Fantasy, paranormal book series in reading order

by Richard Kadrey

by Kim Harrison

by Samantha Shannon

by MaryJanice Davidson

by Elliott James

by Rob Thurman

by Matt Wallace

by Charlaine Harris

Shannon Mayer has 98 books in the catalogue, published from 2011 to 2026 and tagged as urban fantasy, paranormal fantasy and paranormal romance. Dark Waters (2011) opens the list and Forged by Fate (2026) is the newest. Rylee Adamson appears as a character listing, and subjects include missing children, psychic ability and investigations. Series listings include Forty Proof, Desert Cursed, Alpha Territories, Nix, Questing Witch, Nevermore Trilogy, Celtic Legacy, Honey and Ice Trilogy, Golden Wolf and Inkbound.

Faith Hunter

61 books• 9 series

Faith Hunter is the fantasy pen name of Gwendolyn Faith Hunter, an American author and blogger who writes thrillers as Gwen Hunter. Thrillers written with Gary Leveille appear under the joint name Gary Hunter. Hunter co-founded the writer assistance blog MagicalWords.net and built a role-playing game on the Rogue Mage series. The catalogue lists 61 books, from Bloodring (2006) to Junkyard Riders (2026). Jane Yellowrock, Soulwood, Junkyard Cats and Thorn St. Croix are among the series. Subjects include vampires, shapeshifting, New Orleans and Cherokee Indians.

Ilona Andrews is the pen name of a husband-and-wife writing team. Ilona was born in Russia, and Gordon is a former communications sergeant in the U.S. Army; the two met in college and live in Oregon. The pair co-authored the Kate Daniels urban fantasy series and the romantic urban fantasy of The Edge. The catalogue lists 65 books from Magic Bites (2007) to Beast Business (2026), and other series include Hidden Legacy, Innkeeper Chronicles, Iron Covenant and Grey Wolf. Magic, shapeshifting, werewolves and Atlanta feature among the subjects.

Nalini Singh

124 books• 10 series

Paranormal romance is the field of Nalini Singh, a New Zealand writer of Indo-Fijian descent born in 1977. The catalogue lists 124 books from Desert Warrior (2003) to Archangel's Eternity (2026). Slave to Sensation (2006) and Caressed by Ice (2007) are early titles. Series include Guild Hunter, Psy-Changeling Trinity, Rock Kiss, Hard Play and Zulheina, with subjects such as vampires, angels, archangels and assassins.

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.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

117 books• 29 series

Sherrilyn Kenyon, born December 11, 1965, is an American writer of urban fantasy and paranormal romance, best known for the Dark-Hunter series. Under the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor, Kenyon writes historical fiction with paranormal elements. The books have sold over 70 million copies in more than 100 countries. The catalogue lists 117 titles from The Wager (1992) to Hell's Half Acre (2026), among them series such as League: Nemesis Rising, Dream-Hunter, B.A.D. Agency and Chronicles of Nick. Two early non-fiction titles are writer's guides from 1994 and 1995.

Kim Harrison

43 books• 8 series

Kim Harrison is the pen name of American author Dawn Cook, born September 30, 1966. The Hollows, an urban fantasy series that hit #1 on the New York Times list, features Rachel Morgan. Harrison has also written young adult fiction and science thrillers, scripted two Hollows graphic novels and published traditional fantasy as Dawn Cook. The catalogue counts 44 books from Dead Witch Walking (2004) through Secondhand Luck (2026), with Absolute Demon set for 2027. Witches, vampires, demonology and Cincinnati recur in the subject headings.

Seanan McGuire

160 books• 32 series

Seanan McGuire, born January 5, 1978, is an American writer and filker known for urban fantasy. McGuire writes science fiction and horror as Mira Grant, and the Up-and-Under children's portal fantasy series as A. Deborah Baker. McGuire received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2010, and the work has earned the Alex, Hugo, Locus and Nebula awards. The catalogue records 162 titles, starting with Rosemary and Rue (2009) and A Local Habitation (2010), with A Divided Duty (2026) the newest and A Song of Sugar Sparrows due in 2027. Series include October Daye, InCryptid, Wayward Children, Newsflesh, Velveteen, Alchemical Journeys and Parasitology.

Carrie Vaughn

84 books• 16 series

Carrie Vaughn, born on 28 January 1973, is an American writer and the creator of the urban fantasy Kitty Norville series. Vaughn has published more than 60 short stories in science fiction and fantasy magazines, anthologies and online magazines, writes for the Wild Cards books, won the 2018 Philip K. Dick Award for Bannerless and has been a Hugo Award nominee. The catalogue opens with Kitty and the Midnight Hour (2005), then Kitty Goes to Washington (2006) and Kitty Takes a Holiday (2007), and Blade Through the Heart (2026) is the newest title. Other series include Bannerless Saga, Cormac and Amelia, Graff and Naturalist Society. Subjects include werewolves, radio talk show hosts and Las Vegas.

Charlaine Harris

78 books• 14 series

Charlaine Harris, born Jean Charlaine Harris Schulz on November 25, 1951, in Tunica, Mississippi, is an American author specialising in mysteries. The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Harris's best-known series, became HBO's True Blood, which ran for seven seasons from 2008 to 2014. The catalogue starts with Sweet and Deadly (1981) and A Secret Rage (1984) and reaches The Last Wizards' Ball (2025). Sookie Stackhouse, Aurora Teagarden, Lily Bard, Gunnie Rose and Midnight, Texas are among the series. Vampires, werewolves and women librarians appear in the subjects, and Harris lives in Texas.

Laurell K. Hamilton

60 books• 11 series

Laurell K. Hamilton is an American writer of fantasy and romance, born February 19, 1963, and the author of two main series. Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, a New York Times bestseller, features Anita Blake, a zombie raiser, vampire executioner and supernatural consultant to the police; the series spans novels, story collections and comics, with six million copies in print. The Merry Gentry series follows Meredith Gentry, a princess of the Unseelie court of Faerie who works as a private detective and faces repeated assassination attempts. The catalogue holds 60 titles from Nightseer (1992) to A Glimmer of Death (2026), with Guilty Pleasures dated 1993. The Zaniel Havelock series is also listed.

Kevin Hearne

32 books• 8 series

Born on December 9, 1970, Kevin Hearne is a fantasy novelist from Arizona who moved to Ontario and became a Canadian citizen in 2022. The Iron Druid Chronicles is a New York Times bestselling series, and subjects include druids, Atticus O'Sullivan and Celtic, Norse and Greek mythology. Other series are Ink & Sigil, the Seven Kennings trilogy, and Tales of Pell, a collaboration with Delilah S. Dawson. Heir to the Jedi (2015) is a Star Wars novel by Hearne. The catalogue counts 32 books through 2026.

Simon R. Green is an English science fiction and fantasy author, born 25 August 1955 in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. Green studied modern English and American literature at the University of Leicester, began writing in 1973, sold the first story, "Manslayer", in 1976, and published a first full-length work, Awake, Awake, Ye Northern Winds, in 1979. Green sold seven novels in 1988, and the 1989 commission to novelise the Kevin Costner film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves produced a book with more than 370,000 copies sold. The catalogue lists 83 titles from Blue Moon Rising (1989) to For Better or Murder (2026). Series include Nightside, Deathstalker, Hawk & Fisher, Ghost Finders, Ishmael Jones, Gideon Sable and Forest Kingdom.

Richard Kadrey, born August 27, 1957, is an American novelist, freelance writer and photographer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The catalogue holds 37 books from Metrophage (1988) to In the Devil Wind (2026), including Kamikaze L'Amour (1995), Butcher Bird (2005), Sandman Slim (2009) and Kill the Dead (2010). The listing also includes the Covert Culture Sourcebook (1994) and From Myst to Riven (1997). Series include Sandman Slim, Another Coop Heist, Discreet Eliminators and Carrion City. Subjects include the occult and supernatural, angels, zombies, subcultures and Los Angeles.

Anne Rice

50 books• 14 series

Born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien in New Orleans on October 4, 1941, Anne Rice was an American author of Gothic fiction, erotic literature and Bible fiction who died on December 11, 2021. The Vampire Chronicles are Rice's best-known work, and the first volume became the 1994 film Interview with the Vampire, adapted by Rice. Interview with the Vampire (1976) opens a catalogue of 50 books that closes with The Reign of Osiris in 2022. Other series include Lives of the Mayfair Witches, Sleeping Beauty, Ramses the Damned, Wolf Gift Chronicles and Life of Christ. Exit to Eden (1985) and Belinda (1986) carry the name Anne Rampling.

Paranormal romance is Christine Feehan's field, with vampires, shapeshifters and the Carpathians recurring across the work. Feehan's 119 catalogued books open with Dark Prince and Dark Desire (1999) and reach Dark Joy (2026). The Dark books head the list, joined by GhostWalkers, Leopard People, Torpedo Ink, Shadow Riders and the two Sea Haven sequences, Drake Sisters and Sisters of the Heart. The 2010s hold the largest share of the catalogue.

Kelley Armstrong, born 14 December 1968, is a Canadian writer working mainly in fantasy since 2001. Thirty-one fantasy novels carry the Armstrong name, thirteen of them in Women of the Otherworld, five in Cainsville, six in the Rockton books, and three each in Darkest Powers, Darkness Rising and Age of Legends. Armstrong also wrote the Nadia Stafford crime trilogy, three standalone teen thrillers, and the middle-grade Blackwell Pages trilogy with Melissa Marr. The catalogue runs to 177 titles, from Bitten (2001) to Last Resort at Haven's Rock, scheduled for 2027, with subjects including werewolves, witches, vampires and the supernatural.

Deborah Harkness

9 books• 3 series

Deborah Harkness writes about witches, vampires, alchemy and the history of science, in both fiction and scholarship. The academic work came first, with John Dee's Conversations with Angels (1999) and The Jewel House (2007). A Discovery of Witches (2011) began the All Souls novels, continuing through Shadow of Night (2012) and The Book of Life (2014). Nine titles are catalogued in all, reaching The Black Bird Oracle, and Harkness remains actively publishing.

Melissa F. Olson writes urban fantasy and comics. The Old World books gather the Scarlett Bernard series, the Boundary Magic series, a number of short stories and two novellas; Nightshades, a Tor.com trilogy, stands apart from them. Twenty-three catalogued books run from Dead Spots in 2012 to Bloodsport in 2025, with vampires, witches, werewolves, magic and criminal investigation as the recurring subjects. Olson's comics work includes The Tall Tale Tour in Project: Cryptid, and Archaic, a 2025 series from Ahoy Comics.

Werewolves, vampires and shapeshifters populate Patricia Briggs's paranormal fantasy. Mercy Thompson, a shapeshifter who works as a car mechanic, leads the sequence that carries her name, and Alpha and Omega runs beside it, both with graphic novel adaptations. Briggs started with Masques (1993) and the Sianim and Hurog books before turning to the modern-day novels. The catalogue holds 54 titles and reaches Steel Rain in 2027.

Samantha Shannon

12 books• 2 series

Samantha Shannon, born Samantha Shannon-Jones on 8 November 1991, is a British novelist of queer dystopian and fantasy fiction. The Bone Season (2013) was the debut novel and the first of a seven-book series. The Priory of the Orange Tree, the first Shannon novel set outside that series, sold over a million copies and ranked among Bloomsbury's bestsellers of 2022. The catalogue holds 13 books through The Dark Mirror (2025), with The Moth Reborn due in 2027. Roots of Chaos is the other listed series.

Karen Chance is an American fantasy novelist. Chance grew up in Orlando, Florida, has lived in France, Great Britain, Hong Kong and New Orleans, taught history there, and has written full time since 2008. The Cassie Palmer books follow a clairvoyant who becomes the Pythia, chief seer of the supernatural world; Midnight's Daughter (2008) opens a spin-off from that sequence, and Dorina Basarab and Lia de Croissets are the other series. Forty-eight catalogued titles run from Touch the Dark (2006) to Rogue Elements (2026), at a median 418 pages. Vampires, clairvoyants and the occult recur as subjects.

Diana Rowland writes urban fantasy, best known for the Kara Gillian and White Trash Zombie series. Fifteen books are catalogued between 2009 and 2022. Mark of the Demon (2009) opens the catalogue, followed by Blood of the Demon (2010), Secrets of the Demon (2010), Sins of the Demon (2012), Touch of the Demon (2012), Fury of the Demon (2014) and Rise of the Demon (2022), while My Life as a White Trash Zombie (2011) names the second sequence. Before writing, Rowland worked as a bartender, blackjack dealer, pit boss, street cop, detective, computer forensics specialist, crime scene investigator and morgue assistant. She graduated from the 1998 Clarion West Writers Workshop, and in 2005 took first place in the third quarter of the Writers of the Future contest for the short story Schroedinger's Hummingbird. Rowland lives in south Louisiana.

Leanna Renee Hieber writes historical paranormal fantasy, with London, England, magic, the supernatural and good and evil among the recurring subjects. Her 24 books begin with Dark Nest (2008), followed by The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker (2009), also published as Strangely Beautiful. Hieber's series are Strangely Beautiful, Eterna Files, Dark Nest, Magic Most Foul, Spectral City and Glazier's Gap. America's Most Gothic (2025) is the newest title.