Librarians book series in reading order

by Jo Dereske

by Brandon Sanderson

by Genevieve Cogman

by Charlaine Harris

by Leslie Meier

by Paul Stewart

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).

Jo Dereske writes cozy mystery around librarians. Helma Zukas, a librarian in the imaginary town of Bellehaven, Washington, carries the Miss Zukas series, which opens with Miss Zukas and the Library Murders (1994) and continues through the Island Murders (1995), the Stroke of Death (1995) and Out of Circulation (1997). A second series follows Ruby Crane. The 20 catalogued books run from Glom Gloom (1985) to All of Us at the Same Time (2014), and nothing has followed 2014.

Miranda James writes several mystery series. Cat in the Stacks is one, and librarians, cats and a Maine coon cat sit in its subject tags beside murder and investigation. Forty titles run from By a Woman's Hand (1994), written as Dean James with Jean Swanson, to Something Whiskered (2025). Southern Ladies, Deep South, Bridge Club, Trailer Park Mysteries and Simon Kirby-Jones are the other series. James publishes on.

Laurie Cass is the author of the Bookmobile Cat Mysteries. Subjects include cozy mystery, cats, librarians, murder and women sleuths. The catalogue holds 15 Cass books published from 2013 to 2026. Lending a Paw (2013) is first, followed by Tailing a Tabby (2014), Borrowed Crime (2015) and Pouncing on Murder (2015). Gone with the Whisker (2020) and Checking Out Crime (2021) are later titles, and Murder on Thin Ice (2026) is the newest. Large print editions appear among the subjects.

Charlotte MacLeod wrote mystery fiction on both sides of the Canadian-American border, and her 48 catalogued books run from Mystery of the White Knight (1964) to It Was an Awful Shame and Other Stories (2002). Four recurring casts carry the work: Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn in Boston, Professor Peter Shandy at Balaclava Junction, Madoc and Janet Rhys, and the Grub-And-Stakers. Massachusetts settings, college teachers and women sleuths recur across the mysteries. The catalogue closes in 2002.

Witchcraft and murder meet in Shirley Damsgaard's Ophelia & Abby Mysteries. Eight books are catalogued between 2005 and 2011: Witch Way to Murder (2005), Charmed to Death and The Trouble With Witches (2006), The Witch Is Dead and Witch Hunt (2007), The Witch's Grave (2008), The Seventh Witch (2010) and Shadow Tales (2011). Librarians, psychics and ghosts fill the subject list.

Genevieve Cogman

11 books• 2 series

Genevieve Cogman's Invisible Library sequence opens her catalogue: The Invisible Library (2014), The Masked City (2015), The Burning Page (2016), The Lost Plot (2017), The Mortal Word (2018), The Secret Chapter (2019), The Dark Archive (2020) and The Untold Story (2021). The Scarlet Revolution series follows with Scarlet (2023), Elusive (2024) and Damned (2025), for 11 books in all. Librarians, rare books, secret societies and alternative history are the recurring subjects. Cogman is a British writer of fantasy and of role-playing games, and remains actively publishing.

Charlaine Harris

78 books• 14 series

Charlaine Harris, born Jean Charlaine Harris Schulz on November 25, 1951, in Tunica, Mississippi, is an American author specialising in mysteries. The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Harris's best-known series, became HBO's True Blood, which ran for seven seasons from 2008 to 2014. The catalogue starts with Sweet and Deadly (1981) and A Secret Rage (1984) and reaches The Last Wizards' Ball (2025). Sookie Stackhouse, Aurora Teagarden, Lily Bard, Gunnie Rose and Midnight, Texas are among the series. Vampires, werewolves and women librarians appear in the subjects, and Harris lives in Texas.

Cozy mysteries with a trade attached are Jenn McKinlay's speciality: a library, a cupcake bakery, a hat shop and a resale business each anchor a series. The catalogue reaches 69 titles between 2002 and 2026, including contemporary romance in the Bluff Point and Museum of Literature books and the Decoupage mysteries written as Lucy Lawrence. Stuck on Murder (2009) and Sprinkle with Murder (2010) start the main cozy runs, and Booking for Trouble is the most recent title.

Cat Devon / Cathie Linz is a joint catalogue name covering 52 books from 1982 to 2015. Rememberance of Love (1982) is the first listed title, followed by A Summer's Embrace and Wildfire in 1983. Subjects include contemporary, historical and paranormal romance, vampires, librarians, Marines and single mothers. Series include Marines, Men of Honor, Entity, Girls Do Or Don't, Three Weddings and a Gift, Marriage Makers and West Investigations. Tall, Dark and Immortal (2015) is the newest entry, and the 1980s are the busiest decade.

Ian Sansom's catalogue contains 15 books, from The Truth About Babies: From A-Z (2002) to The Sussex Murder (2019). Sansom writes the Mobile Library Mystery and County Guides series. The Case of the Missing Books (2005), Mr. Dixon Disappears (2006) and The Bad Book Affair (2010) appear in the list, as do The Norfolk Mystery (2011) and Death in Devon (2015). Subjects include librarians, traveling libraries, Northern Ireland and humorous crime.

Leslie Meier's listed books run from 1991 to 2026, opening with Mistletoe Murder / Mail Order Murder and reaching Countdown to Christmas Murder. Meier's series are Lucy Stone and Carole and Poopsie Mystery. Lucy Stone appears in the subjects alongside women sleuths, reporters, librarians and Maine. Other titles include Tippy Toe Murder (1994), Trick or Treat Murder (1996), Back to School Murder (1997) and Turkey Day Murder (2000). Meier is still publishing.

Jeff Abbott

23 books• 4 series

Jeff Abbott's crime fiction runs from small-town Texas to the international thriller. Jordan Poteet, a librarian in Mirabeau, leads the first series from Do Unto Others (1994); Whit Mosley and then Sam Capra follow. Assassins, the Mafia and intelligence officers enter with the later books. Twenty-three titles reach January and July in 2026, at 390 pages on median.

Elsa Hart writes historical mysteries. The Li Du novels put a librarian into murder investigations in China: Jade Dragon Mountain in 2015, The White Mirror in 2016 and City of Ink in 2018. The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne followed in 2020. Four books stand in the catalogue, which is recorded as likely complete.

Lisa Jackson

189 books• 27 series

Lisa Jackson, born Susan Lisa Jackson in 1952, is an American author of romance and romantic suspense novels, with more than 75 to that name. The catalogue holds 189 Lisa Jackson books, from A Twist of Fate (1983) to Not What It Seems (2026). Subjects across the list include serial murders, women detectives, Montana and contemporary romance. Jackson's series include Selena Alvarez/Regan Pescoli, McCaffertys, Cahills / San Francisco, Savannah and the Dark Jewels Trilogy, plus a historical trilogy issued as Susan Lynn Crose. New Jackson titles continue to appear.

Ellery Adams writes murder mysteries, and women sleuths appear among the subject headings. The catalogue lists 57 books from 2006, the year of A Killer Collection and A Fatal Appraisal, to The Liars' Book Club (2026). Named series include the Secret, Book & Scone Society, Book Retreat Mysteries, Books by the Bay, Antiques & Collectibles Mysteries, Hope Street Church Mystery, Supper Club Mystery and A Charmed Pie Shoppe Mystery. Librarians, bakeries and pies are listed there too.

Jayne Ann Krentz, born Jayne Castle on 28 March 1948 in Cobb, California, is an American romance novelist with New York Times bestsellers under seven pseudonyms. Three names remain in use: Krentz for contemporary romantic suspense, Amanda Quick for historical romantic suspense and Jayne Ann Castle for futuristic and paranormal romantic suspense. More than 35 million copies are in print. The catalogue lists 205 books, from Vintage of Surrender (1979, as Jayne Castle) to Enter the Nightmare (2026), with The Book Hunter due in 2027. Early titles also appeared as Jayne Bentley, Jayne Taylor and Stephanie James. Series include Burning Cove, Eclipse Bay and the Dreamlight Trilogy.

RaeAnne Thayne has 87 books in the catalogue, from The Mating Game / Endangered (1996) to Cozy Little Christmas (2026), with subject headings centred on contemporary romance, small towns, ranchers, cowboys and single parents. Series include Hope's Crossing, Haven Point, Cape Sanctuary, Women Of Brambleberry House, Searchers, Outlaw Hartes, Redhawks and Dugan/Riley, and Cowboys of Cold Creek is a listed grouping. Wild Streak (1996), Sweet Justice (1998), Saving Grace (2000) and Renegade Father (2001) are early titles. Suspense also appears among the subjects.

R.L. Stine

589 books• 64 series

Robert Lawrence Stine, born October 8, 1943, is an American novelist who writes horror fiction for children. Goosebumps, the series Stine created, sold more than 400 million copies in 35 languages and grew into a franchise of two television series, video games, comics and two feature films. Fear Street, Stine's horror sequence for teenagers, passed 80 million copies and was adapted for film. Stine has been called the Stephen King of children's literature. The listing runs to 590 titles, from How to Be Funny (1978), published as Jovial Bob Stine, to How to Train Your Dummy, scheduled for 2027.

Librarians and murder investigation sit at the core of Victoria Gilbert's Blue Ridge Library Mysteries, set in Virginia. Nineteen titles are catalogued from Crown of Ice (2014) to Death on the Books (2026), with the Booklovers B&B Mysteries, Hunter and Clewe, Campus Sleuth Mysteries and the Mirror of Immortality series beside the library books. Town life and painters also appear in the subject tags.

Libraries and librarians supply the setting for Allison Brook's mysteries. Death Overdue (2017) opens the Haunted Library series, and the titles keep the joke running - Read and Gone, Buried in the Stacks, Checked Out for Murder, Dewey Decimated, Overdue or Die. Murder, cold cases and a library cat fill the plots. Books on the Beach is a second series, and nine titles are catalogued through Death on Dickens Island in 2025.

Laura Bradford writes mysteries across 6 listed series: Amish Mysteries, Southern Sewing Circle Mysteries, Jenkins & Burns Mysteries, Emergency Dessert Squad Mysteries, Tobi Tobias and Friend for Hire Mystery. Subject headings name the Amish, sewing, South Carolina, librarians and murder, and romance appears too. The catalogue counts 48 books from Jury of One / Deadly Readings (2005) to The Big Picture (2026). Sew Deadly (2009), Death Threads (2010), Pinned for Murder (2010), Dangerous Alterations (2011) and Deadly Notions (2011) are among the titles, alongside Kayla's Daddy, A Mom for Callie and Miracle Baby from 2010.

Eoin Colfer

59 books• 18 series

Eoin Colfer, born 14 May 1965, is an Irish children's writer and a former primary school teacher, best known for the eleven Artemis Fowl fantasy novels. By 2013 the Artemis Fowl books had sold more than 21 million copies in 44 languages, and in a 2010 public poll readers chose Artemis Fowl as their favourite Puffin Books title. The novel Artemis Fowl (2001) was followed by The Arctic Incident (2002) and The Eternity Code (2003). Other series include the Fowl Twins, W.A.R.P., Benny Shaw and Plugged, with Benny and Omar (1998) among the early titles and Deerheart (2026) the newest. The listing also credits The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1996) to Colfer.

Angela Pepper writes mystery fiction, and the catalogue lists 35 books from Death of a Dapper Snowman (2014) to Wisteria Wisdom (2025). Librarians, witches, private investigators and murder investigations appear among the subject headings. Pepper's series are the Wisteria Witches Mysteries, Stormy Day Mystery, Eli Carter & the Ghost Hackers Paranormal Mysteries, Gia Pere's Domestic Thrillers and Restless Spirits of the Southwest.