Men book series in reading order

by Rachel Joyce

Born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Stephanie Laurens is an Australian romance novelist and a winner of the Romance Writers of America RITA Award. The catalogue counts 105 books between Tangled Reins (1992) and Who Killed The Earl Of Moran? (2026). Cynster Next Generation, Bastion Club, Black Cobra Quartet, Casebook of Barnaby Adair and Legend of Nimway Hall are among the series, and subject tags name the Cynster family. Subjects also include historical Regency romance, England and the nobility.

Joyce Carol Oates

180 books• 8 series

Joyce Carol Oates, born June 16, 1938, is an American writer of novels, short stories, poetry, plays and nonfiction. The catalogue holds 180 books, beginning with By the North Gate (1963) and reaching The Frenzy: Stories (2026). Oates took the National Book Award for the novel Them (1969), and later honours include two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize in 2019. Black Water, What I Lived For, Blonde and the collection Lovely, Dark, Deep were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014.

Jim Harrison

46 books• 4 series

Jim Harrison (December 11, 1937 - March 26, 2016) was an American poet, novelist and essayist who published across poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children's literature and memoir. Harrison also wrote screenplays, book reviews, literary criticism and essays on food, travel and sport, and said poetry mattered most among the work. Harrison published 24 novellas. The catalogue holds 46 books from Plain Song (1965) to The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015 (2022), including Wolf (1971), Farmer (1976) and Legends of the Fall (1979). Dalva and Detective Sunderson are named series.

Joseph O'Connor's catalogue holds 21 titles published between 1991 and 2025, opening with Cowboys & Indians (1991) and True Believers (1991) and reaching The Ghosts of Rome (2025). The Secret World Of The Irish Male (1994) and Irish Male At Home And Abroad (1996) belong to the Irish Male sequence, and the Rome Escape Line Trilogy carries the later historical fiction. Desperadoes (1994), Red Roses And Petrol (1995), Sweet Liberty (1996), The Salesman (1998) and Inishowen (2000) fill the middle of the run. Irish authors and poets, humour, biography and historical settings run through the subjects. O'Connor is still publishing.

Terry Goodkind

33 books• 5 series

Terry Goodkind (January 11, 1948 to September 17, 2020) was an American writer of epic fantasy, known for The Sword of Truth. That series sold 25 million copies, was translated into more than 20 languages and became the television series Legend of the Seeker, which ran from November 2008 to May 2010. Goodkind also wrote The Law of Nines (2009), a contemporary suspense novel tied to the fantasy books, and drew on Ayn Rand's objectivism in the work. The catalogue lists 33 titles, from Wizard's First Rule (1994) to Into Darkness (2020). Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell are the characters tagged most often.

Anne Tyler, born on October 25, 1941, is an American novelist, short story writer and literary critic. Tyler's 30 catalogued books run from If Morning Ever Comes (1964) to Three Days in June (2025), with family life, marriage, widowhood and Baltimore as recurring subjects. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985) and Breathing Lessons (1988) were all Pulitzer Prize finalists, and Breathing Lessons won in 1989. Other honours include the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in 2012.

Dave Barry

56 books• 7 series

Dave Barry writes humour, most of it non-fiction. The catalogue holds 56 titles, from The Taming of the Screw (1983) through Dave Barry's Bad Habits (1985), Dave Barry Slept Here (1989), Dave Barry Turns Forty (1990) and Dave Barry Talks Back (1991) to Class Clown in 2025. The Peter and the Starcatchers and Never Land children's books, written with Ridley Pearson, sit beside the essays.

Richard Rohr

37 books

Richard Rohr writes on Christian spirituality from within the Catholic tradition, on contemplation, scripture and the inner life of men. 37 catalogued titles run from The Wild Mans Journey (1986) through The Enneagram (1989), Simplicity: The Art of Living (1991), Near Occasions of Grace (1993), Radical Grace (1993) and Quest for the Grail (1994). The newest is The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage.

Mary Renault

17 books• 2 series

Mary Renault was the pen name of Eileen Mary Challans, a British novelist best known for historical fiction set in ancient Greece. Renault studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, worked as a nurse and began with contemporary romances such as Purposes of Love (1939). The ancient-Greek novels followed, among them The Last of the Wine (1956) and The King Must Die (1958), which opens the Theseus series. A move to South Africa in 1948 with her partner, Julie Mullard, let Renault write openly gay characters away from English censorship. The Alexander the Great novels close the 17-title catalogue at Funeral Games (1981).

Wilkie Collins

88 books

Wilkie Collins, born William Wilkie Collins on 8 January 1824 and died on 23 September 1889, was an English novelist and playwright. The Woman in White (1860) is an early sensation novel; The Moonstone (1868) set out much of what the modern detective novel came to do, and stands as an early example of the police procedural. Collins was the son of the London painter William Collins and Harriet Geddes, spent two years in Italy and France from the age of twelve, learned Italian and French there, and worked at first as a tea merchant. The catalogue holds 88 titles, from Iolani; Or, Tahiti as It Was (1840) onward, with the 1850s the heaviest decade.

Graham Masterton

157 books• 11 series

Graham Masterton is a British author, born in Edinburgh in 1946 and known primarily for horror fiction. Masterton edited Mayfair and the British edition of Penthouse before his first novel, The Manitou, appeared in 1976 and was filmed in 1978. Charnel House (1978) took a Special Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, and Tengu (1983) a silver medal from the West Coast Review of Books. The catalogue holds 157 books from 1971 onward, with the Katie Maguire, Jim Rook, Harry Erskine and Night Warriors series inside it, and runs to House of Flies (2025).

Walker Percy

14 books• 3 series

Walker Percy (May 28, 1916 to May 10, 1990) was an American novelist and a Southern Catholic literary figure. Alienation, existentialism, faith and the limits of science run through the Percy novels, several of them set in New Orleans. The Moviegoer (1961), the first, won the National Book Award for Fiction. Will Barrett and Dr. Tom More are the two series, and The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot and The Second Coming are among the novels. Percy earned an M.D. from Columbia University in 1941 after studying chemistry at Chapel Hill.

Danny Wallace

22 books• 1 series

Danny Wallace, born 16 November 1976, is a British comedian, writer and radio and television presenter. Join Me! (2003) and Yes Man (2005) are among Wallace's best known books. Wallace narrated the game Thomas Was Alone, voices Shaun Hastings in the Assassin's Creed series, and fronted the TV series How to Start Your Own Country. The catalogue lists 22 books from Are You Dave Gorman? (2001) to Somebody Told Me... (2025), including the Hamish and The PDF children's series.

Aliya Whiteley writes science fiction and horror. Sixteen books are catalogued from Mean Mode Median (2004) to The Misheard World (2026), among them The Beauty (2014), Skein Island (2015), The Arrival of Missives (2016), The Loosening Skin (2018) and Greensmith (2020). Recorded subjects include mushrooms, corporate culture, old age homes and suicide. Whiteley's catalogue is ongoing, with most of its titles dated in the 2020s.

Neil Strauss

11 books

Neil Darrow Strauss, born on March 9, 1969, is an American journalist and author who has also used the pen names Style and Chris Powles. Strauss is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and wrote regularly for The New York Times. The Game (2005) recounts Strauss's time in the seduction community while trying to become a pickup artist; Rules of the Game (2007), Emergency (2009) and The Truth (2015) followed. The catalogue also carries rock musicians' memoirs such as The Long Hard Road Out of Hell (1998) and The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (2001).

Layne Fargo writes psychological crime fiction with women at the centre, described as feminist novels. Actresses, Chicago and noir supply the material. Temper (2019) came first, They Never Learn (2020) followed, and The Favorites (2025) is set for adaptation as a Netflix film. Fargo also co-hosts Unlikeable Female Characters. Three books are catalogued so far.