Authors whose first name starts with V

V.C. Andrews was the name used by Cleo Virginia Andrews (June 6, 1923 to December 19, 1986), an American novelist best known for Flowers in the Attic (1979). That novel led to four sequels and two film adaptations. The publisher never classed the books as Young Adult, yet their young protagonists have drawn teenage readers for decades. After Andrews died in 1986, a ghostwriter first hired to finish two incomplete manuscripts went on publishing new books under the V.C. Andrews name. The catalogue carries 108 books under that name from 1979 to 2025, across series such as Dollanganger, Casteel, Cutler, Landry, Logan and De Beers.

V.E. Schwab

49 books• 11 series

V.E. Schwab, born Victoria Elizabeth Schwab on July 7, 1987, is an American writer. Schwab is known for the 2013 novel Vicious, the Shades of Magic series and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, a nominee for the 2020 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Children's and young adult books appear under the name Victoria Schwab. The catalogue runs to 49 books from The Near Witch (2011) to Victorious (2026), with series including Archived, Monsters of Verity and Cassidy Blake. Schwab also created First Kill, a supernatural teen drama adapted from a short story in the 2020 anthology Vampires Never Get Old.

V.H. Nicolson writes contemporary romance across four series: the Billionaire Hart Brothers, the Boys of Castleview Cove, the Elite Eagles and Elite Eagles Legacy. Several titles pair a single first name with an adjective, Hunting Eden (2021), Inevitable Ella (2021), Unexpected Eva (2022), while others carry only a name, Jacob, Lincoln, Owen. Sixteen books reach Breaking His Code (2026).

Vaclav Smil

44 books• 2 series

Vaclav Smil, born December 9, 1943, is a Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst and Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Environment in Winnipeg. Smil studies energy, environment, food, population, economics, history and public policy, and applies that work to China. The 44 books in the catalogue start with Energy In The Developing World: The Real Energy Crisis (1980) and include The Bad Earth (1984) and Energy In World History (1994). How to Feed the World (2025) is the newest.

Val McDermid

55 books• 13 series

Val McDermid, born 4 June 1955, is a Scottish crime writer whose work falls under the Tartan Noir label and is noted for unflinching violence. The catalogue runs to 55 books, from Report For Murder (1987) to Winter: The Story of a Season (2026). McDermid's best-known novels follow clinical psychologist Tony Hill and his colleagues in the police, a sequence televised as Wire in the Blood from 2002 to 2008. Inspector Karen Pirie, Lindsay Gordon and Kate Brannigan are the other named series. Awards on record include the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger and the Cartier Diamond Dagger.

Valerie Bodden has five catalogued books, published between 2022 and 2024: Not Until Then (2022), Christmas of Joy (2023), Memories of the Heart (2023), Trusting His Promise (2024) and Whispers of Truth (2024). Bodden is listed as actively publishing.

Regency romance is Valerie Bowman's genre. 40 books are catalogued from Secrets of a Wedding Night (2012) to The Wallflower Takes All (2026), organised into the Secret Brides, Playful Brides, Footmen's Club, Whitmorelands, Wallflowers' Revolt, Austen Hunks and Love's a Game sequences, with the Honeycrisp Orchard romances alongside them. Nobility, widows, courtship and the marriage market of aristocratic Britain are the standing material. Bowman continues to publish.

Valerie Burns writes the Bailey the Bloodhound Mysteries, cozy crime with an amateur woman sleuth and an animal in the cast. Baking runs through the titles: Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder (2022), Murder is a Piece of Cake (2023), A Cup of Flour, A Pinch of Death (2024), Icing on the Murder (2025) and Murder at First Slice (2026). Six books are catalogued so far.

Valerie Keogh has 36 books catalogued from 2014 to 2026, opening with Deadly Sleep (2014) and reaching The Last Holiday (2026). Two series are named: Dublin Murder Mystery / Garda West and Hudson and Connolly. Several early Keogh titles carry two names in the listing, such as No Obvious Cause / Close Ranks and No Memory Lost / Death in Foxrock, and Secrets Between Us dates from 2018.

Valerie M. Bodden's 20 catalogued books date from 2019 to 2026. Titles published in 2019 include Not Until Forever, Not Until You and Not Until Christmas Morning, and Not Until Then followed in 2022. The series listed for Bodden are River Falls and Trinity Bay. Pieces of Forever dates from 2021, and Love That Redeems (2026) is the newest title.

Valerie Wilson Wesley writes mysteries, adult novels and children's books, and was an executive editor of Essence magazine. Tamara Hayle, a woman private investigator in New Jersey, heads one series; Odessa Jones and Harriet Stone head two more, and Willimena Rules! and the Book Of Black Heroes are for younger readers. The catalogue holds 28 books published between 1991 and 2025, from Great Women in the Struggle (1991) to The Mysterious Death of Junetta Plum (2025). African American women, schools and sisters run through the subject headings.

Valerie Wolzien wrote suburban cozy mysteries. Murder at the PTA Luncheon (1988) opens 23 catalogued books ending with Death in Duplicate (2005). Susan Henshaw, a housewife, heads the first series, and Josie Pigeon, who works in construction, the second. Holidays supply many of the titles, We Wish You a Merry Murder (1991), All Hallows' Evil (1992), A Star-Spangled Murder (1993) and 'Tis the Season to Be Murdered (1994) among them, with seaside resorts and suburban life as settings.

Regency romance makes up most of Vanessa Kelly's work, organised into the Renegade Royals, Improper Princesses and Clan Kendrick series, while the Emma Knightley Mystery books turn to historical crime. Illegitimate royal children, Scottish families and the aristocracy recur as material. Kelly's 26 catalogued books open with Mastering the Marquess (2009) and reach Murder at Donwell Abbey in 2025.

Vanessa Lillie writes suspense. Four books are catalogued between 2019 and 2025, Little Voices (2019), For the Best (2020), Blood Sisters (2023) and The Bone Thief (2025), with Syd Walker the series listed against the work. New motherhood, friendship, hallucination and homicide investigation are the recurring subjects, and Providence, Rhode Island, is one stated setting. Roughly two years separate one Lillie book from the next.

Vanessa Nelson has 29 catalogued books, published between 2018 and 2026 across five series: Hundred, Ageless Mysteries, Fractured Conclave, Taellaneth and Grey Gates. The run opens on a cluster of 2018 titles, Betrayed, Concealed, Revealed and Tainted, and continues through The Gathering (2019), The Sundering (2019), The Reckoning (2020) and The Rending (2020). A Fractured Conclave (2026) is the newest, and Nelson is still publishing.

Madeline's Protector (2013) is the first of 31 catalogued books by Vanessa Riley, an American novelist of Caribbean heritage working in historical fiction, romance and mystery. The newest title is Fire Sword and Sea (2026), and Unmasked Heart (2015) is among the early books. Series include A Port Elizabeth Regency Tale, Advertisements for Love, London Regency Romance Suspense Tales, Lady Worthington Mysteries, Rogues and Remarkable Women and Betting Against the Duke. Regency romance, abolitionists, racially mixed people and historical murder mysteries appear in the subjects.

Vanessa Vale is a USA Today bestselling romance author based in the American West, with more than one million copies sold. The catalogue counts 105 books from Claiming Catherine (2014) to Brazen (2026). Bridgewater Ménage, Bridgewater County, Steele Ranch, Wolf Ranch, Lenox Ranch Cowboys, Grade-A Beefcakes and Wild Mountain Men are among the series, and western romance, small town romance and erotica appear in the subject tags.

Amish settings run through Vannetta Chapman's catalogue: the recorded subjects name the Amish, Amish and Mennonite life, clergy, Christian romance, Christian suspense and mystery and detective fiction. 69 books are listed, from A Simple Amish Christmas (2010) to The Reimagined Life of Jade Morrow (2026). Indiana Amish Brides, Pebble Creek Amish, Shipshewana Amish Mystery, Amish Village Mystery and the Amish Bishop Mysteries are among the series under the Chapman name, and Chapman is still publishing.

Vaseem Khan

17 books• 3 series

India is the setting for Vaseem Khan's crime fiction. The Baby Ganesh Agency books put an ex-police officer and an elephant to private investigation, starting at The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra (2015), and the Malabar House novels begin at Midnight at Malabar House (2020). Jewel theft, murder and police procedure supply the cases. Eighteen catalogued titles reach The Edge of Darkness, and The Last Shot is scheduled for 2027.

Vaughn Heppner is catalogued under science fiction, with space opera, space warfare, human-alien encounters and interplanetary voyages among the recorded subjects. The catalogue holds 122 books from Giants (2001) to The Lost Maddox (2026), including a run of 2010 titles among them Battle Pod, Bio-Weapon, Dark Crusade, Eden, Gog and Leviathan. Series include the Lost Starship, the Lost Civilization, the Invaders, the Doom Star books, Extinction Wars, the Ark Chronicles, Gravity Wars and Starhunter. All 122 books are credited to Heppner alone.

Venezia Miller writes mystery. Seven books have appeared since 2020: The Find (2020), Evil Beneath The Skin (2021), Retribution (2022), The Storm (2023), Darkened Heart and The Vanishing, both 2024, and When Shadows Return (2025). The catalogue is ongoing.

Lady Eleanor Swift is the amateur detective behind almost all of Verity Bright's work, in a mystery series where every title names a murder, a death or the English social occasion it interrupts. A Very English Murder (2020) opens the run, followed by Death at the Dance, Murder in the Snow and A Lesson in Murder. Twenty-seven books had appeared by 2026, reaching Murder at the Winter Fair, at a median of 286 pages.

Vernor Vinge

18 books• 3 series

Vernor Vinge, who lived from 1944 to 2024, was an American science fiction author and a professor of mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University. Vinge popularised the technological singularity more widely than anyone before him and was among the first writers to put a fictional cyberspace on the page. Hugo Awards followed for the novels A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999) and Rainbows End (2006), and for two novellas. Eighteen titles are catalogued, starting with Tatja Grimm's World (1969).

Veronica Black is a pseudonym used by Maureen Peters, a writer of historical novels. The Veronica Black catalogue holds 27 books from Portrait of Sarah (1969) to Vow Of Evil (2004). Sister Joan Mystery is the listed series, and nuns, the character Sister Joan, Cornwall, women sleuths and romance all appear among the subjects. Earlier titles include A Footfall in the Mist (1971), Moonflete (1972) and Master of Malcarew (1973).

Veronica Douglas published 7 books between 2021 and 2023, from Wolf Marked (2021) to Forsaken Fate (2023). Two series divide them: Magic Side: Wolf Bound and Ruthless Gods: Wolf God. Wolves, magic and fate recur through the titles, among them Dark Lies (2022), Shadow Kissed (2022) and Hunter's Kiss (2023). No book has been added since 2023.

Dark romance heads the catalogue subjects for Veronica Eden, alongside mafia, bully, arranged marriage, reverse harem, paranormal and college themes. The 18 books appeared between 2019 and 2025, starting with Unmasked Heart (2019) and reaching Say It Isn't Snow (2025). Crowned Crows, Heston U Hotshots and Rejecting Fates are the series credited to Eden. Ruthless Bishop (2020), Savage Wilder (2021) and Hell Gate (2022) are among the other titles.

Veronica Heley writes British mystery fiction with women sleuths at the centre. Ellie Quicke, a widow turned investigator, and Bea Abbot of the Abbot Agency head the two longest series, both set around London. Heley also writes the Sam & Co School Adventures and Kate Overcomes books. Eighty titles span 1974 to 2026, beginning with the alliterative early run of Sue for Mercy, Scream for Sarah, Cry for Kit and Fear for Frances, and reaching False Relation (2026).

Veronica Henry is a British novelist, television script writer and journalist, born in 1963. Her 29 catalogued books run from Honeycote (2002), also published as A Country Christmas, to A Honeymoon in Venice (2026), and have sold over 2.5 million copies in 25 languages and 30 territories. A Night on the Orient Express took the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association in 2014. Two series are catalogued, Honeycote and Beach Hut, and English village communities, seaside resorts, breweries and the Cotswolds supply the settings.

Veronica Lancet has 26 catalogued books, published since 2020 and running to a 2027 release. Morally Corrupt (2020) opens the Morally Questionable series, joined by the War of Sins saga, the Catharsis Trilogy, the Morally Ambiguous Duet, House of Cryos, Eternal Cycles of Love and Wishing Game. Several titles carry alternative names in more than one language. Velakor (2026) is the newest, and The Birth of a Villainess is scheduled for 2027.

Veronica Roth

27 books• 12 series

Divergent (2011) opens the catalogue of Veronica Roth, an American novelist and short story writer born August 19, 1988. Sales of the Divergent trilogy exceed 35 million copies worldwide. Insurgent (2012), Allegiant (2013) and Four (2014) follow early in the list, which counts 28 titles through Seek the Traitor's Son (2026). Carve the Mark, Curse Bearer and Sixth Faction are the other named series. Dystopias, courage, identity and social classes appear among the subject headings.

Vi Keeland is an American romance author associated with the Montlake Romance imprint. Fourteen Keeland novels have reached the New York Times bestseller list, and Bossman went to #1 on both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal lists. Passionflix turned three short stories, Dry Spell, The Merry Mistake and Scrooged, into films, and TaleFlick holds a film option on the novel Egomaniac. The catalogue holds 57 books, from Belong to You (2013) to Smash (2026). Series include MMA Fighter, Life On Stage, Law of Opposites Attract, Cole, Rush Duet and Grumpy Sunshine, and subjects include contemporary romance, workplace relationships and women in real estate.

Vicki Beeby writes Second World War sagas about women in the British services. Ten books are catalogued between 2020 and 2026, opening with The Ops Room Girls and Christmas with the Ops Room Girls, both 2020, and reaching Courage for the Flying Nightingales (2026). Four series are catalogued: the Women's Auxiliary Air Force books, the Wrens, Bomber Command Girls and the Flying Nightingales. A New Start for the Wrens (2022), The Girls of Bomber Command (2023) and A Wedding for the Bomber Girls (2024) sit between.

Vicki Delany, born Victoria Ann Cargo in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1951, is a Canadian mystery novelist with nine mystery series. Delany belongs to Crime Writers of Canada and Capital Crime Writers and appears on panels at Bouchercon, Malice Domestic and Bloody Words. The catalogue lists 58 books, from Whiteout (2000) to Whose Body in the Library (2026). Series include Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery, Year-Round Christmas Mysteries, Constable Molly Smith, Tea By The Sea Mysteries, Klondike Mysteries and Catskill Summer Resort Mysteries.

Vicki Lewis Thompson, born 11 October 1950, is an American romance novelist who has also published as Cory Kenyon and, with Mary Tate Engels, as Corey Keaton. The catalogue holds 174 books from Mingled Hearts (1984) to When a Cowboy Falls Hard (2026), including Promise Me Sunshine (1984), When Angels Dance (1985) and The Fix-It Man (1986). Sons of Chance, McGavin Brothers, NERDS, Rowdy Ranch, Thunder Mountain Brotherhood, Buckskin Brotherhood, Wild About You and Hex are among the series. Cowboys, westerns, Harlequin Blaze, paranormal romance and werewolves appear in the subjects.

Victor Davis Hanson

30 books• 3 series

Military history and classical Greece run through the 30 catalogued books of Victor Davis Hanson, an American classicist, military historian and conservative political commentator born September 5, 1953. The Western Way of War (1989) comes first, followed by Hoplites (1991), The Other Greeks (1995), Fields Without Dreams (1996), Who Killed Homer (1998) and Carnage and Culture (2001); The Counterrevolution (2026) is the newest. Hanson is professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a visiting professor at Hillsdale College. Hanson received the National Humanities Medal in 2007, and agriculture and family farms also appear among the subjects.

Legal thrillers set largely in Utah are Victor Methos's main work - murder trials, personal injury law and the pharmaceutical industry. Methos started in 2011 with a run of short standalone titles including The Extinct and Savage, then built the Jon Stanton Thrillers, Desert Plains, Shepard & Gray, Baudin & Dixon and Vegas Shadows series. Fifty-eight books are catalogued, reaching The Bone Stalker in 2026.

Victoria Alexander, born 1953, is an American author of historical romance. Romantic Times nominated Alexander four times for its Reviewers' Choice Award, with a win for A Visit From Sir Nicholas, and gave Alexander a Career Achievement Award. Avon released Lady Amelia's Secret Lover as an e-book original on September 4, 2007. The catalogue holds 45 books, from Yesterday and Forever (1995) through The Perfect Wife (1996), The Wedding Bargain (1999) and The Husband List (2000). Series include Effingtons, Lady Travelers Society, Millworth Manor and Sinful Family Secrets.

Victoria Ashley is credited on 22 books from 2013 to 2023, and erotica is the subject on record. Wake Up Call (2013) is the earliest title, followed by Hemy, Slade and This Regret in 2014. Victoria Ashley's series are Walk of Shame, Walk Of Shame 2nd Generation, Pain, Savage & Ink, Alphachat.com and Club Reckless. Borrowed (2023) is the most recent book.

Victoria Aveline writes science fiction romance, all of it recorded under the Clecanian series. Nine books are catalogued, each pairing a gerund with a name: Choosing Theo and Freeing Luka (2020), Saving Verakko and Tempting Auzed (2021), Resisting Maxu and Using Fejo (2022), Releasing Maladek and Ruling Sikthand (2023), then Bewitching Rhaego (2025). The catalogue is open.

Victoria Aveyard

15 books• 3 series

Victoria Aveyard writes young adult fantasy about power, blood and resistance to government. Red Queen (2015) opens a catalogue of 15 titles, joined the same year by the novella Queen Song, then Glass Sword (2016), Steel Scars (2016), the collection Cruel Crown (2016) and King's Cage (2017). Realm Breaker and Lyrian Sea form later series. Tempest is the newest title, and Aveyard remains actively publishing.

Victoria Christopher Murray

34 books• 4 series

Victoria Christopher Murray is an American novelist and editor whose fiction follows African American women through marriage, friendship and faith. Temptation (1997) opens a catalogue of 34 books reaching Harlem Rhapsody (2025), and includes the Jasmine and the Jasmine and Rachel series. Gospel music, Christian women and family life recur across the titles. More than one million copies of Murray's books are in print.

Victoria Dowd has nine catalogued books published between 2016 and 2026, across the Smart Woman's Mystery series and the Charlotte Blood Chronicles. The Painter of Siena (2016) comes first, and The Smart Woman's Guide to Murder followed in 2020, ahead of Body on the Island (2021), The Supper Club Murders (2021), A Book of Murder (2022) and Murder Most Cold (2023). Miss Scarlet and the Duke (2026) is the newest, at a median of 420 pages.

Librarians and murder investigation sit at the core of Victoria Gilbert's Blue Ridge Library Mysteries, set in Virginia. Nineteen titles are catalogued from Crown of Ice (2014) to Death on the Books (2026), with the Booklovers B&B Mysteries, Hunter and Clewe, Campus Sleuth Mysteries and the Mirror of Immortality series beside the library books. Town life and painters also appear in the subject tags.

Victoria Hamilton writes cozy mysteries around collectors, bakers and old houses. Lady Anne and the Howl in the Dark (2009) opens the catalogue, A Deadly Grind (2012) begins the Vintage Kitchen Mysteries, and Bran New Death starts the Merry Muffin books. Puns carry the titles: Bowled Over, Freezer I'll Shoot, Muffin But Murder and No Mallets Intended. Twenty-eight titles run to Masher of Ceremonies in 2026.

Victoria Hislop

11 books• 1 series

Victoria Hislop, born Hamson in 1959, is an English author. Greece supplies the setting for most of the fiction, which begins with The Island (2005) and continues through The Return (2008), The Thread (2011), The Sunrise (2014), Cartes Postales from Greece (2017), Those Who Are Loved (2019) and One August Night (2020). Family life, history and interpersonal relations are the recurring subjects. Two earlier titles, Sink or Swim (2001) and Fix Your Life - Now! (2002), are nonfiction and self-improvement. Eleven books are catalogued to 2023, at a median 390 pages.

Victoria Holt's catalogue runs to 185 books published between 1940 and 1995, covering historical fiction, historical romance and mystery. Daughter of Anna (1940) is the earliest title, and Daughters of England (1995) the latest. The listing gathers several credits under other names, including titles marked as Jean Plaidy. Series include Tudor Saga, Plantagenet Saga, Georgian Saga, Stuart Saga, Norman Trilogy, Queen Victoria and Lucrezia Borgia. Kings, queens, England and France are frequent subjects.

Fly fishing and murder meet in Victoria Houston's Loon Lake mysteries, set in Wisconsin around the police officer Lew Ferris and Doc Osbourne. Dead Angler (2000) opens that series, followed by Dead Creek and Dead Water. Houston's catalogue holds 30 books, the earliest of them non-fiction from the 1980s, and reaches The Wolves Are Watching in 2026.

Victoria Laurie writes mysteries with psychic leads. Abby Cooper opens the Psychic Eye Mysteries with Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye (2004), and M.J. Holliday heads the Ghost Hunter Mysteries. The Life Coach Mysteries, the Magical Trinket Mysteries, Maddie Fynn and the Oracles of Delphi Keep complete the series work. Forty-five catalogued books reach A Future To Remember (2026). Women detectives and missing persons recur as subjects.

Victoria Quinn's catalogue holds 28 books, all published between 2017 and 2021. Two title groups dominate it: the Black books - Black Obsidian, Black Diamond, Black Forever and Black Promise, all 2017 - and the Boss books of 2018, among them Boss Alpha, Boss Empire, Boss Games, Boss Lady, Boss Love and Boss Man. Soulless / Hamilton and Cherry are the named series. The Girl Who Always Wins, also published as Try Me (2021), closes the list, and nothing has followed. The median book runs 254 pages.

Victoria Schwab is the name under which American writer Victoria Elizabeth Schwab, born 7 July 1987, publishes children's and young adult fiction. Schwab's work includes the 2013 novel Vicious, the Shades of Magic series and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, a nominee for the 2020 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Schwab also created First Kill, a supernatural teen drama adapted from a short story in the 2020 anthology Vampires Never Get Old. This listing holds 4 titles: Broken Ground (2015) and three short stories dated 2020, 2021 and 2023. Subjects include fantasy, shapeshifting and good and evil.

Victoria Tait writes five mystery series: Dotty Sayers Antique Mystery, Cotswold Antique Mystery, Kenya Kanga Mystery, Waterwheel Cafe Mystery and Treasured Journey Mystery. Tait's 37 catalogued books start with Fowl Murder (2020) and reach A Christmas of Chaos (2026), with Bidding and Blackmail in Barcelona scheduled for 2027.

Victoria Thompson's Gaslight Mysteries pair the midwife Sarah Brandt with the police detective Frank Malloy in historical murder investigations. Thompson's full catalogue holds 56 books, opening with Texas Treasure (1985), one of several early Texas titles, and reaching City of Promises (2026). The Counterfeit Lady series, the Tates of Texas, the Hired Gunslinger books and two further historical lines complete the list.

Victoria Walters writes contemporary romance and cozy mystery. The Glendale Hall novels began in 2019 with Coming Home to Glendale Hall, the Dedley End Mysteries opened with Murder At The House On The Hill in 2021, and Birch Tree Farm makes a third series. Cornwall and cafes recur as settings across 19 catalogued titles, which run from Dancing in the Fire in 2015 to Hope and Hot Chocolate on Mistletoe Lane in 2026. The Flower Shop is scheduled for 2027.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

10 books• 1 series

Viet Thanh Nguyen is a South Vietnamese-born American novelist and professor, born in 1971, who holds the Aerol Arnold Chair of English at the University of Southern California and teaches English, American Studies and Ethnicity there. The Sympathizer (2015), his debut novel, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and Sympathizer is the one recorded series. Ten books are catalogued from Race and Resistance (2002) to To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other (2025), including Nothing Ever Dies (2016), The Refugees (2017), The Committed (2020), A Man of Two Faces (2023) and Simone (2024). The Vietnam War, refugees, Asian American writing and race in literature fill the subject index. Nguyen holds a MacArthur Fellowship and a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship, and writes an opinion column for The New York Times.

Vin Strong writes action thrillers, and the titles come in two matched sets. The Lone books arrived first, all dated 2024: Lone Survivor, Lone Command, Lone Descent, Lone Strike, Lone Target and Lone Wolf. The Shadow books sit beside them, Shadow Game, Shadow Mission and Shadow Target. Twelve titles are catalogued across 2024 and 2025, with Lone Horizon the newest, and the catalogue is open.

Vince Flynn

26 books• 2 series

Vince Flynn, an American political thriller novelist born April 6, 1966, built a series around Mitch Rapp, a fictional assassin. The catalogue opens with Term Limits (1997), followed by Transfer of Power (1999), The Third Option (2000), Separation of Power (2001) and Executive Power (2003). Terrorism, intelligence officers, presidents and Washington, D.C. are among the recorded subjects. Flynn also worked as a story consultant on the fifth season of the television series 24, and died of prostate cancer on June 19, 2013. The listing carries titles dated well after that year, up to Double Tap (2026).

Vince Milam writes action thrillers. The Case Lee novels name their destinations: The Suriname Job (2017), The Caribbean Job (2018), The New Guinea Job (2018), The Amazon Job (2019) and The Cairo Job (2024). Two further series, Evil World and Challenged World, opened the catalogue in 2015 with Evil Runs, Pretty Little Creatures and The Unknown Element. Seventeen books make up the catalogue, and it is ongoing.

Vincent Ralph writes thrillers for young readers, set in England, with secrets, kidnapping and family life among the recorded subjects and obsessive-compulsive disorder appearing too. Are You Watching? (2019) opens a catalogue of 9 books that runs through 14 Ways to Die (2021), Lock the Doors (2022), Secrets Never Die (2023) and One House Left (2024) to four titles dated 2026, Fear Farm among them. Bleak Haven is the recorded series, and the catalogue is open.

Viola Davis is an American actress and film producer, born in 1965, with two catalogued books. Corduroy Takes a Bow, published in 2018, is a 32-page children's book about the teddy bear Corduroy and the theatre. Finding Me followed in 2022, a memoir. Davis holds both the Triple Crown of Acting and the EGOT, was named by Time among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and again in 2017, and was placed ninth by The New York Times in 2020 on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century.

Viola Shipman writes family stories built around heirlooms: a charm bracelet, a hope chest and a recipe box name the first three books. Fourteen titles run from The Charm Bracelet (2016) through 2025, with the Heirloom series, standalone novels and short fiction among them. Mothers and daughters, grandparents, bakers, Chicago and family life fill the subject tags.