Americans book series in reading order

by Jeanne M. Dams

by Aaron Elkins

by Mark Pryor

by Susan Elia MacNeal

by Dorothy Gilman

by Barry Eisler

by Tom Tomorrow

by Nancy Atherton

by Alex Berenson

by David Poyer

by Kevin Kwan

by Jan Karon

by David Lodge

Henry James

131 books• 1 series

Henry James was an American-British author, placed between literary realism and literary modernism. Americans abroad, social life and manners, and the friction between Europe and the United States are the standing subjects of the fiction, and James's correspondence and travel writing are catalogued alongside it. The catalogue lists 131 titles with publication dates from 1866 to 2016, opening with Selected Tales and The Novels of George Eliot, both 1866. The 1870s were the heaviest decade, holding A Passionate Pilgrim, At Isella and Watch and Ward, all published in 1871.

Jeanne M. Dams is an American crime fiction writer with three mystery series to her name. Dorothy Martin, an American retired teacher living in England, appears first in The Body in the Transept (1995). Hilda Johansson, a Swedish American, leads the second sequence, and the Oak Park Village Mysteries make the third. Thirty-eight books are catalogued, running through A Thief's Folly (2026).

Edith Wharton

122 books• 6 series

Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 to August 11, 1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist and designer. Wharton used first-hand knowledge of upper-class New York society to depict the lives and morals of the Gilded Age with realism. The Age of Innocence made Wharton the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1921. The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome and a number of ghost stories are other well-known works, and Wharton entered the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. The catalogue lists 122 titles, from Souls Belated (1899) through The Touchstone (1900), The Valley of Decision (1902) and Sanctuary (1903). Old New York is the series on the author page.

Aaron Elkins, born in Brooklyn on 24 July 1935, is an American mystery writer. The novels featuring forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver, the skeleton detective, are the best known part of the catalogue, which also runs the Lee Ofsted series, the Chris Norgren Mysteries, the Alix London series and standalone novels. The catalogue lists 35 books, from Fellowship of Fear (1982) to A Long Time Coming (2018). Subjects include college teachers, women golfers and Seattle.

Gilbert Morris produced Christian historical fiction at length: 248 catalogued books between 1977 and 2014. The House of Winslow follows one family across American history; the Appomattox Saga and Bonnets & Bugles take up the Civil War; Cheney Duvall, M.D. follows a woman physician; the Seven Sleepers, Dixie Morris and Too Smart Jones series sit alongside, with children's fiction among the subjects. The catalogue opens with Race Against Time (1977), reaches Raina's Choice, and is listed as likely complete.

Paul Theroux

68 books• 1 series

Travel writing and fiction have occupied Paul Theroux since 1968. Born in 1941, the American writer is catalogued here with 68 books, from Fong and the Indians (1968) to True North: On the Road in Canada (2026). The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) is his best known travelogue. The Mosquito Coast took the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981, was filmed in 1986 and became a television series in 2021. Railways, voyages and description of place recur throughout the catalogue, which is ongoing.

T. Davis Bunn, born in 1952 and raised in North Carolina, is an American writer of historical fiction and legal thrillers in which Christian faith plays a major part. After a 1974 BA in psychology and economics from Wake Forest University and graduate study in international finance and economics at Gresham College in London, Bunn worked as a consultant and lecturer in international finance in Switzerland and Germany. Bunn is Novelist in Residence at Regent's Park College, Oxford, and divides time between Oxford and Florida. The catalogue holds 108 books from The Presence (1990) to The Sapphire Sea (2026), including Florian's Gate (1992), The Amber Room (1992) and Rhineland Inheritance (1993); some books carry the name Davis Bunn, and Marc Royce and Acts Of Faith are among the series.

Peter May

33 books• 5 series

Peter May, born 20 December 1951, is a Scottish novelist, crime writer and television screenwriter. The Blackhouse won the U.S. Barry Award for Crime Novel of the Year and France's Cezam Prix Litteraire, and The Lewis Man took Le Telegramme's Grand Prix des Lecteurs. Entry Island won two awards in 2014, and May received France's Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in 2025. Sales exceed twelve million copies. The catalogue lists 33 books, from The Reporter (1978) to The Black Loch (2024), with the China Thrillers, the Enzo Files and the Lewis Tetralogy among the series.

Hugo Marston, an American in Paris, leads Mark Pryor's mystery series. Pryor's 16 catalogued books open with The Bookseller (2012) and reach The Most Mysterious Bookshop in Paris (2026). Inspector Henri Lefort, the Hollow Man books and the Paris Bookshop Mysteries are the other lines. Paris settings, murder investigation and embassy work recur as subjects.

Ernest Hemingway

51 books• 7 series

Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist, and winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. Hemingway's economical, understated prose shaped later 20th-century writers. The published body of work counts seven novels, six short-story collections and two nonfiction books, among them In Our Time (1925) and The Sun Also Rises (1926). The catalogue reaches 51 entries, from early pieces such as Camping Out (1920) to The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 5, 1932–1934 (2020). Raised in Oak Park, Illinois, Hemingway reported for The Kansas City Star for six months before joining the Red Cross.

Karen Marie Moning

23 books• 4 series

Scotland and time travel drive the first half of Karen Marie Moning's work, in the Highlander romances that begin with Beyond the Highland Mist (1999) and run through Kiss of the Highlander, The Dark Highlander and The Immortal Highlander. MacKayla Lane carries the Fever series, urban fantasy about fae loose in the modern world. Watch Hill follows. Twenty-seven titles make up the catalogue, at a median of 464 pages.

Candace Camp is an American writer of romance, mostly historical, with 70 catalogued books to her name. The run begins with Bonds of Love (1978) under the pen name Lisa Gregory, one of several names Camp has published under alongside Sharon Stephens and Kristin James. The subjects are Regency and Victorian England, nobility, revenge and manners, across series including Mad Morelands, Willowmere, Stonecliffe and Secrets of the Loch. A Scandal at Stonecliffe (2024) is the most recent title.

Nora Roberts

279 books• 37 series

Nora Roberts, born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950, is an American writer of romance under that name. As J. D. Robb, Roberts writes police procedurals with science-fiction elements, and has also published as Jill March and, in the UK, as Sarah Hardesty. This listing carries 280 Roberts books, opening with Irish Thoroughbred (1981); The Missing is scheduled for 2027. Series on the page include the In Death Universe, the MacGregors, Night Tales, the Calhoun Women, the Chesapeake Bay Saga, Irish Hearts and the O'Hurleys.

Dorothy Gilman (June 25, 1923 – February 2, 2012) was an American writer known above all for the Mrs. Pollifax spy novels, whose heroine Emily Pollifax is a grandmother who takes up spying in her 60s. The Mystery Writers of America gave Gilman its Grand Master Award in 2010. The catalogue holds 36 titles published between 1949 and 2002. Early books such as Enchanted Caravan (1949), Carnival Gypsy (1950) and The Calico Year (1953) appeared under the name Dorothy Gilman Butters. Madame Karitska is Gilman's second series, and the last listed title is Kaleidoscope (2002).

Robin Jones Gunn

99 books• 14 series

Robin Jones Gunn is an award-winning Christian author of more than 100 books. Christy Miller and Sierra Jensen are series for teen girls, and Christy Miller's characters carry on in Christy and Todd: College Years, Christy & Todd: The Married Years, Christy & Todd: The Baby Years and Katie Weldon. Glenbrooke and Sisterchicks are further series, and Sisterchicks in Gondolas won the Christy Award in 2007. The site lists 99 books from 1985 to Shortbread in the Highlands (2026), starting with the Billy 'n' Bear titles of 1985.

Romance crossed with suspense defines Elizabeth Adler's fiction. The British author's 33 catalogued books open with Leonie / Private Desires in 1985 and close with Better Than Revenge in 2021, and the Mac Reilly novels supply the one recurring investigator. Inheritance, family secrets, mothers and daughters, and French settings recur. Adler has also published as Ariana Scott, and her novels have appeared in 22 languages.

Saul Bellow

34 books• 2 series

Saul Bellow is the only writer to have won the National Book Award for Fiction three times. Born Solomon Bellows on June 10, 1915, Bellow was an American writer who died on April 5, 2005, and whose honours include the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature and the National Medal of Arts. The National Book Foundation gave Bellow its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990. The catalogue lists 34 books from Dangling Man (1944) to Leaving the Yellow House (2018), including The Victim (1947), The Adventures of Augie March (1953), Seize the Day (1956), Henderson the Rain King (1959), Herzog (1964) and Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970). Subjects name Jewish men and college teachers.

Francine Pascal (née Rubin, 1932–2024) was an American author whose name is tied to the Sweet Valley books for young adults. Sweet Valley High anchored that collection, was adapted for television, and branched into spin-offs such as The Unicorn Club and Sweet Valley University. The catalogue opens with Hangin' Out with Cici (1977) and also carries the Fearless series. Subjects include twins, sisters, high schools, friendship and dating. Most Sweet Valley books came out in the 1980s and 1990s, and several titles were re-released decades later.

Maddy Hunter's catalogue is the Passport to Peril mysteries, twelve books published between 2003 and 2018 in which tour guide Emily Andrew keeps running into murder abroad. Puns carry the titles: Alpine for You (2003), Top O' the Mournin' (2003), Hula Done It? (2005), Norway to Hide (2007), Dutch Me Deadly (2012) and Catch Me If Yukon (2018). Subjects cover tour guides, tourists, cruise ships and women travellers.

Susan May Warren writes Christian fiction spanning contemporary and historical romance, romantic suspense, thrillers, romantic comedy and Christmas novellas. The catalogue counts 144 books, starting with Happily Ever After and Tying the Knot (both 2003) and reaching Shadow (2026), with On Thin Ice set for 2027. Deep Haven, the Christiansen Family, Montana Rescue, Montana Fire, the Minnesota Marshalls and True Lies of Rembrandt Stone are among the series. Warren has won the Christy, RITA and Carol awards, coaches other writers, and was named Mentor of the Year by American Christian Fiction Writers in 2009.

Maggie Hope, an American working in wartime Britain, carries Susan Elia MacNeal's historical spy series from Mr. Churchill's Secretary (2012). Women spies, cryptography and undercover operations during the Second World War are the recurring subjects. MacNeal's catalogue opens earlier with non-fiction, Wedding Zen (2004) and Infused (2006), and runs to 14 titles through The Last Hope in 2024.

Joseph Kanon writes espionage novels set in the years around the Second World War and the early Cold War. Los Alamos (1997) opens a catalogue of 11 titles that reaches Shanghai (2024), taking in The Good German (2001), Istanbul Passage (2012), Leaving Berlin (2014) and Defectors (2017). The atomic bomb, New Mexico and Americans abroad appear in the subject tags.

Ross Thomas (1926-1995) wrote American crime fiction, best known for witty thrillers that lay bare the machinery of professional politics. Five of his novels appeared under the pseudonym Oliver Bleeck and feature Philip St. Ives, a professional go-between. Mac McCorkle and Arthur Case Wu head his other series. Twenty-seven books run from The Cold War Swap (1966) to Ah, Treachery! (1994), with Washington and the Cold War recurring as settings.

Carolyn Blue, a food writer, is the detective in Nancy Fairbanks's culinary mysteries. Cooking supplies both the plots and the puns, from Crime Brûlée (2001) and Truffled Feathers (2001) to Mozzarella Most Murderous (2005) and Blood Pudding (2009). Twelve books appeared across nine years, and the series ended in 2009.