Artists book series in reading order

by Donna Andrews

by Estelle Ryan

by Sulari Gentill

by Nick Bantock

by Michael Bond

by Jonathan Santlofer

Peter Helton is the author of the Chris Honeysett and Inspector Liam McLusky series. The catalogue lists 12 books from Headcase (2005) to Lock 13 (2018). Slim Chance (2006), Rainstone Fall (2008), Falling More Slowly (2010), Worthless Remains (2013) and Soft Summer Blood (2016) are among them. Subjects include police procedurals, private investigators, artists, England and terrorists.

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.

Who HQ is the credit on 429 children's nonfiction biographies in the catalogue, published from 2002 to 2026. The run opens with Who Was Albert Einstein?, Who Was Amelia Earhart? and Who Was Ben Franklin? (all 2002) and reaches Who Is Vera Wang (2026). Subjects include biography, history and juvenile nonfiction for readers aged 8 to 12. Other names credited on some of the books include Megan Stine (7), John Hinderliter (7) and Nico Medina (4).

Painters and paintings are Susan Vreeland's subject. Vreeland, an American author who lived from 1946 to 2017, wrote fiction about the relation between art and life: The Passion of Artemisia (2001) is a fictionalised investigation of Artemisia Gentileschi, Girl in Hyacinth Blue (1999) turns on an imaginary Vermeer, and The Forest Lover (2004) is a fictionalised account of the Canadian painter Emily Carr. 9 catalogued books span What Love Sees (1988) to Lisette's List (2014), taking in Luncheon of the Boating Party (2007) and Clara and Mr. Tiffany (2010). The catalogue is likely complete.

Eric Carle

165 books• 6 series

Eric Carle (25 June 1929 to 23 May 2021) was an American author, designer and illustrator of children's books. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a picture book first published in 1969, has sold more than 55 million copies in over 70 languages. Carle illustrated more than 70 children's books and wrote most of them, and sales across the Carle books exceed 170 million copies. Catalogued titles begin with 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo (1968), followed by The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969), Pancakes, Pancakes! (1970), The Tiny Seed (1970) and Do You Want to Be My Friend? (1971). Subjects include board books, counting, color, animals and caterpillars.

Irving Stone (1903–1989), born Tennenbaum, was an American writer of biographical novels about artists, politicians and intellectuals. Lust for Life (1934), on the life of Vincent van Gogh, opens the catalogue, and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961) takes up Michelangelo. Twenty-three books are catalogued, including Sailor on Horseback (1938), Clarence Darrow for the Defence (1949), Immortal Wife (1950), The President's Lady (1952) and Men to Match My Mountains (1956), at a median length of 417 pages.

Nick Bantock is a British artist and author based on Saltspring Island in British Columbia. The Griffin and Sabine books are his best known work, assembled from faux postage stamps, handwritten documents, passports and postcards bound into the page. Bantock's catalogue holds 25 titles, from There Was An Old Lady (1990) to The Corset & The Jellyfish (2023), taking in The Egyptian Jukebox (1993) and The Golden Mean (1993). Subjects cover imaginary letters, movable books, collage and picture books, at a median of 60 pages.

Iris Johansen writes crime fiction, suspense and romance, and was born on April 7, 1938, in St. Louis, Missouri. The catalogue lists 120 books from Stormy Vows (1983) to Wait and See (2026), with the 1980s as the busiest decade. Eve Duncan, Kendra Michaels and Catherine Ling are the recurring characters, and facial reconstruction and women sculptors appear among the subject headings. Johansen's series also include Sedikhan, Wind Dancer, Clanad and Delaneys.

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.

Chaim Potok

17 books• 2 series

Chaim Potok (1929-2002) was an American novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi. The Chosen (1966) opens the catalogue, spent 39 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, sold more than 3.4 million copies by 2002 and reached the screen as a feature film in 1981. Potok wrote two linked sequences, the Reuven Malther books and the Asher Lev novels, which begin with My Name Is Asher Lev (1972). Jewish family life, rabbis, artists, fathers and sons, and New York carry the fiction. Seventeen titles are catalogued, ending at The Collected Plays of Chaim Potok (2018).

Donald Bain (March 6, 1935 - October 21, 2017) was an American author and ghostwriter credited with more than 115 books over a 40-year career. Murder, She Wrote is the series listed for Bain, and the subjects include Jessica Fletcher and the fictional Cabot Cove, Maine. The catalogue holds 59 books, from Coffee, Tea or Me? (1967) to A Time for Murder (2019), and also lists Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake (1969).

Subject records for Jonathan Santlofer cite serial murders, artists, police artists and women art historians, alongside suspense and mystery. The catalogue lists 10 books from The Death Artist (2002) to Ten Perfect Guests (2026). The Killing Art (2005), Anatomy of Fear (2007), The Last Mona Lisa (2021) and The Lost Van Gogh (2024) are among them. Kate McKinnon and Nate Rodriguez are the two listed series.

Mike Resnick

139 books• 24 series

Mike Resnick, born Michael Diamond Resnick, was an American science fiction writer and editor who lived from March 5, 1942 to January 9, 2020. Resnick won five Hugo awards and one Nebula, was guest of honor at Chicon 7, served as executive editor of Jim Baen's Universe and created Galaxy's Edge magazine. The catalogue lists 139 books from The Goddess Of Ganymede (1967) to The Hex Is In (2020). Tags cover space opera, alternative history, private investigators and psychics, and series include Chronicles of Lucifer Jones, Starship, Widowmaker and John Justin Mallory Mystery.

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.

Across 194 catalogued books, Danielle Steel writes contemporary romance and family drama: love stories, marriages, widowhood and the turns that reshape a life. The run starts with Going Home (1973) and continues through Celebration, with 24 Hours scheduled for 2027. Steel's catalogue also holds children's picture books, short stories and non-fiction beside the standalone novels that make up most of it.

Donna Andrews is an American mystery writer with two award-winning amateur sleuth series, Meg Langslow and Turing Hopper. Subjects mark the books as humorous mysteries with women sleuths. Murder With Peacocks (1999) is the earliest catalogued title, and later titles include Murder With Puffins (2000), You've Got Murder (2002) and We'll Always Have Parrots (2003). Jay to the World (2026) is the newest, and Andrews is still publishing.

Three psychological thrillers make up Alex Michaelides's catalogue: The Silent Patient (2019), The Maidens (2021) and The Fury (2024). Artists, marriage and family violence supply the subject matter, with London among the settings. Each book stands alone, so no reading order applies. Novels median 336 pages, and Michaelides publishes at intervals of two to three years.

Philip Pullman

51 books• 10 series

Philip Pullman's catalogue covers fantasy and children's adventure, with detective stories, fairy tales and graphic novels alongside. His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust are the sequences it is built around, joined by the Sally Lockhart mysteries, the New Cut Gang, the Canongate Myths and The Adventures of John Blake. Sixty-five catalogued titles run from The Haunted Storm (1972) through The Ruby in the Smoke (1985) to The Rose Field in 2025.

Elizabeth Lowell is one of the names used by American writer Ann Maxwell, born April 5, 1944, who also writes as A.E. Maxwell. Alone and with co-author and husband Evan, Maxwell has produced more than 50 novels and one non-fiction book, spanning science fiction, historical fiction, romance, mystery and suspense. The Elizabeth Lowell catalogue lists 52 books from 1983 to 2015, from To the Ends of the Earth / The Danvers Touch (1983) to Perfect Touch (2015). Series include St. Kilda, Rarities Unlimited, Donovans and MacKenzie-Blackthorn.

William Boyd

33 books• 2 series

Born on 7 March 1952, William Boyd is a Scottish writer who works as a novelist, short story author, screenwriter and film director. The catalogue holds 33 books from A Good Man in Africa (1981) to Cold Sunset (2026), with An Ice-Cream War (1982), Brazzaville Beach (1990), Any Human Heart (2002) and Restless (2006) among them. Boyd scripted the film Chaplin (1992) and directed The Trench (1999), a drama of the First World War. Prizes include the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Costa Book Award. Gabriel Dax is a Boyd series, and subjects include Africa, artists and both world wars.

Three novels make up Donna Tartt's catalogue: The Secret History (1992), The Little Friend (2002) and The Goldfinch (2013). College students, classicists, teacher-student relationships, murder and friendship are the subjects attached to the work. The books are long, at a median of 624 pages. No new Tartt title has appeared since 2013.

Genevieve Lenard, an autistic insurance investigator who reads people through body language, carries Estelle Ryan's mystery series. Art forgery, theft and murder supply the cases. The Gauguin Connection (2012) opens the run, followed by The Braque Connection (2013), The Dante Connection (2013), The Courbet Connection (2014), The Flinck Connection (2014) and The Leger Connection (2015). 36 titles are catalogued, including the Duchess Report books, and the newest is The Van Mieris Connection.

Laura Bradford writes mysteries across 6 listed series: Amish Mysteries, Southern Sewing Circle Mysteries, Jenkins & Burns Mysteries, Emergency Dessert Squad Mysteries, Tobi Tobias and Friend for Hire Mystery. Subject headings name the Amish, sewing, South Carolina, librarians and murder, and romance appears too. The catalogue counts 48 books from Jury of One / Deadly Readings (2005) to The Big Picture (2026). Sew Deadly (2009), Death Threads (2010), Pinned for Murder (2010), Dangerous Alterations (2011) and Deadly Notions (2011) are among the titles, alongside Kayla's Daddy, A Mom for Callie and Miracle Baby from 2010.

Lauren Dane writes romance across paranormal, erotic and fantasy strands, with witches, vampires and magic among the recorded subjects. The catalogue holds 87 books published between 2005 and 2024, opening with A Touch of Fae and Triad in 2005 and reaching Blood and Magic in 2024. Series include the Cascadia Wolves, the Witches Knot, the Brown Family, De La Vega Cats, Bound By Magick, Diablo Lake and Whiskey Sharp. All 87 books are credited to Dane alone.