Authors whose first name starts with R, page 9 of 13

Robert Kroese writes humorous science fiction and fantasy. Angels and the end of the world sit in the subject record, and the Mercury books run from Mercury Falls (2009) through Mercury Rises, Mercury Swings, Mercury Begins and Mercury Rests. Nine series are recorded in all, including Rex Nihilo, Saga Of The Iron Dragon, Land Of Dis, Counterfeit Sorcerer, Erasmus Kane, Mammon and Cross-Time Crusade. Kroese has 55 catalogued books dated 2007 to 2026, averaging 254 pages.

Robert L. Forward (August 15, 1932 - September 21, 2002) was an American physicist and science fiction writer. A career as an aerospace engineer supplied ideas for the fiction, which is noted for scientific credibility. Forward also contributed to research on gravitational wave detection. Dragon's Egg (1980) is the first of 14 catalogued books and Saturn Rukh (1997) the last, and the listed series include Rocheworld and Cheela. Subject headings include life on other planets, antimatter and interplanetary voyages.

Robert Lane is the author of the Jake Travis series, with 12 books catalogued from 2013 to 2026. The Second Letter (2013) is the first listed title. Later books include Cooler Than Blood (2015), The Gail Force (2016), A Beautiful Voice (2018), The Elizabeth Walker Affair (2020) and Searching for Dali (2024). When Angels Cry (2026) is the newest. Subjects include murder and assassins.

Robert Leckie

30 books• 4 series

Robert Hugh Leckie, December 18, 1920 to December 24, 2001, was an American author and journalist who served in the United States Marine Corps during the Second World War. More than 40 books followed, in both non-fiction and fiction. The memoir Helmet for My Pillow, together with Eugene B. Sledge's With the Old Breed, supplied the basis for the HBO series The Pacific in 2010, where James Badge Dale plays Leckie. The catalogue lists 30 titles dated from 1957 to 2024, including Strong Men Armed (1961), Conflict: The History Of The Korean War (1962) and Challenge for the Pacific (1966), with Sandy Steele Adventures and Americans At War recorded as series.

Robert Liparulo has three series in the catalogue: Dreamhouse Kings, John Hutchinson and Immortal Files. Subject headings include time travel, the supernatural, horror stories, terrorists and Christian suspense. The 13 books begin with Comes a Horseman (2005) and end with Kill Zone (2017). Germ (2006), Deadfall (2007), House of Dark Shadows (2008), Timescape (2009) and Frenzy (2010) are among them.

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 Graham Low (8 July 1949 to 31 May 2021) was a Scottish journalist and historical fiction writer. The Oathsworn novels by Low take place in the Viking Age. Beyond Oathsworn, the catalogue lists the Kingdom Trilogy, Brothers Of The Sands and Border Reivers series. The Whale Road (2007), The Wolf Sea (2008), The White Raven (2009) and The Prow Beast (2010) are early titles, and The Lion Wakes (2011), Crowbone (2012) and Beasts Beyond the Wall (2019) follow. Shake Loose the Border (2021) is the newest.

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. Drake is a poet, with catalogue subjects that include American poetry, love poetry, first loves and young adults. The 49 books run from Beautiful Chaos (2014) to Dog People (2025). Titles include Spaceship (2014), A Brilliant Madness (2015), Black Butterfly (2015), Broken Flowers (2016), Gravity (2017) and Moon Theory (2017).

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 Mangeot is the name on 9 catalogued titles published between 2012 and 2020. Four of them carry a 2013 date: First of a Fine Spectacle, La Upsell, The Carcassonne Dream and The Transcendence of Pi. The Food Acquisition Breakdown (2012) is the earliest entry, Whorling (2014) and The Cumberland Package (2016) follow, and Lord, Spare the Bottom Feeders and Over Before It Started close the run in 2020. The catalogue records no subject or genre for the listing and nothing after 2020.

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 McCracken writes mysteries and is the author of the DI Tara Grogan series. McCracken's 14 catalogued books start in 2017 with For One Kiss and Marriage is Murder and reach Deadly Move in 2024. Titles in between include An Early Grave (2020), Lethal Dose (2021), Lethal Justice (2021) and Bound to Run (2022).

Robert Merle

14 books• 1 series

Robert Merle was a French novelist who lived from 28 August 1908 to 27 March 2004. The catalogue holds 14 books by Merle, dated 1950 to 1989, starting with Week-end à Zuydcoote (1950). Death Is My Trade, The Island, The Day of the Dolphin, Malevil and The Brethren are among the listed titles, and The Idol (1989) is the latest. Merle wrote the Fortune de France series. Subject tags include French science fiction, captive dolphins, animal intelligence and survivors of a nuclear war.

Robert Moss is a journalist and author who works in two directions: suspense fiction and books on dreaming. The early titles cover guerrilla warfare and terrorism - Urban Guerrillas (1972), The War For The Cities (1972), Chile's Marxist Experiment (1974), The Collapse Of Democracy (1977) - and espionage thrillers follow in The Spike (1980), Death Beam (1981) and Moscow Rules (1984). Dreams and dream interpretation dominate the later catalogue, which reaches Growing Big Dreams (2020) across 29 titles.

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.

The Recruit (2004) opens the 9 books catalogued under the joint credit Robert Muchamore and Sammy Yuen, a run of children's spy stories filed for grades 6 to 8. Subjects record CHERUB as an imaginary organization, espionage, intelligence services, undercover operations, orphans, teenagers, prisons and the drug traffic. Class A (2004), Maximum Security, The Killing, Divine Madness, Man vs. Beast, Mad Dogs, Lone Wolf and New Guard (2017) complete the listing.

Robert N. Macomber is the author of 18 catalogued books published from 2002 to 2023, with naval history, sea stories and war & military among the subjects. Peter Wake is the fictitious character named in those subjects, and the settings listed include Cuba and Civil War Florida. At the Edge of Honor (2002) is the earliest title, followed by Point of Honor (2003), Honorable Mention (2004) and A Dishonorable Few (2005). Honor Bound (2011) and Honorable Lies (2012) come later. Full Naval Honors (2023) is the newest book.

Robert Olen Butler

29 books• 5 series

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, Robert Olen Butler's short story collection, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993. Butler, born January 20, 1945, is an American fiction writer whose catalogue runs to 29 books published between 1981 and 2021. The Vietnam War appears among the recorded subjects, along with the First World War, veterans and married people. The Alleys of Eden (1981) opens the listing, followed by Sun Dogs (1982), Countrymen of Bones (1983) and On Distant Ground (1985), and Late City (2021) is the newest entry. Christopher Marlowe Cobb is the character of one recorded series.

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 Penn Warren

69 books• 3 series

Robert Penn Warren is the only writer to have received Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and poetry: the 1947 novel prize for All the King's Men (1946), and the poetry prize in 1958 and again in 1979. Born on April 24, 1905, and dying on September 15, 1989, Warren worked as a poet, novelist, critic and Yale professor. Warren was a founding figure of New Criticism and a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and co-founded The Southern Review in 1935 alongside Cleanth Brooks. Yale gave Warren an honorary Doctor of Letters in 1973. Catalogued books number 69, among them John Brown (1929), Understanding Poetry (1938), Night Rider (1939) and At Heaven's Gate (1943).

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 R. McCammon is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama, born in 1952 and one of the names behind the American horror boom of the late 1970s and 1980s. By 1991 The Wolf's Hour, Stinger and Swan Song had each reached the New York Times list, with around 5 million copies in print. Since 2002 McCammon has written the Matthew Corbett books, a historical mystery series about an 18th-century magistrate's clerk in colonial America. 58 catalogued books run from Baal (1978) to McCammon's Shoppe of Olde Curiosities (2026). The median book runs 406 pages.

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.

Robert Rapoza has 8 books in the catalogue, published between 2016 and 2026. The Lost Tribe (2016) is the first, followed by Nazca (2017), The Bermuda Connection (2017), The Devil's Heart (2020) and The Washington Prophecy (2022). God's Eye and The Eternity Code both carry 2026 dates. Rapoza's series are Nick Randall and Jake Stone.

Science fiction is Robert Reed's field, and the Great Ship sequence his longest-running work. Reed's 149 catalogued books run from The Leeshore (1987) to Retrograde Tests (2024) and take in starships, interstellar travel and life on other planets. Beyond the Veil of Stars, Trials of Quentin Maurus and Raven Dream are his other series. Reed was born in Omaha in 1956, studied biology, and has won a Hugo Award. Most of his output is short fiction rather than novels.

Robert Repino writes science fiction, fantasy and children's fiction. The catalogue holds eight books published between 2014 and 2021, opening with Mort(e) (2014) and ending with Malefactor and Spark and the Grand Sleuth, both dated 2021. Repino's series are War with No Name and League of Ursus. Subjects recorded across the books include imaginary wars and battles, human-animal relationships, cats, ants and monsters. Nothing has been added since 2021.

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.

Wartime suspense fills most of the Robert Ryan listing: the First and Second World Wars, secret service work, Berlin and British prisoners of war. Thirty-two books are catalogued between 1999 and 2024, at a median of 362 pages, from Underdogs through Early One Morning (2002), The Blue Noon (2003), Night Crossing (2004) and The Last Sunrise (2006). Named series include a Dr. Watson sequence, Sam Wylde, Vince Piper, R.J. Bailey and Morning, Noon & Night. Swords of Deception (2024) is the newest catalogued title.

Robert S. Levinson wrote mystery fiction built around Neil Gulliver and Stevie Marriner, the pair the catalogue records as a series. The film and music industries supply the settings: recorded subjects include journalists, actresses, the motion picture industry, the sound recording industry and Elvis Presley. The catalogue holds 25 books from The Elvis and Marilyn Affair (1999) through The James Dean Affair (2000), The John Lennon Affair (2001), Ask a Dead Man (2005) and The Traitor in Us All (2010), to Tap Dance: A Tall Tale of the Wild West (2019). The list is marked likely complete.

Robert Scott writes true crime. The 39 catalogued books are case studies of murder, many of them Californian, covering trials, investigations and crimes against women. Rope Burns (2001) opens the run and Nightmare on Spanish Creek (2016) closes it, with Like Father Like Son (2002), Unholy Sacrifice (2005), Killer Dad: Husband, Father, Murderer (2007) and Rivers of Blood (2009) in between. The median book runs 350 pages, and the work is filed under RobertScott Non-Fiction.

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 T. Kiyosaki

43 books• 1 series

Robert T. Kiyosaki writes personal finance and business books. Rich Dad, Poor Dad (1997) anchors a long run of Rich Dad titles, among them Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant (1998), Rich Dad's Guide to Investing (2000), Rich Dad Poor Dad for Teens (2001) and Rich Dad's The Business School (2001). Kiyosaki founded the Rich Dad Company, which sells personal finance and business education. The catalogue holds 43 books from If You Want To Be Rich & Happy Don't Go To School (1992) to Rich Family Smart Family (2026), with investments, wealth and entrepreneurship the recurring subjects.

Robert Terrall published books across seven decades, starting with They Deal in Death (1943) and ending with Intimate Grief (2011). The Ben Gates and Harry Horne series sit among his 27 books. Terrall also used several pen names: John Gonzales for The Magnificent Moll, Robert Kyle for Nice Guys Finish Last and The Golden Urge, and MacLennan Roberts for Moses and the Ten Commandments and The Great Locomotive Chase. Some of his work was reviewed by the New York Times.

Robert Thier is the author of three listed series: Storm and Silence, Warning! Fairy Tales and Robber Knight Saga. The catalogue holds 14 books, with historical as the recorded subject, running from The Robber Knight (2014) to Storm over the Caribbean (2025). In the Eye of the Storm (2016), Silent Night (2016), The Robber Knight's Love (2016), Silence is Golden (2017) and Silence Breaking (2018) are among the others. The median book runs to 448 pages, and Thier is still publishing.

Robert Thornhill wrote two very different series. Lady Justice is a humorous mystery sequence about a retiree turned crime fighter, opening with Lady Justice Takes A. C.R.A.P. (2009) and running to Lady Justice and the Mob (2021); Rainbow Road is written for children. Together they make a catalogue of 56 books. Retirees, police work, humour and holidays recur as subjects, and the median book runs 226 pages.

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 Traver

12 books• 1 series

Robert Traver is the pen name of John Donaldson Voelker, a lawyer, author and fly fisherman from Michigan's Upper Peninsula who lived from June 29, 1903, to March 18, 1991. Voelker was born and raised in Ishpeming, studied at the University of Michigan Law School and worked as an attorney and Marquette County prosecutor. Governor G. Mennen Williams appointed Voelker to the Michigan Supreme Court in 1957. Anatomy of a Murder (1958) is the novel Traver is best known for. Other catalogued titles include Small Town D.A., Trout Madness and Trout Magic.

Robert Trivers is an American evolutionary biologist. The catalogue records 8 books published between 1985 and 2015, filed under behavioural evolution, social evolution in animals, genomic imprinting, deception and self-deception. Social Evolution (1985) opens the list, followed by Genomic Imprinting and Kinship (2001) and Natural Selection and Social Theory (2002). The Anatomy of a Fraud (2009), Deceit and Self-Deception (2011), The Folly of Fools (2011) and Wild Life (2015) close the run. One grouping sits under the name: Robert Trivers Non-Fiction.

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.

Robert W. Ross has 10 catalogued books, published between 2016 and 2022 and all credited to Ross alone. Two series are recorded: Sentinels of Creation and Paradigm 2045. A Power Renewed (2016) opens the run, followed by A Tale of Two Gardens (2017), A Burden of Chaos (2018), A Wizard's Soul (2018), A Crucible of Order (2020), Trinity's Children (2020), A Scion of Amber Light (2021), Humanity's Promise (2021) and One Heart that Beats for Two (2021). Omandi's Daemon (2022) is the last entry.

Robert W. Walker's catalogue runs to 99 books from Sub-Zero! (1979) to Under the Hair of the Dog (2025). Dr. Jessica Coran appears as a recurring character, and the Jessica Coran/Instinct series is listed alongside Abraham Stroud/Bloodscreams, Alastair Ransom, Lucas Stonecoat/Edge and Ryne Lanark/Decoy. Subjects include serial murders, medical examiners, forensic pathologists, the FBI and women sleuths. Robert Wayne Walker studied at Chicago's Wells High School and Northwestern University, including Northwestern's graduate master's programme in English education, and has taught writing from composition to advanced creative writing.

Robert Wainwright has 14 books in the catalogue, from Rose (2002) to The Fall of the House of Montagu (2025). Titles include The Lost Boy (2004), The Killing of Caroline Byrne (2009), Sheila (2014) and Miss Muriel Matters (2017). Murder, murder victims and investigation are the subjects recorded for the books. Wainwright's catalogue remains active.

Robert White is the author of the Rick Fuller and Detective Sergeant Striker series. The catalogue lists 13 books by White, dated 2013 to 2022. The first titles are Dirty and The Fix (2013), and the most recent is Tooth for a Tooth (2022). Books in between include Unrest (2014), The Fire (2016), Breaking Bones (2018), Six (2018) and The Fighter (2019).

Robert Whitlow writes Christian legal fiction set in Georgia and South Carolina. The List (2000) opens a catalogue of 24 books that includes the Tides of Truth series, the Alexia Lindale novels and Chosen People, with women lawyers and courtroom cases recurring throughout. Whitlow publishes into 2026 with Witness Protection.

Robert Wilson writes British crime thrillers across three series. Bruce Medway works in West Africa, introduced in Instruments of Darkness (1995) and continuing through The Big Killing (1996), Blood Is Dirt (1997) and A Darkening Stain (1998). Javier Falcon works in Spain, from The Blind Man of Seville (2003) through The Silent and the Damned (2005), The Hidden Assassins (2006) and The Ignorance of Blood (2009). Charles Boxer heads a third sequence. A Small Death in Lisbon (1999) and The Company of Strangers (2001) stand outside the series. Thirteen books date from 1995 to 2015, at a median 404 pages.

Roberta Leah Jacobs Gellis, September 27, 1927 to May 6, 2016, was an American writer of historical fiction, historical romance and fantasy, and held master's degrees in both biochemistry and medieval literature. Major historical romance writers have named Gellis an influence, and Gellis collaborated with Mercedes Lackey on historical fantasy. The catalogue holds 39 books from Knight's Honor (1964) to A Confusion of Sins (2020), grouped into Roselynde Chronicles, Magdalene La Batarde, Royal Dynasty and Tales of Jernaeve. Medieval Britain is among the recorded settings.

Roberta Kagan has 60 books in the catalogue, published between 2012 and 2026, and the site files the name under Historical Fiction. Series titles include A Jewish Family Saga, A Holocaust Story, Auschwitz Twins, All My Love, Detrick, Michal's Destiny, Eidel's Story, Margot's Secret and Blood Sisters. A Flicker of Light and All My Love, Detrick are among the 2012 titles, and After the Betrayal (2026) is the newest on file.

Roberta Kray writes London crime fiction, with gangsters, missing persons and kidnapping among the listed subjects. Reg Kray (2002) is the earliest entry and belongs to the non-fiction; the novels begin with The Debt (2006) and continue through The Pact, The Lost, The Villain's Daughter, Broken Home and Bad Girl. Honeytrap, Payment and the Lolly Bruce books are the named series. 29 titles are catalogued to Traitor in 2024, at a median of 456 pages.

Roberto Bolaño

23 books• 1 series

Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (28 April 1953 - 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. The Rómulo Gallegos Prize went to Bolaño in 1999 for the novel The Savage Detectives, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction followed posthumously in 2008 for 2666. This catalogue holds 23 titles in English translation, from The Third Reich (1989) to Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas (2017), among them Distant Star (1996), Nazi Literature in the Americas (1996), Last Evenings on Earth (1997) and Amulet (1999). Recorded subjects include Chilean literature and poetry, poets, authors, missing persons, and politics and government.

Roberto Tejada writes poetry and criticism. Recorded subjects include poetic works by a single author, criticism and interpretation, biography, Mexican American artists, public art, digital photography techniques, feminism and translating. Nine books are catalogued, from Mirrors for Gold (2006) to Along the Diagonal, announced for 2026, taking in Celia Alvarez Muñoz (2009), National Camera (2009), Exposition Park (2012), Full Foreground (2012), Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness (2019), Why the Assembly Disbanded (2022) and Carbonate of Copper (2025). The median recorded length is 98 pages across four measured titles.

Robertson Davies

31 books• 4 series

Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor, and the founding Master of Massey College at the University of Toronto. The fiction comes in trilogies: Salterton, opening with Tempest-Tost (1951); Deptford, opening with Fifth Business (1970) and continuing through The Manticore (1972) and World of Wonders (1975); Cornish; and Toronto. Thirty-one titles are catalogued, essays, criticism and diaries among them, ending with A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist (2015).

Robin Benway

10 books• 2 series

Robin Benway writes young adult fiction and comes from Orange County, California. Far from the Tree is the best known of the books, winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The catalogue holds 10 titles dated between 2008 and 2026, from Audrey, Wait! (2008) to Royal Spin in 2026, with the Also Known As series under the Benway name. Recorded subjects include high schools, dating, spies, friendship, families, fame, students, divorce and sisters. Other titles include The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June (2010), Emmy & Oliver (2015) and The Girls of Skylark Lane (2024).

Robin Burcell has 12 books in the catalogue, published from 1995 to 2015, and the list is likely complete. When Midnight Comes (1995) is the earliest, followed by Every Move She Makes (1999), Fatal Truth (2002), Deadly Legacy (2003), Cold Case (2004), Face of a Killer (2008), The Bone Chamber (2009), The Black List (2012), The Dark Hour (2012) and The Kill Order (2013). The Last Good Place (2015) is the newest title. Burcell series are Sydney Fitzpatrick and Kate Gillespie, and subjects include women detectives, police artists, forensic anthropologists and the FBI.

Robin Caroll was born and raised in Louisiana and writes inspirational romantic suspense. Family and heritage, instilled by a genealogist mother, are threads Caroll works into the novels. The catalogue holds 29 books from Bayou Justice (2007) to Bayou Beginnings (2024), with Bayou Corruption, Bayou Judgment and Bayou Paradox in 2008 and Bayou Betrayal and Bayou Blackmail in 2009. Samantha Sanderson and Darkwater Inn are the two series headings. Subject tags name murder, investigation, journalism, Christian life, schools and children's fiction.

Robin Cook

43 books• 4 series

Medical thrillers are Robin Cook's whole catalogue: physicians, forensic pathologists and medical examiners. Cook published The Year of the Intern in 1972 and Coma in 1977, and the run reaches 43 books with Bleed in 2026. Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery lead the longest series, and Marissa Blumenthal and Pia Grazdani head shorter ones. The 1990s were the busiest decade, at 403 pages a book.