Grandfathers book series in reading order

by Claudia Mills

by Eve Bunting

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

by Brandon Sanderson

by Patricia MacLachlan

Claudia Mills, born August 21, 1954, in New York City, is an American children's author and an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder. The catalogue lists 64 books from Luisa's American Dream (1981) to The Lost Language (2021). Series include Gus and Grandpa, West Creek Middle School, Franklin School Friends, Dinah, Mason Dixon and Nora Notebooks. Subjects include schools, friendship, grandparents, brothers and sisters, and popularity.

Gertrude Chandler Warner (April 16, 1890 to August 30, 1979) was an American author who wrote mostly for children. Warner wrote the original book of The Boxcar Children, published in 1942, and the next 18 books in the series. Earlier catalogued titles include The House of Delight (1916) and The World in a Barn (1927), and Surprise Island (1949) and The Yellow House Mystery (1952) came after The Boxcar Children. Orphans, brothers and sisters, and mystery stories are among the subjects. The catalogue also carries Boxcar Children lines such as Adventures of Benny and Watch and Boxcar Children Great Adventure under Warner's name.

Patricia MacLachlan (March 3, 1938 to March 31, 2022), born Patricia Marie Pritzkau, was an American children's writer. MacLachlan's novel Sarah, Plain and Tall won the Newbery Medal in 1986 and gave its name to a series. The catalogue holds 63 books for young readers, including the Barkus series, Arthur, for the Very First Time and My Poet (2022). Family life, dogs, grandparents, friendship and frontier life are frequent subjects.

Brandon Sanderson

109 books• 28 series

Brandon Sanderson, born December 19, 1975, is an American writer of high fantasy, science fiction and young adult fiction. Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive both belong to the Cosmere, a shared fictional universe. Outside the Cosmere, Sanderson wrote the Reckoners, Skyward and Alcatraz series, and completed Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. White Sand and Dark One are Sanderson's two graphic novels. Sanderson's Laws of Magic, a framework for hard and soft magic systems, carry the author's name. The catalogue lists 109 titles, from Centrifugal (1994) through Elantris (2005) to King Lopen the First of Alethkar (2026).

Eve Bunting, born Eve Bolton, was a Northern Irish-born American writer of more than 250 books who lived from December 19, 1928, to October 1, 2023. Bunting wrote fiction and non-fiction, mainly novels for children and young adults, and also wrote the text of picture books. Many of the books are set in Northern Ireland, where Bunting grew up, while others range in subject from Thanksgiving to riots in Los Angeles. The Two Giants (1971) was Bunting's first book. Series in the catalogue include Frog and Friends, Horse Stories, Dinosaur Machines and Pirate Captain's Daughter, and subjects include animals, horses, stories in rhyme and mystery stories.

Bill Wallace was an American teacher who turned children's author, living from 1947 to 2012. Wallace began telling stories to quiet a fourth-grade class, and the students' response pushed him toward publishing real books. A Dog Called Kitty opened the catalogue in 1980, and 39 titles follow, with dogs, cats, pets, courage and farm life recurring. Upchuck and the Rotten Willy, Gray Cat and Bub Moose are the series, at a median of 160 pages.

Ransom Riggs

16 books• 4 series

Ransom Riggs, born February 3, 1979, is an American writer and filmmaker, and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011) is the Riggs book best known to readers. Hollow City (2014), Library of Souls (2015) and A Map of Days (2018) appear in the catalogue alongside graphic novel editions, Tales of the Peculiar (2016) and Miss Peregrine's Journal for Peculiar Children (2016). The list of 16 titles begins with The Sherlock Holmes Handbook (2009). The Sunderworld series reached a second volume in 2026.

Andy McNab is the pen name of Steven Billy Mitchell, born 28 December 1959, a British novelist and former Special Air Service soldier. Public recognition came with Bravo Two Zero, an account of a Gulf War mission McNab led with the SAS, for which the Distinguished Conduct Medal followed; the Military Medal had come in 1979 for gallantry with the Royal Green Jackets in Northern Ireland. The catalogue lists 57 titles, among them two autobiographies, thrillers built around the intelligence officer Nick Stone, and books for younger readers in the Boy Soldier and Street Soldier sequences. The Rescue (2023) is the newest entry, and no further title is scheduled.

Sigmund Brouwer, born in 1959, is a Canadian author writing for children, young adults and adults, with more than 100 titles and four million books in print. Dead Man's Switch won the 2015 Arthur Ellis Award for best Canadian young adult mystery, and Shock Wave won the same award in 2025. Thief of Glory, a novel for adults, was named Book of the Year at the Christy Awards and also won an Alberta Readers Choice Award. The Last Disciple, co-authored with Hank Hanegraaff, was featured in Time magazine. The catalogue holds 162 books from Lost Beneath Manhattan (1990) to A Dangerous Game (2026), across series such as Accidental Detectives, Mars Diaries, Winds of Light, Lightning on Ice, Cyberquest and Robot Wars.

Nora Roberts

279 books• 37 series

Nora Roberts, born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950, is an American writer of romance under that name. As J. D. Robb, Roberts writes police procedurals with science-fiction elements, and has also published as Jill March and, in the UK, as Sarah Hardesty. This listing carries 280 Roberts books, opening with Irish Thoroughbred (1981); The Missing is scheduled for 2027. Series on the page include the In Death Universe, the MacGregors, Night Tales, the Calhoun Women, the Chesapeake Bay Saga, Irish Hearts and the O'Hurleys.

Janette Oke, born Janette Steeves on 18 February 1935, is a Canadian author of inspirational fiction, often set in pioneer times with women as the lead characters. Bethany House published Love Comes Softly, the first Oke novel, in 1979. When Calls the Heart (1983) opened the Canadian West series and became the basis for a television series with the same title. The catalogue holds 79 Oke books, with The Pharisee's Wife (2025) the newest. Series include Love Comes Softly, Prairie Legacy, Women of the West, Song of Acadia and Janette Oke's Animal Friends. Subjects include women pioneers, Canada and Christian fiction.

Charles Dickens

69 books• 3 series

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 to 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and journalist born in Portsmouth. At 12, Dickens left school to work in a boot-blacking factory while John Dickens, the writer's father, was held in a debtors' prison; three years later came a return to school, and then a start in journalism. The catalogue lists 69 Dickens titles, opening with Sketches by Boz (1836) and including The Pickwick Papers (1837), The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1838) and Barnaby Rudge (1841), with collected editions reaching The Complete Works of Charles Dickens (2026). Subjects include social conditions, classic literature and English Christmas stories.

Maya Corrigan writes the Five-Ingredient Mysteries, a run of 9 books published between 2014 and 2023. By Cook or by Crook (2014) opens the series and A Parfait Crime (2023) is the latest entry. Women cooks, grandfathers, restaurants and dinner tables fill the subjects, alongside murder and investigation in Maryland and Virginia. Food puns title almost every book: Scam Chowder, Final Fondue, The Tell-Tale Tarte, S'more Murders and Gingerdead Man among them. No new title has appeared since 2023.

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.

Jean Craighead George

100 books• 11 series

Julie of the Wolves won Jean Craighead George the Newbery Medal, and My Side of the Mountain (1959) earned a Newbery Honor. George, born July 2, 1919, and died May 15, 2012, was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, with the environment and the natural world as recurring themes. George also wrote at least two guides to cooking with wild foods and an autobiography, Journey Inward, and was the U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1964. The catalogue lists 100 books from Vulpes, the Red Fox (1948) to Crowbar: The Smartest Bird in the World (2015). Series include 13 Moons, Ecological Mysteries, American Woodland Tales and One Day in the..., and subjects name wolves, owls, falcons and ecology.

Michael Morpurgo

171 books• 5 series

Sir Michael Morpurgo, born 5 October 1943, is an English author, poet, playwright and librettist best known for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). Morpurgo served as the third Children's Laureate from 2003 to 2005 and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity. Recurring themes include outsiders who triumph, survival and bonds with nature, set in places such as the Cornish coast and the First World War trenches. The catalogue holds 171 books from It Never Rained (1974) to Down Burrow Lane (2026), including the Mudpuddle Farm series.

T.A. Barron

29 books• 4 series

T.A. Barron, born in 1952, is an American writer of fantasy for children and young adults, and of nature books. The Merlin Saga is the best-known work, running from The Lost Years (1996) through The Seven Songs (1997), The Raging Fires (1998), The Mirror of Fate (1999) and A Wizard's Wings (2000). The Adventures of Kate began earlier with Heartlight (1990) and The Ancient One (1992), and an Atlantis Saga followed. Wizards, dragons, magic and the natural world are the recurring subjects, alongside nature writing such as To Walk in Wilderness (1993). Twenty-nine titles are catalogued, reaching Naming Nature in 2026.

Elisabetta Dami

309 books• 22 series

Elisabetta Dami, born 1 January 1958, is an Italian children's author known for the Geronimo Stilton book series. The catalogue credits Dami with 309 books from 1998 to 2026. Titles from 2000 include Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye, Attack Of The Bandit Cats and Four Mice Deep in the Jungle. Other listings include Geronimo Stilton: Thea Stilton, Mouseford Academy, Kingdom Of Fantasy, Geronimo Stilton Cavemice, Geronimo Stilton Spacemice and Creepella von Cacklefur. Subjects include mice, journalists, time travel and humorous stories. The Legend of Chocolate Hills (2026) is the newest title.

Eric Walters

207 books• 18 series

Eric Walters, full name Eric Robert Walters, is a Canadian author of young adult fiction and picture books, born March 3, 1957 and the writer of more than 130 books. The catalogue lists 207 books from Stand Your Ground (1994) to Werewolves Don't Keep Diaries (2026). Series include Camp X, Rule of Three, Orca Echoes, Tiger, War Of The Eagles, We All Fall Down, Catboy and Teen Astronauts. Subjects include basketball, survival, orphans, the Second World War and adventure.

Laura Joffe Numeroff

60 books• 3 series

Laura Joffe Numeroff is an American children's author and illustrator, born in 1953, known above all as the author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. The If You Give... books form her main series, with ...Do Best and Jellybeans beside them. The catalogue records 60 Numeroff titles between Amy for Short (1976) and Ponyella (2021). Animals, friendship and stories in rhyme recur as subjects, and the median book runs 32 pages.

Shane Peacock

24 books• 7 series

Born in Port Arthur, Ontario in 1957, Shane Peacock works in Canada as a novelist, playwright, journalist and television screenwriter. The Boy Sherlock Holmes books, written for young adults, are Peacock's best known series, published in ten countries and twelve languages. Sherlock Holmes as a fictional character heads the subject records, with mystery and detective stories beside him. The catalogue runs to 24 titles between Great Farini (1996) and A Place of Secrets (2025), and also holds the Dylan Maples Adventures, the Dark Missions of Edgar Brim and the Northern Gothic Mysteries.

Historical adventure is the core of Chris C.C. Humphreys's catalogue, 21 books from The French Executioner (2001) to The Double Life of Eve Sinclair (2026). Humphreys's series include French Executioner, Jack Absolute, Runestone Saga, Captain Coke, Roxy Loewen Mystery and Immortal's Blood. Executioners, relics, London and time travel appear among the subjects. Titles include The Blooding of Jack Absolute (2004), The Fetch (2006) and Vlad (2008).