Men's adventure book series in reading order

by James Axler

by W.E.B. Griffin

Donald Eugene Pendleton (December 12, 1927 to October 23, 1995) was an American author of fiction and non-fiction who created Mack Bolan, a character with hundreds of millions of copies sold since a 1969 debut. From 1980, other authors wrote the Bolan books under the Pendleton name, at first with Pendleton's editorial guidance. Pendleton also wrote six Joe Copp, Private Eye novels and six Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective novels. Early titles include The Insatiables (1967), War Against the Mafia (1969) and Miami Massacre (1970).

W.E.B. Griffin was the best-known pen name of William Edmund Butterworth III (November 10, 1929 to February 12, 2019), an American author of military and detective fiction. Under the Griffin name Butterworth published 59 novels across seven series, 21 of them written with Butterworth's son, William E. Butterworth IV. The catalogue files 194 titles here, including 1960s books issued as W.E. Butterworth, Webb Beech and Walker E. Blake. Series include Brotherhood of War, Presidential Agent and M*A*S*H, and World War II and the U.S. Marine Corps recur in the subjects.

Fred Saberhagen

75 books• 10 series

Fred Saberhagen (Fred Thomas Saberhagen, May 18, 1930 to June 29, 2007) was an American science fiction and fantasy author, most famous for the Berserker stories and novels. Saberhagen also wrote vampire novels with Dracula as protagonist, and a post-apocalyptic sequence that opens with Empire of the East and continues through the Swords and Lost Swords books. The site lists 75 books from The Golden People (1964) onward, including Berserker (1967) and The Dracula Tape (1975). Subjects include robots, artificial intelligence and space warfare.

Gayle Lynds, born 1945, is an American author, former journalist and editor, called the Queen of Espionage Fiction for spy thrillers. Lynds co-founded International Thriller Writers. The Liz Sansborough and Judd Ryder & Eva Blake series appear in the catalogue with standalone novels, and Masquerade (1996), Mosaic (1998) and The Coil (2000) are among the titles. Women spies, assassins, conspiracies and intelligence services appear in the subjects.

Brian McClellan

24 books• 5 series

Epic fantasy is Brian McClellan's field, with imaginary wars, kings and military campaigns as its furniture. The Powder Mage and Gods of Blood and Powder trilogies are McClellan's best known work, and the catalogue also holds the Glass Immortals, War Cry and Valkyrie Collections. McClellan has 24 catalogued books published between 2013 and 2026, opening with Promise of Blood and Hope's End, both 2013, and continuing through The Crimson Campaign and Murder at the Kinnen Hotel in 2014. Mr. Styke is dated 2026.