Identity book series in reading order

by Shannon Messenger

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by Tui T. Sutherland

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.

Caroline B. Cooney (born May 10, 1947) is an American writer of suspense, romance, horror and mystery for young adults. The catalogue counts 93 books from 1979 to The Wrong Good Deed (2023). Janie Johnson, Both Sides Of Time/Time Travelers, Losing Christina and Vampire's Promise are series. Early titles include Rear-View Mirror (1980), He Loves Me Not (1982) and Holly in Love (1983). Subjects include high schools, friendship, identity, popularity and vampires.

Tui T. Sutherland

58 books• 13 series

Tui T. Sutherland is an American children's author, born July 31, 1978, with more than 60 books written under Sutherland's own name and several pen names. Sutherland is best known for Wings of Fire, a series of dragon fantasy novels, and won $46,200 over three games on Jeopardy! in 2009. The catalogue lists 58 Sutherland books from Jewel Sticker Stories (2000) to The Hybrid Prince (2026), with Kari Sutherland credited on 2. Other listings include Pet Trouble, Avatars and Menagerie. Subjects include dragons, pets, dogs, prophecies and fantasy.

Shannon Messenger

16 books• 3 series

Shannon Messenger is an American author of middle-grade and young adult fantasy, published by Simon & Schuster. Keeper of the Lost Cities, begun in 2012, is her best-known series and a New York Times bestseller; its book 8.5, Unlocked, reached number 8 on the USA Today list in 2020. The young adult Sky Fall trilogy runs alongside, and a graphic novel adaptation of Keeper continues into 2025. Elves, psychic ability, memory and foster families are the standing subjects across 16 catalogued books.

Veronica Roth

27 books• 12 series

Divergent (2011) opens the catalogue of Veronica Roth, an American novelist and short story writer born August 19, 1988. Sales of the Divergent trilogy exceed 35 million copies worldwide. Insurgent (2012), Allegiant (2013) and Four (2014) follow early in the list, which counts 28 titles through Seek the Traitor's Son (2026). Carve the Mark, Curse Bearer and Sixth Faction are the other named series. Dystopias, courage, identity and social classes appear among the subject headings.

Tracy Wolff

71 books• 22 series

Tracy Wolff is the professional name of Tracy Deebs-Elkenaney, an American young adult author best known for the Crave series, who also writes as Tessa Adams. The catalogue lists 73 Wolff books, from No Apologies (2008) to It's Always Us (2026), with Mythfall scheduled for 2027. Other Wolff series include Dragon's Heat, Ethan Frost, Vilified, Shaken Dirty, Extreme Risk, Lone Star Witch, Diamond Tycoons, Fort Worth Wranglers, His Royal Hotness and Calder Academy. Subjects include romantic suspense, paranormal romance, erotica and mermaids.

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.

Kiersten White

32 books• 9 series

Kiersten White is an American author of fiction for children, young adults and adults. HarperCollins published Paranormalcy, the first White book, in 2010. The catalogue lists 32 White books; Supernaturally (2011), Endlessly (2012), The Chaos of Stars (2013), Illusions of Fate (2014) and And I Darken (2016) followed Paranormalcy, and The Fox and the Devil (2026) is the newest. Series include Paranormalcy, Conqueror's Saga, Camelot Rising and Sinister Summer. Subjects include sisters, princesses, fairies, prophecies, monsters and good and evil.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

131 books• 11 series

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, born in 1933, wrote 131 catalogued books for children and young adults across half a century. Shiloh, a quartet of children's novels, won the Newbery Medal in 1992, and the Alice McKinley series became one of the most frequently challenged sets of books of the early 21st century. The Boy/Girl Battle, Bessledorf Mysteries, Witch Saga, Cat Pack and Roxie and the Hooligans fill out the list, which runs from To Make a Wee Moon (1969) to Roxie and the Hooligans at Buzzard's Roost (2018). Family life, schools, friendship and siblings are the constant subjects, at a median of 154 pages.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

75 books• 4 series

Kevin Crossley-Holland, born 7 February 1941, is an English poet, translator and author for children. The Arthur trilogy (2000–2003) won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Storm, a 1985 novella, received the Carnegie Medal and in 2007, the medal's 70th anniversary, was named among the ten top winners. The catalogue lists 75 books from Havelok The Dane (1964) to Red the River Rises (2026), with King Horn: A Medieval Romance (1966), The Green Children (1968) and The Rain-Giver: Poems (1972) among them. Folklore, tales, poetry and the Middle Ages appear in the subjects.

Leo Lionni

48 books• 1 series

Leo Lionni wrote and illustrated picture books for children. Born in the Netherlands, Lionni worked as an advertising art director and then at Fortune magazine in the United States before turning to children's books in the 1960s. The 48 titles catalogued span 1948 to 2021 at a median of 32 pages, and take in Inch by Inch (1960), Swimmy (1963) and Frederick (1967); Inch by Inch won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. Mice, frogs, birds, colour and friendship recur across the list.

Anna Carey's catalogue holds 19 books dated 2009 to 2025, starting with Sloane Sisters (2009). Series listed for Anna Carey are Eve, Sloane Sisters, Little Green Pea, Blackbird Duology and This Is Not The Jess Show. Subject tags cover young adult fiction, science fiction and children's fiction, with themes of identity, survival, sisters, stepfamilies and amnesia. Our Song (2025) is the most recent title, and the catalogue is ongoing.

Colleen Coble is an American Christian novelist born January 19, 1952, in Wabash, Indiana, and raised on a farm in Wabash County. Coble writes romance, romantic suspense and historical fiction, with sales of roughly 6 million copies. Honours include the RITA from Romance Writers of America and the ACFW Book of the Year. The catalogue holds 92 titles, from A Heart's Disguise (1997) to Conspiracy (2026). Rock Harbor, Aloha Reef, Lonestar, Hope Beach, Mercy Falls, Lavender Tides, Pelican Harbor and Tupelo Grove are among the named series.

Ellen Hopkins

44 books• 7 series

Ellen Hopkins, born March 26, 1955, is a novelist with several New York Times bestselling titles, read largely by a teenage and young adult audience. Novels in verse are a recorded form in the catalogue, which takes in family problems, emotional problems and interpersonal relations. Hopkins also has a nonfiction strand for younger readers, and the earliest catalogued titles include Air Devils (2000), Orcas: High Seas Supermen (2000), Freshwater Fishing (2001) and The Thunderbirds (2001). The 44 catalogued books span 2000 to 2024 and take in the Crank, Burned and Tricks series.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

33 books• 9 series

Young adult novels are the core of Jennifer Lynn Barnes's work; the American writer, born October 19, 1984, is best known for the Inheritance Games saga and The Naturals. The catalogue holds 33 Barnes books, from Golden (2006) to Dangerous Impulses (2026). Other series include Fixer, The Grandest Game, Raised By Wolves, Debutantes and Squad. Subjects attached to the books include high schools, friendship, extrasensory perception, the supernatural, werewolves and mythology.

Gordon Korman

119 books• 22 series

Gordon Korman is a Canadian writer of children's and young adult fiction whose books have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list. The catalogue holds 119 titles, from This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall! (1977) to Sleepless (2026). Subject tags cover schools, friendship, humorous stories, adventure, mystery and detective stories, and shipwrecks. Series headings include Swindle Mysteries, Masterminds, Everest, Dive, Titanic, Ungifted and the Monday Night Football Club. Gordon Korman remains actively publishing.

Sharon Sala has written under the Sharon Sala name and as Dinah McCall, with more than 85 books in print since a first publication in 1991. Sala is a seven-time RITA finalist and a Janet Dailey Award winner, and Romance Writers of America gave Sala its Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. The catalogue holds 144 Sala titles, from Sara's Angel (1991) to Reckoning (2026). Series include Blessings, Georgia; Mossy Creek; Jubilee, Kentucky; Jigsaw Files; Justice Way; Cat Dupree; Storm Front and Rebel Ridge. Romantic suspense and contemporary romance appear among the subject tags.

Philip Pullman

51 books• 10 series

Philip Pullman's catalogue covers fantasy and children's adventure, with detective stories, fairy tales and graphic novels alongside. His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust are the sequences it is built around, joined by the Sally Lockhart mysteries, the New Cut Gang, the Canongate Myths and The Adventures of John Blake. Sixty-five catalogued titles run from The Haunted Storm (1972) through The Ruby in the Smoke (1985) to The Rose Field in 2025.

Christopher Pike is the pseudonym of Kevin Christopher McFadden, an American author born on November 12, 1955. Pike writes mystery-thrillers, supernatural horror and children's fiction, mostly for young adults, with some adult fiction too. The catalogue lists 86 books from Getting Even and Slumber Party (both 1985) to Strange Girl (2015), with Chain Letter (1986), The Tachyon Web (1986) and Spellbound (1988) among the early titles. Series include Spooksville, Last Vampire, Remember Me, Final Friends, Alosha, Chain Letter and Witch World, and vampires, monsters and witches all appear among the subjects.

Ashley Poston writes across young adult and adult shelves. Once Upon a Con opens with Geekerella (2017), Heart of Iron (2018) and Soul of Stars (2019) are the space opera, and Among the Beasts and Briars (2020) draws on fairy tales. Twenty-four catalogued titles run from The Sound of Us (2013) to 2027, Star Wars young adult work among them, and Elodie and the Dark Lord is scheduled for 2027.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

55 books• 12 series

Margaret Peterson Haddix, born April 9, 1964, is an American writer best known for two children's series: Shadow Children (1998-2006) and The Missing (2008-2015). She also wrote the tenth book of The 39 Clues, a series with multiple authors. The catalogue lists 55 of her books from Running Out of Time (1995) to Moonleapers (2025), including Among the Hidden (1998), Just Ella (1999) and Turnabout (2000). Other series listings include Palace Chronicles, Children of Exile, Greystone Secrets, Mysteries of Trash and Treasure and Under Their Skin. Subjects include time travel, science fiction, brothers and sisters, and schools.

Julia Donaldson

349 books• 14 series

Dame Julia Donaldson, born Julia Catherine Shields on 16 September 1948, is a British writer and playwright who served as Children's Laureate from 2011 to 2013. Rhyming stories for children made Donaldson's name, above all those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, such as The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Superworm. Donaldson first wrote songs for children's television; the lyrics of A Squash and a Squeeze became a picture book in 1993, and books have been the focus since. The catalogue carries 349 entries, from Tim's Bad Mood and Other Stories (1970) to The Tooth Fairy and the Crocodile (2026), including Tales from Acorn Wood, Princess Mirror-Belle and Zog.

Andrew Clements

83 books• 10 series

Andrew Clements (May 29, 1949 to November 28, 2019) was an American children's author. Frindle, the first Clements novel, won an award decided by the votes of schoolchildren in about 20 U.S. states, and received the 2016 Phoenix Award, given to a book that missed a major prize on first publication. The catalogue lists 83 books from Bird Adalbert (1985) to The Frindle Files (2024). Schools, teachers, friendship and dogs recur in the subjects. The Clements series include Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School, Jake Drake, Pets to the Rescue and Real Monsters.

Neal Shusterman

59 books• 12 series

Neal Shusterman is an American writer of young adult fiction, born November 12, 1962. Challenger Deep won Shusterman the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, Scythe was a 2017 Michael L. Printz Honor book, and the 2024 Margaret Edwards Award recognised a lasting contribution to writing for teens. The catalogue lists 59 books from 1988 to Rising Thunder (2026). Series include the Unwind Dystology, Arc of a Scythe, Skinjacker, Accelerati Trilogy, Star Shards Chronicles and Antsy Bonano.