Celebrities book series in reading order

Anthony Horowitz

106 books• 23 series

Anthony Horowitz is an English novelist and screenwriter, born 5 April 1955, who specialises in mystery and suspense. For children and young adults Horowitz created Alex Rider, a 14-year-old British boy who spies for MI6, along with The Power of Five (titled The Gatekeepers in the US) and The Diamond Brothers. The catalogue holds 106 Horowitz books from Enter Frederick K. Bower (1978) to A Deadly Episode (2026). Other listed series include Detective Daniel Hawthorne, Susan Ryeland, Groosham Grange and the Pentagram Chronicles. Horowitz is still publishing.

Carolyn Keene is a Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name, the credit on the Nancy Drew mysteries. Mildred Wirt Benson, one of the writers behind the name, used it from 1929 to 1953 and contributed to 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew books. The catalogue lists 647 Carolyn Keene books, beginning with The Secret of the Old Clock, The Hidden Staircase and The Bungalow Mystery (all 1930) and reaching Vans & Villains (2026). Series include Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, Nancy Drew Files, Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, Nancy Drew Diaries, Nancy Drew: Girl Detective and Dana Girls Mystery Stories.

Lauren Conrad

9 books• 2 series

Lauren Conrad, born in 1986, is an American television personality, fashion designer and author. Conrad's fiction draws on reality television and celebrity: L.A. Candy (2009) is the first novel, with Sweet Little Lies and Sugar and Spice following in 2010, and The Fame Game (2012) names a second series that takes in Starstruck (2012) and Infamous (2013). Style and beauty guides make up the rest of the nine catalogued books, Lauren Conrad Style (2010), Lauren Conrad Beauty (2012) and Lauren Conrad Celebrate (2016). Conrad appeared in Laguna Beach from 2004 and in five seasons of The Hills between 2006 and 2009.

Karen Kingsbury is an American Christian novelist, born in Fairfax, Virginia, on June 8, 1963. Kingsbury worked as a sports writer for the Los Angeles Times and later wrote for the Los Angeles Daily News. Missy's Murder (1991), Kingsbury's first book, grew out of a murder story covered as a reporter in Los Angeles. Kingsbury is a #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist. The catalogue holds 115 titles, running to The Christmas Ring (2025), and the series include Firstborn, Sunrise, Above the Line, Bailey Flanigan, Red Gloves and Forever Faithful. Christian fiction and family life recur among the subjects.

Gabrielle Zevin

10 books• 1 series

Gabrielle Zevin's 10 catalogued books span 2005 to 2022. Elsewhere (2005) and Margarettown (2005) open the list, followed by Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2007), The Hole We're in (2010) and a three-book sequence of All These Things I've Done (2011), Because It Is My Blood (2012) and In the Age of Love and Chocolate (2013). The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2014), Young Jane Young (2017) and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (2022) close the run. Families, high schools, organized crime and death are the recorded subjects. The catalogue has been dormant since 2022.

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.

Barbara Taylor Bradford began in non-fiction, with Fashions That Please Him (1970) and a run of interior decorating guides, then wrote A Woman of Substance (1979) and the family sagas that followed. Businesswomen, inheritance and mothers and daughters are the standing subjects. 47 catalogued books include the Emma Harte and Harte Family sagas, Cavendon Hall, the House of Falconer and the Ravenscar novels. The Wonder of It All, published in 2023, closes the catalogue.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

27 books• 3 series

Susan Elizabeth Phillips is an American romance novelist, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 11, 1944. Phillips is credited with creating the sports romance and has been called the "Queen of Romantic Comedy". The Chicago Stars series and the Wynette, Texas books appear in a catalogue of 27 titles, from The Copeland Bride (1983) to And the Crowd Went Wild (2026). Football players, actors and actresses feature in the subject headings, and It Had to Be You (1994) and Heaven, Texas (1995) are among the 1990s titles.

Brian Kilmeade

9 books• 1 series

Brian Kilmeade writes American history and sports non-fiction. Nine catalogued books run from The Games Do Count (2004) to Uniting the States (2026), taking in George Washington's Secret Six (2013), Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates (2015), Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans (2017) and Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers (2019). Biography, athletes and American history are the recurring subjects.

Sylvia Browne wrote about psychic phenomena and the afterlife. The American author, who described herself as a medium, published 55 catalogued books between 1990 and 2012, from Adventures of a Psychic (1990) to Past Lives of the Rich and Famous (2012). Spiritualism, parapsychology, the New Age movement and life after death are the recurring subjects, and the Journey of the Soul sequence collects part of the work. Browne appeared regularly on television and radio, including The Montel Williams Show and Larry King Live. Statements she made about missing persons were later shown to be false, and in 1992 she pleaded no contest to securities fraud. Browne was born in 1936 and died in 2013.

Dominick Dunne (1925-2009) came to fiction after a career producing films, among them The Boys in the Band (1970) and The Panic in Needle Park (1971). The murder of his daughter Dominique in 1982 turned Dunne's writing toward the way wealth and high society meet the courts, a subject he pursued in novels and in reporting for Vanity Fair. Eleven catalogued books run from The Winners (1982) to Too Much Money (2009), with murder trials, celebrity and upper-class New York families as the constant material.

Wendy Holden writes comic contemporary novels about young women, money and celebrity, most of them set in London and the English countryside. Simply Divine (1999) opens the catalogue, and Bad Heir Day (2000), Farm Fatale (2001), Gossip Hound (2002), Filthy Rich (2008) and Beautiful People (2009) follow. The Laura Lake books turn on a journalist, and the Royal Outsiders novels close the run at The Princess (2023). Twenty-four titles are catalogued.

Howard Stern

3 books

Howard Stern, born in 1954, is an American broadcaster and comedian whose books draw on his radio career. Three titles are catalogued: Private Parts (1993), Miss America (1995) and Howard Stern Comes Again (2019), the last arriving 24 years after the second. Celebrity interviews, talk radio and American humour are the subjects. The Howard Stern Show ran in national syndication on terrestrial radio from 1986 to 2005 and has been broadcast on SiriusXM since 2006.

Nicola Marsh is a romance author with 109 books catalogued between 2004 and 2025. The Wedding Contract (2004) is listed as the first title, alongside The Tycoon's Dating Deal from the same year. Subjects include contemporary romance, erotic romance, businessmen, marriage and Australia. Series include Hot Sydney Nights, Bollywood Billionaires, Outer Banks Secrets, Love on Ceto Island, Bombshells and Redeeming a Bad Boy. Our Perfect Family (2025) is the newest title.

Craig Edward Moncrieff Brown, born 23 May 1957, is an English critic and satirist. Brown is best known for sketch writing on Parliament, and for humorous articles and parodies written for The Times, the Daily Mail and Private Eye. The catalogue holds 25 books, from The Dirty Bits (1981) to A Voyage Around the Queen (2024). Recorded subjects include humour, English satire, anecdotes, celebrities, princes, and kings and rulers. Titles include The Book of Royal Lists (1982), The Marsh Marlowe Letters (1984), A Year Inside (1989) and Craig Brown's Greatest Hits (1994).

Lydia Millet

22 books• 2 series

Lydia Millet, an American novelist born on December 5, 1968, has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A Children's Bible (2020) reached the National Book Award for Fiction shortlist and a New York Times Book Review top ten list. Millet's 22 catalogued books start with Omnivores (1996) and include George Bush, Dark Prince of Love (2000), My Happy Life (2002), How the Dead Dream (2007) and Magnificence (2012). Satire and family life appear among the subjects. Fair Ones (2026) is the newest.

John Berendt, born in 1939, is an American author of narrative non-fiction with three catalogued books. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994) was a best-seller and a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. The City of Falling Angels (2005) draws on the people Berendt met while living in Venice in the months after the 1996 fire that destroyed the La Fenice opera house. My Baby Blue Jays followed in 2011. True crime, murder trials, travel writing and social history are the subjects indexed against the catalogue.