (1972) and The Matlock Paper (1973). Ludlum also wrote as Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd. The catalogue also carries Covert-One and Paul Janson entries, plus titles dated after 2001 such as The Bourne Revenge (2026).

Robert M. Kerns writes science fiction and fantasy across six series: the Histories of Drakmoor, the Primogenitor Saga, Cole & Srexx, Shepherd Security Services, Sorcerous Pursuits and the Sam Colton Mysteries. Awakening (2018) opens the catalogue, and Into Vushaar, Haven Ascendant and Archmagister follow. Twenty-three titles reach Sol (2026).

Robert Macfarlane

21 books• 1 series

Robert Macfarlane, born in 1976, is a British non-fiction writer and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Landscape, nature, place, people and language are his subjects, across The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (2012), Landmarks (2015), The Lost Words (2017), Underland (2019) and Is a River Alive? (2025). His 21 catalogued titles start with Magdalen Poets (2000) and reach The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss (2026), taking in Mountains of the Mind (2003), Original Copy (2007), The Wild Places (2007), Holloway (2012) and Silt (2013). Macfarlane collaborates often with musicians, composers and artists. The American Academy of Arts and Letters gave him the E. M. Forster Award for Literature in 2017, and he was named an outside contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022 and 2024.

Robert Masello writes supernatural thrillers alongside nonfiction on the occult and on writing. The 20 catalogued books open with What Do Men Want from Women? (1983) and run through The Spirit Wood (1987), Private Demons (1992), Fallen Angels ...and Spirits of the Dark (1994), Raising Hell (1996) and Writer Tells All (2001) to The Haunting of H. G. Wells (2020). Occultism, witchcraft and historical settings recur. Nothing has followed 2020.

Robert Muchamore

51 books• 7 series

Robert Muchamore, born 26 December 1971, is an English author of young adult fiction known for the CHERUB, Henderson's Boys and Rock War series. The catalogue holds 51 Muchamore books from 2004 to 2026. The Recruit, Kerry's First Mission and CHERUB at Christmas are among the 2004 entries, and Maximum Security followed in 2005. Subjects include spies, teenagers, undercover operations, orphans and World War II, and CHERUB is tagged as an imaginary organization. Robin Hood and CHERUB 2 are also listed, and War and Peas (2026) is the newest title.

Robert Peecher writes westerns. Jackson Speed opened the catalogue in 2012 and continued through 2017, and the series that followed include Animas Forks, Heck & Early, Rab Sinclair, the Lodero Westerns, Two Rivers Station, Moses Calhoun, Hangman's Ledger, W.F. & Co. and Marshal from Ocate. The Barnett Lowery Murder Mysteries and the Cullen Tindall Western Mystery add crime plots to the frontier setting. Peecher's 83 books run from Jackson Speed: The Hero of El Teneria to The Weight of Blood (2026), with The Poison in Dixie dated 2027.

Robert Pobi writes suspense thrillers. Six books are catalogued: Bloodman, also published as Eye of the Storm, and Mannheim Rex in 2012, American Woman in 2013, then City of Windows (2019), Under Pressure (2020) and Do No Harm (2022). Lucas Page is Pobi's one series. Criminal profilers, murder investigation and people with disabilities recur as subjects. Books are long, at a median of 448 pages. Nothing new has appeared since 2022.

Robert Rankin

39 books• 7 series

Robert Rankin, born in 1949 in Parsons Green, London, writes comedic fantasy. 39 catalogued books run from The Antipope (1981) to Normanghast (2025). Brentford, Cornelius Murphy, Eddie Bear, the Japanese Devil Fish Girl and the Barking Mad Trilogy are the series, and the novels mix science fiction, fantasy, the occult, urban legend, running gags, metafiction and steampunk. Rankin entered the bestseller lists with Snuff Fiction in 1999, by which point his previous eighteen books had sold around a million copies. Rankin calls the style Far Fetched Fiction.

Toronto is the setting for Robert Rotenberg's legal thrillers, and the Detective Greene series accounts for the whole of his 7-book catalogue. Old City Hall (2009) opens the run and What We Buried (2024) is the newest title, with The Guilty Plea (2011), Stray Bullets (2012) and Downfall (2021) in between. Murder trials, lawyers and the courts supply the material.

Robert Silverberg

240 books• 17 series

Robert Silverberg, born January 15, 1935, is an American science fiction author and editor with multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, a place in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and Grand Master status since 2004. Nightwings (1969), a novella, and the novels Downward to the Earth (1970), The World Inside (1971), Dying Inside (1972) and Lord Valentine's Castle (1980) are among the most noted Silverberg works, and Lord Valentine's Castle was the first Majipoor book. By 2015 Silverberg had attended every Hugo Award ceremony since the first in 1953. The catalogue lists 240 books from Revolt on Alpha C (1955) to Beast Hunt: Volume 1 (2024), with The Shrouded Planet (1957) and Collision Course (1958) among the early ones. Series include Majipoor: Lord Valentine, Majipoor: Lord Prestimion, New Springtime, Time Gate and New Dimensions.

Robert Swartwood writes thrillers, with horror and supernatural fiction alongside them. The Man of Wax Trilogy opens in 2011, and Holly Lin heads the longest series, later carried on by Nova Bartkowski; the Killing Room is the third series. Twenty-seven books are catalogued, from The Silver Ring (2009) to Enemy of the State (2024), The Serial Killer's Wife (2011) and The Inner Circle (2012) among them. Espionage, survival, psychological suspense and California recur as subjects.

Robert Thorogood

9 books• 2 series

Robert Thorogood is an English screenwriter and novelist, born in Colchester in 1972, who created the BBC One murder mystery Death in Paradise and co-created the spin-offs Beyond Paradise and Return to Paradise. The catalogue lists 9 books from 2015 to 2026 in two series, Death in Paradise and Marlow Murder Club. The first title is A Meditation on Murder (2015), and The Marlow Murder Club appeared in 2021; Thorogood turned the Marlow books into a TV series for PBS and UKTV. The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts (2026) is the newest title.

Robert Van Gulik

27 books• 2 series

Robert van Gulik, who lived from 1910 to 1967, was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat and guqin player, and the author of the Judge Dee historical mysteries. He took the detective from an 18th-century Chinese novel, Dee Goong An, which he translated and published in 1949 as Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee. The series that followed is set in imperial China and includes The Chinese Maze Murders (1957), The Chinese Bell Murders (1958), The Chinese Gold Murders (1959), The Haunted Monastery (1961) and The Lacquer Screen (1962). Van Gulik also wrote Sexual Life in Ancient China (1961).

Robert Vaughan (1937–2024) was an American writer credited with more than 400 books spanning nearly every genre. The Power and the Pride won the 1977 Porgie Award for Best Paperback Original. Vaughan also wrote romance novels under pseudonyms including Paula Moore and Paula Fairman, and novelized the television movie Andersonville. The catalogue holds 138 books from Brandywine's War (1971) to Beyond the Little Bighorn (2025), with series such as Crocketts, American Chronicles, Hawke and Cade McCall, and subjects ranging from westerns to the Second World War.