Human-animal relationships book series in reading order

by Terri Farley

by Daisy Meadows

by Kate Klimo

by Paula Harrison

by Stacy Gregg

by W. Bruce Cameron

W. Bruce Cameron

42 books• 8 series

Dogs and the people attached to them are the subject of W. Bruce Cameron's fiction. A Dog's Purpose (2010) opens that strand, followed by A Dog's Journey, A Dog's Way Home and the Puppy Tales retellings including Bailey's Story, with the Lily to the Rescue! books written for younger readers. Cameron also wrote the humour title 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter (2001). Forty-five books reach Piper's Story in 2025.

Jon Katz

36 books• 1 series

Dogs and farm life fill the later part of Jon Katz's catalogue; crime fiction fills the earlier. Katz, born in 1947, is an American journalist and photographer who wrote for HotWired, Slashdot and Slate, and whose first books include the Suburban Detective novels and the character Kit Deleeuw. Writing on geek subculture followed, then a long sequence on the relationship between people and animals, closing with Gus's Year in 2020. Thirty-six titles in all.

Maggie Stiefvater

31 books• 7 series

Maggie Stiefvater is an American author of young adult fantasy, born Heidi Hummel on November 18, 1981. The Wolves of Mercy Falls and The Raven Cycle are the series Stiefvater is best known for. The catalogue lists 31 books from Lament (2008), including Ballad, Shiver, Linger, Forever, The Scorpio Races and The Raven Boys. Other series named are Dreamer Trilogy, Pip Bartlett, Gathering Of Faerie and Curiosities. Subjects include magic, dreams, the supernatural and family secrets.

Jack Canfield, born August 19, 1944, is an American author and motivational speaker. Canfield co-authored the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has more than 250 titles and 500 million copies in print across over 40 languages. The Success Principles, written with Janet Switzer, followed in 2005. The catalogue lists 182 books from Dare to Win (1988) to Everyday Catholicism (2020), with Mark Victor Hansen co-credited on 148 and Amy Newmark on 46. Chicken Soup for the Soul appeared in 1993.

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.

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.

Horses carry the work of Terri Farley, an American writer of children's and young adult fiction. The Phantom Stallion series and its Wild Horse Island continuation account for most of her 39 catalogued books, set on ranches and around mustangs in the contemporary and historic West. Seven Tears into the Sea is her other widely read title, and Farley wrote the adult romance series Magical Love and Haunting Hearts as Tess Farraday. The run opens with The Wild One (2002) and reaches Horse Girl in 2026.

A Street Cat Named Bob (2012) made James Bowen's name and started a run of nine books about one animal. Bowen was a homeless street musician in London, and the books record his life with Bob the cat. The World According to Bob (2013), For the Love of Bob (2014) and A Gift from Bob (2015) follow, alongside children's titles such as Bob: No Ordinary Cat and My Name Is Bob, and the run closes with The Little Book of Bob (2018).

Elise Broach, born September 20, 1963, is an American writer of children's books. Broach earned undergraduate and graduate history degrees at Yale University and lives in Easton, Connecticut. Broach's novels include Shakespeare's Secret (2005), Desert Crossing (2006) and Masterpiece (2008). Her 25 catalogued books run to Duet (2022) and include shorter titles such as Wet Dog! alongside the Masterpiece Adventures and Missing on Superstition Mountain series.

Morris Gleitzman

52 books• 8 series

Morris Gleitzman is an Australian children's and young adult novelist. Two Weeks with the Queen (1990) drew attention to AIDS in children's fiction. Gleitzman co-wrote several series with Paul Jennings, among them Wicked!, which became an animated series in 2000, and he has collected three volumes of his newspaper columns for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald as books for adults. Earlier still, Gleitzman wrote for the Norman Gunston Show. The subject tags name the Second World War, Jews, stepfamilies and humorous stories, and the catalogue holds 52 titles ending with Always (2021).

StacyPlays is the name on a four-book children's adventure series: Guardians of the Taiga (2018), Escape to the Mesa (2019), Expedition on the Tundra (2020) and Sentinels in the Deep Ocean (2021). A girl and the wolves she lives among carry the story through forest, desert, tundra and ocean. The books are written for middle-grade readers at around 224 pages, and no fifth title has appeared since 2021.

Ellen Miles writes animal stories for readers in the early school grades. The Puppy Place books, about foster puppies looking for homes, anchor a catalogue of 88 titles published between 2000 and 2026, with Kitty Corner covering cats and the 7 Sister Mysteries and Taylor-Made Tales sitting alongside. Early entries are film novelisations, including The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas and Shanghai Knights. Books average 96 pages, and Milo arrived in 2026.

Sara Pennypacker writes children's books. Clementine, Waylon and the Amazing World of Stuart are the series under Pennypacker's name, and Pax, Leeva At Last, Summer of the Gypsy Moths and The Lions' Run are named among the other titles; several have reached the New York Times bestseller list. School, family life, friendship, siblings and humour are the recurring subjects. The catalogue holds 30 titles published between 1994 and 2026, from Dumbstruck (1994) to The Lions' Run (2026), and Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventure appears among the character entries.

Daryl Gregory

22 books• 2 series

Daryl Gregory, born 1965, is an American author of science fiction, fantasy and comic books. Gregory came through the Clarion science fiction workshop at Michigan State University in 1988 and took the 2009 Crawford Award for the novel Pandemonium. The catalogue holds 22 books, from Pandemonium (2008) to The Porcelain Sisters (2026), taking in The Devil's Alphabet (2009), Raising Stony Mayhall (2011) and Unpossible and Other Stories (2011). Dracula: The Company of Monsters is the series recorded under Gregory's name, and recorded subjects include horror, paranormal fiction, apes, human-animal relationships, and media tie-in comics.

James Patterson

510 books• 73 series

James Patterson, born on March 22, 1947, is an American writer whose catalogue here holds 514 books published from 1976 to 2027. The run opens with The Thomas Berryman Number (1976), and Along Came a Spider (1992) and Kiss the Girls (1995) follow later. Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, Witch & Wizard, NYPD Red, Private, Middle School and the Women's Murder Club are among the Patterson series, alongside standalone thrillers, non-fiction and romance. Marshall Karp shares the credit on 5 of the books. Patterson's sales exceed 425 million copies, and Patterson was the first person to sell one million e-books. Forbes ranked Patterson the highest-paid author in 2016, for a third year running, and the National Book Foundation gave Patterson the Literarian Award in November 2015. 27 Stars is scheduled for 2027.

Contemporary romance is the territory of Jill Shalvis, an American novelist whose work includes the Lucky Harbor books. The catalogue records 140 books, opening with Summer of Fire in 1996 and extending to Falling into You in 2026. Heartbreaker Bay, Wildstone, Animal Magnetism, Sunrise Cove, Cedar Ridge and Sky High Air are among the series. Firefighters, bush pilots, sisters, California and Washington state appear in the subject tags, and Shalvis is still publishing.

Susan Wittig Albert

67 books• 7 series

Susan Wittig Albert is an American mystery writer from Vermilion County, Illinois, who has also published as Robin Paige and Carolyn Keene. Before writing full time, Albert worked in academia and became the first female vice president of Southwest Texas State University. The catalogue lists 67 titles from 1992 to 2024. Thyme of Death (1992) comes first, then Witches' Bane (1993), Hangman's Root (1994) and Rosemary Remembered (1995), and Forget Me Never (2024) is the newest. Series include China Bayles, Darling Dahlias, Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, Crystal Cave and the Pecan Springs Enterprise Trilogy. Herbalists, Texas and the 1930s feature in the subject tags.

Katie Ruggle writes romantic suspense set in the Rocky Mountains, with search and rescue teams, firefighters, bounty hunters and police dogs among the casts. The Rocky Mountain K9 Unit, the Rocky Mountain Bounty Hunters and Beneath the Wild Sky are the main series, and the earliest work, from One-Two Punch (2008), appeared as Katie Allen. Twenty-nine books reach Take a Hike in 2025.

Jen Calonita is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of books for teens and middle grade readers, with sales above one million copies and translations into 15 languages. A Boston College graduate, Calonita worked as an entertainment journalist at Teen People, which inspired Secrets of My Hollywood Life (2007); that first book won the Louisiana Young Readers Award and grew into a six-book series. The catalogue counts 46 books through Practically Magic (2026), with The Vanishing Isle listed for 2027. Other series include Fairy Tale Reform School, Disney's Lost Legends, Isle of Ever, Royal Academy Rebels and Enchanters.

Guardians of Ga'Hoole is one of the series by Kathryn Lasky, an American children's writer born June 24, 1944, who writes for adults as Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Lasky's children's work also includes Dear America and The Royal Diaries books, Wolves of the Beyond, Sugaring Time and The Night Journey, and honours include a Newbery Honor, the National Jewish Book Award and the Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature. The catalogue holds 159 books from I Have Four Names for My Grandfather (1976) to Sacred Light (2026), including Tugboats Never Sleep (1977), The Weaver's Gift (1980) and Beyond the Divide (1983). Horses Of The Dawn, Bears Of The Ice and Camp Princess are further series, and subjects name owls, wolves, diaries and Jews.

Garth Stein, born in 1964, is an American novelist and film producer from Seattle. The Art of Racing in the Rain (2008) is the best known book, and the Enzo titles that followed carry dogs and motor racing into children's fiction. Eleven books are catalogued, from Raven Stole the Moon (1998) to The Cloven: Book Two (2023), the Cloven books among them. Stein also makes documentary films, writes plays, teaches and races as an amateur. No new title has been recorded since 2023.

Paula Harrison writes children's fiction about princesses, animal rescue, cats and friendship, and the catalogue lists 45 of Harrison's books from 2012 to 2021. The series are Rescue Princesses, Kitty, Secret Rescuers, Princess of Pets, Tiara Friends, Red Moon Rising, Faerie Tribe and Robyn Silver. The Secret Promise (2012) is the first title recorded, with The Wishing Pearl and The Snow Jewel among the early books. Kitty and the Twilight Trouble (2021) is the newest entry.

Kate Klimo writes juvenile literature, and the directory files the work for grades 1 to 3. 36 books are listed between 1974 and 2019, from Heroic Horses and Their Riders (1974) to Sunny (2019). Dog Diaries, Dragon Keepers and the Centauriad are the three series headings, and subject tags name dogs, horses, dragons, magic, eggs, cousins and human-animal relationships. The Alphabets Go to the Circus, The Alphabets in the Garden and The Alphabets on the Farm all date from 1982. A few listed titles, among them Labor Pains (1988) and Coming of Age...All Over Again (2007), sit outside the children's catalogue. The run is marked likely complete.

Stacy Gregg is a New Zealand author best known for Pony Club Secrets, children's novels about horses whose titles pair a pony with an event: Mystic and the Midnight Ride (2007), Blaze and the Dark Rider (2007), Comet and the Champion's Cup (2008), Storm and the Silver Bridle (2009). Issie and Blaze are among the recurring characters. At the 2024 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Gregg's Nine Girls took the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year. The catalogue holds 32 titles, with Spellbound Ponies and Pony Club Rivals beside the main series.