Election book series in reading order

by Stuart Woods

Dan Gutman

198 books• 23 series

Dan Gutman is an American writer of mainly children's fiction, born in 1955. The best-known lines are the My Weird School books, The Genius Files and the Baseball Card Adventures, which began with Honus & Me. The catalogue holds 198 books from It Ain't Cheating If You Don't Get Caught (1990) to Mrs. Towne Is a Clown! (2026), including early baseball titles such as Baseball Babylon (1992). Subjects include schools, teachers, baseball, time travel and humorous stories.

Al Franken

8 books• 1 series

Al Franken, born Alan Stuart Franken on 21 May 1951, is an American comedian, screenwriter, actor and Democratic politician who represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 2009 until resigning in 2018. Franken wrote for Saturday Night Live from 1975 to 1980 and again from 1985 to 1995, briefly joining the cast, then hosted a radio show and wrote satirical books about the American right. Catalogued titles include Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot (1996), Why Not Me? (1999), Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (2003), The Truth with Jokes (2005) and Al Franken, Giant of the Senate (2017). Subjects include political satire and presidential campaigns.

Andrew M. Greeley's catalogue spans fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and runs to 82 books published between 1967 and 2010. Subjects settle on the Catholic Church, its clergy, Irish Americans and Chicago. Blackie Ryan and Nuala Anne McGrail are the recurring detectives; other groupings include the O'Malley's family saga, Time Between The Stars, Passover and the World Of Maggie Ward. The listing opens with Letters to Nancy (1967) and ends with Chicago Catholics and the Struggles Within Their Church (2010).

Stuart Woods

104 books• 9 series

Crime and detective thrillers make up Stuart Woods's catalogue of 104 titles, running from Blue Water, Green Skipper (1977) to Finders Keepers (2025). The Barrington Universe, built around the recurring character Stone Barrington, is the largest strand; Teddy Fay, Ed Eagle and Rick Barron head further series, with standalone novels and non-fiction beside them. Private investigators, police and New York settings recur through the subject tags.

Hunter S. Thompson

21 books• 4 series

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 to February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, counted with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion and Tom Wolfe as a pioneer of New Journalism. To write Hell's Angels, Thompson spent a year with the Hells Angels motorcycle club. A 1970 Scanlan's Monthly article, "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved", raised Thompson's countercultural profile. Catalogued titles include Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971), The Great Shark Hunt (1979) and The Rum Diary (1998).

Bob Woodward

26 books• 1 series

Bob Woodward is an American investigative journalist, known for reporting the Watergate scandal at The Washington Post with Carl Bernstein. Woodward's catalogue holds 26 books, from All the President's Men (1974) to Secrets: A Reporting Memoir (2026). Between those sit The Brethren (1979) on the Supreme Court, Veil (1987) on the secret wars of the CIA, The Agenda (1994) on the Clinton White House and Maestro (2000) on Greenspan's Fed. Presidents, politics and government, decision making and military policy define the subject tags, and Woodward is still publishing.

Newt Gingrich

49 books• 6 series

Newt Gingrich, born June 17, 1943, is an American Republican politician who served as the 50th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich represented Georgia's 6th congressional district from 1979 until resigning in 1999, sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, and taught history and geography at the University of West Georgia in the 1970s. The catalogue lists 49 books from Window of Opportunity (1987) to Trump's Triumph (2025), mixing politics with historical fiction series on the Civil War, the Revolutionary War and Pearl Harbor. Gettysburg (2003) and Grant Comes East (2004) are among them.

Hillary Clinton has 8 books in this catalogue, published between 2003 and 2024. The list runs from Living History (2003) through It Takes a Village (2006), Hard Choices (2014), Stronger Together (2016), What Happened (2017), The Book of Gutsy Women (2019) and Grandma's Gardens (2020) to Something Lost, Something Gained (2024). Catalogue subjects cover politics and government, legislators, presidents, elections, stateswomen, women in politics and biography.

Philip K. Dick

86 books• 4 series

Philip K. Dick (December 16, 1928 to March 2, 1982) was an American science fiction novelist and short story writer. Dick wrote 45 novels and roughly 121 short stories, most of them first published in science fiction magazines. The fiction asks what is real and probes perception, identity and human nature. Characters in Dick's work contend with alternate realities, illusory worlds, monopoly corporations, drug abuse, authoritarian states and altered consciousness. Dick ranks among the most important figures in 20th-century science fiction. Catalogued titles include Beyond Lies the Wub (1951), Paycheck (1953) and Adjustment Team (1954), and the VALIS Trilogy appears as a series. Androids and life on other planets feature in the subject tags.

Janette Rallison

40 books• 8 series

Janette Rallison, born 1 April 1966, is an American writer known mainly for light romance novels aimed at young adults. Rallison also uses two pen names: C. J. Hill for young adult science fiction and fantasy, and Sierra St. James for romantic novels for adults. The catalogue holds 40 books from Blue Eyes and Other Teenage Hazards (1996) to We Are Never Getting Together (2026), with Trial of the Heart (1999) among the Sierra St. James titles. My Fair Godmother, Slayers, Erasing Time and Pullman High are listed series.

Nick Bruel, full name Nicholas Tung Ming Bruel, is an American author and illustrator of children's books, most notably the Bad Kitty series. Bad Kitty (2005), the first in that series, is an alphabet picture book, and the series grew to take in chapter books and a guide to drawing comics. Bruel's books have been New York Times bestsellers. The catalogue lists 49 Bruel books, from Boing! (2004) to Bad Kitty Gets a Job (2026), and cats, dogs, pets and humorous stories lead the subjects.

Jim Lehrer

22 books• 1 series

Jim Lehrer (1934–2020) was an American journalist, novelist, screenwriter and playwright. Lehrer served as executive editor and anchor of the PBS News Hour and moderated 12 presidential debates between 1988 and 2012. His fiction drew on newsroom experience, history and politics. One-Eyed Mack is his series, and Oklahoma appears among the subjects. Lehrer's 22 catalogued books start with Kick the Can (1988) and end with Top Down (2013).

David Andrew Pepper, born 7 June 1971, is an American politician and writer. Pepper chaired the Ohio Democratic Party from 2015 through 2020, after serving as a Cincinnati councilman and on the Hamilton County board of commissioners. The 8 catalogued books run from The People's House (2016) to the 2024 title 2025, and mix political fiction with non-fiction on preserving American democracy: Laboratories of Autocracy (2021) and Saving Democracy (2023) sit alongside the Jack Sharpe novels. Subjects record elections, presidential candidates, political corruption and journalists.

Jason Matthews (1951-2021) was an American espionage novelist and a former CIA officer. Matthews wrote three books, forming one trilogy: Red Sparrow (2013), Palace of Treason (2015) and The Kremlin's Candidate (2018). Dominika Egorova and Nathaniel Nash carry the story across all three, which turn on Russian intelligence, women spies, extortion and an American presidential election. The novels are long, near 470 pages each, and the sequence closed in 2018.