Authors whose first name starts with R, page 6 of 13

Near Death (2011) is both the first book and a series name for Richard C. Hale, who published 23 titles through 2022. Hale's other series are Jaxon Jennings, Blank and Last Dawn. Flash Mob, Frozen Past and The Camera followed in 2012, and Blank: Threads (2015) came a year after Blank (2014). Horizons (2022) is the most recent book, at a median length of 292 pages.

Richard Castle is a fictional novelist from the ABC crime series Castle, and the name doubles as a pseudonym for real books about Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm modelled on the novels mentioned in the show. Screenwriter Tom Straw wrote the books, and actor Nathan Fillion serves as the public face of Richard Castle on the books and at signings. The catalogue lists 17 titles from Heat Wave (2008) to Crashing Heat (2019), including Naked Heat (2010), Heat Rises (2011) and Storm Front (2013). The Richard Castle books became New York Times bestsellers.

One book by Richard Chizmar is catalogued here: The Girl on the Porch (2019). Chizmar, born in 1965, is an American writer who also publishes and edits Cemetery Dance magazine and owns Cemetery Dance Publications. Alongside his own fiction he edits anthologies, produces films, writes screenplays and teaches writing.

Richard Coles is an English writer, radio presenter and Church of England priest. His 10 catalogued books begin with Lives of the Improbable Saints (2012) and its 2013 follow-up, both drawing on saints' biographies, and take in the memoirs Fathomless Riches (2014) and The Madness of Grief (2022). The Canon Clement series opens with Murder Before Evensong (2022) and continues to A Death on Location (2025). Before writing, Coles played in Bronski Beat and then partnered Jimmy Somerville in the Communards.

Richard Condon (1915–1996) was an American political novelist whose satires were often adapted as thrillers for film. Abuse of power, money and corruption drive Condon's plots. The Manchurian Candidate (1959) is his second catalogued book, after The Oldest Confession (1958). The Prizzi series about an organized crime family closes the 26-book list with Prizzi's Money (1994).

Richard Dawkins

29 books• 2 series

Richard Dawkins, born 26 March 1941, is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator, author and noted atheist. Dawkins is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the first Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, serving from 1995 to 2008. Dawkins sits on the advisory board of the University of Austin, and awards include the 2005 Shakespeare Prize and the 2006 Lewis Thomas Prize. Catalogued books include River Out of Eden (1996), Unweaving the Rainbow (2000), A Devil's Chaplain (2003) and The Genetic Book of the Dead (2024). Evolution, natural selection, genetics and philosophy lead the subject tags.

Richard F. Weyand has 41 books in the catalogue, published between 2016 and 2025. The run opens with the collection Adamant and other stories (2016) and reaches A Sharp Edge (2025). Childers (2017) shares its name with the Childers Universe series, and the listing also holds Talbot, D Branch, Pantheon and Vegan. Weyand is credited alone on all 41 titles, and no subject headings are recorded.

Richard Flanagan

11 books

Richard Flanagan, born in 1961, is an Australian writer who has worked as a film director and screenwriter as well. The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013) took the Man Booker Prize in 2014, and Question 7 (2023) took the Baillie Gifford Prize in 2024, making Flanagan the first writer to win both of Britain's major fiction and non-fiction prizes. 11 catalogued books run from Death of a River Guide (1994), taking in The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997), Gould's Book of Fish in Twelve Fish (2001), The Unknown Terrorist (2006), Wanting (2008), First Person (2017) and Toxic (2021). Tasmania, fathers and daughters, and Aboriginal Australians run through the subjects.

Richard Ford's 20 catalogued books open with A Piece of My Heart (1976) and close with Be Mine (2023). Frank Bascombe is the one series catalogued, and sportswriters, divorced men and the relations between men and women are the recurring subjects. The Sportswriter (1986), Wildlife (1990) and Independence Day (1995) sit among the novels, alongside the story collections Rock Springs (1987), Women with Men: Three Stories (1997) and A Multitude of Sins (2001). Wyoming and Mexico appear among the settings, and nothing new has been catalogued since 2023.

Richard Fox writes military science fiction. The Ember War Saga is the central sequence, opening with The Ember War (2015) and running through The Ruins of Anthalas (2015), Earth Defiant (2016) and The Battle of the Void (2016); the Terran Armor Corps, the Terran Strike Marines, the Terran Expeditionary Corps, the Exiled Fleet, the Ibarra Crusade and the Terra Nova Chronicles extend the same universe. Sixty-two books are catalogued, from The Caliban Program (2014) to Ember War Tales (2026). Human-alien encounters, imaginary wars and survival are the recurring subjects.

Richard Harding Davis

70 books• 1 series

Journalism came first for Richard Harding Davis, who covered the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War and the First World War as the earliest American correspondent to report from all three. Davis lived from 1864 to 1916, wrote fiction and drama as well, helped shape the American magazine, and assisted Theodore Roosevelt's political career. 70 catalogued books start at Gallegher (1891) and mix short stories with travel writing such as The West from a Car Window and Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America. The median title runs 108 pages.

Richard Harland is an Australian fantasy and science fiction writer, academic and performance artist. Born in Huddersfield in the United Kingdom, Harland migrated to Australia in 1970 and lives in New South Wales. The published work runs to 17 full-length novels, three academic books, short stories and poems, and six Australian Aurealis Awards. Worldshaker (2009), Liberator (2011) and Song of the Slums (2013) form a trio of YA steampunk fantasies. The Ferren titles and The Black Crusade date from 2004, and Walter Wants to be a Werewolf followed in 2006.

Three books by Richard Harris are catalogued. Two of them concern Korea: Roadmap to Korean (2003), a grammar and textbook for English speakers learning the language, and Faces of Korea (2004), on Korean civilisation, national characteristics and social life. A Father's Son (2013) completes the catalogue. Nothing further has been catalogued since.

Richard Helms writes crime thrillers, with 21 books catalogued from Joker Poker (2000) to A Kind and Savage Place (2022). The Helms series feature Pat Gallegher, Eamon Gold and Judd Wheeler. Subjects include murder investigation, police chiefs and forensic psychology. Voodoo That You Do (2001), Juicy Watusi (2002), Cordite Wine (2005) and The Daedalus Deception (2010) are among the titles.

Richard Henry Dana Jr. has 17 titles in the catalogue, with listed dates from 1909 to 2021. Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-Four Years After carries the 1909 date. Three volumes of The Journal of Richard Henry Dana, Jr. are listed, along with Speeches in Stirring Times and Letters to a Son (2007) and Directory of Sea Terms (2012). An Autobiographical Sketch (2021) is the newest entry. Subjects include seamanship, navigation, the merchant marine and maritime law.

Richard Herman writes military and political thrillers built around the United States Air Force. The Warbirds (1989) opens a catalogue of 17 books that reaches The Trash Haulers (2025), taking in Force of Eagles (1990), Firebreak (1991), Dark Wing (1994), Iron Gate (1995), The Power Curve (1997) and Against All Enemies (1998). Three series are catalogued: Matt Pontowski, Madeline Turner and Jack Locke. Fighter pilots, espionage, jihad and a woman president appear among the subjects.

Books To Die For is the series the catalogue records for Richard Houston, and every one of the nine titles ends on the same three words. A View to Die For (2012) opens the run, and two 2023 titles, A Taste To Die For and Nothing To Die For, close it. A Book to Die for (2014), A Treasure to Die for (2015), Letters to Die for (2016), A Relic to Die For (2017), A Secret to Die for (2018) and Something to Die For (2020) come between. Median length is 244 pages.

Richard Hughes, who lived from 19 April 1900 to 28 April 1976, wrote poems, short stories, novels and plays. The catalogue lists titles from 1922 onward, including A Moment of Time (1926), A High Wind in Jamaica / The Innocent Voyage (1929), The Spider's Palace (1931), In Hazard (1938), The Fox in the Attic (1961) and The Wooden Shepherdess (1973). In the Lap of Atlas: Stories of Morocco (1979) is the latest listed title. Hughes's series is Human Predicament. Subject tags include short stories, fairy tales, Welsh, Germany and World War II.

Richard J. Cass writes mystery and detective fiction across two series, Elder Darrow Mystery and Maine Mystery. Eight catalogued books appeared between 2017 and 2022, opening with In Solo Time and Solo Act in 2017 and closing with The Last Altruist in 2022. Burton's Solo (2018), Last Call at the Esposito (2019), Sweetie Bogan's Sorrow (2020), The Nuns Day Hit (2020) and Mickey's Mayhem (2021) fill the middle. Subject headings cover murder, investigation, thrillers and suspense.

Richard Jay Parker writes suspense thrillers, with serial murders, missing persons, computer crimes, Louisiana and London among the recorded subjects. The catalogue lists 12 books from Stop Me (2009) to The Removal Man (2022), and Detective Tom Fabian is the series on record. Scare Me (2013), Stalk Me (2014), Hide and Seek (2017) and The Songbird Girls (2018) are other titles, while The Dinner Party (2019) and While You Slept (2020) carry the name R.J. Parker. Parker is marked as dormant.

Richard K. Morgan writes cyberpunk science fiction. Altered Carbon (2002) opens his catalogue, followed by Broken Angels (2003) and Market Forces (2004). Series include Takeshi Kovacs, A Land Fit For Heroes and Hakan Veil, with graphic novels adapted from Takeshi Kovacs alongside Scott Bryan Wilson. Morgan has also written comics, among them a six-issue Black Widow run in 2005 and a Crysis series. Twenty-six titles are catalogued, published between 2002 and 2026 and reaching No Man's Land (2026). Cyberpunk, dystopias, mercenary troops and life on other planets run through the subject headings.

Richard Kadrey, born August 27, 1957, is an American novelist, freelance writer and photographer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The catalogue holds 37 books from Metrophage (1988) to In the Devil Wind (2026), including Kamikaze L'Amour (1995), Butcher Bird (2005), Sandman Slim (2009) and Kill the Dead (2010). The listing also includes the Covert Culture Sourcebook (1994) and From Myst to Riven (1997). Series include Sandman Slim, Another Coop Heist, Discreet Eliminators and Carrion City. Subjects include the occult and supernatural, angels, zombies, subcultures and Los Angeles.

Christian medical suspense is the field of Richard L. Mabry, and physicians, including women physicians, are frequent subjects. Mabry's first book, The Tender Scar: Life After the Death of a Spouse (2006), is about bereavement. Code Blue (2009), Medical Error (2010) and Lethal Remedy (2011) follow, and Prescription For Trouble is the series listed. The 22 books close with Medical Mystery (2022).

Richard Lange writes suspense and mystery fiction alongside short stories, with subject headings that place the work in California and Los Angeles. The catalogue lists 8 books, opening with Dead Boys (2007) and running to Joe Hustle (2024). This Wicked World (2009), Must Come Down (2010), Angel Baby (2013), Sweet Nothing (2015), The Smack (2017) and Rovers (2021) fall in between. Murder, investigation, private investigators, bartenders and drug dealers recur across the subject records. Lange is the sole credit on all 8 titles and continues to publish.

Richard Carl Laymon (14 January 1947 to 14 February 2001) was an American writer of suspense and horror fiction, particularly splatterpunk. The Cellar (1980) opens the Laymon catalogue, and The Woods Are Dark (1981) follows; Your Secret Admirer (1980) appeared under the name Carl Laymon. The Beast House Chronicles is among the series on record, with standalone novels and short fiction also listed. The newest title is Short Stories: The Mystery and Men's Magazines (2014). Subjects include haunted houses, vampires, stalkers, serial murders and California.

Richard Llewellyn (8 December 1906 - 30 November 1983) was the pen name of Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd, an English novelist of Welsh descent born in London and died in Dublin. The 1939 novel How Green Was My Valley, an account of life in a coal mining village in the South Wales Valleys, is the work Llewellyn is best remembered for, and that novel heads a series of the same name. The catalogue holds 24 books, from that novel to I Stand on a Quiet Shore (1982), among them Few Flowers for Shiner (1950), Sweet Witch (1955), Chez Pavan (1959) and Up Into The Singing Mountain (1960). Subject tags name coal mining, Welsh fiction and family life.

Richard Marcinko

20 books• 2 series

Rogue Warrior (1992) opens Richard Marcinko's catalogue and gives it its recurring figure. Marcinko, born in 1940 and died in 2021, was the first commanding officer of US Navy SEAL Team Six and a Vietnam veteran before turning author. 20 catalogued books span 1992 to 2014, mixing action fiction about special forces and terrorism with leadership and business titles such as Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior (1996). Curse of the Infidel (2014) is the most recent, and the catalogue is likely complete.

Richard Matheson

74 books

Richard Matheson (1926-2013) was an American author and screenwriter working mainly in horror, fantasy and science fiction. I Am Legend, the 1954 novel, is the best known work and has been filmed three times: as The Last Man on Earth (1964), which Matheson co-wrote and Vincent Price starred in, then as The Omega Man with Charlton Heston, and again under its own title with Will Smith. Seventy-six titles are catalogued from 1951 to 2020, many of them short stories, and westerns and Texas Rangers sit among the horror and science fiction subjects.

Richard Montanari is an American crime writer, born in 1952 in Northeast Ohio, where he still lives. His debut Deviant Way (1995) won the Online Mystery Award for Best First Mystery. In 2005 Montanari began a Philadelphia police procedural series with The Rosary Girls, set inside the homicide unit of the Philadelphia Police Department and introducing detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano. An earlier series follows Jack Paris. The catalogue holds 15 books dated 1995 to 2018, built on serial murder and crime investigation, and has been translated into close to 30 languages.

Legal and political thrillers make up Richard North Patterson's catalogue - lawyers, murder trials, presidential candidates and terrorism. The Lasko Tangent (1979) opens the list, and Degree of Guilt (1992) and Eyes of a Child (1995) belong to the Christopher Paget run. Kerry Kilcannon and Tony Lord head the other series. Twenty-four titles are catalogued, the last of them Trial in 2023.

Richard Osman

14 books• 3 series

Richard Osman is an English television presenter, producer and novelist, born on 28 November 1970, who created the BBC One quiz show Pointless and was one of its co-presenters. Osman's 14 catalogued books start with quiz and trivia titles such as The 100 Most Pointless Things in the World (2013). The Thursday Murder Club (2020), The Man Who Died Twice (2021) and The Bullet That Missed (2022) follow, and murder and older people appear among the subject headings. Osman's series are Thursday Murder Club and We Solve Murders, and the newest title is We Chase Shadows (2026).

Richard Paolinelli moves between fiction and sports history. The Jack Del Rio series, the Starquest 4th Age books and Dreams Of The Storyteller carry the fiction, with Maelstrom (2012) opening the catalogue and Escaping Infinity (2017) and A Zombie Christmas Carol (2018) among the standalone titles. From The Fields, a history of prep football in Turlock, California, and Perfection's Arbiter, on Babe Pinelli, are non-fiction. Paolinelli has 36 catalogued books running to 2025.

Christmas stories, Christian fiction and romance make up most of Richard Paul Evans's catalogue, which also turns to science fiction, electricity and Tourette syndrome as subjects. Evans's 64 titles open with The Christmas Box (1993) and take in the Michael Vey books, the Walk series, the Locket Trilogy, the Christmas Box, Noel and Mistletoe collections and the Broken Road novels. Mercy's Child is the most recent title, and publication continues into 2026.

Richard Paul Russo, born 1954, writes American science fiction. Inner Eclipse (1988) was Russo's first novel, following a first published story in Amazing Stories in 1981 and the Clarion Workshop in 1983. Subterranean Gallery (1989) took the Philip K. Dick Award and reached the Arthur C. Clarke shortlist, and Ship of Fools (2001) took the Philip K. Dick Award a second time. The catalogue holds 8 books to The Rosetta Codex (2005) and includes the Lt. Frank Carlucci series. Listed subjects run to space colonies, interplanetary voyages, life on other planets and space opera. Russo lived in Seattle as of 2010.

Richard Peck wrote for young adults and children across five decades. Are You in the House Alone? (1967) opens a catalogue of 48 titles closing with Master Class on Writing the Novel for Young Readers (2021). The Newbery Medal went to A Year Down Yonder in 2001, a sequel to A Long Way From Chicago, and the American Library Association gave Peck its Margaret A. Edwards Award in 1990. Blossom Culp and Lost in Cyberspace are among the series; time travel, grandmothers, schools, friendship and humour run through the books. Peck lived from 1934 to 2018.

Richard Phillips writes science fiction, including space opera, with extraterrestrials, UFO sightings and human-alien encounters among the subjects. The series are Rho Agenda, Rho Agenda: Inception, Rho Agenda: Assimilation and Endarian Prophecy. The Second Ship (2006) is the first of 16 books, followed by Immune (2009) and Wormhole (2012). Once Dead (2014), The Altreian Enigma (2016) and Mark of Fire (2017) come later, and The Ripper's Son (2025) is the newest.

Richard Powers

14 books

Modern science and technology are the material of Richard Powers's fiction. Born in 1957, Powers is an American novelist with 14 catalogued books, opening with Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985) and reaching Playground (2024). The Echo Maker took the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction and The Overstory the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; Powers has also held a MacArthur Fellowship and taught at the University of Illinois and at Stanford. Genetics, composers, computer programmers and research scientists recur across the novels.

Richard Preston, born 1954, writes for The New Yorker and reports on infectious disease. The Hot Zone (1994) and Crisis in the Red Zone (2019) take up Ebola, molecular virology and epidemiology, and The Demon in the Freezer (2002) turns to bioterrorism. Preston also writes on astronomy in First Light (1987), on the steel trade in American Steel (1991) and on redwoods in The Wild Trees (2007), and writes fiction as well. Nine Preston titles are catalogued between 1987 and 2019.

Richard Price is an American novelist and screenwriter whose fiction takes on late twentieth-century urban America. The Wanderers (1974) opens a catalogue of 12 books running through Bloodbrothers (1976), Clockers (1992), Freedomland (1998), Samaritan (2003) and Lush Life (2008) to Lazarus Man (2024). Several novels are set in Dempsy, an invented city in northern New Jersey, and The Whites (2015) appeared under the name Harry Brandt. Price has also written for television dramas including The Wire and The Night Of.

Westerns and short fiction make up much of Richard Prosch's catalogue, which holds 20 books from 2015 to 2024. On Solid Ground: The Jo Harper Collection (2015) is the first title. Prosch's series are Dan Spalding Thriller, Jo Harper, Curse of the Niobrara and Reign of Hex & Steel. Collected editions include Peregrine Returns: The Collected John Coburn Novels (2018) and Holt County: The Complete Series (2019). The Dagger Before Me (2024) is the newest title.

Richard R.S. Ford writes fantasy. Catalogue subjects record kings and rulers, imaginary wars and battles, magic and cities. Four series are listed: Steelhaven, War of the Archons, Age of Uprising and Thaddeus Blaklok. The 11 catalogued books run from The Cold Hand of Betrayal (2006) to Engines of War (2025), taking in Kultus (2011), Herald of the Storm (2013), The Shattered Crown (2014), Lord of Ashes (2015), A Demon in Silver (2018), The Spear of Malice (2020), Engines of Empire (2022) and Engines of Chaos (2023). Two entries in the listing carry credits for Christian Z. Dunn and Marc Gascoigne.

Richard Roberts is the author of the Please Don't Tell My Parents series, which began with Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain (2014). The series continued yearly with I Blew Up the Moon, I've Got Henchmen and I Have a Nemesis. Roberts's 20 catalogued books run from Sweet Dreams Are Made of Teeth (2011) to I'm Not the Chosen One (2026). Other titles include Wild Children, Quite Contrary and A Rag Doll's Guide to Here and There.

Richard Rohr

37 books

Richard Rohr writes on Christian spirituality from within the Catholic tradition, on contemplation, scripture and the inner life of men. 37 catalogued titles run from The Wild Mans Journey (1986) through The Enneagram (1989), Simplicity: The Art of Living (1991), Near Occasions of Grace (1993), Radical Grace (1993) and Quest for the Grail (1994). The newest is The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage.

Richard Rothstein writes on education and housing policy in the United States. Public schools, private schools, academic achievement, finance and case studies head the recorded subjects. Ten books are catalogued between 1990 and 2017, among them The Way We Were?: The Myths and Realities of America's Student Achievement (1998), Can Public Schools Learn From Private Schools (1999), All Else Equal: Are Public and Private Schools Different? (2002), Class and Schools (2004), Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right (2008) and The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (2017).

Richard Russo

21 books• 1 series

Small towns in upstate New York, and the families and friendships inside them, are Richard Russo's subject. 21 catalogued books run from Mohawk (1986) to Under the Falls, including The Risk Pool (1988), Nobody's Fool (1993), Straight Man (1997), Empire Falls (2001) and the story collection The Whore's Child and Other Stories (2002). Nobody's Fool heads the one series in the catalogue. Russo remains actively publishing.

Richard S. Prather (1921-2007) wrote American mystery fiction and created the Los Angeles private investigator Shell Scott. The Case of the Vanishing Beauty (1950) opens a catalogue of 46 books that closes with The Death Gods in 2011, the 1950s being its peak decade. Prather also published as David Knight and as Douglas Ring, the latter name on The Peddler (1952). Murder, crime and private investigators run throughout the work.

Richard S. Tuttle writes fantasy for young adults. The work divides into the Amica Saga, Sword of Heavens, the Demonstone Chronicles, the Targa Trilogy, Complement for a King and Evil Within, several titles naming a gemstone: Sapphire of the Fairies (1998), Emerald of the Elves (2002), Unicorns' Opal (2002), Dwarven Ruby (2002). The catalogue holds 36 books between Origin Scroll (1997) and Edge of Doom (2017), at a median of 259 pages.

Richard Stevenson writes the Donald Strachey and Clifford Waterman series. Subject tags on the work include private investigators, gay men and Albany, New York. The catalogue holds 18 books from Death Trick (1981) to Chasing Rembrandt (2023). On the Other Hand, Death (1984), Ice Blues (1987), Third Man Out (1992) and Strachey's Folly (1998) are among the titles. Books have appeared at an average interval of 2.5 years.

Richard Swan is an English fantasy author best known for the Empire of the Wolf trilogy, and The Justice of Kings (2022) and The Tyranny of Faith (2023) appear in the catalogue. Grave Empire (2025) began the Great Silence trilogy in the same Empire of the Wolf setting and was nominated for the 2026 British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Swan also wrote the Art of War trilogy, Warhammer fiction for Black Library, and the dystopian science fiction novel Infinite State, scheduled with Tor Books for 2026. The catalogue counts 17 books from Reclamation (2015) to World Ablaze (2026). Subject headings name epic, high and dark fantasy.

Richard T. Chizmar writes horror, ghost stories and short fiction. The catalogue holds 17 titles dated between 1996 and 2026, opening with Midnight Promises (1996) and reaching Killing the Boogeyman in 2026. Two series carry the Chizmar name, Boogeyman and Best of Cemetery Dance, the second of those an anthology run. Brian James Freeman, Frank Darabont and Stephen King each share a credit on 1 title. Recorded subjects include horror tales, fantasy fiction, detective and mystery stories, serial murderers, lighthouses and American short stories. Chizmar remains actively publishing.

Richard Van Camp, born September 8, 1971, is a Dogrib writer of the Dene nation, from Fort Smith in Canada's Northwest Territories. Van Camp's first catalogued book is the 1996 novel The Lesser Blessed, which director Anita Doron adapted into a film in 2012. The catalogue runs to 19 books through 2025, among them A Man Called Raven (1997), Welcome Song for Baby (2007), Little You (2013) and Three Feathers (2015), plus the Spirit of Denendeh series. Recorded subjects include Dogrib and Métis life, children's fiction, and comics and graphic novels.

Richard Wagamese

18 books

Richard Wagamese was an Ojibwe Canadian author and journalist from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in Northwestern Ontario, born in 1955 and died in 2017. Wagamese's novel Indian Horse (2012) won the 2013 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature, competed in Canada Reads that year, and became a 2017 film directed by Stephen Campanelli. The catalogue lists 18 books from Keeper'n Me (1994) to What Comes From Spirit (2021), among them A Quality of Light (1997), One Native Life (2008) and Ragged Company (2008).

Richard Wake's catalogue holds 22 books published between 2018 and 2026, divided across three series: Alex Kovacs, the La Rue Family crime thrillers and Peter Ritter. The run opens with The Spies of Zurich (2018) and Vienna at Nightfall (2018), then continues through Paris in Disguise (2019), The Lyon Resistance (2019) and A Death in East Berlin (2020). European cities name most of the titles.

Richard White is a historian of the American West, of land use and of the environment. The catalogue holds 11 books dated between 1979 and 2022, from Land Use, Environment, and Social Change (1979) to Who Killed Jane Stanford? (2022), all credited to White. Recorded subjects include the history of the West, economic conditions, land use in the United States, Washington state history, Algonquian Indians, and the social and economic conditions of Indians of North America. Titles in the run include The Roots of Dependency (1983), The Middle Ground (1991), The Organic Machine (1995), Railroaded (2011) and The Republic for Which It Stands (2017).

Captain Richard Woodman (1944-2024) was an English merchant navy officer, novelist and naval historian who served mainly with Trinity House and retired in 1997 after a 37-year career at sea to write full time. Nathaniel Drinkwater carries the Napoleonic naval fiction, opening with An Eye of the Fleet (1981) and running through A King's Cutter (1982), A Brig of War (1983), The Bomb Vessel (1985) and Baltic Mission (1986). William Kite, Kit Faulkner, James Dunbar and Sword of the State follow, with A History of the British Merchant Navy and Keepers of the Sea on the nonfiction side. The catalogue holds 74 books through 2023, at a median 250 pages.

Richard Wright

17 books• 1 series

Richard Wright (September 4, 1908 to November 28, 1960) was an American writer of novels, short stories, poems and non-fiction. Race runs through the work, particularly the discrimination and violence faced by African Americans from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. Uncle Tom's Children (1938), a collection of novellas, Native Son (1940) and the memoir Black Boy (1945) are Wright's best-known books. Literary critics credit the work with helping to change American race relations in the mid-20th century. The catalogue lists 17 titles, including 12 Million Black Voices (1941), The Outsider (1953), Eight Men (1958), The Long Dream (1958) and The Man Who Lived Underground (2021).

Richard Yancey

16 books• 6 series

Richard Yancey, born John Richard Yancey on 4 November 1962, is an American writer of young adult suspense, fantasy and science fiction. The Alfred Kropp, Monstrumologist and 5th Wave series are the best known of that work, and The 5th Wave became a feature film in 2016. The catalogue also lists the Teddy Ruzak series, with subjects including private investigators, Tennessee, monsters and extraterrestrials. The 16 catalogued books run from A Burning in Homeland (2003) to The Last Star (2016), and include The Highly Effective Detective (2006) and The Monstrumologist (2009).

Richard Walden Yates, an American fiction writer who lived from February 3, 1926 to November 7, 1992, is associated with the mid-century Age of Anxiety. Revolutionary Road (1961), the first Yates novel, reached the finalists for the 1962 National Book Award, and the story collection Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1962) drew comparisons with James Joyce. Yates won praise from critics but few sales during a lifetime that ended in 1992. The Easter Parade (1976), A Good School (1978) and Cold Spring Harbor (1986) are later titles.

Richelle Mead

42 books• 10 series

Richelle Mead is an American fantasy author, born November 12, 1976, known for the Georgina Kincaid, Vampire Academy, Bloodlines and Dark Swan series. The catalogue lists 42 Mead books from 2007 to 2018. Succubus Blues and Vampire Academy both appeared in 2007, followed by Frostbite, Shadow Kiss and Storm Born in 2008. Subjects include vampires, demonology, alchemists, magic and high schools. The Emerald Sea (2018) is the newest title, and the listing is likely complete. Glittering Court and Age Of X are among the other series.

Richie Tankersley Cusick writes horror and mystery stories for children and teenagers. Vampires, ghosts, the supernatural, schools and dating supply the subject matter across 28 catalogued books published between 1988 and 2010. The Lifeguard (1988) opens the run and Shadow Mirror (2010) is the last entry. Listed titles include Trick or Treat (1989), Vampire (1991), Blood Roots (1992) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992). The 1990s are the busiest decade, and the median recorded length is 224 pages.