Fate and fatalism book series in reading order

Tad Williams

41 books• 10 series

Robert Paul "Tad" Williams, born March 14, 1957, is an American fantasy and science fiction writer. Williams wrote the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Otherland, Shadowmarch and Bobby Dollar series, plus the standalone novels Tailchaser's Song and The War of the Flowers. The Last King of Osten Ard closed with The Navigator's Children in 2024. Sales of Williams's work exceed 17 million copies. Comics work includes The Next for DC Comics and Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #50 to #57. The catalogue holds 41 books, from Tailchaser's Song (1985) to The Splintered Sun (2026).

Leslie Gould writes Christian fiction, and subjects include the Amish and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Series include Courtships of Lancaster County, Neighbors of Lancaster County, Sisters of Lancaster County, Letters from Lancaster County, Cousins of the Dove, Plain Patterns and Amish Memories. The catalogue counts 41 books from Garden of Dreams (2003) to When They Met Again (2026), with Courting Cate (2012) among them. Subjects also include family life, friendship, gardening and Christian romance.

The Violets of March and The Bungalow, both 2011, open Sarah Jio's catalogue of 11 novels, which reaches 2025 and continues. Jio writes women's fiction with mystery and romance running through it, at a median 290 pages. Recurring subjects include women journalists, Seattle, fate, marriages, older women and life-changing events. Jio, born in 1978, worked as an American journalist and has reached the New York Times bestseller list.

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.

Kate Atkinson

19 books• 6 series

Kate Atkinson is an English author of novels, plays and short stories, born 20 December 1951. The fiction spans historical, detective and family novels with postmodern and magical realist elements. Behind the Scenes at the Museum, the 1995 debut, won the Whitbread Book Award; Life After Life and A God in Ruins won the Costa Novel Award in 2013 and 2015. The Jackson Brodie detective series became the BBC One series Case Histories. The catalogue holds 19 books from 1995 to Our Noble Selves (2026), and a Todd Family series appears alongside Jackson Brodie.

Alice Hoffman

52 books• 10 series

Alice Hoffman, born March 16, 1952, is an American novelist who also writes for young adults and children. Practical Magic (1995) became a 1998 film of the same name and grew into a media franchise. Magic realism runs through much of the work, with elements of magic, irony and unconventional romances. The catalogue counts 52 books, starting with Property Of (1977) and The Drowning Season (1979) and reaching The Witches of Cambridge (2026). Series include Practical Magic, Once Upon a Time Bookshop Stories, Water Tales and Green Angel, plus picture books. Subjects include Massachusetts, mothers and daughters, friendship and family life.

Erin Hunter is the name on 169 catalogued books, published from 2003 onward and filed as children's fantasy fiction. Into the Wild, Fire and Ice and Forest of Secrets (all 2003) are the earliest. Series listings include Warriors: The New Prophecy, Warriors: Power of Three, Warriors: Omen of the Stars, Warriors: Dawn of the Clans and Warriors: The Broken Code. Seekers, Survivors, Bravelands and Bamboo Kingdom also appear. Subjects include cats, feral cats, bears, dogs, adventure and manga. Darktail's Judgment (2026) is the newest, with False Dawn due in 2027.

Kristen Painter writes paranormal fiction, with vampires, magic, immortality and murder investigations among the subjects and paranormal and fantasy romance among the categories. The catalogue lists 88 books from 2010 to 2027, starting with All Fired Up and Heart of Fire in 2010. Painter's series include House of Comarré, Crescent City, First Fangs Club, Shadowvale, A Midlife Fairy Tale, Crimson Code and the Nocturne Falls mysteries featuring Jayne Frost. The Ranger Courts the Celtic Witch (2026) is the newest title, and Heir to Stay is due in 2027.

Stephen R. Donaldson

32 books• 8 series

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant is Stephen R. Donaldson's central work, opening with Lord Foul's Bane (1977) and continuing through the Second Chronicles and the Last Chronicles. Donaldson is an American novelist working in fantasy, science fiction and mystery. His 32 catalogued books also hold the Gap science fiction sequence, Mordant's Need, The Great God's War, and the Man Who mysteries, which feature the private investigators Mick Axbrewder and Ginny Fistoulari. The catalogue runs to The Killing God (2022) and has been dormant since.

Garth Nix

51 books• 11 series

Garth Nix, born Garth Richard Nix on 19 July 1963, is an Australian writer of children's and young adult fantasy, including the Old Kingdom, Seventh Tower and Keys to the Kingdom series. Asked often whether the name is a pseudonym, Nix has said it is a real name that happens to suit a fantasy writer. The catalogue lists 51 books, from The Ragwitch (1990) through Sabriel (1995) and Shade's Children (1997) to Massif (2026). Other Nix series include Troubletwisters, Have Sword, Will Travel and Left-Handed Booksellers of London. Subjects include magic, castles, good and evil, and space and time.

Wilkie Collins

88 books

Wilkie Collins, born William Wilkie Collins on 8 January 1824 and died on 23 September 1889, was an English novelist and playwright. The Woman in White (1860) is an early sensation novel; The Moonstone (1868) set out much of what the modern detective novel came to do, and stands as an early example of the police procedural. Collins was the son of the London painter William Collins and Harriet Geddes, spent two years in Italy and France from the age of twelve, learned Italian and French there, and worked at first as a tea merchant. The catalogue holds 88 titles, from Iolani; Or, Tahiti as It Was (1840) onward, with the 1850s the heaviest decade.

Shannon Hale

62 books• 11 series

Shannon Hale, born Shannon Bryner on January 26, 1974, is an American author mainly of young adult fantasy. Princess Academy (2005) earned a Newbery Honor, and The Goose Girl (2003) opens the catalogue. Austenland (2007), the first novel for adults, became a film in 2013. Hale graduated from the University of Utah and the University of Montana, and has co-written with husband Dean Hale. The catalogue lists 63 titles through The Princess in Black and the Trick-or-Treating Trouble (2026), across series including Princess In Black, Books of Bayern, Real Friends and Kitty-Corn.

Kirsten Miller, born 1973, is an American novelist who created the Kiki Strike series. Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City (2006) opened the series, and The Empress's Tomb followed in October 2007. The books follow Kiki Strike, Ananka Fishbein and their friends through the tunnels and hidden rooms beneath New York City. The idea came in 2001, when the lawn of a Manhattan nursing home collapsed to reveal an underground room. The catalogue lists 18 books up to The Women of Wild Hill (2025), with The Eternal Ones and Last Reality as further series.

Darren Shan

67 books• 7 series

Darren Shan is the pseudonym of Darren O'Shaughnessy, an Irish writer born on 2 July 1972. The Saga of Darren Shan, The Demonata and Zom-B are the young adult series O'Shaughnessy is best known for. The Saga of Darren Shan became a manga from 2006 to 2009 and a live-action film in 2009, and a prequel, The Saga of Larten Crepsley, followed from 2010 to 2012. Koyasan and The Thin Executioner are other children's books under the Shan name, and Archibald Lox was self-published from 2020 to 2022. The catalogue lists 67 books from 1999 to 2022, with vampires, demonology, zombies and horror among the subjects.

Kerry Wilkinson, born in Bath in 1980, is a British author and sports journalist. D.S. Jessica Daniel is his longest-running detective, introduced in Locked In (2011); Andrew Hunter, Whitecliff Bay Mysteries, Silver Blackthorn and Sleepover follow, the fourth of them science fiction. Ten Birthdays took the Romantic Novelists' Association award for Young Adult Novel of the Year in 2018, making Wilkinson one of the first two men to win a RoNA award in the organisation's 58-year history, and Close To You won an International Thriller Writers award for best ebook original. In March 2023 Wilkinson wrote in The Bookseller about an autism diagnosis received in adulthood. The catalogue holds 60 books through 2026.

Roshani Chokshi

18 books• 4 series

Roshani Chokshi, born February 14, 1991, is an American children's author and a New York Times bestselling author. The catalogue lists 18 Chokshi books from The Vishakanya's Choice (2015) to The Swan's Daughter (2026). Series include the Pandava Quartet, The Star-Touched Queen and The Gilded Wolves, and titles include Aru Shah and the End of Time (2018) and The Gilded Wolves (2019). Subjects include fantasy, magic, the supernatural, demonology and fate.

Tessa Gratton writes for adults and for young adults: The Queens of Innis Lear and Lady Hotspur were published by Tor Books, and the young adult work takes in the Blood Journals and United States of Asgard series plus the original fairy tales Strange Grace and Night Shine. Gratton's novels and short stories have been translated into twenty-two languages and twice nominated for the Tiptree Award. Norse mythology, gods, witches, fate and prophets run through the recorded subjects. The catalogue holds 21 books from Blood Magic (2011) to The Shape of Monsters (2026), and Queens of Innis Lear, Moon Heresies and Star Wars: The Acolyte are among the series on file.

Mindy McGinnis is an American writer of young adult fiction. Notable McGinnis works include A Madness So Discreet (2015), The Female of the Species (2016), Heroine (2019) and Be Not Far from Me (2020). Not a Drop to Drink (2013) is the earliest catalogued title, and McGinnis's series are Not A Drop To Drink, the Given Duet and Initial Insult. Subject tags include survival, water supply, revenge and high school students. What Rough Beast (2026) is the newest book, and The First Cut Is the Deepest is due in 2027.

Lisa Fiedler writes children's fiction. The catalogue holds 15 books dated between 1998 and 2019, from Lucky Me (1998) to We Walked the Sky (2019). Three series stand under the Fiedler name: Mouseheart, Stagestruck and Ages of Oz. Recorded subjects include witches, friendship, twins, rats, theatre, schools and detective and mystery stories, with the Olsen twins listed among the fictitious characters. The listing also carries Mary-Kate & Ashley franchise titles, among them Starring in Switching Goals (1999) and The Case of the Cheerleading Camp Mystery (2000).