Authors whose first name starts with S, page 8 of 10

Stephen Hawking

6 books

Stephen Hawking (8 January 1942 - 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist who directed research at Cambridge's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology and held the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics there from 1979 to 2009. Born in Oxford to a family of physicians, Hawking entered University College, Oxford at seventeen and took a first-class degree in physics. The six books catalogued here are the George stories for readers in grades 3 to 5, from George's Secret Key to the Universe (2007) to George and the Ship of Time (2018), covering cosmology, space flight and astronauts.

Stephen Hunter, born March 25, 1946, is an American novelist, essayist and film critic. The 33 catalogued books run from The Master Sniper (1980) to The Gun Man Jackson Swagger (2025). Series include the Swaggerverse and Hunter's non-fiction. Recurring characters include Bob Lee Swagger, Earl Swagger and Ray Cruz. Subjects include snipers, veterans, thrillers, espionage and World War II. Other titles include Target (1985), Point of Impact (1993) and Dirty White Boys (1994).

Stephen J. Cannell made television before he wrote novels: The Rockford Files, The A-Team, The Greatest American Hero, 21 Jump Street, Hunter, Renegade and The Commish came from his production companies between the 1970s and the 1990s, several co-created with Frank Lupo. The fiction runs to 18 catalogued books, from The Plan (1995) to Vigilante (2011), with the Shane Scully mysteries at its core and standalone novels beside them: King Con (1997), Riding The Snake (1998), The Tin Collectors (2001), The Viking Funeral (2002), Hollywood Tough (2003) and Vertical Coffin (2004) among them. Police corruption, undercover work and serial murder supply the subject matter. Cannell lived from 1941 to 2010.

Stephen King

223 books• 25 series

Horror fiction is the field most closely tied to Stephen King, an American author born on September 21, 1947, and nicknamed the "King of Horror". King's work also reaches into suspense, crime, science fiction, fantasy and mystery, and includes roughly 200 short stories, most later gathered in collections. Carrie (1974) was the debut that set King in horror; Different Seasons (1982), four novellas in one volume, marked the first major step outside it. The catalogue lists 223 books from 1971 to 2026, starting with The Blue Air Compressor, a short story, and reaching Other Worlds Than These (2026). Series on file include Holly Gibney, the Bill Hodges Trilogy, Green Mile, Shining and Talisman.

Stephen L. Carter

16 books• 2 series

Stephen L. Carter has 16 books in the catalogue, published from 1981 to 2017. Earlier titles include Reflections Of An Affirmative Action Baby (1991), The Culture of Disbelief (1993), Integrity (1996) and Civility (1999). Later titles include The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002) and New England White (2007), and Carter's series is Elm Harbor. Subjects cover politics and government, religion and politics, African American families, thrillers and murder investigations. Carter, born October 26, 1954, is an American legal scholar and the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School.

Stephen Leather

134 books• 14 series

Stephen Leather is a British thriller writer, born 25 October 1956 and published by Hodder & Stoughton. Leather has also written for television, on London's Burning, The Knock and the BBC's Murder in Mind, and ranked as the second bestselling UK author worldwide on Kindle in 2011. The catalogue holds 135 books from Pay Off (1987) to Underdogs (2026), with Broken Promises scheduled for 2027. Dan 'Spider' Shepherd carries the Spider Shepherd SAS novels, and Jack Nightingale, Mike Cramer, Lex Harper, Matt Standing and Inspector Zhang head further series. Undercover operations, terrorism and private investigators recur as subjects.

Stephen Mack Jones, born in 1954, is an American novelist, poet and playwright. August Snow is Jones's crime series, set in Detroit and named for its investigator. Four books are catalogued: August Snow (2017), Lives Laid Away (2019), Dead of Winter (2021) and Deus X (2023). Race relations, mixed heritage and property development in the city supply the subjects. Nothing further has appeared since 2023.

Legal thrillers are Stephen Penner's main line, the David Brunelle, Rain City and Talon Winter series all run on crime and courtroom suspense. Penner's catalogue also holds Professor Barrister's Dinosaur Mysteries and the Maggie Devereaux books, and its recurring subjects include legal procedure, kidnapping, goddesses, and mothers and daughters. Forty-eight titles are catalogued, opening with The Case of the Truncated Troodon (2010) and reaching False Witness (2026).

Stephen Puleston writes police procedurals, with three detectives carrying the work: Inspector Drake, Inspector Marco and Detective Inspector Caren Waits. The catalogue opens in 2013 with three titles, Brass in Pocket, Speechless and The Cardiff Stadium Murder, and place names run through the series from Cardiff Bay to Devil's Kitchen and Burry Port. Twenty-six books are catalogued, reaching The Burry Port Murders in 2026.

Stephen R. Donaldson

32 books• 8 series

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant is Stephen R. Donaldson's central work, opening with Lord Foul's Bane (1977) and continuing through the Second Chronicles and the Last Chronicles. Donaldson is an American novelist working in fantasy, science fiction and mystery. His 32 catalogued books also hold the Gap science fiction sequence, Mordant's Need, The Great God's War, and the Man Who mysteries, which feature the private investigators Mick Axbrewder and Ginny Fistoulari. The catalogue runs to The Killing God (2022) and has been dormant since.

Stephen R. Lawhead, born 1950, is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction and historical fiction, with Celtic historical fiction the strand the name is most attached to. In the Hall of the Dragon King (1982) opens the Dragon King books and a catalogue of 44 titles that reaches Aurelia (2025). The Pendragon Cycle and King Raven take up Arthurian material and knighthood; the Song of Albion, Celtic Crusades, Eirlandia, Empyrion and Bright Empires follow. Children's books, among them the Howard and Riverbank Stories, sit alongside the novels.

Pentecost and Parker is Stephen Spotswood's detective series, pairing two women investigators in 1940s New York, one of them a former circus performer and the other living with multiple sclerosis. Fortune Favours the Dead (2020) opens the run, followed by Murder Under Her Skin, Secrets Typed in Blood, Murder Crossed Her Mind and Dead in the Frame (2025). Five books make up the catalogue, at a median of 352 pages.

Stephen Taylor has 18 books in the catalogue, dated 2019 to 2026, and the site files the name under Action / Thriller. Danny Pearson and Danny Pearson Short Stories are the two series on file. Vodka Over London Ice, also titled Vodka and Jellied Eels, is the earliest title (2019), followed in 2020 by Execution of Faith, Heavy Traffic and Snipe. House Of Deception (2026) is the newest.

Alan Gregory is a clinical psychologist in Boulder, Colorado, and every one of Stephen White's 20 catalogued books is built around him. Privileged Information (1991) opens the run and Compound Fractures (2013) closes it. Forensic psychology and psychological suspense supply the plots, through Private Practices, Higher Authority, Harm's Way, Remote Control and Cold Case.

Stephenie Meyer

16 books• 5 series

Stephenie Meyer, née Morgan and born December 24, 1973, is an American novelist and film producer who wrote the Twilight vampire romance series. Twilight has sold over 160 million copies in 37 languages, and Meyer was the top-selling US author of 2008 and 2009. Meyer earned an English literature degree at Brigham Young University in 1997 and conceived Twilight in a dream. Twilight (2005), New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007) and Breaking Dawn (2008) appear in the catalogue with The Host (2008) and Midnight Sun (2020), alongside graphic novel and companion editions.

Steve Allen was an American television and radio personality, comedian, musician and writer who co-created and first hosted The Tonight Show in 1954. His books run to 37 catalogued titles, from Bop Fables (1955) and Fourteen for Tonight (1955) to Tasting The Fruit (2010), taking in the autobiography Mark it and Strike it (1961) and a Steve Allen Mystery series. Subjects cover American wit and humour, comedians, comedy and biblical interpretation. Allen died in 2000.

Meg (1997) opens Steve Alten's catalogue and the shark series his name is attached to. Alten, an American science fiction author born in 1959, builds the MEG books on the survival of the megalodon, a giant prehistoric shark. His 21 catalogued titles reach Heaven's Lake (2023) and take in The Trench (1999), Primal Waters (2004), Hell's Aquarium (2009) and the Domain Trilogy, also listed as the Mayan Trilogy. The Loch (2005) heads a separate series. Deep diving, sea monsters, archaeologists and the end of the world recur across the subjects.

Former attorney Steve Berry practised as a trial lawyer for three decades and served fourteen years in elected office. The American author was born on September 2, 1955, and lives in St. Augustine, Florida. The Amber Room (2003) and The Romanov Prophecy (2004) were his first works, and the catalogue now counts 44 books, with The Sorcerer's Veil announced and the list reaching 2027. Cotton Malone is the recurring character; other listings include Cassiopeia Vitt Adventure, Luke Daniels and standalone novels. Subjects include espionage, political thrillers, popes and booksellers.

Steve Burrows is a Canadian mystery writer and journalist, and a past winner of the Nature Writer of the Year award from BBC Wildlife. The Birder Murder Mystery series is Burrows' one sequence, running to 10 books from A Siege of Bitterns (2014) to A Murmuration of Starlings (2026); every title names a collective noun for birds. Domenic Jejeune recurs across the books, which take bird watchers, police and murder investigation as their subjects. A Siege of Bitterns took the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel in 2015.

Steve Cavanagh writes legal thrillers, and the subjects on the 17 catalogued books include criminal defense lawyers, murder trials, the Mafia, kidnapping and New York. Cavanagh's series are Eddie Flynn, a set of Eddie Flynn short stories and novellas, and standalone novels. The earliest entry is The Cross (2015), followed by The Defence (2015), The Plea (2016), The Liar (2017), Thirteen (2018), Twisted (2019) and Fifty-Fifty (2020). Two Kinds of Stranger appeared in 2025, and One of Us Is Guilty is scheduled for 2027.

Alex McKnight, a private investigator in Michigan, is the recurring lead in Steve Hamilton's crime novels. A Cold Day in Paradise (1998) opens a catalogue of 19 titles that reaches An Honorable Assassin, with The Dark Side of the Street dated 2027. Nick Mason heads a second series, and standalone novels fill out the rest. Murder, missing persons and organised crime run through the subject tags.

Steve Higgs has 178 books in the catalogue, published from 2017 onward, starting with Paranormal Nonsense (2017) and The Phantom of Barker Mill (2017). The newest is Angel Tears (2026), and Death by a Thousand Crumbs is scheduled for 2027. Higgs's series include Blue Moon Investigations, Blue Moon Investigations: Boston, Albert Smith's Culinary Capers, Patricia Fisher: Ship's Detective, Felicity Philips Investigates, Realm of False Gods and Isle of Wesberrey.

Steve Hockensmith is an American author born August 17, 1968, in Louisville, Kentucky. The catalogue holds 35 books from Tricks (2004) to Strong Medicine (2026). Series include Holmes On the Range, Nick and Tesla, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Tarot Mystery, Secret Smithsonian Adventures and the Double-A Western Detective Agency. Subjects cover mystery and detective stories, cowboys, science experiments and time travel.

Paul Madriani, a lawyer working in California, is the recurring figure in Steve Martini's legal thrillers. The Simeon Chamber (1988) opens the catalogue and Compelling Evidence (1992) starts the Madriani run, which continues through The Judge (1996), The Attorney (2000) and The Jury (2001) to Blood Flag in 2016. Eighteen books are catalogued, and nothing later than 2016 is listed.

Steve McHugh writes urban fantasy. The Hellequin Chronicles open the catalogue with Crimes Against Magic (2012), Born of Hatred (2012) and Infamous Reign (2013), and that run continues through With Silent Screams (2014), Lies Ripped Open (2015), Prison of Hope (2015), Promise of Wrath (2016) and Scorched Shadows (2017). Riftborn, the Avalon Chronicles, the Rebellion Chronicles, Assembly, Wardens and Union Empire follow, with standalone novels and short fiction alongside. Thirty-four books are catalogued through A Murder of Crows: An Urban Fantasy Thriller (2026). Magic, serial murders, criminal investigation and London recur as subjects.

Steve Mosby is a British crime writer from Leeds who also writes as Alex North. Crime novels published under the Mosby name came first, and Mosby won the Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library in 2012. The Whisper Man (2019), the first Alex North novel, was shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger in 2020, and a film version was released by Netflix in 2026. The catalogue holds 15 Mosby books from The Third Person (2003) to Dark Room (2025), including The 50/50 Killer (2007) and Black Flowers (2011).

Steve Perry writes science fiction and fantasy, and the catalogue holds 62 books from The Tularemia Gambit (1981) to Kill Switch (2026). The listing includes Conan the Fearless (1986) and Conan the Defiant (1987). Series include Matador, Cutter's Wars, Void, Venture Silk, Stellar Ranger and Medstar, plus tie-in work for Aliens Vs. Predator and Star Wars. Michael Reaves shares credit on 2 books.

Steve Robinson is the author of the Jefferson Tayte Genealogical Mystery series, and Jefferson Tayte is the character the catalogue links to Robinson. The 11 catalogued books start with In the Blood (2011) and end with Serve (2023). Subjects include genealogists, London, the Empress of Ireland steamship, shipwrecks and Quebec. The Last Queen of England (2012), The Lost Empress (2014) and The Penmaker's Wife (2019) are among the titles. Robinson's catalogue status is dormant.

Steven Becker has 65 books in the catalogue, beginning with Buzzer Beater (2013) and reaching Wood's Trigger (2026). Early titles include Wood's Ledge (2013), Wood's Reef (2013), Bonefish Blues (2014) and Tuna Tango (2014). Becker's series include Mac Travis Adventures, Kurt Hunter Mysteries, Tides of Fortune, Storm Thriller, Early Adventures of Mac and Wood, Will Service Eco Thrillers and Special Projects Group.

Steven Brust

37 books• 5 series

Steven Brust is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Hungarian descent, born on November 23, 1955. The Vlad Taltos novels, about an assassin from a disdained human minority on the world of Dragaera, are the work Brust is best known for. The catalogue holds 37 books from The Book of Jhereg (1983) to Lyorn (2024), and other series include the Khaavren Romances and the Incrementalists. The Incrementalists (2013) and the sequel The Skill of Our Hands (2017) were written with Skyler White. Outside fiction, Brust is a drummer and singer-songwriter with one solo album and two albums recorded as part of Cats Laughing.

Steven Erikson

33 books• 5 series

Steven Erikson writes epic fantasy. The Malazan Book of the Fallen, opened by Gardens of the Moon (1999), is the central sequence, and 33 catalogued books reach Legacies of Betrayal in 2026 by way of the Kharkanas Trilogy, the Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novellas and the Willful Child science fiction. Imaginary wars, magic and invented places run through the subjects.

Steven F. Havill writes police procedurals set in New Mexico. Sheriff Bill Gastner is the recurring investigator, alongside the policewoman Estelle Reyes-Guzman. Havill has 34 catalogued books published between 1981 and 2026, from The Killer (1981) to Reverse (2026), sorted into the Posadas County Mysteries, the Bill Gastner Mysteries, the Dr. Thomas Parks books and a set of standalone novels. Westerns sit in the catalogue beside the mysteries, and Havill remains actively publishing.

Steven Henry has 32 catalogued books published between 2011 and 2025, split across two series: the Erin O'Reilly Mysteries and the Clarion Chronicles. Ember of Dreams (2011) opens the catalogue. A long run of drink-named titles follows, among them Black Velvet (2017), Double Scotch (2018), Irish Car Bomb (2018) and White Russian (2018), and the list reaches Last Round (2025). Henry remains actively publishing.

Steven James, born in 1969, writes psychological suspense alongside Christian education material. The Bowers Files, an eleven-book thriller sequence built around the criminologist Patrick Bowers, has taken four Christy Awards. The catalogue holds 57 books from Worship Sketches 2 Perform (2000) to Portal (2025), and subject tags span criminologists, suspense, Bible stories, American Christian drama and the teaching of storytelling in Christian ministry. Synapse, a standalone science fiction thriller, arrived on 8 October 2019 with starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. Other headings include the Blur Trilogy, the Rift Trilogy, the Jevin Banks Experience and Travis Brock.

Steven Konkoly writes thrillers and post-collapse science fiction. The Jakarta Pandemic (2010) opens the catalogue, and the Black Flagged, Perseid Collapse, Ryan Decker, Devin Gray, Fractured State and Zulu Virus Chronicles series follow, along with a Practical Prepping non-fiction strand. Epidemics, influenza and New England appear among the subjects. Thirty-five books are catalogued, and A True Kill is the most recent.

The Witches of Scotland accounts for the whole of Steven P Aitchison's catalogue: eight numbered fantasy books published between 2022 and 2024. Books 1, 2 and 3 appeared in 2022, Books 4 through 7 in 2023, and Book 8 in 2024. Each runs to roughly 184 pages, and the numbering gives the reading order directly. Aitchison's series is listed as ongoing.

Steven Pressfield

23 books

Steven Pressfield writes historical fiction and nonfiction. The catalogue opens with The Legend of Bagger Vance (1995), a novel about golfers, and runs to 23 books through 2026. The fiction takes in the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, the Second World War and military history generally, across titles such as Gates of Fire (1998), The Virtues of War (2004) and Killing Rommel (2008). The nonfiction turns to creative work and the resistance that blocks it, in The War of Art (2002) and Do the Work (2011).

Steven Rinella is an American writer, outdoorsman, conservationist and television personality whose subject is hunting and fishing. 16 books are catalogued, from The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine (2006) to The Alaskans (2026). American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon (2008) and Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter (2012) sit between them. Two series run under Rinella's name: MeatEater's American History and the Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game. The run is ongoing.

Lily and the Octopus (2016) opened Steven Rowley's catalogue, and The Guncle (2021) and The Celebrants (2023) are the other titles he is known for. Rowley is an American novelist writing humorous fiction about gay men and dog owners. Seven books are catalogued through 2026, including The Editor (2019), The Dogs of Venice (2020), The Guncle Abroad (2024) and Take Me with You (2026), at a median 320 pages. The Guncle is his only series.

Steven Saylor

25 books• 7 series

Gordianus the Finder investigates murders in Rome across Steven Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series. Roman Blood (1991) opens the run, followed by Arms of Nemesis (1992), Catilina's Riddle (1993), The Venus Throw (1995), A Murder on the Appian Way (1996) and Rubicon (1999). Saylor also wrote the Ancient World novels, the last of them Dominus in 2021. Twenty-five titles are catalogued, at 320 pages on median.

22 catalogued books stand under Stewart O'Nan's name, opening with In the Walled City (1993) and reaching Evensong (2025). O'Nan is an American novelist, born in 1961, whose subjects are family life, marriage, widowhood and American history across the 20th century, the Second World War included. Settings run to New York State and Connecticut. The Emily Maxwell novels form the one continuing sequence in the catalogue.

Stieg Larsson (Karl Stig-Erland Larsson, 15 August 1954 to 9 November 2004) was a Swedish journalist, writer and far-left activist. Larsson wrote the first trilogy of the Millennium crime novels, published from 2005 onward after Larsson died of a sudden heart attack. The catalogue opens with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005), The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006) and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2007). Sweden filmed the trilogy as three motion pictures, and the United States filmed the first. The publisher later commissioned David Lagercrantz and then Karin Smirnoff to continue the series. The Expo Files (2011) collects Larsson's journalism.

Stig Abell is an English journalist and radio presenter who edited The Times Literary Supplement from 2016 to 2020 and was managing editor of The Sun from 2013 to 2016. Abell's six catalogued books fall into two halves: nonfiction on British politics, economics, the health service and the press, starting with How Britain Really Works (2018), and the Jake Jackson novels, which begin with Death Under a Little Sky (2023). A Twist in the River follows in 2026.

Stuart Gibbs

46 books• 10 series

Stuart Gibbs writes mystery and adventure fiction for readers in grades six to eight. Belly Up (2010) opens the FunJungle series, set around a zoo, and Spy School, Moon Base Alpha, Charlie Thorne, The Last Musketeer and Once Upon a Tim follow. Forty-two catalogued books reach 2027, when There's No Place like Rome arrives.

Stuart M. Kaminsky (29 September 1934 to 9 October 2009) was an American mystery novelist who also taught film. Four mystery series carry the name: Toby Peters, a private eye in 1940s Hollywood; Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, a Moscow police inspector; Abe Lieberman, a Chicago police officer; and Lew Fonesca, a process server in Sarasota, Florida. A Cold Red Sunrise, a Rostnikov novel, won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1989. The catalogue holds 85 books from 1974 to 2011, and its earliest entries are American Film Genres (1974) and Don Siegel: Director (1974).

Stuart MacBride

32 books• 8 series

Scottish police procedurals are Stuart MacBride's main line, with Logan McRae as the recurring detective. Cold Granite (2005) opens a catalogue of 32 titles that reaches Blood, Rust, and Steel (2026), with Ash Henderson and Roberta Steel heading further series and standalone novels beside them. Serial murder, crime and investigation fill the subject tags.

Stuart Neville

11 books• 3 series

Stuart Neville writes crime fiction set in Northern Ireland, catalogued under political violence, paramilitary forces and revenge. His 11 books open with The Twelve, issued in the United States as The Ghosts of Belfast (2009), and continue through Collusion (2010), Stolen Souls (2011) and Ratlines (2013). Jack Lennon is a recurring character, and the DCI Serena Flanagan novels form a second sequence. Blood Like Ours (2025) is the most recent title.

Stuart Palmer (1905–1968) was an American mystery novelist and screenwriter who created Hildegarde Withers, a schoolteacher who investigates murders in New York. The Penguin Pool Murder (1931) opens that series, with Murder on the Blackboard (1932), The Puzzle of the Silver Persian (1934), The Puzzle of the Red Stallion (1936) and Miss Withers Regrets (1947) after it. Palmer also wrote the Howie Rook mysteries and published as Theodore Orchards and Jay Stewart. Twenty-one books are catalogued, at a median length of 185 pages.

Stuart Pawson worked as a mining engineer and then for the probation service before writing full time, and that grounding in the justice system shaped the Detective Charlie Priest Mysteries. Yorkshire and a dry humour run through the books, which take in fraud, drug trafficking and murder investigation. The Picasso Scam (1995) opens 13 catalogued titles, ending at A Very Private Murder (2010). Pawson was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library Award in 2004 and belonged to the writers' group The Murder Squad.

Three novels make up Stuart Turton's catalogue. Turton is an English author and journalist, born in 1980. The first appeared in 2018 as The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, also published as The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, and took the Costa Book Award for First Novel that year. The Devil and the Dark Water followed in 2020, and The Last Murder at the End of the World (2024) reached number one on the Sunday Times list. Historical mystery, ocean travel, prisoners and the occult run through the subject headings. Turton's books have sold more than a million copies across the United States and United Kingdom.

Stuart Woods

104 books• 9 series

Crime and detective thrillers make up Stuart Woods's catalogue of 104 titles, running from Blue Water, Green Skipper (1977) to Finders Keepers (2025). The Barrington Universe, built around the recurring character Stone Barrington, is the largest strand; Teddy Fay, Ed Eagle and Rick Barron head further series, with standalone novels and non-fiction beside them. Private investigators, police and New York settings recur through the subject tags.

Stuart Woods and Brett Battles is the joint credit on a run of mystery novels catalogued at 60 books between 1991 and 2022. New York Dead (1991) opens it and Black Dog (2022) closes it, with Dirt (1996), Dead in the Water (1997), Swimming to Catalina (1998), Worst Fears Realized (1999), L.A. Dead (2000), Cold Paradise (2001), The Short Forever (2002), Dirty Work (2003) and Reckless Abandon (2004) among them. No new title has been catalogued under the pairing since 2022.

Sue Ann Jaffarian writes mysteries with amateur women sleuths. Odelia Grey, a legal assistant, heads one series, and the Ghost of Granny Apples Mysteries, the Madison Rose Vampire Mysteries, Dead Woman Driving, Holidays from Hell, Winnie Wilde Romance and Zelda Bowen follow. The catalogue holds 46 books published between 2001 and 2022, from Too Big to Miss (2001) to The Ghost of Christmas Granny (2022). Ghosts, vampires, overweight women and California appear in the subject headings. Nothing new has appeared since 2022.

Sue Grafton

33 books• 4 series

Sue Grafton is known for the alphabet mysteries, a California series starring the private investigator Kinsey Millhone that runs from A is for Alibi (1982) to Y is for Yesterday (2017). Grafton's catalogue holds 33 books in total, beginning with the novel Keziah Dane in 1967 and taking in standalones and non-fiction. The catalogue is listed as complete.

Alaska is the setting for Sue Henry's mysteries, which pair the sled-dog musher Jessie Arnold with the investigator Alex Jensen. Murder on the Iditarod Trail (1991) opens the catalogue, followed by Termination Dust (1995), Sleeping Lady (1996), Murder on the Yukon Quest (1999) and Dead North (2001); the Maxie and Stretch books form a second series. Sixteen titles are catalogued and the list is likely complete.

Sue Lynn Tan

6 books• 2 series

Sue Lynn Tan is a Malaysia-born writer based in Hong Kong. The Celestial Kingdom series opens the catalogue with Daughter of the Moon Goddess (2022), followed by Heart of the Sun Warrior (2022), Tales of the Celestial Kingdom (2024) and Immortal (2025). Never Ever After (2025) and For Ever More (2026) form a second series. Six books in all draw on epic fantasy, mythology, legend and fairy tale.

Sue Miller, born 29 November 1943, is an American novelist and short story writer and a graduate of Radcliffe College. Miller's books include The Good Mother (1986), Inventing the Abbotts (1987), Family Pictures (1990), While I Was Gone (1999), Lost in the Forest (2005) and Monogamy (2020). The catalogue subjects list domestic fiction, psychological fiction, married people, aging parents and divorced women.

Sue Minix writes the Bookstore Mystery series, cozy crime built around a small-town bookshop. Eight titles are catalogued, opening in 2023 with A Chapter on Murder, Murder at the Bookstore and The Murderous Type, followed by A Cover for Murder (2024), A Murderous Plot (2024) and Sentenced to Murder (2024). A Christmas Bookstore Murder is the newest title, and the series is ongoing.

Sue Monk Kidd

17 books• 1 series

Sue Monk Kidd, born August 12, 1948, is an American writer from Sylvester, Georgia. Kidd's historical novels include The Secret Life of Bees (2001) and The Book of Longings, and race, feminism and religion recur as themes. Subjects on the list also cover spiritual life and Christian life, and the earliest catalogued title is God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved (1987). The Dance of the Dissident Daughter (1996) is subtitled A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine. The Mermaid Chair appeared in 2004, and the newest listed title is Writing Creativity and Soul (2025).

Romantic comedy and holiday settings define Sue Moorcroft's fiction. Four series divide the 36 books: Middledip, Sky Sisters, Italian Legacy and a summer romance collection. Families, vacations and France recur, and several titles carry two names, as with Love & Freedom, also published as No Strings Attached. A Home in the Sun opened the catalogue in 2005, and Secrets of a Winter Escape arrives in 2026.