Motion picture producers and directors book series in reading order

by David Lynch

Karen Kingsbury is an American Christian novelist, born in Fairfax, Virginia, on June 8, 1963. Kingsbury worked as a sports writer for the Los Angeles Times and later wrote for the Los Angeles Daily News. Missy's Murder (1991), Kingsbury's first book, grew out of a murder story covered as a reporter in Los Angeles. Kingsbury is a #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist. The catalogue holds 115 titles, running to The Christmas Ring (2025), and the series include Firstborn, Sunrise, Above the Line, Bailey Flanigan, Red Gloves and Forever Faithful. Christian fiction and family life recur among the subjects.

Carole Mortimer, born in England in 1960, is a British romance novelist who has written more than 150 novels since 1978 and was one of the youngest authors at Mills & Boon. The catalogue lists 291 books, starting in 1979 with The Passionate Winter, Only Lover, Savage Interlude and Tempted By Desire, and reaching Linus (2026), with Amanda and the Lord scheduled for 2027. Series include Regency Unlaced, Regency Sinners, Regency Scandal, Regency Lovers, Dangerous Dukes, Ruthless Regency Dukes, Scandalous St. Claires, Knight Security, Steele Protectors, Dragon Hearts and Wynter Hearts. Subjects cover contemporary and Regency romance, nobility, marriage and businessmen.

David Lynch

19 books• 2 series

David Keith Lynch (1946-2025) was an American filmmaker and artist, and the listing under his name gathers art books, interviews and companion volumes rather than novels. Recorded subjects include motion picture producers and directors, television producers and directors, exhibitions, interviews, American drawing and Twin Peaks. Titles include Welcome to Twin Peaks: An Access Guide to the Town (1991), Lynch on Lynch (1997), The prints of David Lynch (2000) and Catching the Big Fish (2006). A David Lynch Art & Photography series is catalogued alongside them.

Who HQ is the credit on 429 children's nonfiction biographies in the catalogue, published from 2002 to 2026. The run opens with Who Was Albert Einstein?, Who Was Amelia Earhart? and Who Was Ben Franklin? (all 2002) and reaches Who Is Vera Wang (2026). Subjects include biography, history and juvenile nonfiction for readers aged 8 to 12. Other names credited on some of the books include Megan Stine (7), John Hinderliter (7) and Nico Medina (4).

Elmore Leonard

65 books• 12 series

Elmore Leonard (October 11, 1925 to August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. Leonard began with Westerns in the 1950s and moved on to crime fiction and suspense, and many of those books were filmed. The story "Three-Ten to Yuma" became the film 3:10 to Yuma (1957), which was remade in 2007. Anthony Lane, a British journalist, called Leonard one of the best crime writers in the land. Get Shorty, Rum Punch, Out of Sight, Glitz and LaBrava rank among Leonard's best-known works. The catalogue lists 65 titles starting with The Bounty Hunters (1953), plus series featuring Raylan Givens, Chili Palmer, Jack Foley and Carl Webster.

Alan Furst wrote espionage novels set in Europe before and during the Second World War, among resistance movements and intelligence services. The catalogue opens with earlier crime writing, Your Day in the Barrel (1976), The Paris Drop (1980), The Caribbean Account (1981) and Shadow Trade (1984), then turns to the Night Soldiers books with Night Soldiers (1988) and Dark Star (1991). 22 titles are catalogued in all, closing with Under Occupation in 2019.

Lee Goldberg

87 books• 12 series

Lee Goldberg is an American author, screenwriter, producer and publisher, with television crime work that includes Diagnosis: Murder, Monk, The Glades and SeaQuest. Lost Hills and True Fiction are bestselling Goldberg novels. The catalogue carries 88 books from 1990 to 2027, beginning with Unsold TV Pilots: The Greatest Shows You Never Saw (1990) and later Successful Television Writing (2003). Fiction series include Monk, Diagnosis Murder, Eve Ronin, Ian Ludlow Thrillers, Sharpe & Walker, Charlie Willis and Crown Vic. Split Screen appeared in 2026 and The Invisible Architect is due in 2027.

Stuart M. Kaminsky (29 September 1934 to 9 October 2009) was an American mystery novelist who also taught film. Four mystery series carry the name: Toby Peters, a private eye in 1940s Hollywood; Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, a Moscow police inspector; Abe Lieberman, a Chicago police officer; and Lew Fonesca, a process server in Sarasota, Florida. A Cold Red Sunrise, a Rostnikov novel, won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1989. The catalogue holds 85 books from 1974 to 2011, and its earliest entries are American Film Genres (1974) and Don Siegel: Director (1974).

Tom Ryan appears in the catalogue with young adult and children's fiction, under subjects such as gay teenagers, high school students, proms, friendship, summer and adventure. Titles include Way to Go (2012), Tag Along (2013) and Pop Quiz (2017). Treasure Hunters Club is the series listed for Tom Ryan, and the newest title is Return to Breakneck Island (2026).

David Thomson

40 books• 4 series

David Thomson is a British film critic and historian, born on 18 February 1941, who works in the United States and has written more than 40 books. Two Thomson reference works, the 1,000-film guide Have You Seen...? (2008) and The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, now in a sixth edition (2014), are praised for literary quality and eccentricity, though some critics find them self-indulgent. Benjamin Schwarz of The Atlantic Monthly described Thomson as possibly the greatest living film critic and historian. The catalogue starts with Movie Man. (1967) and reaches A Sudden Flicker of Light (2026), including America in the Dark (1977) and Silver Light (1990).

Michael Craft is the pen name of Michael Craft Johnson, an American novelist born in 1950 whose mysteries often have gay protagonists. Four Mark Manning mysteries were Lambda Literary Award finalists. Desert Getaway, first in the Dante & Jazz series, was a 2023 Edgars nominee for the Lilian Jackson Braun Award, and ChoirMaster and Desert Deadline won IBPA Benjamin Franklin gold. Craft's 20 books start with Rehearsing (1993); the Claire Gray and Mister Puss series are also listed, with college theater among the subjects.

Louise Bagshawe, later credited as Louise Mensch, has 18 catalogued books from Career Girls (1995) to Career Game (2015). Subject tags point to romance, young women, businesswomen, ambition, revenge, friendship, Hollywood and the motion picture industry. The Movie (1996), Tall Poppies (1997), Venus Envy (1998), When She Was Bad (2001) and Tuesday's Child (2005) are among the titles. The median book length is 448 pages, and the catalogue treats the list as likely complete.

Lindsay Marcott has 10 catalogued books spanning 1977 to 2022, with the earliest four credited under the name Lindsay Maracotta. The Sad Eyed Ladies (1977), Caribe (1980), Hide and Seek (1982) and Everything We Wanted (1984) carry that credit. Marcott's series is Lucy Freers Mystery, and subject headings name Lucy Freers as a fictitious character, with women sleuths, Hollywood and film producers. The Dead Hollywood Moms Society (1996), The Dead Celeb (1997) and Playing Dead (1999) are titles from the 1990s. The Producer's Daughter (2013), Mrs. Rochester's Ghost (2021) and Shadow Sister (2022) are the latest titles.

Michael Moore

10 books

Michael Francis Moore, born 23 April 1954, is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and author on the political left, and takes up social, political and economic subjects. Roger & Me, the debut documentary, examined the collapse of the car industry in Flint and Detroit in the 1980s. Bowling for Columbine, on the Columbine High School killings and gun culture in the United States, took the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Moore also directed and produced Fahrenheit 9/11. The catalogue holds 10 books published between 1996 and 2011, from Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American (1996) to Here Comes Trouble (2011), taking in Adventures in a TV Nation (1998), Stupid White Men (2001), Dude, Where's My Country? (2003) and Mike's Election Guide (2008). Subjects record political satire, humour and the Iraq War.

Born on 2 January 1963, Gigi Levangie Grazer is an American novelist, screenwriter and television producer. The film Stepmom, starring Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon, is the most widely known of the screen work. Novels that reached New York Times bestseller lists include The Starter Wife, Maneater, Queen Takes King and The After Wife. Eight catalogued books run from Rescue Me (2000) to Been There, Married That (2020); three of them, Fairytale Ending (2007), Seven Deadlies (2013) and Been There, Married That, carry the byline Gigi Levangie. Subjects record Hollywood, the motion picture industry, rich people, widows and divorce.