Immortality book series in reading order

by Aimee Carter

Cate Tiernan is the pen name of Gabrielle Charbonnet, an American author. The Sweep books are her best known work under the Tiernan name, following a cast of high school students through Wiccan practice; the same series is published as Wicca in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and Australia, and as White Magic in Italy and France. Balefire and Immortal Beloved follow it. Under her own name Charbonnet is known for the Princess, American Gold Gymnasts and Disney Girls children's books. Twenty-three titles run from 2001 to Darkest Fear (2014).

Gena Showalter is an American novelist, born in Oklahoma in 1975, who writes contemporary romance, paranormal romance and young adult fiction. Showalter sold a first book at age 27 and has reached the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. The catalogue lists 116 books from The Stone Prince (2004) to The Kraken Bride (2026). Lords of the Underworld, Alien Huntress, Angels of the Dark and the White Rabbit Chronicles are among the linked series, and vampires and demonology recur in the subject headings.

Alyson Noel

32 books• 5 series

Thirty-two books by Alyson Noel are catalogued, from Faking 19 (2005) to Chasing Eternity (2024). Noel, born December 3, 1965, is an American author from Orange County, California. Paranormal fiction dominates the recorded subjects, along with psychic ability, immortality, the dead, high schools and death. Soul Seekers, Riley Bloom, Beautiful Idols and Stealing Infinity are the series listed, and Evermore (2009), Blue Moon (2009) and Shadowland (2009) are among the titles.

Pseudonymous Bosch is the pen name of Raphael Simon, who writes children's mystery and fantasy. The Secret series opens with The Name of This Book is Secret (2007) and continues through If You're Reading This, It's Too Late (2008), This Book Is Not Good For You (2009) and You Have To Stop This (2011). The Bad books follow, from Bad Magic (2014) to Bad News (2017), and the Unbelievable Oliver chapter mysteries close a catalogue of 12 titles in 2020. Subjects cover magic, synesthesia, secrets and puzzles.

Colleen Houck writes paranormal fiction for younger readers, and two series carry the catalogue. Tiger's Curse opens with the 2011 novel of that name and continues through Tiger's Quest (2011), Tiger's Voyage (2011), Tiger's Destiny (2012), Tiger's Promise (2014) and Tiger's Trek (2025). Reawakened (2015) is followed by Recreated (2016), Reignited (2017) and Reunited (2017). Both series were New York Times bestsellers. Curses, immortality, magic, tigers and Egyptian gods are the subject headings, and The Lantern's Ember (2018) sits outside both runs. Fourteen books are catalogued in all.

Ann Aguirre, born on 27 August 1970, is an American writer of speculative fiction across urban fantasy, romantic science fiction and post-apocalyptic dystopian young adult fiction. Apocalyptic paranormal romance appears under the shared name Ellen Connor with Carrie Lofty, and paranormal romantic suspense under the name Ava Gray. The catalogue lists 160 books, from Grimspace (2008) and Wanderlust (2008) to The Hocus Pocus Handbook (2026). Series include Sirantha Jax, Razorland, Corine Solomon and Ars Numina, plus Ava Gray series such as Alpha Billionaire and Valkov Bratva. Subjects include interstellar travel and women astronauts.

Aimee Carter

25 books• 5 series

Aimee Carter, born January 24, 1986, is an American author of children's and young adult fiction. The Goddess Test series began with The Goddess Test in 2011, and Greek mythology, goddesses and immortality are among Carter's subjects. Her other series are Blackcoat Rebellion, Simon Thorn, Royal Blood and Zac, with dystopias and animal adventure also in the mix. The catalogue holds 25 books and reaches Royal Vengeance (2026).

Vampires, genetic engineering and immortality are recurring subjects in the books of Lynn Viehl. The catalogue lists 19 titles from 2005 to 2014, tagged as paranormal romance and romantic suspense. Lynn Viehl series include Darkyn, Lords of the Darkyn, Kyndred, Youngbloods and Disenchanted & Co. If Angels Burn (2005) opens the list, followed by Private Demon (2005), Dark Need (2006) and Night Lost (2007). The Clockwork Wolf (2014) is the last listed book, and the catalogue is likely complete.

Anne Rice

50 books• 14 series

Born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien in New Orleans on October 4, 1941, Anne Rice was an American author of Gothic fiction, erotic literature and Bible fiction who died on December 11, 2021. The Vampire Chronicles are Rice's best-known work, and the first volume became the 1994 film Interview with the Vampire, adapted by Rice. Interview with the Vampire (1976) opens a catalogue of 50 books that closes with The Reign of Osiris in 2022. Other series include Lives of the Mayfair Witches, Sleeping Beauty, Ramses the Damned, Wolf Gift Chronicles and Life of Christ. Exit to Eden (1985) and Belinda (1986) carry the name Anne Rampling.

Paranormal romance is the field of Donna Grant, and the recorded subjects take in dragons, druids, shapeshifting, magic, vampires, man-woman relationships and Scotland. The listing holds 162 books and reaches Dragon Sieged in 2026, with the 2010s the heaviest decade. Series credited to Grant include Dark Kings, Reapers, Dark Warriors, Dark Sword, Druids Glen, Skye Druids, Elven Kingdoms, Sisters of Magic, Chiasson and LaRue. A Dark Guardian, A Kind of Magic, Highland Dawn, Highland Mist and Highland Nights all carry a 2006 date. Grant is still publishing.

Zecharia Sitchin wrote the Earth Chronicles, a non-fiction sequence arguing extraterrestrial influence on ancient civilisation. The 12th Planet (1976) opens the run, followed by The Stairway to Heaven (1980), The Wars of Gods and Men (1985), Genesis Revisited (1990) and The Lost Book of Enki (2001). Ancient history, the Bible, cosmogony and human-alien encounters are the subjects. Sixteen titles are catalogued through 2015.

Seanan McGuire

160 books• 32 series

Seanan McGuire, born January 5, 1978, is an American writer and filker known for urban fantasy. McGuire writes science fiction and horror as Mira Grant, and the Up-and-Under children's portal fantasy series as A. Deborah Baker. McGuire received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2010, and the work has earned the Alex, Hugo, Locus and Nebula awards. The catalogue records 162 titles, starting with Rosemary and Rue (2009) and A Local Habitation (2010), with A Divided Duty (2026) the newest and A Song of Sugar Sparrows due in 2027. Series include October Daye, InCryptid, Wayward Children, Newsflesh, Velveteen, Alchemical Journeys and Parasitology.

Tananarive Due

24 books• 4 series

Tananarive Due, born January 5, 1966, is an American author, educator and film historian of Black horror. Due won the American Book Award for The Living Blood (2001). The Reformatory (2023) took the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award. At UCLA, Due teaches "The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival and the Black Horror Aesthetic", a course built on Jordan Peele's Get Out. The catalogue holds 24 books from The Between (1995) to Battle of the Round House (2026), with the African Immortals and Tennyson Hardwick series.

Alexis Morgan writes paranormal and fantasy romance about vampires, immortality, magic and the conflict of good and evil. The catalogue holds 50 books, from Dark Protector and Dark Defender (both 2006) to To Trust a Rancher (2026). Series include Paladins of Darkness, Talions, Warriors of the Mist, Heroes of Dunbar Mountain, Snowberry Creek, Sergeant Joe's Boys, Paladin Strike Team and Abbey McCree Mystery. In Darkness Reborn (2007) and Dark Warrior Unleashed (2008) are among the early titles.

Robert Silverberg

240 books• 17 series

Robert Silverberg, born January 15, 1935, is an American science fiction author and editor with multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, a place in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and Grand Master status since 2004. Nightwings (1969), a novella, and the novels Downward to the Earth (1970), The World Inside (1971), Dying Inside (1972) and Lord Valentine's Castle (1980) are among the most noted Silverberg works, and Lord Valentine's Castle was the first Majipoor book. By 2015 Silverberg had attended every Hugo Award ceremony since the first in 1953. The catalogue lists 240 books from Revolt on Alpha C (1955) to Beast Hunt: Volume 1 (2024), with The Shrouded Planet (1957) and Collision Course (1958) among the early ones. Series include Majipoor: Lord Valentine, Majipoor: Lord Prestimion, New Springtime, Time Gate and New Dimensions.

Born in San Antonio and resident for most of a life in New Jersey, Nina Bangs took up romance novels and cats somewhere between California and Texas. Jobs before a teaching career ranged from work with Arabian horses to singing in Irish pubs, and a cat was written into every one of the stories that followed; USA Today bestseller lists carried the results. Bangs lives near Galveston, Texas. The 23 catalogued books run from An Original Sin and Night Bites, both 1999, to Eternal Shadows (2022), with vampires, paranormal romance, demonology, time travel, immortality and amusement parks among the subjects. Castle of Dark Dreams, Mackenzie Vampires and Gods of the Night are the three series credited to Bangs.

Hard science fiction is Wil McCarthy's field. Born in 1966, McCarthy co-founded the solar technology company RavenBrick, writes a science column for Syfy and lives in Colorado. McCarthy popularized the idea of programmable matter under the name wellstone. Rich Man's Sky won the 2022 Prometheus Award. Dirtyside Down (1991) opens a 21-book list that includes The Collapsium (2000) and continues into 2026, with the Queendom of Sol and Waisters among the series.

Russell Kirkpatrick

8 books• 3 series

Russell Kirkpatrick (1961 - 26 June 2026) was a New Zealand novelist, cartographer, photographer and geography lecturer who completed two fantasy trilogies and contributed to a number of atlases. The catalogue opens with Bateman Contemporary Atlas New Zealand (1996) and runs to Silent Sorrow (2021). Six novels sit between them: Across the Face of the World and In the Earth Abides the Flame (both 2004), The Right Hand of God (2005), Path of Revenge (2007), Dark Heart (2008) and Beyond the Wall of Time (2009), filed under epic fantasy with subjects of immortality, gods and wizards. Kirkpatrick took New Zealand's Sir Julius Vogel Award for best adult novel three times, and lectured at the University of Canberra from 2022 to 2026.

Hanya Yanagihara

3 books• 1 series

Hanya Yanagihara has published three novels: The People in the Trees (2013), A Little Life (2015) and To Paradise (2022). A Little Life was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2015. Yanagihara is an American novelist, editor and travel writer, born in 1974, who grew up in Hawaii and edits T Magazine. The three books are long, at a median of 720 pages, and the subject headings name literary fiction, LGBTQ novels, immortality, anthropologists and family sagas. Nothing new has appeared since 2022.