Authors whose first name starts with Y

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.