Greek mythology book series in reading order

by Rachel Smythe

by Kate McMullan

by Joan Holub

by George O’Connor

by Rick Riordan

by Aimee Carter

Joan Holub, born in Texas in 1956, has written and illustrated over 180 children's books and also publishes as Rita Book and Brad Bucks. The catalogue lists 184 Holub titles from If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution (1987) to This Little Engineer (2023), with a median length of 48 pages. Subject tags include Greek mythology, Greek goddesses, stories in rhyme, schools and ants. Holub series include Goddess Girls, Mini Myths, Ant Hill, Doll Hospital, Young Princesses Around the World and Smart About History.

Rick Riordan

82 books• 19 series

Rick Riordan, born Richard Russell Riordan Jr. on June 5, 1964, is an American author. Riordan is best known for the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, which take in Percy Jackson & the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, The Trials of Apollo and The Nico di Angelo Adventures. The catalogue holds 82 books from 1997 to 2026, opening with Big Red Tequila (1997) and reaching The Lightning Thief in 2005; the Tres Navarre and Kane Chronicles lines also feature. Riordan's books have been translated into 42 languages and have sold more than 30 million copies in the United States. 20th Century Fox filmed the first two Percy Jackson books, a project Riordan had no part in.

Geraldine McCaughrean

155 books• 14 series

Geraldine McCaughrean, born 6 June 1951, is a British children's novelist with more than 170 books to that name. Peter Pan in Scarlet (2004) is the official sequel to Peter Pan, commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital. McCaughrean has won the Carnegie Medal twice and the Michael L. Printz Award. Myths, legends, folklore and Bible stories appear among the subjects, and series include Myths and Legends of the World, Roman Myths and Brambledown Tales. The catalogue holds 155 books from One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (1982) to Under a Fire-Red Sky (2025).

Rachel Smythe is the creator of Lore Olympus, a WEBTOON Originals comic that debuted in 2018. Graphic novel editions began in October 2021, and more than 2.3 million copies have been printed in the US. The work has been translated into 13 languages. The catalogue holds 13 books, from Lore Olympus: Volume One (2021) to Lore Olympus: Volume Eleven (2026), plus Lore Olympus: The Official Coloring Book (2024). Subjects include Greek mythology, retellings and romance.

Kate McMullan, born Kate Hall on January 16, 1947, is an American children's author with more than 100 published books. Myth-O-Mania and Dragon Slayers' Academy are the notable McMullan series, and others include Fluffy the Classroom Guinea Pig, Pearl and Wagner and Lila Fenwick. Greek mythology, knights, dragons, guinea pigs and school life feature in the subjects. The catalogue counts 124 books from 1984 to This Is the Tree We Planted (2022).

Mary Pope Osborne

166 books• 9 series

Mary Pope Osborne, born May 20, 1949, is an American children's author and audiobook narrator best known for the Magic Tree House series, which had sold more than 134 million copies worldwide by 2017. Awards have gone to both the series and Osborne, including recognition for work promoting children's literacy. Osborne attended the University of North Carolina and published a first book in 1982. The catalogue counts 166 Osborne books, from Run, Run, As Fast As You Can (1982) to Sea Otter Sunrise (2025). Time travel, tree houses, history, folklore and Greek mythology appear among the subjects.

Suzanne Williams writes children's fiction, and the subject records cite friendship, schools, magic, fairies, princesses, fairy tales and Greek mythology. The catalogue lists 58 books from Mommy Doesn't Know My Name (1990) to Aphrodite & the Dragon's Emerald (2023), with Library Lil (1997) among the early titles. Series include Grimmtastic Girls, Princess Power, Fairy Blossoms, Thunder Girls, Little Goddess Girls, Third-Grade Friends and Goddess Girls Super Special. Heroes in Training and Goddess Girls are among the linked names.

Kate O'Hearn is a Canadian writer of children's fantasy. O'Hearn's first book, Shadow of the Dragon: Kira, appeared in 2008 and grew into a series of its own; the catalogue now holds 18 titles, reaching Secrets of Atlantis (2023). Pegasus, Valkyrie, Escape From Atlantis and Shadow of the Dragon are the series credited to O'Hearn, and Greek mythology, dragons, young adult fiction and imaginary wars appear in the subject records. The median volume runs 440 pages across the 12 with a recorded count.

Jane Yolen

237 books• 22 series

Jane Yolen (Jane Hyatt Yolen, February 11, 1939 to June 11, 2026) was an American author of fantasy, science fiction and children's books. The Devil's Arithmetic, a Holocaust novella, is the best-known Yolen work, and Owl Moon and The Emperor and the Kite are among the others. The short works Sister Emily's Lightship and Lost Girls both won Nebula Awards. The catalogue counts 237 books from The Witch Who Wasn't (1964) to Daddy Plays a Mean Guitar (2026). Series include Commander Toad, How Do Dinosaurs...?, Pit Dragons, the Young Merlin Trilogy, Books of the Great Alta and Tartan Magic. Yolen worked as an editor, collaborated most often with Adam Stemple, and in 2012 became the first woman to give the Andrew Lang lecture.

Terry Deary

340 books• 41 series

Terry Deary is a British children's author, born in 1946, best known as the writer of the Horrible Histories series. Deary has written 351 books, which have sold more than 38 million copies in over 45 languages, and has ranked among Britain's best-selling authors since 1994. In 2012 Deary was the tenth most-borrowed author in British libraries, and Books for Keeps magazine named Deary the Outstanding Children's Non-Fiction Author of the 20th Century. The catalogue lists 340 titles from Teaching Through Theatre (1977) onward, including the True Stories and Tudor Terror series.

Greek and Norse gods are the subjects of George O'Connor's graphic novel series, Olympians and Asgardian. O'Connor, born November 5, 1973, is an American cartoonist, illustrator and author based in Brooklyn. The catalogue lists 22 books from Kapow! (2004) to Odin (2024), including Ker-splash! (2005), Uncle Bigfoot (2008) and the god-titled books Athena and Zeus (2010), Hera (2011) and Hades (2012).

Nathaniel Hawthorne

93 books• 1 series

Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Hathorne, July 4, 1804 to May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer from Salem, Massachusetts, where the family had deep roots. History, morality and religion are frequent concerns. Hawthorne graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825 and published the novel Fanshawe (1828), later trying to suppress it. Magazine stories were gathered as Twice-Told Tales (1837). The catalogue lists 93 titles, including Young Goodman Brown (1835) and The Minister's Black Veil (1836), and subjects include Puritans and the supernatural.

Jordanna Max Brodsky writes fantasy drawn from myth. Four books are catalogued: The Immortals (2016), Winter of the Gods (2017) and Olympus Bound (2018) make up the Olympus Bound series, with Greek gods and goddesses in an urban setting, and The Wolf in the Whale (2019) turns to the Arctic regions. Books are long, at a median of 498 pages, and nothing has followed since 2019.

Tony Abbott, born in 1952, is an American author of children's books. His Secrets of Droon fantasy series runs to more than 40 titles and is his most widely read work; he also wrote Firegirl and The Copernicus Legacy. Abbott has sold over 12 million copies and been translated into Italian, Spanish, Korean, French, Japanese, Polish, Turkish and Russian. The 105 catalogued books span Danger Guys (1994) to Junk Boy (2020), aimed largely at grades 1 to 3.

Kieran Scott, born 11 March 1974, is an American author who also publishes as Kate Brian. Under the Kate Brian name come chick lit books such as The Princess and the Pauper, The Virginity Club, Sweet 16, Fake Boyfriend and the Private series. Books under Scott's own name include She's So Dead to Us, Brunettes Strike Back, Geek Magnet and I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader, a YALSA Teens Top Ten nominee. The catalogue subjects include boarding schools, high schools, cliques and teenage girls, and the listing runs from 1998 to 2026.

Esther M. Friesner

51 books• 16 series

Esther M. Friesner, born July 16, 1951, is an American science fiction and fantasy author, poet and playwright known for humour in both titles and stories, which the work uses to address gender equality and social justice. The catalogue holds 51 books from Mustapha and His Wise Dog (1985) to Chicks and Balances (2015). Series include Chicks In Chainmail, Majyk, Demons, Tim Desmond, Nobody's Princess and Sphinx's Princess. Elf Defense and Here Be Demons both appeared in 1988.

Stephen King

223 books• 25 series

Horror fiction is the field most closely tied to Stephen King, an American author born on September 21, 1947, and nicknamed the "King of Horror". King's work also reaches into suspense, crime, science fiction, fantasy and mystery, and includes roughly 200 short stories, most later gathered in collections. Carrie (1974) was the debut that set King in horror; Different Seasons (1982), four novellas in one volume, marked the first major step outside it. The catalogue lists 223 books from 1971 to 2026, starting with The Blue Air Compressor, a short story, and reaching Other Worlds Than These (2026). Series on file include Holly Gibney, the Bill Hodges Trilogy, Green Mile, Shining and Talisman.

Greek mythology reworked as romantasy is Scarlett St. Clair's main line, above all in the Hades and Persephone books: A Touch of Darkness, A Touch of Ruin and A Touch of Malice, retold from the other side in A Game of Fate and A Game of Retribution. Adrian X Isolde, Blood of Lilith, When Stars Come Out and a fairy tale retelling series fill out 14 titles between 2018 and 2025. Books median 428 pages.

Meg Cabot

102 books• 20 series

Meggin Patricia Cabot, born February 1, 1967, is an American novelist of young adult and adult fiction. Meg Cabot wrote The Princess Diaries, a young adult series Walt Disney Pictures adapted into two feature films. Awards include the ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers and the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award. The catalogue lists 102 books from Where Roses Grow Wild (1998) to Kissing Cowboys (2026), including titles as Patricia Cabot and Jenny Carroll. Other series include Mediator, Heather Wells, Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls, Airhead and Little Bridge Island.

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.

Stephen Fry

29 books• 2 series

Stephen Fry is an English actor, comedian, writer and broadcaster, born in 1957. His 29 catalogued books run from A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1990) to Odyssey (2024), taking in The Liar (1991), The Hippopotamus (1994), Making History (1996) and Moab Is My Washpot (1997). Humour, English wit, comedians, diaries and travel are the recurring subjects. Two series are catalogued: A Bit of Fry and Laurie, drawn from the sketch show Fry made with Hugh Laurie, and Mythos. Fry continues to publish.

Dan Simmons

41 books• 9 series

Dan Simmons (1948-2026) wrote science fiction and horror, often mixing the two inside a single novel. The Hyperion Cantos is Simmons's central work, opening with Hyperion (1989) and continuing in The Fall of Hyperion (1990); the Ilium cycle is the other major sequence. Song of Kali (1985), his first book, won the World Fantasy Award. Simmons also wrote mysteries and thrillers, some following the recurring character Joe Kurtz, plus standalone horror, short fiction and non-fiction. 41 catalogued titles run to Omega Canyon (2020) at a median of 480 pages, with the 1990s his heaviest decade.

Robert Graves

68 books• 4 series

Robert Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 - 7 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and critic. Graves's father was the Irish poet Alfred Perceval Graves, a figure in the Gaelic revival, and father and son both studied Irish mythology. Graves produced more than 140 works, among them the First World War memoir Good-Bye to All That and The White Goddess (1948), a study of poetic inspiration. The catalogue lists 68 books, including I, Claudius (1934), Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (1934) and Count Belisarius (1938). Graves's two series in the catalogue are Claudius and Sergeant Lamb.

Rosemary Sutcliff (1920-1992) was an English novelist known above all for children's books, and within them for historical fiction and retellings of myth and legend. Some of the novels were written for adults; in a 1986 interview Sutcliff said the books were for children of all ages, from nine to ninety. The catalogue holds 56 titles between 1950 and 1997, opening with The Chronicles of Robin Hood (1950) and taking in The Eagle of the Ninth (1954), Outcast (1955), Beowulf: Dragonslayer (1956) and The Shield Ring (1956) before Sword Song (1997). Three series are catalogued: Marcus / Eagle of the Ninth, the Roman Britain Trilogy and the Arthurian books. Sutcliff was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1974.