Models (persons) book series in reading order

Holly Smale

14 books• 2 series

British writer Holly Miranda Smale, born 7 December 1981, wrote the Geek Girl series. Geek Girl, the first book, won the 2014 Waterstones Children's Book Prize and made the shortlist for the 2013 Roald Dahl Funny Prize; HarperCollins published the final book, Forever Geek, in March 2017. Smale's first adult novel, titled The Cassandra Complex in the UK and Cassandra in Reverse in the US, was Reese's Book Club's June 2023 pick and a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick. The catalogue lists 14 books from 2013 to I Know How This Ends (2025), including a Valentines series listing, and subjects include teenage models, fashion and self-confidence.

Nora Roberts

279 books• 37 series

Nora Roberts, born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950, is an American writer of romance under that name. As J. D. Robb, Roberts writes police procedurals with science-fiction elements, and has also published as Jill March and, in the UK, as Sarah Hardesty. This listing carries 280 Roberts books, opening with Irish Thoroughbred (1981); The Missing is scheduled for 2027. Series on the page include the In Death Universe, the MacGregors, Night Tales, the Calhoun Women, the Chesapeake Bay Saga, Irish Hearts and the O'Hurleys.

Diana Palmer is the pen name of Susan Kyle, born Susan Spaeth on December 11, 1946, an American novelist publishing romance since 1979. Kyle spent sixteen years as a journalist under the name Susan Spaeth before turning to fiction, and has also written as Diana Blayne, Katy Currie and Susan Kyle, with a science fiction novel as Susan S. Kyle. The catalogue lists 199 books from 1979 to 2026, opening with titles such as Dream's End and Sweet Enemy and reaching Blaze of Glory (2026). Wyoming Men, Soldiers of Fortune, Men of Medicine Ridge and Morcai Battalion are among the series, and Long, Tall Texans is a listed grouping. Diamond Girl became a 1998 television film. Subjects name ranchers, cowboys, Texas, Wyoming and western romance.

Melody Carlson, born March 2, 1956 in San Francisco, is an American author of more than 250 books for women, teens and children, including the Diary of a Teenage Girl series. The catalogue lists 298 books from 1995, when Contemplative Bible Reading and How to Start a Quality Childcare Business in Your Home appeared, to All Booked Up (2026). Series include Carter House Girls, On The Runway, TrueColors, 86 Bloomberg Place, Secret Life of Samantha McGregor, Beary Patch Bears and Fruit Troops. Subjects include Christian life, high schools, friendship, Bible stories and stories in rhyme. Carlson grew up in Springfield, Oregon, attended Lane Community College and lives in Sisters, Oregon.

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.

Coco Simon is the name on Cupcake Diaries and its companion series for middle-grade readers. Katie and the Cupcake Cure (2011) opens a catalogue of 63 books that reaches Natalie's Sprinkle of Light (2025). Sprinkle Sundays, Donut Dreams, Cupcake Diaries: The New Batch and a graphic novel line follow. Friendship, middle school and baking are the recurring subjects, and the books run to a median 144 pages.

Historical romance and FBI suspense make up Catherine Coulter's two main bodies of work. Regency and medieval romances such as the Sherbrooke Brides and Medieval Song sequences date back to the 1979 debut The Rebel Bride, while the FBI Thriller series and A Brit in the FBI follow government investigator Dillon Savich. Coulter's catalogue runs to 95 books, reaching The Heir of Whitestone in 2026.

Fern Michaels was the pen name of Mary Ruth Kuczkir, born Mary Ruth Koval on April 9, 1933, who died on November 12, 2025. The American novelist wrote romance and thrillers, including the Texas quartet, the Captive series, Family Blessings, Pretty Woman and Crown Jewel. Michaels's output passed 200 books with an estimated 150 million copies sold. The catalogue lists 190 titles, from Pride and Passion (1975) to A Season of Secrets (2026). Series include the Sisterhood, Godmothers, Men of the Sisterhood, Lost and Found, Vegas, Kentucky and Twin Lights. Female friendship, vigilantes and revenge appear among the subject tags.

Barbara Taylor Bradford began in non-fiction, with Fashions That Please Him (1970) and a run of interior decorating guides, then wrote A Woman of Substance (1979) and the family sagas that followed. Businesswomen, inheritance and mothers and daughters are the standing subjects. 47 catalogued books include the Emma Harte and Harte Family sagas, Cavendon Hall, the House of Falconer and the Ravenscar novels. The Wonder of It All, published in 2023, closes the catalogue.

Jackie Collins

40 books• 6 series

Jackie Collins wrote about Hollywood, the film business and the women who fought their way through it. 40 catalogued books run from The World Is Full of Married Men (1960) through The Stud (1969), The Love Killers (1974), The World Is Full Of Divorced Women (1975) and Lovers and Gamblers (1977), ending at The Santangelos. Lucky Santangelo is the character Collins is best known for, joined by the Madison Castelli and Fontaine Khaled books. The catalogue is likely complete.

Katherine Applegate

228 books• 20 series

Katherine Applegate, born October 9, 1956, and sometimes published as K. A. Applegate, is an American author of children's and young adult fiction. Animorphs, Remnants and Everworld are the series most tied to Applegate, and The One and Only Ivan (2012) won the 2013 Newbery Medal. Applegate received the Publishers Weekly Best New Children's Book Series Award in 1997. The catalogue lists 228 books, from Welcome to Junior High! (1990) to The Littlest Elephant (2026), including Girl Talk, Making Out and Roscoe Riley Rules.

Chuck Palahniuk

28 books• 6 series

Fight Club (1996) was the first published novel by Chuck Palahniuk and became a film under the same title. Palahniuk, born Charles Michael Palahniuk on February 21, 1962, is an American novelist who calls the work transgressional fiction; the output spans 19 novels, three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, two adult coloring books and short stories. The catalogue lists 29 books, including Invisible Monsters (1999), Survivor (1999), Choke (2001), Lullaby (2002), Diary (2003), Haunted (2004) and Rant (2007), up to Shock Induction (2024), with Galleria due in 2027. Subject headings name satire, horror, humour and disfigured persons, and Fight Club Graphic Novels with Cameron Stewart is a listed series.

Crime fiction set largely in Australia is Tara Moss's main output, across three series: Makedde Vanderwall, Pandora English and the Billie Walker Mysteries. Serial killings, modelling and private investigation recur as material, with Sydney a frequent setting. Moss, born in 1973, is a Canadian-Australian writer, documentary maker, presenter and journalist, a former model, and a UNICEF national ambassador for child survival. Sixteen books run from Fetish (1999) to The Italian Secret in 2025.

Francine Pascal (née Rubin, 1932–2024) was an American author whose name is tied to the Sweet Valley books for young adults. Sweet Valley High anchored that collection, was adapted for television, and branched into spin-offs such as The Unicorn Club and Sweet Valley University. The catalogue opens with Hangin' Out with Cici (1977) and also carries the Fearless series. Subjects include twins, sisters, high schools, friendship and dating. Most Sweet Valley books came out in the 1980s and 1990s, and several titles were re-released decades later.

Esther M. Friesner

51 books• 16 series

Esther M. Friesner, born July 16, 1951, is an American science fiction and fantasy author, poet and playwright known for humour in both titles and stories, which the work uses to address gender equality and social justice. The catalogue holds 51 books from Mustapha and His Wise Dog (1985) to Chicks and Balances (2015). Series include Chicks In Chainmail, Majyk, Demons, Tim Desmond, Nobody's Princess and Sphinx's Princess. Elf Defense and Here Be Demons both appeared in 1988.

Kim Law is filed under women's fiction, and the catalogue subjects record romance, man-woman relationships, photographers, models, political candidates, bakers, teachers and single fathers, with Georgia and Montana also listed. The 24 books run from Caught on Camera (2012) to Christmas With Her Fake Boyfriend (2023), taking in Sugar Springs (2012), Sprinkles on Top (2014) and Sweet Nothings (2014). Wildes of Birch Bay and Turtle Island are the two series credited to Law. The median book runs 320 pages, and nothing has been listed since 2023.

Julie Cross writes young adult fiction and lives in central Illinois. The Tempest Trilogy is the work she is best known for, and its first book, Tempest (2012), drew a starred Kirkus review along with a 2012 nomination from RT Book Reviews in young adult fantasy, futuristic and science fiction. Time travel, spies, gymnastics and grief run through her catalogue, which reaches from Tomorrow is Today (2011) to On Thin Ice (2019). Juniper Falls, Letters to Nowhere and Eleanor Ames are the series listed under her name.

Alex Morgan is the name on the Kicks series, 13 children's soccer stories catalogued from 2013 to 2021 for grades 3 to 5. Saving the Team (2013) opens the list, and Sabotage Season, Win or Lose, Hat Trick, Under Pressure and In the Zone follow. Fans in the Stands (2021) is the most recent. Subject tags cover friendship, teamwork, schools, family life, self-confidence and California. The sourced record describes Alex Morgan, born 2 July 1989, as an American former professional soccer player who won the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015 and 2019.