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

Rosemary Simpson writes historical mystery, most of it in the Gilded Age Mystery series set in New York. What the Dead Leave Behind (2017) starts that run, which continues through Lies That Comfort and Betray (2018), Death Brings a Shadow (2019), Death, Diamonds, and Deception (2020) and Murder Wears a Hidden Face (2023). The catalogue holds 12 books in all, opening with The Seven Hills of Paradise (1980) and reaching In Deadly Fashion in 2025, with the Fourth Crusade among its historical subjects.

Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) was an English novelist known above all for children's books, and within them for historical fiction and retellings of myth and legend. Some of the novels were written for adults; in a 1986 interview Sutcliff said the books were for children of all ages, from nine to ninety. The catalogue holds 56 titles between 1950 and 1997, opening with The Chronicles of Robin Hood (1950) and taking in The Eagle of the Ninth (1954), Outcast (1955), Beowulf: Dragonslayer (1956) and The Shield Ring (1956) before Sword Song (1997). Three series are catalogued: Marcus / Eagle of the Ninth, the Roman Britain Trilogy and the Arthurian books. Sutcliff was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1974.

Roshani Chokshi

18 books• 4 series

Roshani Chokshi, born February 14, 1991, is an American children's author and a New York Times bestselling author. The catalogue lists 18 Chokshi books from The Vishakanya's Choice (2015) to The Swan's Daughter (2026). Series include the Pandava Quartet, The Star-Touched Queen and The Gilded Wolves, and titles include Aru Shah and the End of Time (2018) and The Gilded Wolves (2019). Subjects include fantasy, magic, the supernatural, demonology and fate.

Rosie A. Point writes cozy mysteries, most of them built around food. 106 catalogued books open with The Fiesta Burger Murder (2017), followed by Creepy Cake Murder (2019), Marzipan and Murder (2019), Murder and Meringue Cake (2019), Murder By Chocolate (2019) and Murder Under the Mistletoe (2019). Series include Bite-sized Bakery, Burger Bar, Sleepy Creek, Mission Inn-Possible, Romano's Family Restaurant and Sunny Side Up. Murder Among Friends is scheduled for 2027.

Rosie Clarke writes family sagas set in London and the English countryside, many of them running through the two world wars. Early titles appeared under the name Linda Sole, Lovers and Sinners (1992) among them. Fifty-six books are catalogued across the Mulberry Lane, Welcome To Harpers Emporium, Blackberry Farm, Dressmakers Alley, Workshop Girls and Women at War series, reaching Duty and Dreams at Harpers (2026), with Healing Hearts on Blackberry Farm scheduled for 2027.

Contemporary romance is the subject tag on the work of Rosie Danan, who has 6 catalogued books from 2020 to 2026. The Roommate (2020) comes first, followed by The Intimacy Experiment (2021) and Do Your Worst (2023). All Wrapped Up in You and Fan Service both appeared in 2025, and Villain Edit (2026) is the newest title. Rosie Danan remains active.

Rosie Goodwin writes historical family sagas set in England, with recorded subjects covering the Second World War, social conditions, household employees and family life. The catalogue lists 51 books from The Bad Apple (2004) to Finding May, scheduled for 2027. Days of the Week, Precious Stones, Dilly's Story, Flower Girls and Claire McMullen are the series recorded, and a colouring-book strand sits alongside the novels.

Rosie Lewis writes true accounts of foster care in Britain. Abused and neglected children, foster and adoptive parents, and the families around them fill 10 books, from Helpless: A True Short Story (2013) through Trapped, Torn, Taken and Broken to Silenced in 2022. Nothing has been added since 2022.

Rosie Thomas is the pen name of Janey King, a British journalist and romance novelist born in Denbigh, Wales, in 1947. Janey King has twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year award and ranks among the 100 authors most borrowed from United Kingdom libraries. The catalogue opens with Celebration and Love's Choice in 1982, and later novels include The White Dove (1986), Bad Girls Good Women (1988) and All My Sins Remembered (1992). Female friendship, London and family life appear in the subjects, and Illusionists is a listed series.

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).

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.