Authors whose first name starts with Y

Yamile Saied Méndez is an Argentine American author whose work spans picture books, children's books, young adult novels and adult romance. The young adult novel Furia earned Méndez the Pura Belpré gold medal. Méndez is also a founding member of the Las Musas collective. The catalogue lists 19 books from Blizzard Besties (2018) to Hear Ye Mortals (2026), including Where Are You From? (2019), On These Magic Shores (2020) and the Horse Country series.

Yan Lianke

12 books

Yan Lianke, born 24 August 1958, is a Chinese novelist and short story writer based in Beijing, with more than ten volumes of short stories. The satirical edge of the work has led to some of the best-known books being banned in China, and Yan has acknowledged self-censoring to avoid that. The style is described as experimental and surreal, and Yan terms it mythorealism. Yan won the Franz Kafka Prize in 2014 and has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. The catalogue lists 12 books, among them Lenin's Kisses, Dream of Ding Village, Serve the People!, The Four Books and Heart Sutra (2023).

Yangsze Choo is a Malaysian writer of Chinese descent. Three novels are catalogued: The Ghost Bride (2013), The Night Tiger (2019) and The Fox Wife (2024). The Night Tiger was chosen as one of 70 works in the Big Jubilee Read, the campaign marking the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Malaysia, Chinese fiction, superstition and historical fantasy describe the subject matter.

Yanik Silver writes on internet marketing and starting a business, with subject headings for electronic commerce, internet advertising, new business enterprises and success in business. Nine catalogued books run from Instant Sales Letters (2002) to The Cosmic Journey Oracle (2020), taking in Moonlighting on the Internet (2007), Maverick Startup (2012) and Evolved Enterprise (2017). Yanik Silver Business is the series in the listing. Silver is credited alone on each book, and the books reach a median of 200 pages.

Yann Martel

8 books

Yann Martel is a Canadian author. Life of Pi (2001) took the Man Booker Prize, sold more than 12 million copies, appeared in over 50 territories and was filmed by Ang Lee, whose adaptation won four Academy Awards. Martel's eight catalogued books start with the story collection The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (1993) and Self (1996), then run through What is Stephen Harper Reading? (2009), Beatrice and Virgil (2010), 101 Letters to a Prime Minister (2011) and The High Mountains of Portugal (2016) to Son of Nobody (2026).

Yasmin Angoe writes thrillers. Her Name is Knight (2021) opens the Nena Knight series, published by Thomas & Mercer, and They Come at Knight (2022) and It Ends with Knight (2023) follow. Eight books are catalogued, reaching She Drinks the Light (2026), with Not What She Seems (2024), Behind These Four Walls (2026) and The Ferryman's Daughter (2026) beside the series and Shallow Graves announced for 2027. Angoe is a Ghanaian American writer who taught middle and high school English before writing full time, and Fifth Season has optioned the books for a television series in development. The median book runs 398 pages.

Paranormal romance is the core of the Yasmine Galenorn catalogue, where subject tags name witches, vampires, fairies, shapeshifting, witchcraft and women mediums. 141 books are listed between 1997 and 2026. Early entries include Trancing the Witch's Wheel (1997), Embracing the Moon (1998), Tarot Journeys (1999) and Magical Meditations (2003), and a non-fiction heading sits among the series. Otherworld, Indigo Court and the Chintz 'n China Mystery recur as headings, alongside Wild Hunt, Moonshadow Bay, Bewitching Bedlam, Fury Unbound and Starlight Hollow. Yasmine Galenorn is still publishing.

YD La Mar began publishing in 2021 with titles including Heart of the Reaper: A Monstrous Tale, Fate of the Reaper and Soul of The Reaper. The catalogue now holds 63 books through 2026. La Mar's series include Monstrous Short Tales, Soul Taker, Street Arrhythmia Trilogy, Labels & Lace, Unaliver's Club, Scars That Bind Us, Rise of the Dreads, Crimson Dawn Chronicles and Blood & Stardust. Corpse & Lace (2026) is the newest release, and Skylar Evans is co-credited on 1 book.

Yiyun Li

16 books• 1 series

Yiyun Li, born November 4, 1972, is a writer born in China who writes only in English. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2005) won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Guardian First Book Award. Where Reasons End took the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and The Book of Goose won the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Wednesday's Child, a story collection, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Li is an editor of A Public Space, a literary magazine based in Brooklyn. The catalogue records 16 books, among them The Vagrants (2009), Kinder Than Solitude (2013) and Music Against the Night (2026).

Yoko Ogawa, born on 30 March 1962, is a Japanese writer. The Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize are among the Japanese awards recorded against the name, and the Shirley Jackson Award and American Book Award among those from abroad. The Memory Police reached the International Booker Prize shortlist in 2020. Eight novels and story collections are catalogued in English translation, among them The Diving Pool, Hotel Iris, Revenge, The Housekeeper and the Professor and Mina's Matchbox. A 1989 title on colour in clothing also carries the name.

Yōko Tawada

15 books• 1 series

Yoko Tawada, born on 23 March 1960, is a Japanese writer based in Berlin who writes in both Japanese and German. Tawada has been writer-in-residence at MIT and Stanford University. Awards won by Tawada include the Akutagawa Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Goethe Medal and a National Book Award. The 15 catalogued books run from Where Europe Begins (1991) to Archipelago of the Sun (2025), and include The Bridegroom Was a Dog (1993), Memoirs of a Polar Bear (2014) and The Emissary (2014).

Yoon Ha Lee, born 1979 in Houston, Texas, writes science fiction and fantasy, and is known for the Machineries of Empire space opera novels and for short fiction. Ninefox Gambit, a first novel published in 2016, took the 2017 Locus Award for Best First Novel, and Raven Stratagem (2017) and Revenant Gun (2018) follow it. The catalogue lists 25 titles dated 2009 to 2026, closing at Cutting Corners, with Moonstorm and Vela as further series. Subjects name space warfare, space opera, hard science fiction, women soldiers and short stories.

Yoshitoki Ōima is a Japanese manga artist and writer, born 15 March 1989, and the work divides between two series. A Silent Voice Vol. 1 appeared in 2011, with Volumes 2 to 7 following in 2014. To Your Eternity started in 2017 and reached Volume 21 by 2024. The catalogue holds 28 volumes across those two titles, and publication continues.

Yotam Ottolenghi

16 books• 1 series

Yotam Ottolenghi is an Israeli-British chef, restaurateur and food writer, born on 14 December 1968. Together with Sami Tamimi, Ottolenghi co-owns delis and restaurants in London and at Bicester Village. The cookbooks listed here start with Ottolenghi (2008) and include Plenty (2010), Jerusalem (2012), Plenty More (2014), NOPI (2015), Sweet (2017) and Ottolenghi Simple (2018). Ottolenghi Simple Too (2026) is the newest. Subjects cover vegetarian, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cooking.

Yrsa Sigurdardottir

18 books• 4 series

Yrsa Sigurdardottir writes crime novels, horror and children's fiction, and is often called the queen of Icelandic crime fiction. Eighteen books are catalogued from Last Rituals (2005) to The Wake (2025). Thora Gudmundsdottir, a lawyer who investigates, gives the first series its name; Children's House, Black Ice and a set of standalone novels follow. Sigurdardottir was born in 1963, has been translated into more than 30 languages, took the Petrona Award for Scandinavian crime novel of the year and the Icelandic award Blodropinn three times, co-founded the Reykjavik literary festival Iceland Noir, and has kept a full career as a civil engineer alongside the writing.

Yukito Ayatsuji is the pen name of Naoyuki Uchida, a Japanese writer of mystery and horror born December 23, 1960. Ayatsuji co-founded the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan and is a leading voice of the new traditionalist movement in Japanese mystery fiction. The Decagon House Murders (1987), the debut novel, ranks No. 8 on the Top 100 Japanese Mystery Novels of All Time. The Mill House Murders and The Labyrinth House Murders followed in 1988, and The Clock House Murders in 1991. Another is a further series, with manga editions listed. Ayatsuji is married to Fuyumi Ono, the fantasy and horror author of The Twelve Kingdoms, and minor planet 2001 RG46 was named after Ayatsuji in 2018.

Yulin Kuang has one catalogued book, How to End a Love Story, published in 2024 and running to 384 pages. No second title is listed against the name yet, and the catalogue stands open.

Yung Pueblo is catalogued under poetry, psychology and emotional intelligence, with 5 books published between 2017 and 2025. Inward (2017) is the first, followed by Clarity & Connection (2021), Lighter (2022), The Way Forward (2023) and How to Love Better (2025).

Yuri Ajin is catalogued under LitRPG as the author of the Heavenly Throne series, with 15 books dated from 2020. Force Cultivation, The First Peak of the Force and The Way of the Force appeared in 2020, and The Call of the Forces and The Path to the Stars in 2021. Awakened and Becoming a True Leader date from 2022. The End of Time (2025) is the latest release, and The Creator of History is announced for 2027.

Yuri Vinokuroff has published 48 catalogued books since 2023, a rate of roughly one a month. Six series account for the output: Hunter's Code, Order of Architects, Drone Lord, Magic Kitchen Rules, I Will Be Emperor and Kill to Live. The Hunter's Code reached Book 24 in 2026. The catalogue opens with I Will Be Emperor, Book 1 (2023), and Magic Kitchen Rules Book 3 is dated 2027.

Yusei Matsui is a manga creator with three main series. Majin Tantei Nogami Neuro began in 2005 and runs to 23 volumes in the catalogue, followed by Assassination Classroom, in which a junior high class is tasked with killing its own teacher, and then The Elusive Samurai, a historical series reaching volume 13 in 2024. Matsui's 57 catalogued volumes span 2005 to 2024, at a median of 200 pages each. Volumes read in numbered order.

Yuto Tsukuda writes manga. Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma is the larger of his two series, a cooking-school story about teenage cooks that runs from Volume 1 in 2013 through the ten volumes released by the end of 2014. Tenmaku Cinema followed, its second volume appearing in 2023 as the newest of 38 catalogued books. Cooking schools, coming of age, and Japanese and international cuisine are the standing subjects, and volumes run to a median of 191 pages.

Yuval Noah Harari

16 books• 3 series

Yuval Noah Harari, born 1976, is an Israeli medievalist, military historian and popular science writer who teaches history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011) grew out of an undergraduate world history course. Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018) and Nexus followed. Harari's work examines consciousness, intelligence, happiness, suffering and storytelling. The 16 catalogued titles begin with Renaissance Military Memoirs (2004) and reach Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 4 - The Age of Revolutions (2026), with Unstoppable Us as another series.

Yuyi Morales, born in 1968, is a Mexican-American author and illustrator of children's books. Viva Frida took the 2015 Pura Belpre Medal for illustration and a 2015 Caldecott Honor, making Morales the first Latina to receive a Caldecott Honor. The Niño series carries the name, and subjects recorded include Spanish language materials, folklore, counting, grandmothers and bedtime. Nine books span 2003 to 2021, from Just a Minute! to Bright Star.

Yvonne Lindsay is a New Zealand romance novelist, born in New Zealand to Dutch immigrant parents. The catalogue lists 46 books from The Boss's Christmas Seduction (2006) to Rags to Riches Reunion (2023). Series include Master Vintners, Clashing Birthright, New Zealand Knights, Rogue Diamonds, Marriage at First Sight, Wed At Any Price and Courtesan Brides. Subjects include contemporary romance, billionaires, widows and family secrets.

Yvonne Navarro

29 books• 8 series

Yvonne Navarro, born 1957 in Chicago, Illinois, is an American author of more than twenty novels. AfterAge, Final Impact, deadrush, Red Shadows, DeadTimes, Mirror Me and That's Not My Name are solo works, as are the later Highborn and Concrete Savior, both part of The Dark Redemption Series. Navarro lives in Sierra Vista, Arizona, and was married to the author Weston Ochse, who shares the credit on one catalogued title; Joss Whedon is credited on another. The 29 catalogued books run from AfterAge (1993) to Aliens vs. Predators: Rift War (2022). Subjects on record include vampires, horror, television and tie-in categories, and the fictitious character Buffy the Vampire Slayer.