Fashion book series in reading order

by Chloe Taylor

by Jane O’Connor

Melody Carlson, born March 2, 1956 in San Francisco, is an American author of more than 250 books for women, teens and children, including the Diary of a Teenage Girl series. The catalogue lists 298 books from 1995, when Contemplative Bible Reading and How to Start a Quality Childcare Business in Your Home appeared, to All Booked Up (2026). Series include Carter House Girls, On The Runway, TrueColors, 86 Bloomberg Place, Secret Life of Samantha McGregor, Beary Patch Bears and Fruit Troops. Subjects include Christian life, high schools, friendship, Bible stories and stories in rhyme. Carlson grew up in Springfield, Oregon, attended Lane Community College and lives in Sisters, Oregon.

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.

Nancy Krulik writes for children, and the catalogue lists Grades 1-3 as the reading level. Series credited to Krulik include Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo, How I Survived Middle School, Magic Bone, Princess Pulverizer and Project Droid, and George Brown, Class Clown appears among the characters. Subjects range across magic, schools, friendship, dogs, robots and humorous stories. The most recent listed book is Fangs for Having Us! (2021), and the catalogue marks the output as dormant.

Chloe Taylor is catalogued with the Sew Zoey series, children's fiction about a middle school student, fashion design and sewing. Titles from 2013 include Ready to Wear, Lights, Camera, Fashion!, On Pins and Needles and Stitches and Stones. A Change of Lace, A Tangled Thread, Bursting at the Seams and Cute as a Button followed in 2014, and Cut from the Same Cloth (2016) is the latest. Friendship, blogs and toleration also appear among the subjects.

Daisy Meadows is the name on the Rainbow Magic children's books, a fantasy line whose subjects include fairies, goblins, Jack Frost and two girls, Kirsty Tate and Rachel Walker. The catalogue opens in 2003 with colour-fairy titles such as Ruby the Red Fairy, Amber the Orange Fairy and Fern the Green Fairy, and runs to Nur the Vlogger Fairy (2023). Sub-series include the Weather, Jewel, Party, Pet Keeper, Dance, Ocean and Showtime Fairies. Magic Animal Friends appears under the same name.

Kendall Ryan, born August 15, 1981, is an American novelist on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller lists. Ryan writes romance, new adult fiction and romantic comedy, and the books have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. Self-published successes include Resisting Her, Hard to Love, The Impact of You and Filthy Beautiful Lies, while the Love By Design series was published by Simon & Schuster. The catalogue holds 91 titles, opening with Make Me Yours and Unravel Me (both 2012) and reaching The Boyfriend Algorithm (2026). Hot Jocks, Room Mates, Looking to Score, Frisky Business and Must Love Hockey are among the series.

Holly Smale

14 books• 2 series

British writer Holly Miranda Smale, born 7 December 1981, wrote the Geek Girl series. Geek Girl, the first book, won the 2014 Waterstones Children's Book Prize and made the shortlist for the 2013 Roald Dahl Funny Prize; HarperCollins published the final book, Forever Geek, in March 2017. Smale's first adult novel, titled The Cassandra Complex in the UK and Cassandra in Reverse in the US, was Reese's Book Club's June 2023 pick and a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick. The catalogue lists 14 books from 2013 to I Know How This Ends (2025), including a Valentines series listing, and subjects include teenage models, fashion and self-confidence.

Carol Marinelli writes contemporary romance, including medical romance, and has 137 books in the catalogue from The Outback Nurse (2001) to Italian's Cinderella Temptation (2025). Born in England to Scottish parents, Marinelli emigrated to Australia and lives in the outer suburbs of Melbourne. Marinelli first tried writing for Harlequin Mills & Boon while training as a nurse in London and gathered rejections for years before studying the detailed feedback in them. Early titles include The Emergency Assignment and The Pregnant Intern (both 2002). Series include House of Kolovsky, Irresistible Russian Tycoons, Tennengarrah Clinic, Playboys of Sicily and Ruthless Royal Sheikhs.

Jane O'Connor is the writer of Fancy Nancy, a children's picture book series begun in 2005 and illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. The first Fancy Nancy book stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for nearly 100 weeks, and the series grew past 100 titles and 50 million copies sold, with translations into 20 languages including Hungarian and Hebrew. Nancy moved into chapter books in April 2012 with Nancy Clancy: Super Sleuth. The catalogue lists 134 O'Connor books from Yours Till Niagara Falls, Abby (1979) to Besties for Eternity (2025), across series such as Lulu the Witch, Sir Small and Miranda Bookman.

Coco Simon is the name on Cupcake Diaries and its companion series for middle-grade readers. Katie and the Cupcake Cure (2011) opens a catalogue of 63 books that reaches Natalie's Sprinkle of Light (2025). Sprinkle Sundays, Donut Dreams, Cupcake Diaries: The New Batch and a graphic novel line follow. Friendship, middle school and baking are the recurring subjects, and the books run to a median 144 pages.

Ann M. Martin

446 books• 24 series

Ann Matthews Martin, born August 12, 1955, is an American writer of children's and young adult fiction and a Smith College graduate. The Baby-Sitters Club, first published in 1986, is the series Martin is known best for, and Martin remains involved with the series and its spin-offs. The catalogue lists 446 books, beginning with Inside Out and Bummer Summer in 1983. Related lines include Baby-Sitters Club Mysteries, California Diaries, Kids in Ms. Colman's Class, Main Street and Doll People. Jessi Ramsey, Pet-sitter: A Graphic Novel (2025) is the newest listed title.

Sharon M. Draper

31 books• 5 series

Sharon M. Draper is an American children's writer and professional educator, named National Teacher of the Year in 1997 and a two-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for books on young and adolescent African American experience. The Hazelwood High and Jericho series, Out of My Mind, Romiette and Julio, Copper Sun and Double Dutch are her best-known titles, alongside the Clubhouse Mysteries and Sassy series. Draper's catalogue holds 31 books dated 1970 to 2024, at a median 183 pages, taking in school stories, friendship, family life, race relations and death.

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.

Vampires, demonology and man-woman relationships head the subject list for Kathy Love, whose catalogue runs to 20 paranormal and fantasy romances published between 2004 and 2022. The sequence opens with Getting What You Want (2004) and reaches Who Let the Dogs Out (2022). Six series carry the Love credit: Young Brothers, New Orleans Vampires, Stepp Sisters Trilogy, Devilishly, Hoodoo Bayou and Cauldron Crew.

Scott Pilgrim is the series most closely tied to Bryan Lee O'Malley, a Canadian cartoonist. The catalogue lists 12 books from 2003 to 2025, starting with Lost at Sea (2003). Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (2004) and Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour (2010) appear in the list. Seconds (2014), Green Hair Don't Care (2017) and California Screaming (2018) follow, and the series list also names Snotgirl. Make It Make Sense! (2025) is the newest.