Games book series in reading order

by J.H. Brennan

by Dan Gutman

by Lauren Child

by Richmal Crompton

by Reki Kawahara

Tracey West, born October 1, 1965, is a children's author who writes for licensed series such as Pokémon and SpongeBob SquarePants. The catalogue lists 356 titles from 1988 to 2027, reaching Heart of the Ruby Dragon (2026), with Claw of the Diamond Dragon due in 2027. Named series include Pokémon chapter books, novelizations and readers, Naruto Chapter Books, LEGO Ninjago Reader, Bakugan Chapter Books, Pixie Tricks, Pet Vet Club and Scream Shop Pick Your Path. Dragon Masters and Heroes in Training appear as recurring lines. Ninja, dragons and plot-your-own stories appear among the subject headings.

Crazy Corey is the name on 13 catalogued books from 2018 to 2025, placed in the Grades 3-5 category. Subjects recorded for the books are games, family, art, and comics and graphic novels. Whippersnapper Edition and Sassy Lassy Edition (2018) are the earliest titles, and a set of age editions from 6 Year Old Edition to 12 Year Old Edition appeared in 2019. Would You Rather? Halloween Edition (2025) is the newest.

J.H. Brennan wrote about the occult and wrote games for children. The nonfiction covers magic, reincarnation, astral projection, parapsychology and the New Age movement, starting with Astral Doorways and Five Keys to Past Lives in 1971 and taking in The Occult Reich (1974). The fiction includes the Sagas of the Demonspawn gamebooks, Barmy Jeffers and the prehistoric Shiva novels. The 60 catalogued titles date from 1971 to 2013, peaking in the 1980s.

R.L. Stine

589 books• 64 series

Robert Lawrence Stine, born October 8, 1943, is an American novelist who writes horror fiction for children. Goosebumps, the series Stine created, sold more than 400 million copies in 35 languages and grew into a franchise of two television series, video games, comics and two feature films. Fear Street, Stine's horror sequence for teenagers, passed 80 million copies and was adapted for film. Stine has been called the Stephen King of children's literature. The listing runs to 590 titles, from How to Be Funny (1978), published as Jovial Bob Stine, to How to Train Your Dummy, scheduled for 2027.

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.

Penny Warner writes in two halves. One is mystery: the Connor Westphal books, with deaf women and women journalists in the subject record, plus the Party-Planning and Food Festival mysteries, the Code Busters Club for children and Troop 13. That work has taken multiple Agatha Awards. The other half is practical non-fiction, more than 50 titles on cooking, parenting, parties and children's activities, starting with Healthy Snacks for Kids (1983). Seventy-one books are catalogued through The Search for the Missing Mascot (2025).

Winter Morgan writes short adventure novels for children set inside video games, chiefly Minecraft. Series include Unofficial Minecrafter's Adventure, Unofficial Minecrafters Academy, Unofficial Minecrafter Mysteries, Minecraft League of Griefers Adventure, Lost Minecraft Journals and Tales of a Terrarian Warrior. The 45 titles catalogued run from The Quest for the Diamond Sword (2014) to The Big Win (2021) at a median of 112 pages, and the list has been dormant since.

Jamie Thomson, born 14 November 1958, is a British writer, editor and game developer who won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 2012. Subjects include adventure games, fantasy games, magic and humorous stories, and the catalogue lists 39 books from Talisman of Death (1984) to The Serpent King's Domain (2018). Thomson's series include Way of the Tiger, Fabled Lands, Tales of the Fabled Lands, Falcon, Dark Lord, Crystal Maze Gamebooks and Starship Captain. Titles from 1985 include Avenger!, Assassin! and Usurper!. Mark Smith and Dave Morris each share credit on 1 book.

Mark Cheverton writes Minecraft adventure fiction for children. Gameknight999 is the central character, across Invasion of the Overworld (2013), Battle for the Nether (2014), Confronting the Dragon (2014) and Saving Crafter (2015), with Herobrine and Entity303 supplying the antagonists of the Herobrine Reborn, Mystery of Herobrine and Wither War runs. Cyberbullying, zombies and video games sit among the subjects. The catalogue holds 31 books between 2012 and 2021.

Dav Pilkey

86 books• 12 series

Dav Pilkey, born David Murray Pilkey Jr. on March 4, 1966, is an American comic book writer, author and illustrator of children's fiction. Captain Underpants and the graphic novel spin-off Dog Man are the series Pilkey is best known for. Dog Man appears under the pen names George Beard and Harold Hutchins, which are also the names of the two Captain Underpants protagonists. The catalogue holds 86 books from World War Won (1987) to A Sprinkle in Time (2026), and the Dragon, Dumb Bunnies, Ricky Ricotta and Cat Kid Comic Club lines also feature.

H.G. Wells

152 books• 8 series

H.G. Wells, born Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), was an English writer of more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. Science fiction novels are the work Wells is most known for today, and Wells shares the title of father of science fiction with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. The non-fiction covers social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography and autobiography. The catalogue opens with The Chronic Argonauts (1888) and includes The Time Machine (1895), The Wonderful Visit (1895) and The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896). Utopias, civilization and philosophy appear among the subjects.

Chris Van Allsburg

20 books• 5 series

Chris Van Allsburg, born June 18, 1949, is an American author and illustrator of children's books. Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985), both written and illustrated by Van Allsburg, won Caldecott Medals and were later filmed, and The Garden of Abdul Gasazi (1979) was a Caldecott runner-up in 1980. Van Allsburg was the 1986 U.S. nominee for the International Hans Christian Andersen Award. The catalogue lists 20 books through The Misadventures of Sweetie Pie (2014), including The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (1984) and Two Bad Ants (1988).

Goscinny wrote comics. Asterix and Lucky Luke are the two recurring creations, joined by Iznogoud, Dogmatix and the Nicholas books. Asterix the Gaul (1959) is the earliest entry, with Asterix and the Golden Sickle (1960), Asterix and the Goths (1961), Asterix the Gladiator (1962) and Asterix and Cleopatra (1963) following in quick order. The catalogue holds 107 titles dated 1959 to 2011, averaging 48 pages. Gauls, cowboys and caricature run through the subject list.

Mel Odom's 86 catalogued books range from Lethal Interface (1992) to The Legend of Bass Reeves (2025). Subjects list television tie-ins, children's fiction, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, vampires, witches and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Series include Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal, Rover, Left Behind: Apocalypse, Hunter's League, Blackpool Mysteries, Hellgate: London, Makaum War and F.R.E.E.Lancers, and Forgotten Realms and Net Force appear among the characters.

Dr. Block writes children's fiction pitched at grades 3 to 5, with games, computers and computer software logged among its subjects. Diary of a Surfer Villager 1 (2015) opens a catalogue of 47 books that runs to Pyrrhic Victory, Part 2 in 2025. The 2020s account for most of the output, and the median volume runs 160 pages.

Stephanie Garber

9 books• 2 series

Stephanie Garber is an American writer of young adult fantasy. Caraval and Once Upon a Broken Heart are two trilogies that connect to one another. The catalogue lists 9 books from Caraval (2017) to The Mirror of Infinite Endings (2026), including Legendary, Finale, A Curse for True Love and Spectacular. Magic, sisters, festivals and the performing arts appear among the subjects, alongside fantasy romance. Garber's catalogue is still growing.

Gary Paulsen

181 books• 17 series

Survival and outdoor adventure run through Gary Paulsen's writing for young readers. The catalogue holds 181 books, from Some Birds Don't Fly (1968) to Northwind (2022), at a median length of 105 pages. Brian Robeson, Francis Tucket, Duncan Culpepper, Murphy and the World of Adventure books head the series lines, with non-fiction and picture books alongside. No new Paulsen title has appeared since 2022.

Suzanne Collins

16 books• 6 series

Suzanne Collins, born August 10, 1962, is an American author and television writer best known for The Hunger Games, a young adult dystopian series. Collins also wrote The Underland Chronicles, a children's fantasy series. The catalogue lists 16 Collins books, from Takeout Stakeout (1997) to Sunrise on the Reaping (2025), with Gregor the Overlander (2003) and The Hunger Games (2008) along the way.

Enid Blyton

957 books• 42 series

Enid Blyton (11 August 1897 to 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer and one of the best-selling authors of children's literature, with more than 600 million copies sold and translations into ninety languages. Blyton wrote on education, natural history, fantasy, mystery and biblical stories. Noddy, the Famous Five, the Secret Seven, the Five Find-Outers and Malory Towers are the best-remembered Blyton books, and St Clare's, Mary Mouse and Toyland Stories are also listed. The catalogue opens with The Enid Blyton Book of Fairies (1924), and The Naughtiest Girl in the School (1930) and The Adventures of the Wishing-Chair (1937) follow. Titles dated after Blyton's death also appear, up to Stories of Wonders and Wishes (2023).

Robin Jones Gunn

99 books• 14 series

Robin Jones Gunn is an award-winning Christian author of more than 100 books. Christy Miller and Sierra Jensen are series for teen girls, and Christy Miller's characters carry on in Christy and Todd: College Years, Christy & Todd: The Married Years, Christy & Todd: The Baby Years and Katie Weldon. Glenbrooke and Sisterchicks are further series, and Sisterchicks in Gondolas won the Christy Award in 2007. The site lists 99 books from 1985 to Shortbread in the Highlands (2026), starting with the Billy 'n' Bear titles of 1985.

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.

Chris Grabenstein

54 books• 14 series

Chris Grabenstein is an American author who writes for adults and for children, the children's books often with collaborator James Patterson. Grabenstein's first novel, Tilt-a-Whirl, appeared in 2005; the John Ceepak mysteries are the police-procedural strand, set in New Jersey. On the children's side sit Mr. Lemoncello's Library, Welcome to Wonderland, the Haunted Mystery books, Dog Squad and The Smartest Kid In The Universe. Fifty-seven books are catalogued through 2026, the newest being Mr. Lemoncello's Wondermous Christmas Gift.

Franklin W. Dixon is the author name on the Hardy Boys books, and the catalogue lists 473 titles under the Dixon name from 1927 to 2023. The Tower Treasure, The House on the Cliff and The Secret of the Old Mill all date from 1927. Dixon series include Hardy Boys Casefiles, Hardy Boys Adventures, Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, Hardy Boys: Secret Files and Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Super Mystery, plus the Ted Scott Flying Stories. Undercover Bookworms (2023) is the newest title.

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.